RUSSIAN SPIES ARRESTED

REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE (THE EU DICTATORS TEMPLE)

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

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

DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

REBUILT 4TH TEMPLE (THE TRUE MESSIAHS TEMPLE)

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

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

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

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

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

New Zealand Jewry Threatens PM with Law Suit on Shechita Ban
by Hillel Fendel JUNE 29,10

Six Jewish representatives of New Zealand’s Jewish community met with Prime Minister John Key last week to discuss the country's recent ban of shechita [ritual Jewish slaughter of cattle, lambs and chickens]. They told him that if the ban was not repealed, they would have no choice but to take the matter to court – where many in the Jewish community feel they could win.The move leaves New Zealand’s Jews without kosher chicken, as the country forbids chicken imports. Kosher beef is permitted for import from Australia.Jewish sources say the ban could be attacked on grounds that it violates the legally-accepted principles of freedom of religion and discrimination, as well as New Zealand’s Animal Welfare Act, which states that animals’ rights do not override religious rights.The ban on shechita was announced a month ago, when Agriculture Minister David Carter annulled all exemptions to the country’s new commercial slaughter code, which requires stunning prior to slaughter. Carter cited concerns for animals’ suffering – and even said that though we may have upset a relatively small religious minority… frankly I don’t think any animals should suffer in the slaughter process. He later apologized.New Zealand Jewish Council chairman Geoff Levy said in a statement that legal action may be the only course open to us.New Zealand’s Jewish community numbers less than a fifth of a percent of the total population - 7,000 out of 4.1 million. JewishJournal.com reports that several thousand chickens were shechita-slaughtered in New Zealand each year. The ban also affects a small number of cattle and lambs, less than 100 each year.

The website also quoted Rabbi Moshe Gutnick of Australia, who supervises kosher certification of products in New Zealand, calling the ban outrageous. He said, Hunting is still permitted for deer and ducks, and that is certainly not humane. The government, using flawed science, institutes a new code and the only people affected by this are the Jews. People are wondering what their real motivation is.The chairman of Shechitah UK, Henry Grunwald, wrote in the Jewish Chronicle that the ban succumbs to the popular myth that shechitah is painful, ignoring ample evidence to the contrary.Just this month, the European Parliament voted to back the proposal to require special labeling on meat produced by Jewish ritual slaughter. According to the new resolution, which must still be approved by the European Union Commission, the meat would be marked as meat from slaughter without stunning – rendering it less attractive on the general market and driving up prices.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Destruction of First Temple Commemorated with Day of Fasting
by Hillel Fendel JUNE 29,10

The Three Weeks of gradually-increasing mourning over the destruction of the Holy Temples and Israel's exile begins today (Tuesday) with the fast of the 17th of the Hebrew month of Tammuz. This is the day on which Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian forces breached the walls of Jerusalem in 422 BCE, after 18 months of siege, on their way to destroying the First Temple.The Three Weeks end on the 9th of Av - Tisha B'Av - the date on which both the First and Second Temples were destroyed, roughly 2,500 and 2,000 years ago respectively.The 17th of Tammuz marks other calamities in Jewish history as well. It is the date on which Moses, having descended from Mount Sinai for the first time, saw the people sinning with the Golden Calf and broke the first set of Ten Commandments. In addition, the priests of the First Temple era were forced on this day, a year before the Temple's destruction, to stop offering the daily sacrifice due to the shortage of sheep.The Talmud also teaches that on this date some decades earlier, the evil King Menasheh had an idol placed in the Temple's Holy Sanctuary. Later, during Second Temple times, a Roman general placed an idol in the same place and publicly burned the Torah.

The fast ends at 8:11 PM in the Jerusalem area; for other cities, click here .Note that in may cities an hour must be added for Daylight Savings Time. For Hebrew, click here. Mourning customs such as no weddings, parties, or haircuts continue until the morning after Tisha B'Av; there are slight differences between Ashkenazi and Sephardic customs.Maimonides (Rambam) explains that the purpose of days of fasting and mourning is not to remember the hardships suffered by our ancestors, in the same way that we remember days of joy, but rather to awaken [our] hearts and clear the paths to repentance. This reminds us of our evil deeds and those of our forefathers [that] brought these calamities upon them and us. Recalling these matters causes us to better ourselves, as it is written, They shall confess their transgressions and the transgressions of their fathers. Like other fast days, the morning prayers on the 17th of Tammuz include special selichot prayers, mourning our losses and asking for forgiveness. Excerpts from the selichot of the 17th of Tammuz:

We rebelled against Him Who dwells in heaven, therefore we were scattered in all directions... We acted rebelliously before Thee with slandering tongues, therefore our tongues were made to learn to utter lamentation... The tempest-tossed afflicted people were utterly broken up and dispersed; the dry land became a boat wrecked for lack of a captain; she received [punishment] for her sins with principal and double interest, with mourning and moaning... Their adversaries assailed them on that day and... drove the nation like a chased gazelle, and there was none that sought to protect it... Turn to us, O Thou that dwellest on high, gather our dispersed from the four corners of the earth. Say to Zion, Arise! And we shall arise. Convert the 17th of Tammuz into a day of salvation and comfort.(translation by Rev. Abraham Isaac Jacob Rosenfeld)(IsraelNationalNews.com)

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

TAU Works on Computer Chip Implant to Treat the Brain
by Hana Levi Julian June 29,10

A team of scientists at Tel Aviv University is working on a project that involves implanting a computer chip into the brain in order to treat conditions such as depression and Parkinson's disease.Professor Matti Mintz, a member of the Psychobiology Research Unit at the Department of Psychology, is part of a European consortium that is working on issues relating to neurophysiology, human behavior and mental health. TAU colleague Professor Yossi Shaham-Diamond is also involved, working on the issue of adding sensors while miniaturizing the size of the deep brain electrodes used to deliver the stimulation. Two other TAU scientists, Professor Hagit Messer-Yaron and Dr. Mira Kalish, are also involved in the project as well as partners from Spain, Austria and England.The Rehabilitation Nano Chip (ReNaChip), as it is called, is designed to help doctors connect computer software to the brain. If it is successful, the chip will deliver deep brain stimulation precisely to the areas where it is needed. It is hooked up to tiny electrodes implanted directly into the brain – only the electrodes are implanted. The chip itself can be placed just under the skin, like pacemakers for the heart, explained Mintz,ensuring the brain is stimulated only when it needs to be.However, scientists are working towards a chip that can be made small enough to be etched on to the electrodes themselves, rather than have to be hooked up.It is hoped that such technology may someday be used to treat neurologically-based conditions such as depression, Parkinson's disease and possibly diseases involving damage to specific areas of the brain. (IsraelNationalNews.com)

ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded

DEUTERONOMY 7:7-8
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people;(ISRAEL) for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you,(ISRAEL) and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

ZECHARIAH 2:8
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

JEREMIAH 3:14
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you:(ISRAEL) and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

ISAIAH 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,(ISRAEL) in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

ISAIAH 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

ISAIAH 65:9,22
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

ISAIAH 56:5
5 Even unto them (ISRAELIS) will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name,(ISRAEL) that shall not be cut off.

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.

Israeli FM: No Palestinian state by 2012 By Amy Teibel, Associated Press Writer – JUNE 29,10

JERUSALEM – Israel's hard-line foreign minister said Tuesday that there was no chance a Palestinian state would be established by 2012 — a message that threatened to cloud the latest visit by Washington's Mideast envoy.The comments by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman drew swift Palestinian condemnations and could put Israel at odds with the international community, which has set a 2012 target for brokering a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.As an optimist, I see no chance that a Palestinian state will be established by 2012, Lieberman said at a news conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. We can express interest, we can dream, but in reality, we are still far from reaching understandings and agreements on establishing an independent state by 2012.Russia, along with the U.S., European Union and United Nations, make up the Quartet of Mideast negotiators — an international group that has spent nearly a decade trying to forge a peace agreement.

White House envoy George Mitchell was set to arrive in Israel later Tuesday to mediate a fifth round of indirect talks between the sides. Mitchell is trying to prod Israel and the Palestinians into direct negotiations.It wasn't clear whether Lieberman was expressing his own opinion or government policy. A spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to comment.Lieberman is a contentious figure because of his support for redrawing Israel's borders to push areas with heavy concentrations of Arabs out of Israel and into Palestinian jurisdiction. He also launched a failed effort in parliament to force Israeli Arabs to take a loyalty oath or lose their citizenship.A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' West Bank government accused Lieberman of defying international efforts to wrap up a deal.

Lieberman is issuing a challenge to the international community, which is in agreement on the two-year ceiling, Ghassan Khatib said.Talks between Palestinians and Israelis resumed in May after a 17-month breakdown. The Palestinians have insisted on U.S. mediation, saying they are frustrated by Israel's refusal to declare a halt to all construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, lands they claim for a future state along with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.The aim is to shift gears to direct talks in late September. But much will depend on whether Israel agrees to extend a construction slowdown it has declared in the West Bank and a de facto moratorium in effect in east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians want for a future capital.Abbas said Monday that Israel has not offered enough to make it worthwhile to move to direct talks.Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said in response that direct talks are the only way to solve the conflict.At their news conference, Lieberman and Lavrov expressed very different positions on Hamas, the militant group that rules the Gaza Strip. Israel and many Western countries boycott Hamas as a terror organization, while Russia has contacts with the group.Lavrov recently met with one of the group's Damascus-based leaders. In Jerusalem on Tuesday, he noted that Hamas won Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006, and said Russia uses its meetings with Hamas to try to persuade the group to become more moderate.Lieberman said Israel was unhappy about this Russian policy.It is not a secret that we don't agree about this, he said.The approach to Hamas is definitely one of the points on which we do not agree.Associated Press writer Diaa Hadid contributed to this report from Jerusalem.

AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)

EZEKIEL 39:21
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

ISAIAH 18:1-2
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

JEREMIAH 50:11,37,12
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;(BACKSLIDERS)
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.(A NATION OF MINGLED PEOPLE)
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:(MOTHER ENGLAND) behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

JEREMIAH 51:13,7,53
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.

REVELATION 18:3,5,7
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK ON AMERICA)

REVELATION 18:9-11,15-21
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,(NUKE ATTACK I BELIEVE)
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.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
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,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
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.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

10 alleged Russian secret agents arrested in US By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 28,10

WASHINGTON – Ten people have been arrested for allegedly serving as secret agents of the Russian government with the goal of penetrating U.S. government policymaking circles .The Justice Department announced the arrests Monday.According to court papers in the case, the U.S. government intercepted a message from Russian intelligence headquarters in Moscow to two of the defendants. The message states that their main mission is to search and develop ties in policymaking circles in US and send intelligence reports.The court papers cited numerous examples of communications intercepted by U.S. investigators that spelled out what the 10 allegedly were trying to do.One message back to Moscow from the defendants focused on turnover at the top level of the CIA and the 2008 U.S. presidential election.

The information was described as having been received in private conversation with, among others, a former legislative counsel for Congress. The court papers deleted the name of the counsel.Another intercepted message said one of the defendants living in New Jersey, known as Cynthia Murphy, had several work-related personal meetings with a man the court papers describe as a prominent New York-based financier who was active in politics.In response, intelligence headquarters in Moscow described the man as a very interesting target and urged the defendants to try to build up little by little relations. ... Maybe he can provide Murphy with remarks re US foreign policy, roumors about White house internal kitchen,invite her to venues (to major political party HQ in NYC, for instance. ... In short, consider carefully all options in regard to the financier.The court papers described the defendants communicating with purported Russian agents using a method not previously described in espionage cases here: by establishing a short-range wireless network between laptop computers of the agents and sending encrypted messages between the computers while they were near each other.The papers also said that on Saturday an undercover FBI agent in New York and another in Washington, both posing as Russian agents, met with two of the defendants, Anna Chapman at a New York restaurant and Mikhail Semenko on a Washington street corner blocks from the White House.

Russia: US alleged spy arrests Cold War throwback By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 29,10

MOSCOW – Russia angrily denounced the U.S. arrest of 10 alleged Russian spies as an unjustified throwback to the Cold War, and senior lawmakers said some in the U.S. government may be trying to undercut President Barack Obama's warming relations with Moscow.The Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it was regrettable that the arrests came amid Obama's push for a reset in Russian-U.S. ties.These actions are unfounded and pursue unseemly goals," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. We don't understand the reasons which prompted the U.S. Department of Justice to make a public statement in the spirit of Cold War-era spy stories.The arrests of what U.S. officials described as a deeply embedded Russian espionage network active for many years follow a string of other spy scandals that have roiled ties between Moscow and Washington since the end of the Cold War. The FBI bust — the biggest such case in years — would again put their relations to a test.Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted that U.S. authorities announced the arrest just days after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the United States.They haven't explained to us what this is about,Lavrov said at a news conference during a visit to Jerusalem. I hope they will. The only thing I can say today is that the moment for doing that has been chosen with special elegance.Medvedev met with Obama at the White House last week after the Russian leader visited high-tech firms in California's Silicon Valley. The two presidents went out for cheeseburgers, exchanged jokes and walked together in the park, underlining efforts to reset ties.

The FBI has arrested 10 people who allegedly spied for Russia for up to a decade, posing as innocent civilians while trying to infiltrate U.S. policymaking circles and learn about U.S. weapons, diplomatic strategy and politics. An 11th defendant, a man accused of delivering money to the agents, remains at large. The arrests followed a multiyear FBI investigation.Nikolai Kovalyov, the former chief of the main KGB successor agency, the Federal Security Service, said some of the U.S. charges against the alleged spies resembled a bad spy novel.Would you act like that in the 21st century? he said in a reference to allegations that agents retrieved cash that had been buried in the ground years before.Kovalyov, now a lawmaker, said the arrests were an attempt by some hawkish circles in the United States to demonstrate the need for a tougher line toward Moscow. Kovalyov added that Russian-U.S. ties will continue to improve despite the spy scandal.Our two great powers must stand together, he said.He said Russia would reciprocate only if the American don't stop at that and risk evicting our diplomats, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. He added that it would be unlikely.Foreign Ministry spokesman Igor Lyakin-Frolov told The Associated Press the information given by U.S. authorities looked contradictory. He wouldn't comment further.The main Russian spy agency, the Foreign Intelligence Service, known by its Russian acronym SVR, refused to comment on the arrests.

Alexander Torshin, a deputy speaker of the Russian parliament's upper house, sought to downplay the arrests and said they are unlikely to derail efforts to improve Russian-U.S. ties.It's not a return to the Cold War, and I'm sure that this incident won't develop into a large-scale spy scandal, Torshin said, according to the state RIA Novosti news agency.He said agreements reached during Medvedev's visit to the United States last week signaled that relations between Moscow and Washington have reached a new higher level. But another senior lawmaker, a deputy chairman of the security affairs committee in the lower house of parliament, Vladimir Kolesnikov, told RIA Novosti the arrests signaled that some quarters in the U.S. government oppose warmer ties with Russia. Regrettably, there are people in America burdened by the legacy of the Cold War, the legacy of double standards, he said.And they react improperly to the warming of relations spearheaded by the presidents. It's a blow to President Obama.Kolesnikov, a former deputy prosecutor general, said U.S. secret agents are continuing to work in Russia and suggested that Russia could respond in a tit-for-tat manner.Previously we have quietly evicted some of them, he said. Now I think we should more actively apply criminal legislation against them.However, Kolesnikov is not believed to have close ties to the Kremlin or knowledge of the government's plans.Associated Press Writer Matti Friedman contributed to this report from Jerusalem.

US Military Chief: Doesn’t Trust Iran but Israel, US in Synch
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu JUNE 29,10

Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of U.S. Joint Chief of Staffs, returned home from Israel and said that although he has no reason to trust Iran, Israel knows that attacking the Islamic Republic's nuclear sites would be incredibly destabilizing.He acknowledged that it would be incredibly dangerous if Iran builds nuclear weapons, which Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Leon Panetta said Sunday are not within Iran’s capability for at least one year.Speaking at a security conference, Admiral Mullen did not venture to predict what will happen up to the point when Iran can achieve the capability of manufacturing a nuclear weapon and a long-range missile that can explode it over Israel. He shot down the idea that Israel would stage a military strike to delay or destroy Iran’s nuclear development, saying that Israel is in synch with the American thinking. He acknowledged that the biggest problem for the United States is how much it does not know about Iran’s nuclear program. The U.S. National Intelligence and Defense Intelligence Agency directors told a U.S. Senate committee last year that there were no indications that Iran is refining uranium. The conclusion angered Israel, which has warned several times that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad means what he says when he talks about the need to wipe Israel off the map.

Few analysts have said that the recently passed United Nations Security Council sanctions against Israel will convince Iran to stop producing enriched uranium without United Nations nuclear inspections. High-grade enriched uranium is a key element for producing a nuclear bomb. Mullen’s visit to Israel Sunday was the 15th time he has met with IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi since taking office in 2007. He said that he considers Chief of Staff Ashkenazi a personal friend and that he always tries to share Israel’s view of threats against the country. (IsraelNationalNews.com)

WE FIND OUT NOW THE SO CALLED ANARCHISTS WERE NOTHING MORE THEN ENVIROMENTAL NUTCASES LIKE THE MUSLIMS RIOTING,BURNING AT THE G-20.CBC HAD A MUSLIM BRODCASTER ON THE JOB AT THE G-20 ALSO.WHAT A BETTER WAY FOR A SETUP WTH A MUSLIM BROADCASTER LEADING THE POLICE BRUTALITY AND SINCE ARABS,MUSLIMS RIOT,BURN,THIS BROADCASTER WOULD FIT RIGHT IN WITH THE ENVIROMENTAL NUTCASE RIOTERS,BURNERS AND AGENT PROVAOCATEURS.

Damage done mainly by white middle class punks who are known as anarchists
Who was responsible for the violence in Toronto? By Arthur Weinreb Monday, June 28, 2010 CANADA FREE PRESS

It could have been worse. Major damage arising from the protests against the G8 and G20 only occurred during Saturday’s protests and marches. While there were many more arrests made on Sunday, no major damage to the city occurred on that day. On Saturday, four police cruisers were torched. Windows of banks and of course Starbucks were smashed along with that of other businesses including mom and pop stores. Bottles and other objects were thrown at police by the mainly white middle class punks who are known as anarchists.One fact that is not in dispute is that there was a large police contingent; made up of police officers from all over Canada, on both days of the protests. So there must be a reason why major damage was done on Saturday but not on Sunday.Real responsibility lies with the Ontario Federation of Labour and other groups So who was responsible for all the violence? Well, the anarchists themselves, many of whom came from far away with the sole purpose of damaging private and public property. These pampered children rail against, among other things big oil that surely must be happy at all the gas they used to get here. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the police will certainly be blamed for the massive police presence that the left will argue provoked the peaceful protesters into taking action. But the real responsibility lies with the Ontario Federation of Labour and other groups who organized their family-friendly demonstration in which approximately 10,000 people took part in.

It’s all about rights and nothing about responsibilities Yes, they had a right to demonstrate. Every time Toronto Mayor David Miller and his politically correct police chief opened their mouths, their comments were always prefaced with the phrase that people have the right to demonstrate. The organizers of Saturday’s protests clearly illustrate what’s wrong with society today; it’s all about rights and nothing about responsibilities.From what had transpired during past G8 and G20 summits, these organizers knew or ought to have known that anarchists and other groups that were bent on destruction would use the peaceful march as a cover to remain hidden until they felt the time was right to wreak havoc and cause wanton destruction. These labour unions hold demonstrations, marches and protests all the time and they had a right to protest but they didn’t have to protest on that particular day. The truth is that even though they intended to march and demonstrate peacefully, the only rational conclusion that can be drawn is that they really didn’t mind facilitating the anarchists’ objectives of doing significant property damage in downtown Toronto. The organizers and their supporters that included families with little children acted as useful idiots for all those who were intent on causing as much damage as possible.The organizers of the peaceful demonstration justified their holding the march by saying that they had a message that they wanted to deliver to the G20 leaders. What a croc! Whatever their message was, the leaders were safely tucked away, unable to hear it. The leaders will only know what they picked up from the media.The media. Sticking to the principle of if it bleeds, it leads,most of the media focused on the damage, especially the torched police cars. If the focus was not the damage or the many standoffs between the police and protesters, it was to tell the stories of the poor little dears who were arrested. We learned from some of the media that they were all innocent. INN O CENT! And in case anyone who is reading this spent the entire weekend watching CP24, there actually was a summit held in Toronto where world leaders discussed issues like the economy. They were on the other side of the fence.

The organizers of the demonstration knew or ought to have known that their message had virtually no chance of getting out this past weekend, with the anarchists in town.On Sunday, when there was no large peaceful demonstration for the little punks to hide in there was virtually no damage done. Those who organized and took part in the organized march on Saturday facilitated the damage that was done to the city; without them it would not have occurred. But they will never acknowledge that fact.

Yes, they had a right to demonstrate; but they took no responsibility aiding and sheltering those who caused the damage. It’s too much to expect the peaceful people to take any responsibility.They could have held a massive rally and marched on any other weekend and had a better chance of getting their message out. But that’s just too much to ask.

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

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OBAMA HAPPENINGS
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Confidence is tanking with Obama! Gee, I wonder why By Laurie Roth June 24,10

According to the Wall Street Journal, the President’s level of support is at new lows. 62% of Americans believe the country is going in the wrong direction. Since there are so many destructive and un-American policies and orders flying around by the Obama regime, let’s just focus on one nightmare, the BP oil spill.How has Obama’s leadership gone so far with the Gulf oil spill disaster? First of all, Obama didn’t even go down to Louisiana to assess the severity of this disaster and danger for 12 days. He knew early on how serious the explosion was and how potentially devastating to the gulf economy, yet he couldn’t show up. Maybe his golf game or White House rock concert took longer than he thought. I know, being President means you are very busy.Early on this President denied any financial and equipment help offers from at least 13 countries. I stand in amazement at the arrogance and stupidity in judgment of this President who desperately needed the help offered but said a big fat no to the world.Also, Governor Bobby Jindel has been beside himself, begging for the Government to dig the berms for nearly 2 months to deflect the fast approaching oil from his pristine Louisiana coastlines. Instead of swift action in response to the Governors real emergency, the Obama official instead started an Environmental Impact Study and went on the Internet for public response. Meanwhile the oil creeps closer in by the hour. Where is my headache medication?

We have seen the politically correct nonsense of the coast guard off the gulf course as well. They stopped 16 large barges who had been collecting oil in response to the emergency because they couldn’t verify enough life jackets and fire extinguishers on board. Everything was shut down. Does that even remotely pass the laugh test? Here the barges were fighting time, trying to gather up the oil so it didn’t completely ruin the local economy, animals and plants and the Coast Guard thought now was the time to inspect the barges responding to the emergency??? Could this not have been done after the critical phase of the gulf emergency? Why wasn’t it done later? I put this hideous judgment and lack of priorities in this crises right in Obama’s lap….again. Why didn’t he intercede and keep the barges going? Could it be he is benefiting from the disaster? Did the Obama Government learn anything from the first two months from this disaster? Are they finally dredging and putting in the much needed and requested berms? NO, NO and NO. Instead we see more environmental lectures from hell from this administration. The Federal Government has stopped the dredging of berms off the coast of New Orleans. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department apparently has much concern as to where the sand is being dredged from. The State was told to install a pipe and they haven’t had a chance yet. The Feds don’t want sand being dredged from the more sensitive area of the Chandeleur Islands. Once again we see the absurd response in time of crises by this Obama regime. When tons of oil is rushing towards your shores threatening to destroy decades of business and tourism is it the time to analyze the endless needs of types of sand being used to build a berm? We have heard Obama saying he will kick some people’s asses, he feels the victims pain, and he wants everyone to sue BP and line up for the fund.It seems the only ass to kick is his own in this disaster.

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).

Wins and losses for EU at G20
ANDREW WILLIS 28.06.2010 @ 09:28 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A range of compromise agreements enabled leaders to save face on Sunday (27 June) as the Group of 20 meeting in Canada drew to a close. A declaration on cutting national budgetary deficits in half by 2013 was heralded as a victory by EU politicians, but European hopes for a global bank levy fell by the wayside.The summit's result reflects widespread convergence around Europe's approach,European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said in a joint declaration after the event. Major G20 states had already agreed to similar deficit-slashing targets prior to the Canadian meeting however, with language on the continued need for short-term stimulus measures reflecting US concerns.Recent weeks have seen Washington engage in a war of words with a number of European capitals over concerns that European countries' austerity drives could put the brakes on the world's tentative economic recovery.

US President Barack Obama welcomed the G20 compromise agreement, but warned his country would no longer remain the global consumer of last resort. No nation should assume its path to prosperity is paved with exports to America,he said. Leaders also agreed to stabilise their debt levels by 2016, a statement designed to reassure jumpy financial markets that governments are serious about learning to live within their means. Weak language in the final communique highlighted the divergency of views on a global bank levy, with countries that avoided the worst of the financial crisis such as Canada, Australia and Brazil, opposing the idea. Instead, leaders agreed that there is a range of possible policy approaches for making banks pay a fair and substantial contribution toward future bank bail-outs. Some countries are pursuing a financial levy. Other countries are pursuing different approaches, said the summit's final statement.Should countries such as Germany, France and the UK decide to push ahead anyway, the weekend's decision means European levies are likely to be smaller as a result, in order to prevent banks simply moving to more lenient jurisdictions.

Bank Capital

Progress was made on the question of capital buffers for banks, a measure intended to ensure financial firms can better withstand economic shocks in the future. Under the plans, set to be finalised at the next G20 meeting this November, banks will be compelled to hold more top-grade capital. The amount of capital will be significantly higher and the quality of capital will be significantly improved when the reforms are fully implemented, said the final communique.In a move to allay European concerns that the new requirements could stifle lending if implemented too quickly, the previously mooted 2012 deadline for the shift was scrapped. The phase-in will now reflect different starting points and circumstances of G20 member states.
Meanwhile police said over 600 people had been arrested over the course of the weekend, as peaceful protests turned violent on Saturday. Windows were broken and police cars set on fire.

Ashton to take command of US-type situation room-President Barack Obama meets with security advisors in the White House situation room. Ms Ashton is to get a similar set-up, but with vastly, vastly less power (Photo: The White House)ANDREW RETTMAN 27.06.2010 @ 17:25 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - You see it in the movies: fighting has broken out somewhere in the former Soviet Union, the US president walks into his situation room, monitors are showing satellite images, security advisors are shouting at each other, the president is given a briefing note and sends an agent to gather intelligence. Now, the EU's foreign relations chief, Catherine Ashton, is to get a situation room of her own.

The EU version will not be like Hollywood.

Ms Ashton will not have an army or a European Intelligence Service to send into action. The centre-left British politician, a former activist in the anti-nuclear CND group, is said to distrust military types and her first priority is the kitchen-sink construction of the European External Action Service (EEAS).But she has already told EU leaders that she wants a single crisis response centre under her direct command and internal discussion on the Ashton situation room is at an advanced stage. One scenario under consideration is a crisis directorate run by a director general and situated close to Ms Ashton's office in the EEAS headquarters, most likely in the so-called Triangle building facing the EU Council in the heart of the EU quarter in Brussels. It would have a staff of some 160 people and a modest budget of €10 to €20 million a year.The situation room itself would have a conference table and banks of monitors showing breaking news and commercial satellite pictures of hotspots. In the back-rooms, the crisis directorate would have a team of IT experts, scientists and tacticians scouring open source data in search of conflict threats, such as plans by UK private security firm Saracen International to build a pirate-fighting base in Somalia.Ms Ashton's exclusive information would come from officials manning 24/7 hotlines to the EU's 136 foreign delegations and 14 civilian and military missions. Another unit would send people to crisis zones at short notice on fact-finding trips. A cell of secret-service agents seconded from key EU states would pass Ms Ashton's queries to spy agencies such as the UK's MI6 or France's DGSE and file replies.

The European Commission's existing Crisis Room and the EU Council's Joint Situation Centre (SitCen) are to form the backbone of the crisis directorate. SitCen already sends people into the field. When war broke out in Georgia in 2008 it dispatched two analysts to re-inforce the EUSR [the EU special envoy to the South Caucasus] with reporting,a contact familiar with SitCen operations told this website.In an insight into the opaque bureau's work, the source added: These are fairly normal people who have perhaps in their lives had some experience of being out in the field in a place less comfortable than Washington. They are not spooks by any means. We avoid anybody who even looks like one. They are people who can write reports. Who do not mind not staying in five star hotels. Who know how to take precautions when they go out at night.The new set-up is to see Ms Ashton simply pick up the phone or walk down the hall and task people to go overseas or to query EU countries' secret services. Current bureaucracy means that 27 EU ambassadors in the Political and Security Committee first hold a debate before tasking SitCen.The idea is to give the EU foreign relations chief a powerful asset when she asks EU foreign ministers to deploy an EU battlegroup or if she decides to send an EEAS diplomat, or even a prominent MEP, on a peace mission.Today, if you go through the normal channels to make a threat assessment in Kosovo, for example, by the time the [SitCen] officer gets to Pristina, it's all over,one PSC ambassador told this website.Imagine how effective the high representative could be if the new SitCen was to function like her shadow cabinet,a contact in the EU institutions said. Member states are afraid to give away power. But this could be the new mega-commodity in Brussels.

Wider or deeper?

One question is whether the crisis response centre will handle man-made conflicts only, or natural disasters and pandemics also. The wider portfolio could provoke turf wars between Ms Ashton and aid and development commissioners Kristalina Georgieva and Andris Piebalgs. It could also dilute EEAS resources, perpetuating the existing problems of overlooked and forgotten conflicts.But the big question is: who will be Ms Ashton's right-hand man? Former UK soldier and diplomat William Shapcott, who built and ran SitCen, walked away in June to a new position in the EU Council administration, creating the risk that his successor might take a minimalist approach to the job.One candidate for the post is French diplomat Patrice Bergamini, who worked close to Ms Ashton's predecessor, Javier Solana, and helped draft the EU's first security strategy in 2003. His appointment would give France a monopoly on the EEAS security side, however. French diplomat Christine Roger is to be the new PSC president. French official Claude-France Arnould is the new head of the EU Council's civilian-military crisis planning office. A French secret service agent manages SitCen's intelligence-sharing cell. And French diplomat Pierre Vimont is tipped to become EEAS secretary general, in charge of the body's internal security structures.It would be good to have a German appointment to make sure that Germany is engaged at the highest levels. Somebody with a diplomatic and a security or intelligence background,the source in the EU institutions said.Nationality can be overplayed. Intel is sensitive, so in that sense you do not want to play up the [director's] national connections,the contact familiar with SitCen's work said.

New Belgian government could hamper EU presidency-Yves Leterme, the caretaker Prime Minister will still be in power when Belgium formally takes over the EU helm on 1 July (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)ANDREW WILLIS Today JUNE 29,10 @ 09:28 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Belgian policymakers have indicated that the speedy formation of a new Belgian government may not be in the interests of the country's EU presidency. The sources said that the current caretaker administration has worked out a detailed agenda for the coming six months which could be put in jeopardy by the advent of a new government.The current government still has full powers, a senior Belgian official told press in an off-the-record briefing on Sunday (27 June).Everything we have decided on for the EU presidency has been agreed by all parties from both French and Flemish-speaking communities.The current set of ministers has built up detailed knowledge of the issues set to dominate the presidency's to-do list as well as constructive personal relationships with their EU counterparts, another contact said. The danger is that the new government forms just at the moment of another crisis in the EU, the second Belgian official explained, citing a potential member state application to the eurozone's recently-agreed emergency funding mechanism as an example.The comments - which could be seen by cynics as designed to help the existing cabinet stay in power for longer - come after Belgian snap elections on 13 June.The election saw the New-Flemish Alliance party of Bart De Wever, who advocates splitting Belgium in two, win the most seats, with coalition-forming talks threatening to drag out for months.Concern has been raised in EU circles over the transitionary government's ability to effectively chair the 27-member union. Earlier delays in producing the agenda for next month's meeting of EU finance ministers have already been cited as one example.

Reaching agreement between the European Parliament and member states on the EU's financial supervisory package, tackling ballooning budget deficits and boosting the bloc's anemic growth prospects are among the daunting challenges faced by the small state's civil servants, who are already working overtime.While federal ministers are set to chair the majority of meetings over the six-month period, Belgian regional ministers will co-ordinate a number of council formats, including the fisheries, environment, and research portfolios.As a result, prominent environment ministers from across the union could sit down to discuss the day's pertinent issues with Flanders' centre-right minister for environment, Joke Schauvliege. Meanwhile, climate discussions will be chaired by centre-left federal politician Paul Magnette.

The Belgian sources added that former Belgian PM Herman Van Rompuy's new role as EU Council president will help Belgium sell the idea of a low-key presidency to ordinary Belgians.National politicians traditionally use their tenure at the EU helm to try to shine on the world stage. But Belgium has indicated it will take a back seat following the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty last year, which thrust the EU Council head and the new EU foreign relations chief, Catherine Ashton, into the foreground instead. It's like a perfect Belgian strategy, a senior Belgian policymaker joked, on Mr Van Rompuy's Belgian roots.They would have thought we were sissies otherwise.The handover from the current Spanish presidency will take place this Thursday (1 July), but the Belgians are planning a ceremonial bash for Saturday, during which the somewhat drab European quarter in Brussels will be animated by fireworks, music and dancing.

EU privacy rules changing US companies
VALENTINA POP Today JUNE 29,10 @ 09:25 CET

EUOBSERVER / NEW YORK – EU data privacy rules are shaping a change of attitude in American companies when dealing with information collected from their customers, but the US is still far from considering data protection as a basic human right.Whoever bought a book online or opened an email account with Google has already experienced it: tailor-made advertising landing in their inbox, based on a personal profile created by the company.The term behavioural advertising is a commonplace in marketing strategies, particularly in US-based companies such as Yahoo, Amazon or Facebook. It is seen as a reliable revenue-making tool on the Internet. But privacy issues arise especially when personal information is aggregated and passed on to other companies or when the government taps into the data warehouses held by private companies in order to track down criminals or terrorism suspects. A fundamental difference between the EU and the US' approach to data privacy is the question of ownership, law and privacy experts told a group of European journalists in New York last week.In Europe, data protection is granted even after the consumer has passed on the data, while in the US, the company's understanding is that once it has the information, it can do whatever it wants with it.When we explain to a US company for the first time how data privacy laws work in Europe, they say you must be kidding? It takes a few years to acclimate to that, said privacy lawyer Lisa J Sotto from Hunton & Williams, a New York based law firm. Ms Sotto argued that the cultural difference between the two continents stems from history.Here, privacy is not a fundamental human right, instead it's a consumer protection interest. In Europe, where people could have been put to death because of their data, here they were marketed to to death,she said.

A self-certifing scheme dubbed Safe Harbour, encompassing some 2,200 US companies, helps businesses comply with EU data protection law when doing business with European customers. Under the agreement, the Federal Trade Commission can put companies under increased scrutiny for up to 20 years and even give fines if they violate the terms they subscribed to. There is a move in having companies Safe Harbour-certified in a way that is fundamentally different from five years ago. Companies are much more tuned to the fact that they need to comply with the set of [data privacy] principles in a very significant way. It's not a rubber stamp at all, Ms Sotto said.Big companies have started to put in place chief privacy officers both in the US and in their European branches and in the upcoming years there will be even more of a push for very formal data protection structures within these businesses.But critics point to the low enforcement levels of the data protection rules and the fact that in its 10 years of existence, Safe Harbour has seen only seven cases brought to court in the US - all were companies wrongly stating they were part of the scheme, not actual non-compliance cases. None were notified to EU data protection authorities.No US company is in compliance with the EU data protection directive. If this directive was applied thoroughly, US companies couldn't do business in the EU, Adam Levitin from Georgetown Law School said. He explained that the system of self-certification meant that American businesses were only paying lip service to requirements such as access to and correction of data, security and integrity of the information and no automatic use for other purposes than the one stated in the notice to consumers.While big online names such as Yahoo, Google or Facebook are part of the Safe Harbour scheme, most US air carriers are not.

Nobody from the air sector is in Safe Harbour: Delta, American Airlines, none of them are. When you give them the information in Europe, I am sure beyond any doubt that the information goes to Atlanta (US), Edward Janger from Brooklyn Law School said.He pointed to the fact that these companies are subject to EU law if their branches operate on European soil, but that there is little scrutiny of their responsibilities. I don't know of any EU audit on whether these companies have adequate data protection,he said.

Swift agreement

One company which is part of the Safe Harbour agreement is Swift, the Belgian-based financial communications company handling some 80 percent of the world's international bank transactions.Ms Sotto's legal firm has helped Swift comply with EU data protection laws, despite its image being seriously dented by the scandal which broke out in 2006, when it emerged that the US government was secretly tapping into the company's data as part of an anti-terrorism program.We helped Swift solely with the Safe Harbour certification, not the law enforcement side. From my perspective, it was a whole bunch of nonsense. The data was being transferred in a secure way. They just put a legal framework around it, which is fine, but it cost a lot of money in legal fees, she said, in reference to the years of legal wrangling with the EU.The Swift saga seems to be nearing its end, however, as the EU and the US on Monday (28 June) formally put their signatures on a legal agreement likely to be approved by the European Parliament next week after gaining some extra layers of auditing and control over the program. Back in February, the legislature rejected an interim deal, citing privacy concerns and an inter-institutional quarrel. The veto interrupted the data flow from Swift's European server to the US authorities, triggering concerns in Washington at the security gap created thereby.If the deal wins the approval of Parliament next week, Swift will resume sending data on 1 August, including for the months lapsed since February.

Tougher budget sanctions to cover all EU funds-Close-up of euro banknote showing Greece and Italy: states that break the EU's budgetary rules could see funding from Brussels withheld (Photo: Alessandro Marotta)ANDREW WILLIS 28.06.2010 @ 09:15 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU member states that break the bloc's budgetary rules could see their EU payments withheld, including weighty farm handouts, under plans to be presented by the European Commission this Wednesday (30 June).Current rules already allow EU cohesion funds to be withheld, although in practice this has never happened, but sources suggest the upcoming communication will seek to widen the net of potential financial sanctions to all EU payments. Eastern European states led by Poland have recently complained that concentrating sanctions on a suspension of EU cohesion funds, intended to boost development in the EU's poorer regions, unfairly targets less well-off countries. By including farm payments, roughly 40 percent of the EU's €120 billion annual budget, together with varying types of structural funds, the commission proposals would greatly increase the size and scope of potential fines for member states that break the Stability and Growth Pact.The pact limits deficits to 3 percent of GDP and debt to 60 percent of GDP, but both barriers have been breached by numerous member states, even before the financial crisis took hold.Wednesday's text, which is still subject to changes, seeks to narrow the scope of a commission communication on European economic governance published in May, taking into account a series of member state positions that have been revealed since then.

Controversial non-financial sanctions backed by Germany, such as the suspension of voting rights for national ministers attending meetings in Brussels, are unlikely to appear in the document.Greater emphasis is set to be placed on government debt levels, with an excessive debt procedure involving suggestions from Brussels on how member states should reduce their debt piles, likely to mimic the reporting system under the current excessive deficit procedure.With the crisis leading to calls for structural economic forms, the communication is also set to list a number of macroeconomic indicators, such as the evolution of salaries, that could be used to help monitor national competitiveness levels.States that fall behind in this area could also potentially receive a financial penalty. The commission intends to bring forward the necessary legislative proposals this September in order to turn the suggested list of tougher budgetary measures into law.With EU officials hoping to start a new European Semester system in the spring of 2011, under which member states would peer review the main headings of each others' national budgets, the clock is ticking to complete the necessary legislative steps under the up-coming Belgian EU presidency. A feeling that a unique window of opportunity exists at the moment is also adding to the sense of urgency, with a return to stronger economic growth likely to diminish the reformist zeal created by eurozone's fiscal crisis.

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.

Rescuers search for 107 in China landslide By CHI-CHI ZHANG, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 29,10

BEIJING – Hope of finding survivors was diminishing Tuesday as rescuers used heavy machinery including bulldozers to search for at least 107 people trapped under a landslide in rain-hit southwestern China.Villagers huddled in tents set up at the site as rescuers searched for their family members.But there appeared to be little hope for survival, with no word on casualties or survivors by noon Tuesday, said Tian Maosheng, an official from Guizhou Communist Party Propaganda Department, who is helping with the rescue.The number 107 remains unchanged, and there is still no sign of life here, he said.Homes were buried when the landslide struck the village of Dazhai in Guizhou province on Monday afternoon after days of torrential rains. An official interviewed by state broadcaster CCTV said nearly half a hill had collapsed.

Makeshift tents were set up as first aid stations and soldiers carrying villagers waded through water and mud as they evacuated more than 360 residents since Monday, CCTV showed.Light rain on Tuesday morning hindered rescue efforts, threatening to wash more mud down the slopes, but began to subside later in the day.CCTV showed rescuers in orange overalls along a winding mountain road and later bent over a large mound of earth, tugging at large concrete slabs buried in it.Large areas of southern China have been hit by flooding in the last two weeks, with at least 377 people killed and another 142 missing — not including those from Monday's landslide. More than 3 million people have fled their homes over the past two weeks, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.On Sunday, floodwaters began receding in the hard-hit south and workers finished repairing a dike breach that forced the evacuation of 100,000 people.The large landslide is about 120 miles (200 kilometers) southwest of Guiyang, the provincial capital.

Strengthening Alex expected to become hurricane By MIGUEL ANGEL HERNANDEZ, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 29,10

VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico – A strengthening Tropical Storm Alex was expected to become a hurricane Tuesday as it swirled toward the Gulf coast of northern Mexico and southern Texas, where authorities were readying emergency shelters and distributing sandbags.Forecasters said the storm's likely path would take it away from the site of the huge Gulf of Mexico oil spill off Louisiana's coast, but added that it might push oil farther inland and disrupt cleanup efforts.Alex had maximum sustained winds near 70 mph (110 kph) early Tuesday, and the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami predicted the storm would grow into a hurricane sometime Tuesday as it headed toward the U.S.-Mexico border at the mouth of the Rio Grande. Landfall seemed likely Wednesday night.Forecaster Todd Kimberlain said conditions Monday led the center to conclude the storm would be a less powerful hurricane than initially thought.

Tropical storm-force winds extended up to 105 miles (165 kilometers) from the storm's center, and Alex was moving toward the north-northwest at 8 mph (13 kph).A hurricane warning was posted for the Texas coast from Baffin Bay, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south to the mouth of the Rio Grande river and on a further 225 miles (360 kilometers) to La Cruz, Mexico. Except for the border area itself, both regions are lightly populated.Workers along the South Texas coast were clearing drainage ditches, filling sandbags and positioning heavy equipment and water pumps as well as preparing emergency shelters. Some cities also handed out sandbags to residents and urged people to make preparations.Mexico's northern Gulf coast braced for heavy rains like those that fell on southern areas and parts of Central America earlier.It is a fact we are going to get very heavy rains, said Gov. Fidel Herrera of the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.Forecasters said rain from Alex would keep falling on southern Mexico and Guatemala into Tuesday, raising the possibility of life-threatening floods and mudslides.The hurricane center estimated that Alex would dump five to 10 inches (12.5 to 25 centimeters) or rain over portions of northeastern Mexico and southern Texas over the next few days.Heavy rains in Mexico's southern Gulf coast state of Tabasco forced the evacuation of about 300 families from communities near the Usumacinta river.Alex caused flooding and mudslides that caused at least five deaths in Central America over the weekend, though Belize and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula appeared largely unscathed.

The storm made landfall in Belize on Saturday night as a tropical storm and weakened into a depression on Sunday as it crossed the Yucatan Peninsula.When Alex became the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, officials immediately worried what effect it could have on efforts to contain the millions of gallons (liters) of crude spewing into the northeastern part of the Gulf.A cap has been placed over the blown-out undersea well, directing some of the oil to a surface ship where it is being collected or burned. Other ships are drilling two relief wells, projected to be done by August, which are considered the best hope to stop the leak.Stacy Stewart, senior hurricane specialist at the U.S. hurricane center, said early Monday that Alex's center wasn't expected to approach the oil spill site, but the storm's outer wind field could push more oil onto land and hinder operations in the area.
Alex was centered about 460 miles (735 kilometers) southeast of Brownsville, Texas, early Tuesday. Its rains could reach Veracruz and the border state of Tamaulipas late Tuesday or Wednesday, the hurricane center said.Associated Press writers David Fischer in Miami and Sofia Mannos in Washington contributed to this report.

10 dead, 3 missing in floods in Romania
JUNE 29,10

BUCHAREST, Romania – Authorities say ten people have died and three are missing after heavy rains and flooding in northeastern Romania.Emergency situations spokeswoman Dorina Lupu from Botosani county says torrential rains on Monday night led to floods that killed six people, most from the town of Dorohoi. She says a 15-year-old boy is missing, and hundreds of people have been temporarily evacuated.In the neighboring county of Suceava, authorities said Tuesday that four people died overnight in the flooding and two are missing.Bridges and roads have been damaged, crops have been washed away and hundreds of houses are affected. Romania's rail link to neighboring Ukraine has been shut down and dozens of villages have no electricity.