STOCK MARKET DEC 2,10 RESULTS

MSNBC IS A GOVERNMENT BOUGHT OUT COMPANY TO GET THE GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA OUT TO THE PUBLIC.YOUR PAYING TO HEAR PROPAGANDA.THE GOVERNMENT GRABS YOUR TAXES AND GIVES IT TO NBC AND OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS TO SLAVE YOU WITH PROPAGANDA.INTERESTING.WE DEFINATELY ARE LIVING IN THE END OF THE AGE OF GRACE,NOT THE END OF THE WORLD,THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.

IS THE BANKERS OR US VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmiFB9hJxus&feature=player_embedded

It’s The Bankers Or Us - The Austerity Hammer Starts to Fall on United States as Debt Consumes Europe Alex Jones & Aaron Dykes Infowars.com
December 1, 2010

Problem, Reaction, Solution: Derivatives, Crash, Too Big To Fail, Bailout, Nationalization, Budget Crisis, Privatization, Debt Slavery, Austerity, Evaporating Pensions, Central Banks, Big Government, World Government. It’s been quite a saga, but this economic crisis has been planned sabotage by design. The age of the Offshore Global Cartel is the age of economic warfare with the wealthy Western world. The 3rd World has largely already been brought to its knees. The remaining vestiges of national sovereignty must be eliminated and the middle class consumer society must be swept back to the feudal age by way of a tidal wave looting of living standards, cut wages & pensions, and the bread and circuses of cheap plastic goods and entertainment. The upper middle classes, the array of independent businesses, remaining lone giants and other true competition to the New World Order mafia economy system must be consolidated or dominated.Alex Jones explains why it is the bankers or us will be free at the end of this crisis. The total cost of the derivatives is over $1.5 Quadrillion, a sum that will completely consume the world in perpetual debt, a sum that can never be repaid. It is an economic shearing, a shearing of the sheep. The economic crisis has always really been a complete transfer of power to the banking class.

Austerity has now set into the United States, and what is happening today in Ireland, Greece, Spain and Europe at-large looms over America’s future. U.S. taxpayers will likely be the largest funders of the total billions and trillions being used to bailout out European nations while simultaneously ensnaring them in IMF conditionalities. Worst of all, these measures are not a true solution; they only make matters worse. But that’s the point.The austerity hammer wielded by central banks and now crushing Europe into subservience will soon fall on the U.S. Fresh bailouts and buyouts by foreign banks are being forced on Ireland and other European nations, while officials in the United States are parlaying news to Americans that wages, pensions, insurance for veteran & military personnel, children’s health care and more are being cut, frozen, or taken away. The entitlement system in America is no doubt rooted in corruption and has blossomed under ever-growing big government. Yet it is the bankers who must be stopped first. We cannot reform dependency upon government among the people without first challenging the Federal Reserve and private central banks or shutting the door on the predatory IMF-vampire soliciting invitation to strike directly at the heart of the dweller. The IMF and World Bank have essentially completed their phase I mission of absorbing and dominating 3rd World nations; the scheduled phase II targets are unfolding now in the 1st World Nations– the United States, Canada, UK, Europe and more.

The United States bailout was, in essence, an act of terrorism coordinated by Hank Paulson and the Executive Branch, coerced on Congress under threat of martial law; and in the end we learned it was a Trojan Horse payoff to Wall St. that simultaneously obligated us to more than $23 trillion in commitments. It was a deal that relied upon secrecy, conspiracy and fear, yet was sold on a proud, out in-the-open series of bold faced lies. It triggered inflationary spending and transferred more power to the Federal Reserve. Yet all this is only a minute, precursor wave to the tidal wave that is coming. The derivatives crisis, austerity and IMF control are tools for a global takeover via the Hegelian Dialectic. There is a mounting debt of unfathomable proportions– a debt that we people do not owe. We must understand what has really happened and say no to willing submitting to it.

IMF and EU put Ireland on tight leash
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world-news/imfeu-put-irelandtight-leash_502618.html

Irish paying for debt created by bankers
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/151428.html

Central bank takes center stage in EU debt crisis
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9JR72S81.htm

Irish Republic banks for sale
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11821804

Terms of Enslavement; Irish Citizens Say Default; Agreement Violates EU and Irish Laws; 50 Ways to Leave the Euro
http://www.howestreet.com/articles/index.php?article_id=15266

Honohan Says Relaxed About Foreign Ownership in Irish Banks
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-23/honohan-says-relaxed-about-foreign-ownership-in-irish-banks.html

Ireland to Cut Spending by 20%, Raise Taxes as Rescue Talks Climax
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-24/ireland-plans-to-reduce-spending-20-raise-taxes-as-rescue-talks-climax.html

Spain Depends on Budget Cuts to Stem Contagion by Luring Local Bond Buyers
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-26/spain-depends-on-budget-cuts-to-stem-contagion-by-luring-local-bond-buyers.html

EU rescue costs start to threaten Germany itself
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/8160999/EU-rescue-costs-start-to-threaten-Germany-itself.html

Europe Tries to Contain Debt Crisis
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704693104575638132375883318.html

White House Says Europe Crisis May Harm U.S. Economic Recovery
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-01/white-house-says-europe-crisis-may-harm-u-s-economic-recovery.html

Report of US supporting more IMF aid props up euro
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/01/AR2010120104788.html

Gates Seeking to Contain Military Health Costs
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/us/29tricare.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Military Update: Obama drops veterans’ insurance proposal; more showdowns loom
http://www.stripes.com/news/military-update-obama-drops-veterans-insurance-proposal-more-showdowns-loom-1.89398

Dems Fuming Over White House Plan To Make Vets Pay For Service Injuries
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/17/dems-fuming-over-white-ho_n_176006.html

Combat wounded contractors getting ignored
http://www.stripes.com/blogs/stripes-central/stripes-central-1.8040/combat-wounded-contractors-getting-ignored-1.8124

Obama Administration Proposes Pay Freeze to Federal Employees
http://www.africanaonline.com/2010/12/obama-administration-proposes-pay-freeze-to-federal-employees/

Union Drops Health Coverage for Workers’ Children
http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2010/11/20/union-drops-health-coverage-for-workers-children/

Obama calls for 2-year freeze on federal pay
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101129/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_pay_freeze

Deficit Commission Cuts Target Federal Workers, American Taxpayers
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/deficit-commission-cuts-target-federal-workers-american-taxpayers-111136309.html

Health care costs for retirees could top $100,000
http://lifeinc.todayshow.com/_news/2010/11/30/5554684-health-care-costs-for-retirees-could-top-100000

The Madness of a Lost Society
http://www.infowars.com/the-madness-of-a-lost-society/

IMF Expects to Double Its Lending Capacity
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704594804575649192547822542.html

EU/IMF: Ireland Loan Payments Hinge On Passage Of 2011 Budget
http://imarketnews.com/node/23240

Greek FinMin: Expects IMF-EU Repayment Extension, Rejects Default
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20101129-714265.html

IMF: Greece has options for bailout repayment help
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9JLOBU00.htm

Bailout Terms Violate EU and Irish Laws
http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/mish-shedlock-ireland-economy-irish-bailout/11/29/2010/id/31396

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__zpnmtwL5w&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh4G_s8AB-4&feature=player_embedded
Lieberman Has Power To Shut Down Websites With A Phone Call
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com December 2, 2010

Senator Joe Lieberman, the man behind legislation to give President Obama a kill switch for the Internet in the move towards a Chinese-style government controlled world wide web, now has the power to shut down websites with a mere phone call, as was underscored yesterday when Amazon axed Wikileaks from its servers after being pressured to do so by Lieberman’s Senate Homeland Security Committee.The revelation that Amazon had killed Wikileaks after the controversial whistle blower organization moved over its servers to Amazon’s cloud network came directly from Lieberman himself, stating that the, Decision to cut off Wikileaks now is the right decision and should set the standard for other companies Wikileaks is using to distribute its illegally seized material.The decision was made after Lieberman’s staffers called Amazon to pressure the company to axe Wikileaks. Committee staff had seen news reports yesterday that Wikileaks was being hosted on Amazon’s servers, reports TPM. Staffers then, according to the spokeswoman, Leslie Phillips, called Amazon to ask about it, and left questions with a press secretary including, Are there plans to take the site down? Amazon later called back Lieberman’s office to tell them that they had taken down the website. Amazon claimed the take down was because Wikileaks had violated its terms of service, but as TPM’s Rachel Slajda points out, this was a somewhat nebulous reason.

(Amazon’s) terms of acceptable use include a ban on illegal activities (it’s not yet clear whether Wikileaks has broken any laws) and content that may be harmful to our users, operations, or reputation. It also prohibits using Amazon’s servers to violate the security or integrity of any network, computer or communications system, although Wikileaks obviously obtained the cables long before hopping on Amazon’s servers.Funny how Amazon spent days loudly refusing to delete a pedophile guidebook on free speech grounds, but this happened behind the scenes and the company is refusing to comment, writes Rob Beschizza.Wikileaks also responded to the shut down by slamming Amazon for its apparent disdain for free speech, tweeting, If Amazon are so uncomfortable with the first amendment, they should get out of the business of selling books.The London Guardian notes that the website was pulled after US political pressure.Electronic Frontier Foundation senior staff attorney Kevin Bankston labeled Amazon’s decision to kill the website disappointing, adding that pressure from Lieberman’s office or any other authority serves to limit the materials the American public has a First Amendment right to access.The fact that Lieberman has concentrated such power within the purview of Homeland Security and now wields it by intimidating hosting companies to take down websites with no due course or legal process is particularly alarming given his recent odious public statements concerning free speech and the web.As we have documented, Lieberman’s vision for the Internet is less of an information superhighway and more of a government-controlled sanitized clone of cable television, where the web is purged entirely of dissent in a system even more draconian than that employed by the Communist Chinese.The Senator has been vehemently pushing efforts to provide President Barack Obama the power to shut down the Internet with a figurative flick of a switch, and has made it clear that his Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act is about big government deciding who can say what on the web.Right now China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war and we need to have that here too,Lieberman told CNN’s Candy Crowley earlier this year.

However, China’s war is not against foreign terrorists or hackers, it’s against people who dare to use the Internet to express dissent against government atrocities or corruption. China’s system of Internet policing is about crushing freedom of speech and has nothing to do with legitimate security concerns as Lieberman well knows. It’s a system concentrated around state oppression of any individual or group that seeks to use the Internet to draw attention to political causes frowned upon by the authorities.China has exercised its power to shut down the Internet, something that Lieberman wants to introduce in the U.S., at politically sensitive times in order to stem the flow of information about government abuse of its citizens.This is what Lieberman envisions for the future of the Internet in the United States, a highly regulated, state-controlled forum where the government can shut down websites it disapproves of on a whim, as is already being done by Homeland Security without court order in dozens of cases this week alone.

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 THU DEC 02,2010

09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +42.98
10:30 AM +83.44
11:00 AM +88.58
11:30 AM +99.60
12:00 PM +100.43
12:30 PM +96.45
01:00 PM +91.99
01:30 PM +89.42
02:00 PM +94.52
02:30 PM +112.92
03:00 PM +103.53
03:30 PM +110.46
04:00 PM +106.63 11,362.41

S&P 500 1221.53 +15.46

NASDAQ 2579.35 +29.92

GOLD 1,386.00 -2.30

OIL 87.97 +1.22

TSE 300 13,163.50 +15.20

CDNX 2095.74 +8.58

S&P/TSX/60 753.18 +0.25

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +14 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -0.07 points at low today.
Dow +102 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,389.30.OIL opens at $86.57 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -0.07 points at low today so far.
Dow +118 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -0.07 points at low today.
Dow +118 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,423.20 (NOT AT CLOSE)

Lisbon Treaty weathers stormy first year-ANDREW WILLIS
01.12.2010 @ 11:15 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A year to the day after the Lisbon Treaty came into force, the European Union is wrestling with a set of serious crises, ranging from the threat of a eurozone breakup to an intractable dispute over the bloc's 2011 annual budget. Broad criticism has been leveled at European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and top EU diplomat Catherine Asthon, two new posts created under the Lisbon Treaty, while eruptions of nationalist sentiment across the Union have alarmed the document's chief architects.Europe's basic goal of ever greater union appears to be receding into the distance, former French prime minster and head of the convention which drafted the body of the new rulebook, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, said in a speech last week. Others say it is too early to judge the Lisbon Treaty, adding that many of Europe's current problems are unrelated to the document. The Lisbon Treaty is not like a new US president, you can't measure its first 100 days,Hugo Brady of the Centre for European Reform, a London-based think-tank, told this website. Such are the union's current difficulties that member states, driven by Germany, are already contemplating the need for further adjustments to the treaty, with loans to Greece and Ireland stretching the earlier Maastricht Treaty's no bail-out clause (inserted into Lisbon) to snapping point. But tweaks in treaty language that result in a transfer of power from national to EU level could prompt unpredictable referendums in Ireland and the UK. If you want a permanent crisis mechanism [for future bail-outs], you have no other choice but to have a treaty change, Jean-Luc Dehaene, a former Belgian prime minister and leading member of the convention, said during a conference on Tuesday.Mr Dehaene said that teething problems related to the document are partly to blame for the current EU budget standoff between member states and the European Parliament. Sometimes I have the impression that the council [the EU institution representing member states] is discovering the implications of the treaty, now in the implementation,he noted.

Van Rompuy, Ashton

Ms Ashton in early 2010 attracted harsh criticism for skipping top-level EU meetings. But the official launch, in accordance with its original deadline, of the European External Action Service (EEAS) on 1 December, has been heralded as an important success.She has been starting from scratch so it takes time,said Mr Brady. It is quite an achievement to create an institution.In keeping with the zeitgeist and the fact the EEAS has not yet moved into its new headquarters, there will be no fancy ceremony to mark the launch. Ms Ashton will instead give a speech to her 136 ambassadors, who are in Brussels for training anyway. The EEAS press launch will boil down to an email containing the text of her speech.Mr Van Rompuy, by contrast, started strongly, immersed up to his eyeballs into a eurozone crisis which suited his training as an economist and former finance minister.Lambasted for having the charisma of a damp rag by British eurosceptic MEP Nigel Farage, others said the mild-mannered Belgian politician showed himself to be a highly skilled behind-the-scenes negotiator.Mr Van Rompuy was tasked by EU leaders to set up a taskforce on joint economic governance as a reaction to the crisis. But the taskforce produced little of substance, ending his first year on a bit of a whimper. Meanwhile, accusations that Mr Van Rompuy is servile toward French and German leaders, who ultimately sidelined him in a financial deal in the French town of Deauville, damaged his standing still further.Van Rompuy acts like a secretary not a president," French Green MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit said last week.

More democracy?

Tackling the EU's democratic deficit was another goal of the Lisbon Treaty, which increased the European Parliament's powers of co-decision and gave national parliaments a greater say at EU level.The EU legislature successfully lobbied to have greater security provisions inserted into an agreement on data sharing with the US (Swift) and has made its voice heard strongly in the ongoing EU budget debate.Most feel that the changes are marginal at best, however.The EU is a little bit more democratic,said Mr Brady. Former MEP and Lisbon-treaty critic Jens-Peter Bonde was scathing: Powers belonging to elected national parliaments have been moved by the Treaty to our common EU institutions, but the EU system is not subject to democratic control ... The non-elected EU leaders ... can now travel to China and Korea to lecture them on democracy until they are asked how many votes they had in the last European elections.Mr Dahaene also conceded that the convention's failure to go further on co-decision, and member states' insistence on retaining one commissioner per country, bodes badly for the future: When you have to decide by unanimity [in the council], you are in fact immobilized ... In the commission, the number is much too big to work as a college.

Weapons makers, multinationals among top beneficiaries of EU regional funds
Coca Cola is one of the recipients of EU regional funds (Photo: chicco)
VALENTINA POP 01.12.2010 @ 07:47 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU commission has tried to defend the rationale of its regional policy after a new database put together by investigative journalists revealed that corporations such as IBM and Coca-Cola are on the recipient list, together with weapons makers Honeywell, EADS and Dassault, big pharmaceutical companies and chain supermarkets.Cohesion policy brings significant benefits to the poorer regions of the EU, but is also benefiting the whole of Europe, EU regional policy commissioner Johannes Hahn said in a press release issued hastily on Tuesday (30 November) after the Financial Times and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism published a centralised database of EU funds recipients.Member states are required to publish the names and amount of the beneficiaries online, but the FT/BIJ effort is the first one to put all the data together in a searchable format, translated into English and with figures both in the national currency and in euros.Regions and government companies in charge of building roads, railway tracks or sewage systems gobble up most of the money, but corporations also pocket fairly large sums of the €347 billion to be paid out by the EU during 2007-2013.US computer giant IBM is the largest of the corporate recipients, with over €24 million pocketed in various countries and projects. Out of this sum, €15.6 million are allocated to a service centre in Wroclaw, southern Poland, another €2.6 million for a similar centre in the Czech Republic and €985,000 for one in Hungary.In Italy, the local branch of the American company receives €3.7 million for developing a bio-informatics lab and e-business platforms for small and medium enterprises in the fields of tourism, cultural heritage and agri-food.

In the Netherlands, IBM has partnered with two other firms in a pilot project co-financed by the EU to the tune of €646,542 and aimed at reducing the energy consumption of 500 households by 14 percent. One of the applications involves a power display allowing residents to monitor the exact energy consumption of each electric device.The Spanish region of Valencia is also boosting IBM sales with EU money, as it acquired servers and memory disks produced by the company to the tune of €638,820.Portugal's Greencyber company specialised in biodiesel is receiving €23 million of EU funding for its plant in the southern region of Alentejo which uses soy and sunflower from Brazil, Angola and Mozambique to produce the low-polluting fuel. Biofuels are however controversial as the crops used take up precious land which could feed the local population, especially in African countries. US aerospace technology maker Honeywell receives €4.2 million for its research and development centre in the Czech Republic. On its website, Honeywell Czech Republic advertises itself as manufacturing control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; power generation systems and aerospace products and services. The latter category includes guidance systems for missiles and other guided weapons.Honeywell is also notorious for the cluster bombs it produced in the second half of the last century.

Meanwhile, Europe's aerospace giant EADS - the constructor of Airbus planes - also gets regional funding to boost employment: €1.5 for its Polish factories, €1.1 for the Spanish ones and €750,000 for the French development of anti-lightning protection of airplanes.Nokia Siemens Networks, sued by Iranian dissidents for having supplied the regime in Tehran with technology allowing mobile phones to be tracked down and wire-tapped, got €3.1 million for diversification of the IT center in Wroclaw by introducing innovative products and another €900,000 for innovation and strategic projects in Portugal.Still in France, €131,250 of EU funds go to the south-western region of Aquitaine for optimisation of the industrial management of Dassault MRP2 subcontractors. Dassault is the producer of the French Raphale fighter jets. Another €20,174 are claimed by Dassault for advanced manufacturing systems in the north-Italian region of Piemonte.Pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) receives €1.8 million for its plant in northern France where they develop a way to increase the lyophilisation capacity of vaccines - a method of drying pharmaceuticals by freezing the material and then warming it in a vacuum.The world's biggest pharma company, Pfizer, also taps EU funds - €196,352 for projects in Belgium dedicated to team culture,gender equality and career development.German discount supermarket chain Lidl is set to receive almost €1 million for improving employability in Spain, the Czech Republic and Belgium and installing solar panels on one of its buildings in France.Meanwhile, Swedish popular furniture manufacturer Ikea also gets a little EU help to the amount of €1.2 million for opening up a call centre in the eastern German region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.US soft drink giant Coca-Cola is present on the list, with €902,071 allocated for upgrading its production lines in Hungary and Estonia, as well as training German staff. A Belgian project is mentioned as well, but no figure is made available.Along with Coca-Cola comes fast food icon McDonalds, charging EU taxpayers €59,708 for further development of its Swedish and Spanish staff.

Iran opposition group criticises EU role in anti-nuclear effort
ANDREW WILLIS 01.12.2010 @ 17:40 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Despite strong US and European concern surrounding the Iranian regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, laid bare this week by the WikiLeaks release of hundreds of US diplomatic cables, EU policy is off the mark and European governments are failing to provide support to internal opposition movements, the leader of one such group has said.Speaking in the European Parliament on Wednesday (1 December), Maryam Radjavi, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI, also known as the PMOI, the People's Mojahedin of Iran), added that fresh talks between Iran and Western governments, represented by EU high representative Cathy Ashton next Monday and Tuesday in Geneva, would merely provide Tehran more time in which to build a nuclear bomb.To get rid of the regime you need regime-change by the Iranian people,Ms Radjavi said when questioned by EUobserver.

We are proud to have gained the support of many parliamentarians worldwide, she added. But no governments have yet expressed any support [for the PMOI] but we hope they will listen to the call of the MEPs.Roughly 400 MEPs signed a petition last week, calling on the United Nations to provide greater protection for residents living in the Ashraf camp inside Iraq, home to some 3,400 exiled Iranians and the principle base of the PMOI. Collaboration between the Iraqi government and Tehran has seen the camp besieged over the past year, say observers. Now the situation in Ashraf is of difficulties and restrictions, said Spanish centre-right MEP Alejo Vidal-Quadras, one of the chief supporters of the petition which was organised in record time by PMOI personnel in Brussels.People are denied medical treatment and 140 loudspeakers have been bombarding the camp with psychological propaganda for 11 months.Mr Vidal Quadras said it was vital the US remove the PMOI from its terrorist blacklist, as the EU did in 2009, so that the group can effectively carry out advocacy work.In addition, the group of MEPs are calling for a UN protection unit to be stationed beside the camp, something the multilateral body says is highly difficult to do without military support. Support was formerly provided by the US military, but the task was handed over to the Iraqi government in January 2009.

While the PMOI and MEPs who have signed the petition strongly deny the group has engaged in terrorists activities, some media reports have suggested otherwise. The group was founded in the 1960s, but its top leadership and members fled the country roughly 20 years later, after reportedly carrying out acts of terror inside the country.Senior diplomats from the US, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China will also participate in next week's talks between Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili and Ms Ashton, who's European external action service formally came into being on Wednesday.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told national reporters this week that his uranium enrichment programme would not be negotiated away. Instead, he said he was willing to discuss nuclear co-operation.The PMOI argue that further talks are useless however. Experience has shown that the more you negotiate with the Mullahs, the less you achieve, said Ms Radjavi. New negotiations with them will just provide more time to acquire a nuclear bomb. We believe the only language that the Mullahs will understand is boldness. By this I mean tougher economic sanctions.Another PMOI official said the current sanctions against Iran were in many cases being circumvented via Iraq, with EU companies amongst those lobbying against tougher restrictions due to fears their profits could be hit.The EU is Iran's biggest trade partner,the official said.It should stop buying Iranian oil.

US cables shed light on EU Friends of Russia club during Georgia war
Tskhinvali road sign (Photo: Nir Nußbaum)ANDREW RETTMAN
01.12.2010 @ 20:18 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A cache of secret US cables on the 2008 Russia-Georgia war paints a vivid picture of how the EU was split into Russia-friendly and Russia-hostile clubs, with German diplomats parroting Russian arguments and Latvia suggesting that Nato should consider sending arms to Georgia.The cache of around 120 cables from US embassies around Europe covering the period from 7 August, when the war officially began, until 19 August, about one week after it ended, was published on Thursday (1 December) on the website of the WikiLeaks-affiliated magazine Russian Reporter.One cable dealing with an extraordinary meeting of Nato ambassadors in Brussels on 12 August ran with the capitalised sub-heading: Nato allies lack cohesion during first meeting on Georgia crisis.A follow-up cable on 13 August carried the heading: Allies divided down the middle.The 12 August cable, dealing with attempts to cobble together joint action on the crisis by the North Atlantic Council (NAC), saw EU and Nato members Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the UK broadly warm to proposals to suspend the Nato-Russia Council and to issue a Russia-hostile statement. But a Russia-friendly camp, led by France and Germany and including Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovakia and Spain, blocked the moves.The 13 August talks, on whether a Russian ship, the Ladniy, should take part in a Nato exercise, pitted the same Russia-hostile camp (the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the UK) against the Russia-friendly one (Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Slovenia).

A number of allies - especially Germany - are parroting Russian points on Georgian culpability for the crisis. Intelligence releasable to Nato Allies on this point might be a useful tool,the 12 August US cable commented.The German-led side ... is unlikely to support anything more than a slap on the Russian wrist in the upcoming Nato Ministerial, the follow-up cable said.New divisions emerged inside the EU diplomatic forum, but the broad outlines of the split - with the Baltic states, Poland and the UK pitted against France, Germany and the Netherlands - stayed intact.

Commenting on the internal debate on whether or not to water down Russia-hostile language at an EU foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels on 12 August, Swedish diplomat Johan Frisell told his US counterparts: One camp's overriding priority is to stop the suffering and ensure the cease-fire is respected, that it is too early to judge or blame and the EU cannot appear biased. Members include Malta, Cyprus, France, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands. The other camp says Georgia made mistakes, but the overriding concern is that Russia launched a full-scale invasion of a sovereign nation in violation of international commitments ... Members include England, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, the Baltic states, Slovenia, Slovakia and Bulgaria.Mr Frisell lambasted French President Nicolas Sarkozy for giving in to pro-Russian language in the so-called Six-Point Plan, a cease-fire agreement letting Russia keep its troops in Georgia indefinitely: According to Frisell, Sarkozy's 16-hour trip to Moscow and Georgia was a carefully orchestrated routine that resulted in the Sarkozy Show.Although the cease-fire agreement was not ready after the 16 hours, France wanted a success story and prematurely announced such. The result was a flawed document with which many EU countries have taken issue.The remaining cables give a more nuanced image of German-Russian diplomacy than the Nato reports. In one text, the Czech foreign minister said his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, was visibly shaken by Russia's actions. A Hungarian diplomat said Mr Steinmeier told Moscow it had crossed a Rubicon, but the Kremlin ignored his plea for a pull-back. Chancellor Merkel, for her part, declined to speak with Russian PM Vladimir Putin, because it would needlessly increase Putin's standing if she sought contact with him.Italy comes in for some the heaviest US criticism. One cable on Italy's pro-Russian stance said: Berlusconi and Putin have already spoken and we expect Russia to try to use the personal relationship between the two to urge Italy to derail efforts to condemn its actions in international fora.On the other side, Washington was surprised by the high emotions generated in Riga and Warsaw.The then Latvian foreign minister, Maris Riekstins, put forward a list of potential Russia sanctions which included pulling the 2014 winter games from Sochi and kicking Russia out of the G8. Latvia's secretary of state, Normans Penke, on 12 August even said Nato should discuss military aid to Georgia. Penke, a former ambassador to Moscow, has a reputation within the GOL for being somewhat soft on Russia. You wouldn't have known it today. His passion seemed genuine and his frustration with Russia, and the inability of Nato to respond forcefully, was deep,the US cable said.

A separate US cable noted: Poland has taken on a surprisingly forceful leadership role during the Georgia conflict.The Polish foreign ministry overcame significant opposition within the EU to call an EU ministerial on the crisis and suggested energy sector sanctions against Russia. The then Polish chief of staff, general Franciszek Gagor, offered an adventurous explanation why Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili attacked Russia: "Poland believes Saakashvili was manipulated by Russian agents - possibly even among his advisors - to open the door for military action in Georgia with the object of destabilising the Georgian government.The treasure-trove of new information on the 2008 conflict also recorded a humourous Freudian slip by the Russian ambassador to Slovakia.In one heated exchange in Bratislava, Slovak diplomat Stefan Rozkopal claimed the Russian ambassador actually referred to the Soviet Union, before correcting himself and made other such verbal slips that created a very anachronistic atmosphere.The US cable then turned the joke onto Mr Rozkopal himself, depicting him as a know-it-all: Rozkopal is a facile diplomat, who, like several others in the Slovak MFA [Ministry of Foreign Affairs], believes he has better insights into Russian thinking and tactics than most European (and certainly US) diplomats.

CHANUKAH VIDEOS
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/140957
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/140956
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/140941

Chanukah Reminder – Abbas' Term has Expired
by Maayana Miskin DEC 1,10

Members of Knesset have received a Chanukah gift that combines holiday greetings with a friendly reminder that Mahmoud Abbas is no longer the chairman of the Palestinian Authority.The gift, sent by Mattot Arim (Cities of Israel) and the Samaria Regional Council, consists of a printed copy of the blessing recited after meals (Birkat Hamazon) and the blessings that are said over Chanukah candles. It bears the words Long live Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister of Israel.Funny, isn't it? says an attached note. Olmert isn't Prime Minister anymore – his term expired a long time ago. And that was it. Did you know that Abu Mazen's [Abbas'] term expired a long time ago too? The activists were referring to the fact that Abbas was elected to serve as PA Chairman for four years, beginning in early 2005. His term ended in 2009; however, since then, he has repeatedly postponed elections.Abbas and his supporters say they cannot hold new elections before reconciling with Hamas, which split from the Fatah-led PA in 2007 and created a breakaway Hamas-led PA in Gaza. Hamas leaders are vehemently opposed to holding PA elections before their terrorist group reunites with Fatah to lead the PA together again.

Since Abbas' term expired nearly two years ago, he is irrelevant and cannot supply the goods, activists said Wednesday. Why should we make any effort to hold negotiations with a leader whose term of office has expired? they asked. Why make painful gestures – for a former leader whose term is up? Gershon Mesika, head of the Samaria Regional Council, said, The gift to the Knesset members is perhaps silly... but the continuation of negotiations with the 'expired' Abu Mazen, which are liable to include a freeze that will include hundreds of thousands, is in itself a humorous procedure.Several MKs said Wednesday that they backed the idea behind the gift. Said MK Ayoub Kara (Likud), The biggest absurdity is that we know that Abu Mazen cannot make binding decisions in the negotiations, but we go on conducting them with him anyway, something that infuriates anyone with human emotions.The activists had support even within the left-of-center Kadima party. Maybe those who sent the gift think it's a joke, but it's not funny to me that the Israeli government is being dragged by external and internal pressures into conducting negotiations with those who don't even have any ability to make binding decisions, said Kadima MK Yulia Shamalov-Berkovich.A number of MKs told members of Mattot Arim that they would raise the issue in the Knesset plenum and in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)