EU-GLOBAL BANK TAX

Europe leaders urge bank tax to battle poverty
by Tim Witcher - SEPT 20,10 11PM

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – European leaders stepped up demands for a global financial tax on Monday as they faced mounting calls for money to pay for the Millennium Goals battle to cut extreme poverty.President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero said they would press for the new tax at international summits.The world's wealthy countries face growing pressure at the three day Millennium Development Goals (MDG) summit to contribute more to the drive to eradicate poverty and improve child and maternal health.African nations in particular are calling for more action and the West can expect little sympathy when the likes of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speak on Tuesday.UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the struggling effort to reach eight key development goals by 2015 could still be met if world leaders provide the necessary money and political will.The aims include cutting the more than one billion people living on less than a dollar a day, reducing by two-thirds the number of children who die before the age of five, seeking fairer trade, and spreading the Internet to the world's poor.While spectacular progress has been made in some areas, most experts say none of the goals will be reached by the target date. The international financial crisis has cut off badly needed funding.

Sarkozy said: We have no right to shelter behind the economic crisis as supposed grounds for doing less.He added: Finance has globalized, so why should we not ask finance to participate in stabilizing the world by taking a tax on each financial transaction.Sarkozy vowed to press for a global tax when France is head of the Group of 20 and Group of Eight countries next year.While all developed countries are in deficit, we must find new sources of financing for the struggle against poverty, for education and for the ending of the planet's big pandemics.Sarkozy also said that France would increase its payments to the UN fund on AIDS and malaria by 60 million euros a year to 360 million euros (470 million dollars).The Spanish prime minister also took up the bank tax campaign. We must launch a tax on financial transactions to complete the MDGs and my government has promised to defend them and to put them into practice. This will be at all international meetings.In opening the summit, the UN secretary general said that world leaders must send a strong message of hope.Ban said that progress has been made since 2000 in increasing school attendance, expanding access to clean water and controlling deadly diseases.We must protect these advances, many of which are still fragile. And the clock is ticking, with much more to do.Recovery from the economic crisis should not mean a return to the flawed and unjust path that got us into trouble in the first place.UN officials estimate that at least 120 billion dollars will have to be found over the next five years to hope to meet the eight goals. Aid groups, however, say much more will be needed and have expressed doubts about the political will to meet the 2000 goals.

Politicians have also indicated some doubts.

At a meeting on the summit sidelines, Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said: We're on track not to reach any of the development goals. We need more finance and better strategies. If we are going to mobilize more money we have to make more sure to spend it more wisely.German Chancellor Angela Merkel also said at the meeting that not all the targets would be met in all countries by 2015.

Africa made increasingly strident criticism of wealthy nations.

Georges Rebelo Chukoti, Angola's secretary of state for external relations, said The fight against poverty cannot be won only with the holding of conferences and summits to negotiate more commitments to development.Overcoming hunger and poverty requires primarily that we implement the international commitments we have already made.
Nigeria's Health Minister It is important that our international partners meet their commitments today if we are to accelerate our progress towards meeting the MDGs by 2015.US President Barack Obama will make the keynote address to the summit on Wednesday, but US officials have warned against expecting significant new sums of money.

Unpopular BC sales tax deal upheld by court
– Fri Sep 17, 6:14 pm ET

VANCOUVER (Reuters) – British Columbia's unpopular agreement to merge its provincial sales tax with Canada's federal goods and services tax was legal, a judge ruled on Friday.The ruling rejected claims by opponents of the harmonized sales tax (HST) that the provincial government failed to get needed legislative approval to make the surprise deal with Ottawa last year.The province merged its 7 percent provincial sales tax with the federal 5 percent tax, creating a new 12 percent HST that took effect in July and generally follows Ottawa's rules on exemptions.Supporters say the new system will keep companies competitive with rivals in other provinces, such as Ontario, that have adopted an HST with Ottawa.But opponents say it shifts more of the tax burden to consumers and small businesses, and the debate has gutted the popularity of British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell and his center-right Liberal Party.Voters will decide whether to repeal the tax in a referendum scheduled for next year.In upholding the tax agreement's constitutionality, British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Robert Bauman said he was not passing judgment on the HST's merits.That burden of proof is for others to bear and the electorate to test, he wrote.Campbell faces a party leadership review in November. He says he plans to stay on, but there have been calls from some Liberal supporters for him to step down.
(Reporting by Allan Dowd;editing by Rob Wilson)

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 TUE SEPT 21,2010

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MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -7 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -20 points at low today.
Dow +8 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,278.80.OIL opens at $73.90 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -20 points at low today so far.
Dow +48 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -20 points at low today.
Dow +48 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,292.20 (NOT AT CLOSE)

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).

Eurozone rescue fund gets top rating-The top rating will allow the fund to borrow less expensively, should a eurozone country need a loan (Photo: Alessandro Marotta)ANDREW WILLIS 20.09.2010 @ 17:34 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A eurozone rescue fund set up in May at the height of the bloc's escalating fiscal crisis has received the best possible rating from the world's three leading agencies. The news on Monday (20 September) that Fitch, Moody's and Standard & Poor's have all awarded the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) triple-A status comes at a time of resurging doubts in a number of peripheral member states. Speaking in Tallinn, EU economy commissioner Olli Rehn said he was unconcerned by rising bond yields in Ireland, sparked by a recent report from UK bank Barclays Capital that Dublin could be forced to seek external aid. I have full confidence in Ireland and its capacity to act with determination to complete the financial repair and the necessary restructuring of the banking and financial sector, he told journalists. The Irish government has flatly denied market rumours it is set to make an application to the EFSF, blaming the rising borrowing costs on a misinterpretation of the Barclays report.Bond yields continued to rise on Monday however, with the country's central bank governor, Patrick Honohan, warning the country may not be able to meet its commitment to cut the budgetary deficit to under three percent of GDP by 2014.Some explicit reprogramming of the budgetary profile for the coming years is clearly necessary soon if debt dynamics are to be convincingly convergent, he said.The suggestion that Ireland be given more time met with a frosty reception in Brussels. This is not about sympathies, this is not about clemency, you will not find any of these terms in my speaking points, the commission's economy spokesman said at a daily news conference. This is about commitments that Ireland has taken.

The EU executive body has also been quick to deny reports in Greek media that a three-year aid package to Greece might be extended. Athens secured a loan of €110 billion from the EU and IMF on 2 May, although some question the centre-left government's ability to return to capital markets when the aid runs out. The big question is whether there will be a restructuring of Greece's debt, Carsten Brzeski, a senior economist with Dutch bank ING told this website The jury is still out, he added, indicating that the uncertainty was contributing to the country's high borrowing costs. Monday's decision to award the EFSF with the top credit rating will enable it to make raise money less expensively, should a eurozone government call for financial assistance.The €440 billion facility will operate as a special purpose vehicle, issuing bonds on the market to raise funds as necessary, backed by euro area member states.The vehicle is incorporated in Luxembourg under Luxembourgish law, with the German Debt Management Office likely to play a role in any debt issuances.A further €60 billion can be issued by the commission, backed by the EU budget, with the IMF pledging a further €250 billion as part of a shock-and-awe bailout package agreed by EU member states in the early hours of 11 May.

Ashton favours Lex building for new headquarters
ANDREW RETTMAN 20.09.2010 @ 17:26 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton is keen to house her new diplomatic corps in the so-called Lex building on Rue de la Loi in the EU quarter in Brussels.The change of mind comes after months of talks with Belgium's Axa insurance group on the potential lease of its Triangle building, a few hundred metres up the road from Lex on the Schuman roundabout.With two months left to go to the EEAS' grand opening, Ms Ashton has switched from the Triangle to the Lex building as her preferred new home (Photo: Sister Ray)Lex would be much cheaper than the €10-million-a-year Axa deal because the EU Council effectively owns the block and could lease it to the European External Action Service (EEAS) on sweetheart terms, a contact in the EU institutions said. Lex also has higher security specifications than the Triangle, the contact added.The current home of the European Commission's foreign relations department (Relex), the Charlemagne building on Rue de le Loi, has been discarded as an option partly for image reasons.People would see it [the EEAS] as a kind of Relex-plus. But it's a unique, stand-alone institution, the contact said.Time is ticking for Ms Ashton's self-imposed deadline to get the EEAS up and running by 1 December.The Axa negotiators received the surprise news just last Thursday (16 September) at an advanced stage in the negotiations. And it is unclear whether senior EU Council management will back the Lex idea.

Lex currently houses Council translators and lawyers. Member States would then have to give the Council an increased budget to enable it to rent accommodation for its translators. At present, the order of the day is budget cuts not increases, a source in the EU Council administration said. Our management admits that they were asked to entertain the theoretical possibility, but that they had replied in no uncertain terms that they did not want to give up the Lex building.The Brussels-based architects' firm, Jaspers-Eyers & Partners, built Lex between 2003 and 2006 for Belgian bank Dexia and the Belgian real-estate firm Immobel, which later sold the building to the EU.Covering 15 floors and 84,674 square metres, the glass-fronted structure is said to be liked by Ms Ashton for its modern, open-plan office design and conference facilities. The building also has an underground tunnel connecting it to the commission's Berlaymont headquarters across the road and the main EU Council premises, the Justus Lipsius building, next door. With senior EEAS personnel cleared to have access to documents up to EU TOP SECRET level, security is a major concern.
Your keyboard, your computer monitor, all give off radiation. I could sit across the street, 500 metres away, and with the right equipment I could read what's on your screen and what is being typed,a security specialist in the EU Council said.

EU seeks stress-resistant intelligence officer
ANDREW RETTMAN 20.09.2010 @ 09:27 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU is hiring three junior experts to join its intelligence-sharing bureau, the Joint Situation Centre (SitCen), with the job descriptions shedding some light onto the secretive body's work.The posts - a Deployable Security Information Officer, an Open Source Intelligence Analyst and a Security Information Officer - are to be filled at the same time as the appointment of a new SitCen director. The deadline for applications closed last Friday (16 September).The job advertisements, seen by EUobserver, were circulated to EU institutions and member states' foreign ministries in recent weeks, but were not made available to the general public.The deployable officer, according to the official notice, is to travel to potential crisis or conflict areas to overtly gather political and security information to support early crisis management decisions and to supplement information and assessments from other sources.The candidate is to have a diplomatic, intelligence or media background and to have experience in information collection and evaluation in areas with a high degree of tension.The right man or woman must also be prepared to travel extensively to potential crisis areas and to do so at short notice and to be physically fit and stress-resistant. Able to withstand potentially physically and psychologically harsh working environment.

The bulk of SitCen's work is drafting security reports out of its 100-person-strong office in the EU quarter in Brussels. EU diplomats say there is no political appetite among member states to create a genuine European Intelligence Service which carries out covert operations.But SitCen officers do travel to hotspots to help EU delegations carry out research. When the earthquake struck in Haiti earlier this year, the then SitCen director, William Shapcott, personally accompanied EU foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton to the Caribbean country to seek information.The job advertisement for the new SitCen director also mentions that the candidate must be fit and ready to travel to areas of crisis.Out of the other two junior jobs up for grabs, the open source analyst is to follow up on open and confidential sources of information relating to the political and security situation in areas where the EU has launched a CSDP [Common Security and Defence Policy] mission or may be considering doing so.The new Security Information Officer will focus on Asia and will do topical Internet research in response to requests for information. The ideal candidate is to speak Urdu, Persian, Russian or Mandarin.

Obama: Military Strike on Iran Not Ideal
by Elad Benari SEPT 21,10

US President Barack Obama said on Monday that while Iran having a nuclear weapon would be a real problem, he did not think that military action by Israel or the United States against the Islamic Republic was the ideal way to solve the crisis, according to a Reuters report.During a town-hall style meeting on CNBC, Obama said: We continue to be open to diplomatic solutions to resolve this. We don't think that a war between Israel and Iran or military options would be the ideal way to solve this problem. But we are keeping all our options on the table.Obama plans to use his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday to tell Iran that the door is open to better relations with the international community, as long as it can demonstrate the peaceful intent of its nuclear program. Obama will stress during his speech that if Iran fails to meet its international obligations, the cost of its uranium enrichment program will escalate.Both the US and the UN Security Council have tightened their sanctions on Iran in recent months.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has continuously verbally attacked both Israel and the US. In an interview he gave to the Al-Jazeera network several weeks ago, Ahmadinejad said that Israel is too weak to attack Iran's nuclear facilities and dismissed the possibility of a US strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, saying that America is not interested in sparking a military confrontation. There are no logical reasons for the United States to carry out such an act. Do you believe an army that has been defeated by a small army in Iraq can enter into a war with a large and well trained army like the Iranian army? Ahmadinejad has offered the US his country’s friendship, saying that the friendship of Iran is much better than its hostility.

White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters on Monday that the door is open to [Iran] having a better relationship with the United States and with the international community. However, in order to walk through that door, Iran is going to have to demonstrate its commitment to show its peaceful intent around its nuclear program, and meet its obligations to the international community.
Ahmadinejad is currently in New York to take part in the General Assembly, and conducted a meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday. During the meeting, Ban urged the Iranian President to enter negotiations regarding its nuclear program.President Shimon Peres, who is also currently in New York, criticized Ahmedinjad after his speech to the General Assembly on Sunday. Peres told reporters that Ahmadinejad calls for our destruction, and supplies arms to every terrorist organization in the Middle East.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

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

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

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

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

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

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

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

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

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

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

ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

Israel FM clarifies land swap proposal
– Mon Sep 20, 9:48 am ET

PRAGUE (AFP) – Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in Prague on Monday that his plan to push for swapping territories for people in peace talks with Palestinians was his personal view, not his government's position.On Sunday, Lieberman proposed the Palestinians should take his country's 1.3 million Arabs and let Israel keep its West Bank settlements instead of seeking a land for peace solution.I want to stress it's my personal view. It's not the official position of our government, he said on Monday after meeting his Czech counterpart Karel Schwarzenberg, whose country is one of Israel's staunchest allies.Israeli and Palestinian leaders this month renewed direct peace talks after a gap of nearly two years and have pledged to seek agreement within 12 months.The phrase land for peace refers to the concept of Israel withdrawing from the Palestinian territories it occupied in the 1967 Middle East war in return for an end to the drawn-out conflict.

I don't think the idea that we will establish a homogeneous Palestinian state without one Jew and that Israel will become a bi-national state with more than 20 percent of minorities can be a real, stable, long-term solution, Lieberman added in Prague.The maverick nationalist has campaigned in the past for Israel's Arab citizens to be stripped of their nationality unless they take an oath of allegiance to the Jewish state.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says any treaty must include recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.The Palestinians oppose the demand, fearing that it could prejudge the future of refugees seeking to return to old homes now in Israel.

Report: Netanyahu Pushes Referendum on Peace Deal
by Maayana Miskin SEPT 20,10
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/139691

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is backing a call for a national referendum on any final agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority regarding Judea and Samaria, according to Channel 2 news.MK Ofir Akunis (Likud), a close associate of Netanyahu's, has written up a proposed law that would require a referendum. Netanyahu reportedly saw the bill on Friday and gave it his full support.Earlier in the month Netanyahu said that he had not ruled out the possibility of a national referendum if Israel and the PA were to succeed in reaching an agreement within a year.Political analysts suggested that the law could help Netanyahu keep his coalition together by reassuring the political Right that no territories will be ceded without the people's approval.Netanyahu has met twice with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and with senior United States diplomats. Talks between Netanyahu and Abbas focused on core issues such as the borders of a potential PA state in Judea and Samaria and the status of Jerusalem. Netanyahu's conditions, security and recognizing Israel as a Jewish state, were not considered core issues.Abbas has threatened to leave the talks over the resumption of construction for Jews in Judea and Samaria on September 26. He had demanded a building freeze before starting talks. Netanyahu unilaterally froze building for Israeli families in the region for 10 months in an unprecedented move aimed at bringing the PA to the negotiating table, however the PA waited until the freeze was about to end to use its continuation as a condition for continuing the fledgling talks.(Israel National News.com)

MUSLIM NATIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attempt Made to Reconcile Palestinian Factions
by Elad Benari SEPT 21,10

The Arab daily al-Hayat has reported that Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman met with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Saudi Arabia this month. The reason for the meeting was an attempt to achieve reconciliation between the Palestinian factions.

Hamas and Fatah, the two main Palestinian parties, have been in conflict ever since Hamas won the 2006 legislative election. The conflict escalated when Hamas violently took control over the Gaza Strip from Fatah in 2007, and has continued since. Fatah continues to rule over Judea and Samaria, but clashes between the factions have occurred in both regions. All reconciliation talks have thus far been unsuccessful.
Hamas has so far rejected a pact proposed by Egypt to end the feuding with Fatah. While Fatah, which is ruled by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, signed the pact in October of 2009, Hamas refused and demanded guarantees that it would be recognized and that no embargo would be imposed on it should it win a future election.A senior Egyptian source was quoted in al-Hayat as saying: The deadlock over the reconciliation dossier does not benefit Hamas and will reflect negatively on it as the division (between factions) persists.The source added that Gaza could become a rebellious region and that Egypt would be ready to host fresh reconciliation talks as soon as Hamas is ready to sign the pact.According to the report, Suleiman spoke with Mashaal in Mecca during his official visit to Saudi Arabia, where he met King Abdullah to brief him on the first round of peace talks.

On Sunday it was reported that the PA seeks to achieve control over crossings between Gaza and the southern Negev. PA minister Hussein A-Sheikh told the Bethlehem-based Maan news service that he was confident that the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Gaza would be transferred to PA control within the coming weeks. The PA will use its control to open the door widely... our goal of ending the siege will be achieved,he declared.Hamas responded to A-Sheikh's statements and similar reports in the Israeli media by accusing the PA of attempting a coup. A Hamas spokesman said that PA control of Gaza crossings would prove that the PA is working with Israel to regain control of the region, he accused.As direct talks between Israel and the PA continue, the Hamas-Fatah split raises a question mark over the ability of Abbas to enforce any agreement reached with Israel. Hamas has refused to recognize any agreements signed between Israel and the PA.It is as yet unknown how a possible Hamas-Fatah reconciliation could affect the talks.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Iran, Lebanon Walk Out on Peres Friendship Speech
by Maayana Miskin SEPT 20,10

President Shimon Peres addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, saying the Middle East has room for every person, every nation, every religion... there is enough room for friendship in the Middle East.Representatives from Iran and Lebanon walked out as he took the podium, giving the lie to his words.Mentioning the Israel-Palestinian Authority negotiations, Peres said, We are now negotiating... in order to realize the two-state solution: A Jewish state – Israel, and an Arab state – Palestine. There is no other peaceful alternative, and I believe that we shall succeed.Israel is willing to begin negotiations with Syria as well, he added. Israel-Syria talks could start right away, he declared.Peres touted science as key to creating a better future. Today, science, creativity and knowledge have replaced land as the source of wealth... Science is global, borderless. Armies can't conquer it, he said.He noted Israeli innovations and the high number of scientists in Israel, adding that, Our path is available to everyone. Our experience is replicable. Israel is willing to share its knowledge even with countries which currently have refused diplomatic ties with the Jewish state, he said.

Peres criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinjad, who spoke Sunday, after his speech. He told reporters that Ahmadinejad calls for our destruction, and supplies arms to every terrorist organization in the Middle East.Peres was snubbed by Muslim leaders on Sunday as well, when Turkish President Abdallah Gul cancelled a planned meeting with the Israeli president, ostensibly due to a busy schedule. Peres told journalists that Gul had cancelled the meeting after Peres refused to apologize for an incident in which IDF soldiers opened fire on Turkish pro-terror activists as the latter attacked them with knives and crowbars and killed nine. The skirmish took place aboard the Mavi Marmara, a ship in the flotilla that aimed to break the Israeli naval blockade on Hamas in May of this year..If relations between Israel and Turkey have changed for the worse, it was Turkey's decision, Peres said.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

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.

1 missing in flooding as rain pounds Texas coast By PAUL J. WEBER, Associated Press Writer - SEPT 20,10

SAN ANTONIO – Relentless rainfall brought partly from Hurricane Karl caused widespread problems along the Texas coast on Monday, leaving at least one person missing in high floodwaters, schools closed and raw sewage gushing from an overwhelmed city sewer system.One driver in Corpus Christi dialed 911 while being swept away in a swollen creek, but the call went dead before authorities could located the caller. Near the Texas-Mexico border, emergency crews went door-to-door in some Cameron County neighborhoods flooded with 2 to 3 feet of water, asking families if they wanted help out.There were no evacuation orders Monday, but officials had helped at least 30 people to safety, Cameron County emergency management coordinator Johnny Cavazos said.You want out or you want to stay? a rescue worker with Cavazos hollered to a family.More than 7 inches of rain was reported over a 24-hour period through early Monday in Corpus Christi and the Rio Grande Valley, which is enduring yet another soaking after being lashed by Hurricane Alex and two other tropical systems.Any rain that falls now will go directly into the runoff, National Weather Service meteorologist Joel Veeneman said. There's no way for the ground to absorb anymore.Karl made landfall on Mexico's Gulf Coast on Friday, soaking Veracruz, Puebla and Tabasco states in the south-central part of the country. At least 12 people in the country have been killed.

The rainfall in Texas wasn't directly from Karl but that the storm's moisture helped make for a perfect combination, Veeneman said.Corpus Christi waded through the worst of the downpour. Even more showers were on the way, expected to continue at least through Wednesday and exacerbate flooding that had already triggered a small number of evacuations. Oso Creek was at least 8 feet above flood stage, and forecasters predicted it could reach record-breaking heights.It was in Oso Creek where the missing driver called for help after the rushing water picked up his small car, Coast Guard Lt. Mary Arvidson said. By late Monday, Arvidson said the Coast Guard had suspended their search while local crews continued looking.The missing driver was at least the second distress call for the Coast Guard since rain began pounding the Texas shoreline this weekend. Crews also rescued two boaters Sunday whose 18-foot skiff took on too much water near Port O'Connor.Nearly a dozen school districts canceled classes Monday as the rain made bus routes on flooded streets impassable, and a flash flood watch was in effect through Monday night for 11 counties off the Texas coast.Pressure from heavy rains on an aging sewer system in Corpus Christi led to another problem: more than 100,000 gallons of raw sewage that overflowed from a manhole. City officials said the heavy rain diluted the gushing sewage enough to eliminate any risk of health hazards.Some residents living near the treatment plant described it differently.This is just disgusting, homeowner Denise Bates told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. We've actually seen feces floating by.Farther out in Nueces County, residents in the impoverished area were stranded by flooding in their slapdash communities that lack drainage and other basic infrastructure. About 60 homes in the same area were flooded after a downpour in July, said Lionel Lopez, a local advocate for the residents.Monday's flooding was three times as worse, Lopez said.People can't get out, and we can't get in to help them, he said. All you see is cars on the side of the road, or the middle of the road.Earlier this month, flooding caused by remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine killed at least eight people, including seven in Texas.

Hurricane Igor heads north after battering Bermuda By Sam Strangeways and Ruth O'Kelly Lynch – Mon Sep 20, 5:58 pm ET

HAMILTON (Reuters) – Hurricane Igor barreled north on Monday on a path expected to take it near Newfoundland and energy interests off eastern Canada, after battering Bermuda with heavy winds, waves and rain that caused damage but no casualties.The Canadian Hurricane Center issued tropical storm warnings for the coast of Newfoundland, a region that is home to Canada's three major offshore oil projects.
North Atlantic Refining, operator of a 115,000 barrel-per-day oil refinery in Come-by-Chance, Newfoundland, said it was keeping a close eye on Igor.Husky Energy Inc said it was removing some staff from offshore operations in Newfoundland and Labrador but Suncor Energy Inc said it expected to continue offshore activities despite the storm's expected brush with the area on Tuesday.Exxon Mobil Corp said it did not expect its Hibernia platform in offshore Newfoundland, which was designed to withstand extreme weather, to be affected by Igor.The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the core of the large Category 1 hurricane, packing maximum sustained winds near 75 miles per hour, was about 725 miles southwest of Cape Race, Newfoundland, at 5 p.m. EDT.Overnight, Bermuda experienced several hours of lashing wind, waves and rain. Residents of the British island territory reported uprooted trees, flying debris, widespread power outages, some flooding of streets and homes, and boats torn from moorings. Bermuda has a population of more than 67,000 people.Hurricane-force winds extended about 90 miles from Igor's core. The U.S. East Coast would experience rough surf and a stiff breeze, the Miami-based hurricane center said.The hurricane was moving northeast at 28 miles per hour. It was expected to stay on that track, away from the U.S. coast, through late Tuesday.

DODGED A BULLET

Official damage assessments were being carried out in Bermuda but the island chain, a popular tourist resort and global insurance hub, appeared to have suffered far less damage from Igor than it did from Hurricane Fabian in 2003.Public Safety Minister David Burch said Bermuda seems to have dodged a bullet in a significant way.
Fabian killed four people and caused millions of dollars of damage.There's no injuries, no major damage, Burch told the Royal Gazette newspaper. There was some minor criminal activity in the country, breaking and entering. You expect it to happen but I'm surprised that anyone in their right mind would be out in that weather.East of Igor, Tropical Storm Julia was breaking up on Monday and posed no threat to land.The hurricane center said there was a high chance of a new tropical cyclone developing west of the Cape Verde Islands in the eastern Atlantic, as the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season continued this year's active pace.In Mexico over the weekend, the remnants of Hurricane Karl dissipated over the mountains of south central Mexico, after killing at least 12 people, emergency workers said.Karl apparently spared Mexican oil operations from major damage after sweeping through the Bay of Campeche, where Mexico produces more than two-thirds of its 2.55 million barrels per day of crude output. (Additional reporting by Katharine Jackson in Hamilton, Bermuda, and Luis Manuel Lopez in Villahermosa, Mexico; Writing by Pascal Fletcher and Tom Brown; Editing by Eric Beech)

Taiwan clear up begins after typhoon flooding
– Mon Sep 20, 11:27 am ET

TAIPEI (AFP) – Schools and offices were closed in typhoon-hit parts of Taiwan on Monday as residents started clearing up after their homes were flooded by the storm which moved on to pummel southern China.Typhoon Fanapi, the strongest to hit the region this year with gusts of up to 220 kilometres (138 miles) per hour, made landfall on the east coast on Sunday and dumped up to 1,000 millimetres (39 inches) of rain in the south.The typhoon weakened as it swept into the southern Chinese provinces of Fujian and Guangdong Monday, but was still packing winds of 125 kilometres (75 miles) an hour, the government's flood headquarters and state media said.It is possible that Fanapi will sweep across Guangdong province and bring serious flooding and geological disasters to the region, the provincial flood headquarters warned.Local authorities ordered tens of thousands of fishermen from the two provinces to bring their boats to safe harbours.The storm was inching closer to Hong Kong, meteorologists said, and was expected to come within 100 kilometres north of the territory overnight, bringing heavy rains and strong winds.In Taiwan, television images showed the military using amphibious vehicles to rescue citizens trapped by flash flooding in Kaohsiung, the island's second-biggest city.More than 100 people were injured, with some blown over by gales, knocked from motorcycles or hit by flying debris, according to the National Fire Agency.

Some schools and offices in Kaohsiung and neighbouring areas were closed Monday as the floods gradually subsided and soldiers were deployed to help residents clear up.The typhoon left more than 70,000 homes without power and around 15,000 others without water, officials said.This was the worst flooding we've experienced in my life. It was even worse than the one caused last year by Typhoon Morakot, one man told cable news network TVBS.Morakot devastated southern Taiwan just over a year ago, leaving more than 700 people dead or missing in one of the island's worst natural disasters.Although Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau has removed the warning against the powerful storm, it warned of further downpours in the days ahead.
President Ma Ying-jeou, who was accused of responding slowly to the Morakot disaster, moved quickly to react to Fanapi and was filmed wading through knee-deep waters in the coastal town of Linpien.Flooding from Fanapi caused havoc at a petrochemical complex in the Kaohsiung area, halting production at more than 10 factories and causing an estimated two billion Taiwan dollars (63.1 million US) damage.Crop damage across the island was expected to reach more than 1.6 billion Taiwan dollars, according to the Council of Agriculture.

Dollar trades in tight range before Fed meeting
– Mon Sep 20, 3:24 pm ET

NEW YORK – The dollar traded in a tight range Monday against the euro and yen ahead of a key meeting of Federal Reserve policymakers that could have broad implications for the dollar's value.The Fed committee meets Tuesday and the dollar often reacts sharply to any policy changes on interest rates or revisions in the Fed's outlook for the economy.In late afternoon trading in New York, the euro rose to $1.3062 from $1.3043 late Friday. The dollar edged lower to 85.77 yen from 85.79 yen.If the central bank on Tuesday signals that it will start buying up Treasurys to help support the economy, the dollar could tumble broadly, MF Global analyst Jessica Hoversen said.Such a move by the Fed would likely drive interest rates lower, which tends to weigh on the dollar.Most analysts do not expect the central bank to announce the start of such a program Tuesday, however. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke had said late last month that the economy would have to decline significantly to prod the Fed into further action.Worries that the Fed will do more to bring down rates have already driven the dollar down by more than 2 percent since late August against a group of six actively traded currencies.Last week, concerns about weak U.S. growth and expectations of a move by the Fed helped drive the dollar to a 15-year low of 82.88 yen, just before the Bank of Japan intervened in currency markets to weaken the yen. The dollar has largely held on to its gains versus the Japanese currency since Japan's intervention.The euro had hit a five-week high of $1.3159 in Friday's trading following Japan's move.In other trading Monday, the British pound fell to $1.5545 from $1.5625 while the dollar slipped to 1.0287 Canadian dollars from 1.0311 Canadian dollars and to 1.0061 Swiss francs from 1.0102 Swiss francs.

Peres resists Gul's call for an apology on raid By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer - SEPT 20,10

UNITED NATIONS – A planned meeting between Israeli President Shimon Peres and his Turkish counterpart was scrapped because of the Israeli leader's refusal to apologize for the deadly commando raid on a Turkish-led flotilla that tried to breach Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, Israeli officials said Monday.In the latest bid to repair Israel's relations with its only Muslim ally in the region, Peres told reporters he had agreed to join Turkish President Abdullah Gul at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, then accepted Gul's invitation to meet on the sidelines. But Israeli officials said Gul then set unacceptable conditions for the meeting.Gul on Monday denied that any such meeting had ever been planned. That is not true, the Turkish president told The Associated Press. There was never a meeting scheduled between us.A report by Turkey's state-run Anatolia news agency quoted Gul as telling reporters in New York on Sunday that he would not meet with Peres because of a scheduling problem. Some reports had suggested that the two men would meet in a sign of a thaw in strained relations between the two formerly close allies.Relations between the two countries have been deteriorating and hit a low point after the May raid in which nine people, including eight Turks and a Turkish-American, were killed when Israeli commandos boarded a Turkish ferry that was part of the aid flotilla heading to Gaza. Turkey has demanded that an Israeli apology for the raid and compensation for the victims' families.

Peres told reporters that he found Turkey's conditions for a meeting with Gul to be unacceptable.I got some conditions which made this meeting in my judgment not a positive one, Peres told reporters as the U.N. General Assembly's Millennium Development Goals summit was getting under way.Now we didn't change our attitude to Turkey. We were friends, we remain friends. Maybe Turkey changed her mind, and that's for the Turks to decide, Peres said. We don't intend to worsen the situation. Neither can we submit to preconditions which are totally unacceptable.Peres did not elaborate on the preconditions. But senior Israeli officials confirmed that Gul wanted Israel to publicly apologize for the flotilla raid.The Turks came with the demands that could not be met ..., said Israel's U.N. Ambassador Meron Reuben. The demands included that we apologize for the flotilla incident, he said.Investigators from a U.N. human rights inquiry on the May 31 flotilla attack have been interviewing witnesses, including an Israeli Knesset member. Israel refused to cooperate with that probe and accused the U.N. Human Rights Council of bias.But it is cooperating with a separate U.N. panel ordered by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. That panel, led by New Zealand's ex-Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer and Colombia's ex-President Alvaro Uribe, is looking into legal issues surrounding the incident.
Israeli commandos said they opened fire in self-defense after meeting what they called unexpected resistance when boarded the ferry carrying aid supplies to Gaza.

An international outcry resulted, forcing Israel to ease its blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza. Israel and Egypt imposed the blockade in June 2007 after Hamas militants took control of the area.Israel's military completed its own investigation, which found that its intelligence failed to predict the violent response but its troops reacted properly.Later Monday, Peres met privately with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. In a brief appearance before reporters, neither leader would discuss particulars about the recently renewed Mideast peace talks. The key issue of whether Israel will extend a partial ban on settlement building in the West Bank, territory the Palestinians want for a future state, was not addressed by either man publicly.On Tuesday, Peres will appear at a roundtable discussion presented by the Clinton Global Initiative with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and Bahrain's crown prince, Sheik Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa. Bahrain and Israel have no formal relations. Former President Bill Clinton will moderate.

Israeli minister: Palestinians need to compromise By DAN PERRY, Associated Press Writer – Mon Sep 20, 8:04 pm ET

JERUSALEM – With crisis looming for recently restarted Mideast peace talks, Israel's deputy prime minister on Monday urged the Palestinians to relax their demand that a freeze on new Jewish settlement construction be extended past its planned weekend expiration. Palestinian officials quickly rejected the idea, leaving a deadlock in place.In order to succeed in these negotiations both parties need to understand that (neither side) can come out of them with all that they wanted, said Dan Meridor, describing the dispute as an indicator of Palestinian good faith on broader issues. The first test for spirit of compromise on both sides is this issue of moratorium. If they say no compromise it's a bad sign.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other top officials have repeatedly said that if Israel resumes settlement construction in the West Bank they will walk away from the talks, which resumed this month under U.S. aegis. Responding to Meridor's comments, Palestinian spokesman Husam Zomlot said that position remained unchanged.Flexibility and creativity do not apply on illegality, he told The Associated Press. If we are unable — and with us the entire world — to persuade Israel to only freeze its illegal settlement expansion, how do we embark on a process that should discuss the dismantling of settlements and the ending of the occupation? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called on the Palestinians not to impose conditions for the talks.I want to give these talks a chance to succeed. And I very much hope that President Abbas will have the same attitude, he told a group of American Jewish leaders. I expect him to sit down with me even when we disagree, and to work with me through those disagreements in a sincere effort to forge a historic compromise, which I believe is possible.Speaking with foreign correspondents, Meridor said that if the current negotiations on a final peace settlement broke down, there was an alternative: a bottom-up approach in which the existing Palestinian Authority — ruling a collection of autonomous zones established in the 1990s throughout the West Bank — could be extended in various ways, with other authorities, jurisdictions and powers.

The Palestinians oppose anything less than a full settlement, concerned that a partial deal that eases pressure on Israel would perpetuate a situation that falls far short of their expectations — for example, by not including a sharing of Jerusalem, the city both sides want for a capital.Meridor noted that the Palestinians rejected a far-reaching 2008 offer from Netanyahu's more dovish predecessor, Ehud Olmert.On Sunday, Olmert gave his most detailed description yet of that peace offer, saying he proposed a Palestinian state on more than 90 percent of the West Bank, with land swaps to make up for any land Israel annexed. The West Bank and Gaza — now ruled by the Islamist Hamas movement, which opposes the peace talks — were to be linked with a passage through Israeli territory.Olmert said the Palestinians were to have a capital in the Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem, and the coveted Old City, with its holy sites, was to be governed jointly by Israel, the Palestinians, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United States. He also said Israel would have recognized the suffering of Palestinian refugees who lost their homes in the fighting around Israel's creation and would have agreed to repatriate a small number.

Although Netanyahu is widely seen as unlikely to repeat such an offer, he did part ways with his longtime ideology by formally accepting the idea of a Palestinian state soon after taking office in 2009; in November of that year, under intense U.S. pressure, he also halted most settlement construction, saying he would keep the measure in place for 10 months, a period that expires Sunday.Under the so-called moratorium, Israel refrained from new housing starts in the settlements, but several thousand units already being built were allowed to continue. While the measure does not apply to Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem, where the Palestinians want to locate their capital, there has been a de facto halt to new construction there as well.The Palestinians want the moratorium to stay in place and the United States has urged Israel to comply, at least for a period. But members of Netanyahu's Likud Party and key partners in his government oppose this, meaning the premier would likely face coalition trouble if he gave in.Meridor said he had proposed that Israel resume building in only those parts of the West Bank that might remain in Israeli hands under a future deal — excluding, for example, most settlements deep inside the territory.In New York, the European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton urged Israel to extend the moratorium.There is a need to extend the moratorium on settlements and, along with everybody else, the EU has called for Israel to do that in order that the talks can continue, Ashton told reporters after meeting Monday with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. And I hope that they will be able to do that very soon.On Tuesday, Clinton and Ashcroft will be taking part in a meeting of the Quartet of Mideast peacemakers — the EU, U.S., U.N. and Russia — on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. In a reflection of the potential for a showdown, right-wing lawmakers announced they would be holding a celebration on Sunday in the West Bank settlement of Revava. Danny Danon, a deputy speaker of Israel's parliament from Netanyahu's Likud party, issued a statement saying that thousands of Likud supporters would rally at the site and bulldozers and cement trucks (would) begin work on a new neighborhood. When asked, Israeli spokesman Mark Regev had no comment on the Danon initiative.

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British Government to Seize All Paychecks Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Infowars.com September 20, 2010

Forget big government – the same elite whose policies caused the financial collapse are now ready to launch the next phase of their fascist takeover of the economy – by forcing businesses to send employee paychecks straight to the government, who would then deduct the appropriate tax before the employee receives their wage, as the statist cancer of collectivism grows.The proposal represents another hammer blow to financial privacy, as the establishment moves towards a total cashless society where every transaction is tracked, traced and controlled by the authorities.The UK’s tax collection agency is putting forth a proposal that all employers send employee paychecks to the government, after which the government would deduct what it deems as the appropriate tax and the pay the employee’s by bank transfer, reports CNBC.

The system would be run by the same organization, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), that has become notorious for its botched handling of data and incorrect tax calculations which have forced people to spend months and even years trying to claim back unfairly claimed money seized by the taxman.But this story is about far more than the threat of mere bureaucracy or bumbling incompetence – this is about the system exploiting the economic crisis it caused as a pretext to completely dominate and control our lives.This is about the state handing itself the power to arbitrarily raise taxes to any level it desires and then automatically seizing the money with no chance of redress or petition on behalf of the taxpayer.Allied to the proposal will be a new program that will force middle-class families to take government lie detector tests, which are notoriously unreliable and inadmissible in court, as part of intrusive tax investigations into their financial affairs.Prime Minister David Cameron and his side-kick Nick Clegg’s promise to deconstruct the Big Brother state in Britain has proven to be completely fraudulent. This is Big Brother on steroids, and it mimics a myriad of other programs on both sides of the pond that are being enforced as part of the same move towards total regulation and control over every aspect of our existence.

- Local tax authorities such as Pennsylvania telling residents we know where you live and threatening to use satellite imaging technology to track them down for claimed back taxes.

- So-called smart-meters being introduced by law to allow utility companies and the government to regulate energy consumption remotely.

- Government plans to dictate what kind of household appliances people are allowed to own and what kind of light bulbs we can use.

- Fees and restrictions on garage sales and any kind of independent, local community-driven economic activity.

- Legislation aimed at preventing people from sharing, trading, or selling homegrown food, as part of a total Homeland Security takeover of all U.S. food and U.S. farms.

Every new assault the state launches against us is focused around increasing our dependence on Big Brother and making us destitute and unable to survive without welfare.

People in the United Kingdom and the United States need to understand that their governments are malevolent and that their primary purpose is to obliterate the middle class by forcing them to become dependent on the state. As the cost of living soars, as tax hikes go through the roof, and as austerity fascism starts to bite, governments are now moving to prevent people from becoming self-sufficient, dashing the only hope of avoiding poverty for many.Allied with the march of green fascism, the economic crisis has been ruthlessly exploited by the elite to empower the state to wholly subjugate the people under the thumb of big government. Every step they take is about enriching themselves politically and financially, while ensuring our only recourse is to beg for handouts in return for allowing ourselves to become slaves whose every action is controlled, catalogued, judged and punished by our new masters on the global plantation.Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America’s most listened to late night talk show.

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Global Warming Alarmist Calls For Eco-Gulags To Re-Educate Climate Deniers
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com September 20, 2010

A Finnish environmentalist guru has gone further than any other global warming alarmist in openly calling for fascism as a necessary step to save the planet from ecological destruction, demanding that climate change deniers be re-educated in eco-gulags and that the vast majority of humans be killed with the rest enslaved and controlled by a green police state, with people forcibly sterilized, cars confiscated and travel restricted to members of the elite.Philosopher Pentti Linkola has built an enthusiastic following of self-described eco-fascists receptive to his message that the state should enact draconian measures of discipline, prohibition, enforcement and oppression in order to make people comply with environmental dictates.Linkola’s barbaric and dictatorial philosophy has remained relatively obscure but is now gaining traction as the mask of environmentalism is lifted to unveil its true nature – a justification for 21st century tyranny on a grand scale, characterized by eugenics, sterilization, gulags, police states, and total government control over every aspect of our existence.Linkola’s doctrine is more extreme, repulsive, and threatening to liberty than anything carried out by history’s worst dictators, Hitler, Stalin and Mao – combined. Indeed, Linkola laments that such monsters didn’t go far enough in wiping out many more millions of people.

Under Linkola’s proposal to save earth from man-made climate change, only a few million people would work as farmers and fishermen, without modern conveniences such as the automobile. This system would be enforced by the creation of a Green Police who would abandon the syrup of ethics that governs human behavior to completely dominate the population.Linkola calls for forced abortions, while also adding that another world war would be a happy occasion for the planet because it would eradicate tens of millions of people. The environmentalist believes that only jackbooted tyranny can help to save mother earth from the worst ideologies in the world which he defines as growth and freedom.Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy, he writes.There cannot be so incompetent dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.

Those who refuse to be enslaved by Linkola’s new eco-tyranny would be abducted and sent to the mountains for re-education in eco-gulags, according to the environmentalist, who says that the only solution lies in a centralised government and the tireless control of citizens.As part of his eco-fascist hell, Linkola calls for ‘killing defectives’ by means of sterilization, licenses for births, tight regulation of electricity, forcing humans to eat rats, the confiscation of private cars, travel to be restricted to members of the elite only, and businesses to be terminated as the economy is entirely handed over to the control of the state.The heart of Linkola’s dark philosophy revolves around the need to slaughter masses of humans. If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating if it meant millions of people would die, he writes.Who misses all those who died in the Second World War? Who misses the twenty million executed by Stalin? Who misses Hitler’s six million Jews? asks Linkola.It is impossible to accurately explain and quantify the sheer level of depravity exhibited within Linkola’s belief system. If these words were written by a crazed mass murderer then we’d at least be able to dismiss their import, but these horrendous doctrines are embraced by a prominent environmentalist whose popularity is growing as the putrid tentacles of the eco-fascist movement grow into more areas of society and public discourse.We will have to…learn from the history of revolutionary movements — the national socialists, the Finnish Stalinists, from the many stages of the Russian revolution, from the methods of the Red Brigades — and forget our narcissistic selves, writes Linkola, firmly entrenching his environmental activism in the political prism of Nazism and Stalinism.Indeed, Linkola’s policies make Hitler and Stalin look like fair-minded humanitarians.Read Linkola’s loving and human overpopulation analogy, which as we have documented, is a contrived problem debunked by the UN’S own population statistics.

What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Those who love and respect life will take the ship’s axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides of the boat.In reality, by 2020 population will stabilize and by 2050 the global population will start to decline at an alarming rate, with the replacement rate for humans dropping below 2.1. Linkola’s bloodthirsty desire to see the human surplus brutally culled has more in common with the discredited pseudo-philosophy of Malthus than it does any basis in scientific fact.As we have documented, although not going quite as far as Linkola, the eco-fascist movement is attracting prominent advocates, including James Lovelock, the creator of the Gaia hypothesis. Lovelock told the Guardian earlier this year that democracy must be put on hold to combat global warming and that a few people with authority should be allowed to run the planet.This sentiment was echoed by author and environmentalist Keith Farnish, who in a recent book called for acts of sabotage and environmental terrorism in blowing up dams and demolishing cities in order to return the planet to the agrarian age. Prominent NASA global warming alarmist and Al Gore ally Dr. James Hansen endorsed Farnish’s book.Linkola concurs with Farnish and Hansen, writing, Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.Another prominent figure in the climate change debate who exemplifies the violent and death-obsessed belief system of the movement is Dr. Eric R. Pianka, an American biologist based at the University of Texas in Austin. During a speech to the Texas Academy of Science in March 2006, Pianka advocated the need to exterminate 90% of the world’s population through the airborne ebola virus. The reaction from scores of top scientists and professors in attendance was not one of shock or revulsion – they stood and applauded Pianka’s call for mass genocide.

The current White House science czar John P. Holdren also advocates the most obscenely dictatorial, eco-fascist, and inhumane practices in the name of environmentalism. In his 1977 Ecoscience textbook, Holdren calls for a planetary regime to carry out forced abortions and mandatory sterilization procedures, as well as drugging the water supply, in an effort to cull the human surplus.Linkola has outstripped even notorious murder mastermind Charles Manson in his hatred for the human race. During prison interviews, Manson routinely spoke of his belief that around 50 million humans should be slaughtered for the good of the planet, whereas Linkola and his fans simply believe that humanity should cease to exist in its entirety. A fan site dedicated to Linkola includes links to his articles which have headlines like Extinguish Humans, Save the World.Like Manson, Linkola has become a respected environmentalist guru for a new cult of believers who feel that governments and global institutions are not being ruthless enough in enforcing overdue measures to save the Earth from ecological destruction.Linkola has built an environmentalist following by calling for an authoritarian, ecological regime that ruthlessly suppresses consumers, writes the Guardian’s Micah White, adding that Linkola has opened the way for a wave of fascist environmentalists who reject democratic freedom.Another Finnish environmentalist writer, Martin Kreiggeist, hails Linkola’s call for eco-gulags and oppression as a solution, calling for people to take up the axes in pursuit of killing off the third world. Kreiggeist wants fellow eco-fascists to act on Linkola’s call for mass murder in order to solve overpopulation.Linkola himself openly calls for violence to further the cause of eco-fascism. A minority can never have any other effective means to influence the course of matters but through the use of violence, he writes.

While governments around the world continue to harass innocent citizens and define peaceful political action as domestic terrorism, people like Linkola, Pianka and others, along with their growing legion of followers, are left alone despite their open call for violence and genocide.Given the fact that cult followers of these extremist fringe environmentalists, people like Discovery Channel building gunman James Jay Lee, are now starting to act out on their guru’s doctrines with violence, it’s high time that radical global warming alarmists who are calling for mass murder and fascism be investigated by the relevant authorities as potential terrorists.
However, it’s a forlorn hope when one understands that Linkola’s tyrannical and abhorrent belief system is merely an extension of the eugenicist doctrines being promoted by some of the most powerful people on the planet who, backed by an equally enthusiastic establishment media, are now brazenly dispensing with tip-toe tyranny and are openly calling for mass death and dictatorship under the guise of stopping climate change.The establishment points fingers all day long at all manner of political groups to smear them as a threat, while monsters like Linkola and Pianka who advocate the most dangerous and obscene ideas imaginable are lauded and afforded respect by their peers and their growing band of lunatic followers, who are all too eager to act out on the barbarian solutions that are being encouraged in the name of environmentalism.