PROOF 911 WAS A GOVERNMENT SETUP EXPLOSIONS- REVEALED.
Video: 9/11 Firefighters Reveal Huge Explosions Before Towers Collapsed
Secondary explosions caused lobby of World Trade Center to implode
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, October 6, 2010
http://www.prisonplanet.com/video-911-firefighters-reveal-huge-explosions-before-towers-collapsed.html (VIDEOS)
Newly obtained video that was reluctantly released by NIST after a lawsuit by the International Center for 9/11 Studies shows two firefighters on 9/11 discussing how secondary explosions occurred immediately before the collapse of the twin towers, providing damning new evidence that explosive devices were used to bring down the buildings.Debunkers have repeatedly claimed that low-temperature burning jet fuel could weaken steel support columns enough to cause the pancake-style collapse of the twin towers, ignoring the plethora of eyewitness testimony to incendiary devices having caused the implosion of the World Trade Center structure.The new tape is as clear cut as it comes – the firefighters, who were inside the lobby of one of the towers, unequivocally state that secondary explosions which occurred after the planes hit were responsible for causing the towers to collapse.There was an explosion….the third explosion the whole lobby collapsed on us, states the firefighter. Asked was that a secondary explosion, he responds, yes it was ….definitely secondary explosion.Another firefighter then confirms that there were at least three explosions which caused the lobby to collapse.The only way to explain what firefighters described as molten steel, like you’re in a foundary, like lava being witnessed following the collapse of the towers was if powerful additional incendiary devices were used to take down the buildings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCdRA09pztM&feature=player_embedded
The firefighters’ testimony compliments that of William Rodriguez, eyewitness to sub-level explosions that occurred before the impact of the first plane in the north tower and representative for many 9/11 victim’s families.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQk3XXBot9c&feature=player_embedded
Rodriguez’ testimony is also confirmed by Anthony Saltalamacchia, a morning supervisor who managed over a hundred workers in the twin towers. Saltalamacchia was in sub-basement B1 of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane’s impact point at floors 93 to 98.The explosion….at first we believe it came from the mechanical room and then we heard a series of other explosions that sounded up on the above levels of the building, said Saltalamacchia.Saltalamacchia then discusses how a man ran into the office with his skin hanging off. William Rodriguez had previously described the same scenario following basement level explosions and it was also seconded by another eyewitness, Kenneth Johannemann, an employee of ABM janitorial services.As we’re standing there, more explosions were happening, said Saltalamacchia, before he urged Rodriguez and the other workers to leave the building. The group left and initially headed towards the lobby before they realized it too had been partially destroyed, conforming with the eyewitness testimony of the firefighters.Despite Saltalamacchia’s plea to stay out of harm’s way, Rodriguez ran back into the burning building in an attempt to save his colleagues.The amount of explosions I heard from 8:46 to the time we got out was so many – at least ten – it was just like multiple explosions to where I felt there was different grenades, that’s what it sounded like, like different grenades being set off in the building, said Saltalamacchia.It was one major explosion and then there was different explosions throughout that period of time until we got out, he added.Numerous other WTC basement workers, including Felipe David and Salvatore Giambanco, have also gone public with eyewitness testimony concerning massive sub-level explosions that took place before Flight 11 hit the north tower.WTC construction worker Phillip Morelli was headed for level B-4 in Tower One [north tower], four stories below ground, when he was thrown to the floor by a violent explosion that coincided with the plane hitting 100 floors above.15-year WTC worker Marlene Cruz told Peter Jennings in an interview with ABC News that she was also rocked by an explosion in the basement level of the north tower.The 9/11 Commission completely ignored the hundreds of survivors, professionals, first responders, firefighters and police who reported numerous secondary explosions at all levels of the twin towers.
After filing a lawsuit that prompted NIST to release more than 3 terabytes of photographs and videos from their investigation into the collapse of the twin towers and WTC 7 on 9/11, the International Center for 9/11 Studies obtained evidence, in addition to the firefighter tapes, that suggests NIST edited several videos of the collapse of Building 7 in order to hide evidence of a controlled implosion. Building 7 was not hit by a plane and yet it collapsed demolition style late in the afternoon of September 11.The Center filed a FOIA Request with NIST on January 26, 2009, seeking production of all of the photographs and videos collected, reviewed, cited or in any other way used by NIST during its investigation of the World Trade Center building collapses. Following several unsuccessful attempts to get NIST to even acknowledge receipt of the Request, the Center was forced to file a lawsuit on May 28, 2009. Shortly after the lawsuit was filed, the Request was assigned a reference number, and NIST began periodically releasing batches of responsive records.The Center has now begun posting some of those images and videos online, the first batch of which is from an external hard disk drive NIST WTC Investigation Cumulus Video Clips.In one of the clips, the video of which has been in the public domain for years, a loud, low-frequency boom can be heard just before the east penthouse of WTC 7 falls. Once the support columns that held up the penthouse are taken out, the rest of the building falls almost within its own footprint.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrnmbUDeHus&feature=player_embedded
However, in subsequent clips released by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), where the camera is located nearer to the building, the collapse of the penthouse is clearly edited out of the footage.Several clips from the Cumulus database show signs of editing. In the two video clips below, the collapse of the penthouse of World Trade Center 7 is cut out of the video. These videos happen to have been filmed from close to WTC 7, and have a high quality soundtrack that would have picked up explosion sounds from the charges that severed the columns supporting the penthouse, especially the explosion heard in the last video clip presented, comments the International Center for 9/11 Studies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH_Lv_sevwY&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyhMTOdRnRo&feature=player_embedded
In another clip, the entire collapse of the building is edited out, the audio is removed and only restored after the building has fully collapsed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT3ea4AC2K8&feature=player_embedded
The Center also obtained videos of the collapse of the twin towers that had obviously been edited, with sections deliberately removed. “There are many video clips in the Cumulus database that do not show collapse initiation – the only event even purportedly explained in the final report from NIST on the Twin Towers,” states the Center.
Another new video shows Michael Hess yelling for help from the 8th floor window of WTC 7. The clip reinforces the fact that the building had not sustained any substantial damage before its free fall collapse within 7 seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZduP7HTM3cg&feature=player_embedded
As we documented for several years, the collapse of WTC 7 is the smoking gun confirming that the official story behind 9/11 is bogus. The collapse of Building 7 was reported before it happened by several news stations, including BBC and CNN. The International Center for 9/11 Studies is still in the process of reviewing over 300 DVDs along with several external hard disk drives that contain a plethora of unseen photographs and video footage from ground zero. Judging by the small amount of damning footage already released, it’s highly probable that this data will provide a myriad of new contradictions both to the official 9/11 story as well as NIST’s own investigation into the collapse of the three buildings.
Fed Hints It Will Print and Inflate Dollars as Gold Hits New Record
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com October 6, 2010
Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans says the Fed will probably overshoot its informal two percent inflation target in a desperate effort to jump-start the economy and get credit moving again.The Fed will create money ex nihilo — out of nothing — and further devalue the dollar.In the last several months I’ve stared at our unemployment forecast and come to the conclusion that it’s just not coming down nearly as quickly as it should, Evans told the Wall Street Journal. This is a far grimmer forecast than we ought to have,he said, so Evans favors much more accommodation than we’ve put in place.In other words, the Fed will continue its destructive policy of quantitative easing.It will create money ex nihilo — out of nothing — and further devalue the dollar. The Fed will use funny money created out of thin air to purchase government bonds, mortgage-backed securities and corporate bonds. Zombie banks will feed this funny money into the stock market casino.The Fed knows that they can use the stock indices as a ruse to dupe the dopes into thinking all is well while promulgating the belief that the Fed is here to help, writes Barry M. Ferguson. In real terms, the US dollar has lost more than 50% of its value since 2001 while the Dow has remained at the same level of ten years ago.For those not fooled by the Fed and the corporate financial media, the only safe haven is in gold and silver. So long as the Fed continues to destroy the dollar, gold and silver will follow an inverse trend reaction to dollar devaluation, as Ferguson notes.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIzx14AsK2s&feature=player_embedded
Europe steps up pressure over renminbi-Beijing said in June that it would end the renminbi's effective peg with the dollar and allow a gradual appreciation, but the renminbi's rise since that date has been fractional (Photo: EUobserver)
ANDREW WILLIS 05.10.2010 @ 12:44 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Senior European officials have urged China to allow the value of its renminbi currency to appreciate, warning that a weakened European economy will negatively impact on Chinese growth. Eurogroup president Jean-Claude Juncker described talks on Tuesday morning (5 October) with Chinese economic officials including Premier Wen Jiabao as frank and friendly, but added that Beijing must do more to boost domestic consumption.We agreed that China's recent growth performance has been an important factor in overcoming the global financial and economic crisis, said Mr Juncker, whose double-hatted role combines chairing the monthly meetings of euro area finance ministers with his job as prime minister of Luxembourg.We nevertheless want China to rebalance its growth model in order to increase the contribution of domestic consumption to GDP growth,he added.We still think that China's real effective exchange rate remains undervalued.The issue of China's currency has vexed policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic for years, with US lawmakers recently passing a bill that could punish Chinese exporters if fully implemented.Debate over global trade imbalances has also come to the fore since the 2008 financial crisis. Many economists argue that the mix of large national surpluses and deficits was a principle factor behind the global meltdown.
Reacting to this pressure, Beijing announced on 19 June that it would end the renminbi's effective peg with the dollar and allow a gradual appreciation, but the renminbi's rise since that date has been fractional.The potential of the decision has not been fully exploited, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said after Tuesday's talks in which he participated.He welcomed the news however, confirmed by Mr Wen on Tuesday, that China would look to buy Greek sovereign bonds when Athens next turned to the market.Against a backdrop of Chinese domestic opposition from many of its businesses, European policymakers have sought to stress the win-win nature of a rise in the renminbi.A stronger European economy is in the interests of China since the EU is the largest export market of China, European economy commissioner Olli Rehn told journalists after the meeting.If the euro continues to bear a disproportionate burden in the adjustment of global exchange rates the recovery of the euro area's economy might be weakened,he continued. Despite the renewed push from Europe's most influential economic policymakers, a rapid rise in China's currency appears unlikely, with premier Wen indicating as much during his opening speech on Monday at the start of a two-day meeting of European and Asian leaders.We should intensify macroeconomic policy coordination, manage with caution the timing and pace of an exit strategy from economic stimulus and keep the exchange rates of major reserve currencies relatively stable,he said.
EU-China tug-of-war hampers global recovery drive
by Roddy Thomson - OCT 5,10
BRUSSELS (AFP) – Fears of a global currency war land centre-stage Wednesday as Europe and China warm up for crunch IMF talks with a head-to-head summit focused on the yuan which the West says is undervalued.The issue already overshadowed a meeting of 46 European and Asian leaders in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday, but now the European Union finally locks horns with Beijing over its role in shaping the value of China's currency.Orderly, significant and broad-based appreciation of the renminbi (yuan) would promote more balanced growth, said leading eurozone finance minister Jean-Claude Juncker after talks with Chinese premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday, stressing that the yuan remains undervalued.The currency issue was deliberately kicked into Wednesday's tighter agenda as Europe -- like the United States -- seeks to pressure China into relaxing policies deemed protectionist and responsible for skewing global economic recovery, without upsetting the world's post-recession economic superpower. The commercial weight offered by a barrier-free market of half a billion relatively rich consumers gives Europe some clout, even if debt burdens in Greece or Ireland weaken its position in negotiations.Brussels may be helped by the symbolic signature also on Wednesday of a deal to drop barriers to South Korea's auto and other exports -- in a deal sold to Asia as the first in a new generation of trade freeways.Either way, bound up with headaches including how to re-configure the International Monetary Fund, or joined-up policy-making through the Group of 20 leading modern economies, these talks could prove pivotal for relations between the traditional and emerging proprietors of global might.
On the global scale, externally, we need to focus our efforts on the reform of International Monetary Fund and financial regulation, said EU president Herman Van Rompuy late on Tuesday.After two years of profound (economic) crisis the main road has been found, but a lot of critical points still need to be tackled, the Belgian figurehead underlined.A bid to ensure a level playing-field in financial market regulation remains our number one priority, he stressed.The sticking point, with recovery so dependent on who can sell the most to those who have to buy, remains a currency market as reliable as Wild West property speculation.The euro hit fresh eight-month highs on Tuesday, well above 1.38 dollars, undercutting export competitiveness and ensuring tough talking when the annual IMF assembly begins formally in Washington on Friday. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who takes the G20 chair next month, set the tone, calling for a new world monetary order to keep at bay a beggar-thy-neighbour race to the abyss, reminiscent of the 1930s Great Depression.Everyone does as they want, everyone, each to their own, tries to preserve their own sovereignty (and) we are living in the 21st century without a monetary order, he said.Brussels is doing its best, as the free-trade pact with Seoul shows -- it is only being signed after partners persuaded Italy to ditch objections over fears for its iconic auto industry.But faced with decade-long deadlock in world trade negotiations, Europe and the United States must pursue bilateral avenues.Brussels is also negotiating a pact with India, while another deal is in the works with Mercosur, a South American trade bloc that includes Brazil and Argentina.
The EU has also kicked off talks with Malaysia, but it is how it handles China that may define the pace of its recovery -- and its positioning in Sarkozy's fabled new order. More than two years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the IMF says the financial system is still the Achilles' heel of recovery.The richest regions -- Europe, Japan and the United States -- have the most to lose, a report out Tuesday concluded, while emerging markets remain very resilient.The battle has only just begun.
IMF chief warns against using currency as a weapon
-OCT 5,10
WASHINGTON (AFP) – IMF Director General Dominique Strauss-Kahn has urged governments in a newly published interview not to use their currency's exchange rate as a weapon amid tough economic times.There is clearly the idea beginning to circulate that currencies can be used as a policy weapon, Strauss-Kahn told the Financial Times.
Translated into action, such an idea would represent a very serious risk to the global recovery . . . Any such approach would have a negative and very damaging longer-run impact, he warned.Following remarks by Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega about the potential for a currency war, the IMF chief said we have seen reports that some emerging countries whose economies face big capital inflows are saying that maybe it is time to use their currencies to try to gain an advantage, particularly on the trade side.I don?t think that is a good solution.Strauss-Kahn's remarks came ahead of annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington at the weekend.
Chinese leader urges EU to give up more IMF power
ANDREW WILLIS 05.10.2010 @ 09:29 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has hinted that Europe may need to sweeten its offer on reforming the International Monetary Fund before a deal can be agreed next month. The issue was one of several topics to be addressed by Asian and EU leaders (ASEM) meeting in Brussels on Monday (4 October) as part of a two-day session of talks, with an ongoing territorial row between China and Japan adding spice to the atmosphere.The EU last week offered to reduce its number of seats on the board of the IMF. Developing nations have criticised the slow pace of reform at the international lending organisation, whose structure has changed little since its set-up in 1945.European countries currently hold eight of the board's 24 seats, with another chair revolving between European and non-European directors. This has led to a gross over-representation of the region in recent times, even as developing countries increase their share of global GDP.EU finance ministers agreed last Friday to share two of the continent's eight executive-director seats on a rotating basis with emerging nations, but the offer does not appear to have met with China's approval.We need to improve the decision-making process and mechanisms of the international financial institutions,Mr Wen told his Asian and European counterparts in Brussels. The Chinese leader added that there was a need to "increase the representation and voice of developing countries, encourage wider participation and fully accommodate each other's interests and concerns.A South Korean official, whose country is set to host the next G20 leaders' meeting in November where the matter is set to be finalised, welcomed the European offer as an improvement however.I think the fact that Europeans show flexibility and willingness to negotiate is an important advancement, Changyong Rhee, head of the committee preparing the G20 meeting, told journalists.
China-Japan dispute comes to Brussels
With no bilateral meeting currently scheduled between Mr Wen and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, all eyes attentively followed the two individuals to see if they would talk in the margins of the event.But the game of diplomatic tip-toeing did not prevent Mr Kan from holding a short bi-lateral with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, during which he secured the Belgian politician's signature on his recently published book of haiku poetry, a style of Japanese verse famous for its brevity.Different colours,/tongues, towers and gods./I search my way, one of the verses, about Brussels, says.Elsewhere in the sidelines of the summit, Japanese officials were discretely explaining their side of the dispute with China, which centers on a group of islands located to the north-east of Taiwan.Japan says its ownership of the islands dates back to the late 19th century, while Chinese interest dates to the 1970s when exploitation of oil deposits on the East China Sea's continental shelf started.Another thorny issue, the value of China's renminbi currency, is set to be discussed by EU and Chinese officials on Tuesday morning.
Bernanke Tells the Truth: The United States is on the Brink of Financial Disaster EconomicPolicyJournal October 5, 2010
Yesterday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered a speech before the the Annual Meeting of the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council in Providence, Rhode Island. In the speech, he warned about the current state of the government finances. His conclusion, the situation is dire and unsustainable.It is remarkable that mainstream media has given this speech no coverage. I repeat, the central banker of the United States says in his own words:Let me return to the issue of longer-term fiscal sustainability. As I have discussed, projections by the CBO and others show future budget deficits and debts rising indefinitely, and at increasing rates. To be sure, projections are to some degree only hypothetical exercises. Almost by definition, unsustainable trajectories of deficits and debts will never actually transpire, because creditors would never be willing to lend to a country in which the fiscal debt relative to the national income is rising without limit. Herbert Stein, a wise economist, once said, If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.9 One way or the other, fiscal adjustments sufficient to stabilize the federal budget will certainly occur at some point. The only real question is whether these adjustments will take place through a careful and deliberative process that weighs priorities and gives people plenty of time to adjust to changes in government programs or tax policies, or whether the needed fiscal adjustments will be a rapid and painful response to a looming or actual fiscal crisis.This is as close as you are ever going to see a central banker admit that his country’s financial situation is so dire that it could breakup at any time.
Here’s more from Bernanke’s remarkable speech:The recent deep recession and the subsequent slow recovery have created severe budgetary pressures not only for many households and businesses, but for governments as well. Indeed, in the United States, governments at all levels are grappling not only with the near-term effects of economic weakness, but also with the longer-run pressures that will be generated by the need to provide health care and retirement security to an aging population. There is no way around it–meeting these challenges will require policymakers and the public to make some very difficult decisions and to accept some sacrifices. But history makes clear that countries that continually spend beyond their means suffer slower growth in incomes and living standards and are prone to greater economic and financial instability.Now, get this, he warns that it is not only the Federal government that has financial problems, but also states and local governments:
Although state and local governments face significant fiscal challenges, my primary focus today will be the federal budget situation and its economic implications.Does Bernanke see the tsunami hitting or what? Then, he put things in historical perspective:The budgetary position of the federal government has deteriorated substantially during the past two fiscal years, with the budget deficit averaging 9-1/2 percent of national income during that time. For comparison, the deficit averaged 2 percent of national income for the fiscal years 2005 to 2007, prior to the onset of the recession and financial crisis. The recent deterioration was largely the result of a sharp decline in tax revenues brought about by the recession and the subsequent slow recovery, as well as by increases in federal spending needed to alleviate the recession and stabilize the financial system. As a result of these deficits, the accumulated federal debt measured relative to national income has increased to a level not seen since the aftermath of World War II.Then, he explains the deterioration and the problems it will create for the entire economy:For now, the budget deficit has stabilized and, so long as the economy and financial markets continue to recover, it should narrow relative to national income over the next few years. Economic conditions provide little scope for reducing deficits significantly further over the next year or two; indeed, premature fiscal tightening could put the recovery at risk. Over the medium- and long-term, however, the story is quite different. If current policy settings are maintained, and under reasonable assumptions about economic growth, the federal budget will be on an unsustainable path in coming years, with the ratio of federal debt held by the public to national income rising at an increasing pace.2 Moreover, as the national debt grows, so will the associated interest payments, which in turn will lead to further increases in projected deficits. Expectations of large and increasing deficits in the future could inhibit current household and business spending–for example, by reducing confidence in the longer-term prospects for the economy or by increasing uncertainty about future tax burdens and government spending–and thus restrain the recovery. Concerns about the government’s long-run fiscal position may also constrain the flexibility of fiscal policy to respond to current economic conditions.
Then, he tells us how powerful the negative trends are and how the aging population and Obamacare are going to make things worse:Our fiscal challenges are especially daunting because they are mostly the product of powerful underlying trends, not short-term or temporary factors. Two of the most important driving forces are the aging of the U.S. population, the pace of which will intensify over the next couple of decades as the baby-boom generation retires, and rapidly rising health-care costs. As the health-care needs of the aging population increase, federal health-care programs are on track to be by far the biggest single source of fiscal imbalances over the longer term. Indeed, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the ratio of federal spending for health-care programs (principally Medicare and Medicaid) to national income will double over the next 25 years, and continue to rise significantly further after that…he aging of the U.S. population will also strain Social Security, as the number of workers paying taxes into the system rises more slowly than the number of people receiving benefits. This year, there are about five individuals between the ages of 20 and 64 for each person aged 65 and older. By 2030, when most of the baby boomers will have retired, this ratio is projected to decline to around 3, and it may subsequently fall yet further as life expectancies continue to increase. Overall, the projected fiscal pressures associated with Social Security are considerably smaller than the pressures associated with federal health programs, but they still present a significant challenge to policymakers.Then he goes back to warn that the financial mess also exists at the state and local level:The same underlying trends affecting federal finances will also put substantial pressures on state and local budgets, as organizations like yours have helped to highlight. In Rhode Island, as in other states, the retirement of state employees, together with continuing increases in health-care costs, will cause public pension and retiree health-care obligations to become increasingly difficult to meet. Estimates of unfunded pension liabilities for the states as whole span a wide range, but some researchers put the figure as high as $2 trillion at the end of 2009.5 Estimates of states’ liabilities for retiree health benefits are even more uncertain because of the difficulty of projecting medical costs decades into the future. However, one recent estimate suggests that state governments have a collective liability of almost $600 billion for retiree health benefits. These health benefits have usually been handled on a pay-as-you-go basis and therefore could impose a substantial fiscal burden in coming years as large numbers of state workers retire.
Bernanke then breaks the news that the problem is global:It may be scant comfort, but the United States is not alone in facing fiscal challenges. The global recession has dealt a blow to the fiscal positions of most other advanced economies, and, as in the United States, their expenditures for public health care and pensions are expected to rise substantially in the coming decades as their populations age. Indeed, the population of the United States overall is younger than those of a number of European countries as well as Japan.Bernanke then re-emphasises, the damage this will do to the overall economy:Failing to address our unsustainable fiscal situation exposes our country to serious economic costs and risks. In the short run, as I have noted, concerns and uncertainty about exploding future deficits could make households, businesses, and investors more cautious about spending, capital investment, and hiring. In the longer term, a rising level of government debt relative to national income is likely to put upward pressure on interest rates and thus inhibit capital formation, productivity, and economic growth. Larger government deficits increase our reliance on foreign lenders, all else being equal, implying that the share of U.S. national income devoted to paying interest to foreign investors will increase over time. Income paid to foreign investors is not available for domestic consumption or investment. And an increasingly large cost of servicing a growing national debt means that the adjustments, when they come, could be sharp and disruptive. For example, large tax increases that might be imposed to cover the rising interest on the debt would slow potential growth by reducing incentives to work, save, hire, and invest.He then states that we do not know how much time is left before all hell breaks loose:It would be difficult to identify a specific threshold at which federal debt begins to pose more substantial costs and risks to the nation’s economy. Perhaps no bright line exists; the costs and risks may grow more or less continuously as the federal debt rises. What we do know, however, is that the threat to our economy is real and growing, which should be sufficient reason for fiscal policymakers to put in place a credible plan for bringing deficits down to sustainable levels over the medium term.From there,Bernanke goes into a bit of wishful thinking by identifying ways Congress can rein in spending and make the tax system more efficient. Good luck with all of that.
The real important part of Bernanke’s speech is the first half where he warns of the financial crisis just ahead.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
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US call for Nato cyber-strike capacity causes division
VALENTINA POP 05.10.2010 @ 15:46 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Developing a Nato cyber-war capability and French opposition to joint nuclear planning are emerging as the main bones of contention in the debate on a new Nato Strategic Concept, to be adopted next month.The new document is to replace a 10-year-old strategy paper written before the Internet age and before France joined the transatlantic alliance's command structure. The office of Nato secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen drafted the new Strategic Concept and distributed it to the 28 member countries last week. It is to be adopted by consensus at the Nato summit in Lisbon on 19 and 20 November.The Pentagon's push for a Nato active cyberdefence is the most divisive issue so far, EUobserver has learned.
Active cyberdefence is a very sensitive topic. Many experts have brought it up, that in order to have defence, you need some offence as well. I would be very surprised if Nato at 28 will find consensus to include it, a diplomat from one of the Baltic states said.Broader wording outlining cyber-attacks as a growing threat and the need for Nato to be adaptable and flexible in its capacity to react is a likely compromise.Following attacks in 2008 on its classified military network the Pentagon established a new cyber-command, making active cyberdefence one of its policy pillars, US deputy secretary of defence William J. Lynn said on 15 September in Brussels at an event hosted by the Security and Defence Agenda think-tank.The US cyber-command goes beyond the passive Maginot Line mentality of the past, he explained. Passive defence systems are sufficient to meet 80 percent of attacks. But the other 20 percent need active systems, such as sensors that operate at network speed to detect and block intrusions.At the heart of the Pentagon's new cyber policy lies the recognition that military networks cannot be safe unless other critical infrastructures, such as power grids and financial networks, are protected. The US is itself suspected of having created Stuxnet, a computer worm that cane be introduced via USB sticks into industrial plants and used to sabotage operations, including in nuclear facilities. Over 60 percent of reported Stuxnet cases are in Iran.Against this background, Mr Lynn in September called for collective defence - the core principle of the alliance - to be applied to computer networks.The Cold War concepts of shared warning apply in the 21st century to cyber security. Just as our air defences, our missile defences have been linked so too do our cyber defences need to be linked as well,he said.European allies are keen to protect themselves against Estonia-type cyber strikes (which saw bank and government websites paralysed in 2007). But they are showing little appetite for US-model pre-emptive cyber-strikes on hostile countries or organisations.A group of experts chaired by former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright tasked by Mr Rasmussen to do a report on the new Nato strategy was cautious on the subject. Over time, Nato should plan to mount a fully adequate array of cyber defence capabilities, including passive and active elements,the report, published in May, said. It underlined the need for Nato to co-operate better with the EU, as this could be helpful in addressing unconventional threats such as terrorism, cyber-attacks, and energy vulnerabilities.
In a bolder move the report suggested giving Mr Rasmussen or Nato generals pre-delegated authority to respond in emergencies such as a missile or cyber attack. But the idea is unlikely to fly, diplomatic sources said.
French nukes
Another contentious area is that of common nuclear planning - balancing the Washington-led drive for nuclear disarmament while keeping nuclear warheads in Europe as a deterrent to hostile countries.France, which re-joined Nato's military structures in 2009 after staying out for over 40 years, is legally bound by its constitution have exclusive sovereign power over its nuclear arsenal. It has opted out of a Rasmussen-chaired nuclear planning group in the alliance which is looking at drawing down Nato's reliance on atomic weapons.Anything on nuclear policy will have to be agreed with France. There is no consensus over this at the moment, one Nato source told this website.Nato-Russia relations, normally a hot topic between the alliance's older and newer members, have meanwhile slipped into the background of the Strategic Concept discussions. Nato froze relations with Moscow for half a year after the Georgia war in 2008 only to restart them again, even though Russian troops are still stationed in Georgia's separatist regions in violation of a ceasefire agreement. Tbilisi has filed for Nato membership, but the prospect, although confirmed at a Nato summit in 2008, remains distant.There is a sense that nothing will move in the foreseeable future on Georgia,the Nato source said.
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.
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Iran Extends Ties with Lebanon and Egypt
by Elad Benari OCT 6,10
The Islamic Republic of Iran is strengthening its ties with its area neighbors, particularly Lebanon and Egypt.According to a report on Monday in Iranian media, Lebanon’s and Iran’s energy ministers have reached an agreement over oil and gas exploration efforts in Lebanese economic waters, according to which Iran will be involved in the search for gas and oil close to the border with Israel.The two countries will set up a joint project to look for oil and gas in Lebanese economic waters, using Iran’s engineering experience.The cooperation between the two countries was announced after Israel discovered two sources of natural gas on its territory. In January of 2009, Houston-based Noble Energy company announced the discovery of a huge deposit of natural gas under the Mediterranean Sea near Haifa. At the time, it was estimated that the Tamar drilling site held enough gas to allow Israel to be self-sufficient in energy for two decades, but in June it was published that there is likely even more gas on the site than originally thought.A second giant field near the Haifa coast, the Leviathan, was reported in August to have a potential of 4 billion barrels of black gold.Though Lebanon has claimed that both the Leviathan and Tamar fields belong to it, reports from Iran now indicate that Lebanon intends to look for gas in its own waters in the hope of finding reserves, rather than take action over its claims.
Through this project, Iran could deepen its involvement in the region and strengthen Lebanon's dependence on Tehran. Iranian oil minister Masoud Mirkazemi confirmed the reports to the Islamic Republic of Iran News Network and added that a meeting would take place soon among Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon to discuss the possibility of purchasing gas from the Islamic Republic.Meanwhile, it appears as though ties are also warming up between Iran and Egypt. The two countries announced that direct flights between Cairo and Tehran would resume for the first time since 1980. 28 weekly flights would resume between the two capitals, though it is currently not known when this will begin.Iranian media said that the move could be a prelude to the resumption of formal ties between Iran and Egypt.The two countries have been at odds since 1979’s Islamic Revolution in Iran, when Egypt gave asylum to the deposed Shah of Iran.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Livni in Harvard: Conflict with Iran Unsolvable
by Gil Ronen OCT 5,10
Opposition Head MK Tzipi Livni (Kadima) said Tuesday that Iran believes in a religious ideology that makes the conflict with it unresolvable. The latest pronouncements by [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad and the heads of the regime prove that the world must increase the pressure of sanctions on Iran and supplement them with political sanctions against the regime.she went on to say, in a speech at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.The world must stop giving the Iranian leaders pulpits from which to spew their venom, be it in the United Nations or anywhere else,Livni added. As long as Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust and talks about destroying Israel, the world cannot be tolerant and listen to him, and it must cease giving him ammunition for spreading his creed.Livni accused the Israel government of wasting two years in which it did not continue the negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. Now [the Israeli government] must reach the decisions that will save what is left of the negotiations, she said.The Prime Minister knows that Kadima will support him if he makes these decisions and it would be better if he makes them quickly, she warned.The clear Israeli interest is to end the conflict with the Palestinians,she explained. This is not a favor to the president of the United States... This is the time to reach decisions in this matter and time does not work in Israel's favor. Avoiding the decisions hurts Israel's interests and the [resent status quo is dangerous.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Border Police Company, Special Police Stationed in Lod
by Gil Ronen OCT 5,10
After two murders on two consecutive days, a company of Border Police and Yassam special police units have been stationed in the city of Lod.The city suffers greatly from Arab criminal gangs, and 12 people have been murdered there in the past two years. The vast majority of the murders have not been solved by the police, who admit they have poor intelligence within the Arab crime gangs and cannot get anyone to testify against the murderers, even though they know who they are.Lod's mayor, Ilan Harari, sent an urgent letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Monday, in which he demanded that police activity in the city be greatly intensified. He asked that three Border Police companies be stationed there.The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) is to assist the police in collecting the illegal weapons in the city, especially in the Arab sector.Mayor Harari said that police have simply got to solve the problem, and that if the situation continues, we will simply close down the city.
The Minister of Public Security, Yitzchak Aharonovich, said that collection of illegal weapons is a top priority. There are places in Israel where, if you placed a magnet above the community, the entire community would rise and float in the air, he said, paraphrasing a sentence attributed to former IDF Chief of Staff Refael Eitan regarding a certain Arab village.Infiltration of Israel political system, media, courts and police by radical leftist elements in recent years has created a situation in which Arab crime is on the rise. Within the criminal world, too, Arab crime families are reportedly becoming stronger than Jewish crime families.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Ahmadinejad Calls for US Leaders to Be Buried
by Gil Ronen OCT 5,10
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has taken his anti-American rhetoric further than it has gone before, cursing the US leadership Sunday with a call for it to be buried.May the undertaker bury you, your table and your body, which has soiled the world, he said. The Associated Press explained that in Iran, this phrase is reserved for hated enemies.The crass insult was reportedly issued in response to statements from Washington that the military option against Iran is still on the table.Ahmadinejad's audience consisted of military men and clerics in the town of Hashtgerd, near Teheran. They reportedly chuckled at the slur and applauded. The speech was broadcast on both state television and the official English-language Press TV, but AP said that the latter did not include the insult in its simultaneous translation.
Ahmadinejad also questioned who was behind the September 11, 2001 attacks, as he did in his recent United Nations General Assembly speech. He said the attacks gave Washington a pretext for seeking to dominate the Middle East and plunder its oil wealth.Ahmadinejad's curse is reminiscent of the famous phrase We will bury you uttered by the President of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khruschev, at a reception for Western Ambassadors in Moscow on November 18, 1956.The stepped-up rhetoric by Ahmadinejad could be a reflection of Iranian frustration following the Stuxnet virus attack on its nuclear facilities(IsraelNationalNews.com)
IDF Worried by Possible Peace Talk Terror Spike
by Gil Ronen OCT 5,10
Dictionaries define peace as the absence of war or other hostilities, but a senior IDF officer fears that further progress in the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will mean more, not less, attacks against Jews.A senior officer in the Judea and Samaria Brigade told Arutz Sheva Tuesday that if the talks progress there will be problems and a spike in the number of terror attacks can be expected, because of Hamas's desire to derail the talks.Asked if another full-scale terror war (dubbed Intifadah by the Arabs) like the one that was launched in 2000 could occur, the officer replied in the negative.The Palestinians do not have the ability to carry out a serious Intifadah because of the fact that all of the terror groups [in Judea and Samaria] are unarmed, the [Fatah subgroup] Tanzim does not exist and the other organizations do not have the weapons for terror attacks. However, it is clear that progress in the talks will entail problems, and we can expect a rise in the number of lone attacks like the one we experienced in the past month.The senior officer said that the security fence within Judea and Samaria is doing the job it was built to do in a very good way. He said the PA Arabs have developed what he termed a fence awareness and understand that the fence cannot be breached. He said that whereas Arabs freely crossed illegally into smaller Israel before the fence's construction, the number of such infiltrators is now down to three or four a week.This, he said, makes it difficult for the terrorists to export terror into smaller Israel.
Asked about the delays in traffic that often occur at the IDF checkpoints, he explained that these are inevitable because the soldiers have to check vehicles to make sure they are not ferrying anyone illegally.In response to a question about the way the IDF sees the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria, the senior officer said that we see the settlers as a body that has to be protected in any case and by any means.The officer singled out the Arab village of Azun between Kalkilya and Shechem as one of the most problematic in Judea and Samaria. While the level of terrorism there has decreased, the villagers still commit two to three terror attacks every week, he said – mostly rock attacks on motorists.The officer said it was likely that US pressure would eventually force the IDF to stop entering PA cities to chase down terrorists. However, At this point this is not the picture and not the reality, he said.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Germany Welcomes Islam
by Chana Ya'ar OCT 5,10
Germany has welcomed Islam as part of its multi-cultural mosaic in a televised speech delivered Sunday by President Christian Wulff, marking twenty years of reunification after half a century of being divided following the Nazis' defeat by the Allied Forces in World War II.Although Wulff’s position is primarily ceremonial, his words were nevertheless seen as pivotal in soothing increasingly troubled waters.
Christianity doubtless belongs in Germany. Judaism belongs doubtless in Germany. That is our Judeo-Christian history, he told an audience in the northern city of Bremen. But by now, Islam also belongs in Germany.Chancellor Angela Merkel has acknowledged the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in the country, who currently number some four million. Merkel told her Conservative party members last month that new immigrants need to do more to integrate into German society, including learning the language and obeying every single law. The chancellor, whose popularity has plunged since her re-election a year ago, appeared to be reaching out to the more right-wing faction of her Christian Democrats (CDU) party, which has complained about her moving the group towards the political center in recent years.Clearly faced with trying to walk a political tightrope, Merkel pointed out following racist remarks by the board member of a bank last summer that mosques will be a somewhat larger part of our cityscape than before. She added, however, that police should be able to enter Muslim neighborhoods without fear.Thilo Sarrazin, a board member of the Bundesbank, the country’s central bank, was forced to resign after writing a best-selling book saying the nation’s Muslim immigrants were taking advantage of the welfare system, refusing to integrate and lowering Germany’s intelligence.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
IHH Plans New Int'l Flotilla to Break Gaza Blockade
by Chana Ya'ar OCT 5,10
The Turkish-based IHH group that sent terror activists on a flotilla ship in May to clash with IDF soldiers, hoping to break Israel's blockade of Gaza, now plans to launch a second attempt to coincide with the anniversary of the Cast Lead counter-terrorism war.According to a statement by the group posted on the Internet earlier this week, The convoy will set off in New Delhi, capital of India, on December 2 … [and] aims to reach Gaza on December 27, the anniversary of the Gaza war.The group added that some 500 activists from 17 Asian countries are launching a new movement for an end to Israeli seiege (sic) on occupied land. The slogan for the flotilla will be the peoples of Asia are side by side with the Palestinian people.Activists from India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, the Palestinian Authority, Jordan and Lebanon are expected to participate, according to the statement.Trucks and school buses allegedly bearing aid will pass through India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan before sailing – but will travel to Syria by land before attempting to ship out to Gaza.The IHH organization said it plans to host the flotilla group at a large public gathering when it arrives in Turkey.
IHH Links to Terror; Turkish Leader Linked to IHH?
The IHH-sponsored terror activists who clashed on a flotilla vessel with Israeli Navy commandos overnight May 30-31 were warmly received upon their return by Turkish government officials, according to a report published in July in The New York Times. Nine of the terrorists were killed in the clash when they attacked IDF soldiers who boarded the vessel to redirect it to Ashdod port, leading to international calls for a United Nations investigation of the incident.The mission to Gaza served both the IHH and the government by making [them] both heroes at home and in the Arab world, the Times report quoted Ercan Citilioglu, a terrorism expert at Bahcesehir University in Istanbul. Moreover, despite IHH denials, journalist Tyler Hicks found that 21 people on the group’s board of the directors currently have or had in the past close links with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Justice & Development party.Germany, meanwhile, has outlawed the IHH group, noting its ties to the Hamas terrorist organization. Six Italian Members of Parliament have submitted a proposal to ban the group as well. The MPs pointed out that IHH is a member of the Union of Good,a Saudi Arabia-based umbrella group for Islamic organizations affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. The Union of Good funnels money to Hamas and has been banned by Israel and is listed in the United States as a supporter of terrorism.(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.
Massive floods kill 26 in Vietnam; 9 missing
OCT 6,10
HANOI, Vietnam – Helicopters dropped food aid Wednesday to people in villages cut off by high water as the death toll from flooding this week in central Vietnam rose to 26, with nine people missing, disaster officials said.In the worst-hit province of Quang Binh, 11 people were dead while authorities searched for five sailors from a sunken barge, disaster official Nguyen Ngoc Giai said.Giai said two helicopters dropped food and water to several villages still cut off by floodwaters while rescuers rushed food aid to other villages over land.In other central provinces, seven people were reported dead and one missing in Ha Tinh province, five dead and three missing in Nghe An and three dead in Quang Tri, disaster officials there said.
Light rains were reported in the region Wednesday and floodwaters began receding slowly, officials said. Forecasters said a tropical depression was expected to bring rains to the region in the coming days, but they were unlikely to cause major floods.
Rail service in Quang Binh province has been disrupted since Tuesday and many parts of the track remain under water, the Vietnam Railway Corp. said.
Storms swamp Reno and Phoenix, drop snow on Sierra
– Tue Oct 5, 8:08 pm ET
RENO, Nev. – An early winter storm that chased record heat out of northern Nevada has swamped Reno with record-setting rain and dropped enough snow at the top of the Sierra to close a mountain highway pass near Lake Tahoe.A series of thunderstorms also rumbled through Arizona, bringing high winds and heavy rains that downed power lines and damaged homes in the Phoenix area. The storms also flooded freeways and underpasses and disrupted air travel at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.In Nevada, the National Weather Service extended a winter weather advisory through late Tuesday afternoon for Reno, Tahoe and Carson City. Temperatures were in the upper 40s in Reno at midday Tuesday after setting record highs in the mid-90s a week ago.
More than an inch of rain (1.09) fell at Reno-Tahoe International Airport on Monday, breaking the old record of 0.23 set in 1994. Snow forced the closure of California Highway 89 at Monitor Pass south of Tahoe Tuesday.In the Phoenix area, a microburst downed 19 power poles, at least three of which landed on homes, Mesa fire Capt. Forrest Smith said. In all, 38 homes were damaged by the storm, 12 severely, and about 100 people were displaced, Smith said.Officials at Sky Harbor said incoming and departing flights were halted for nearly an hour. More than a dozen flights were diverted to other airports, and some had yet to make it into Phoenix several hours after the storm rolled through.By the time the airport was reopened for takeoffs, an estimated 50 jetliners were lined up on taxiways waiting to leave.The storms also flooded roads and dropped half-inch-size hail in parts of Phoenix. The Arizona Department of Transportation said flooding caused major backups on Interstate 10 and U.S. 60.A severe weather watch remains in effect until 7 p.m. for central Arizona.
Concerns about rough weather delayed the America's Challenge gas balloon race in Albuquerque, N.M., which initially was scheduled for Tuesday. The race is now slated to lift off Thursday night.
Flash floods in eastern Indonesia kill at least 56 By LAODE MURSIDIN, Associated Press Writer – Tue Oct 5, 9:13 am ET
TELUK WONDAMA, Indonesia – Heavy rain unleashed flash floods and mudslides, killing at least 56 people in a remote corner of Indonesia that rescuers were struggling to reach, officials and witnesses said Tuesday.With dozens still missing, residents in West Papua province's hillside village of Wasior were combing the mud in search of survivors, some with their bare hands. Hundreds of houses were destroyed — at least 30 of them completely flattened.I heard a roar and suddenly the river broke its banks, said Ira Wanoni, describing the scariest deluge, which occurred early Monday. Water mixed with rocks, mud and logs gushed out. ... Many people didn't have time to save themselves.With roads underwater and several bridges destroyed, rescue workers were having a hard time reaching the area, which has also been hit by power blackouts and downed telephone lines.Navy ships carrying soldiers and police were on the way, as were several airplanes loaded down with tents, medical supplies and food.
Syamsul Maarif, who heads the National Disaster Management Agency, said the death toll had reached 56 by late Tuesday.Some of the more than 60 people injured — most with broken bones — had to be evacuated to by helicopter.With so many houses damaged, together with two schools, two hospitals and a hotel, hundreds of people were fleeing the area.Landslides and flooding kill dozens of people every year in the vast tropical archipelago of Indonesia, which has more than 17,000 islands.
Associated Press Writer Niniek Karmini contributed to this report from Jakarta.
Heavy rains, winds, across Caribbean
– Tue Oct 5, 3:12 pm ET
ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands – Schools and government offices in the British Virgin Islands are closed due to heavy rains from a cluster of thunderstorms that threaten to form a tropical depression.A government statement warns of possible flash floods. The system is traveling northwest and could also bring flooding to the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.A separate system in the eastern Caribbean toppled power lines, destroyed shacks and flooded businesses Monday.High winds stripped roofs from several homes in Trinidad and in Barbados, where authorities said a police station was flooded and five patrol cars were damaged.Trinidad police said Tuesday that the storm uprooted a massive silk cotton tree estimated to be 200 years old.
Hungary sludge flood called ecological disaster By BELA SZANDELSZKY and PABLO GORONDI, Associated Press Writers – Tue Oct 5, 6:10 pm ET
KOLONTAR, Hungary – A lethal torrent of toxic red sludge from a metal refinery engulfed towns in Hungary, burning villagers through their clothes and threatening an ecological disaster Tuesday as it swept toward the Danube River.The flood of caustic red mud triggered a state of emergency declaration by Hungarian officials. At least four people were killed, six were missing and 120 injured, many with burns.
Hundreds were evacuated in the aftermath of the disaster Monday, when a gigantic sludge reservoir burst its banks at an alumina plant in Ajka, a town 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Budapest, the capital. The torrent of sludge inundated homes, swept cars off roads and damaged bridges.Named for its bright red color, the material is a waste product in aluminum production that contains heavy metals and is toxic if ingested.In Kolontar, the town closest to the plant, Erzsebet Veingartner was in her kitchen when the 12-foot-high wave of red slurry hit, sweeping away everything in its path.I looked outside and all I saw was the stream swelling like a huge wave, the 61-year-old widow said Tuesday as she surveyed her backyard, still under 6 feet of noxious muck.I lost all my chickens, my ducks, my Rottweiler, and my potato patch. My late husband's tools and machinery were in the shed and it's all gone, sobbed the woman, who gets by on a $350 monthly pension. I have a winter's worth of firewood in the basement and it's all useless now.Emergency workers wearing masks and chemical protection gear rushed to pour 1,000 tons of plaster into the Marcal River in an attempt to bind the sludge and keep it from flowing on to the Danube some 45 miles away. Nearby, desperate villagers waded through the toxic mud trying to salvage possessions with little more than rubber gloves as protection.
The 1,775-mile-long Danube passes through some of the continent's most pristine vistas from its origins as a Black Forest spring in Germany to its end point as a majestic stretch of water emptying into the Black Sea.Now a murky green — not blue as immortalized in the Strauss waltz — the river flows through four former communist nations. One of the continent's greatest treasuries of wildlife, it has been the focus of a multibillion dollar post-communist cleanup. Cormorants, swans and other birds are now common sights on the river.Still, high-risk industries such as Hungary's Ajkai Timfoldgyar alumina plant are still producing waste near some of its tributaries, posing a threat to the waterway.By Tuesday, about 35.3 million cubic feet of sludge had poured from the reservoir, flooding a 16 square mile area, Environmental Affairs State Secretary Zoltan Illes told the state news wire MTI. He called the spill an ecological catastrophe.Dozens of villagers were burned when the caustic material seeped through their clothing. Two women, a young man and a 3-year-old child were killed, and health officials said two of the injured were in critical condition.Because chemical burns can take days to emerge, seemingly superficial injuries can turn deadly as they penetrate deeper tissue, Dr. Peter Jakabos of Gyor Hospital told state TV.In nearby Devecser, the sea of muck in Tunde Erdelyi's house was 5 feet high Tuesday and rescue workers had to use an ax to cut through her living room door to let it flow out. Her car had been swept into the garden and her husband's van straddled a fence.
When I heard the rumble of the flood, all the time I had was to jump out the window and run to higher ground, she said tearfully, adding that she was grateful the family's pet rabbit and cat were safe.Her husband, Robert Kis, said his uncle was flown by helicopter to Budapest after the sludge burned him to the bone.Firefighters and soldiers wearing masks, rubber boots and other protective gear waded through the stricken area Tuesday, flushing away the sludge with hoses, aided by dozens of bulldozers, their loaders scraping the polluted ground. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban acknowledged that authorities were caught off guard by the disaster, telling reporters the alumina plant and reservoir had been inspected two weeks earlier and no irregularities had been found. Red sludge is a byproduct of the refining of bauxite into alumina, the basic material for manufacturing aluminum. Representatives from industry organizations in the U.S. and London could not explain why the Hungarian victims were burned by the material, saying if it is properly treated it is not hazardous.It is common to store treated sludge in ponds where the water eventually evaporates, leaving behind a dried red clay-like soil, the officials said.However, Hungarian environmentalist Gergely Simon said the sludge involved in the disaster had been accumulating in the reservoir for decades and was extremely alkaline, with a pH value of about 13 — nearly equivalent to lye — and that is what caused the burns.MAL Rt., the Hungarian Aluminum Production and Trade Company that owns the Ajka plant, said that according to European Union standards, red sludge is not considered hazardous waste.The company also denied that it should have taken more precautions to shore up the reservoir, a huge structure more than 1,000 feet long and 500 yards wide, and high enough to dwarf trees that survived the torrent.Clearly angered by the company's suggestions that the substance was not hazardous, Interior Minister Sandor Pinter, snapped: They should take a swim in it and then they'll see.This week's spill threatened to eclipse the environmental damage caused 10 years ago, when huge amounts of cyanide poured from a gold mine reservoir in a Romanian town near the Hungarian border into the Danube and four smaller rivers, destroying plant and animal life. Romania, what was then Yugoslavia and Ukraine also were affected.Gorondi reported from Budapest. Associated Press Writer George Jahn in Vienna and Business Writer Jon Fahey contributed to this report.(This version CORRECTS New approach. Corrects spelling of Kolontar. AP Video.)
Wall Street soars to near 5-month high on stimulus hopes By Leah Schnurr – Tue Oct 5, 4:54 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Stocks rallied to nearly a five-month high on Tuesday on growing conviction that central banks will do even more to bolster struggling economies worldwide.The Bank of Japan lit the fuse overnight when it unexpectedly cut rates closer to zero and said it would pour money into the markets through asset purchases. This move came as markets increasingly believe the U.S. Federal Reserve will stimulate the world's largest economy in a similar fashion.The thinking today is that the printing of money is going to take place, said Bucky Hellwig, senior vice president at BB&T Wealth Management in Birmingham, Alabama.The short-term impact of that is to drive asset prices higher. We've seen it almost across the board in commodities.The likelihood of quantitative easing in the United States hit the greenback and lifted commodity prices, while resource stocks drove the S&P 500 through the 1,150 resistance level.Crude oil hit a five-month peak near $83 a barrel and gold hit another record high at $1,341.20 an ounce. The materials sector (.GSPM) led the S&P 500, gaining 2.8 percent, with mining company Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX.N) jumping 4.6 percent to $91.21.Growing expectations of another round of quantitative easing from the Fed have fueled enthusiasm for equities of late. A top Fed official said in an interview published on Tuesday that the central bank should do much more monetary easing to spur a sluggish economic recovery.If the 1,150 level holds, the next resistance level for the S&P 500 is seen around 1,170 to 1,175.It started off being a round number and now it becomes more significant, said Frank Cappelleri, technical market analyst and trader at Instinet in New York.Over the past few months, the market has seemed to respect support and resistance more than before. So when one of those levels is taken out, it seems to hold more significance than it has in the past.The Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) gained 193.45 points, or 1.80 percent, to 10,944.72. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (.SPX) rose 23.72 points, or 2.09 percent, to 1,160.75. The Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC) jumped 55.31 points, or 2.36 percent, to 2,399.83.
FOLLOW THE RISING SUN
The Bank of Japan set the positive tone early on after it cut its overnight rate target to virtually zero and pledged to buy 5 trillion yen ($60 billion) worth of assets in a fresh dose of economic stimulus.Additionally, Australia's central bank left interest rates steady for a fifth month, thwarting expectations of a hike.Wall Street added to gains after the Institute for Supply Management's index showed the pace of growth in the U.S. services sector accelerated more quickly than forecast in September, while hiring also picked up.Industrial shares also ranked among the day's winners, with Dow components Boeing Co (BA.N) up 3.4 percent at $68.60, and Caterpillar Inc (CAT.N) climbing 2.8 percent to $79.40.Elsewhere, Walgreen Co (WAG.N) gained 2.6 percent to $33.98 after the drugstore chain posted an unexpected increase in September same-store sales.About 8.77 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq, off from last year's estimated daily average of 9.65 billion. Advancing stocks outnumbered declining ones on both the NYSE and the Nasdaq by a ratio of slightly more than 4 to 1.(Reporting by Leah Schnurr; Editing by Jan Paschal)
Soros blames Germany for Europe deflation spiral By Walter Brandimarte – Tue Oct 5, 3:33 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Billionaire investor George Soros blamed Germany for leading the implementation of austerity measures that will throw the euro zone into a deflation spiral.Additional fiscal stimulus --and not fiscal discipline-- is the way out of the crisis for both Europe and the United States, Soros said in a speech at Columbia University on Tuesday.Deficit reduction by a creditor country such as Germany is in direct contradiction of the lessons learnt from the Great Depression of the 1930s. It is liable to push Europe into a period of prolonged stagnation or worse,Soros said.Germany is unlikely to change its ways, however, because its economy is doing well and because the difficulties of other countries can be blamed on structural rigidities, Soros said.German Chancellor Angela Merkel also gained the upper hand in a recent G20 meeting where she joined forces with Canada and newly elected Conservative British Prime Minister David Cameron to put pressure on other countries to adopt austerity measures, Soros noted.As a result, President Barack Obama yielded to the majority and agreed to cut the U.S. budget deficit by half by 2013.This may be the right policy but it comes at the wrong time, Soros said.Soros doesn't think Obama should extend the tax cuts pushed by his predecessor George W. Bush. Instead, he says, the government should direct the extra money coming from higher taxes into fiscal measures to stimulate investment, not consumption.(Editing by Kenneth Barry)
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).
Euro terror alert spotlights voiceprint technology By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Writer – Tue Oct 5, 6:47 pm ET
LONDON – Did their voices betray them? The discovery of an alleged terror plot against Europe owes at least some of its success to voiceprint technology that allows law enforcement to electronically match a voice to its owner.The technique — which some compare to fingerprinting — can be a powerful anti-terror tool, officials increasingly believe. Law enforcement agencies are already considering how a voice database could help thwart future plots.The reported plot against European cities, in which suspects allegedly spoke of a Mumbai-style shooting spree, has triggered travel warnings and refocused attention on al-Qaida activities on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, where several of the voices were recorded.The British eavesdropping agency GCHQ deployed voice identification software to help uncover the plot that officials say has targeted Germany, Britain and France — with famed sites such as Notre Dame Cathedral and the Eiffel Tower under close surveillance.Advances in these types of technology have been key in thwarting plots and catching suspects, a British government official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of his work.Despite progress made in quashing the plot, officials still speak of an ongoing threat.Police in southern France on Tuesday arrested 12 suspects in sweeps against suspected Islamic militant networks, including three men linked to a network recruiting fighters for Afghanistan.In one of the cases, nine suspected Islamic militants were detained in southeastern Marseille and its suburbs, and authorities turned up at least one automatic rifle and a pump gun, the officials said.In Tuesday's other roundup, two men were arrested in Marseille and another in southwestern Bordeaux on suspected ties to a Frenchman arrested in Naples, Italy, last month accused of links to an Afghan recruiting ring.
Officials in Germany were tightlipped Tuesday on details of a U.S. missile strike in Pakistan's rugged mountain border area where Pakistani officials said eight German militants were killed.U.S. officials believe a cell of Germans and Britons was at the heart of the Europe terror plot. Germany's ARD public television cited unidentified sources Tuesday as saying four of the Germans killed in the missile attack were of Turkish descent.Developers of voice biometric technology say it can be more useful than traditional fingerprint analysis in fighting terror.You have potential for there to be a larger database for criminals' voices than their fingerprints. What are the chances that you'll get a foreign terrorist's fingerprint versus a foreign terror suspect's voiceprint? said Germano Di Mambro, who runs Wellesley, Massachusetts-based Porticus Technology Inc.Supporters point to several other high-profile successes in voiceprinting. Colombian drug kingpin Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia, who used plastic surgery and multiple aliases to dodge authorities, was arrested in 2007 after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency matched his voice to a tape recording previously made by Colombian authorities.
But academics in the field of speech processing have offered caution.
In a 2003 paper presented to a conference in Geneva, several experts warned that there was no scientific way of identifying a person's voice with absolute certainty.
Frederic Bimbot, one of the paper's authors, said the term voiceprinting was a misnomer because it suggested that the technique was as reliable as fingerprinting.
This is absolutely not the case, his paper said, noting that, unlike a persons' prints, voices are highly variable — changing according to age, health, and emotional state. When contacted through e-mail late Monday, he said his opinion had not changed. Voices can also be altered voluntarily, he said, adding that, at present the technology was simply not mature enough to enable definite conclusions of any kind.Whatever its reliability, voice biometrics have drawn considerable interest from governments around the world.Only a month after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, the Pentagon identified voiceprints as one of the dozens of priority areas in research and development, and it has been used in the field since the invasion of Iraq, according to former U.S. officials, who spoke condition of anonymity to describe classified technology.Interpol is also interested in voice biometrics, the head of its fingerprint unit told the AP.Mark Branchflower, head of Interpol's fingerprint unit, said voice samples could be stored and shared with Interpol's 188 member countries via its secure global communications network. The private sector has already embraced the technology, with U.S. probation officers using it to monitor offenders, and Canadian call centers using it to identify customers. Israel's largest bank, Bank Leumi, says it has been using voice biometrics for the past decade to deter fraud and boost customer safety.The technology has strong potential for streamlining intelligence operations, experts say.U.S. and British intelligence run an international eavesdropping program that gathers huge amounts of information. So big is the overload that the National Security Agency is building a massive storage center in Utah to handle the mountains of data.Almog Aley-Raz, whose Israel-based company PerSay Ltd. supplies governments and businesses around the world, said that using voice biometrics could allow officials to scan a large number of phone conversations for a several suspects' voices, greatly streamlining intelligence work.An entry-level server enables you to run 100 streams of audio against maybe 100 voiceprints, he said, noting that in some cases dozens or even hundreds of servers could be run back-to-back to comb through intercepted calls. Aley-Raz accepted that the technology had its flaws — it is vulnerable to background noise and poor audio quality, for example, and can become confused when people start talking over one another. It's just another tool, he said — but one that can point terror-hunters in the right direction. Associated Press Writers Paisley Dodds in London, Frank Bajak in Bogota, Colombia, Tia Goldenberg in Jerusalem and Melissa Eddy in Berlin contributed to this report.
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.
Israel PM convenes inner forum ahead of key Arab summit
by Steve Weizman – Tue Oct 5, 1:20 pm ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday convened ministers in his inner circle but his office denied widespread press reports that they debated extending the West Bank settlement freeze.Israeli media said the meeting was to focus on the issue of a 60-day extension of the settlement freeze in exchange for a US deal offering security and other guarantees, details of which were leaked by a US analyst last week.Army radio had said Netanyahu was to discuss the reported US proposal in a bid to win over hardline opponents within the group of seven ministers, which includes leaders of the parties in his largely right-wing coalition.
Netanyahu is looking for a way out, the radio's political commentator said. On one hand, he is against a renewal of the freeze because he doesn't want to give in to Palestinian demands, but on the other hand, he also wants to avoid a direct confrontation with the US administration.Asked for details about Tuesday's talks, Netanyahu's office issued a statement saying ministers had discussed global hostility toward Israel after its troops stormed a Gaza-bound aid boat that was trying to run the Israeli blockade in May, killing nine Turkish activists.Contrary to various media reports ... the Forum of Seven did not hold a debate on the issue of efforts to allow the continuation of peace talks, it said.It said ministers heard reports on the work of a United Nations inquiry into the maritime incident and Israel's measures to respond to what the statement called a campaign of delegitimisation aimed at preventing the state of Israel from defending itself.
Netanyahu was on Wednesday to convene his 15-member security cabinet, a government official said, but he refused to disclose the agenda.The Yediot Aharonot daily published a poll of ministers on Monday suggesting that four of the seven members of Netanyahu's inner circle oppose a reimposition of the freeze, as do eight of the 15 security cabinet ministers.Netanyahu had been expected to use both forums to try to achieve some kind of compromise over the settlements ahead of a key Arab summit in Libya later this week at which the Palestinians were expected to formalise a decision to bolt the peace talks.Netanyahu will try to persuade the ministers to accept the guarantees the American administration has offered Israel in exchange for extending the construction freeze, Haaretz newspaper said.The prime minister is interested in passing a decision on the matter before an Arab League committee meets in Libya on Friday to deliver its verdict on whether peace negotiations should continue, it added.Direct peace talks with the Palestinians, begun just a month ago, face collapse over Israel's refusal to renew the freeze, which expired on September 26.Renewing the ban on building new settler homes in the occupied West Bank appears to be key to salvaging peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, who say they will walk out if construction continues.Fearing that Netanyahu and his ministers could waver, settler leaders on Tuesday appealed to them to stand firm.I hope and pray that the government will not capitulate and the ministers honour their promises that the freeze will come to an end after 10 months, Moshe Rosenbaum, head of the Beit El settlement council, told the Ynet news site.The Palestinian leadership has urged president Mahmud Abbas to turn his back on the negotiations if Israel does not renew the freeze. Abbas will look for backing from Arab foreign ministers for such a move when he meets them in Libya on Friday.
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REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
Lead poisoning kills 400 children in Nigeria: MSF by Aminu Abubakar – Tue Oct 5, 12:05 pm ET
KANO, Nigeria (AFP) – Lead poisoning has killed more than 400 children under the age of five as a result of contamination from illegal gold extraction in northern Nigeria, an international aid agency said on Tuesday.The children died over the last six months in several villages in Zamfara state, where lead-rich run-off from illegal gold mining has entered the soil and water supply, said Medecines Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders - MSF).Based on the record of fatalities from lead poisoning, more than 400 children have died in the last six months, said El-Shafii Muhammad Ahmad, MSF project director in Zamfara.But we in MSF believe the figure is much more than that, he told AFP by telephone.Preliminary findings by UN experts on the contamination in Zamfara state, which were released on Tuesday, said that growing amounts of children are dying from lead poisoning.Elisabeth Byrs, a spokeswoman for the UN office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told AFP in Geneva that more than 3,000 children lived in seven affected villages in an area of high-intensity wildcat gold mining.Byrs said many parents were afraid to come forward when their children fell ill, or mistook symptoms including convulsions with malaria.The pollution is far from over in these areas, we have looked at five villages, Byrs told journalists following the release of a joint OCHA-United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) report into the poisoning.Women and children often participated in the makeshift processing of lead-rich ore to extract the gold, and crushed rock often ended up being taken into homes, MSF said. Residue was discarded haphazardly in the open, exposing children to inhalation or ingestion of contaminants.
The lead pollution and intoxication crisis in Zamfara State is far from over. In fact, we have only seen the tip of iceberg, the UN report said.However, the Nigerian government's chief epidemiologist disputed the MSF figures.The MSF figure on the death toll is not true, said Henry Akpan, who declined to provide a government toll, adding that there had not been any new deaths in the past weeks.We now have good treatment for children, pregnant women and those affected, he said.But MSF's Ahmad said even the 400 deaths is an under-estimation because many lead-related deaths are never reported and in many cases, these communities attribute them to other factors or deny them altogether.Local communities mainly concealed or denied the fatalities and illnesses from lead poisoning for fear that authorities will ban their mining activities, he added.Illicit gold mining is more lucrative than agriculture for the impoverished farming communities.The UN report, which follows a fact-finding visit to the region, said lead poisoning was spreading in mining communities in northwestern Zamfara.The list of polluted villages continues to grow, it said, adding that there were signs of resumed mining activities in Dareta, one of two villages decontaminated by a US-based environmental firm. The study focused on ground water pollution in the affected areas of the state and found highly fluctuating concentrations of lead in samples after a survey of five of the villages. Contamination levels of up to 10 times above maximum standards were recorded in water wells in two villages.The concentrations of lead in ponds and rivers are often not meeting the drinking water standards for lead, the report added.Symptoms of lead poisoning normally build up over long periods as the heavy metal accumulates in the human body, producing abdominal pain, nervous disorders affecting growth and ultimately leading to kidney failure.Children, especially fast growing under five year-olds, are most at risk.
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