1 TIMOTHY 1:9
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
PDD 51 & New Executive Order Give Obama Dictator Power
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, January 18, 2010
http://www.infowars.com/pdd-51-new-executive-order-give-obama-dictator-power/
An Obama executive order that creates a council of state governors who will work with the feds to expand military involvement in domestic security, together with PDD 51, a Bush era executive order that gives the President dictatorial power in times of national emergency, eliminate the last roadblocks to declaring martial law in the United States.The new order, which is entitled Establishment of the Council of Governors (PDF), creates a body of ten state governors directly appointed by Obama who will work with the federal government to help advance the synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities in the United States.The governors will liaise with officials from Northcom, Homeland Security, the National Guard as well as DoD officials from the Pentagon in order to strengthen further the partnership between the Federal Government and State governments, according to the executive order.The exective order combines seamlessly with Presidential Decision Directive 51 to hand Obama dictator status in times of declared, and not necessarily genuine, national emergency.In May 2007, former President George W. Bush sparked much alarm by openly declaring himself to be a dictator in the event of a national emergency under provisions that effectively nullify the U.S. constitution, but such an infrastructure has been in place for over 70 years and this merely represented a re-authorization of martial law powers.Legislation signed on May 9, 2007, declares that in the event of a catastrophic event, the President can take total control over the government and the country, bypassing all other levels of government at the state, federal, local, territorial and tribal levels, and thus ensuring total unprecedented dictatorial power.
The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, which also places the Secretary of Homeland Security in charge of domestic security, was signed earlier without the approval or oversight of Congress and seemingly supercedes the National Emergency Act which allows the president to declare a national emergency but also requires that Congress have the authority to modify, rescind, or render dormant such emergency authority if it believes the president has acted inappropriately.Journalist Jerome Corsi, who studied the directive, also states that it makes no reference to Congress and its language appears to negate any requirement that the president submit to Congress a determination that a national emergency exists.In July 2007, Congressman Peter DeFazio (D – OR) was asked by his constituents to see what was contained within the classified portion of the White House’s plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack.Since DeFazio also sits on the Homeland Security Committee and has clearance to view classified material, the request would have appeared to be routine, but the Congressman was unceremoniously denied all access to view the documents, and the White House wouldn’t even give an excuse as to why he was barred.I just can’t believe they’re going to deny a member of Congress the right of reviewing how they plan to conduct the government of the United States after a significant terrorist attack, DeFazio told the Oregonian.We’re talking about the continuity of the government of the United States of America, DeFazio says.I would think that would be relevant to any member of Congress, let alone a member of the Homeland Security Committee.Maybe the people who think there’s a conspiracy out there are right,DeFazio concluded.These new powers have now been handed over to President Obama, allowing him, along with a body of councillors personally selected by him, to declare martial law without there necessarily being a genuine national emergency, greasing the skids for U.S. troops and National Guard to conduct domestic policing of the American people.In October 2008, Northcom, a Unified Combatant Command of the United States military based out of Peterson AFB, Colorado Springs, was assigned the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team returning from Iraq. An alarming September 8 Army Times report which was later denied after it sparked controversy stated that the troops would be used by Northcom to deal with civil unrest and crowd control in the aftermath of a national emergency.
The Obama executive order states that governors will help advise the feds on National Guard, homeland defense, and civil support activities.The fact that the order further blurs the lines between state and federal power, as well as greasing the skids for more military involvement in domestic affairs has stoked fears that Obama may be laying the groundwork for his promised national civilian security force.Conservatives and libertarians responded to the announcement by expressing their suspicion that Obama is preparing to give governors their marching orders in targeting anti-government types that have long been characterized as a terrorist threat by the feds in numerous reports stretching back over a decade.There is a definite purpose to this, wrote one commenter on the popular Free Republic website, The initial steps toward a domestic Civilian Security Force in each state, as called for by the fascisti during the campaign. It will be coordinated at the state level, under the authority of DHS and DoD and assorted agencies. The provision will be made for it to be federalized in an emergency, as is the National Guard.This is a concrete step toward eliminating the independent authority and dissolving the sovereignty of the several States. It lays the groundwork for the end of the United States as a Republic,she adds.Others warn that Obama could be preparing to cancel elections under the justification of a national emergency, a fear that was often expressed when Bush was in office but one that never materialized.However, the executive order clearly represents another assault on Posse Comitatus, the 1878 law that bars the military from exercising domestic police powers, which was temporarily annulled by the 2006 John Warner National Defense Authorization Act before parts of it were later repealed.
http://www.infowars.com/feds-cops-attempt-to-shut-down-legal-gun-sales-in-austin-texas/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lat1jw_1nyE&feature=player_embedded
Feds, Cops Attempt to Shut Down Legal Gun Sales in Austin, Texas
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com January 18, 2010
The police in Austin, at the behest of the federal Bureau of Alcohol and Firearms, has attempted to shut down legal gun sales. The Texas Gun Shows website has the following posted: Vendor notice – Austin show only: At the direction of the Austin Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, ONLY LICENSED FFL DEALERS will be allowed to set up and sell firearms at the N. Austin show location.The notice posted at Texas Gun Shows.FFL is short for Federal Firearms License.It is a federal license that enables an individual or a company to engage in a business pertaining to the manufacture of firearms and ammunition or the interstate and intrastate sale of firearms. It does not control gun sales between individuals on the local level.Texas residents may purchase rifles, shotguns, handguns ammunition, reloading components, or firearms accessories. No permit or registration is required under state law. It is unlawful to knowingly sell, rent, give or offer to sell, rent or give any firearm to a person under 18 years of age, without the written consent of his parent or guardian, but entirely legal for adults to sell firearms.The BATF and Austin cops are attempting to discourage gun sales with this color of law trick. It is not backed up by any law on the books. It is intimidation.In recent years the feds have attempted to portray entirely legal gunshows as a nexus for criminal activity. Gun Show Undercover, a project of the City of New York and its mayor the anti-Second Amendment extremist Michael Bloomberg, has traveled around the country and filmed what it declares to be illegal gun sales. The BATF claims that 30 percent of guns involved in federal illegal gun trafficking investigations are connected to gun shows.
The BATF claims Mexican drug cartels exploit the so-called gun-show loophole.Guns are purchased illegally, sold at a profit to drug dealers and used to kill innocent people and police officers, all while local law enforcement authorities lack the federal support they need to do their job, Bloomberg wrote in April, 2009.The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has estimated that 90 percent to 95 percent of the guns recovered at Mexican crime scenes have been purchased in the United States, because Mexico’s laws make it much more difficult for criminals to buy guns.Bloomberg has pushed for closing down gun shows. More than 350 mayors from both political parties have joined together to urge Congress to repeal these restrictions – and to close the gun-show loophole, a step both Sen. John McCain and President Obama have supported,he wrote.In response to this propaganda, Fox News reported that 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S. Most of the illegal guns sold in Mexico originate from South Korea, China, and Russia. Interpol says Russian Mafia groups such as Poldolskaya and Moscow-based Solntsevskaya are actively trafficking drugs and arms in Mexico.For now, gun sales between adults are legal in Texas. Residents of Austin should not be intimidated by this bogus color of law attempt to chill the Second Amendment.On his Sunday show, Alex responded to the Austin cops and feds trying to shut down legal sales between individuals at gun shows.
WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnq5cQMiAB8&feature=related
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links
DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.
EPHESIANS 6:10-13
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,(DEMONIC ANGELS IN HIGH PLACES) against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.(SPIRTIUAL DEMONIC PERSONS)
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
LUKE 4:5-7(BECAUSE SATAN OFFERS WORLD POWER, WORLD ORDERERS HAVE ACCEPTED SATANS GIFT)
5 And the devil, taking him (JESUS) up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
KNOW THE TRUTH OF OBAMA HEALTHCARE BILL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcBaSP31Be8&feature=player_embedded
http://www.infowars.com/flashback-know-the-truth-about-h-r-3200-obamas-health-care-bill/
THE 3 AMEGO WAR MONGARS TEAM UP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLAstyeUIt0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.infowars.com/disgusting-war-criminals-peddle-humanitarian-aid-for-haiti/
Rothschilds & Rockefellers: Trillionaires Of The World
New World Order Infowars.com January 17, 2010
Money is Power, or shall we say, The Monopoly to Create Credit Money and charge interest is Absolute Power. (Alex James)
Amsel (Amschel) Bauer Mayer Rothschild, 1838: Let me issue and control a Nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws.
Letter written from London by the Rothschilds to their New York agents introducing their banking method into America: The few who can understand the system will be either so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favours, that there will be no opposition from that class, while, on the other hand, that great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that Capital derives from the system, will bear its burden without complaint and, perhaps, without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.
Nathan Rothschild said to the Commons Secret Committee on the question early in 1819: In what line of business are you? – Mostly in the foreign banking line. Have the goodness to state to the Committee in detail, what you conceive would be the consequence of an obligation imposed upon the Bank [of England, which he owned] to resume cash payments at the expiration of a year from the present time? – I do not think it can be done without very great distress to this country; it would do a great deal of mischief; we may not actually know ourselves what mischief it might cause.Have the goodness to explain the nature of the mischief, and in what way it would be produced? – Money will be so very scarce, every article in this country will fall to such an enormous extent, that many persons will be ruined.
The director of the Prussian Treasury wrote on a visit to London that Nathan Rothschild had as early as 1817: .., incredible influence upon all financial affairs here in London. It is widely stated.., that he entirely regulates the rate of exchange in the City. His power as a banker is enormous.
Austrian Prince Mettemich’s secretary wrote of the Rothschilds, as early as 1818, that: … they are the richest people in Europe.
Referring to James Rothschild, the poet Heinrich Heine said: Money is the god of our times, and Rothschild is his prophet.
James Rothschild built his fabulous mansion, called Ferrilres, 19 miles north-east of Paris. Wilhelm I, on first seeing it, exclaimed: Kings couldn’t afford this. It could only belong to a Rothschild!
Author Frederic Morton wrote that the Rothschilds had: conquered the World more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before…
As Napoleon pointed out: Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest - he cancelled debt and interest in France – hence the Battle of Waterloo.
Some writers have claimed that Nathan Rothschild warned that the United States would find itself involved in a most disastrous war if the bank’s charter were not renewed.(do you see the similarities here? If you don’t play the game an economic disaster will fall on you and you will be destroyed.)
There is but one power in Europe and that is Rothschild. 19th century French commentator.
Lord Rothschild (Rockefellers and Rothschilds’ relatives) in his book The Shadow of a Great Man quotes a letter sent from Davidson on June 24, 1814 to Nathan Rothschild, As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world. The closeness of the Rothschild brothers is seen in a letter from Soloman (Salmon) Rothschild to his brother Nathan on Feb. 28, 1815, We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential. (2) This closeness is further seen in that of the 18 marriages made by Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s grandchildren – 16 were contracted between first cousins.
Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. The Communist Manifesto. In the case of the Bolshevik revolution, Rothschilds/ Rockefellers’ Chase Bank owned the state. In the US, the FED owners own the state.
Rothschilds’ favorite saying who along with the Rockefellers are the major Illuminati Banking Dynasties: Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
Nathan Rothschild said (1777-1836): I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire. The man who controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire and I control the British money supply.
Rockefeller is reported to have said: Competition is a sin. Own nothing. Control everything. Because he wants to centralize control of everything and enslave us all, i.e. the modern Nimrod or Pharaoh.
The Rothschild were behind the colonization and occupations of India and the Rothschild owned British Petroleum was granted unlimited rights to all offshore Indian oil, which is still valid till this day.
Give me the control of the credit of a nation, and I care not who makes the laws. The famous boastful statement of Nathaniel Meyer Rothschild, speaking to a group of international bankers, 1912: The few who could understand the system (cheque, money, credits) will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favours, that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.The boastful statement by Rothschild Bros. of London.
These people are the top masterminds and conspired for the creation of illegal FEDERAL RESERVE BANK in 1913: Theodore Roosevelt, Paul Warburg – Representative Of Rothschild, Woodrow Wilson – U.S. President Signed FED Into Act, Nelson W. Aldrich – Representative Of Rockefeller, Benjamin Strong – Representative Of Rockefeller, Frank A. Vanderlip – Representative Of Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller – Rockefeller Himself, Henry Davison – Representative Of J. P. Morgan, Charles Norton –Representative Of J. P. Morgan.
In the last century, members of the British Fabian Society dynastic banking families in the City of London financed the Communist takeover of Russia. Trotsky in his biography refers to some of the loans from these British financiers going back as far as 1907. By 1917 the major subsidies and funding for the Bolshevik Revolution were co-ordinated and arranged by Sir George Buchanan and Lord Alfred Milner. [no doubt using money from Cecil Rhodes' South African gold and diamond legacy - Ed] The Communist system in Russia was a British experiment designed ultimately to become the Fabian Socialist model for the British takeover of the World through the UN and EU. The British plan to takeover the World and bring in a New World Order began with the teachings of John Ruskin and Cecil Rhodes at Oxford University. Rhodes in one of his wills in 1877 left his vast fortune to Lord Nathan Rothschild as trustee to set up the Rhodes Scholarship Program at Oxford to indoctrinate promising young graduates for the purpose, and also establish a secret society [Royal Institute of International Affairs RIIA, which branched into the Round Table, the Bilderbergers, the CFR, the Trilateral, etc -- Ed] for leading business and banking leaders around the World who would work for the City to bring in their Socialist World government.
Rothschild appointed Lord Alfred Milner to implement the plan.
Benjamin Freedman (Friedman) said this in 1961, Washington (he was a millionaire insider in international Zionist organizations, friend to 4 US presidents, and was also part of the 117-man strong Zionist delegation at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 where Germany was forced into bankruptcy to the Zionist BankLords and social chaos): Two years into WW1, Germany, which was then winning the war, offered Britain and France a negotiated peace deal, but German Zionist groups seeing the opportunity made a deal with Britain to get the United States into the war if Britain promised to give the Zionists Palestine.
In other words, they made this deal: We will get the United States into this war as your ally. The price you must pay us is Palestine after you have won the war and defeated Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey.They made that promise, in October of 1916. And shortly after that — I don’t know how many here remember it — the United States, which was almost totally pro-German because the newspapers and mass communications media here were controlled by the Zionist bankers who owned the major commercial banks and the 12 Federal Reserve Banks (the original Stockholders of the Federal Reserve Banks in 1913 were the Rockefeller’ s, JP Morgan, Rothschild’s, Lazard Freres, Schoellkopf, Kuhn-Loeb, Warburgs, Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs, all with roots in Germany’s Zionists like the British Royal family, J.P. Morgan, Carnegie, Bush, Rumsfeld, Clintons, the Nazis that were brought into the CIA, etc. http://land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/federal_reserve.shtml ) and they were pro-German because they wanted to use Germany to destroy the Czar of Russia and let the Communists whom they funded take over. The German Zionist bankers — Rothschilds, Rockefeller, Kuhn Loeb and the other big banking firms in the United States refused to finance France or England to the extent of one dollar. They stood aside and they said: As long as France and England are tied up with Russia, not one cent! They poured money into Germany, fighting with Germany against Russia, to lick the Czarist regime. The newspapers had been all pro-German, where they’d been telling the people of the difficulties that Germany was having fighting Great Britain commercially and in other respects, then after making the deal with the British for Palestine, all of a sudden the Germans were no good. They were villains. They were Huns. They were shooting Red Cross nurses. They were cutting off babies’ hands. And they were no good. The Zionists in London sent cables to the US, to Justice Brandeis: Go to work on President Wilson. We’re getting from England what we want. Now you go to work, and you go to work on President Wilson and get the US into the war. And that did happen. Shortly after President Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany.
The power of the Rothschild family was evidenced on 24 Sept 2002 when a helicopter touched down on the lawn of Waddedson Manor, their ancestral home in Buckinghamshire, England. Out of the helicopter strode Warren Buffet, – touted as the second richest man in the World but really a lower ranking player- and Arnold Schwarzenegger (the gropinator), at that time a candidate for the Governorship of California. Also in attendance at this two day meeting of the World’s most powerful businessmen and financiers hosted by Jacob Rothschild were James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank and Nicky Oppenheimer, chairman of De Beers. Arnold went on to secure the governorship of one of the biggest economies on the planet a year later. That he was initiated into the ruling class in the Rothschilds’ English country manor suggests that the centre of gravity of the three hundred trillion dollar cartel is in the U.K. and Europe not the U.S.
A recent article in the London Financial Times indicates why it is impossible to gain an accurate estimate of the wealth of the trillionaire bankers. Discussing the sale of Evelyn Rothschild’s stake in Rothschild Continuation Holdings, it states: …[this] requires agreement on the valuation of privately held assets whose value has never been tested in a public market. Most of these assets are held in a complex network of tax-efficient structures around the World.
Queen Elizabeth II’s shareholdings remain hidden behind Bank of England Nominee accounts. The Guardian newspaper reported in May 2002 … the reason for the wild variations in valuations of her private wealth can be pinned on the secrecy over her portfolio of share investments. This is because her subjects have no way of knowing through a public register of interests where she, as their head of state, chooses to invest her money. Unlike the members of the Commons and now the Lords, the Queen does not have to annually declare her interests and as a result her subjects cannot question her or know about potential conflicts of interests… In fact, the Queen even has an extra mechanism to ensure that her investments remain secret – a nominee company called the Bank of England Nominees. It has been available for decades to the entire World’s current heads of state to allow them anonymity when buying shares. Therefore, when a company publishes a share register and the Bank of England Nominees is listed, it is not possible to gauge whether the Queen, President Bush or even Saddam Hussein is the true shareholder.
By this method, the trillionaire masters of the universe remain hidden whilst Forbes magazine poses lower ranking billionaires like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett as the richest men in the World. Retired management consultant Gaylon Ross Sr, author of Who’s Who of the Global Elite, has been tipped from a private source that the combined wealth of the Rockefeller family in 1998 was approx (US) $11 trillion and the Rothschilds (U.S.) $100 trillion. However something of an insider’s knowledge of the hidden wealth of the elite is contained in the article, Will the Dollar and America Fall Down on August 19?..on page 1 of the 12th July 2001 issue of Russian newspaper Pravda. The newspaper interviewed Tatyana Koryagina, a senior research fellow in the Institute of Macroeconomic Researches subordinated to the Russian Ministry of Economic Development (Minekonom) on the subject of a recent conference concerning the fate of the U.S. economy:
Koryagina: The known history of civilization is merely the visible part of the iceberg. There is a shadow economy, shadow politics and also a shadow history, known to conspirologists. There are [unseen] forces acting in the World, unstoppable for [most powerful] countries and even continents.
Ashley Mote (EU): Mr President, I wish to draw your attention to the Global Security Fund, set up in the early 1990s under the auspices of Jacob Rothschild. This is a Brussels-based fund and it is no ordinary fund: it does not trade, it is not listed and it has a totally different purpose. It is being used for geopolitical engineering purposes, apparently under the guidance of the intelligence services.I have previously asked about the alleged involvement of the European Union’s own intelligence resources in the management of slush funds in offshore accounts, and I still await a reply. To that question I now add another: what are the European Union’s connections to the Global Security Fund and what relationship does it have with European Union institutions? “Recently, Ashley Mote of the European Union (EU) asked this volatile question in a public EU meeting, a question never answered, as Mr. Mote, merely by asking this question, was immediately scratched from the White House Christmas card list and placed on its top ten hit list. The Illuminati’s cash cow, grazing freely on the World wide pasture of greenbacks, isn’t called Elsie but instead is called the Global Security Fund, a name actually meaning in the secret cult’s language Global Terrorist Fund. In simple terms, it’s a gigantic illegal trust fund, estimated by undercover overseas financial investigators at 65 trillion dollars, set-up for Illuminati rainy days and established when it is desperately needed in a pinch for bribery, assassinations and sponsoring World wide terrorist activities to divert attention from their banking mafia. Although the fund is cloaked in secrecy and made possible by the Western civilization’ s Federal Reserve banking system, investigators trying to pry into the Illuminati’s secret treasure trove have uncovered some interesting facts.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
REVELATION 3:10-11
10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from (NOT THROUGH) the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world,(7 YR TRIBULATION) to try them that dwell upon the earth.
11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
LUKE 21:28
28 And when these things(ALL THE SIGNS COMING TO PASS,THE BEGGININGS OF THEM) begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.(THE RAPTURE CAN OCCURR ANY SECOND NOW).
Religious Haitians see hand of God in earthquake By MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press Writer – Sun Jan 17, 7:03 pm ET
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Deeply religious Haitians see the hand of God in the destruction of Biblical proportions visited on their benighted country. The quake, religious leaders said Sunday, is evidence that He wants change.Exactly what change He wants depends on the faith: Some Christians say it's a sign that Haitians must deepen their faith, while some Voodoo followers see God's judgment on corruption among the country's mostly light-skinned elite.And then there's American evangelist Pat Robertson, who said Wednesday that Haiti had been cursed by a pact he said its slave founders made with the devil two centuries ago to overthrow their French rulers and become the world's first black republic. The White House called his remarks stupid.As desperate believers gathered to pray Sunday across the shattered capital, the Rev. Eric Toussaint told a congregation gathered outside the ruined cathedral that the earthquake is a sign from God, saying that we must recognize his power.Haitians, he said, need to reinvent themselves, to find a new path to God.
Some followers of Voodoo, practised alongside Roman Catholicism by the vast majority of Haitians, said the devastation of key symbols of power was punishment for corrupt leaders who have allowed the mostly light-skinned elite to enrich themselves while the black majority suffers.If all of a sudden, in 15 seconds, 20 seconds, all the physical representations of corruption are destroyed, it gives you pause for thought,said Richard Morse, a renowned Haitian-American musician whose mother was a singer and revered Voodoo priestess. The Justice Ministry: down. The National Palace: down. The United Nations headquarters: down.Unharmed by the quake was the famed bronze statue, Le Maron Inconnu — the Unknown Escaped Slave — noted Morse, who owns the Oloffson Hotel featured in Graham Greene's novel The Comedians.The destruction of every major Catholic church in the capital, including the 81-year-old cathedral, also was a sign, he said: When there is all this corruption going on, whose role is it in society to speak out? Isn't the Church supposed to say something?
Most Haitians are Christian — largely Catholic with a small but growing number of Protestants. But most also practice Voodoo, which along with Catholicism is an official state religion.
Several people were seen issuing apocalyptic warnings on the streets Sunday, including a man standing in front of the collapsed National Palace shouting: Redeem yourselves! The end of the world is near! But Morse noted that Haitians are already very religious. His countrymen may suffer many ills, but when it comes to spiritual strength, Haiti is one of the richest nations in the world.And in that sense, the earthquake seems to have been counterproductive in terms of salvation.How could He do this to us?, cried Remi Polevard, who said his five children lie beneath in the rubble of a home near St. Gerard University. There is no God.Sunday night, as downtown residents began burning some of the bodies that have been rotting on the streets for five days, a woman walking by in an orange dress pulled out a copy of the Bible.She flung it into the fire.AP photojournalist Julie Jacobson contributed to this report.
Miles from capital, Haiti quake ruins coastal city By PETER PRENGAMAN, Associated Press Writer – JAN 18,10
JACMEL, Haiti – This coastal city normally would be gearing up for its raucous Carnival festival, with revelers in brightly decorated masks dancing in the streets and the air filled with joyous song.Instead, the streets are plugged with rubble, the air heavy with the stench of the dead. And the only melody is a mournful tune strummed by Gabriel Mollet.The unemployed Mollet played guitar amid the ruins on a downtown street Sunday, huddled with a few friends as they pondered their fate and the future of this once-graceful city that hoped to greet tourists for the pre-Lenten season.Mollet, 31, said the earthquake left little behind.Everything was taken from me except my life, he said.All around him were crumbled houses. Nearby, rescue workers from Colombia dug through a jumble of concrete, steel poles and splintered wood, searching for survivors. Though Jacmel wasn't hit as hard as parts of the capital 20 miles away, the situation here is dire.The main road to Port-au-Prince, normally a three-hour drive to the northeast on a twisting road, is blocked by debris, so food can only be brought in by air or atop motorcycles able to wind their way through.
Rescue crews were unable to bring in the heavy machinery they need to search for victims amid the rubble.We have yet to find anyone alive, said Jenny Ramirez, a Colombian firefighter.All we can do is try to help people we can see because we don't have the machinery to do more.The quake left the town's hospital seriously damaged, forcing a team of a few doctors and nurses to rush between patients at a makeshift clinic. About 100 people there were sprawled on the ground under tents.
We've got no supplies. We need help, Dr. Christelle Dessources said.It was difficult to say how many in this town of some 40,000 people were killed by the quake. Danny Pye, director of the children's home Joy in Hope, said initial estimates were about 3,000 dead.Some bodies have been put in the morgue, some have been buried; others remain in the streets.About three-quarters of the homes in Jacmel's downtown were damaged. The neighborhood was one of the charms that drew foreigners to the old port town, once home to wealthy coffee merchants. Mansions that belonged to the merchants, and other buildings with French-inspired architecture, have been turned into shops for artisans, whose colorful crafts and paintings were popular with tourists.The turquoise waters of Jacmel's bay and its serene reputation had made the town a tranquil contrast to the bustling and gritty Port-au-Prince. It boasted a large expatriate community — a mix of Europeans, mostly French, and some Americans — and was seen as a spot of hope amid Haiti's perpetual challenges.The earthquake likely will set back tourism several years. Norma di Pietro, a 50-year-old Italian traveler, was eager to escape.I've told myself that if I can leave this country, I'm never coming back. Never,she said.Di Pietro was inside a hotel when the quake struck. She ran out when the rumbling started, and has been sleeping outside ever since. She's trying to hire a plane to fly her to the neighboring Dominican Republic. I just want to get out of here, she said.
Thousands of people left homeless by the quake initially took to sleeping on Jacmel's airfield but only about 50 remained Sunday. The others have returned to what's left of their houses or found have refuge with the handful of missionaries in the area. Along the coastline, several bungalows normally filled with tourists were mangled. Dogs and pigs picked over garbage strewn through the rubble. Men asked visitors for money or food. Despite the desperation, locals said they hadn't witnessed any looting or violence. Every so often, a coastal breeze swept away the odor of the bodies, leaving the scent of salt in its place. Jacmel is still Jacmel, said Fenel Bruno, a Haitian missionary.We just need to clean it up.
Haiti's voodoo priests object to mass burials
Joseph Guyler Delva Sun Jan 17, 2010 5:20pm EST
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's voodoo priests are objecting to anonymous mass burials as an improper way to handle the tens of thousands of dead from the earthquake -- and have taken their complaint to President Rene Preval.Dumping the dead in hurriedly excavated mass graves without proper rites is seen as desecration in a country where many believe in zombies -- dead bodies brought back to life by supernatural forces who could persecute the living.Haitian officials say so far at least 50,000 bodies have been dumped in mass graves outside the shattered capital, Port-au-Prince, in what they view as the most efficient way to dispose of the fast-rotting corpses from Tuesday's disaster.It is not in our culture to bury people in such a fashion, Haiti's main voodoo leader, Max Beauvoir, said in a meeting with Preval.Local radio is broadcasting messages for Haitians to put bodies recovered from under the rubble of collapsed buildings on the street for collection by garbage and other trucks.The conditions in which bodies are being buried is not respecting the dignity of these people, Beauvoir, who was educated at City College of New York and the Sorbonne in Paris, said in the Preval meeting this weekend.More than half of Haiti's 9 million people are believed to practice voodoo, a religion with roots in Africa. Some 80 percent also are Catholic and most Haitians see no conflict between the two.
Five days after the earthquake, scores of untouched corpses, now bloated and stinking, remain on streets. Red Cross officials have repeatedly said no one should fear disease from dead bodies after the earthquake that is believed to have killed up to 200,000 people.I don't understand why everyone is worried about a disease risk,Haitian Red Cross President Michaelle Amedee Gedeon told Reuters.Do we have cholera in Haiti? No. Do we have the plague in Haiti? No. Rodents, water will not get contaminated. The only bad effect from the corpses is the smell.On Sunday, more bodies appeared overnight, with locals saying they were thieves burned and shot by lynch-mobs, gangs and police. They said about 20 people were killed like that.
(Additional reporting by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Anthony Boadle and Bill Trott)
WHEN THE EARTH MOVES U.N. chief's Haiti trip draws press outrage-Secretary-general's office slaps media: We are not responsible to you January 17, 2010 8:42 pm Eastern Stewart Stogel 2010 WorldNetDaily
UNITED NATIONS – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's recent foray to observe the situation in earthquake-ravaged Haiti has drawn press outrage. Earlier today, Ban, with a small group of carefully selected and managed journalists, left Newark Liberty International Airport for a one-day whirlwind tour of Port au Prince, the Haitian capital. Just which press went with the U.N. chief and how they were accredited has been kept secret, but the exclusive nature of the jaunt elicited an outcry from several outlets and has proved to be only the latest in a series of controversies over how the United Nations manages its relations with the world media. Ban spokesman Martin Nerisky explained, We don't have to tell you anything [on identifying the reporters]. ... This is not like naming a soccer team.Nesirky also told the U.N. press corps, bluntly,We are not responsible to you.Earlier, a Nesirky staffer admitted that a press list (which he had been compiling since the earthquake) may not go anywhere: I just do not know what they are going to do with the list.The list, it now appears, was no more than a diversion designed to keep news organizations from politicking the U.N. for space on the Haiti trip.
As to the criteria Nesirky used for his press selection, the Ban press secretary admitted it was personal.The original press list, partially obtained by WND, showed the only U.S. presence on the visit to be The New York Times (a Ban favorite) among 10 spots allocated for journalists. The French were given two seats on the U.N. plane. The exclusion of the Associated Press and Reuters brought howls from the wire services. Late complaints by the wires pressured Nesirky to review his press selections. Eventually, Nesirky relented and added AP, Reuters, CNN and Voice of America to his select group for future coverage. Even with the expanded group of journalists, the U.N. still sought fit to snub the three major U.S. broadcast networks, the Fox News Channel, The Wall Street Journal, The Miami Herald, Time magazine and The Times (of London) among many others – all for a trip that appears to be no more than a publicity campaign for the secretary-general. Ban, it is believed, wants to use the Haitian catastrophe to bolster his leadership image. The former South Korean foreign minister is in his third year of a five-year term and may be seeking a second term in 2011. And yet, a recent poll showed that almost 60 percent of Americans do not know who Ban Ki-moon is. Ban's staff hopes that a carefully orchestrated visit to Haiti will begin to address that problem. Preceding the U.N. chief, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the region yesterday. Former President Bill Clinton is the U.N.'s special Haitian envoy but conspicuously did not accompany Ban to Haiti.
The latest U.N. credential fiasco comes on top of frustration after numerous media organizations (including WND) experienced accreditation problems with the U.N. during the recent climate summit in Copenhagen. At that time, too, the U.N. refused to release the identities of those who received press access. The United States Mission to the United Nations, which had been actively involved in opening press access at the U.N. during the tenures of ambassadors John D. Negroponte, John Bolton and Zalmay Khalilzad, has been silent under current Permanent Representative Susan Rice.
Many countries report missing and dead in Haiti By The Associated Press – Sun Jan 17, 4:06 pm ET
A glance at countries reporting dead and missing in Haiti:
Antigua and Barbuda: 2 missing.
Austria: 1 dead.
Belgium: 3 missing.
Brazil: 15 dead and five missing.
Britain: 1 dead.
Canada: 8 dead, 1,115 unaccounted for.
Chile: 4 missing.
Costa Rica: 2 missing.
Denmark: 1 U.N. worker missing.
Dominican Republic: 6 dead.
El Salvador: 1 missing
France: 12 dead, government fears 20-30 may have died.
Germany: 1 dead, about 30 missing.
Italy: 1 dead, 3 feared dead; 10 others unaccounted for.
Mexico: 1 dead, 40 of the 80 Mexicans living in Haiti located.
Netherlands: 3 injured, including child; 18 missing.
Peru: 1 dead.
Poland: 4 missing.
Spain: 3 dead, 23 unaccounted for.
Tunisia: at least 1 dead (head of U.N. mission Hedi Annabi)
United States: 16 dead, 1 a U.S. government employee of whom 2 still missing. Some 45,000 Americans are in the country.
Uruguay: 3 missing.
United Nations: 37 U.N. personnel confirmed dead, nearly 330 missing. Some personnel may also be included in national counts.
Israeli PM in Berlin for historic joint cabinet meeting
JAN 18,10
BERLIN (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Berlin with top ministers Monday to hold a historic joint cabinet meeting on German soil, an AFP reporter said.The gathering of the two governments, the second ever after a similar meeting in Israel two years ago, will address urgent security issues such as Iran and underline the strong bond forged in the wake of the Holocaust.Netanyahu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were also to hold bilateral talks focused on efforts to revive Middle East peace talks and face threats to regional security, the prime minister's spokesman Mark Regev said.The trip is designed to strengthen and expand the cooperation between Israel and Germany. There is a very special relationship between Berlin and Jerusalem, Regev told AFP.We are focused on how to strengthen the relationship in order for there to be tangible cooperation today and in the future.
The leaders, along with five Israeli ministers and their German counterparts, will also visit the Holocaust Memorial near the Brandenburg Gate during the Israeli delegation's day-long stay in Berlin.Defence Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman were among members of Israel's centre-right cabinet joining the premier.The ministerial talks will cover a broad range of issues, including defence cooperation.Media have widely reported that Israel has ordered a sixth Dolphin-class diesel submarine from Germany. Israel currently has three Dolphins and has confirmed it ordered two more.The submarines are believed to have a range of 4,500 kilometers (2,800 miles) and the capacity to launch nuclear-capable cruise missiles.We attach great importance to our ties with Germany because of their economic and political impact and mainly because of Israel's security, Netanyahu told reporters ahead of his trip.Germany is playing a leading role in efforts to broker a prisoner exchange between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement for an Israeli soldier held by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip since 2006.The joint cabinet meeting was initially planned for November but was postponed because Netanyahu came down with a viral infection.Merkel and several of her ministers had made a similar visit to Jerusalem in March 2008.Germany is Israel's third biggest trade partner after the United States and China.
London-based Jewish newspaper attacked by hackers
JAN 18,10
LONDON – The Web site of Britain's flagship Jewish newspaper has been attacked by Turkish-speaking hackers, its editor said Monday.The site of the London-based Jewish Chronicle, the world's oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper, was replaced by a Palestinian flag and anti-Semitic writings for several hours, editor Stephen Pollard said.Somebody hacked into the site and had a message up for a couple of hours, Pollard told AP.It did no damage, as far as we can tell.The site was still unavailable early Monday. A version of the site cached by Google showed a large Palestinian flag against a black background. In a message posted in English and Turkish, a group calling itself the Palestinian Mujaheeds quotes from the Quran and attacks Jews in anti-Semitic terms.Pollard said that the attack might be related to the diplomatic feud that erupted between Israel and Turkey last week, but added:I don't want to speculate.The Turkish government was outraged when Israel summoned its ambassador last week to express its anger over a Turkish television drama that depicts Israeli agents kidnapping children and shooting old men. Israel's deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, denied the ambassador a handshake and forced him to sit on a low sofa as the cameras rolled.Israel has since apologized for the incident, which threatened to poison relations between the traditional allies.The Chronicle, founded in 1841, has a weekly circulation of about 30,000.
HOMOSEXUALS.(SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUP)
GENESIS 19:5
5 And they(SODOMITES)called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men(ANGELS) which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.(THESE DEMON POSSESSED SODOMITES WANTED TO HAVE SEX WITH ANGEL MEN...SICKOS)
ROMANS 1:18-32
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:(HOMOSEXUALITY,AND ALL SEX SINS)
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:(LESBIENS)
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly,(SODOMITES) and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.(AIDS ETC)
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
QUEERLY BELOVED Government policy now targeting homophobia-Goal is to squash belief homosexuality is immoral January 17, 2010 9:27 pm Eastern
By Drew Zahn 2010 WorldNetDaily
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0MV3Ls1-BM&feature=player_embedded
Quebec Attorney General Kathleen Weil, announcing new policy with Laurent McCutcheon, president of Foundation Emergence, a Quebec homosexual advocacy group
Opponents of hate crimes legislation, who have frequently pointed to Canada as an example of how such laws are used to increasingly suppress moral objections to homosexuality, now have more fuel for their fire in the form of the Quebec Policy Against Homophobia.The policy, released last month by Quebec's Minister of Justice and Attorney General Kathleen Weil, assigns the government the task of eliminating all forms of homophobia and heterosexism – including the belief that homosexuality is immoral – from society as a whole. The text and specifics of the policy are steeped in vague bureaucratic language about coordination and synergy,but the goal is spelled out clearly: to enlist the government to normalize homosexuality in society and to quell common criticisms levied against sexual minorities, a term the policy uses to inclusively describe lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals and transgenders.An inclusive society such as ours must take the necessary steps to combat homophobic attitudes and behavior patterns and move towards full acceptance of sexual diversity,states the Premier of Quebec Jean Charest in a letter that serves as the policy's introduction.The policy sets out the government's goal of removing all the obstacles to full recognition of the social equality of the sexual minorities, at all levels of society.The policy further defines the heterosexism that must be stomped out as affirmation of heterosexuality as a social norm or the highest form of sexual orientation. Furthermore, the policy laments,It is still possible to hear people say that homosexuality is an illness, morally wrong or a form of deviant behavior, and that people choose their sexual orientation. These beliefs, often instilled in the past, tend to marginalize sexual minority groups and prevent full recognition of their social equality.
Such prejudice,the policy affirms, must be combated. And while the word church is never explicitly mentioned in the policy, it does declare it important to publicize the most insidious forms of homophobia with a plan to target the various locations in which homophobic attitudes and behavior patterns, as well as heterosexist stereotypes, are found.The policy also warns,It will be necessary to deal with the heterosexist values on which some institutional practices are founded.Weil introduced her ministry's new direction by stating, The policy released this morning shows, once again, that Quebec society is a leader in the field of sexual minority rights.Indeed, Quebec was the first jurisdiction in North America to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation with an amendment to its charter of human rights and freedoms in 1977. In 1995, the province amended its criminal code to include sexual orientation as an aggravating factor in hate crimes, a law expanded in 2004 to include not only crimes but hate propaganda.Same-sex marriage was legalized in Quebec in 2005. The progression from hate crime legislation to outlawing hate propaganda to now enlisting the government's power in socially normalizing homosexuality is the very process decried by many Americans, as the U.S. also begins passing the first of such laws. Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, for example, told WND the practical application of such laws already has been seen in several other countries, including the United Kingdom, where the Christian Institute highlighted reports of a senior citizen being accused of hate crimes for writing a letter objecting to a pro-homosexual festival: This is the way it gets implemented in all the other countries,Cass said.Christians are singled out for prosecution, with threats, imprisonment and fines simply for refusing to stop doing what Christ commands: proclaiming the truth.
[These cases] are a good precursor of where this goes,he warned. Weil, however, argues that until society comes to accept sexual minorities,they will continue to be subjected to harassment, intimidation and insult – regardless of anti-discrimination laws. To be fully effective, the legal equality of sexual minorities must be supported by social equality,Weil writes in her introduction to the policy. The Quebec government intends, by adopting this policy against homophobia, to play a leading role in achieving this objective.To that end, the policy consists of four guidelines for the Quebec government, which, in the words of the policy, direct the government to: Recognize the realities faced by sexual minority members
Promote respect for the rights of sexual minority members
Promote wellbeing for sexual minorities
Ensure a concerted approach by government authorities and institutions
The specific action points of the policy are loosely defined, but include funding additional studies, efforts to help sexual minorities find social services, rooting out institutional practices that discriminate against or intimidate sexual minorities, adapting public services to the specific needs of the sexual minorities and the creation of additional bureaucracies to monitor progress. A brief line in the policy, which declares that schools can play a key role in retraining the populace on sexual minority rights, however, has elicited some reaction. Georges Buscemi, president of Campaign Quebec-Vie, a Quebec pro-life group, told LifeSiteNews.com it is obvious that the policy would impose homosexuality training on children. They've done it with the ethics and religious culture course, he said,so I'm not at all surprised that they'd be willing to fully integrate it into that course, with extra stuff tacked on.LifeSiteNews reports that the Ethics and Religious Culture program is a province-mandated curriculum for all Quebec students spanning grades 1 to 11 that already presents homosexuality as a normal lifestyle.
Buscemi is also alarmed by the policy's requirements that institutions and social services be conformed to fit the needs of sexual minorities.I could see this being the beginning of the end of religious freedom in the sense that if a church, for example, is offering a service, for example marriage, and is not tailoring the service to the needs of a homosexual, then it could be sanctioned for not doing that,he explained. They're going to try for the longest possible to just use social pressure and increasingly isolate the recalcitrant entities and institutions, Buscemi predicted. They're quite clear; they're quite unapologetic. It's going to be a concerted effort, including all the ministries. ... This is going to be a full-court press. It's going to lead to ostracizing different churches that have doctrinal oppositions to homosexual behavior.
EU states divided over jump to 30% cut in CO2
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today JAN 18,10 @ 09:00 CET
European Union member states are divided over the bloc's pledge to raise its CO2 commitment up to a 30 percent cut by 2020 in the wake of the Copenhagen UN climate summit debacle.Environment ministers from across the bloc over the weekend met in Seville, Spain, to assess the reasons for the failure in the Danish capital in December and to map out the EU's next moves.As part of the so-called Copenhagen Accord cobbled together by the US, China, South Africa, Brazil and India outside the UN process, the 30-odd signatories to the document are to submit their greenhouse gas reduction pledges by the end of January.But it appears unlikely that the EU will move to the upper end of a 20-30 percent range before this deadline, given the limited reduction commitments made by other major emitters. The US has said it will commit to a 17 percent reduction, but only on 2005 levels, which is equivalent to just a three to four percent cut using the same 1990 baseline as Brussels.EU environment commissioner Stavros Dimas conceded that there was no unanimity around the table. Some countries had never been in favour of the move to a 30 percent cut, but after the UN climate conference in December ended acrimoniously, with rich countries pitted bitterly against their poorer counterparts and without an official result in which other major emitters had committed to significant emissions reductions, such a jump has become even more controversial.The UK, France, Germany, Belgium and Spain, currently holding the EU's six-month rotating presidency, all back a jump to 30 percent, while Italy and Poland remain set dead against such a move.We definitely think we should maintain the 30 percent offer. We think it is very, very important. It has always been a conditional offer but it is a very important signal that it is maintained,UK energy and climate minister Ed Miliband told reporters.French environment minister Jean-Louis Borloo added: It is not a question of going to 30 percent blindly. Nobody would accept that. We will go to 30 percent depending on the commitments that are published.Italy and Poland fear costs for domestic industry and households will be raised sharply without similar commitments by other powers, however.As a compromise position, Belgium has suggested a move to a reduction pledge of 25 percent.
Parliament threatens to derail EU-US bank data deal
VALENTINA POP Today JAN 18,10 @ 09:28 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The European Parliament is threatening to derail an interim agreement allowing US authorities to track European bank transactions in terrorism investigations unless certain concessions are made.The president of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek at the end of last week sent a second letter to the Spanish EU presidency asking for more information on the so-called Swift agreement.We have not received any answers to the first letter, sent in December to both the [outgoing] Swedish and the [incoming] Spanish EU presidencies, a spokesman for Mr Buzek said.A plenary debate on the matter is scheduled for Wednesday in Strasbourg, during which the Spanish presidency is expected to give more answers on the technicalities of the deal. The agreement would allow US prosecutors and investigators to tap into intra-European bank transactions as part of anti-terrorist enquiries - something EU lawmakers say raises privacy concerns.The parliament can still scrap the agreement, even after it comes into force on 1 February, pending the lawmakers' consent.A final deal should be negotiated by the end of the year, together with the EU parliament.
In order for Parliament to be in a position to give its consent or not, it had laid down two clear conditions, namely that Parliament is granted full access to information related to this interim agreement and that its concerns are fully reflected in the negotiating mandate for the longer term agreement required once the interim agreement expires at the end of October, a press release by the Liberal group in the EU legislature reads.The Liberals have spearheaded the issue, with their leader, Guy Verhofstadt, indicating that he has the support of other groups to reject the agreement altogether if the Spanish EU presidency does not come forward with some concession.The interim deal was sealed by EU justice ministers on 30 November last year, just one day before the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty - rules granting the EU legislature more powers in the field of justice and home affairs. At the time lawmakers criticised the rush to sign the deal, while the US pointed to the fact that the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift) was about to stop storing data on European transactions on US soil by the end of 2009.If parliament took the controversial step of refusing to give its consent, the US would no longer have access to intra-EU transactions - something that would strain relations between Brussels and Washington, especially in the wake of the Christmas Day bomb plot in Detroit.
Swift in 2006 was thrust into the centre of an EU-US dispute after it emerged that the American authorities had been secretly using information on European transactions as part of their so-called War on Terror. A Belgium-based company, Swift, kept a database on US territory, giving Washington a legal handle on its global activities. The company records international transactions worth trillions of dollars daily, between nearly 8,000 financial institutions in over 200 countries.
From 1 January, we have changed the architecture of the Swift network, keeping intra-European traffic in Europe – one database in the Netherlands and a mirror database in Switzerland, Euan Sellar, a spokesman for the company told EUobserver.He said Swift is currently waiting to hear the legal details of the agreement, noting that the US authorities had no mandate to ask for European transactions.We'll have to see once the deal comes into force, if it's legally binding, we will comply,he said.
Meanwhile, US officials, asking not to be named, told this website that the EU parliament had been regularly informed of the importance of having such data made available to anti-terrorist investigators. We prefer to use the 'Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme' label instead of Swift, because there are several other companies involved as well,one US official said. As to the final agreement, Washington is hoping the EU parliament will move swiftly so that the deal is in force by the end of October when the interim agreement expires.
Juncker calls for greater eurozone oversight
ANDREW WILLIS Today JAN 18,10 @ 09:06 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Eurozone chief Jean-Claude Juncker has called for better oversight of the 16-member currency area, with a greater role for the European Commission to reprimand countries for falling behind. The eurogroup should pursue broader economic surveillance, both to identify individual priority issues for each of our member states and to establish a coherent framework for action to enhance the performance of the entire eurozone economy, Mr Juncker wrote in a letter to eurozone finance ministers, seen by AFP.The European Commission should not hesitate to ... address a warning to the member state not respecting criteria and commitments, continued the Luxembourgish prime minister on the eve of a eurozone finance ministers' meeting in Brussels on Monday (18 January).The comments come in the context of a wider debate about European economic co-ordination, with the Spanish EU presidency recently supporting stricter surveillance of economic targets agreed under the EU's 2020 growth strategy, to be discussed by leaders at a summit next month. Critical remarks from Germany have caused the Spaniards to partially row back on talk of corrective measures for states which fail to meet targets under the plan however, with Germany keen to preserve the independence of the European Central Bank and prevent extra bureaucracy.In his letter to finance ministers, Mr Juncker also says he is keen to boost the euro area's profile in international institutions, including the creation of a single seat for the currency club in the G20 and International Monetary Fund.
Re-election
Already head of the euro group since 2005, Mr Juncker looks set to be re-elected to the policy co-ordinating post for another 30 months on Monday, when the 16 finance ministers meet. The election stems from the EU's new set of rules, with the previously informal euro group configuration now achieving formal standing under the Lisbon Treaty, in force since 1 December 2009. However many see the appointment as something of a consolation prize for Europe's longest serving leader, after his failed bid to secure the post of the EU's first full-time president, ultimately claimed by the Belgian, Herman Van Rompuy. Reports suggest French President Nicolas Sarkozy blocked Luxembourg's inveterate chain-smoker from getting the Van Rompuy post last November, blaming Mr Juncker for not acting quickly enough to tackle the global financial crisis.Certain leaders didn't want to give me their trust, Mr Juncker said at the time.
Austrian nominee promises to be tough but fair on EU regions
VALENTINA POP 15.01.2010 @ 17:32 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Austria's commissioner nominee for regional affairs, Johannes Hahn, told MEPs on Thursday he saw himself as a father-figure for the regions, looking after their development while also being tough on the use of EU money.Each father has an interest to see his kids thrive and develop well ... but sometimes he also has to be tough and say where the boundaries are, the centre-right Austrian politician said during the three-hour hearing.One of the areas where Mr Hahn pledged to be tough is the level of errors potentially indicating fraud in the use of EU regional aid, which has regularly seen the Court of Auditors raise red flags.The error rates identified by the Court of Auditors are alarm bells for me. I will have zero tolerance for errors and above all for suspected and actual fraud, Mr Hahn said.As his predecessors, Mr Hahn spoke of the need to strike the right balance between financial control and cutting red tape, praising the work done by Danuta Hubner in simplifying the policy rules. Ms Hubner was a regional commissioner between 2004-2009 and is now chairwoman of the parliamentary committee on regional affairs he was addressing.On the future of the policy, which currently accounts for over a third of the overall EU budget, Mr Hahn avoided making any concrete commitments. But he said one had to be open to change, where it is needed, while indicating he was not in favour of a radical overhaul of the community budget at the expense of regional policy.Pressed on the issue of misspent EU money, Mr Hahn referred to the €2.5 billion recovered in the last two years, considerably more than in previous years.But the objective of regional policy is not to say we've saved x billion euros. We need to have the money spent according to the rules, but it would be wrong to have the objective of having an awful lot of money left in the pot.
On specific policies, he spoke passionately about cross-border initiatives, especially with regions from non-EU member states. I believe one hundred percent in cross-border projects, this is the kind of policy that generates change. And we should particularly foster cross-border co-operation with regions outside the EU, because the EU is first and foremost a peace-building project,he argued.One such initiative involving regions within and outside the EU is the Danube strategy, which is still in its early drafting phase in the EU commission. Austria has been a strong promoter of this macro-regional policy, which will draw from the Baltic Sea strategy, the first EU approach of this kind.It is a very exciting project, that includes eight EU states and six countries which are not yet members. Similar to the Baltic Sea strategy, it looks at issues in the use of water ways, he said.
Integrity questions deflected
Mr Hahn was questioned by several MEPs on issues related to his former company, Novomatic, active in the gaming industry, which he quit in 2003. He said he had brought documentation to prove that there was no evidence that Novomatic laundered money or that he was in any way still connected to the company.I am not trying to duck the question. It is an important issue and I want it to be clear that there are no criminal investigations against me or anyone else,he stressed.It is a groundless personal attack against me.MEPs seemed overall pleased with his answers. The ones who had raised his integrity issues were more critical and said the legal service should have a look at the documents he provided. His appointment is however seen as a shoo-in, committee chairwoman Danuta Hubner indicated.I was impressed with his knowledge at this stage, because I know how difficult this policy is, including on the critical points - the dilemma between financial control and administrative burden,she told this website.If approved together with the whole body of commissioners on 26 January, Mr Hahn is expected to take office on 1 February.
Ukraine ready to reconcile with Russia By DOUGLAS BIRCH, Associated Press Writer - JAN 18,10
KIEV, Ukraine — The candidates in Ukraine's presidential runoff next month stood on opposite sides of the barricades in the 2004 Orange Revolution but when it comes to Russia, they see nearly eye to eye.Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych both pledge to reconcile Ukraine with its giant neighbor to the east, by far Ukraine's biggest trading partner and the region's dominant military power.In the future, NATO membership appears to be out. There will be far less Kremlin-bashing in Kiev, and relations with Georgia will not be nearly as close as they were under Orange President Viktor Yushchenko, who was trounced in Sunday's ballot.Five years ago many Orange protesters dreamed of breaking Ukraine's historic dependence on Moscow and becoming part of Western Europe.But they've had a rude awakening, in the form of an battle with Russia over energy prices, the 2008 Russia-Georgia war and one of the worst recessions in Europe.All seemed to demonstrate that like it or not, Ukraine couldn't get along without good relations with Moscow, its historic ally.With about 82.5 percent of ballots counted Monday, Yanukovych had some 35.7 percent while Tymoshenko was second with 24.8 percent. The 16 other candidates trailed behind — including Yushchenko, with just 5.4 percent of the vote. Only the two top finishers are eligible for the runoff.
The blunt-spoken Yanukovych, a former electrician and factory manager who became prime minister before the Orange Revolution, has pledged to scrap Ukraine's NATO bid and elevate Russian to the status of a second official language alongside Ukrainian.
Tymoshenko, a heroine of the pro-Western revolt, in 2007 criticized what she called Russia's imperial ambitions. But in the past year she has made peace with the Kremlin on energy and security issues.After the vote Sunday, Tymoshenko thanked supporters for ignoring attacks against her.Despite the great campaign of discrimination that was launched by all the oligarchs who rallied around Yanukovych, people showed their wisdom, trust and faith in me, she said.Despite warnings of large-scale election fraud in the days leading up to Sunday's vote, officials and election observers said the ballot seemed fair and orderly.Five years ago, fraud allegations sent tens of thousands of Ukrainians into the streets of Kiev, demanding an end to what they regarded as a corrupt regime. After weeks of protests, Yushchenko beat Yanukovych in a court-ordered revote.Yushchenko's win was hailed in the West as a victory by democratic forces over the cynical veterans of Ukraine's Soviet regime. But in Moscow, many saw it as part of a Western plot to surround and weaken Russia.After his election, Yushchenko became embroiled in political skirmishing that paralyzed the government and he failed to push through many of his promised reforms.Yanukovych seemed elated by his victory over Yushchenko, his old rival, on Sunday.Today marks the end of Orange power, he said.There will be no room for (Yushchenko) in the second round. He has officially lost the faith of the people.
Ukraine's currency crashed in 2008, the economy sputtered and the International Monetary Fund had to step in with a $16.4 billion (euro11.41 billion) bailout. Ukraine's gross domestic product plunged by 15 percent in 2009, according to the World Bank, which estimates that the country will see anemic growth this year. Some analysts said that despite Tymoshenko's second-place finish, her sharp political instincts give her the edge in the Feb. 7 runoff vote. Yanukovych's voter base has been exhausted. Although it was strong and compact and never betrayed him, it did not grow,said Viktor Nebozhenko, director of the sociology institute Ukrainian Barometer.Tymoshenko, as a great communicator, has chances to win this election.
Corporate dealmaking hopes lift European markets By PAN PYLAS, AP Business Writer – JAN 18,10
LONDON – European stocks markets rose modestly Monday as speculation of a pickup in corporate dealmaking helped offset earlier losses in Asia while Wall Street was to remain closed for the Martin Luther King public holiday.The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 31.14 points, or 0.6 percent, at 5,486.51, with shares in International Power PLC leading the advance — up 5 percent — following weekend speculation that GDF Suez is preparing a bid for the company.Meanwhile, GDF shares in France were up 1.5 percent, helping the CAC-40 rise 18.26 points, or 0.5 percent, to 3,972.64, while Germany's DAX was 32.51 points, or 0.6 percent, at 5,908.48.
Shares in candy maker Cadbury PLC in London were also marked up around 1.5 percent in London on weekend newspaper reports that Kraft Foods Inc. was preparing to sweeten its offer for the British company.Analysts said there are mounting expectations that the amount of mergers and acquisitions taking place will increase over the coming months as the global economy recovers from recession. One corollary of increased confidence is an increase in mergers and acquisitions.And companies considering doing deals won't want to leave it until too late if they think that the ten-month bull run in equity markets continues as the recovery becomes entrenched.As equity prices continue to move higher the opportunities to make smart acquisitions could become more limited, so a flurry of M&A activity could well be expected in the coming months, said Anthony Grech, market strategist at IG Index.With Wall Street closed later to commemorate the life of the civil rights leader and economic news limited, investors think the rest of the session will prove to be lackluster.When Wall Street returns on Tuesday, the focus will turn towards the next batch of fourth quarter corporate earnings figures, including those from Citigroup Inc. and IBM Corp.
So far, earnings have been fairly mixed, with upside surprises from the likes of Intel Corp. offset by disappointments elsewhere, most notably Alcoa Inc.A meeting of the 16 finance ministers of the countries that use the euro in Brussels later — after stock markets have closed in Europe — will be closely monitored in the currency markets though.The main topic of debate will be the shaky state of Greece's public finances and the measures planned by the new Socialist government to rein in borrowing over the coming years.Concern about Greece's debts has been one of the reasons why the euro has floundered over the last month or so from 16-month highs above $1.50.It seems that Greece is heading for a crisis that will seriously test the strength of the eurozone, said Rob Pike, a trader at Spreadex.It is uncertain whether the eurozone has the stability to resist this since a default by Greece could signal an increase in pressure on other member states via increased borrowing costs, said Pike.The euro had recovered its poise somewhat ahead of the meeting, trading 0.3 percent higher at $1.4377.
Meanwhile, the dollar was 0.1 percent higher at 90.84 yen.Earlier in Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average ended 127.02 points, or 1.2 percent, lower at 10,855.08 while Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 194.15 points, or 0.9 percent, to 21,460.01. Markets in Singapore and Taiwan also lost ground. Other markets fared better, with South Korea's Kospi gaining 0.6 percent to 1,711.78 and Australia's stock measure adding 0.2 percent and Shanghai's index rising 0.4 percent. Oil prices rose modestly, with benchmark crude for February delivery up 35 cents at $78.35. On Friday, the contract slid $1.39 to settle at $78. The price was down $4.75 for the week after declining for five straight days. AP Business Writer Jeremiah Marquez in Hong Kong contributed to this report.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
AND WERE WILL ALL THIS VIOLENCE WORLDWIDE LEAD? TO WW3 AND THE DEATH OF HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION-3 BILLION PEOPLE.
5,000 displaced after violence in northern Nigeria
Mon Jan 18, 4:18 am ET
JOS, Nigeria – The Red Cross says violence between Christians and Muslims in the city of Jos in northern Nigeria has displaced 5,000 people and left 69 others injured.Jos-based Red Cross official Auwal Muhammad Madobi says rioters burned down churches, mosques and homes during the attacks Sunday. On Monday, police and soldiers manned road blocks and conducted searches on those traveling through the city.A local police spokesman said the city was calm Monday. He said officials began collecting bodies from the streets and hospitals, but could not say how many were killed in the violence. Witnesses said Sunday night that they saw 10 bodies in a local mosque.In 2008, two days of religious violence in Jos left more than 300 people dead.
7 charged over violent protest in Kenya By Tom Odula, Associated Press Writer – JAN 18,10
NAIROBI, Kenya – Seven Kenyans have been charged in court with assaulting five police officers during a violent protest last week to demand the release of a radical Jamaican-born Muslim cleric.The seven pleaded not guilty and were released on bail Monday. Soon afterward, police arrested, within the court premises, the head of the Muslim Human Rights Forum, Al-Amin Kimathi, who had witnessed the hearing. Kimathi's group organized Friday's protest during which several people were killed.
In a related development, Nairobi police chief, Anthony Kibuchi, says that police arrested late Sunday about 400 people in a crackdown on suspected sympathizers of an extremist Somali Islamic group. Kenya's internal security minister had blamed Friday's violence on sympathizers of al-Shabab.
US concerned at Coptic Christian arrests in Egypt
Sat Jan 16, 4:32 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States said it was deeply concerned at the arrests Saturday of Coptic Christians heading to show support for fellow Copts killed and injured in Egypt earlier this month.The United States is deeply concerned by today's arrests of individuals traveling to the Egyptian town of Naga Hammadi to express support for those tragically killed and injured during the celebrations, said Mark Toner, acting State Department spokesman.According to publicly available evidence, those arrested included bloggers, democracy and religious freedom advocates, he added.We call on the government of Egypt to uphold the rights of all to peacefully express their political views and desires for universal freedoms and to ensure due process for those detained, Toner said.Egypt's state prosecutor said earlier that three Muslims accused of gunning down six Egyptian Christians on the Coptic Christmas Eve will stand trial before an emergency security court.Abdel Magid Mahmud said in a statement the three men were charged with premeditated murder aimed at harming national interests.The suspects were arrested a day after the six Copts and a Muslim policeman were shot dead along a stretch of road with churches and a shopping centre in the southern village of Nagaa Hammadi.The drive-by shooting took place after worshippers emerged from midnight mass before Christmas, marked by Copts and other Orthodox communities across the world on January 7.The killings, which were condemned by Pope Benedict XVI, sparked outrage among the country's Copts, who make up nearly 10 percent of Egypt's 80 million people, and led to clashes with police.
India to sign new MiG deal with Russia: official
JAN 18,10
NEW DELHI (AFP) – India and Russia are set to agree a 1.2-billion-dollar deal for 29 MiG-29 fighter jets which will cement Moscow's role as New Delhi's principal arms supplier, an official said Monday.A senior Indian defence ministry official said the deal was likely to be finalised this week during a visit to New Delhi by a Russian military team. He declined to say when it would be signed.The contract has already been negotiated and just some finishing touches are now awaited, the official, who did not want to be named, said.He put its worth at 1.2 billion dollars and said the planes would be handed over to the Indian navy.The deal has already been cleared by the cabinet of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who paid a state visit to Russia last month.The official said the deal would be in addition to 16 MiG-29 planes New Delhi will acquire for deployment on an aircraft carrier it also hopes to obtain from Russia, which supplies 70 percent of Indian weaponry.
The Russian embassy in New Delhi did not respond to queries on the deal.
Relations between India and Russia, currently negotiating arms contracts worth over 15 billion dollars, hit a low following wrangling over the cost of refurbishing the retired aircraft carrier.Russia in 2004 promised to gift the Admiral Gorshkov to India, provided Delhi paid a Russian shipyard 974 million dollars to revamp the vessel.Since then, the price has skyrocketed for fixing up the 27-year-old ship.Last year, Russia startled India with a demand for 2.9 billion dollars.Now we are closer to an understanding on Gorshkov, the ministry official said without elaborating.
During Singh's trip to Russia in December the countries signed two agreements on arms, one on their two-way weapons trade in the years 2011-2020 and another on servicing Russian-made arms sold to India.India plans to spend tens of billions on dollars to modernise its military.
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.
Canadian drug-injection site allowed to stay open By Allan Dowd – Fri Jan 15, 4:22 pm ET
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) – The Canadian government must allow Vancouver's Insite facility, North America's only sanctioned drug-injection site, to remain open, a provincial appeals court ruled on Friday.The facility allows addicts to use their own illegal drugs under supervised conditions, and is the focus of a battle between the federal government, which wants to close it, and local health officials, who say it saves lives.In a split decision, the British Columbia Court of Appeal rejected Ottawa's bid to end Insite's special exemption from federal drug laws, which has allowed it to operate on a medical trial basis since 2003.The appeal court's majority upheld a lower court ruling that addicts needed Insite as a medical service, and that the province of British Columbia had the right to keep it open even if the federal government did not like it.Insite is in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside area which is one of Canada's poorest neighborhoods, with one of country's highest rates of HIV and AIDS, diseases often spread by injection drug use.Insite and the social and drug problems of the Downtown Eastside are expected to come into the world's media spotlight next month when Vancouver hosts the Winter Olympics.The health crisis sparked by illegal drug use in the central core of Vancouver demonstrates starkly the need for a practical response to the reality that people are obtaining drugs, using them, and becoming addicted despite a national effort to control their use ... and avoid their abuse," Justice Carol Mahood Huddart wrote in the appeal court's ruling.
Insite's supporters, including local police, say medical studies show it helps addicts by reducing overdose deaths and giving people better access to services to help end their drug addictions.It's a good way of slowing the spread of disease. This is a good day, said Dean Wilson, who has fought his own battles with drug addiction and help to found Insite.The Conservative federal government argued Insite should be closed because the science supporting it was inconclusive, and there was an obligation to uphold the country's drug laws.The appeals court's dissenting justice said Ottawa had a responsibility to protect the public from illegal drugs.
The U.S. government has pressured Canada to close Insite.Ottawa was disappointed with the ruling, but could not say yet if it would be appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, a spokeswoman for federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq said.Insite's supporters urged Ottawa not to appeal, and said the ruling should allow other Canadian cities to establish supervised injection sites. Insite is modeled on similar facilities in Europe.It's just in step with the rest of the world, said former Vancouver Mayor Philip Owen.(Reporting by Allan Dowd; editing by Rob Wilson)
IMF chief: global recovery stronger than expected By MALCOLM FOSTER, Associated Press Writer – JAN 18,10
TOKYO – The head of the IMF said China and other developing Asian economies are leading a global recovery that is faster and stronger than expected, but warned that money rushing into emerging markets could lead to asset bubbles.Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, strongly suggested Monday that the IMF would raise its 2010 global growth forecast from the 3.1 percent it projected in October.China, India and other emerging Asian economies were close to returning to their pre-crisis growth rates, while rebounds in the U.S., Japan and other advanced economies remained sluggish, he said.The forecasts we're going to release in a couple of days will show that this recovery is going faster and stronger than we expected several months ago, Strauss-Kahn told reporters in Tokyo.
While the IMF doesn't forecast a double-dip, or second recession, risks remain, he said.We have to very cautious because this recovery remains very fragile.While hundreds of billions in stimulus spending by governments around the world avoided another Great Depression, he said, the most important risk facing the global economy is deciding how and when to reverse those polices and deal with resulting debt burdens.Now we have to fix the consequences of the policy that has been put in place to fight against the crisis, he said.Finding the right time to implement exit policies is really a difficult one.If you exit too late, you waste resources, he said.If you exit too early, you have a risk of going back into recession.The best indicators for timing fresh growth strategies are monitoring private demand and employment, he said. The IMF recommends that governments devise policies that will support the labor market given still-high joblessness, which could lead to social unrest in some countries.A key lesson from the global financial crisis is that authorities need to beef up supervision — more so than regulations — of financial institutions, he said.You may have the best regulations in the world, but if it's not supervised correctly, it's no use.Strauss-Kahan also said he was worried that the unified political will to tackle the crisis demonstrated at the Group of 20 summits last year will vanish as the world economy recovers.The rush of money into major emerging markets such as China, Brazil and Russia reflects investors' recognition that these economies are growing rapidly.But Strauss-Kahn said this could lead to many problems, including asset bubbles and a sudden drop in foreign investment, much like Eastern European countries experienced during the global financial crisis.
Oil stays near $78 on demand doubts, weaker dollar By PABLO GORONDI, Associated Press Writer – JAN 18,10
Oil prices hovered around $78 a barrel Monday as traders weighed doubts about global oil demand against a weaker U.S. dollar, which made crude cheaper for investors holding other currencies.By midday in Europe, benchmark crude for February delivery was up 30 cents to $78.30 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Friday, the contract slid $1.39 to settle at $78. The price was down $4.75 for the week after declining for five straight days.Earlier Monday, declines in most of the major Asian stock markets dampened investor sentiment and helped pushed crude prices as low as $77.07.This followed Friday's decline on Wall Street, where rising loan losses at JPMorgan Chase & Co. sparked concerns about profits at other big banks. Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo & Co. are expected to post results this week.We see a downward pressure on oil. The corporate earnings results so far have not really indicated much revenue growth and that points to continued weakness in the U.S. economy, said Victor Shum, an energy analyst with consultancy Purvin & Gertz in Singapore.Shum said the recent cold weather in the U.S. has failed to sharply reduce oil inventories and the frigid spell is now easing, which will detract from demand for oil.Oil prices may slide further but Shum said bargain hunting is likely to stem the fall at the mid $70s level. If the bank earnings are strong, the mood could also turn around quickly, he said.The euro and the British pound were both higher against the dollar, making crude priced in dollars cheaper for investors holding those currencies. The euro bought $1.4379 compared with $1.4358 late Friday in New York, while the British pound rose to $1.6338 from $1.6258.Analysts also mentioned a dispute about taxes on oil shipments between Russia and Belarus as a factor which could affect the market.With Europe suffering from the winter cold, any sustained supply disruption could have an impact on prices," said a report from Britain's KBC Energy Economics.A large chunk of EU crude supplies are transited through the country.In other Nymex trading in February contracts, heating oil rose 0.19 cent to $2.0479 a gallon and gasoline was up 0.88 cent at $2.0542 a gallon. Natural gas futures shed 4.8 cents to $5.643 per 1,000 cubic feet.In London, Brent crude for March delivery gained 15 cents to $77.26 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
Associated Press writer Eileen Ng in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, contributed to this report.
$28 TRILLION GIVIN TO THE ROBBER BANKS TO BUY UP LAND AND BONUSES, THE SCAM IS BEING REVEALED TO THE WORLD FINALLY.
AIG probe widens to include Paulson, Friedman By DANIEL WAGNER, AP Business Writer – Fri Jan 15, 8:15 pm ET
WASHINGTON – A House committee is broadening its probe of secretive bank bailouts to include former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and former Federal Reserve Bank of New York Chairman Stephen Friedman.The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has invited Paulson and Friedman to testify about their roles in the bailout of American International Group Inc., according to Chairman Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y.
Lawmakers want to know more about deals that funneled billions from AIG to banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Friedman is a Goldman director who resigned from the New York Fed after concerns he had conflicts of interest.California Rep. Darrell Issa, the committee's top Republican, also said he wants Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to answer questions about the bailout, which he helped lead.A Towns spokeswoman said he is making decisions daily about witnesses and testimony. A Fed spokesman would not comment.An earlier watchdog report said the bailouts might have cost taxpayers billions more than necessary because officials did not demand concessions from the banks. The money went to satisfy massive financial obligations that AIG was unable to meet without a government rescue.The bailouts were managed by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York under the leadership of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Geithner has defended the deals and will testify on Jan. 27.
California Rep. Darrell Issa, the committee's top Republican, called earlier Friday for Paulson to testify. He asked for the hearing last week after uncovering e-mails in which New York Fed lawyers told AIG to keep some details secret.Issa also wanted the committee to demand documents from the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve by issuing subpoenas. He said lawmakers should question Bernanke.Towns heeded Issa's earlier call to subpoena the New York Fed for documents including Geithner's e-mails and phone records. A Towns spokeswoman said he is making decisions daily about witnesses and testimony.In inviting Paulson, Towns addressed accusations by Democrats that the hearing was motivated by partisan attacks on Geithner.House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., said Thursday that Bush appointees Paulson and Bernanke outranked Geithner. Frank said his committee also will be looking at the AIG deals.Issa insisted the investigation is not and has never been about Tim Geithner. Its goal is to learn the truth about the apparent waste of billions of taxpayer dollars and the government's efforts to conceal this waste from the American people, he said in a statement Friday.Towns said Friday the hearing also will include testimony from Neil Barofsky, the bailout watchdog who prepared a report criticizing the deals; New York Fed general counsel Thomas Baxter; and Elias Habayeb, the chief financial officer of the division that brought down AIG.
Treasury and the Federal Reserve refused to say which banks benefited from the backdoor bailouts or how much money they got until after it was disclosed in news reports. Banks including Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Societe Generale benefited from the deals.AIG had been negotiating the values of banks' contracts before the government took it over in September 2008, according to published reports. Geithner considered reducing the payments for two days before paying the banks off in full.The oversight committee is investigating why the banks were paid in full and why officials including Geithner refused to name them.The probe will give a fuller picture of the largest bailout of the financial crisis. The government's rescue of AIG — eventually totaling $180 billion — sparked public outrage and contributed to calls for financial reform. The government also received a nearly 80 percent stake in AIG in return for the support. Representatives for Paulson and Friedman would not comment. A Treasury spokesman did not respond to requests for comment.
I WRITE NEWS ABOUT AND PUT NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM PERTAINING TO BIBLE PROPHESY HAPPENINGS.JOEL 3:20 But Judah (ISRAEL) shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.(THATS ISRAEL-JERUSALEM WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED AGAIN)-WE CHRISTIANS ARE ALL WAITING PATIENTLY FOR THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE TO OCCUR.SO WE CAN GO TO JESUS AND GET OUR NEVER DYING BODIES.SO WE CAN RULE OVER CITIES OURSELVES.WHILE JESUS RULES FROM DAVIDS THRONE FOREVER IN JERUSALEM.
IMPORTANT LINKS
- MARK LEVIN (TRUTHS)
- ISRAEL365 NEWS
- THE GATEWAY PUNDIT
- TIMES OF ISRAEL NEWSFEED
- JERUSALEM POST NEWS
- HOLY TEMPLE MYTH 3
- HOLY TEMPLE MYTH 2
- HOLY TEMPLE MYTH 1
- MY 12 YR BAN ON GAY FLAG IN OWENSOUND
- MY 7 YR PEACE TREATY SITE
- MY MOHAWK HARNESS PREDICTIONS
- MY NHL HOCKEY STATS SITE
- MY YOUTUBE SITE
- MY TWITTER SITE
- SHOTS ARE GENE THERAPY.
- LAURA-LYNN TYLER THOMPSON
- REBEL NEWS
- NTEB
- FOX NEWS
- CBN NEWS
- JAN MARKELL
- J D FARAG
- BEHOLD ISRAEL-AMIR TSARFATI
- JACK VAN IMPE
- ISRAEL RADIO
- LATEST MUSLIM SCAM READERS DIGEST
- NEW WORLD ORDER BY ME
- WOKE CULTURE IS MAOISM IN CANADAS CHARACTERISTICS
- BIOLOGICAL WEAPON COVID STARTED IN 1965.
- DESTINY OF NATIONS.
- ELIJAH & MOSES PREACH 3 1/2 YEARS
- THE LAST GENERATION
- FROM NEBUCHADNEZZAR TO TODAY.
- ISRAEL-JERUSALEM TOGETHER FOREVER
- WW3 THE WAVES.
- EU'S 10 POINT PEACE PLAN.
- WAR IN HEAVEN REV 12
- 2024 CANADA PREDICTIONS.
- ISRAEL BIRD MIGRATION.
- 2-STRONG MAN BEHIND THE SPIRIT.
- ISRAEL DEFEATES ALL ENEMIES.
- I ASKED AI LEADER QUESTIONS.
- ISRAEL AND EUS HISTORY TO END OF TRIBULATION.
- ABORTION IS MURDER OF A GENERATION OF CHILDREN.
ALLTIME
-
COMMUNIST NAZI PROSTITUE PUPPET MEDIA OF CANADA IN KAHOOTS WITH COMMUNIST-NAZI LIBERAL LEADER TRUDEAU TO DESTROY TRUCKERS. THE PROPAGANDA PR...
-
JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN S...
-
DEFEATING DEMONIC SPIRITS (PART 2) RELATED PART 1 http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2006/08/defeating-demonic-powers.html GIFTS OF THE SPIR...