GREECE WELCOMES FRESH IMF AIDE

THIS IS ISRAEL VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-QYpOPjDnA
911 EPISODE WITH JESSE VENTURA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vyBYmv3bwY&feature=player_embedded
SUNS SHOW OF JONES-RAND PAUL-BOB BARR-JOSEPH MARCOLA
http://rss.nfowars.net/20101219_Sun_Alex.mp3

HERES THE HEADLINE I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR.BIDEN WANTS ASSANGES HEAD FOR PUTTING OUT TRUTHFUL DOCUMENTS FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY.IN THIS WAY THE NWO NUTCASES WILL DEMAND STRICT CONTROL OF THE INTERNET TO WATCH THESE SO CALLED TERRORISTS FROM REVEALING TRUTH TO THE WORLD.THIS IS A CONTROL FREAK ACT,NOT FREE SPEECH ACT.

US seeks legal pursuit of hi-tech terrorist Assange: Biden
DEC 19,10

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US vice president Joe Biden on Sunday blasted Julian Assange as a dangerous hi-tech terrorist and said Washington was exploring a legal pursuit of the WikiLeaks founder.Biden made the comments as Assange spent his third full day under mansion arrest at a friend's house in eastern England while he fights extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations of sex crimes.The Australian has enraged the United States by obtaining a cache of some 250,000 US diplomatic cables and slowly releasing the documents through his whistleblowing website, often causing huge embarrassment in Washington.Assange voiced fears last week that the US would try to extradite him on charges related to the leaked cables, and Biden said the US Justice Department was examining how to take legal action against Assange.We're looking at that right now, the vice president told NBC's Sunday talk show Meet the Press, without elaborating on just how the administration could act against the WikiLeaks chief.I'm not going to comment on that process.When asked whether he thought Assange was a hi-tech terrorist or a whistleblower akin to those who released the Pentagon Papers -- a series of top-secret documents revealing US military policy in Vietnam -- Biden said: I would argue that it's closer to being hi-tech terrorist.

As he savoured his first day of freedom Friday after a British court released him on bail, Assange said his lawyers believed a secret US grand jury investigation had been started into his role in the diplomatic cable leak.Media reports suggest that US prosecutors are trying to build a case against him on the grounds that he encouraged a US soldier, Bradley Manning, to steal US cables from a government computer and pass them to WikiLeaks.

Assange has denied knowing Manning.

A report by congressional researchers said the Espionage Act and other US laws could be used to prosecute Assange, but there is no known precedent for prosecuting publishers in such a case.Assange is staying at Ellingham Hall, the mansion in eastern England of journalist friend Vaughan Smith, as part of the conditions of bail, which he was granted by London's High Court on Thursday.He must also report daily to a nearby police station and wear an electronic tag.On Saturday, WikiLeaks was dealt another blow when Bank of America, the largest US bank, became the latest institution to halt financial transactions for the site after MasterCard, PayPal, Visa Europe and others.The bank said its decision was based upon our reasonable belief that WikiLeaks may be engaged in activities that are, among other things, inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments.But Assange lashed out at the move, telling AFP it was a new type of business McCarthyism in the US.The term was coined to describe the anti-communist pursuits of former US senator Joseph McCarthy from the late 1940s to the 1950s.New information about the allegations Assange faces in Sweden also emerged at the weekend.

Several British newspapers published lurid new details of the claims of sexual assault against two women, over which Swedish prosecutors want to question him. The 39-year-old denies the charges. The Guardian newspaper -- which has cooperated with WikiLeaks on the publication of the US documents -- and the Mail on Sunday both reported that the two women with whom he had sex in Sweden had gone to police after he refused to take an HIV test.Assange hit out at Swedish handling of the case, accusing authorities there of leaking fresh details about the case that even he and his defence lawyers have not had access to.The former computer hacker also reiterated that there were threats against his life and those of the website's staff, but he vowed that WikiLeaks would continue publishing the cables.We are a robust organisation. During my time in solitary confinement we continued to publish every day and it's not going to change,he said.

TSA Too Busy Groping, Perving, Playing God To Notice Guns And Bombs - Man walks onto plane with loaded handgun while other stopped over harmless liquids
Steve Watson Infowars.net December 18, 2010
http://www.infowars.com/tsa-too-busy-groping-perving-playing-god-to-notice-guns-and-bombs/

TSA agents at a Houston airport failed to stop an Iranian-American with a loaded handgun passing through security and boarding a plane, yet they did stop a woman directly behind him who was carrying liquids in her hand luggage.Businessman Farid Seif relates his story to ABC News, noting that he only realised he had forgotten to remove a loaded snub nose baby Glock pistol from his bag after he had landed at his international destination and unpacked in his hotel room.It’s just impossible to miss it, you know. I mean, this is not a small gun, Seif told ABC News. How can you miss it? You cannot miss it.They were very embarrassed, you know, Seif said. And — and they should be, you know. It’s — we’re talking about total failure.Seif also told ABC that while his pistol sailed past the screener, a woman behind him was stopped for having liquids in her bag.The incident underscores how the enhanced and invasive TSA security procedures are pure theatre and do nothing to make anyone safer.While the agents are busy singling out the elderly and the disabled for enhanced screening, groping women’s breasts, telling people they are God, and locking travelers in glass boxes over liquids such as breast milk, other passengers are being allowed to waltz through security with loaded guns and even explosive material.

As the ABC report highlights, the Department of Homeland Security has classified the results of random, covert red team tests, where undercover agents try to see what they can get past airport security, because the results have been so shockingly bad for the past nine years:According to one report, undercover TSA agents testing security at a Newark airport terminal on one day in 2006 found that TSA screeners failed to detect concealed bombs and guns 20 out of 22 times. A 2007 government audit leaked to USA Today revealed that undercover agents were successful slipping simulated explosives and bomb parts through Los Angeles’s LAX airport in 50 out of 70 attempts, and at Chicago’s O’Hare airport agents made 75 attempts and succeeded in getting through undetected 45 times.Last month, TSA head John Pistole claimed that the recent enhancement of security procedures has come in light of such past failures.… unfortunately, [undercover testers] have been very successful over the years. And one of the findings is that we have not been thorough enough. And the concern obviously is, if that’s an Abdulmutallab — a Christmas Day bomber — who is doing it rather than an undercover agent, then that can have catastrophic results. Pistole told George Stephanopoulos during an interview on Good Morning America.Yet, as in depth research has shown, the introduction of naked body scanning x-ray machines will do little to curb such failures, because the machines cannot detect explosive material effectively.The machines would not have prevented the Christmas Day bomber from boarding Flight 253, according to their designers, and other security experts who have dismissed the devices as useless.

The TSA has still failed to respond to a FOIA request filed by former Congressman Bob Barr demanding information on the TSA’s recent decision to curtail enhanced pat-downs and mothball body scanners so as to avoid negative publicity during the National Opt Out day protest last month.If internal TSA documents prove this was the case,it will serve as concrete proof that Big Sis’s security talk is nothing more than hot air. If the scanners were so imperative to keep us safe from terrorists then why would the TSA turn them off, as well as reining in pat downs, in a vain effort to score political points? So rest assured, while grandma is being molested by the TSA this christmas, it is a distinct possibility that there will be someone floating past and onto your plane armed to the teeth.

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

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

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

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

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

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON DEC 20,2010

09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +11.31
10:30 AM -3.39
11:00 AM -38.00
11:30 AM -38.98
12:00 PM -28.61
12:30 PM -24.22
01:00 PM -13.85
01:30 PM -12.91
02:00 PM -12.15
02:30 PM +4.09
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04:00 PM -13.78 11,478.13

S&P 500 1247.08 +3.17

NASDAQ 2649.56 +6.56

GOLD 1,384.60 +5.40

OIL 88.81 +0.79

TSE 300 13,193.30 -8.20

CDNX 2147.15 +12.82

S&P/TSX/60 752.03 -2.19

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +13 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -40 points at low today.
Dow +26 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,385.10.OIL opens at $88.31 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -40 points at low today so far.
Dow +26 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -40 points at low today.
Dow +26 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,427.40 (NOT AT CLOSE)

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Mexico oil pipeline explosion kills 22
DEC 19,10

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – An oil pipeline exploded in central Mexico on Sunday, creating a river of fire and killing 22 people, a local official said.The pipeline maintained by state oil monopoly Pemex exploded just before 6 a.m. (7 a.m. EST) in San Martin Texmelucan, a small community in the state of Puebla about 50 miles east of Mexico City.Several streets were flooded with fuel. With a spark, there was a river of fire, said Valentin Meneses, interior minister of the state of Puebla.The explosion killed 22 people and injured 32, Meneses said. It also destroyed 32 houses and damaged dozens more, he added.Pemex said the incident was under control and that an illegal fuel tap was suspected as a possible cause.The explosion occurred in a residential neighborhood which is not near major oil refining or transportation facilities, according to local media reports.Photos and video from the scene showed charred vehicles, burned-out homes and scorched ground around the moderately populated outskirts of the town. A cloud of thick, black smoke was seen over the accident site just after dawn.(Reporting by Patrick Rucker and Armando Tovar; editing by Mohammad Zargham)

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.(TR 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).

Ashton pragmatic on China in EU foreign policy blueprint-Ashton presented the paper - a major marker in her EU foreign policy career - at the EU summit in Brussels (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)ANDREW RETTMAN 17.12.2010 @ 14:23 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Catherine Ashton has recommended to EU leaders to drop an arms embargo on China as part of a major foreign policy review which urges the Union to boost relations with Beijing in order to remain relevant on the world stage.The current arms embargo is a major impediment for developing stronger EU-China co-operation on foreign policy and security matters. The EU should assess its practical implication and design a way forward, she said in a 19-page strategy paper preented at the EU summit in Brussels on Friday morning (17 December) and seen by EUobserver.

Looking at EU relations with China, Russia and the US in the context of a different, more complex world defined by the emergence of new powers, Ms Ashton warned that the US will turn away from the EU unless it becomes more influential in Asia.Europe is no longer the main strategic preoccupation of US foreign policy ... The US has recognised the need for an increased engagement with Asia and there is a risk it will see the EU as a less relevant partner given our relative strategic weakness there, she explained. The EU foreign policy chief's vision for future EU-China relations contains a human rights element. The EU should continue to work for the release of individual political detainees through active diplomacy, the paper says.

But the vision is highly pragmatic, noting that China's top priorities are economic growth, internal stability and territorial integrity rather than democratic development, and admitting that the EU can do little to change Chinese society. China will not match EU standards of human rights and rule of law for some time to come. Future convergence is best sought by concentrating on common ground ... We need to manage mutual expectations, Ms Ashton said.The paper proposes the EU should design a coherent communication strategy to explain its view of China to the European public, with facts about China [to] be mainstreamed at all levels of education. It also suggests holding trilateral EU-China-US meetings to help steer world events and speaks of a new triangle in EU diplomacy. Ms Ashton's approach to China stands in contrast to her ideas on Russia.The paper describes China boldly as a major world power while using lower-level diplomatic niceties on Russia as a key player which matters enormously, but more in terms of neighbourhood issues than global affairs.It suggests the multitude of high-level EU-Russia meetings - Russia is the only country with which the EU has two summits a year - should be streamlined in a way which avoids hurting Kremlin egos: It is important to ensure any changes do not signal a downgrading of our relationship.It also depicts Russia as rather needy in terms of EU technology for modernising its petro-economy. Unlike on China, it speaks of exploiting Russia's needs to push for democratic transformation. Referring to Moscow's ambition to lift EU visa requirements for example, the Ashton paper says the EU can use considerable issue-based leverage to first press for action on human rights in the Caucasus and on organised crime.

Ms Ashton notes that the Cold War heyday of EU-US activism in post-Soviet countries has passed. Given its [the US] interest in limiting expenditure while maintaining global security ... for the EU this means an expectation that we can manage our own neighbourhood, she says. Looking back to the EU-US summit in Lisbon last month, Ms Ashton recalled that Washington asked for EU help with energy security, cyber-security, crisis management and counter-terrorism.She added that the White House still looks to Europe because it is rich and respectable: The US values the EU as a partner that has means at its disposal and can provide a degree of international legitimacy. But she warned that internal EU muddles are damaging relations: "If we over-promise and under-deliver; if we prioritise process over substance or if we don't know what we want, the US will turn its attention elsewhere.

Singing from the same hymn sheet

In terms of questioning the practical implications of the China embargo, Ms Ashton is on the same page as Beijing's ambassador to the EU, Song Zhe. Mr Song told EUobserver earlier this week: It doesn't make any sense to maintain the embargo ... With it [in place] we will develop our own arms even faster. So, at the end of the day, it is the [arms] companies in Europe that are losing out.The embargo was imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. China says its armed forces killed 241 civilians but Nato intelligence says they killed 7,000 people.Ms Ashton promised to put forward a similar review of relations with Brazil, India and South Africa in early 2011, as well as possibly others. Back in September she told EU foreign ministers that Canada, Japan and Mexico are also EU strategic partners and that Egypt, Israel, Indonesia, Pakistan, Ukraine and South Korea may join the list in future.

Ashton picks Finn to be EU spymaster ANDREW RETTMAN
17.12.2010 @ 17:33 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Ilkka Salmi, the 42-year-old head of the Finnish security service the Suojelupoliisin, has been appointed as the new director of the EU's intelligence-sharing bureau, the Joint Situation Centre (SitCen).Salmi's counterpart in the PSC, Olof Skoog, is a Swede, giving a Nordic flavour to EU security structures (Photo: European Commission)The move all-but-completes EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton's top line-up in the European External Action Service (EEAS).

Mr Salmi is said to have been picked for the €15,000 a month post because of his fantastic personal qualities. But EU political correctness was a second factor - the Nordic countries had so far missed out on first-tier appointments in Ms Ashton's corps.Some contacts in the EU institutions would have favoured an older candidate from a larger member state which has an intelligence relationship with China, Russia and the US or a proven expert on the Middle East and Islamist terror threats in Europe. The relatively junior stature of Mr Salmi has also raised concern that Ms Ashton does not plan to give SitCen a big role in her crisis management structures or to pump money into extra capabilities.Other sources point out that Finland's historical and geographical profile is a good fit for the post: Finland is traditionally a neutral country which has long experience of counter-intelligence operations against its neighbour, Russia.Mr Salmi has some experience of Brussels; he studied for a master's degree in international law at the Vrije Universiteit in the EU capital in 1993, worked as an assistant in the European Parliament in 1995 and in Finland's EU mission in 1998. He also reached the rank of lieutenant in the Finnish military and was a special advisor to former Finnish PM Paavo Lipponen.

In an unusual twist for a man of his profile, he appears in some short clips on YouTube.SitCen's primary role is to write flash reports and medium-term security analyses for Ms Ashton's cabinet and the member states' Political and Security Committee (PSC) based on classified information sent in to its Brussels office from around 20 EU countries and on open source information harvested by a team of 15 analysts, soon to be expanded to 21.Mr Salmi's counterpart in the PSC, PSC president Olof Skoog, is a Swede, giving a Nordic flavour to the EEAS' security leadership. Ms Ashton has also decided to keep French diplomat Patrice Bergamini by her side as a special advisor on intelligence and security matters, however. Few documents are publicly available on the nature of SitCen's work. But one EU paper dating back to the bureau's inception in 2001, entitled Suggestions for procedures for coherent, comprehensive EU crisis management, is still relevant as an insight into its work.

In time of routine the SitCen, operating on a permanent basis, will continuously monitor international developments, provide early warning, receive and evaluate information and disseminate information and evaluations to concerned users [in the EU institutions], it says.In time of crisis the centre will continue the above-mentioned functions and step up the collection, processing and reporting of situation information. In particular, the SitCen will produce comprehensive and timely situation reports and assessments.In time of crisis Provision of classified information by the member states is paramount, it adds.The SitCen appointment comes after Ms Ashton last week failed to get consensus from the 26 EU countries represented in the European Defence Agency (EDA) to appoint her pick for the head of the institution: Claude-France Arnoult.According to Bruxelles 2, a well-informed blog run by a French journalist, the problem came down to poor consultation with EU capitals rather than Ms Arnoult's merit.

EU leaders agree to tweak treaty, keep bail-out fund unchanged
LEIGH PHILLIPS 17.12.2010 @ 02:12 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Union premiers and presidents have agreed to a surgical change to the bloc's treaty to enable the creation of a permanent bail-out fund from 2013 but have left the size of the existing fund unchanged.The member states whose currency is the euro may establish a stability mechanism to be activated if indispensable to safeguard the stability of the euro area as a whole. The granting of any required financial assistance under the mechanism will be made subject to strict conditionality, reads the two-line amendment to the Lisbon Treaty agreed late on Thursday evening (16 December).The change has been crafted to be as simple as possible so that it can be approved by a simplified amendment procedure that only requires unanimity at EU-leader level, short-circuiting the need for referendums in any member state. The last major changes to the EU treaty were completed only last year after 10 years of ratification and referendum battles.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the changes will be enough to convince the markets the euro project is safe.Our task now is to hold the course, walk not talk, and prove those wrong who predicted the demise of our common currency, he told reporters in Brussels.Leaders did not agree to boost the size of the existing €440 billion bail-out fund set up to rescue member states burdened with massive public debts between now and 2013, however.Luxembourgish Prime Minister and the chair of the eurozone group of states, Jean-Claude Juncker, had strongly advocated such a move.The decision tonight was that there will be no enlargement and deepening of the volume current bail-out fund, he said. Mr Juncker added that an increase in the pool of cash available in the current rescue fund will be taken under consideration in the next coming weeks.Although the two-line treaty amendment makes no mention of requirements that investors contribute in some way to any bail-outs, EUobserver understands the leaders are set in future to back plans to impose such haircuts on a case-by-case basis.Mr Juncker had in the run-up to the summit also called for the issuance of binds at the European level but the idea was struck down by Germany, which feared it would be saddled with increased borrowing costs as a result of an integrated bond market.

EU's big three call for long-term budgetary restraint
ANDREW WILLIS 17.12.2010 @ 17:15 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU's three largest member states - Germany, France and the UK - are set to publish a text on Saturday (18 December), calling for spending restraint in the bloc's long-term financial framework (post 2013).Initiated by British Prime Minister David Cameron, the letter will call for a freeze in the long-term spending plan, excluding inflation, and also seek to rein in the bloc's 2012 and 2013 annual budgets.The commitment appropriations over the next multiannual fiancial framework should not exceed the 2013 level with a growth rate below the rate of inflation, the text is set to say.The move puts the group of large member states on a direct collision course with the Brussels-based EU institutions, already battered after their call for a six percent rise in next year's EU budget was cut in half by national capitals.

With the commission not set to publish formal proposals on the multi-annual financial framework until June 2011, the EU institution may also perceive London's latest initiative as a move to undermine its right of initiative. Still undecided, the framework's period is likely to cover 2014-2020. It is then broken down into annual budgets.Poland and other eastern countries may also be horrified by the attempt to curb future EU payments of which newer member states are large recipients. But other EU members are also set to sign the austerity-letter, with Austria, Italy and Finland among the names suggested by diplomats.What I am doing, together with our key partners in Europe, is putting down a firm marker for these [budgetary] negotiations, Mr Cameron told journalists at the close of a two-day European Summit on Friday (17 December).All around Europe countries are tightening their belts to deal with their deficits. Europe can not be immune from that.Despite London's eagerness to herald the joint call for a budgetary freeze, the letter's text suggests actual post-2013 spending may increase at just below the rate of inflation.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested her finance department was planning for a one percent actual increase in the size of the long-term budget. As the EU's largest net donor to the EU budget, Berlin is keen to see restraint in the multi-annual framework, especially as greater development in the eastern half of the country is likely to mean a fall in EU cohesion payments. Ms Merkel confirmed that her name will be on Saturday's letter. Basically, it will be a statement focusing on the period up to 2020 - focusing on the 1 percent target that we've set ourselves already for the financial perspective, she said.French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he hoped it will be signed by the greatest possible number of EU member states. Both he and Mr Cameron denied there had been backroom discussions to secure France's substantial share of EU farm payments in return for Britain holding on to its EU budget rebate.The decision to publish the joint text a day after the summit ends is designed so as not to dilute the meeting's main message of defending eurozone stability, sources suggested.European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso sought to downplay the letter's significance.We know different groups of member states sometimes try to position themselves, he said.What is important in the end is the commission's proposal that is being put forward [next June], and then the discussions on the basis of that proposal.European Council President Herman Van Rompuy was also phlegmatic.If there are letters, we are very polite people, we read our letters we receive,he said.

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

3.1-magnitude earthquake strikes Los Altos this morning
Updated: 12/19/2010 11:10:48 AM PST

A 3.1-magnitude earthquake struck this morning in Los Altos, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.The quake, which was reported at 9:28 a.m., was centered near Briarwood Court in Los Altos, and had a depth of 2.1 miles, said the USGS.

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.

2 inches of rain falls over Los Angeles area MERCURYNEWS.COM
The Associated Press Updated: 12/19/2010 03:29:49 AM PST

LOS ANGELES—Southern California was getting a steady drenching early Sunday, as the first wave of a potentially damaging storm washes across the region.
Most spots around Los Angeles have gotten about 2 inches of rain so far, but no major floods or slides have been reported. Curt Kaplan of the National Weather Service says that Los Angeles International Airport and Hawthorne each had received nearly 2 inches, downtown Los Angeles 1.3 inches, Santa Monica airport 2.3 inches and Malibu nearly 3 inches.Officials were preparing for possible mudslides in Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties and were posting mudflow warnings.
Forecasters say the storms could be the largest system the region has seen in the last decade.

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.

Mubarak blames Israel for Mideast peace crisis By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF, Associated Press – Sun Dec 19, 10:24 am ET

CAIRO – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Sunday blamed Israel for the stalemate in peace negotiations with the Palestinians in a speech before a joint session of the Egyptian parliament's two chambers.Mubarak also warned Israel that the security of its people hinged on peace rather than occupation or arms.The Egyptian president, whose country has a 1979 pace treaty with Israel, also called on the United States and other Mideast peace brokers to assume their responsibility to break the stalemate in the peace process, lamenting that international efforts had fallen well short of what was needed.Israel must take responsibility for the stalemate in the negotiations and realize that the security of its people depends on peace not occupation or arms, Mubarak told lawmakers, warning of the impact from Israel's intransigence, positions and policies on world and Middle East stability.The talks are at an impasse over the Israeli refusal to cease building settlements in areas wanted by the Palestinians for a future state.Egypt, a key U.S. ally, would continue to work for a just peace that brings security to all parties in the region, Mubarak said.Israel has built dozens of settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem over the past four decades to buttress its control there. The international community considers the settlements to be illegal.

Mubarak's criticism of Israel is not unusual. Relations between Egypt and Israel have been cool for most of the 31 years since they signed their peace treaty. Their differences are mostly over lack of progress toward a regional peace accord.Separately, an aide to Arab League chief Amr Moussa on Sunday informed heads of foreign diplomatic missions in Cairo of last week's decision by Arab foreign ministers that there would be no immediate return to direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. A resumption of these talks, said Hesham Youssef, the aide, would be conditional on a serious offer that guarantees the end of the decades-old conflict.

Abbas holds rare meeting with Israeli lawmakers By KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH, Associated Press - DEC 19,10

RAMALLAH, West Bank – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held a rare meeting Sunday with dozens of Israeli lawmakers, ex-generals and peace activists, urging them to tell the Israeli public that he opposes violence and is committed to reaching a peace deal.The outreach, over a lunch of meat and rice at Abbas' West Bank headquarters, appeared aimed at generating domestic pressure on Israel's hardline prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, at a time when U.S.-led peace efforts seem hopelessly bogged down.Many of the Israeli participants were veterans of two decades of failed peace efforts and exchanged hugs and greetings with their Palestinian counterparts. However, the visitors also included some from Israel's nationalist camp, including activists from Netanyahu's Likud Party, a confidant of the founder of the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party and several ultra-Orthodox journalists.After the speeches, the Israelis excitedly crowded around Abbas to talk and have their pictures taken.Binyamin Lipkin, editor of an ultra-Orthodox newspaper, said he felt Abbas was sincere and that he would deliver the president's message to his readers. He is the last remaining partner for Israel, Lipkin said.In recent months, Abbas has pushed to directly reach the Israeli public and has also met with Jewish American leaders. In the Israeli media, the Palestinian president is often portrayed as a well-meaning but weak leader who cannot deliver a peace deal.

In his remarks Sunday, Abbas reassured his audience that under his leadership, Palestinians remain committed to nonviolence and that he is sincere about reaching a peace agreement.Netanyahu has urged Abbas to resume direct talks that broke down in September, but Abbas has said he cannot do so without a freeze in Israeli settlement building. Netanyahu has refused to do so, and the U.S. has not presented a way out of the deadlock that is acceptable to both sides.The Palestinians want a state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem — territories Israel captured in 1967 — but have said they are willing to swap some land to enable Israel to keep some of its larger West Bank settlements.Despite the difficulties, Abbas said his priorities have not changed.We are ready to conclude peace, to have our state in the 1967 borders, he said.Abbas said the Palestinians have undergone a transformation since their uprising and Israel's harsh reprisals left thousands dead. We changed the culture of terror and violence into a culture of peace and stability here in the West Bank in the last four years, he said.We do not want to miss this opportunity, he told the Israelis. We don't want to miss it. Please help us not to miss it. I have eight grandchildren. I want a peaceful life for them.Amram Mitzna, a former leader of Israel's Labor Party, said he believes Israeli public opinion has become more accepting of the idea of Palestinian statehood.The historic debate over what should be the agreement between us and the Palestinians is behind us, he said. Therefore, this meeting is important. It gives hope, despite a difficult reality.

Still, Israelis remain deeply divided over a possible partition of Jerusalem and the extent of possible land concessions.Also Sunday, the New York-based group Human Rights Watch said in a report that Israel systematically stifles the development of Palestinian communities in the West Bank and east Jerusalem while fostering the growth of Jewish settlements on those lands.In a 166-page report, the group urged the U.S. to slash aid to Israel because of what it said are blatantly discriminatory practices.Israel has built dozens of settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem over the past four decades to buttress its control there. The international community considers the settlements to be illegal.

DANIEL 8:16-27
16 And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.
17 So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.
18 Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.
19 And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.
20 The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.(IRAQ AND IRAN)
21 And the rough goat is the king of Grecia:(GREECE) and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.(IRAN)
22 Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
26 And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.
27 And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.

ITS PROPHECY THAT THE NEWS IS FILLED WITH IRAQ-IRAN AND GREECE NEWS.BUT ISRAEL IS THE MAIN NEWS MAKER IN GODS PROPHECIES.THATS WHY ISRAEL IS ALWAYS IN THE NEWS AND JERUSALEM ALSO.

TRUE MEANING OF AUSTERITY-RIOTS-REBELLION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUmQbf1AyA8&feature=player_embedded

Greece welcomes fresh tranche of IMF aid: ministry
– Sun Dec 19, 10:54 am ET

ATHENS (AFP) – Greece welcomed Sunday the International Monetary Fund's decision to release a third tranche of emergency financial aid, and said it would push on with reforms to secure future support.The IMF recognised the major progress made by our country, in the manner of fiscal consolidation through the implementation of necessary reforms, the finance ministry said in a statement.The IMF on Friday approved the release of 2.5 billion euros of loans, part of a 110-billion-euro IMF/European Union package agreed in May when the debt-ridden country teetered on the brink of bankruptcy.The IMF called on Greece to continue to accelerate structural reforms, and in its statement the ministry pledged that the government would continue to meet its obligations.The IMF said Greece's economic growth would slow to a crippling minus three percent next year, worse than the minus 2.5 percent that had been forecast, while borrowing costs remain sky high.The country has been rocked by strikes and demonstrations that have paralysed transport networks and occasionally turned violent.Meanwhile, Prime Minister George Papandreou said he was planning to gather one million signatures from across Europe to support the introduction of eurobonds, a eurozone-wide debt issue.This is an initiative for people, citizens, unions ... in a conservative Europe where there are still people and citizens who truly want a Europe that goes forward, a statement from his office said, quoting remarks he made on Saturday to parliamentarians.Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker and Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti proposed earlier this month that eurozone states issue collective eurobonds to spread risk, an idea quickly rejected by Germany and France.

IMF Director says IMF forces coordination and there’s no other solution to Greek-style austerity FauxCapitalist Exposing Faux Capitalism
December 20, 2010

Speaking to Triple Crown Charlie (CFR and Trilateral Commission member and Bilderberg attendee) Rose on December 16, 2010, IMF Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn ran cover for failed Euro and IMF interventionist policies.I’m a big advocate of the single currency,Greater economic integration often leads to greater political integration, as demonstrated by the progression in Europe from the European Coal and Steel Community to the European Economic Community to the European Union and then the Euro.and it provides a lot of results.Yes, like the 110 billion Euro Greek bailout and the 85 billion Euro Irish bailout.CHARLIE ROSE: Can you have austerity and growth at the same time? DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN: Well, I would answer no.He’s obviously unaware of or deliberately omitting that the U.S. had unprecedented economic growth from 1945-1950, in the face of federal budget cuts of over 50%.

But the problem in the banking sector is limited to small number of banks. The big banks are safe and so I think it’s manageable.Safe like three of the five biggest investment banks in the U.S., one of which went bankrupt (Lehman Brothers) and two others which collapsed (Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch) and were bought up at a fraction of their 52-week highs by the biggest commercial banks? Or safe like the biggest commercial banks that were bailed out by the federal government’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Plan and the Federal Reserve’s $3.3 trillion bailout fund they fought so hard to keep secret? Or how about Iceland’s currency going south by 80% in just four months in 2008 as a result of their three big banks going bankrupt? Or the UK’s two biggest banks being effectively nationalized? Or… You get the idea.Speaking on the decision required by Euro countries to get out of the current crisis, Strauss-Kahn said (emphasis added):It’s politically very difficult. The decision will be made in the center which will overcome the sovereignty of the nations.He’s saying that the only acceptable decision will be made in what he refers to as the center, and admits it will overcome the sovereignty of the nations involved.

DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN: Well, I think a few things. First, the Greek government is very bold. And take action as it has to be done. Of course people don’t like it. But you know, the man on the street also have to understand they absolutely needed. The Greek economy was at the edge of a cliff, and there were no other solution.Bob Chapman has repeatedly proposed an alternative solution for the Greeks, which I wholeheartedly endorse. Namely, defaulting on all their bankster-issued debts, pulling out of the Euro, going back to the Drachma, slashing exorbitant entitlements, and going through the immediate pain over the next five years at a minimum that is likely to be less severe than what will happen if they continue down the path laid out by the IMF and other globalist bankster institutions.So the question today is that many may believe wrongfully in my view that the crises is over and go back to their domestic problem and forget all about the global coordination. So our role is to try to force this coordination among the G20 countries.Strauss-Kahn admits that the IMF forces action on countries, despite insisting otherwise throughout the interview. Prior to the crisis in 2008, the G8 was the primary economic organization until 2009, when it was announced the G20 would be the new permanent council for international economic cooperation, with far greater clout to force solutions on sovereign nations.

Iran forces on alert as economic surgery begins By NASSER KARIMI and BRIAN MURPHY, Associated Press - DEC 19,10

TEHRAN, Iran – Security forces flooded Iran's capital in a warning against possible unrest as fuel prices surged 400 percent Sunday under plans to sharply cut government subsides and ease pressure on an economy struggling with international sanctions.The so-called economic surgery has been planned for months, but was repeatedly delayed over worries of a repeat of gas riots in 2007 and serious political infighting during the standoff with the West over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.But the timing for the first painful steps — just after a first round of nuclear talks with international powers and a second planned for early next year — suggests one of the world's leading oil producers is feeling the sting of tightened sanctions. And it might open more room for possible compromises with world powers, including the United States, in exchange for easing the economic squeeze.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Iranians in a nationally televised speech Saturday that it was finally time to begin trimming the state subsidies that lowered the costs of bread and cooking oil and gave Iran some of the cheapest fuel pump prices in the world. He also noted that he saw positive points in talks earlier this month with six nations that hold important sway over sanctions: the five permanent U.N. Security Council members plus Germany.Iran's top leadership is puzzled about the tightening sanctions and their long-term implications on Iran's economy. Ahmadinejad has labeled those sanctions a joke, but the Iranian people are not laughing, said Ehsan Ahrari, an analyst based in Alexandria, Virginia.The overnight price rises — gas rising fourfold in some cases — follows upheaval in the heart of Ahmadinejad's government. Last week, he abruptly dismissed longtime foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, while he was on a diplomatic mission to Africa in favor of interim replacement, nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi.The move sends a message that Iran's leadership had tired of Mottaki's challenges to Ahmadinejad and sought a more unified government at a critical time. In his first public comment, Mottaki on Sunday called his blindside firing un-Islamic, undiplomatic and offensive, according to the semiofficial Mehr news agency.

In Tehran, meanwhile, riot police took up posts around the major intersections as the subsidy cuts took effect. There were loud complaints by consumers, but no signs of the violence in 2007, when the government imposed limits on the purchase of subsidized gasoline.Under the new system, each personal car receives 60 liters (16 gallons) of subsidized fuel a month costing 40 cents a liter ($1.50 a gallon) — up from the just 10 cents a liter. Further purchases of gas would run 70 cents a liter ($2.69 a gallon), up from just 40 cents.Tehran says it is paying some $100 billion in subsidies annually, although experts believe the amount is far lower, closer to $30 billion. Iran had planned to slash subsidies before the latest round of sanctions took effect — Ahmadinejad and his allies have long insisted the country's oil-based economy could no longer afford the largesse.But the latest rounds of sanctions have targeted the core of Iran's economy. Some top European and Asian companies have pulled out of the Iranian market. American embargoes also seek to block the import of pump-ready fuel to Iran — a weak point in a country with vast oil riches but a shortfall in refineries.Angry taxi drivers complained as the price of fuel rose fourfold overnight.I don't know what to do, said one frustrated cab driver, who did not want to be identified for fear of retribution by authorities. I am not allowed to increase price of my service while I am paying five times more than yesterday.A truck driver, Mansour Abbasi, said he paid 10 times more on Sunday for natural gas to fuel his vehicle — and complained he could not compensate by hiking his own transport fees.If I raise my prices, people will not be able to afford it. Or they may report me, said Abbasi, 43.Despite the grumbling, there were no reports of clashes in Tehran or other major cities such as Tabriz, Kermanshah, Bandar Abbas, Kerman and Ahvaz. One resident of Ahvaz said some taxi fares doubled.Economists say the unpopular plan to slash subsidies could stoke inflation already estimated to be more than 20 percent.One lawmaker said he had expected the extent of price rises overnight to happen gradually over five years.

I am surprised. We do not know what happened, the lawmaker told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment.The price of fuel was supposed to reach about international prices within the next five years and not this year.Ahmadinejad also said his government was paying $4 billion in bread subsidies, which will also gradually be phased out. Ahmad Bakhshayesh, a Tehran University professor of politics, said it was too soon to gauge the public reaction to the cuts, and popular unrest could still erupt.We have to wait and see how inflation will affect their lives, he told AP.Opposition websites reported an economic analyst, Fariborz Raeis Dana, was detained after claiming the subsidy cuts were intended to allow Islamic leaders to spend more money on the military and security forces. The reports could not be independently confirmed. After Ahmadinejad announced the cuts Saturday night — calling it the biggest surgery on Iran's economy in 50 years — long lines of cars formed at gas stations in Tehran as Iranians rushed to fill their tanks at subsidized prices before the new ones took effect at midnight. By Sunday, the lines were gone.Economic analyst Saeed Laylaz said the cuts were in theory a positive move since they would reduce energy consumption, which is currently costing the country a quarter of its Gross National Product.However it is being implemented in an incomplete fashion because it's not accompanied by a greater liberalization of the economy, he said, adding that the cuts would probably not have much positive effect.The government says it will return part of the money obtained from increased prices to the people through cash payments. It has already paid into accounts of some 20 million families as compensation ahead of the cuts.Every family member will now receive $80 for to help them over the next two months.Murphy reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.

GENESIS 1:5,14
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)

SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Early Christmas treat: 2010's total lunar eclipse
By ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer - DEC 19,10

LOS ANGELES – Twill be nights before Christmas and high overhead, the moon will turn brown or maybe deep red. The Earth and the sun with celestial scripts will conspire to make a lunar eclipse.Weather permitting, sky gazers in North and Central America and a tiny sliver of South America will boast the best seats to this year's only total eclipse of the moon.The eclipse will happen Monday night on the West Coast and during the wee hours Tuesday on the East Coast. Western Europe will only see the start of the spectacle while western Asia will catch the tail end.The moon is normally illuminated by the sun. During a total lunar eclipse, the full moon passes through the shadow created by the Earth blocking the sun's light. Some indirect sunlight will still manage to pierce through and give the moon a ghostly color.Since the eclipse coincides with winter solstice, the moon will appear high in the sky — a boon for skywatchers. With recent volcanic eruptions around the globe dumping tons of dust into the atmosphere, scientists predict the moon may appear darker than usual during the eclipse, glowing an eerie red or brown instead of the usual orange-yellow tinge.

North and Central America should be able to view the entire show, which is expected to last 3 1/2 hours if skies are clear. Total eclipse begins at 11:41 p.m. PST Monday or 2:41 a.m. EST Tuesday. The totality phase — when the moon is entirely inside Earth's shadow — will last a little over an hour.It's perfectly placed so that all of North America can see it, said eclipse expert Fred Espenak of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.The Griffith Observatory perched on the south slope of Mount Hollywood in Los Angeles will host an eclipse party Monday evening although rain is forecast. Telescopes will be set out on the lawn for the public and astronomers will give free lectures on the eclipse's various stages.If clouds or rain set in, the observatory plans to stream live video of the eclipse from the Internet. Among the various outfits that will show the eclipse live is NASA, which has a camera mounted at its Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.Our event will go on rain or shine, said Griffith Observatory astronomer Anthony Cook.

Unlike solar eclipses which require protective glasses, lunar eclipses are safe to watch with the naked eye.U.S. Naval Observatory spokesman Geoff Chester finds solar eclipses more exciting than the lunar counterpart. But solar eclipses tend to occur in remote parts of the world while lunar eclipses are usually visible from an entire hemisphere.If you get skunked by bad weather, all you have to do is wait a few years for the next one to come around, Chester said.There are two total lunar eclipses in 2011 — in June and December. North America will miss the June show and witness only a part of next December eclipse.AP Science Writer Malcolm Ritter in New York contributed to this report.Online:
NASA eclipse page: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html
Griffith Observatory: http://www.griffithobservatory.org

PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS

JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME

PSALMS 14:1
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.

JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?

PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).

WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Grim Xmas for Iraqi Christians as many flee north By REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press – Sun Dec 19, 12:01 am ET

IRBIL, Iraq – They saw their brethren murdered during Mass and then were bombed in their homes as they mourned. Al-Qaida vowed to hunt them down. Now the Christian community of Iraq, almost as old as the religion itself, is sensing a clear message: It is time to leave.Since the Oct. 31 bloodbath in their Baghdad church, Iraqi Christians have been fleeing Sunni Muslim extremists who view them as nonbelievers and agents of the West. At a time when Christians in various parts of the Muslim world are feeling pressured, Iraqi Christians are approaching their grimmest Christmas since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003 and wondering if they have any future in their native land.They have suffered repeated violence and harassment since 2003, when the interreligious peace rigidly enforced by Saddam Hussein fell apart. But the attack on Our Lady of Salvation in which 68 people died appears to have been a tipping point that has driven many to flee northward to the Kurdish enclave while seeking asylum in the U.S. and elsewhere.What seemed different this time was the way the gunmen brazenly barged onto sacred ground, the subsequent targeting of homes by bombers who clearly knew every Christian address, and the Internet posting in which al-Qaida-linked militants took responsibility for the church attack and vowed a campaign of violence against Christians wherever they are.Ban Daub, 51, narrowly survived the onslaught. She and her nephew were at prayer when they heard explosions. They escaped before five attackers stormed in, but many of their friends did not. A neighbor died clutching his son and daughter in his arms.

Days later a string of bombs went off outside Christian homes across Baghdad. Daub and her family packed a few belongings and headed to a Christian district called Ainkawa in this Kurdish city of Irbil.We are afraid for our sons and our children. There is no life in Baghdad for the Christians, she says.Since 2003 no Iraqi religious or ethnic group has escaped violence. Tens of thousands died in bombings and street battles between minority Sunnis and the Shiites who supplanted them in power after Saddam Hussein, the longtime dictator, was toppled.But like many of Iraq's minorities, Christians do not have political clout or militias.Even before the church attack, thousands of Christians were fleeing abroad. They are more than a third of the 53,700 Iraqis resettled in the United States since 2007, according to State Department statistics.Since the church attack, some 1,000 families have fled to the north, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said Friday. It said growing numbers of other Iraqi Christians were arriving in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon and contacting UNHCR for help.How many Christians remain in this nation of 29 million is not reliably known. A State Department report says Christian leaders estimate 400,000 to 600,000 remain, down from a prewar level as high as 1.4 million by some estimates.In the Middle East and in Muslim countries beyond, Christians are finding themselves subject to violence and harassment. The Vatican is so worried that it hosted a two-week meeting of Mideast bishops this fall, dedicated to supporting Christian minorities.In Egypt, at least two people died and more than 150 were arrested last month in clashes between Christians and authorities over the building of a new church. In an ominous sign that militancy is transcending borders, the militants who carried out the Baghdad church siege said they were acting on behalf of two Egyptian women who they claimed were being persecuted by their priests for converting to Islam.

In Pakistan, a Christian woman is under sentence of death for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad.In Saudi Arabia, textbooks sometimes contain language intolerant of Christianity as well as other religions besides Sunni Islam, according to the State Department report on religious freedom.In Malaysia, a court decision last year allowing a Catholic newspaper to refer to God as Allah, the Arabic word for God, sparked a spate of arson and vandalism against Christian churches.Following the Baghdad church mayhem, some European countries offered asylum to Iraqi Christians. But Younadam Kanna, a Christian member of Iraq's Parliament, worries that such Western intercession will be seen as discrimination by Iraqi Muslims who wonder why outside countries are so quick to offer assistance to Christians but are often silent when Muslims are attacked in Iraq. This could drive a wedge between Iraq's Christians and Muslims. We are a small community here, and we are trying to resist and stay in our homes, Kanna said.More than 600 Christian families fled to the Kurdish area after the church siege, said the Kurdish interior minister, Karim Sinjari. More may have come without registering with authorities.The Kurds are Muslims who have suffered oppression and discrimination but now have an autonomous, Western-supported homeland in northern Iraq. Iraq's president, Jalal Talabani, who is a Kurd, has gone so far as to suggest something similar for Iraq's Christians. Meanwhile the Kurdish government has set up a committee to help the fleeing Christians. Proposals include letting them transfer their government jobs to the Kurdish provinces and allowing students to study in Kurdish colleges and universities.They've been part of Iraq for years. They are part of the community. They are part of the history. They are part of the culture of this country, said Sinjari, who heads the committee. He believes Christians who come to Kurdistan are more likely one day to return to their homes than those who leave Iraq.

Ainkawa, the Christian enclave 320 kilometers (200 miles) north of Baghdad, has churches, Christmas trees for sale, and a population that has swelled from 7,500 to 22,000 since 2003, according to Ainkawa Mayor Fahmy Matti. Christians have been in Iraq since earliest Christian times, and although there are several denominations, their enemies do not discriminate.The Our Lady of Salvation church is Syrian Catholic, and Miriam Suleiman is Syrian Orthodox, but days after the attack her house was the target of a bomb.She and her family are renting an apartment in Irbil for $500 a month, her son is on unpaid leave from his government job, and her daughter had to drop out of medical school in Baghdad. Still, they have no desire to go back.Maybe there will be peace and stability, but suddenly the situation will deteriorate, said Suleiman, 61.We want to go abroad. That is it.Matti, the Ainkawa mayor, said that about 70 percent of the Christians who moved there after the church attack came from Baghdad, and others from Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of here.Mosul is one of the last bastions of Sunni extremists, who sow terror through assassination, targeting Iraqis of all faiths but Christians in particular.About 10 Christian families from Mosul recently found refuge at St. Matthew's, a monastery founded in A.D. 374 by a persecuted Christian and now home to a few monks. The families live in the stone rooms, their laundry drying in the courtyard and their kitchen utensils piled on the shelves.A 23-year-old woman, requesting anonymity for fear of reprisals, said that in Mosul she would try to blend in by keeping her head covered, Muslim-style. She said people would say "Oh, so you are supported by the West because you are Christian. ... They say it is not your country. You should leave.

That is not so easy.To emigrate, Iraqis need a passport, and must apply for it in their city of residence — in the monastery refugees' case Mosul, the place from which they fled. A monk at the sanctuary, who for his safety identified himself only as Joseph, said Christians trying to get out often cannot afford hundreds of dollars in bribes to obtain a passport.Ban Daub and her family fled to neighboring Syria in 2006. In 2008, having been denied asylum and told Baghdad was getting safer, they returned to the capital. A few months later a bomb blast rained glass shards into their bedrooms.Daub's nephew, Izz Annan Azziz, said that after he left Baghdad for Irbil, a Muslim friend would call daily, assuring him it was safe to come back.
Then another Christian was killed, and the friend called to say that maybe it was best that he leave Iraq for good.Associated Press writer Sameer N. Yacoub in Amman, Jordan contributed to this report.