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ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
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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.

12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE ALSO.

NETANYAHU ACCEPT JEWISH STATE ARABS
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FARMERS HELP
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ROSH HASHANA LETS DO IT RIGHT THIS YEAR-ISRAELIS
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Free Prayer Across America for Rosh HaShanah
by Chana Ya'ar SEPT 7,10

As Jews around the world prepare for the Rosh HaShanah New Year's holiday, North American families this year will have many more options for places to pray than ever before.The High Holy Days, as the New Year and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement are called, often are a time for scrambling to ante up for the annual synagogue membership.Paying for one's synagogue seats can mean added stress after the recession has taken such a large bite out of the family coffers, and often less-than-observant Jews decide to skip the service.This year, however, quite a number of congregations and Jewish community centers are offering no-cost services, or discounted seats for members of the general public. Many advertise in local Jewish newspapers, and some have even taken to issuing public service announcements on the local Jewish radio programs.The Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement always offers free High Holy Day services at numerous college and university campuses, and in most cities across North America. Locations can be found by clicking here.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Mosque Debate: Gov. Paterson Asks for a Week's Silence
by Gil Ronen SEPT 7,10

New York Governor David Paterson suggested that New Yorkers refrain, this week, from discussing the highly contentious plan for a Muslim mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero. The reason: the week is one that includes the Jewish New Year, the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday, and the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 massacres. Paterson was quoted on the New York Daily News website.The greater issue involving this situation is how can we bring New York's people back together and I propose that perhaps in light of the fact that Rosh Hashanah is this week, the Jewish New Year, that the celebration of Ramadan is coming at the end of the week and that we should all be focused on our concern to those who lost relatives [on] Sept. 11, Paterson said, perhaps we might think more in terms of supporting those families who are on both sides of this issue as all of us are and maybe all step back and try to devote a week of peace.The governor announced that he would try not to speak about the issue for a week, just to see if this exercise would help New Yorkers and Americans remember that the terrorists didn't care who we were when they attacked us and we should think a lot about the fact that in many ways, we were all victims.
Rosh HaShana will commence Wednesday evening. Eid al-Fitr will occur on Thursday or Friday, depending on sightings of the moon. September 11 will be Saturday.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)

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 WED SEPT 08,2010

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MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +33 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -3 points at low today.
Dow +88 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,257.70.OIL opens at $74.17 today.

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Dow +88 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -3 points at low today.
Dow +88 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,266.90 (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).

Finance ministers give green light to EU oversight of national budgets-The semester system is the most significant element yet in place of a new EU economic architecture (Photo: Council of the European Union)LEIGH PHILLIPS 07.09.2010 @ 15:41 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European finance ministers on Tuesday (7 September) gave the green light to a system of mutual supervision and oversight of each others' budgets.

But in a significant victory for the UK, London managed to wrangle an exception, allowing it to submit its spending plans to the House of Commons before it hands them over to Brussels and other member states for consideration.The ministers endorsed a new system of a European Semester, pushing EU nations closer towards fiscal harmonisation than ever before.The semester, to kick in as soon as January next year, will begin with the European Commission producing a survey of the overall state of the economy, identifying difficulties facing both eurozone nations and the EU as a whole. This in turn will be presented to the European Parliament.EU member states will then submit by April broad budgetary outlines for the commission to assess. Following this, based on the commission's opinion, may then choose to issue country-specific guidance by June and July.European economics commissioner Olli Rehn called the sign-off a major improvement of our economic governance architecture.We can act preventatively, instead of sending in the fire brigade when the house is already burning.The agreement is the most significant element yet put in place of the last year's discussions of a new EU economic architecture, provoked by the fiscal destruction wrought by the global economic crisis.London however managed to, in the words of the British chancellor George Osborne, secure an important agreement to protect the parliamentary procedures of the UK.In the case of Britain, the information will be submitted for EU oversight after the submission of the spring budget to the UK parliament.

We had a particular concern, Mr Osborne told reporters after the meeting, that I would have to present information to the commission before the House of Commons. Events like this are unacceptable. But I am very pleased that Britain's unique schedule is explicitly recognised.Once having won the exception, the chancellor said he cheered the new semester system: As someone who believes strongly in single market, i welcome the creation of an architecture at the EU level that can co-ordinate supervision.He described the oversight as a healthy exchange of budgetary data.Specific sanctions for flouting the guidance of the Council and Commission remain to be decided.The European Commission will on 29 September unveil a proposal for the imposition of quasi-automatic sanctions for delinquents. It is understood that this package of measures would invert the current framework, wherein a qualified majority in the Council must be reached to impose sanctions on countries in breach of the current fiscal rules. Under the commission's plan, sanctions would be imposed automatically and it would require a qualified majority to block their imposition. It is also thought that such a sanctions regime would initially be proposed for just eurozone countries and only in the much longer term be proposed for all EU states.Broader discussion of what sort of punishment should be meted out is being left for European Council President's special task force on economic governance to consider. Meeting on Monday evening for the first time after the summer break, the task force did not make much progress.

No progress on bank levy talks either

The second major discussion point amongst finance chiefs, the imposition of a levy or tax on banks to to cover the costs of any future banking sector bail-out, foundered as member states are still very far apart on the details of such a move, already agreed in principle in June. The heart of the controversy concerns whether the funds raised would be gathered together in a common pot - in Brussels jargon, a resolution fund - or return to national coffers to be spent by governments to balance their accounts. The UK in particular does not support an EU-level resolution fund.We are very clear. It is up to national governments to decide what should happen to those revenues, said Mr Osborne. He added that the UK has plenty of allies around the table opposing a European fund.

Whither an EU Tobin Tax?

A second type of levy, a tax on financial transactions, possibly being extended to a range of banking products, and that would deliver up billions for spending on low-carbon infrastructure, development in the third world and social programmes domestically was also discussed, but found even less agreement.Championed by France, the idea, also known as a Tobin Tax, met with no unanimity, as Belgian finance minister and current chair of the council of economy ministers, Didier Reynders, put it.Blunter still was Mr Osborne, who said: The idea of such a tax has been discussed for many decades, and, I suspect, will continue to be discussed for many decades to come.It is difficult to see how in practice to make it operate in a world in which capital can move very quickly outside the EU.The worry is that unless such a tax were implemented globally, or at least by a large enough number of major powers, institutions would simply move to a jurisdiction where the tax did not exist.A paper on an EU Tobin Tax submitted to the meeting for discussion by tax commissioner Algirdas Semeta also questioned its feasibility.With the concept being shot down by a majority of states at this spring's G20 meeting of the world's major industrialised and emerging powers, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said he intends to make a push for the tax when his country takes over the presidency of the global body next year.The UK finance minister however suggested that France's efforts at the G20 would be more fruitful if they focus on other more pressing issues.

EU has survived economic crisis, Barroso says in first State of Union address
Mr Barroso in Strasbourg on Tuesday indicated that the worst of the crisis has passed in an upbeat, presidential-type speech (Photo: ec.europa.eu)ANDREW RETTMAN
07.09.2010 @ 11:03 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in a major speech on Tuesday morning said the EU has survived the economic crisis.Over the last year, the economic and financial crisis has put our Union before one of its greatest challenges ever ... As I look back at how we have reacted, I believe that we have withstood the test, Mr Barroso told MEPs in his first ever so-called State of the Union address. Those who predicted the demise of the European Union were proved wrong.His remarks come after a threat of sovereign default by eurozone countries such as Greece and Spain threatened to pull apart the single currency in a potentially deadly blow to the 50-year-old European project. Noting that our work is not finished, the Portuguese politician put the EU's economic future at the top of his five-point agenda. He defended the commission's push to regulate EU countries' debt levels despite rising social tension in countries such as Greece, which has seen an outbreak of violent street protests in reaction to EU-and-IMF-imposed cutbacks. Unsustainable budgets make us vulnerable. Debt and deficit lead to boom and bust. And they unravel the social safety net. Money that is spent on servicing debt is money that cannot be spent on the social good, he said. He spoke up for an "ambitious" future budget, saying: The EU budget is not for Brussels - it is for the people that you represent ... a euro spent at European level gets you more than a euro spent at national level.With the commission to shortly publish ideas on how to raise extra EU money by, for example, directly taxing financial transactions, the commission chief attacked the culture of pessimism and Brussels nay-saying in some EU capitals: I find it extraordinary that some are already rejecting them [the new budget ideas], without even knowing what they will be.

He set out a shopping list of upcoming economic initiatives.

He said Brussels will propose launching EU project bonds together with the European Investment Bank to help finance new infrastructure. He promised an ambitious Single Market Act to cut red tape for small businesses, liberalise the energy sector and boost green collar jobs. He said the commission will attack risk-generating financial practices such as big bonuses, credit default swaps and naked short selling. He also promised to overhaul the byzantine complexity of the EU budget, in which countries give money with one hand and take it away with another, and to move to a 10-year budgeting period instead of the current seven.In a message pregnant with references to EU values, Mr Barroso took a swipe at France's controversial policy of expelling Roma.Without naming Paris, Mr Barroso said, to loud applause: Everyone in Europe must respect the law, and the governments must respect human rights, including those of minorities. Racism and xenophobia have no place in Europe.
He also lashed out at Iran over the case of a woman sentenced to death for adultery: I am appalled when I hear that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is sentenced to death by stoning. This is barbaric beyond words.European Parliament officials tweeted during the speech that around 600 MEPs attended the event despite earlier dropping plans to fine deputies who skipped it.

Mr Barroso's call for EU countries to support the EU's new foreign relations chief, Catherine Ashton, and her diplomatic service in order to give the EU more clout on the world stage was echoed in the plenary debate following the address.Senior MEPs began by criticising Ms Ashton for not going to the launch of Middle East peace talks in Washington last week, however. Joseph Daul, the French leader of the centre-right European People's Party did not name the British baroness, but said: How can we justify that we are not present at the [negotiating] table? The leader of the Liberal group, Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt, chided her for not attending the Barroso speech. It would be better if she were here, he said.The State of the Union address, which recalls the US President's annual speech to the houses of Congress, is to be repeated every year. Coming in the wake of the Lisbon Treaty, which is seen by eurosceptic politicians, such as British Conservative MEP Timothy Kirkhope, as a step towards [an EU] superstate, Mr Barroso's presidential speech has also raised the question of who is the new top man in the Brussels hierarchy.I thought Van Rompuy was the President of the EU, a Brussels-based diplomat from one non-EU country told this website, referring to the Belgian President of the European Council.

EU finance ministers to discuss bank-levy co-ordination
LEIGH PHILLIPS 07.09.2010 @ 10:14 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A levy on banks across the bloc to produce funds to cover the costs of any future banking sector bail-out is set to be the lead topic when EU finance ministers meet in Brussels on Tuesday, aiming to ensure that never again should such economic disasters weigh so heavily on the public sector and taxpayers.
As a result of the 2008-2009 credit crunch, governments chose to bail-out teetering banks to the tune of 16.5 percent of EU GDP, effectively transferring private sector debt onto the back of governments. The current ongoing concerns markets have over the viability of European governments to pay their debts is largely a result of this transfer.In June this year, member states agreed that the imposition of a bank levy or tax on financial firms should be developed. But the detail of how such a levy would work has yet to be worked out, even as the three biggest EU states, France, Germany and the UK, are set to already move ahead with their own such taxes from the start of 2011. Sweden was the first EU state to introduce such a tax, in 2009.The European Commission for its part is worried that levies are being introduced haphazardly and will attempt to shepherd the bloc toward a co-ordinated solution.In our view, there is a need for a common framework, with some already introducing advanced plans for banking levies, said one commission official on Monday ahead of the meeting. There needs to be a properly co-ordinated framework.The official added: We have no desire to play referee [between the different approaches].At the heart of the issue is whether the funds raised would be gathered together in a common pot - in Brussels jargon, a resolution fund - or return to national coffers to be spent by governments to balance their accounts. The UK in particular favours the latter approach.There are also concerns that the current approach will result in double charging, with banks situated in two or more member states being hit twice or more by different national levies.Additionally, wide variations in the level of taxation could see financial institutions shopping around for the best deal amongst EU states.

The discussion will be a first exchange of views on the subject and the commission is still some way from any legislative proposal, expected to be put on the table in spring next year. The level or percentage of such a levy will only much later be discussed, according to officials.The second major item topping the ministers' agenda on Tuesday and still more controversial is the mutual oversight of each others' spending plans, the so-called European Semester, a six-month period where Brussels and EU finance ministers consider the budget outlines for the upcoming three years.Ministers on Tuesday are hoping to reach agreement on a revised Code of Conduct to make the semester fully operational by 2011. The semester's cycle would start early in the year, with the ministers, the Eurogroup - those states employing the euro currency, and premiers and presidents identifying the common economic challenges for the coming period and then guide each other into making the right spending decisions. The Council of Ministers and the commission will each provide an assessment and guidance to member states in June and July, aiming to complete the process in a window ahead of when most countries make their important budget decisions.

Will Jewish Businessmen Invest in Israel?
by Elad Benari SEPT 8,10

Efforts are always taking place to encourage more business investments in Israel.

One such effort was made last week by Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, who held a closed meeting with 80 Jewish American businessmen in the city of Silistra, Bulgaria, Yediot Aharonot reported earlier this week. During the meeting, Rabbi Pinto asked the businessmen to invest $5 billion in the Israeli economy, with $2 billion in the coming year.Among the businessmen who met with Rabbi Pinto was entrepreneur Jay Schottenstein and one of the owners of the Victoria’s Secret women’s wear retailer.

The rabbi told the businessmen during the meeting: In such days of economic opportunities, we must remember that we, the sons of the Jewish people, must preserve the country, built it and ensure that its economic flourishes. It’s unfortunate that there are so many wealthy Jews in the world who don’t even consider the Israeli economy as an option.Rabbi Pinto is 37 years old and speaks only Hebrew. He comes from a centuries-old rabbinic family from Morocco, and has rabbinic connections on both sides of his family: On his father’s side he is the great-grandson of Rabbi Chaim Pinto, while on his mother's side, he is the grandson of Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira, who is known as the Baba Sali.Rabbi Pinto, who lives and operates in Midtown New York City, is visited by many businessmen, both Israeli and Jewish-American, who consult with him on both business and personal matters. Some of the more well-known visitors he has received include Yitzhak Tshuva, talk-show host Donny Deutsch, real estate mogul Ofer Yardeni, and even former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. He has also been visited by Israeli politicians such as Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman, MK Danny Naveh, and MK Danny Danon.Recently, it was reported that NBA star LeBron James of the Miami Heat consulted with Rabbi Pinto and even paid him a six-figure sum to sit in on a merchandising meeting.

Silistra, the city in which the meeting with the businessmen was held, is the place where renowned Jewish scholar Rabbi Eliezer Papo is buried. Rabbi Pinto visits the grave once a year, as part of an event similar to the pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine, the gravesite of Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav.Recently, it was reported that French businessmen Baron Edouard de Rothschild has decided to move to Israel. Rothschild will live part time in his Tel Aviv home while continuing to maintain his businesses in France. In July 2003, Rothschild was made head of Rothschild & Cie Banque, a Paris based bank. He is currently a 37% majority shareholder in the French newspaper Libération, a left-wing daily French newspaper that was founded in 1973.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Im Tirtzu: Zionist Donors Must Start Thinking Differently
by Gil Ronen SEPT 7,10

In Israeli politics, it has been the year of Im Tirtzu – the media-savvy Zionist students' movement that managed to create a true stir with a February campaign that exposed the New Israel Fund's dastardly doings before the Israeli public.The campaign targeted NIF chair Naomi Chazan and received high-profile news coverage. Im Tirtzu's research focused on the NIF's complicity in the Goldstone Report that attacked the IDF for its Cast Lead Gaza operation. The NIF came under fire in Israel and in Jewish communities worldwide. Used to being ignored by the leftist media and to waging losing battles, Zionist pundits were ecstatic at the new movement's successes.A few months later, Im Tirtzu was back with another report – this time about the overwhelming proportion of radical leftists in Ben Gurion University's Political Science Department. Again, the media was full of the story.In a Rosh HaShanah interview with Arutz Sheva, Ronen Shoval, 29, chairman of the movement, expressed his belief that the movement and others like it could be doing a lot more to save Israel if only Jewish donors begin to think differently. Donors, he said, are used to buying houses from Arabs in Judea and Samaria or eastern Jerusalem, and settling Jews in them. That is important, but they should also be thinking about shaping public consciousness.The question is, he explains, do facts on the ground create public consciousness, or is it the other way around? The Jewish approach he feels, is that the universe was created through words: that is to say, consciousness creates reality.Throughout the history of Zionism, these rival approaches competed with each other and complemented each other. Herzl believed in shaping consciousness and asked the world's powers for a charter to settle in the Land of Israel. The Hovevei Tzion movement, meanwhile, believed in buying another dunam [area of land,ed.] and another goat.

These two great streams collided in the summer of 2005, in the Disengagement. The settlement movement thought that it was creating facts on the ground in Gush Katif – but it turned out that without proper consciousness, one government decision was enough for all of the communities there to be destroyed. It won't help us to buy another house in eastern Jerusalem, and another one after that, if they decide to hand over eastern Jerusalem to the Arabs in the end.The other side understands this but the nationalists continue to think in terms of material, not spirit. That is why we lose touch with the nation of Israel. The nationalists invest in buildings, not books. Do we have one publishing house? One theater? The entire cultural world is controlled by one side. We used to comfort ourselves and say that the dogs bark but the caravan passes,but this no longer works. If we do not wake up – the entire Zionist venture is in danger.We must invest in thinkers, in culture – and not just in yet another outpost and another useless caravan. What is it good for? If the public consciousness is not there, it will be seen as an illegal outpost and torn down. But if the public consciousness is primed, it will be seen as part of the Zionist settlement ethos and a great mitzvah.

A7: Why doesn't the nationalist side have a fund like the NIF?

RS: It is easier to destroy than to build.

A7: What happened to the Knesset subcommittees that were supposed to look into the New Israel Fund after your campaign?

RS: There are several bills that are being prepared. There is a lot of work to be done. The Knesset members tend to work on things that are on the public agenda – otherwise they need to be pressured.

A7: Do you think someone is trying to stonewall you?

RS: I hope and tend to believe that the Knesset members understand the national importance of this matter and are working at full tilt in order to remove the radical anti-Zionist threat facing us.

A7: How does the NIF achieve such control over the Israeli media?

RS: They support the Agenda Center for media, which pumps out the correct positions to journalists. They find jobs for journalists and provide training for them. That is how the PC mechanism is created. In addition, social and legal organizations place issues on the public agenda.As a result of all this, Israel is much less pluralistic than the US. The Americans have both Fox and CNN, they have the Washington Post and the New York Times: the media airs about 80% of the spectrum of public opinion on various subjects. The remaining 20% are considered extreme and illegitimate. In Israel, the media mechanism makes sure that only 20%-30% of the public's views are heard – and everything else is branded as illegitimate. They determine the consensus. The silencing is much more radical.

A7: Some leftist bloggers claimed that all your activists are men, and that women dislike your movement. Is this true?

RS: Not every stupid claim deserves a response. There are many women in Im Tirtzu.

A7: So what is the next step?

RS: There are many interesting surprises in the works.

A7: For Naomi Chazan?

RS: Yes, for her too.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
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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.

Floods leave tens of thousands homeless in Mexico By ANTONIO VILLEGAS and MIGUEL ANGEL HERNANDEZ, Associated Press Writers - SEPT 7,10

VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico – Weeks of torrential rains have unleashed flooding in huge swaths of southern Mexico, forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes.Tens of thousands more are sleeping on their roofs, refusing to abandon their possessions even as the rivers around them rise rapidly.Authorities on Tuesday started releasing 2,000 cubic meters (71,000 cubic feet) of water per second from four damns in the region that have reached capacity. That caused several rivers to overflow.Hipolito Hernandez swiftly hauled many of his belongings onto his roof as the Rio Carrizal jumped its banks and flooded dozens of home in the farming community of Sauces in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.Hernandez, 38, gave some of his possessions to relatives who went to shelters but he stayed put. In 2007, he lost everything when he left his home during flooding that left 1 million homes underwater and killed 33 people.We are waiting to see what happens, we can still withstand this flood, Hernandez said.The flooding has affected all four southernmost Mexican states: Tabasco, Veracruz, Chiapas and Oaxaca. People in the region are accustomed to severe flooding every year, and the government often struggles to persuade residents to leave dangerous zones.In Tabasco, the homes of more than 124,000 people have been severely flooded. More than 187,000 hectares of crops belonging to 20,000 people have been lost.

But only 2,000 people in the state are in shelters.They are refusing to leave their homes and they don't want to go to shelters because they have a culture of living with water, Tabasco Gov. Andres Granier said during a meeting with President Felipe Calderon, who flew over the affected areas Tuesday and walked through some flooded towns.Granier warned Calderon the situation could become even worse than in 2007 as record rainfall is expected.What worries me is that the worst is yet to come for Tabasco, Granier said. The state and these people cannot keep suffering these problems each year, or live in permanent uncertainty.Already, authorities said the region has received twice the amount of rainfall that normally falls during the season, which does not officially end until November.The government has built relief ditches and other infrastructure in the past years to ease the annual flooding in southern Mexico. Calderon acknowledged more needs to be done, but said the flooding would be much worse this year without the government's advances.He pointed to emergency levees made of concrete and dirt erected on the banks of the Grijalva, which has swelled rapidly and threatens to flood the state capital, Villahermosa. A few outlying neighborhoods were severely flooded, however.In neighboring Veracruz state, flooding has forced 200,000 people from their homes over the past weeks, although some have started returning.They evacuated us when the water was up to our waists, but the water had already broke all the doors of our house, said Angelica Martinez Galindo, the mother of a 3-year-old girl who had to flee Tlacotalpan, a colonial town in Veracruz state that UNESCO named a World Heritage site.She said at least 20 men stayed behind in her neighborhood to try to salvage possessions. Clara Luz Montalvo said she resisted leaving her home in El Juchil because her 82-year-old mother didn't want to move. When they finally were forced to flee, they were nearly swept away by floodwaters and had to be rescued by marines on a boat. It was a very serious situation. My mother can hardly walk and I have a sister who is disabled. I don't know what I would have done if it hadn't been for the government, the marines, said Montalvo, waiting her turn at a food line at a shelter in Veracruz city.
Associated Press writer Miguel Angel Hernandez in Veracruz, Mexico contributed to this report.

A common link among fire, floods, food riots: extreme weather
– Tue Sep 7, 6:49 pm ET By JOHN CAREY Special to Yahoo! News

Deadly riots in the streets of Mozambique over sharply higher food prices have left 13 dead. Anger is growing in Egypt and Serbia as well. Panicked Russian shoppers have cleared the shelves of staple grains. And the devastating floods that have left as many as 10 million Pakistanis homeless are also raising concerns about the country's ability to feed itself.A series of isolated disasters? Not at all. The common thread: extreme weather, which is putting pressure on food supplies around the globe.

What's going on?

For most of the summer, Russia was in the grip of an unprecedented heat wave. Fires darkened the skies of Moscow with thick smoke, and the Russian wheat crop withered and burned. Fully a third of the usual Russian harvest of buckwheat -- one of the country's most commonly used grains -- was lost. That has led to shortages of wheat at home in Russia -- and an export ban on Russian wheat.The export cutback has in turn driven up food prices in countries like Mozambique and Egypt, which depend on food imports, sparking anger and riots.Meanwhile, the same weather pattern of high pressure that brought searing heat to Russia diverted moisture in the atmosphere toward Pakistan, causing torrential rains and devastating flooding.

Who is affected?

Mostly, just those people in countries now facing shortages and price spikes. There's no overall shortage of food. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization says that 2010 brought the third-largest harvest of grains on record, leaving global food stocks high.But the shortfall in Russian wheat did push up grain prices. As a result, the government of Mozambique raised the official price of bread by 20%. That touched off the riots, forcing the government to backtrack.In hard-hit Pakistan, prices of food have risen 15%.

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The Food and Agriculture Organization acknowledges that higher prices are causing hardships. But it adds that the situation now is far less dire than it was in 2007-08, when the soaring price of energy caused an even bigger spike in food prices.

Will the United States be affected?

In the short term, there are few concerns outside countries hit by natural disasters or higher prices. Even Russians aren't facing actual shortages of food, just limited supplies of one of their favorite staples -- buckwheat.In fact, the problems have been a boon for American farmers. Exports of farm products nearly hit record levels in 2010, thanks to bountiful harvests and higher prices for wheat, corn, cotton and other crops.

How worried should we be?

Nevertheless, the long-term threat -- the potential impact of climate change on agriculture throughout the globe -- is major. Until recently, scientists were careful to say that any single natural disastrous climate event, such as the Russian drought or Hurricane Katrina, could not be attributed to global warming. No longer. The issue isn't whether these events are natural or caused by climate change, former Energy Department official Joseph J. Romm told Yahoo! News. It's both. You can't separate the two.For instance, a study by Kevin Trenberth -- head of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. -- has shown that Hurricane Katrina dumped more rain on the Gulf Coast than would have happened without climate change. What we can say is that certain events would have been extremely unlikely to have occurred without global warming, and that includes the Russian heat wave and wildfires, and Pakistan, Chinese and Indian floods, Trenberth told Yahoo! News. Even the Russians have become believers in the threat. The Russian government used to doubt the existence of climate change, or argue that it might be beneficial for Russia to get a bit warmer. Now, suggests Romm, they've realized that global warming won't bring a gradual and relatively benign increase in temperatures. Instead, as scientists' climate models have long predicted, the effect will be to intensify extreme events. As Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev told the Russian Security Council this month: Everyone is talking about climate change now. Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions in the past.

How critical could the situation get?

If you think the Russian heat wave or Pakistan floods are bad, wait until the Earth's temperature rises a few more degrees, as scientists' models also predict. We ain't seen nothing yet, warns Romm. I think we can't even imagine future events. So agriculture -- and the world's ability to feed itself -- face huge challenges. We are getting to a point where we are getting more water, more rainy days, but it's more variable, so it leads to droughts and it leads to floods, Sunita Narain, the head of the Center for Science and Environment in India, told AFP during a world conference on water, being held through Saturday in Sweden.That is leading to huge amounts of stress on agriculture and livelihoods.

What can be done to ease the problems?

When it comes to short-term problems -- shortages and high prices -- the key is to ensure that global food stocks get to the countries that most need them, agricultural experts say. The long-term problem is far more complicated. The only real solution, many scientists believe, is to tackle global warming at its root, by reducing emissions from fossil fuels or by stepping up efforts to take carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. John Carey is an environmental writer.

Hermine gives south Texas another tropical lashing By PAUL J. WEBER, Associated Press Writer - SEPT 7,10

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas – Tropical Storm Hermine gave a wet and windy punch to Texas on Tuesday before weakening into a tropical depression, leaving only minor scrapes in the storm-weary Rio Grande Valley, which is proving resilient this hurricane season after taking a third tropical system on the chin.Hermine lost steam after crossing into Texas with tropical storm strength. A peeled-back motel roof in the coastal farming town of Raymondville and scattered power outages were about the worst leftover from the gusty, drenching storm that came and went quickly after creeping up on Texas and Mexico in the warm Gulf waters over the long holiday weekend.I think we're lucky. It could've been worse, said Art Nelson, sizing up the hulking aluminum shed that collapsed on a farming plow at his John Deere store in Raymondville.Mexico didn't get off as easy. Hermine knocked out power for several hours in Matamoros and damaged about 20 homes, whose inhabitants were among 3,500 people who evacuated to shelters.About 1,000 families were still in shelters Tuesday morning. Authorities in Mexico said there were no reports of serious injuries or death, which was welcome news after 12 people in Mexico died in flooding caused by Hurricane Alex earlier this summer.Texas also had no reports of serious injuries, and evacuations orders weren't necessary even in the most low-lying regions. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Tuesday night that the storm had weakened to a tropical depression that was still bringing heavy rain to central Texas.

It was another sigh of relief for the flood-prone Rio Grande Valley, which got lashed by Alex at the start of the summer and soaked by another tropical system in July.So damp is the area that only last week did Hidalgo County finally put away its last water-pumping machine. But much of the 5 inches to a foot of rain from Hermine fell harmlessly in the Gulf, and flooding was limited to only minor nuisances.The storm made landfall early Tuesday in northeastern Mexico with winds of up to 65 mph (100 kph), arriving near the same spot as Alex. By Tuesday night, maximum winds speeds had decreased to about 35 mph (55 kph).But Hermine was expected to cover more of the U.S. than Alex, which swiped Texas in June as a Category 1 storm before plunging southwest and breaking up over Mexico.Forecasters expect Hermine's remnants to spread as far north as Oklahoma and Kansas. Flash flood advisories remained in effect for counties in its path.This is going to be much more of a memorable storm than Alex, National Weather Service meteorologist Joseph Tomaselli said.The Coast Guard said it received multiple reports of vessels in distress late Monday and early Tuesday. Monday evening's incoming tide freed a fishing boat that had run aground in the Brownsville Ship Channel near Port Isabel, but Coast Guard crews and other officials had to rescue 17 crew members and a dog from three other fishing vessels that got stuck near the South Padre Island beach. All were treated for minor injuries, the Coast Guard said Tuesday.In Mexico, authorities had released water from some dams to make room for rain. It added more anxiety in the northeast cattle-ranching region where residents already live under the fear of a bloody turf war between drug cartels. Hermine struck around the same area where 72 migrants were killed two weeks ago in what is believed to be the country's worst drug gang massacre to date.

By Tuesday afternoon, lights were gradually turning back on for about 50,000 people who lost power. Practically all of Raymondville had been in the dark after Hermine blew out signs, snapped utility poles and skinned the roof of the Best Rest Inn motel.Melodie Tamyl and Roy Tamez were in their second-story room when their ceiling began bowing up and down. They opened the door just in time to watch the wood awning flip violently backward.I told (Melodie) that we've got to get out of here right now, said Tamez, 52. The whole roof is about to go.The couple returned Tuesday to find half the roof over their room gone and their bedding soaked and soiled with ceiling tile and mud. They picked through soggy clothes and food, salvaging what they could. Hermine made landfall barely a day after becoming a tropical storm. That left many south Texas residents with little notice, but also gave the storm little time to build up steam. Associated Press Writers Jorde Vargas in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Emilio Lopez in Pachuca, Mexico, and Schuyler Dixon in Dallas contributed to this report.