MIDEAST-WAR-NEAR

OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN

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

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

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

Chile quake may have tipped Earth's axisMarch 2, 2010 7:45 p.m. EST
STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Each day should be 1.26 microseconds shorter, according to preliminary calculations
A large quake alters the distribution of mass on the planet.Length of days was shorted by 6.8 microseconds after tsunami of 2004.

(CNN) -- The massive earthquake that struck Chile on Saturday may have shifted Earth's axis and created shorter days, scientists at NASA say.The change is negligible, but permanent: Each day should be 1.26 microseconds shorter, according to preliminary calculations. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.A large quake shifts massive amounts of rock and alters the distribution of mass on the planet.When that distribution changes, it changes the rate at which the planet rotates. And the rotation rate determines the length of a day.Any worldly event that involves the movement of mass affects the Earth's rotation, Benjamin Fong Chao, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said while explaining the phenomenon in 2005.

Scientists use the analogy of a skater. When he pulls in his arms, he spins faster.
That's because pulling in his arms changes the distribution of the skater's mass and therefore the speed of his rotation.Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, used a computer model to determine how the magnitude 8.8 quake that struck Chile on February 27 may have affected Earth.

See scenes of devastation from the quake.He determined that the quake should have moved Earth's figure axis about 3 inches (8 centimeters). The figure axis is one around which Earth's mass is balanced. That shift in axis is what may have shortened days.Such changes aren't unheard of.The magnitude 9.1 earthquake in 2004 that generated a killer tsunami in the Indian Ocean shortened the length of days by 6.8 microseconds.On the other hand, the length of a day also can increase. For example, if the Three Gorges reservoir in China were filled, it would hold 10 trillion gallons (40 cubic kilometers) of water. The shift of mass would lengthen days by 0.06microsecond, scientists said.

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.

Chile steps up aid to desperate quake victims By Terry Wade And Ignacio Badal – Tue Mar 2, 5:29 pm ET

CONSTITUCION, Chile (Reuters) – Chile's government used helicopters and boats to speed up the delivery of food to hungry survivors on Tuesday as the death toll rose to nearly 800 three days after a devastating earthquake and tsunami.Chileans desperate for food and water swarmed soldiers as an army helicopter touched down in the ruined coastal town of Constitucion, which was hit by three giant waves set off by Saturday's 8.8-magnitude earthquake.The government dispatched more troops to restore order in Concepcion, Chile's second-largest city, which was placed under curfew for 18 hours a day after looters raided stores and burned a supermarket.There were no reports of major outbreaks of looting on Tuesday and President Michelle Bachelet said order had been restored in the city, which bore the brunt of the quake along with coastal towns that were also devastated by tsunamis.Constitucion, with a population of nearly 40,000, accounts for nearly half of the official death toll, which Bachelet said had risen to 795. Surrounded by three hills, the city was turned into a ruin of flattened homes and toppled buildings. Wooden homes perched atop the hillsides were among the only buildings left standing.Dozens of bodies were lined up on the floor of a makeshift morgue in a high school gymnasium, where people cringed at the pungent smell of death as they scoured a list of victims.

Officials estimated that between 100 and 500 people in the city are still missing.
Many Chileans complained that scores of deaths could have been avoided had the government responded faster to the earthquake, which set off a roaring tsunami a few hours later that killed many who had survived the quake.Nobody showed up around here to warn us, said Alejandra Jara, a 28-year-old resident of La Pesca, a small fishing village just north of Constitucion.We fled on our own because we know that when there's a big earthquake, you have to leave everything and take off.Manuel Parra, who also ran for higher ground, was one of many residents whose seafront homes were washed off foundations. Those who went inland up the hill survived. Those who didn't are no longer here, said the 64 year-old.The government has acknowledged that rescue efforts have been slow, in part because of mangled roads and power cuts. But officials also misjudged the extent of the damage, initially declining offers for international aid.

TENSIONS HIGH

The looting and violence that followed the quake prompted some people in Concepcion to band together to protect their homes, armed with sticks and shotguns.With tensions high in Concepcion, soldiers were delivering food and other basic supplies house to house.Food, blankets and medical equipment were being sent to some of the estimated two million people affected by the quake, but residents complained of skyrocketing prices for everyday staples like bread and milk.Making a stop on a tour of Latin America, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered 20 satellite phones to help in relief efforts. Bachelet, who is in her last days in office, said Chile was now asking other countries to help supply desalination plants and power generators.Most of Concepcion remained without water and electricity as rescue teams used shovels and drills to find possible survivors in the rubble of a collapsed 14-story apartment block. The looting and a growing perception that government relief efforts have been slow have tainted the country's hard-earned image as Latin America's beacon of order and stability. But both the human and economic cost could have been a lot worse given the size of the quake, one of the world's biggest in the past century. Chile's rigid building codes left it much more prepared for a quake than Haiti, where more than 200,000 were killed in January in a 7.0-magnitude quake.

ECONOMIC DAMAGE

Chile has the most stable economy in Latin America but the huge quake and tsunamis have hit its efforts to climb out of a recession triggered by the global economic downturn. Some analysts estimate the damage could cost Chile up to $30 billion, or about 15 percent of its gross domestic product. Asked what it would cost to rebuild, Bachelet said: I can only say it will be a lot.The disaster also hands billionaire businessman Sebastian Pinera a mammoth challenge days before he is sworn in as Chile's new president. Pinera ran for office pledging to boost economic growth to an average of 6 percent a year and create a million new jobs. On Tuesday, he said the quake had not altered his economic goals. Those figures remain, he said, adding that the reconstruction phase could accelerate growth and job creation. The government has forecast the economy will grow between 4.5 percent and 5.5 percent this year.

Chile is the world's leading copper producer and supply concerns at first pushed global copper prices sharply higher but the country's main mines have resumed work and prices fell sharply on Tuesday. The Chilean peso gained more than 1 percent on Tuesday on bets that the government and pension funds will repatriate offshore funds to pay for the reconstruction effort. The central bank has said it would keep interest rates at record lows to help stimulate the economy. (Additional reporting by Mario Naranjo in Concepcion; Simon Gardner, Alonso Soto, and Andrew Quinn in Santiago; Writing by Stuart Grudgings, Helen Popper, Kevin Gray and Todd Benson; Editing by Chris Wilson)

Chile Was Prepared for the Quake but Not the Tsunami By TIM PADGETT Time – Tue Mar 2, 7:25 am ET

In Chile's second largest city, ConcepciÓn, the army has issued a silence order on some urban blocks so rescue workers can hear the possible tapping of survivors under the rubble of the massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit the country on Feb. 27. The quake may be, as Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said on Sunday, an emergency unparalleled in the country's history. But the death toll - fewer than 1,000 so far, despite the quake's being one of the strongest ever recorded - is a tribute to Chile's remarkable preparation and response.Remarkable, that is, in terms of coping with what happened on land. Disaster officials now say the majority of Chile's fatalities may have resulted from the temblor-generated tsunami waves that slammed coastal towns like ConstituciÓn, where 350 people were killed. And that points up the only area in which Chile and its government may have fallen short in this disaster.If so, it's a perplexing misstep by a country that has seen what kind of tsunami an earthquake this strong can hurl - as it did in 1960, when a 9.5-magnitude quake, the most powerful ever recorded, killed more than 1,600 people. Inexplicably, in the minutes after Saturday's quake, Chilean officials told coastal communities like ConstituciÓn that there was little if any danger of tsunamis. Chilean television networks later aired video of tall, destructive waves pushing houses, cars and boats through fishing villages. We ran desperately up the hill and watched how the sea washed everything away, a woman in the village of Duao told a Chilean-TV reporter. The wave that hit the village of Talcahuano rose more than 7½ ft.

Bachelet's government has suggested it was working with flawed data from its navy. Scientists say a tsunami's likelihood and force depend largely on the amount of vertical movement an earthquake causes at the sea floor. The 9.0-magnitude quake that caused the devastating South Asia tsunami of 2004 yielded potent vertical displacement of about 16 ft. (5 m); Chile's Saturday temblor, centered just off the Pacific coast about midway between the capital, Santiago, and ConcepciÓn, is thought to have involved significant vertical motion as well. Fortunately, no other countries in the Pacific Basin were affected by the Chile tsunami.But it's hard to understand how the Chileans didn't foresee a major tsunami, at least for its own coast so close to the epicenter,says a U.S. geologist who asked not to be identified because he is still studying the Chile data.Not only was this one of the most powerful earthquakes we've seen in years, its movement was mostly vertical, which produces the most dangerous tsunamis.But Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, which is analyzing the Chile tsunami data, says that precisely because the communities were so close to the epicenter, tsunami waves arrived almost instantaneously.(Most accounts indicate they hit the shore less than 20 minutes after the first quake shock.)It would have been virtually impossible to mobilize quickly enough to get out of harm's way,Lubchenco says - especially at 3:30 a.m., when the quake hit. They didn't have the benefit of early warning in this case.Ricardo Zapata, a disaster-evaluation chief for the Santiago-based Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), cites three levels of damage in the Chile quake. The first was the collapse of older, pre-1960 buildings, many of which were further damaged because they were constructed too close to one another. The second was the failure of newer buildings like ConcepciÓn's apartment high-rises, which, while not pancaking like poorly built structures did during Haiti's 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Jan. 12, in many cases tilted over and broke, because even the strongest foundations can experience a kind of liquefaction by vibration in such powerful temblors. The last was the tsunami wreckage - and if early reports are true that it caused the most deaths, says Zapata, that's something the Chileans are going to have to take a long, hard look at.

Still, says Zapata, who is heading up ECLAC's evaluation of the Haiti quake, given the intensity of Chile's earthquake, it's amazing that there haven't been more damage and deaths than what we've seen so far.Chile has been credited with mandating strict building codes. But even the best earthquake-fitted infrastructure would have trouble withstanding magnitudes much higher than 8.0. The Chile quake, Zapata says, is off the charts no matter how you look at it, which is why so many bridges and roads have been destroyed there. (See the top 10 news stories of 2009.)Chile's death toll could eventually rise above 1,000. But right now, aside from the rescue process, the biggest issue on the ground is the top priority for any earthquake-battered country: getting food, water and medical aid to the hardest-hit zones. Rescuers were hampered in ConcepciÓn over the weekend by tear-gas smoke fired at grocery-store looters - an embarrassing scene that prompted Bachelet to arrange for vendors to give free food away.Bachelet, a moderate socialist who remains remarkably popular in Chile, hands her office to conservative President-elect SebastiÁn PiÑera on March 11. She is expected to ask U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for a relatively small amount of American aid when Clinton visits Chile on Tuesday during her previously scheduled tour of Latin America this week. Clinton will no doubt praise Bachelet's leadership during the emergency - as most Chileans have, despite the apparent tsunami mishap. It will be up to PiÑera to put mechanisms in place to make sure Chile is as prepared at sea as it is on land when the next earthquake strikes.- With reporting by Eben Harrell / Santiago

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Official: Uganda landslides kill 70; 250 missing By GODFREY OLUKYA, Associated Press Writer – Tue Mar 2, 12:52 pm ET

BUDUDA, Uganda – Rivers of mud swamped houses, stores and at least one school after heavy rains in this Central African country, killing at least 70 people with some 250still missing, officials and survivors said Tuesday.Rains that began Monday evening continued through the night, triggering landslides in the Bududa region, 170 miles (275 kilometers) east of Kampala.Uganda's minister of state for disaster preparedness said the army would join the rescue effort.Many people, including over 50 students who had taken refuge in Namatsi hospital, are either dead or missing, said the minister, Musa Ecweru.The government is doing all it can to rescue those still alive. President (Yoweri) Museveni has instructed the army to join the organizations and volunteers who carrying out rescue work.Wilson Watira, a district chairman, said that rescuers had recovered 70 bodies by Tuesday evening but that around 250 people were still missing. One survivor said he was at a church service when the rains began.All of a sudden the church collapsed. Mud covered the whole place. Five people seated next to me died. I only survived because my head was above the mud,James Kasawi, 20, told The Associated Press from a hospital in Bududa, where he was recovering from a broken leg and arm.

Another survivor, Mohamed Mudindi, said the landslide took him by surprise.I was up in the mountain standing then I heard a loud bang then we saw smoke, then the landslide, he said.So we started running away from the scene, we then went to the rescue place leaving many people and animals behind. So when we went back most of our people were gone.Bududa has long suffered from landslides but rarely has the death toll been so high.Police and army forces were working to recover bodies in the remote villages, which officials said were a three-hour walk from a main highway.

Unusually heavy rains also battered eastern Uganda in 2007 and forced 2,000 people from their homes and affected 50,000 people in what humanitarian officials said were the worst rains in 35 years. Landslides were reported in some areas. Nearly 4,000 households said their crops were damaged and flood waters contaminated springs, boreholes and wells for thousands of Ugandans. Many people reported being too afraid to use latrines in case they collapsed.The conditions prompted aid agencies to raise alarms about the heightened risk of malaria, diarrhea, skin diseases, chest infections and intestinal diseases.

Uganda landslide leaves 55 dead, more than 300 missing
Tue Mar 2, 11:45 am ET

KAMPALA (AFP) – A landslide triggered by torrential rain has buried entire villages and left more than 300 people missing in eastern Uganda, where at least 55 people have been killed.Rescue workers began pulling bodies from the mud after the landslide on Monday evening, while the Ugandan Red Cross reported widespread flooding and damage.Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees Tarsis Kabwegyere told parliament that 55 bodies had been retrieved after the landslide that hit three villages in the eastern district of Bududa.The Red Cross gave a similar death toll, adding that 350 other people were missing, while Kabwegyere said: Over 307 people are still missing. Only 31 survivors have been accounted for from the three villages.By 12 noon... a total of 55 bodies had been recovered by the rescue teams comprising the army, survivors and Red Cross volunteers, the minister said.The landslide happened after days of torrential rain. Uganda is currently experiencing unusually heavy downpours in the annual rainy season.Local markets were destroyed, schools were forced to close and roads were blocked by heaps of earth that slid from higher ground, the national Red Cross Secretary General Michael Nataka told AFP.Widespread flooding also affected several other villages in this region near Mount Elgon, which straddles the Uganda-Kenya border, the Red Cross chief said.However, there were no immediate reports of casualties in the other areas stricken by the disaster, according to the Red Cross.

Tonnes of relief aid and a helicopter carrying rescuers had been dispatched to the region, the minister said.A trailer loaded with 26 metric tonnes of relief food left this morning for Bududa and another loaded with 25 metric tones of relief was dispatched to the neighbouring Butaleja district where over 600 people are displaced, Kabwegyere said.Local municipal official Wilson Watila said many (people) are still buried underground because of heavy rain in the densely populated Bududa district.The whole area is threatened and we are telling people to leave immediately, he added.Houses built on mountain slopes were swept off by the mud and peoples' belongings were seen floating on flood waters, Nataka told AFP.The east Africa country's eastern region is also prone to landslides in the western region near the Rwenzori Mountains.In October, Uganda issued an El Nino warning, saying that the country would experience above-average rainfall up to March 2010.Most parts of the country have experienced above normal rains... and it is the same El Nino conditions which are still active now reaching (their) peak, Kabwegyere said.The conditions are likely to begin declining in mid-March with a brief dry spell during April. It is expected to end early June, he added. In 2008, thousands of people in northern Uganda were displaced from their homes due to heavy rains.

Heavy rains cause flooding, commuter woes in UAE
Tue Mar 2, 8:48 am ET

DUBAI (AFP) – Heavy rains in the Gulf desert state of the United Arab Emirates caused flooding, traffic jams, car accidents and school closures on Tuesday, after four weather-related deaths at the weekend.Some residents of the emirate of Sharjah were trapped in their homes by high waters, an AFP photographer reported. Cars were almost completely submerged on some roads.Sharjah residents waded through the water with rolled-up pants, while trucks looked like barges as they ploughed through the flooded streets.Gulf News reported on its website that a major thoroughfare, the Dubai-Sharjah sector of the Emirates Road bypass, was closed due to the flooding.

Traffic on Dubai's main Sheikh Zayed Road slowed to a crawl, with several accidents sighted. Many secondary roads in the city were flooded due to lack of drainage facilities.Dubai's education ministry issued a statement calling for schools to close on Tuesday and Wednesday because of flooding fears, said a Dubai school director. Some, but not all, schools in Sharjah were closed.There was no immediate report of fresh casualties, after three people were killed on Saturday in Sharjah from being electrocuted while standing in storm water.A woman also died on Saturday and 13 other people were injured in the collapse of the entrance to the Global Village annual shopping fair as heavy wind and rains lashed Dubai.The latest rain in Dubai stopped by mid-day, although the official news agency WAM forecast new downpours in Sharjah later on Tuesday.WAM also reported flooding in Fujairah, in the east of the seven-member oil-rich UAE federation, where wadis, (valleys), farmlands and low lands were inundated due to rain water.

Snowflakes, warnings from Ala. to West Virginia
Tue Mar 2, 8:14 am ET

ATLANTA – Snow is falling in the north Georgia mountains and as far south as the Atlanta area, while several Southeastern states are seeing flakes or under winter storm warnings.North Alabama reported snow mixed with icy rain early Tuesday and a winter weather advisory is in effect for most of the day. Schools in three counties delayed opening due to slick roads. Several north Georgia counties closed schools for the day.Light snow or flurries started the day in parts of Tennessee. The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings or advisories in western North and South Carolina. Light snow was possible in parts of Kentucky and West Virginia.
Many areas expecting snow could see it to turn to rain as temperatures hover above freezing.

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

Member states and EU commission clash over diplomatic service-The turf war between the EU institutions is heating up (Photo: Flickr/Kate Gardiner)
LEIGH PHILLIPS 02.03.2010 @ 09:38 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission and EU member states are in the middle of a nasty scrap over who is to have the most influence on Europe's new diplomatic corps. Talks between the EU executive and national diplomats over the organisation of the External Action Service (EAS) took a combative turn last week after the EU's high representative for foreign affairs, Catherine Ashton, circulated in Brussels a series of vision papers - seen by EUobserver - on the new institution.

One source close to the discussions described them as very frosty, pretty tense, with the commission representatives saying the Ashton documents seemed to offer a leading role for the Council of Ministers, representing the member states.The European Council asked Ms Ashton to decide how she would be setting up the service by April. Discussions are ongoing with the commission and the council to make sure that everyone is on board before the decision is finally taken in April. But it is understood that feelings are now running so high that the commission is considering withdrawing public support for the proposals. The commission feels that member states are encroaching on parts of policy territory thought of as its own, while member states think the commission, if not exactly making a power grab, is overstepping the mark.One major point of contention concerns control over development policy. Member states feel that development policy strategy should be set by themselves and the commission should have the role of implementing decisions.

Ms Ashton's papers outline three possible options for development funds: In the first scenario, the EAS would lead on all stages of development programming, from deciding on the levels of funding to the overall strategy and decisions on national and regional activities. In the second scenario, the commission could take the lead in national and regional activities - essentially the implementation of an agreed strategy.In the third, responsibility would be split equally between the EAS and the commission, with the former responsible for Latin America and the latter for Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific countries.The commission is also unhappy with the idea that the EAS should have thematic units or desks which cut across geographic regions on topics such as migration or climate change. Climate change in particular is seen as a commission prerogative.

Appointment powers contentious

Another bone of contention is the appointment of the heads of EU embassies. Here, the member states feel that the proposal leans too much towards the commission. Neither of the two options in Ms Ashton's vision papers - that appointment powers be exercised by her in agreement with the commission, or that the commission takes the lead and she gives the final approval - go far enough for the member states in terms of what we would like to see for heads of delegation appointments, said one European diplomat speaking to EUobserver.The source robustly supported the high representative's proposals overall, however, saying Ms Ashton is right to back a stronger role for the member states: Ashton's overall vision is right. It's ambitious, integrated and should enable the EU to make more a greater and more influential impact on foreign affairs across the globe.She's held off attempts from within the commission to limit the role of the EAS and the member states now need to support her on these issues so that we get an EAS which is an effective part of the EU machine.A diplomat from another member state said: We will do everything we can to support Ashton on this. It is vital that she have a clear strong mandate to get the EAS set up.The source said the commission was unnecessarily picking a fight: Ashton's already part of the commission as well, so really they should not have any fears about this.A commission official meanwhile suggested that while talks are tough, the discussions are very much a work in progress and Ms Ashton is in listening mode at the moment, aiming to shape a consensus that meets all concerns.

Brussels to unveil economic plan for next decade
RENATA GOLDIROVA 01.03.2010 @ 14:38 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - After a decade of the EU's failed efforts to become the world's most dynamic knowledge-based economy, Brussels is laying down a fresh economic vision based on innovation, education and digital technologies. However, it stops short of introducing sanctions to ensure national capitals this time stick to the plan. On Wednesday (3 March), the European Commission is set to adopt a 10-year economic strategy, dubbed Europe 2020, that warns of a lost decade should the 27-nation bloc continue at a slow and largely uncoordinated pace of reforms.The draft document, seen by EUobserver, argues in favour of smart, green and inclusive growth - an objective mirrored in five measurable targets that should be later translated into national obligations. The EU should increase its employment rate from the current 69 percent to at least 75 percent by the end of the next decade; should boost its investment in R&D and innovation to some 4 percent of GDP; and stick to its green goals of lower CO2 emissions, more renewables and higher energy efficiency.

In addition, at least 40 percent of Europeans aged 30-34 should obtain a university degree - currently, only 31 percent do so, while some 28 million people (or a quarter of Europeans) should be lifted out of poverty by 2020. The old continent lags behind the US and Japan when it comes to research spending, education achievements or the development of information and communication technologies. The EU's executive body is, therefore, set to keep an eye on how national governments stick to new tasks. The monitoring of progress towards these targets should become an integral part of our economic governance, the paper says.

No sticks, no carrots

The idea of sanctions or incentives - floated by the Spanish EU presidency and opposed by Germany - has not made it into the commission's package, however. Instead, Brussels is opting for country reporting based on reform programmes that EU capitals will need to submit for evaluation together with their stability or convergence programmes, which examine country's macroeconomic and fiscal stance. If a member state fails to adequately respond to a policy recommendation ... or develops policies going against the advice, the commission could issue a policy warning,says the document. EU institutions now enjoy a stronger say in the area of economy.

What about the money?

But the EU executive is likely to ruffle feathers in some capitals when it comes to discussing financial resources for Europe 2020, particularly the idea that future priorities should be mirrored in the bloc's post-2013 financial multi-annual budget.
We have insisted that the debate about the 2020 economic strategy cannot be the debate about the European Union's budget, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said at a February EU summit partially devoted to the topic. According to diplomats, the view is shared by Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic as well as the Baltic states.

The less developed countries do not see themselves as sufficiently able to absorb EU funds for R&D, innovation and low-carbon technology when compared to their western counterparts. Instead, they argue, the region still needs to put money into basic infustructure in order to boost attractiveness for investment.Member states must have the right to choose how they achieve the economic growth, Mr Fico argued, defending current financial tools such as the Cohesion Fund.Such policies must be part of the 2020 strategy. If not, some countries would be significantly disadvantaged.

No one size fits all

Poland's EU affairs minister, Mikolaj Dowgielewicz, echoed Mr Fico's concerns. The proposal does not sufficiently reflect the different development levels of regions and member states and therefore does not respect the underlying factor of economic cohesion in the enlarged EU. The one size fits all approach should be eliminated, he told EUobserver in an interview.The minister voiced special concern over plans to green the economy due to the vast differences in emissions levels between the old and new EU states.We should stick to the Cohesion Fund and structural funds, which have well-established and operational delivery mechanisms, he added.Poland is against creating separate thematic funds to address new challenges.Brussels, for its part, wants to discuss the different funds' real impact before it tables budgetary proposals next year. In addition, it hopes to design new financial instruments with the participation of the European Investment Bank and the private sector.The final decision on the new EU strategy is to be taken by the 27 EU leaders on 25 March. Under the bloc's new, post-Lisbon Treaty set-up, member states will have no chance to formally debate the proposals ahead of the summit in sectoral councils of energy or finance ministers, giving the commission extra power to force its ideas through.

Farage sanctioned after refusing to apologise for Van Rompuy insults
ANDREW WILLIS 02.03.2010 @ 15:06 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Nigel Farage, the parliamentary head of the eurosceptic United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip), has received an official reprimand from the European Parliament after refusing to apologise for statements he made in plenary last week. Following a speech by Herman Van Rompuy in the EU legislature, Mr Farage told the president of the European Council that he had the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk, visibly hurting the Belgian politician. He also called Belgium a non-country.In a meeting with parliament president Jerzy Buzek on Tuesday morning (2 March), Mr Farage refused Mr Buzek's request to apologise to Mr Van Rompuy, the European Parliament and the people of Belgium.The only people that I will apologise to are bank clerks the world over, if I've offended them I'm very sorry indeed, he told journalists after the meeting. Late on Tuesday, Mr Buzek's office issued a statement saying the president had decided to deprive the British politician of 10 days of allowance, falling just short of €3,000. MEPs receive a daily allowance for attending parliamentary business.

I cannot accept this sort of behaviour in the European Parliament. I invited [Mr Farage] to apologise, but he declined to do so. I have therefore - as an expression of the seriousness of the matter - rescinded his right to ten days' daily allowance as a Member,said Mr Buzek.Mr Farage had earlier indicated would appeal any decision against him taken by the parliament's authorities.

Belgium a non-country

The controversial MEP denied his plenary speech was intended to increase the media profile of the Ukip party ahead of the UK general elections next May, insisting he was standing up for greater democracy in the European Union and freedom of speech. I have merely expressed an opinion and in doing so, there is now actually a debate about who is Herman Van Rompuy, why is he being paid more than Barack Obama and just what powers has he got, he said. While many agree that the mild mannered and poetry-loving Mr Van Rompuy does not cut the most dazzling figure on the European stage, the personal nature of the attack and follow-up comments about Belgium being an artificial construction drew widespread criticism. Mr Farage defended his comments, saying they were mild compared to those made by current Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme. In 2006 Mr Leterme, then premier of Belgium's Flemish region, said the Belgian nation was an accident of history and that the only thing uniting the French and Dutch speaking populations was the king, football and beer. Describing Mr Buzek as a genuinely decent man, Mr Farage suggested the Polish parliamentary chief had now found himself in a difficult situation with the big group leaders, screaming at him to do something,an analysis supported by a number of commentators. Despite a colourful history of controversies, Mr Farage has only received a formal reprimand on one other occasion when he call Mr Van Rompuy and EU high representative Catherine Ashton political pygmies last November.

EU commission changes thinking on Russian pipeline
VALENTINA POP 02.03.2010 @ 17:51 CET

German energy commissioner Gunther Oettinger on Tuesday (2 March) for the first time signaled openness on behalf of the EU executive towards South Stream, a Russian gas pipeline running through the Black Sea, and seen as a rival to Europe's similar project, Nabucco. South Stream could be backed by the European Commission on condition that it meets the technical requirements for security, he said on the sidelines of an energy forum in Bulgaria, AFP reports.Mr Oettinger argued that the Gazprom-backed project would increase the capacity for gas imports in Europe and set up a new infrastructure,alluding to the fact that currently 80 percent of Russia's exports to the EU transits through Ukraine.It is a widespread view among German experts that the Russian-Ukrainian gas crisis, which also had an impact on EU consumers, was Kiev's fault and an alternative route via the Black Sea would prevent a repeat performance.

Mr Oettinger's comments are a first, however.So far, the EU commission has stuck to the line that it neither opposes nor backs the construction of South Stream, which is seen as competition to Europe's own project, the Nabucco pipeline, and which would bring gas from the Caspian region directly to southern and eastern Europe via Turkey.The Nabucco project has only slowly developed since 2002, when gas officials from the five countries involved - Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria - gathered in Vienna and dubbed the pipeline Nabucco after listening to Verdi's eponymous opera.Lack of political support, haggles on transit conditions with Turkey and a pricing dispute with supplier country Azerbaijan have delayed construction.

Meanwhile, Gazprom has mounted a counter-offensive, as it currently holds the transport monopoly on gas coming from the Caspian region, courting southern and central European states for its own project, South Stream. Unlike Nabucco, which is promoted by gas companies and former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer, South Stream is being promoted directly by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who managed to secure a handful of political agreements with Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia or Austria to back the scheme.Croatia on Tuesday also signed up as a potential buyer of South Stream gas. If built, South Stream will tap the same resources as Nabucco was intended for - the gas-rich Caspian region, which currently can only export via Soviet-era infrastructure transiting Russia. Nabucco was designed precisely to lower Europe's dependence on Russian gas imports, which reaches almost 100 percent in Bulgaria and Hungary. Mr Oettinger did repeat the commission line, that Brussels is looking at developing this southern corridor.The European Union wants a direct connection to the Caspian and the Middle East region, he said in Sofia.But his comments came amid strong criticism from Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, who lashed out at the European Union and the United States for paying Nabucco only lip service.All countries in western Europe and the United States have declared the project a priority. But, what I see is that it is a priority only in words,he said.The US and the European Commission must make it clear why this project is still at point zero.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)

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

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

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

France and Russia forge alliance with gas, warship deals
ANDREW RETTMAN 02.03.2010 @ 09:28 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - French firm GDF Suez is to buy a share in Russia's Nord Stream gas pipeline, with talks on the sale of four state-of-the-art French warships to Russia also gathering pace. Progress on the two deals was announced on Monday (1 March) during a three-day visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to Paris. The agreement between GDF Suez and Gazprom, the majority shareholder in Nord Stream, is to see the French firm take a nine percent stake in the pipeline and Russia to increase gas deliveries to France by 1.5 billion cubic metres a year from 2015.By entering into Nord Stream and increasing its gas purchase from Russia, GDF Suez aims at contributing to the security of supply of Europe, the French company's CEO, Gerard Mestrallet, said in a statement.The energy pact was signed in the presence of the French and Russian leaders at a press event in the Elysee Palace.French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the same time confirmed that France is in exclusive talks to sell four Mistral-class amphibious assault ships to Russia. Two of the vessels are to be built in France and two in Russia and will be sold without their weapons systems. How can we say to our Russian partners we need you for peace, we need you to resolve a number of crises in the world, particularly the Iranian crisis ... but we don't trust you, we can't work with you on Mistral? Mr Sarkozy said at the press event.We wish to put the Cold War behind us. The time has come to turn the page and look to a new era.Mr Medvedev called the defence deal a symbol of trust between our two countries.

The gas and the warship developments are unpopular among France's EU and Nato allies in eastern Europe.Nord Stream is seen by Poland and the Baltic countries as giving Russia a free hand to bully its former vassals by switching off their gas while keeping it flowing to Germany, France and the Netherlands.The Latvian and Lithuanian defence ministers at an EU gathering in Majorca last week complained to their French counterpart over the Mistral sale, with Estonian analysts saying the vessels would change the balance of power in Russia's favour in the Baltic and Black Seas. Poland is equally concerned by what it calls the highly sensitive issue and is exploring opportunities for a meeting at foreign minister level with France on the topic. Mr Sarkozy on Monday also promised to urge EU countries to simplify demands for a visa-free travel pact with Russia, in remarks likely to irk Georgia and Ukraine. A quick EU-Russia travel deal would see people in rebel strongholds Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the vast majority of whom illegally hold Russian passports, enter the EU more easily than people in Georgia proper. Ukraine has been battling with Brussels for the past three years for a roadmap for visa-free travel to no avail.

NATO Future in Question As Afghanistan Role Dwindles By MARK THOMPSON / WASHINGTON – Tue Mar 2, 4:05 pm ET

Washington struggled to persuade the European members of NATO to pull their military weight even in the years when the alliance's purpose was to protect them from a Soviet invasion. Now that NATO is fighting a real war against assorted insurgents far from home in Afghanistan, getting the Europeans to pony up resources is proving to be an even tougher sell - and threatening NATO's very survival.Even as NATO nations have won plaudits for sending more troops to Afghanistan, cracks are beginning to show in the alliance's commitment and long-term health.Right now, the alliance faces very serious, long-term, systemic problems,Defense Secretary Robert Gates said last week. Budget shortfalls - only five of the 28 members are meeting the alliance's goal of spending 2% of their GDP on defense - are hurting the war effort. The resulting dearth of helicopters, cargo planes and spy aircraft is directly impacting operations in Afghanistan, Gates said. Backsliding by the Netherlands, an inability to cough up sufficient troops to train the Afghan army and European polls showing dwindling support for the war paint a bleak picture.The demilitarization of Europe - where large swaths of the general public and political class are averse to military force and the risks that go with it - has gone from a blessing in the 20th century to an impediment to achieving real security and lasting peace in the 21st,Gates warned.

The Dutch government is expected to pull its 1,600 troops out of Afghanistan soon. And a call for 3,200 additional NATO soldiers to help train the fledgling Afghan army was answered with commitments for only half that number. Training and advising the security forces of other nations needs to become a key alliance mission,Gates said.In Afghanistan, the alliance has struggled to field the trainers and mentors needed for this mission.The building of indigenous military forces is key to allowing the U.S. and its NATO allies to go home, which makes the alliance's response to the call for additional trainers so frustrating to U.S. war planners.
While the U.S., Britain, Canada, Denmark, Estonia and the Netherlands have done the most fighting and dying on a per capita basis, others such as France and Germany have used caveats for what their forces can do to maximize their safety. Some troops are deployed only in the less violent areas of Afghanistan, while others are restricted to less dangerous peacekeeping or training missions. Gates also criticized NATO for buying the wrong weapons for the wrong war - a criticism he has consistently directed at the U.S. military as well during his three-year tenure, chiding it for buying wonder weapons for hypothetical wars while soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq lack armor and spy drones.Despite the need to spend more on vital equipment for ongoing missions, the alliance has been unwilling to fundamentally change how it sets priorities and allocates resources,Gates said. He praised Denmark for giving up its submarine fleet - who knew? - in order to double the size of its expeditionary forces.

As NATO revises its strategic concept - the once-a-decade effort to maintain the alliance's relevance in a post–Cold War world - there is a scent of desperation in the air. For the past 20 years, it has struggled to adapt to an expeditionary role, capable of dispatching troops thousands of miles from home, out of area,as NATO officials put it. The reason is simple: If NATO can't do out of area, it's out of business. NATO, I think, still deserves to continue,Alexander Vershbow, the Pentagon's top international thinker, said on Feb. 26. If NATO ceased to exist, we'd have to reinvent it very quickly.Despite the cutting-edge technology deployed by those members that are willing to spend, NATO is hamstrung by its decisionmaking structures, which include more than 300 committees, with 20 focused on intelligence alone. And this while many member countries aren't pulling their weight.That's why Gates is trying hard to shake the Europeans out of a sense that a robust military capability is a relic of the 20th century. If they continue on their current path, after all, European NATO members may actually succeed in doing what Moscow never could: render the 61-year-old alliance a paper tiger.TIME.

New EU state structural funds should not be spread too thin
VALENTINA POP 02.03.2010 @ 09:55 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Structural funds are the EU's main tool available for its new members affected by the recession to different degrees. But some experts say their effectiveness depends upon providing relevant aid when and where it is needed.
The 10 new members states in central and eastern Europe are not a homogenous bloc when it comes to the scale and impact of the economic crisis, experts and MEPs agreed on Monday (1 March) during a seminar on the topic in the European Parliament.

Eurozone-members Slovenia and Slovakia have different woes to cash-strapped Hungary, Latvia and Romania, which had to be bailed out by the International Monetary Fund, said Zsolt Darvas, an expert with Bruegel, a Brussels-based free-market economic think tank. Slovakia is suffering mostly from reduced car exports, while Bulgaria, Romania and the Baltic states see a serious deterioration of their trade balance, which offer dim perspectives for their future growth rates. This is of particular concern because these countries still have a long way to go before catching up with richer western countries. With real estate bubbles now burst, rising unemployment and thin foreign investment flows, there are hardly any prospects for countries such as Romania and Bulgaria to make the economic leap anytime soon.With the exception of tiny Estonia, which seems to be inching closer to joining the eurozone, none of the other new member states have similar prospects in the foreseeable future.

Experts also warn that the euro alone is no recipe for recovery.The euro itself cannot save the country from the impact of the crisis, as the Spanish and Greek cases have shown. Problems may disappear at surface, but they are there and can only be tackled with sound policies,Katerina Smidkova from the Czech National Bank said.
Regional aid, however, is capable of delivering some relief to these countries. It can be used to improve infrastructure, key to raising investment chances.There is not much on offer for new member states to deal with the crisis and cohesion has actually helped, Fabian Zuleeg from the European Policy Centre, another Brussels-based thinktank.However, Mr Zuleeg was quick to add that with an average of 0.4 percent of EU's gross domestic product, the funding risked not making any real impact if spread too thin.The expert also criticised the policy as being too slow and too bureaucratic, which was not necessarily Brussels' fault – as national governments also filter and delay payments before they get to the actual projects in various regions and cities.Another drawback, in Mr Zuleeg's view, was the lack of flexibility in transferring money from one priority to another, for instance to prop up more small and medium entreprises during the economic crisis, or to reallocate money between regions or countries.As to the speeding up of advance payments in 2009, something suggested to help alleviate the effects of the crisis, the expert warned that increased speed doesn't necessarily mean money was spent well.

2020 economic strategy

Looking to the future of regional policy, all experts stressed the current system should be used to foster employment and a green economy, the main objectives of the bloc's ten-year economic plan.The European Commission is just about to launch a new ten-year economic plan, known as the 2020 strategy.The 2020 agenda barely mentions cohesion policy. It is not a very good idea to establish new instruments outside cohesion, said Peter Heil of the Hungarian prime minister's office.He argued that the way this multi-billion policy works, involving local and regional actors, leads to more leverage with public and private resources.But Mr Heil did admit that knowhow and expertise are even more important than the money itself.Cohesion policy in general is as effective as the policies we want to finance. If we know how to boost employment, energy efficiency or the green economy, then we get results. If the policies financed by the European Commission are bad, so are the results, he concluded.

Rehn urges Greece to make further cuts
ANDREW WILLIS 02.03.2010 @ 09:24 CET

Following a whistlestop visit to Athens on Monday (1 March), EU economy commissioner Olli Rehn urged the Greek government to implement further austerity measures in order to tackle its ongoing debt problem.It is of paramount importance for the Greek people to get their public finances back on a sustainable path, said Mr Rehn after meeting a string of ministers from the country's centre-left Pasok government. With a total debt pile estimated at €300 billion, and a budget deficit that reached 12.7 percent of GDP in 2009, Athens has already unveiled a package of spending cuts and tax rises this year, sparking a rolling series of protests and a one-day general strike. But an EU monitoring team to Greece last week concluded the list of current measures would only reduce the country's deficit by two percent of GDP, partly because the country is suffering its first recession in 16 years, and not the four percent promised to Brussels. In urging the government to implement additional measures, Mr Rehn said the present juncture was a a critical moment for the future of Greece.No member of the eurozone area can live permanently beyond its means ... Either you keep your debt under control or your debt starts controlling you, he said.

Spending cuts, tax rises

In response, Athens looks set to announce additional measures this week, with analysts predicting a further petrol tax rise, a possible VAT increase, and further cuts to the public sector.After winning a landslide election last October, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's party remains high in opinion polls despite the austerity measures. Today, we ask Greek men and women to enlist in our common cause to save our country and the overwhelming majority of our citizens are willing to do it despite the price and despite the burden ... Everybody says yes, Mr Papandreou said on national television on Monday night, in apparent preparation for fresh measures.In January the Greek government announced public-sector spending cuts and tax hikes as part of a three-year EU stability and growth programme, followed by additional measures including a wage and hiring freeze and levy on fuel the following month.A budget revision by the newly elected government last October revealed the true state of Greece's public finances, causing widespread unease in financial markets and a subsequent flight from government bonds. With €20 billion of debt set to mature this April and May, the Greek government is frantically looking for additional funding, and may launch a fresh bond issuance this week. During his press conference in Athens, Mr Rehn refused to be drawn on reports that Berlin and other EU capitals are preparing to provide Athens with financial aid, saying the ways and means to ensure the financial stability of the euro area was safeguarded.

EU completes trade talks with Peru and Colombia
ANDREW WILLIS 02.03.2010 @ 09:11 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Union has completed negotiations over controversial free trade agreements with Peru and Colombia, with member state and European Parliament approval now required. Announcing the news on Monday (1 March), the European Commission, which negotiates on behalf of European capitals, said the deal included manufactured products, agriculture goods, services, and investment.The agreement provides for a complete liberalisation of trade in industrial products and fisheries between the two sides, the EU executive body said in a statement.Full ratification would see initial tariff-free trade in 80 percent of industrial products with Peru, and 65 percent with Colombia, with a timetable put in place to remove the remaining barriers.In a nod to development NGO concerns, the EU is set to provide Peru and Colombia with aid in order to modernise their economies and take full advantage of the trade agreement. An inability to compete with foreign companies following market liberalisation is among the chief criticisms leveled by FTA opponents. A sustainability clause is designed to ensure environmental and human rights are respected in participating countries, though NGOs are doubtful about its effectiveness. Its efficiency as a tool to promote human rights has not worked in the past, Andrea Maksimovic, an international co-operation co-ordinator with Solidar, a European network of NGOs, told this website. Ms Maksimovic says intellectual property rights obligations in the deal are set to have a negative impact on the poorer Latin American economies and that Colombia's human rights record does not merit the agreement.

Opposition

The European Parliament has also voiced its concern over the high number of trade union deaths in Colombia, with the legislature's approval now needed under the Lisbon Treaty for full ratification of EU trade deals. Colombian trade unionist killings account for roughly 60 percent of the world total, and MEPs have urged the commission to launch a formal enquiry before member states sign the bilateral agreement. Deputies in favour of the deal say it will help to improve human rights in Colombia however, while critics say an FTA should be used as a carrot to drive improvements, and not be given away while murder rates are still high. Following a similar debate on Sri Lanka, EU member states agreed last month to suspend trade preferences with the island nation amid accusations of government human rights abuses. Spain, current holders of the EU's rotating presidency, has extensive business interests in South America and is pushing hard for member states to initial the agreement at an EU-Latin America summit in Madrid this May, although trade analysts question whether the timetable is achievable. Aware of the diverging opinions on the subject, EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht told MEPs during a January hearing that there was a need for a political agreement on the topic, a possible implication that extra human rights requirements could be asked of Bogota.

HOMELAND INSECURITY-Scathing report: Tea partiers just like Timothy McVeigh
Claims they believe government has secret plans for martial law March 02, 2010
9:23 pm Eastern By Bob Unruh 2010 WorldNetDaily

A new attack by the Southern Poverty Law Center charges the tea-party movement is shot through with radical ideas and tied with hate groups,furious anti-immigrant vigilante groups and so-called Patriot groups.The SPLC report, Rage on the Right, The Year in Hate and Extremism,assails Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., for plugging anti-government ideas and Gun Owners of America Executive Director Larry Pratt for daring to promote Second Amendment gun rights. The SPLC's Mark Potok warns so-called Patriot groups – militias and other organizations that see the federal government as part of a plot to impose one-world government on liberty-loving Americans – came roaring back after years out of the limelight.The report echoes themes in a U.S. Department of Homeland Security report last year that characterized right-wing extremists as opponents of abortion and illegal immigration and supporters of gun rights and third-party political candidates.The SPLC said the radical right caught fire last year.The tea parties and similar groups that have sprung up in recent months cannot fairly be considered extremist groups, Potok wrote,but they are shot through with rich veins of radical ideas, conspiracy theories and racism.The report cited an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll that affirmed only one-quarter of the nation thinks government can be trusted and the anti-tax tea party movement is viewed in much more positive terms than either the Democratic or Republican parties.

The signs of growing radicalization are everywhere. Armed men have come to Obama speeches bearing signs suggesting that the tree of liberty needs to be watered with the blood of tyrants,the SPLC report said. The quote,The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants,is from Thomas Jefferson. The report noted the Conservative Political Action Conference last month was co-sponsored by groups such as the John Birch Society,which believes President Eisenhower was a Communist agent, and Oath Keepers,a Patriot outfit formed last year that suggests, in thinly veiled language, that the government has secret plans to declare martial law and intern patriotic Americans in concentration camps.Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers, told WND such accusers try to link activists with terrorists such as Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, because their arguments have no substance. The SPLC did just that, stating in its report that there are an astonishing 363 new Patriot groups that appeared last year.That is cause for grave concern. Individuals associated with the Patriot movement during its 1990s heyday produced an enormous amount of violence, most dramatically the Oklahoma City bombing that left 168 people dead, the report said. Oath Keepers, Rhodes said,has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorists like Timothy McVeigh.He said his group doesn't advocate the overthrow of the government, whether local, state or national.We want our government to return to the constitutional republic which the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution defined and instituted, he said. Oath Keepers are members of law enforcement or the military who have sworn – again – to uphold the U.S. Constitution against any illegal orders that might be given. We hope for a return to a constitutional republic free from fear and hatred. We hate only tyranny. We are Oath Sworn Americans who want the Constitution returned to its legal and rightful place, intact, as the ultimate Law of the Land, his website said. Rhodes said officers naturally presume orders to be lawful and follow them, but they also must be aware that there have been instances of unlawful orders.

After Hurricane Katrina, for example, he said law enforcement officers in New Orleans illegally disarmed members of the public en masse. Also, some residents were not allowed to leave some areas as they wished, he said. World War II history also reflects the detention by the U.S. government of thousands of innocent Japanese-Americans. All we're talking about is history,he said.How is that a conspiracy? He continued, If I'm paranoid, then so were those who advocated for the Bill of Rights.
The SPLC also warned about politicians pandering to the antigovernment right who have introduced Tenth Amendment Resolutions already in 37 states. The resolutions essentially warn the federal government not to adopt unconstitutional measures. The report said hate groups have been rising for years – up 54 percent from 2000 to 2008 – and blames part of the growth on the climb to power of an African American president.Nativist extremist groups also have jumped from 173 in 2008 to 309 in 2009. But the most dramatic story by far has been with the antigovernment Patriots, the report said. Those groups, called Patriot,paramilitary wing,and militia, have gone up from 149 to 512 – a jump of 244 percent. The report said right-wing extremists have murdered six law enforcement officers since Obama was inaugurated, and another defendant was accused of murdering two blacks. As the movement has exploded, so has the reach of its ideas, aided and abetted by commentators and politicians in the ostensible mainstream. While in the 1990s, the movement got good reviews from a few lawmakers and talk-radio hosts, some of its central ideas today are being plugged by people with far larger audiences like FOX News' Glenn Beck and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.,the report said. Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America was cited as an example of a promoter of conspiracy theories at all kinds of right-wing venues. A good example is the upcoming Second Amendment March in Washington, D.C. The website promoting the march is topped by a picture of a colonial militiaman, and key supporters include Larry Pratt, a long-time militia enthusiast with connections to white supremacists, and Richard Mack, a conspiracy-mongering former sheriff associated with the Patriot group Oath Keepers,the report said.

Pratt told WND the SPLC report was little more than fundraising, trying to scare a bunch of little old ladies to cough up money.It's a typical argument that the left resorts to, he said,since they really have trouble with the fact that, until Obama was elected, they had been pretty successful at concealing that liberalism really is socialism.He said he was honored to be criticized alongside Bachmann. Last year, the state of Missouri issued a report linking conservative groups to domestic terrorism and warned law enforcement to watch for vehicles with bumper stickers promoting Ron Paul and Chuck Baldwin. It also warned police to watch out for individuals with radical ideologies based on Christian views, such as opposing illegal immigration, abortion and federal taxes. Ultimately, Chief James Keathley of the Missouri State Patrol said the report caused him to review the procedures through it was released and withdrawn. Learn how to foil those who would damage the nation. Get Taking America Back now from the WND Superstore.The Missouri situation was just the tip of the iceberg, however. WND reported only weeks later when a Department of Homeland Security report warned against the possibility of violence by unnamed right-wing extremists concerned about illegal immigration, increasing federal power, restrictions on firearms, abortion and the loss of U.S. sovereignty and singled out returning war veterans as particular threats. The report,Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,dated April 7, stated threats from white supremacist and violent anti-government groups during 2009 have been largely rhetorical and have not indicated plans to carry out violent acts.However, the document, first reported by talk-radio host and WND columnist Roger Hedgecock, went on to suggest worsening economic woes, potential new legislative restrictions on firearms and the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks.The report from DHS' Office of Intelligence and Analysis defined right-wing extremism in the U.S. as divided into those groups, movements and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups) and those that are mainly anti-government, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.Most notable was the report's focus on the impact of returning war veterans. Returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to right-wing extremists,it said.DHS/I&A is concerned that right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize veterans in order to boost their violent capacities.

WATCHDOG MASSACRE-Lid blows off Obama's forgotten scandal-Congressmen pry loose evidence of president's illegal cronyism March 02, 2010 9:06 pm Eastern
By Drew Zahn 2010 WorldNetDaily

Former Inspector General Gerald Walpin
An updated investigation report on the scandal known as Walpingate adds fuel to the suspicion that President Obama may have fired Gerald Walpin, an independent inspector general, as an illegal act of political cronyism and revenge. Throughout our investigation of Mr. Walpin's removal, the White House has repeatedly communicated that the president was not motivated by inappropriate political reasons, said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., one of the authors of the updated report. The fact is Gerald Walpin led an aggressive investigation of a political ally of President Obama that successfully recovered taxpayer dollars. While firing an investigator who uncovered the abuse of funds by a political ally might be considered an act of political courage in Chicago politics, for most Americans it raises troubling questions.As WND reported, the White House fired Walpin shortly after the inspector general exposed sexual misconduct and gross misappropriation of federal funds by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a prominent Barack Obama supporter.

Independent federal inspectors general, however, are supposed to be granted special protection from political interference or retaliation – thanks in part to a law co-sponsored by then-Sen. Barack Obama – to ensure they are free to investigate waste and fraud uninfluenced by political cronyism. The firing led to an investigation by inspectors general advocate Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Darrell Issa. Their initial 62-page report last November concluded that the administration did not adhere to the law governing inspectors general, that Obama's defense against charges of political retaliation was unsupported and unpersuasive and that the White House orchestrated an after-the-fact smear campaign to justify Walpin's termination. The report also warned that it was necessarily incomplete because the White House had refused to surrender key documents and information needed to finish the investigation. What happens when the government doesn't do what it should? Get Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws.But Grassley and Issa persisted, eventually prying loose new documents that reflect only increased reason to suspect the White House isn't telling the whole truth.

Included in the new documentation is proof the acting U.S. attorney who filed a complaint leading to Walpin's termination was actively courting a presidential appointment at the time and exchanging friendly emails with Johnson's lawyers. Rather than diminishing the appearance that politics played a role in the removal of Gerald Walpin, these new documents reinforce that appearance,the updated report says.The new documents make the president's initial explanation that he merely lost confidence in the inspector general seems even less credible.In 2008, Walpin was overseeing an investigation of St. HOPE Academy, a charter school founded and operated by Kevin Johnson, a former NBA star and self-described friend of Barack Obama. Walpin referred Johnson to the U.S. attorney's office for criminal and civil prosecution for false and fraudulent conduct in connection with $845,018.75 in federal funds.According to Walpin's referral, St. HOPE used members of AmeriCorps for political campaigning to re-elect Board of Education incumbents, and the hours spent on those elections were improperly recorded as AmeriCorps service hours. The money was given to St. HOPE to finance AmeriCorps members, who are basically volunteers that they call members, to do tutoring in schools among disadvantaged students, Walpin told Eric Hogue of Hogue News.My investigation found they didn't use the AmeriCorps members for tutoring; they used them to drive Mr. Johnson around, to wash his car, to do all sorts of janitorial and administrative work [that] the money wasn't given to them for.Johnson's eligibility to receive federal grants was consequently suspended on Sept. 24, 2008.

Despite Johnson's proven misconduct, the voters of Sacramento elected him mayor less than two months later. But when, in February 2009, Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the city of Sacramento's eligibility to receive stimulus funds under ARRA was thought to be threatened by Johnson's suspension. The U.S. attorney's office, headed by acting U.S. Attorney Lawrence Brown, negotiated a favorable settlement for Johnson that reinstated his eligibility to receive federal funds. According to Grassley's and Issa's report, however, the settlement included no meaningful guarantee that the United States would ever actually collect any payments from St. HOPE, which was saddled with the bulk of the settlement. In May, Walpin, who had been shut out of the settlement negotiations by Brown, complained to board that oversees AmeriCorps funding, prompting Brown to file a complaint against Walpin. Three weeks later, Walpin received a phone call from the White House telling him to resign or be fired. Walpin refused the phone ultimatum and was fired 45 minutes later, despite a law requiring the president to give 30-days notice to Congress before removing an IG and to explain the reasons for doing so. And while the firing alone was enough to trigger Grassley's demand for an investigation in June 2009, documents newly released have only cast the firing in an even more political light. Specifically, new documents cited in the updated report from Issa and Grassley demonstrate:Brown, sometimes referred to in the press as a Republican critic of Walpin, actually left the GOP in 1988 and registered as a Democrat through 2007.Brown wrote a letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., in the midst of the Johnson investigation, laying out his qualifications for and seeking a political appointment to the U.S. attorney position. The updated investigation report concludes,It would be reasonable for an already skeptical public to wonder whether Brown excluded Inspector General Walpin from negotiations and settled the St. HOPE matter with Johnson in order to curry favor with the White House because Brown wanted the president to appoint him.Brown and Matthew Jacobs, Kevin Johnson's attorney, frequently exchanged informal emails deriding and scoffing over Walpin, emails the report states do not suggest an appropriately arm's length negotiating relationship. Further, the report states,Together with his efforts to obtain a political appointment from the president, Brown's communications with Johnson's attorney contribute to the appearance that Walpin's removal was more about his vigorous pursuit of the St. HOPE matter than about any other legitimate, unrelated factors.

An internal memo that reveals that the White House considered issues in deciding to remove Walpin that it did not disclose in the official notice to Congress, including a complaint about Walpin's investigation of another Obama political ally in New York.
Grassley and Issa conclude, None of the documents produced after the publication of our initial report undermine or conflict with the conclusions of the report. Arguably, some of the new documents could actually reinforce the public perception that the inspector general was removed for political reasons. In particular, the revelation that the acting U.S. attorney was seeking a presidential appointment at the time he filed a complaint against Walpin puts that complaint in a different light,they continue.Moreover, the fact that the White House allowed the documents to be withheld for so long and that it required so much effort to finally obtain them also suggests a lack of transparency that is inconsistent with the goals repeatedly articulated by President Obama for a more open and accountable administration.

MUSLIM NATIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU-Mideast war in very near future?-Dramatic escalation in cooperation between Israel's foes March 02, 2010 10:28 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2010 WorldNetDaily

Egyptian trucks cross a bridge laid across the Suez Canal during the 1973 Yom Kippur War

JERUSALEM – Egypt is concerned Israel could be in a conflict in the very near future with Syria or the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, a senior Egyptian security official told WND. The security official said in any future war with Syria or Hezbollah, both actors have been preparing to storm the Israeli border with guerillas and commandos, an act unseen here since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the last conflict in which Syria was openly involved. In previous conflicts with Hezbollah, the terrorist group firing rockets into Israel. In addition, the security official said Syria has separately been contemplating launching low-grade attacks against Jewish communities in the Golan Heights to pressure Israel into negotiations aimed at relinquishing the strategic territory. The official said his country is concerned about a coming conflict but did not mention a specific timeframe. It's possible either side may misinterpret moves and launch the opening salvo very soon, he said.

The official also said Israel is concerned Syria has recently passes advanced weaponry to Hezbollah in Lebanon. He said his country believes Israel may want to engage in a conflict with Hezbollah to minimize that group's capabilities before any future strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. Hezbollah could be used as part of Iran's strategy of retaliation against Iran in a future war, the official said. Recent weeks have seen a war of words between Israel and Syria, as well as a dramatic escalation of public cooperation between Israel's foes Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas. Last month, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned Syria's president, Bashar Assad, that any war with his country would topple his regime. Assad should know that if he attacks, he will not only lose the war. Neither he nor his family will remain in power, Lieberman said. Lieberman was responding to a Syrian threat against Israeli cities one day earlier. Israel knows that if it declares war on Syria, such a war will reach its cities as well, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem said following a meeting last week with Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos.

Syria has long demanded the Golan Heights as part of any deal with Israel. The Golan looks down on Israeli population centers and twice was used by Damascus to launch ground invasions into the Jewish state. Last week, Syria hosted a summit with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and Khaled Meshal, head of the Hamas. All participants expressed solidarity with each other and vowed the destruction of Israel. The meeting was followed up with another confab in Iran last weekend entitled Islamic and National Solidarity with the Palestinian People.The summit was attended by the leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria. All three again denounced Israel.

WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL

AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.

2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

WARS AND RUMURS OF WARS.

MATTHEW 24:6
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

MARK 13:7
7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.

NOW WE GOT BIBLE PROPHECY BLOOMING QUICKLY AS THE GODLESS NATIONS ARE REVING UP FOR WAR AND OVERTAKING COUNTRIES JUST LIKE THE BIBLE TELLS US.

FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN-Moscow alarmed by Chinese maneuvers-Military exercises suspected of targeting Russian Far East March 02, 2010 11:01 pm Eastern
2010 WorldNetDaily

Moscow's Red Square

Moscow, which conspicuously left out any mention of China's growing influence and power in its newly adopted military doctrine, is revealing the depth of its alarm, however, through its trade and business decisions, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. The new doctrine takes aim at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which Moscow identifies as a threat due to its eastward expansion ambitions. But a glance at the trade balance sheets between Moscow and Beijing and other business decisions reveals an equal concern is developing there. Not only are trade channels drying up, the Kremlin is planning an uptick in military exercises this year focusing on the Far East and also is reaching out to enhance its relationship with nations that surround China, signaling a possible containment policy toward Beijing.

Russia recently agreed to sell a dozen Su-30 top-of-the-line fighter aircraft to Vietnam, in addition to an increase in other arms exports such as the recent Vietnamese purchase of six Russian Kilo submarines. A key analyst has concluded that while Moscow's policy doesn't directly mention China, it includes references to the nation because of its mention of a real possibility of military conflict. The alarm follows China's training program for what would appear to be an invasion of Russia.
Further, Russian-Chinese trade last year fell some 31.8 percent from 2008, to only $38.8 billion.

Asian stocks rise amid hopes of Greece resolution
WED MAR 3,10

HONG KONG – Asian stock markets rose Wednesday amid growing hopes of a solution to Greece's financial crisis.Major markets added less than 1 percent as the region extended its gains for a fourth straight day. The dollar was lower against the yen and the euro, while oil prices were little changed.Worries about Greece's ability to stabilize its finances have eased in recent days amid speculation European leaders will orchestrate a bailout and the government will take needed steps to reduce its mountain of debt.Greece's prime minister is set to announce deeper spending cuts later Wednesday. If the measures are tough enough, that could pave the way for a lifeline when Greek and German leaders meet on Friday, analysts said.Further helping sentiment were overnight gains in the U.S., where stocks rose a third day amid renewed confidence that business leaders expect the economic recovery to stick.In Japan, the Nikkei 225 stock average edged up 15.63 points, or 0.2 percent, to 10,237.47.South Korea's Kospi was up 0.2 percent at 1,618.86 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng was little changed at 20,911.97.Elsewhere, Australia's market rose 0.7 percent, lifted by news the country's economy expanded quickly last quarter. Indian stocks added 0.7 percent and Shanghai's market was 0.4 percent higher.In currencies, the dollar fell to 88.68 yen from 88.80 yen. The euro strengthened to $1.3647 from 1.3615.Benchmark crude for April delivery was up 3 cents to $79.71 a barrel in Asia. The contract rose 98 cents to settle at $79.68 on Tuesday.In the U.S. Tuesday, the Dow rose 2.19, or less than 0.1 percent, to 10,405.98. It is up 85 points in three days and is at its highest level since Jan. 20.The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 2.60, or 0.2 percent, to 1,118.31, and the Nasdaq rose 7.22, or 0.3 percent, to 2,280.79.

EU finance chief vows to ease economic cooperation
MAR 3,10

LONDON (AFP) – Europe's new financial overlord has pledged to ease economic cooperation within the EU and said improved regulation is the key to bolstering the single market, in a newly published interview.I want to be the commissioner for more single market, not less, France's Michel Barnier told the Financial Times newspaper.
Better regulation was needed to rebuild confidence in the single market, he said. Without this,we risk a nationalist, populist and protectionist approach, the European Union's new internal market commissioner said.Barnier, whose appointment at the end of last year as the bloc's internal market commissioner raised fears among London's bankers of increased control from Brussels, also said his credibility depended on his independence.I'm not horrible, but I'm not a pussycat either, he said.Fears over his ascent to the European Union's top finance post were compounded when French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared the British government the big losers of the bloc's jobs battle. Related article: EU unveils 2020 vision for economy.

But Barnier has distanced himself from accusations that he is driven by an interventionist ideology and appointed an Englishman, Jonathan Faull, as his right-hand man.Speaking as he ended a trip to London on Tuesday -- described by the Financial Times as a 24-hour peace mission -- Barnier expressed support for the British capital as a leading financial centre.He praised London, which is home to 80 percent of Europe's financial services funds, as the financial powerhouse of Europe.
But he made clear his wish for markets to come under stricter control as European economies struggle to recover from the worst recession for decades.Markets should be at the service of the economy and not the contrary, he said.The City of London and Europe would benefit from good, intelligent regulation, added Barnier.The commissioner also pledged to work further on EU plans to impose regulations on hedge funds and private equity.He conceded that a directive to regulate private equity and hedge funds had been rushed and told the paper: The directive has been improved and it might be improved further.During his London visit, the Frenchman met British Chancellor Alistair Darling, and George Osborne, finance spokesman of the main opposition Conservative Party.He also met the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King and other senior City figures.

FDIC seen stepping up sales of failed bank assets By Nancy Leinfuss – Tue Mar 2, 2:04 pm ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp is expected to offer $3.8 billion of guaranteed securitizations backed by the residential mortgage assets of failed banks, market sources said on Tuesday.The deals are expected to come in three separate transactions with Barclays Capital acting as sole manager for the sales, market sources said.

The FDIC could not immediately be reached for comment.Its first $1.81 billion two part transaction, is expected to price later this week. Two additional offerings, including a $1.37 billion three-part sale and a $668 million one-tranche deal, are seen pricing in the coming weeks, after investor road shows were held for all three, market sources said.The FDIC has all this paper that they inherited from failed banks and they need to move it. An easy way of doing it is to put it into a security and slap the full faith and credit of the government on it and people will buy it, said Dan Castro, chief risk officer at Huxley Capital Management.Still, while the sales move the assets off the FDIC's books it does not move the economic risks.The sales move the funding of the assets from the government to the investors which is good, though potential liability of losses stays with the FDIC, said Castro.The asset sales, which are guaranteed by the FDIC, are closely tied to the meltdown in the U.S. mortgage market and are seen as a positive step toward restoring investor confidence in the segment.In a move reminiscent of the Resolution Trust Corp, the government agency charged with insuring deposits and thrifts is employing securitization as a financial tool to help mop up the assets.In the early 1990s, the federal government employed a similar method to dispose of the assets of failed banks and thrifts. During the savings and loan crisis, it created a new entity called the Resolution Trust Corporation, or RTC, whose mission was to dispose of assets, largely through securitization.The move has been anticipated by investors and dealers for months as the FDIC piles up loans from banks failing at an alarming rate. It could also awaken a market that has been largely frozen for two years, except for government-sponsored programs of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.(Additional reporting by Al Yoon)(Editing by Andrew Hay)

Asia acts over fears of property bubble by Martin Abbugao – MAR 3,10

SINGAPORE (AFP) – Asian countries fearing a disastrous US-style property bubble are striving to cool down their real-estate markets as the region powers out of the global financial crisis.Policymakers are worried that excessive exuberance could push property prices far above their real value, only to crash and bring down with them banks that lent money too freely and individuals who borrowed beyond their means.It is better to pre-empt a bubble than wait for it to get serious and have to take more drastic measures, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said last month after the city-state took fresh measures against speculation.Singapore was one of the countries hit by the 1997-1998 Asian financial meltdown. That crisis followed a property crash, leaving a blighted landscape of unfinished projects across the region and banks gasping for lifelines.Problems in the US housing market had set off the devastating financial firestorm that swept across the world in late 2008 and lasted well into 2009.While Asia is now leading the global economic recovery, officials are determined to avert another crisis.Low interest rates, strong demand and speculation have pushed property prices in many Asian cities higher, in some cases surpassing peaks reached in 2007.The risk of an asset bubble is quite high in certain (economies) such as China, Hong Kong and Singapore, said Chua Yang Liang, head of Southeast Asia research at property consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle.

A bursting of that bubble could potentially derail economic growth, especially if banks and other investment houses are overly exposed to those sectors, Chua told AFP, singling out real estate as a cause of concern.In China, property prices in 70 major cities hit a 21-month high in January.Beijing has tightened lending, requiring buyers of second homes to put up a downpayment of at least 40 percent, and they also face higher interest rates on their mortgage loans.In Singapore, where housing prices have been heating up since last year, the government slapped additional duties on sellers who flip a residential property within a year of buying it.Home buyers are also now limited to borrowing up to 80 percent of the property's value, instead of 90 percent.In densely packed Hong Kong, home to one of the world's most frenetic property markets, authorities are fretting about a surge of speculative money since late 2008.Starting April, the territory will increase the stamp duty for sales of flats worth 20 million Hong Kong dollars (2.6 million US) or more from 3.75 percent to 4.25 percent.

Prices of some Hong Kong luxury flats have returned to 1997 boom levels.

In October last year, Henderson Land Development said it had sold a luxury duplex apartment for a world record of 88,000 Hong Kong dollars (11,300 US) per square foot, or a price tag of 57 million US dollars.Australia's central bank on Tuesday lifted interest rates afresh. One factor it cited was a solid increase in mortgages, and dwelling prices have risen significantly over the past year. Median house prices in Sydney rose 12.1 percent in 2009 and 18.5 percent in Melbourne, and observers said the rise was likely to continue. But Simon Vinson, head of Asian property at AMP Capital Investors, said he did not see the overall Asian market overheating. It's really only been the residential market that has experienced strong price growth. Commercial markets remain less buoyant, he said. The rise in residential property prices is just a retracing of some of the losses suffered by the sector during the global downturn, he said. Is this a bubble? At the overall market level, we believe it is more a reversion,he said. Analysts also said that unlike their counterparts in the West, Asian banks are not over-exposed to the property market.

Banks in Singapore, China and Hong Kong have been managing their risks quite well as the respective monetary authorities provide strict instructions on banking operations,said Chua Chor Hoon, head of Southeast Asia Research at property consultancy DTZ. Chua of Jones Lang LaSalle said that in Asia, the share of mortgages as a proportion of total bank lending is still within healthy levels.

Oil hovers below $80 on mixed US supplies report By ALEX KENNEDY, Associated Press Writer – MAR 3,10

SINGAPORE – Oil prices hovered below $80 a barrel Wednesday in Asia after a crude inventory report gave mixed signs about U.S. demand.Benchmark crude for April delivery was up 3 cents to $79.71 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 98 cents to settle at $79.68 on Tuesday.U.S. crude inventories grew more than expected last week, the American Petroleum Institute said late Tuesday. Crude stocks jumped 2.7 million barrels while analysts had expected a rise of 1.1 million barrels, according to a survey by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos.However, distillate supplies, which include heating oil and diesel, dropped 4.1 million barrels while gasoline inventories rose by 900,000 barrels.The Energy Information Administration plans to announce its inventory report later Wednesday.Macroeconomic concerns have kept prices below $80 as recent economic data have been mixed, Goldman Sachs said in a report.

Standard and Poor's expects crude prices to average $75 a barrel this year.

Without a stronger U.S. economic pickup, it is unlikely that the developed market is going to see demand growth for crude oil, S&P analyst Lorraine Tan said.In other Nymex trading in April contracts, heating oil rose 0.1 cent to $2.057 a gallon while gasoline fell 0.1 cent to $2.195 a gallon. Natural gas rose 2.9 cents to $4.737 per 1,000 cubic feet.London, Brent crude was down 12 cents at $78.06 on the ICE futures exchange.

Hamas aide: Assassinated leader smuggled weapons By DIAA HADID, Associated Press Writer – Tue Mar 2, 2:41 pm ET

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – The right-hand man of a Hamas leader assassinated in Dubai confirmed Israeli claims that his boss supplied weapons to Palestinian militants, according to an interview transcript released Tuesday.The aide, Damascus-based Mohammed Nassar, spoke to Hamas' Al Aqsa radio in Gaza.Nassar's boss, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, was killed Jan. 19 in a Dubai hotel room. Israel has been widely suspected, but has neither confirmed nor denied involvement.Al-Mabhouh and Nassar fled Gaza in the late 1980s, after capturing and killing two Israeli soldiers. Speaking to the radio late Monday, Nassar described al-Mabhouh's action after one of the killings.

Aboul Abed (Mabhouh) stood on the last body and raised his hands to the sky and said Praise God who honored me with capturing and killing him, Nassar said.Israeli defense officials have alleged that al-Mabhouh played a role in smuggling weapons from Iran to Hamas-ruled Gaza. Nassar did not reveal specifics about al-Mabhouh's dealings, but said his boss never stopped thinking about how to fight the occupation by supplying quality weapons to the Palestinian fighters.He participated with me in searching for weapons, Nassar said, according to the transcript.The aide said al-Mabhouh knew he was being pursued, telling Nassar before he left for Dubai,I feel like an army is chasing me.Nassar claimed that Arab spies helped Israel's Mossad agency track al-Mabhouh, but provided no details or evidence. He said he believed those spies were sent either by Hamas' Palestinian rival, the West Bank government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, or by the intelligence service of either Jordan or Egypt. All three are deeply hostile to the Islamic militant group.The aide said Hamas militants would avenge al-Mabhouh's killing with an attack inside Israel, but did not elaborate, saying only that it would be soon, God willing.Dubai police have identified 26 suspects they claim traveled on forged European and Australian passports, in addition to two Palestinians already detained in the investigation.

Media reports said authorities had added a 27th suspect, but there were no other details given. On Monday, authorities said they were seeking a third Palestinian.
Dubai police did not immediately respond to calls for comment.More than half of the 26 names released by Dubai police have matched those of Israeli citizens who are dual nationals of Western countries. All have denied involvement, saying their identities were stolen.Australian officials are expected to arrive in Israel to meet Australian-Israeli nationals whose identities were used in the slaying of the Hamas operative, a spokeswoman for Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday.

The spokeswoman, speaking from the Australian capital, Canberra, on customary condition of anonymity, did not say when the team would arrive.Last week, the Australian government summoned the Israeli ambassador, Yuval Rotem, over the use of Australian passports. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd later pronounced himself not satisfied with the Israeli government's answers.Britain has already sent a special police investigator to Israel to meet with eight Israeli-British dual nationals whose identities were used in the slaying. With reporting by Rizek Abdel Jawad in Gaza City, Amy Teibel in Jerusalem and Brian Murphy in Dubai.

Jerusalem plan would demolish Palestinian homes By STEVEN GUTKIN, Associated Press Writer – Tue Mar 2, 12:37 pm ET

JERUSALEM – Jerusalem's mayor unveiled a plan Tuesday to demolish dozens of Palestinian homes to make room for a tourist center in one of the disputed city's most volatile neighborhoods, drawing criticism from Palestinians and the United Nations.Mayor Nir Barkat agreed to a last-minute request from Israel's prime minister to consult Palestinian residents before breaking ground. That could delay the plan for an unknown period of time, but the move threatened to raise tensions in the holy city just as the Obama administration makes a push to renew Mideast peace talks.There is no way the Palestinians can accept the demolishing of houses in Jerusalem and the continuation of building settlements for the Jewish settlers, while the United States is trying to bring the parties together, Palestinian Cabinet minister Mohammed Ishtayeh told The Associated Press.We fully and totally condemn all these Israeli measures.At a news conference, Barkat presented his plan as a much needed upgrade of Jerusalem's decaying al-Bustan neighborhood, which Israeli officials have begun calling Gan Hamelech, or the King's Garden, linking it to the site where the biblical King David is said to have written his psalms.The city wants to build shops, restaurants, art galleries and a large community center replete with day care facilities and gyms. Barkat said the area's Palestinian residents, subject to decades of neglect, will benefit, and that most of those who would lose their homes would be eligible for alternative housing, though it was unclear who would pay for it.

The conditions in which these residents live are intolerable. The goal of the plan is to find solutions, said Barkat, a hawkish, secular politician who became mayor after amassing a fortune in hi-tech.But few Israeli moves in east Jerusalem are benign in Palestinian eyes. The Palestinians hope to make that part of the city — captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war — the capital of a future state. They see Barkat's plan as another way for Israel to cement its control there. Israel annexed east Jerusalem immediately after capturing it, but no other country recognized the move.Moussa Owdeh, a 58-year-old Palestinian whose home is one of 88 slated for demolition, accused Barkat of fomenting extremism and bloodshed.This is our land and home, he said, holding up a document he said was the title to the property. Our house is a symbol of our dignity.Apparently fearing stiff criticism from the U.S., Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Barkat to hold the plan up for consultations with the affected Palestinians. Barkat agreed.Israel has faced sharp criticism for demolishing Palestinian homes it says were built illegally in east Jerusalem. Much of the unapproved construction takes place because Palestinians have a hard time obtaining building permits, and a new report Tuesday by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said only 13 percent of east Jerusalem has been zoned for Palestinian construction.

Al-Bustan, a section of a larger Jerusalem neighborhood known as Silwan, is located across from the walls of the Old City, with its sacred shrines holy to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The neighborhood is home to some 50,000 Palestinians and around 70 Jewish families.Just to the west of al-Bustan is a newly constructed archaeological park called the City of David, run by Jewish settlers.Settlers have illegally erected an apartment building elsewhere in Silwan, and on Monday a security guard was shot and wounded there. On a recent morning, residents of the building showed reporters black marks caused by Molotov cocktails thrown at the front door.Silwan has become a nexus of tension between Palestinians fearful of eviction and Jews determined to ensure the holy city remains Israel's undivided capital. It's also become a flashpoint of potential friction between Israel's right-leaning government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and an international community seeking to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.We're trying to reduce tensions at the current time, not exacerbate them, said Richard Miron, spokesman for the U.N.'s Mideast envoy.Whatever the intentions behind such a project, Israel needs to understand that demolishing Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem demolishes confidence among Palestinians and frankly, also internationally.Israeli-Palestinian peace talks broke down more than a year ago, when Israel launched a bruising offensive against the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers.Barkat's announcement came as the U.S. is pushing hard to restart the talks. Vice President Joe Biden is due to arrive in the region next week, and U.S. envoy George Mitchell has been shuttling between the sides in recent months to try to resume negotiations. Additional reporting from Dalia Nammari in Jerusalem.

Energy exec: Israel could end natural gas imports By KAROUN DEMIRJIAN, Associated Press Writer – Tue Mar 2, 11:22 am ET

TEL AVIV, Israel – A U.S. energy company announced Tuesday that a project it is developing off the Israeli coast could soon end the country's longtime dependence on natural gas imports.Noble Energy Chief Executive Charles D. Davidson said the Tamar gas field — set to become operational in 2012 — will allow Israel to meet its own energy needs, and potentially even become an exporter of fuel.Our thoughts are that will exceed what the market will need, Davidson said. It's significant to Israel and what it can do for this country in terms of lowering energy costs.Tamar's five wells are each expected to pump 150 million cubic feet of natural gas per day — a pace on par with the Houston company's other wells operating in places like the Gulf of Mexico, he said. The company hopes to open operations in a second Israeli field, called Dalit, at a later time.The possibility of exporting fuel would mark a dramatic turnaround for Israel, a country in an oil-rich region that is notoriously empty of natural resources and has always relied heavily on fuel imports. The late Prime Minister Golda Meir famously lamented that Moses could have picked somewhere other than the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil as a Jewish homeland.

A national supply of natural gas could mean major energy savings for Israeli citizens, as well as revenue for the government from corporate taxes and profit royalties, Davidson said.Tamar is a significant project for the developers too. When complete, it will account for one-third of Noble's proven reserves, he said. He gave no forecast for profits from the expected $2.5 billion to $3 billion investment.Two wells are already in place in the Tamar field, where Noble announced it discovered significant deep water natural gas deposits in early 2009. The company plans to break ground on additional wells later this year, and is awarding contracts to build undersea pipelines in the coming months.Despite the rosy outlook, several hurdles remain. Most important, the company is waiting for the government to designate a termination point for the pipeline. Without that, the company won't be able to deliver the gas.Israeli officials expect demand for natural gas to more than double over the next decade, fueled by economic growth and a shift away from coal — which currently powers about 60 percent of electricity production. That makes some Israeli officials skeptical that Tamar will produce enough natural gas to meet the country's needs.Egyptian company East Mediterranean Gas started exporting natural gas to Israel in 2008, under a 20-year agreement at a fixed price. Earlier this week, an Egyptian high court ruled that the company must price the gas to reflect international market rates.If the Egyptians provide us with reliable and relatively cheap gas, I can't see how the Israeli market or our ministries would reject it, said Constantine Blyuz, chief economist for the natural gas authority at the Ministry of National Infrastructures. It's not the government's decision, it's the individual consumers.

Iran says new UN nuclear chief biased by Siavosh Ghazi – Tue Mar 2, 10:35 am ET

TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran's atomic chief on Tuesday accused the new UN nuclear watchdog head, Yukiya Amano, of taking sides against Tehran's atomic programme but said he hoped the Japanese official would modify his stand.Ali Akbar Salehi's criticism came as Moscow and Beijing -- two veto-wielding powers at the UN Security Council -- were divided over imposing new sanctions on Tehran.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also appeared to extend her timeline on fresh UN sanctions.We expected Mr Amano to examine and adopt a position about the nuclear issue in an unbiased way, but unfortunately and in contradiction with what he had said before, we did not see an unbiased position,Salehi told AFP, reacting to comments from the watchdog chief on Monday.We hope that he will change his approach, Salehi said on the sidelines of a Tehran meeting of industry ministers of eight developing nations.Amano, who took over as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on December 1, said in an address to the agency's board in Vienna that Iran is still not giving sufficient information on its nuclear activities.We cannot confirm that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities because Iran has not provided the agency with the necessary cooperation, the IAEA director general said.

About two weeks before the meeting, Amano had circulated a blunt report to IAEA member states on Iran's atomic programme in which he expressed concern Tehran may be working on a nuclear warhead.He also confirmed Iran had started enriching uranium to higher levels, theoretically bringing it close to levels needed for an atomic bomb.
Iran insists its nuclear energy programme is for purely civilian uses.Soon after the report was released, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the IAEA of lacking independence and being influenced by the United States.On Tuesday, Iran's parliament speaker Ali Larijani lashed out at Washington, saying its policy of double standards has affected (the credibility) of the IAEA.Larijani said Iran had handled the nuclear file with precision compared to the adventurist moves by Westerners, according to ISNA news agency.Amano, however, said a controversial IAEA-brokered deal to supply higher grade nuclear fuel for a Tehran research reactor was still on the table.Salehi said Iran was ready to sign up provided Tehran received necessary and enough guarantees.Under the proposed accord, hammered out last October in Vienna, Russia and France would produce fuel from Iran's own stockpile of low-enriched uranium, currently estimated at just over 2,065 kilogrammes (4,500 pounds), for the Tehran reactor which makes medical isotopes.

But Iran is reluctant to sign up.It sees the accord as a ruse by Western powers to deprive it of its uranium stockpile, and has put forward a rival proposal to either buy the fuel on the international market or conduct a fuel swap on Iranian territory. Salehi said the guarantee which Tehran insisted was that the exchange (of fuel) must happen simultaneously and inside Iran, adding such a condition was not illogical.Moscow and Beijing, meanwhile, have appeared divided over imposing a fourth round of UN sanctions on Tehran. While Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, after talks in Paris on Monday, said Moscow was ready ... to consider introducing sanctions, Beijing steadfastly urged a diplomatic solution. We call for a resolution of the Iranian nuclear issue through diplomatic means. We believe there is still room for diplomatic efforts, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang told reporters. Beijing, a close ally of Iran with oil interests in the country, has refused to agree to tougher sanctions against Tehran over its disputed nuclear programme, which the West says is a cover for a weapons drive. Clinton too said on Monday it could take months for new UN sanctions against Iran, signalling a climbdown from her contention before the US senate last week that a new resolution could be obtained in the next 30 to 60 days.We are moving expeditiously and thoroughly in the Security Council. I can't give you an exact date, but I would assume sometime in the next several months,the secretary of state said.

US rails at Iran's alarming nuclear stance
Tue Mar 2, 1:27 pm ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States sees Iran's failure to allay Western concerns over its suspect nuclear program as alarming, the White House said Tuesday, warning again of further sanctions.The Iranians are proving to the world that they have no desire to live up to their own responsibilities. That's alarming, said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs.After months trying to engage Iranian leaders and persuade them to stop enriching uranium, US President Barack Obama's administration is now seeking fresh UN sanctions against the regime.If Iran is unwilling to answer its responsibilities, we will take the next set of steps, Gibbs warned Tuesday.World powers suspect Iran is enriching uranium to make nuclear weapons under cover of its civilian energy program, a charge Tehran denies.Enriched uranium can serve as fuel to power nuclear reactors or in highly refined form to produce the fissile core of an atom bomb.Iran has so far snubbed a deal brokered last year by the International Atomic Energy Agency that envisages France and Russia supplying nuclear fuel for a Tehran research reactor if it hands over the bulk of its low-enriched uranium.The head of the UN atomic watchdog, Yukiya Amano, said Monday that Iran was still not giving sufficient information on its nuclear activities but that the uranium fuel deal was still on the table.Iran countered on Tuesday by accusing Amano of taking sides and called on the Japanese official to modify his stance.

Last month Amano circulated a blunt report to IAEA member states on Iran's atomic program in which he expressed concern Tehran that may already be working on a nuclear warhead.He also confirmed Iran had started enriching uranium to higher levels, theoretically bringing it close to levels needed for an atomic bomb.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday it could still take months to agree a fourth round of UN sanctions against Iran, as key Security Council veto-wielding powers China and Russia still appear divided on the matter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.

ISRAELIS WANT TO REBUILD THE 3RD TEMPLE STARTING ON MARCH 16,2010.THEY WILL TRY TO LAY THE CORNERSTONE ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT.......GO ISRAEL GO......SACRIFICES TO GOD (KING JESUS ON THAT MOUNT ALL SO.

Abbas consults Arabs over indirect Israel talks by Mona Salem – Tue Mar 2, 4:03 pm ET

CAIRO (AFP) – Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas met with Arab foreign ministers on Tuesday in Cairo to weigh up holding indirect talks with Israel.The meeting, which encompassed the details of a US proposal for the resumption of indirect peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, will resume on Wednesday, Omani Foreign Minister Yusef bin Alawi bin Abdullah told reporters after three hours of talks at the Arab League headquarters.Negotiations must adhere to Arab principles defined by the Arab peace initiative, he said.The initiative calls for a normalisation of relations between Arabs and Israel in exchange for a full withdrawal by Israel from Arab land, the creation of a Palestinian state and an equitable solution for Palestinian refugees.What has prevented president Abbas from pursuing negotiations is the continued policy of settlements, Abdullah said, adding that any negotiations must be during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's term in office.Abbas, who met earlier with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, had said the Palestinians would base their decision on the resumption of talks with Israel based on the meeting's outcome.

We, the Palestinian side, will abide by what is decided at this meeting, Abbas said before talks with the 15 members of the Arab Follow-Up Committee for Peace, in statements carried by the official MENA news agency.The committee is composed of representatives from Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and the Palestinian Authority.Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem was notably absent from Tuesday's meeting, with Damascus represented by its ambassador to the Arab League.
Before the meeting, Palestinian spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina called on participants to accept indirect talks with Israel.Israel does not want to return to the negotiating table. But it wishes to blame the Palestinian side, saying that the Palestinians do not want to enter into negotiations. So we must put a stop to this pretext and reveal Israel's true position before the international community and the American administration, Abu Rudeina said.He said indirect negotiations would be through US envoy to the region George Mitchell, insisting that direct negotiations were not on the agenda.There is currently no idea to hold direct negotiations; the Palestinian and Arab positions on this matter are clear -- there must be a clear reference for negotiations and the complete halt of settlements, Abu Rudeina said.

One Arab diplomat attending the talks told AFP the draft final statement welcomed Mitchell's continued efforts for indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
The final draft will also stress that there will be no direct negotiations until there are clear points of reference for the peace process -- a halt to settlements and the clarification by the American administration of the borders of a Palestinian state.US-led efforts to restart negotiations between Abbas's Palestinian Authority and Israel, suspended at the start of the Gaza war last year, have failed so far, with Abbas insisting on a complete halt to settlement construction.On Friday, Israeli daily Haaretz reported that the government had given a green light for 600 new homes in a Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem.Palestinians want as their state the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which Israeli withdrew from in 2005, with annexed east Jerusalem as its capital.About 200,000 Jewish settlers live in east Jerusalem alongside 270,000 Palestinian residents.