CIA USED FEMINISM TO DESTROY SOCIETY

IS THIS OBAMAS REAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE OR SCAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSiz49IWJH0&feature=player_embedded
MICHELLE OBAMA ADMITS KENYAN BORN SOETORO-OBAMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M7Rp_Ghv6k&feature=player_embedded

The one thing that makes me suspicious is that the date is written American style, month first.I am not sure this was the style in Kenya. So hold judgement.

Barack H. Obama Was Born In Kenya The REAL Birth Certificate AT LAST
Contributed by BARRACUDA (Reporter)
Thursday, June 17, 2010 20:28:22

THE PROOF WE HAVE BEEN WAITING Ever wonder about Barack Hussein Obama’s REAL birth certificate? Check it out here close-up and personal! Find out why the people trying to discredit it are so obviously desperately grasping at straws. Just a shorter part of a full documentary on the subject of Barack Obama”s ineligibility, but short and sweet.SOURCE: EU TIMESONLINE.COM

OBAMA DECEPTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw
FALL OF THE REPUBLIC MOVIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8LPNRI_6T8&feature=player_embedded
ENDGAME GLOBAL ENSLAVEMENT
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1070329053600562261
POLICE SATE 4-THE RISE OF FEMA MOVIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klqv9t1zVww&feature=player_embedded
INVISIBLE EMPIRE MOVIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO24XmP1c5E&feature=player_embedded
BOHEMIAN GROVE NWO OCCULTISTS
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-82095917705734983
WITCHCRAFT IN THE WHITE HOUSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmaiX86sUoc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF2eILED00s&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZARWvlz_yKI&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbh7KrUwawI&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IG0tmvCozU&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgP-SyrooKI&feature=channel
OBAMA SCAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V1nmn2zRMc&feature=player_embedded
PHIL BERG - OBAMA CRIMES
http://obamacrimes.com/
LAURIE ROTH SHOW
http://therothshow.com/
DOUG HAGMANN
http://homelandsecurityus.com/
CANADA FREE PRESS-JUDI MCLEOD
http://www.canadafreepress.com/

JUNE 29TH ELLIGABILITY CASE
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=137773

AND THE OTHER ISSUE WE MUST KEEP ON THE TABLE AND IN PEOPLES MEMORY IS THAT BARRY SOETORO IS REALLY BARACK OBAMAS REAL NAME AND HE WAS BORN IN KENYA NOT AMERICA.BARRY SOETORO AKA BARACK OBAMA IS NOT ELLIGABLE TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA GOVERNMENT.EVERYTHING HE SIGNS IN BARACK OBAMA IS ILLEGEL,BECAUCE HIS REAL NAME IS BARRY SOETORO.AMERICAS CONSTITUTION WILL BE IN SHAMBLES ONCE THIS SCAM IS FINALLY REVEALED TO THE WORLD.

BY THE TIMELINE IN OBAMAS OWN BOOKS-OBAMA WENT TO PAKISTAN ON HIS INDONESIAN PASSPORT.ANOTHER ISSUE OUT OF 400 PEOPLE AT COLUMBIA THAT GRADUATED THE YEAR OBAMA OR BARRY SOETORO DID,NO ONE COMES FORWARD TO SAY THEY KNEW HIM.HOW COME AT HAWAII HOSPITAL WERE OBAMA CLAIMS HE WAS BORN,NO NURSES OR ANYBODY CAME FORWARD TO SAY THEY WITNESSED OR TOOK PART IN THE BIRTH.THIS BARRY SOETORO OR AKA BARACK OBAMAS LIFE IS A COMPLETE FRAUD.AND AMERICA IS CONNED TO BELIEVE THE LIE.WHY WOULD SOETORO AKA OBAMA SPEND 2 MILLION DOLLARS TO STOP ALL THESE LAWSUITS IF THERES NO COVERUP.HE WOULD JUST SHOW THE PROOF OF EACH EVENT-PLACE OF BIRTH,CERTIFICATE AND REAL NAME BARRY SOETORO INDONESIAN PASSPORT.

The proof is everywhere from statements and affidavits from Government parliament sources and Obama’s own Grandmother who says she saw him born in a hospital in Mombassa Kenya. The former ambassador to Kenya says Obama was born in Mombassa Kenya, so do others. Check out the affidavits at www.obamacrimes.com and join Phil Berg and other concerned citizens for a huge eligibility protest march May 29th 12-4pm.

If Israel Goes Down, We All Go Down by José María Aznar JUNE 20,10


The following op-ed, by the former Prime Minister of Spain, originally appeared in The London Times.For far too long now it has been unfashionable in Europe to speak up for Israel. In the wake of the recent incident on board a ship full of anti-Israeli activists in the Mediterranean, it is hard to think of a more unpopular cause to champion. In an ideal world, the assault by Israeli commandos on the Mavi Marmara would not have ended up with nine dead and a score wounded. In an ideal world, the soldiers would have been peacefully welcomed on to the ship. In an ideal world, no state, let alone a recent ally of Israel such as Turkey, would have sponsored and organized a flotilla whose sole purpose was to create an impossible situation for Israel: making it choose between giving up its security policy and the naval blockade, or risking the wrath of the world.In our dealings with Israel, we must blow away the red mists of anger that too often cloud our judgment. A reasonable and balanced approach should encapsulate the following realities: first, the state of Israel was created by a decision of the UN. Its legitimacy, therefore, should not be in question. Israel is a nation with deeply rooted democratic institutions. It is a dynamic and open society that has repeatedly excelled in culture, science and technology.Second, owing to its roots, history, and values, Israel is a fully fledged Western nation. Indeed, it is a normal Western nation, but one confronted by abnormal circumstances.Uniquely in the West, it is the only democracy whose very existence has been questioned since its inception. In the first instance, it was attacked by its neighbors using the conventional weapons of war. Then it faced terrorism culminating in wave after wave of suicide attacks. Now, at the behest of radical Islamists and their sympathizers, it faces a campaign of delegitimisation through international law and diplomacy.

Sixty-two years after its creation, Israel is still fighting for its very survival. Punished with missiles raining from north and south, threatened with destruction by an Iran aiming to acquire nuclear weapons and pressed upon by friend and foe, Israel, it seems, is never to have a moment’s peace.For years, the focus of Western attention has understandably been on the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians. But if Israel is in danger today and the whole region is slipping towards a worryingly problematic future, it is not due to the lack of understanding between the parties on how to solve this conflict. The parameters of any prospective peace agreement are clear, however difficult it may seem for the two sides to make the final push for a settlement.

Radical Islamism is the real threat
The real threats to regional stability, however, are to be found in the rise of a radical Islamism which sees Israel’s destruction as the fulfillment of its religious destiny and, simultaneously in the case of Iran, as an expression of its ambitions for regional hegemony. Both phenomena are threats that affect not only Israel, but also the wider West and the world at large.The core of the problem lies in the ambiguous and often erroneous manner in which too many Western countries are now reacting to this situation. It is easy to blame Israel for all the evils in the Middle East. Some even act and talk as if a new understanding with the Muslim world could be achieved if only we were prepared to sacrifice the Jewish state on the altar. This would be folly.Israel is our first line of defense in a turbulent region that is constantly at risk of descending into chaos; a region vital to our energy security owing to our overdependence on Middle Eastern oil; a region that forms the front line in the fight against extremism. If Israel goes down, we all go down. To defend Israel’s right to exist in peace, within secure borders, requires a degree of moral and strategic clarity that too often seems to have disappeared in Europe. The United States shows worrying signs of heading in the same direction.The West is going through a period of confusion over the shape of the world’s future. To a great extent, this confusion is caused by a kind of masochistic self-doubt over our own identity; by the rule of political correctness; by a multiculturalism that forces us to our knees before others; and by a secularism which, irony of ironies, blinds us even when we are confronted by jihadis promoting the most fanatical incarnation of their faith. To abandon Israel to its fate, at this moment of all moments, would merely serve to illustrate how far we have sunk and how inexorable our decline now appears.

This cannot be allowed to happen. Motivated by the need to rebuild our own Western values, expressing deep concern about the wave of aggression against Israel, and mindful that Israel’s strength is our strength and Israel’s weakness is our weakness, I have decided to promote a new Friends of Israel initiative with the help of some prominent people, including David Trimble, Andrew Roberts, John Bolton, Alejandro Toledo (the former President of Peru), Marcello Pera (philosopher and former President of the Italian Senate), Fiamma Nirenstein (the Italian author and politician), the financier Robert Agostinelli and the Catholic intellectual George Weigel.It is not our intention to defend any specific policy or any particular Israeli government. The sponsors of this initiative are certain to disagree at times with decisions taken by Jerusalem. We are democrats, and we believe in diversity.
What binds us, however, is our unyielding support for Israel’s right to exist and to defend itself. For Western countries to side with those who question Israel’s legitimacy, for them to play games in international bodies with Israel’s vital security issues, for them to appease those who oppose Western values rather than robustly to stand up in defense of those values, is not only a grave moral mistake, but a strategic error of the first magnitude.Israel is a fundamental part of the West. The West is what it is thanks to its Judeo-Christian roots. If the Jewish element of those roots is upturned and Israel is lost, then we are lost too. Whether we like it or not, our fate is inextricably intertwined.José María Aznar was prime minister of Spain between 1996 and 2004.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

ANY CURRENCIES CAN COLLAPSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mUSY81rgos&feature=player_embedded

France, Russia vow to promote global role of G-20 By SIMON SHUSTER and NATALIYA VASILYEVA, Associated Press Writers – Sat Jun 19, 2:42 pm ET

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Saturday that he wanted to work with Russia to give developing nations a larger say in how to regulate the global economy.Global financial institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund — created at the Bretton Woods conference in New Hampshire 1944 — are outdated and must be replaced, Sarkozy told an economic forum in St. Petersburg hosted by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.We all need to think about the foundations for a new international financial system. We've been based on the Bretton Woods institutions of 1945, when our American friends were the only superpower, Sarkozy said.My question is: Are we still in 1945? The answer here is,no,he said.While the Bretton Woods conference took place in 1944, the International Monetary Fund was officially established a year later, when the 29 countries that had participated signed its Articles of Agreement.Sarkozy said the United Nations has too many members to reach consensus on how to reform the global financial system, while the G8, which includes the world's eight wealthiest nations, pays too little attention to developing countries.Who can seriously address the big problems of the world without asking the opinions of China, India, Brazil, Mexico? Sarkozy asked. He said the most effective platform is the G-20, a group of 20 wealthy and developing nations.The French president pledged to work with Russia during next week's session of the G-20 in Canada to address some of the most urgent issues that have emerged from the global financial crisis, such as restricting offshore financial zones and abolishing the law of the jungle that he says governs the global economy.

Sarkozy also said the G-20 should think together about a new international currency system,but he did not elaborate.Medvedev went further, stressing the need for more reserve currencies besides just the euro and the dollar.We are making plans for the future. We are talking about creating other reserve currencies, and we are counting on other countries to understand this. Even the use of two currencies as strong as the euro and dollar will not insure the world against problems,Medvedev said.John Lipsky, the deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, supported broadening the list of reserve currencies.Making, for example, the ruble an international reserve currency implies lots of strengthening of the institutions, deepening of the markets. It's a very good and plausible goal,Lipsky told The Associated Press.France, Germany and Italy have been positioning themselves as Russia's main partners in Europe, winning preferential energy deals in the process.

Russia and France signed nearly a dozen deals on the sidelines of the forum, on issues ranging from natural gas to space. Among them was a deal for France's GdF Suez to join Russia's Nord Stream gas pipeline project, of which the French company will now own 9 percent.But the increased cooperation has worried some of France's NATO allies, such as Poland and the Baltic states. France wants to sign a deal with Russia that calls for building four French Mistral-class warships — designed for amphibious assault — in Russian shipyards.Sarkozy said the Cold War was over and the European Union and Russia should work closer together. He pledged to hold more regular meetings with the German and Russian leaders to to coordinate our positions.
Associated Press writer Irina Titova contributed to this report.(This version CORRECTS name of pipeline project in graf 15.)

What do BP and the Banks Have In Common? The Era of Corporate Anarchy
Sunday, 20 June 2010 07:39

In a nutshell, in this era of corporate anarchy, corporations do not have to abide by any rules—none at all. Legal, moral, ethical, even financial rules are irrelevant. They have all been rescinded in the pursuit of profit—literally nothing else matters.As a result, corporations currently exist in a state of almost pure anarchy—but an anarchy directly related to their size: The larger the corporation, the greater its absolute freedom to do and act as it pleases. That’s why so many medium-sized corporations are hell-bent on growth over profits: The biggest of them all, like BP and Goldman Sachs, live in a positively Hobbesian State of Nature, free to do as they please, with nary a consequence.The added bonus to this, though, is that the largest corporations have convinced the governments and the people of the Too Big To Fail fallacy—they have convinced the world that if they cease to exist, the sky will fall atop our collective heads. So if they fail, they must be saved—without argument, without penalty, and without reform.

How the CIA Used Feminism to Destabilize Society
March 18, 2002 by Henry Makow Ph.D.

In the 1960's, the elite media invented second-wave feminism as part of the elite agenda to dismantle civilization and create a New World Order.Since writing these words last week, I have discovered that before she became a feminist leader, Gloria Steinem worked for the CIA spying on Marxist students in Europe and disrupting their meetings. She became a media darling due to her CIA connections. MS Magazine, which she edited for many years was indirectly funded by the CIA.Steinem has tried to suppress this information, unearthed in the 1970's by a radical feminist group called Red Stockings.In 1979, Steinem and her powerful CIA-connected friends, Katharine Graham of the Washington Post and Ford Foundation President Franklin Thomas prevented Random House from publishing it in Feminist Revolution.Nevertheless the story appeared in the Village Voice on May 21, 1979.Steinem has always pretended that she had been a student radical.When I was in college, it was the McCarthy era, she told Susan Mitchell in 1997, and that made me a Marxist.(Icons, Saints and Divas: Intimate Conversations with Women who Changed the World 1997. p 130) Her bio-blurb in June 1973 MS. Magazine states: Gloria Steinem has been a freelance writer all her professional life. Ms magazine is her first full-time salaried job.Not true. Raised in an impoverished, dysfunctional family in Toledo Ohio, Steinem somehow managed to attend elite Smith College, Betty Friedan's alma mater. After graduating in 1955, Steinem received a Chester Bowles Student Fellowship to study in India. Curiously, an Internet search reveals that this fellowship has no existence apart from Gloria Steinem. No one else has received it.

In 1958, Steinem was recruited by CIA's Cord Meyers to direct an informal group of activists called the Independent Research Service.This was part of Meyer's Congress for Cultural Freedom,which created magazines like Encounter and Partisan Review to promote a left-liberal chic to oppose Marxism. Steinem, attended Communist-sponsored youth festivals in Europe, published a newspaper, reported on other participants, and helped to provoke riots.One of Steinem's CIA colleagues was Clay Felker. In the early 1960's, he became an editor at Esquire and published articles by Steinem which established her as a leading voice for women's lib. In 1968, as publisher of New York Magazine, he hired her as a contributing editor, and then editor of Ms. Magazine in 1971. Warner Communications put up almost all the money although it only took 25% of the stock. Ms. Magazine's first publisher was Elizabeth Forsling Harris, a CIA-connected PR executive who planned John Kennedy's Dallas motorcade route. Despite its anti establishment image, MS magazine attracted advertising from the cream of corporate America. It published ads for ITT at the same time as women political prisoners in Chile were being tortured by Pinochet, after a coup inspired by the US conglomerate and the CIA.Steinem's personal relationships also belie her anti establishment pretensions. She had a nine-year relationship with Stanley Pottinger, a Nixon-Ford assistant attorney general, credited with stalling FBI investigations into the assassinations of Martin Luther King, and the ex-Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Latelier. In the 1980's, she dated Henry Kissinger. For more details, see San Francisco researcher Dave Emory.

Our main misconception about the CIA is that it serves US interests. In fact, it has always been the instrument of a dynastic international banking and oil elite (Rothschild, Rockefeller, Morgan) coordinated by the Royal Institute for Internal Affairs in London and their US branch, the Council for Foreign Relations. It was established and peopled by blue bloods from the New York banking establishment and graduates of Yale University's secret pagan Skull and Bones society. Our current President, his father and grandfather fit this profile.The agenda of this international cabal is to degrade the institutions and values of the United States in order to integrate it into a global state that it will direct through the United Nations. In its 1947 Founding Charter, the CIA is prohibited from engaging in domestic activities. However this has never stopped it from waging a psychological war on the American people. The domestic counterpart of the Congress for Cultural Freedom was the American Committee for Cultural Freedom.Using foundations as conduits, the CIA controlled intellectual discourse in the 1950's and 1960's, and I believe continues to do so today. In The Cultural Cold War,Francis Stonor Saunders estimates that a thousand books were produced under the imprint of a variety of commercial and university presses, with covert subsidies.The CIA's Project Mockingbird involved the direct infiltration of the corporate media, a process that often included direct takeover of major news outlets. By the early 1950's, writes Deborah Davis, in her book Katherine the Great, the CIA owned respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communication vehicles, plus stringers, four to six hundred in all.In 1982 the CIA admitted that reporters on the CIA payroll have acted as case officers to agents in the field. Philip Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, who ran the operation until his suicide in 1963, boasted that you could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple of hundred dollars a month.I was born in 1949. Idealists in my parent's generation were disillusioned when the Communist dream of universal brotherhood turned out to be a shill for a brutal despotism. My own generation may discover that our best instincts have also been manipulated and exploited. There is evidence that the 60's drug counter culture, the civil rights movement, and anti-war movement, like feminism, were CIA directed. For example, the CIA has admitted setting up the (National Student Association as a front in 1947 http://www.cia-on-campus.org/nsa/nsa2.html). In the early 1950's the NSA opposed the attempts of the House Un American Activities Committee to root out Communist spies. According to Phil Agee Jr., NSA officers participated in the activities of SNCC, the militant civil rights group, and Students for a Democratic Society, a radical peace group.

According to Mark Riebling, the CIA also may have used Timothy Leary. Certainly the agency distributed LSD to Leary and other opinion makers in the 1960s. Leary made a generation of Americans turn away from active participation in society and seek fulfillment within.In another example of the CIA's use of drugs to interfere in domestic politics, Gary Webb describes how in the 1980's, the CIA flooded Black ghettos with cocaine.I won't attempt to analyze the CIA's motivation except to suggest what they have in common: They demoralized, alienated and divided Americans. The elite operates by fostering division and conflict in the world. Thus, we don't realize who the real enemy is. For the same reason, the CIA and elite foundations also fund the diversity and multicultural movements.Feminism has done the most damage. There is no more fundamental yet delicate relationship in society than male and female. On it depends the family, the red blood cell of society. Nobody with the interests of society at heart would try to divide men and women. Yet the lie that men have exploited women has become the official orthodoxy.Man loves woman. His first instinct is to nurture (husband) and see her thrive. When a woman is happy, she is beautiful. Sure, some men are abusive. But the vast majority have supported and guided their families for millennium.Feminists relentlessly advance the idea that our inherent male and female characteristics, crucial to our development as human beings, are mere stereotypes.This is a vicious calumny on all heterosexuals, 95% of the population. Talk about hate! Yet it is taught to children in elementary schools! It is echoed in the media. Lesbians like Rosie O'Donnell are advanced as role models.

All of this is calculated to create personal confusion and sow chaos among heterosexuals. As a result, millions of American males are emasculated and divorced from their relationship to family (the world and the future.) The American woman has been hoodwinked into investing herself in a mundane career instead of the timeless love of her husband and children. Many women have become temperamentally unfit to be wives and mothers. People, who are isolated and alone, stunted and love-starved, are easy to fool and manipulate. Without the healthy influence of two loving parents, so are their children.Feminism is a grotesque fraud perpetrated on society by its governing elite. It is designed to weaken the American social and cultural fabric in order to introduce a friendly fascist New World Order. Its advocates are sanctimonious charlatans who have grown rich and powerful from it. They include a whole class of liars and moral cripples who work for the elite in various capacities: government, education and the media. These imposters ought to be exposed and ridiculed.Women's oppression is a lie. Sex roles were never as rigid as feminists would have us believe. My mother had a successful business in the 1950's importing watchstraps from Switzerland. When my father's income increased, she was content to quit and concentrate on the children. Women were free to pursue careers if they wanted to. The difference was that their role as wife and mother was understood, and socially validated, as it should be.Until Gloria Steinem and the CIA came along.

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

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

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

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

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

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON JUNE 21,2010

09:30 AM +1.67
10:00 AM +137.25
10:30 AM +112.91
11:00 AM +83.36
11:30 AM +93.04
12:00 PM +91.22
12:30 PM +57.82
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04:00 PM -8.23 10,442.41

S&P 500 1113.20 -4.31

NASDAQ 2289.09 -20.71

GOLD 1,233.80 -24.50

OIL 77.57 +0.39

TSE 300 11,936.10 +8.50

CDNX 1473.03 -15.15

S&P/TSX/60 701.82 +1.32

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +119 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +142 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,259.00.OIL opens at $78.68 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +142 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -40 points at low today.
Dow +142 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,260.90 (NOT AT CLOSE)

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.

132 killed in massive flooding in southern China
Sun Jun 20, 9:19 am ET

BEIJING – Major rivers burst their banks in southern China, triggering massive floods that have killed 132 people and forced 860,000 to flee their homes, the government said Sunday. With dozens missing and more storms forecast, the death toll was expected to rise.More than 10 million people have been affected since torrential rains began June 13, including those who have been injured, stranded or have suffered property losses, the Ministry of Water Resources said in a news release.

While the death toll was up from 90 on Saturday, the number of evacuees was lower than the previous day's figure of 1.4 million. Another 86 people are still missing.

China sustains major flooding annually along the mighty Yangtze and other major rivers, but this year's floods have been especially heavy, spreading across nine provinces and regions in the south and along the eastern coast.Thousands of houses have been destroyed and economic losses have topped 14 billion yuan, the ministry said.More thunderstorms were forecast from Sunday afternoon into Monday, according to the official meteorological bureau.State broadcaster CCTV aired images of rescues performed by boat, truck and helicopter.Waters have surged past safe levels in dozens of rivers, including the Pearl River in the heart of China's industrial powerhouse of Guangdong. The strong storms have collapsed reservoirs, overflowed rivers, caused landslides and power outages and damaged highways.The flooding follows the worst drought in a century for the southern provinces and regions of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi. It left millions without drinking water and destroyed more than 12 million acres (5 million hectares) of crops.

Tropical Storm Celia near cusp of hurricane force
Sun Jun 20, 11:05 am ET

MEXICO CITY – Tropical Storm Celia threatened to become a hurricane Sunday as it howled toward open seas, away from Mexico's Pacific coast.The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami warned the storm was expected to gradually strengthen and it already had maximum sustained winds of about 65 mph (100 kph).Celia was centered about 345 miles (555 kilometers) south of Acapulco Sunday morning, the hurricane center said, and it was moving westward at about 7 mph (11 kph).That course would take toward the open Pacific and forecasters said it posed no immediate threat to land.Elsewhere Sunday, Tropical Storm Blas weakened far from land, with its maximum winds dropping to 45 mph (75 kph), down from about 60 mph (95 kph) Saturday night.

That storm was centered 430 miles (695 kilometers) south-southwest of the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula and it was moving west-northwest at about 12 mph (19 kph). Forecasters said it could fade into a tropical depression by Monday.

Crews drill deep into Gulf of Mexico to halt leak By RAY HENRY, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 20,10

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO – Drilling crews are grinding ever deeper to build the relief wells that are the best hope of stopping the massive oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.The crew of Transocean Ltd.'s Development Driller II was on track to pour cement starting early Sunday to firm up a section of metal casing lining one of two relief wells.BP and government officials say the wells are the best option for cutting off the gusher that has spilled as much as 125 million gallons into the Gulf since the Transocean drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20, killing 11 workers.Back on land, coastal residents were infuriated by news that BP PLC CEO Tony Hayward was taking a break from overseeing efforts to stop the leak to watch his 52-foot yacht, Bob,compete in a race around the Isle of Wight off southern England.Man, that ain't right. None of us can even go out fishing, and he's at the yacht races, said Bobby Pitre, 33, who runs a tattoo shop in Larose, La. I wish we could get a day off from the oil, too.BP spokespeople rushed to defend Hayward, who has drawn biting criticism as the public face of BP's halting efforts to stop the spill. BP is responsible for the cleanup because it was leasing the rig when it blew up.He's spending a few hours with his family at a weekend,said BP spokesman Robert Wine. I'm sure that everyone would understand that.The PR gaffe — yet another in a series by Hayward and the company — ended what could have been a good week for BP. About 50 miles off Louisiana's coast, a newly expanded containment system is capturing or incinerating more than 1 million gallons of oil daily, the first time it has approached its peak capacity, according to the Coast Guard.BP hopes that by late June it will keep nearly 90 percent of the flow from the broken pipe from hitting the ocean.It will likely be August before crews finish drilling the relief wells.On the Development Driller II, one of two rigs working on the effort, BP wellsite leader Mickey Fruge said the well has reached a depth of roughly 5,000 feet below the seafloor. There's still another 8,000 feet to go.The other well is deeper, but drilling superintendent Wendell Guidry says it's anyone's guess which team will intersect the damaged well first.

The main thing is, you know, we try to keep the guys focused,Guidry said.We're just treating this like we treat any other well that we drill.Once a relief well intersects with the damaged well, BP plans to shoot heavy drilling mud down the well bore, then plug it with cement.Meanwhile, Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer of California and Bill Nelson of Florida said on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday that they have asked President Barack Obama to give the Navy a bigger role in the efforts to clean up the spill, which are now being overseen by the Coast Guard.But asked on Fox News Sunday if the Pentagon could be doing more to help stop the leak or keep oil from washing up on shore, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said no.We have offered whatever capabilities we have,he said. We don't have the kinds of equipment or particular expertise.Associated Press writers Raphael Satter in London, Ramit Plushnick-Masti in New Orleans and Mary Foster in Larose, La., contributed to this report.

World hopes China's yuan will rise, bring relief By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer – Sun Jun 20, 10:37 am ET

BEIJING – China's decision to end its currency's 2-year-old peg to the U.S. dollar is stirring anticipation of a gradual appreciation in the yuan in trading Monday — an increase that would bring relief to foreign manufacturers struggling to compete with cheap Chinese products.Beijing has long refused to allow the yuan, also known as the renminbi, to float and denied accusations that its currency is unfairly undervalued. The debate became particularly strident during the global recession, when manufacturers from Brazil, Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere were especially stung by China's ability to keep the prices of its exports low.But the Communist leadership has finally acceded to foreign pressure just a week ahead of a summit of the G-20, where President Hu Jintao would likely to have been hammered by critics of the currency policy.China, however, is still steering a path to recovery, and with workers at home demanding wage hikes — which would also increase the price of exports — the central bank has sought to curb speculation of a major strengthening of the yuan's value.There is at present no basis for major fluctuation or change in the renminbi exchange rate, the People's Bank of China said in a lengthy commentary posted on its website Sunday.Keeping the rate at a reasonable, balanced level would contribute to economic stability and help restructure the Chinese economy with greater emphasis on services and consumption, the statement said.

The yuan's value has been pegged to the U.S. dollar for two years, causing major friction with countries who say the yuan is undervalued to China's own benefit. The bank's statement said it would rely more on a basket of currencies that includes the U.S. dollar to determine the exchange rate, rather than the dollar alone.Chinese officials have long said reforms to the currency would be gradual. While no specific policy changes were mentioned, financial markets will be watched closely Monday for any effects.President Barack Obama said China's move would help protect the economic recovery, while the European Commission said it would benefit both the Chinese economy and the global economy.The announcement follows warnings from Beijing last week against making its currency policies a main focus of the G-20 summit, being held June 26-27 in Toronto, Canada.Industrial Bank economist Jiang Shu said the timing of the announcement marked an attempt to alleviate such pressures and forestall criticism of China at the summit.It's a way of throwing out the carpet for the G-20, displaying again to international society the Chinese government's determination on the exchange rate issue, Jiang was quoted as saying on the website of the National Business Daily, a leading financial newspaper.At home, though, many were skeptical about the Saturday announcement, accusing the government of caving to foreign pressure at the expense of Chinese economic health.Writing on the National Business Daily website, economist Ye Tan said the move would pile pressure on exporters already contending with a roughly 15 percent appreciation of the renminbi against the euro, as well as rising labor costs.China's exports are unstable and this is having a major impact on the actual economy, Ye wrote.Appreciation of the renminbi needs to wait until economic readjustment is certain and China's domestic demand has truly expanded,Ye said.

On the message boards at the popular Sohu.com portal, commentators vilified the move as a sellout that betrayed long-standing government claims that the exchange rate was not a problem. Some commentaries on there and other forums were quickly removed by censors drilled to stymie criticism of the government or discussion of sensitive topics.Beijing has kept the yuan frozen against the dollar to help Chinese manufacturers compete amid weak global demand. Under pressure from its trading partners, China began letting the yuan appreciate gradually against the U.S. dollar in 2005, but halted that abruptly in 2008 as the global financial crisis took effect.

Since then, the yuan's value has remained at roughly 6.83 to $1. Economists have said they expect China to permit a gradual appreciation of the yuan, while keeping trading within a narrow band of just a few fractions of a percentage each day.
Online:http://www.pbc.gov.cn/

Telstra strikes $10B deal for Australia broadband
Sun Jun 20, 6:29 am ET

CANBERRA, Australia – The government and Australia's largest telecommunications company announced a deal Sunday that clears a major hurdle to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's plans for a superfast national broadband network.The Australian dollars 11 billion ($9.6 billion) deal will give the government-owned company building the new network, the National Broadband Network Co., or NBN, access to existing infrastructure owned by Telstra Corp., which controls the only national communications network.The deal means NBN will not have to build its own infrastructure — considered one of the largest and most expensive parts of the government's AU$43 billion plan.The government will pay Telstra AU$9 billion for access to infrastructure including pits, ducts and wires, and a further AU$2 billion to help Telstra set up a new company to implement the deal.Telstra will also be able to move its customers from its existing copper wire and cable networks to the new fiber-optic one.Announcing the deal, Rudd said on Sunday it would be mean the rollout of the new broadband network would be faster, cheaper and more efficient.

The government last year announced a plan to deliver broadband speeds of 100 megabits per second to 90 percent of Australian homes, schools and businesses within eight years through fiber-optic cables connected directly to buildings.The role that Telstra — a former government-owned monopoly that controls the aging copper wire system that is Australia's only national communications network — would play was not immediately clear. Negotiations with the government started last year.Telstra is now privatized, but remains heavily regulated to promote competition from smaller phone companies that rent access to its existing copper line network.The government wants Telstra to further dilute its market dominance by splitting its wholesale and retail businesses, and has introduced legislation to encourage that move. The company is resisting, arguing it has a duty to shareholders to keep its businesses intact.The deal announced Sunday still needs the approval of Telstra shareholders and Australia's competition regulator.

Canada's economy is suddenly the envy of the world By ROB GILLIES, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 20,10

TORONTO – Canada thinks it can teach the world a thing or two about dodging financial meltdowns.The 20 world leaders at an economic summit in Toronto next weekend will find themselves in a country that has avoided a banking crisis where others have floundered, and whose economy grew at a 6.1 percent annual rate in the first three months of this year. The housing market is hot and three-quarters of the 400,000 jobs lost during the recession have been recovered.World leaders have noticed: President Barack Obama says the U.S. should take note of Canada's banking system, and Britain's Treasury chief is looking to emulate the Ottawa way on cutting deficits.The land of a thousand stereotypes — from Mounties and ice hockey to language wars and lousy weather — is feeling entitled to do a bit of crowing as it hosts the G-20 summit of wealthy and developing nations.We should be proud of the performance of our financial system during the crisis, said Finance Minister Jim Flaherty in an interview with The Associated Press.He recalled visiting China in 2007 and hearing suggestions that the Canadian banks were perhaps boring and too risk-adverse. And when I was there two weeks ago some of my same counterparts were saying to me, You have a very solid, stable banking system in Canada,and emphasizing that. There wasn't anything about being sufficiently risk-oriented.The banks are stable because, in part, they're more regulated. As the U.S. and Europe loosened regulations on their financial industries over the last 15 years, Canada refused to do so. The banks also aren't as leveraged as their U.S. or European peers.There was no mortgage meltdown or subprime crisis in Canada. Banks don't package mortgages and sell them to the private market, so they need to be sure their borrowers can pay back the loans.

In Canada's concentrated banking system, five major banks dominate the market and regulators know each of the top bank executives personally.Our banks were just better managed and we had better regulation,says former Prime Minister Paul Martin, the man credited with killing off a massive government deficit in the 1990s when he was finance minister, leading to 12 straight years of budget surpluses.I was absolutely amazed at senior bankers in the United States and Europe who didn't know the extent of the problem or they didn't know that people in some far-flung division were doing these kinds of things. It's just beyond belief,he told the AP.The Conservative Party government of Stephen Harper that took over from Martin's Liberals in 2006 broadly stuck to his predecessor's approach, though he cut taxes and, when recession struck, pumped stimulus money into the economy, with the result that Canada again has a large deficit.But it is recovering from the recession faster than others, and although its deficit is currently at a record high, the International Monetary Fund expects Canada to be the only one of the seven major industrialized democracies to return to surplus by 2015.

This month Canada became the first among them to raise interest rates since the global financial crisis began.George Osborne, Britain's Treasury chief, has vowed to follow Canada's example on deficit reduction.They brought together the best brains both inside and outside government to carry out a fundamental reassessment of the role of the state, Osborne said in a speech.It's a remarkable turnaround from 1993, when the Liberals took office facing a $30 billion deficit. Moody's downgraded Canada's credit rating twice. About 36 percent of the government's revenue went toward servicing debt.Our situation was dire. Canada was in a lot of trouble at that point, Martin said.If we were going to preserve our health care and our education system we had to do it.As finance minister, he slashed spending. A weak currency and a booming U.S. economy also helped Martin balance the books. In the 1998 budget the government estimated that about 55 percent of the deficit reduction came from economic growth and 35 percent from spending cuts. The rest of the world certainly thinks we're the model to follow,said Martin, who was prime minister from 2003 to 2006.I've been asked by a lot of countries as to how to go about it.Don Drummond, Martin's budget chief at the time, says the U.S. and Europe won't have it that easy, because the economic climate was better in the late 1990s than it is now, with large trade gains and falling interest rates. There's a lot to learn from Canada but their starting conditions are worse,he said.Even though we were on the precipice of a crisis we weren't in as bad a shape as many of them are.

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US cautions Pakistan over pipeline deal with Iran
JUNE 20,10

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP) – The US special envoy to Pakistan said Sunday he had warned Islamabad against signing a deal with Iran on a gas pipeline, saying the US was preparing laws that could affect the project.We cautioned the Pakistanis not to over-commit themselves until we know the legislation, Richard Holbrooke, US President Barack Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan as well as Pakistan, told reporters.Pakistan has an obvious major energy problem. We are very sympathetic to it. In regard to the specific project, legislation is now being prepared which may apply to this project, said Holbrooke.He declined to give details, saying he was not involved in drawing up the legislation, but cautioned that it could be comprehensive.
This can range from legislation which could be so comprehensive that something like this could create a major problem for any company or country,Holbrooke said.Iran and Pakistan last week formally signed an export deal which commits Iran to selling natural gas to its eastern neighbour from 2014.Iran has already constructed 907 kilometres of the pipeline between Asalooyeh, in southern Iran, and Iranshahr, which will carry natural gas from Iran's giant South Pars field.The pipeline was originally planned to connect Iran, Pakistan and India, but the latter pulled out of the project last year.Pakistan plans to use the gas purchased from Iran for its power sector.The Obama administration on Wednesday added Iranian individuals and firms to a blacklist as part of US and European efforts to tighten the screws on Iran a week after UN approved sanctions against its nuclear programme.

The new US sanctions target insurance companies, oil firms and shipping lines linked to Iran's nuclear or missile programmes as well as the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Iran's defence minister Ahmad Vahidi.The United States has long offered Iran trade and other incentives in exchange for halting its uranium enrichment programme, which western powers fear masks a drive to build a nuclear bomb.Iran claims its aims are peaceful.

Israel drafting new list of goods banned from Gaza By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 20,10

JERUSALEM – Israel pledged Sunday it will immediately allow all goods into Gaza except weapons and other items deemed to have a military use under its decision to ease its three-year-old blockade of the Palestinian territory.The list of banned goods replaces an old list of allowed items that permitted only basic humanitarian supplies for the 1.5 million Gazans. Under the new system, the government said practically all non-military items can enter Gaza freely.From now on, there is a green light of approval for all goods to enter Gaza except for military items and materials that can strengthen Hamas' military machine, Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said.Israel decided on Thursday to ease the blockade under intense international pressure after its raid on a blockade-busting international flotilla bound for Gaza killed nine pro-Palestinian activists.In a critical shift, Israel said it would allow construction materials into Gaza for projects approved by the Palestinian Authority, such as housing and schools, as long as the projects are under international supervision. Up to now, Israel has banned most construction materials, including cement.Construction materials are a critical need in Gaza. Thousands of buildings were destroyed or damaged in Israel's military operation in Gaza a year and a half ago, aimed at stopping years of daily rocket attacks by Gaza militants. Because of the blockade, little repair or rebuilding has been done since the war ended.The list of banned items was not released Sunday, but the government said it will be published.

A Hamas Cabinet minister, Ziad al-Zaza, rejected the Israeli decision, calling it deception.He told The Associated Press the blockade must be lifted completely to allow Gaza to import all necessary materials, particularly cement, iron, raw materials for industry and agriculture, as well as import and export between Gaza and the world.Under its blockade, Israel has banned all exports from Gaza, further crushing its economy. It has not yet said whether there will be any change in the export ban.In Washington, President Barack Obama's spokesman Robert Gibbs welcomed the easing of the blockade and said Israel responded to calls of the international community.Once implemented, we believe these arrangements should significantly improve conditions for Palestinians in Gaza, while preventing the entry of weapons, he said.Israel imposed the blockade after Hamas overran the Gaza Strip, aiming to choke off support for the Islamic militant group, keep weapons out of the territory and win the release of an Israeli soldier held in Gaza since 2006. None of the goals has been accomplished, adding to pressure on Israel to change the rules.The original system, allowing only certain items provided by aid groups into Gaza, came under fire because of its vagueness. Palestinians complained that only Israel knew what was on the list of permitted items, and the categories seemed arbitrary.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained the new procedures to Tony Blair, the former British premier who is the envoy for the Quartet of Mideast peacemakers — the U.S., U.N., EU and Russia. In an AP interview, Blair said now, the decision must be implemented.This is a a very significant step forward, he said.It also allows Israel to maintain its security.The government said the purpose of the new regulations was to protect Israeli citizens from terrorism, rocket attacks and any other hostile activity.It said the goal was to prevent the entry of weapons and war material into Gaza, while at the same time widening the entry of civilian products into Gaza.Israel is maintaining its sea blockade of Gaza. Israel fears that without searching incoming ships, Hamas could receive unlimited shipments of missiles and other weapons.