ISLAMIC DECEPTION IN LOWER MANHATTAN

Space Aliens are all Liberal CANADA FREE PRESS
By Judi McLeod Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Just as we were waiting for the carbon credit-crazed United Nations to tax the very air that we breathe, the UN is sending out tentacles to capture the Last Frontier.
Nothing, not even your kid’s kite or Aunt Patricia’s pumpkin pie cooling on the window ledge are safe from the UN.According to the New York Post, the largest bureaucracy on Algore’s Mother Earth has appointed an obscure Malaysian scientist as the Earth’s official alien-spacecraft greeter.Mazlan Othman is expected to announce her new role at a conference this week.They might be racking up unpaid parking tickets in the Big Apple and laying out the red carpet for terrorists like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at their endless assemblies, but they still have scads of time to take over space aliens—just in case they exist.For believers in space aliens who are not sure they bear us no ill will, it may be a little spooky letting UN Anybody do their talking for earthlings.One thing for certain, anyone coming in from outer space will be a global citizen as far as the UN is concerned. If unique and individual are being wiped out for average earthlings, why should ET get a pass on nationality? The continued search for extraterrestrial communication, by several entities, sustains the hope that someday humankind will receive signals from extraterrestrials, Dr. Othman said in a recording of a recent speech, reported by the Sunday Times of London.

When we do, we should have in place a coordinated response that takes into account all the sensitivities related to the subject. The UN is a ready-made mechanism for such coordination.In some peoples books, the UN is a ready-made mechanism for anywhere they smell the scent of money.Reminders of the UN’s greedy grasp on all things human strikes home this week as we travel through Nova Scotia. Historic Lunenburg Town, among others, has been declared a World Heritage Site by the UN. The good people of Lunenburg, arguably the most beautiful town anywhere on earth, was preserved by its own hard working people, including the fishermen.Why the UN was able to lay its greedy hands on the historic town is beyond belief.Has anyone noticed that a few former politicians like Canadian Defense Minister, Paul Hellyer, is interested in organizing the space aliens? Funny thing how every last one of the space-hunting politicos happens to be a Liberal.The Post reminds us that the last UN official picked as Earth’s official mouthpiece provoked controversy.In 1977, two Voyager spacecraft went into space with recordings that were meant to be a message from Earth to intelligent life in the galaxy. (New York Post, Sept. 26, 2010). The voice on the message, however, belonged to then UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who was later discovered to have been an enthusiastic member of the Nazi Party during World War 11.Meanwhile, the UN is bound to give new meaning to the ETs of extra terrestrials fame to better reflect how the United Nations really sees space aliens: To the UN, ET only means Extra Taxes.

Gladiator battle of the century – Obama and congress vs. The American People By Laurie Roth SEPT 30,10

The battle is on, the cameras and media whores offer their sold out close ups and distortions while the political blood flies. The strategies to win this all or nothing match are clear but who will win?Strategy for Obama and congress is most clear: Lie, seduce, play the race card, promise, call names, create crises, divert media attention and operate around the American people, rule of law and constitution. Do it in a fast and furious way so no one will have time to respond.

Obama battle gear:

Anti American CZARS

Obama rerouted the socialist transformation road around congress by assigning 32 czars into positions of regulatory and policy control, only answering to him not congress. It is most clear from Obama’s response the last two years to any criticism and challenges to his socialist change plans that he hates our constitution and any constraints to his view of power. There isn’t enough time to possibly overview all his czars but here are a just a few descriptions found on Glenn Becks site:Cass Sunstein – Regulatory Czar – Liberal activist judge believes free speech needs to be limited for the common good. Essentially against 1st amendment. Rules against personal freedoms many times – like private gun ownership and right to free speech.John Brennan – Terrorism Czar – Anti CIA activist. No training in diplomatic or gov. affairs. Believes Open Borders to Mexico and a dialog with terrorists and has suggested Obama disband US military.John Holdren – Science Czar – Fierce ideological environmentalist, Sierra Club, anti business activist. Claims US business has caused world poverty. No Science training.Obama’s czars all reflect radical, leftist ideology and anti Americanism. They naturally reflect his internationalist socialist change plans and assault on the US constitution.

Battle gear #2

Executive Orders

According to UPI.com White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel declares Obamas plans to use executive orders to make political progress and deal with what he sees as partisan gridlock regarding issues like energy and domestic policy. Emanual was recently quoted in UPI.com as saying: We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues.Obama has threatened not only to use executive orders to further his radical agenda, he is talking of using one for the highly controversial amnesty – dream act for illegal aliens. Watch out for executive orders and anything like it to try to cram through his domestic agenda, i.e. more abortion rights, gay rights, Islamic rights; his environmental agenda, cap and trade or whatever else he calls it then; and gun rights restrictions of some kind. Remember it didn’t take him but a few days to reverse Bush’s policy of not funding international abortions, thus we immediately started in paying for abortions around the world. This was when the American economy was already in recession mode and struggling.

Obama battle gear #3

Treaties

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Obama and his administration have used Treaties and international manipulation to bypass the American people as well. We saw Obama sign a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty with Russia and hog tie America’s ability to protect herself and continue to lead with Nuclear development and weapons. The thing that killed me about this naive and beyond dangerous treaty was that it reflects Obama’s talk it out world view that doesn’t really believe in evil except of course for America’s evil. There is no sufficient way to verify other countries statements of lessoning or stopping nuclear development. He also stated that the US would not respond in kind if attacked with weapons of mass destruction.

Arms Treaty with Mexico

Obama is also trying to take more gun rights away through the back door of the out of control drug war in Mexico. The arms treaty he wants and the President of Mexico is pushing for has been languishing in a Senate committee for more than a decade. The bottom line with this treaty attempt is it would involve much stricter licensing rules, exports on guns and intrusive tracing requirements. It would simply be a dramatic shredding of our 2nd amendment rights and quickly catch up millions of innocent gun owners in the Treaty net of control.

Rights of the Child Treaty

Back in 1989 the UN adopted the Convention for the Rights of the Child which would end up micro managing the way kids are raised. Spanking would be outlawed and kids would basically get what they want. If Mom and Dad went to church on Sundays and required their rebellious daughter to go with them, that would be a big no no and violate the child’s rights. We saw Hillary and Obama jump all over this and totally support it. Forget, it takes a village to raise a child Hillary more like it takes the draconian UN with no interference from those pesky parents.Obama will continue to scheme and use Treaties, Executive orders and Czar regulations to bypass constitutional limits and accountability. I predict he will try and get more radical in all three areas as he loses control of the House and Senate in Mid Terms. The Lame Duck session will be an acting out sea of revenge by the liberals who will be defeated. Obama will just stretch and play with the law and constitution, bypassing what he can to assert socialist controls.We are so on to you Obama and progressive, traitorous liberals!!! Call your unemployment counselor.

Day care centers and sex offenders – all living together By Laurie Roth SEPT 28,10

My eyes are still rolling into the back of my head and my head is still shaking at the thought of what I heard this week on my national radio show. Danny Zanoza of http: www.rffm.org and Dave Smith, Director of Illinois Family Institute have discovered through there intense digging that in Illinois there are at least 90 licensed day care centers who have the same addresses as those who are listed on a sex offender registry. What!DHS is responsible for licensing these child chare facilities which are actual homes, where over 170,000 children are enrolled and where they provide day care for low income families. How nice, this part we like but due to whatever psychotic reason that exists, Zanoza and Smith have found that known sex offenders have the same exact addresses and are living in those specific homes.Apparently not every sex offender is a pedophile but certainly, breaking the law somehow in the area of sexual play and deviance is involved in their label so here is the obvious question. What parent in their right mind would ever want or allow their child to play and hang out all day in a home where a sex offender was living….of any kind??? Is the 18 year old living down the hall a ‘nice’ sex offender because he raped a 14 year old and not an 8 year old? Maybe another sex offender was having sex with his Grandma. Maybe that is ok with the kiddies down the hall.

For years in the news we have seen the fight and positioning of rights for sexual deviants, translation by Roth….perverts. A whole sea of state and federal laws already exist requiring everything form notification as to where the sex offender will live, to keeping them 1000 feet from schools. Going back to 1994 there was 42 USC 14071 et seq Act, which requires states to establish specific requirements for persons convicted of certain crimes against minors and convicted of sexually violent offenses. It they don’t they get a 10% reduction in their grant funding. Then in 1996, there came Megan’s law, offering more disclosure and registration for sex predators. This was followed by the Pam Lychner Act in 1996, and in 2000 Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Police and Campus Crime Act. These aren’t even all the federal acts and don’t even touch the huge amount of state laws trying to protect children and adults from sexual predators. With all this in place, how is it that sex offenders are sleeping anywhere near children and in the same house, no matter what type of sex offender they are??? I can only imagine if this living combo of kiddies and perverts is common in Illinois, are we talking a national epidemic where states are just sticking sex offenders where ever they can plant them? I think 1000% yes. It is vividly apparent and horrifyingly obvious that the rights and safety of children are less then nothing! It is only about the rights of the sex pervert and the obvious and deadly path officials take when facing budget crunches. I can only imagine the excuse for such a costly, if not deadly mistake……we don’t have places to put the sex offenders so we have to put them there these aren’t dangerous sex offenders adults are in the building. I can’t even begin to imagine what kind of idiot mind would dream, for any reason to put any kind, shape or flavor of sexual offender near children for any reason.

Now, the final straw that broke the camels back was that Zanosa and Smith said that this wasn’t being covered on major Illinois news, headline shows, Fox or other large radio shows. Apparently, putting thousands of children at risk for rape and death is not news anymore. Who cares about the kiddies, they are from poor areas anyway. After all, we all pay for murderous abortions now, so we might as well destroy the innocence and futures of those pesky, expensive, small kids in day care.
It is beyond shameful that this has happened. Heads should and must roll in Illinois with DHS and anyone who made this decision! Radio, TV and all media, state and federal that refuses to get this out there and create noise with an issue this horrifying might as well be branded sexual predators themselves.

Video of Mumbai: 26 November 2008 (Warning-graphic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHdpn0EEe0k&feature=player_embedded
Warning for Muslim terror attack – Mumbai style
By: Douglas J. Hagmann

29 September 2010: The intelligence has been increasing since early this year: Islamic terrorists are preparing commando style assaults against soft targets in the U.S., France, Germany and the UK. Crowded areas including shopping centers, transit hubs, community and conference centers, hotels, and similar locations are the targets of young, well armed Islamic terrorists.The Northeast Intelligence Network first reported on this threat on 14 June 2010 for the UK.We also had specific information that a Mumbai style terror attack was being planned against Jewish Centers in the U.S., as we first reported on June 5, 2010.What you won’t hear in the Western media, however, is that the perpetrators of these attacks, although many trained in Pakistan and Afghanistan, have operational assets here in the U.S. Many of the supporters of these urban commandos have support in U.S. mosques and Islamic centers. We reported extensively on the Muslim mosques serving as planning centers on 29 October 2009:We’re talking about professional Muslim men, mosque leaders, leaders within our communities who are actually helping young men train for the eventuality of urban combat. They know what they are doing, yet they lie right to our faces about these activities- and we’re told by our supervisors that we have to accept what they tell us at face value when they know damn well they are lying. -Federal source, speaking on condition of anonymity
From 2007:

Jihad coming to the streets of America; We’re going to war
Eight Muslim men in St. Louis charged with buying automatic weapons and explosives We’re going to war–Thaer Abde SUMAD, defendantBy Douglas J. Hagmann, Director

3 May 2007: The Northeast Intelligence Network has reported extensively about Muslim men inside the U.S., adhering to the Islamist ideology of jihad, preparing for war on the streets of America. The insider reports are very troubling and are purposely being downplayed by official sources and go largely unreported in the media. One case, however, can serve as an example of what is taking place all across the U.S. involving the procurement and disbursement of weapons to Muslim jihadists. On Tuesday, May 2, 2007, a federal indictment was unsealed in the U.S. federal court in St. Louis naming eight Islamic men as defendants in a case involving the buying, selling or hiding of automatic weapons, an anti-personnel mine and other explosives. (Full report)
http://homelandsecurityus.com/archives/2418

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Islamic deception in lower Manhattan
By Doug Hagmann
http://downloads.cbn.com/cbnnewsplayer/cbnplayer.swf?aid=17933

25 September 2010: At the direction of some of the principal planners of the Islamic cultural center at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, Muslims from across the five boroughs of New York and New Jersey are quietly being urged to attend Friday prayer services that are being held at the former Burlington retail store on Park Place. This is being done to deceptively inflate Muslim demographics in lower Manhattan while creating a misleading but convincingly effective visual display of the need for the center.This tactic is currently being used in Paris, as shown in this CBN video report. An undercover French videographer captured covert video footage of Muslims lining the streets of Paris, blocking and closing off the streets as a display of their power and influence. According to his observations, the Muslims engaged in these activities are not indigenous to the area. He has observed vehicles filled with Muslims coming from different parts of the city to purposely swell the numbers.

During the course of my investigation, I interviewed a long-time business owner located in close proximity to the planned Islamic center on Park Place. He told me that ever since the opposition to the Islamic center became public, the numbers of prayer participants at the intended site has increased dramatically. A year ago, there was hardly any foot traffic to and from [Park Place]. Within the last few months, I’ve seen cars and other vehicles with out of state license plates parking at various lots and the men walking to Park Place. A lot of the cars have New Jersey license plates. In consideration of his business and fearing for his safety, he has requested that his name and address not be published.As part of my continuing investigation into this matter, I’ve personally verified his claims. I’ve conducted surveillance of Park Place and the adjacent areas on different occasions, observing numerous vehicles bearing license plates from New Jersey and even Pennsylvania parking in nearby lots. I’ve observed the occupants walk to the Park Place location, and following the services inside, walk back to their vehicles and leave the area.

Also according to this source, the mood among the Muslims participating in the Friday services has changed dramatically within the last several weeks. Last year, I would talk to three, maybe four Muslims, at most, after Friday prayers. They were quite reserved. Now, I see dozens of Muslims in groups and their mood, attitude, behavior and conversation is anything but reserved. It is contentious. They appear to be activists on a mission, he stated.Meanwhile, there are those who continue to assert that the proposed victory mosque is neither a mosque nor located at Ground Zero.They also cite the existence of a simple, chapel like prayer room from Muslims that existed within one of the World Trade Center towers well before the attacks on 9/11 in their argument favoring construction. They are technically correct on both counts, but like the visual display of Muslim demographics in lower Manhattan, their assertions are deceptive and disingenuous at best.

To help illustrate that the planned mosque need not be situated within the footprint of the former World Trade Center to be considered Ground Zero, I created the following graphic to offer a reasonable perspective that its location is well within the area of destruction and death caused by Muslim terrorists. Using a declassified military aerial photograph of the area, the planned Muslim construction is shown by an Islamic graphic inserted over 45-51 Park Place. The inset at the lower left shows the debris cloud encompassing the area well beyond the propped construction site as well.In this general area, 2,752 innocent victims were murdered. To date, authorities recovered 21,812 remains of bodies and body parts from the carnage inflicted, some as close as 348 feet from the proposed Islamic center. Although it is not widely publicized, artifacts are still being found in lower Manhattan.
Semantics and technicalities aside, I’m convinced that anyone present at 45-51 Park Place on the morning of 9/11 would rightfully assert they were at Ground Zero that day.We must not allow what is seen as an iconic symbol of Muslim conquest in the eyes of our enemies to be built as a result of deception, semantics or technicalities. We must not allow it to built – period.

Crime & Punishment in Islamic Law CANADA FREE PRESS
By Kelly O'Connell Sunday, September 26, 2010

This article examines classic Islamic law, the Shari’ah, regarding crime and punishment. Recently, the Ground Zero Imam Egyptian Feisal Abdul Rauf claimed Muslim and American law were essentially the same. He said, What’s right with America and what’s right with Islam are, in fact, very much in sync…I call America a Sharia compliant state.But what would being a Shari’ah compliant state really mean? To understand this, we need to study the details of Shari’ah law. One way to better understand Muslim Shari’ah law, is by taking a particular sub-category, such as crime and punishment, to see how Islam treats these topics. While analyzing this issue, the reader will undoubtedly begin to realize Shari’ah and American law are not so similar, and that perhaps Rauf is wildly bluffing (or something else). He claims American law is similar to Muslim because they are both from God, while ignoring the fact mankind has created many Gods over millenniums, each mostly opposed to the rest.Of course, Islamic views of crime and punishment have shifted occasionally over the centuries, and the Shari’ah varies between regimes and Muslim schools. This essay gives a general picture of the Shari’ah on these topics.

I General Introduction to Islamic Shari’ah Law
The foundation of Islamic Shari’ah law is the Qur’an; combined with the Sunna, or the Prophet’s model behavior; the consensus of the four schools (Ijma), and analogical reasoning (Qiyas), according to Shari’ah: The Islamic Law by Abdur Rahman I. Doi. These sources are considered divine.The Qur’an is believed to have co-existed with God Himself in a heavenly book, known as the Mother Book written in Arabic from all eternity,[a] writes David Forte in Studies in Islamic Law; Classical & Contemporary Application.The Shari’ah seamlessly combines public, private and religious law, featuring elements of ancient codes, such as revenge. For instance, at a public execution for a crime against a person, the victim will normally be present in the crowd, viewing the impending death. The punishment is owned by the victim or their kin, and only they can stop the killing from taking place, normally by acceptance of blood-money (diya).

II General Description of Shari’ah Criminal Law
To Western eyes, the Shari’ah presents a disorganized and incomplete description of Criminal Law. According to Joseph Schacht, in Introduction to Islamic Law,There exists no general concept of penal law in Islam. The concepts of guilt and criminal responsibility are little developed, that of mitigating circumstances does not exist; any theory of attempt, complicity, of concurrence is lacking. On the other hand, the theory of punishments, with its distinction of private vengeance, hadd punishments, ta’zir, and coercive and preventative measures, shows a considerable variety of ideas.As Forte points out, one cannot actually say there is a modern Muslim penal code, writing, Islamic law does not possess a concept of penal law comparable to that of modern systems. Instead, it categorizes its offenses by the types of punishment they engender.Therefore, in terms of punishments, there are five basic categories. Behavior with a specifically prescribed punishment is under hadd. Discretionary punishment for various acts are under ta’zir, where the judge sets whatever penalty he chooses. Personal revenge, where retaliation or blood-money (diya) is applicable, is under jinayat. Offense against the state receive administrative penalties, or siyasa. And crimes where the appropriate, or chosen response, is personal religious penance, are under kaffara.

III Criminal Procedure
Shari’ah legal procedure is a somewhat counter-intuitive process. Rules for choosing the proper court and applying correct procedures, essential for American Due Process, are virtually non-existent in Islamic law. Rudolph Peters writes in Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law,There are very few general principles in Islamic criminal law. The classical books of fiqh do not contain chapters dealing with general notions or rules. Those that exist are either mentioned in each chapter devoted to a specific crime or they must be found by deduction.The most important local players in the Muslim legal system are the judge (qadi), the police (shurta), and the Islamic inspector of the market” (muhtasib), says Schacht. The latter is an official who made sure weights and measures were accurate, but also became a keeper of public morality and justice, including overseeing the police force. The muhtasib controls the system, but the qadi is independent in his decisions. Yet, the state at the highest levels may legally intervene at any time and make political decisions involving the accused which completely derail justice.Police may beat suspects, not to extract a confession, but merely remind the accused his duty to be truthful, according to There was no office of public prosecution under classic Shari’ah doctrine, although the muhtasib occasionally came to fill this roll as defender of public morals. Most cases were launched by private prosecutions from victims. Only verbal testimony (shahada) is considered evidence, with exceptions made for proof made by smell of alcohol for drunkenness or pregnancy indicating illicit sexual activity. Written documents are merely allowed as memory aids.

IV Muslim Criminal Law Theory
A quintessentially religious law, Shari’ah has set penalties, known as hadd—called exemplary punishments (Qur’an 5:38). These are performed in public to remind residents the wages of evil. Retribution is an important part of Muslim punishments, using the standard of Lex Talionis, ie eye for an eye, to measure punishment. For example, the murderer should be executed in the same manner his or her victim was dispatched. The Discretionary Punishments (ta’zir) are especially meant to return offenders to the gilded path of Allah.

V Specific Religious Crimes & Punishment Under Islamic Law
The state is generally responsible for criminal punishment, with a few exceptions, writes Peters. The prosecuting next of kin are allowed to personally deliver the death sentence in the case of murder. Also, a slave should be punished by their master, with the exception of amputations, which state executioners enforce. All criminal sentences are to be carried out immediately upon pronouncement, unless a compelling reason exists not do so.Were an offender to commit several different crimes which cannot be punished at once, a weight-list is used to decide which comes first. Writes Peters,If a person, having committed several crimes, is sentenced to a number of different penalties, each of them must be carried out. If this is physically impossible, the authorities must first execute those sentences that are founded on the claims of men and then those resulting from the claims of God…If a person has been sentenced to the removal of his eye by way of retaliation, to eighty lashes for slander, to a hundred lashes for unlawful intercourse and to the amputation of the right hand, the head of state or his agent must first carry out the gouging out of the eye because that is the claim of a man, then imprison him until the wound has healed, then carry out the punishment for calumny, etc…

A. Hudud Religious Punishments
Forte describes the religious Hadd crimes, writing Islamic law denotes five Quranic offenses which are regarded as offenses directly against Allah and which compel specific punishment. These crimes are Unlawful Intercourse (Zina), False Accusation of Unlawful Intercourse (Kadhf); Drinking of Wine (Shurb); Theft (Sariq), and Highway Robbery (Qat’ Al-Tariq).

1. Unlawful Intercourse—Zina: This occurs when a person has sexual relations with anyone not their spouse, nor a concubine (Shari’ah accepts sexual slavery). Technically, adultery is not a crime as no woman has exclusive rights to her husband, and the husband has no exclusive bond with his wife, despite this being an offense against Allah. The crime of Zina can also occur if a man takes and sleeps with a fifth wife while the four previous yet live, weds a close relative or girl before she undergoes puberty, or commits necrophilia, writes Forte.Proof of Zina must be provided by four adult Muslim males or a confession. The crime should have occurred within the last 30 days. On a discrepancy of testimony, of even a technical irregularity, the four can then receive the punishment for Zina themselves. Peters explains that if a man has sex with a slave not his, he owes her master a fine. A woman who reports a rape but cannot prove it occurred via four witnesses can then be prosecuted for Zina with her unproved accusation acting as a confession.

Zina Penalty:
The punishment here can be stoning, lashing, or both, depending upon the school. A stoning should only be applied to one convicted of unlawful intercourse, who is mentally competent, is a free person, and has already experienced lawful sexual relations in a marriage. For all others, it is either one 100 lashes for a free person, or 50 for a slave. All homosexual relations fulfill the Zina requirements, although the penalty is simply death instead of whipping, according to Peters.

2. False Accusation of Unlawful Intercourse—Kadhf: This occurs when a competent adult slanders another competent adult, who is a free Muslim, with false charges of Zina. Claiming someone is illegitimate also qualifies. Proof for this occurs via normal Islamic means, using oaths of witnesses, or by confession. Under a special rule, a husband may charge his wife with infidelity without risk if he uses the li’an procedure, which Forte describes as ...if he swears four times by Allah that he is speaking the truth and, at a fifth oath, calls down a curse upon himself if he is lying.The woman, as a defense, may repeat the exact procedure. If either one refuses the li’an, they are considered guilty, ipso facto, and receive the lashes.

Kadhf Penalty: The punishment for kadhf is 80 lashes for a freeman, or 40 for a slave.

3. Drinking of Wine—Shurb: Alcohol was not originally illegal but became so after Muhammad was appalled at the drunkenness of Arab society. The law also applies to any other intoxicant or drug. Proof can be provided by a confession, which can then be withdrawn at any time without penalty. Or witnesses can attest seeing the accused drinking, smelled alcohol on his breath, or observed him soused.

Shurb Penalty: The penalty for intoxicant imbibing is 20-40 lashes.

4. Theft—Sariq: This must be a crime of theft involving removal by stealth of an item owned by another of at least a certain value, kept in a locked area or under guard (hirz), says Peters. For example, removal of a gold coin stored in an animal stable would not qualify. This crime should be prosecuted by the government.

Sariq Penalty: Amputation of the right hand, as based upon Qur’an 5:38; although the Shiites allow just four fingers of the hand amputated, according to Peters. A second, third and fourth conviction can remove all such appendages.

5. Highway Robbery—Qat’ Al-Tariq: The Arabs considered this the most serious kind of crime as it threatens the calm and order of all society, according to Forte. Two types of evil are covered here. The first is robbing travelers from distant places; whereas the second is armed assault into a private home. Even non-Muslims are protected under this law. There must be at least a holdup which occurs outside the city for the penalty to apply to banditry, states Peters. The perpetrator must be of superior force to the victim, and so women do not qualify.

Qat’ Al-Tariq Penalty: The first conviction for this offense merits the amputation of the right hand and left foot of the wrong-doer, although some schools allow a simple deportation if no harm occurs. The second results in amputation of the left hand and right foot.

Says the Qur’an at 5:33,

The just retribution for those who fight GOD and His messenger, and commit horrendous crimes, is to be killed, or crucified, or to have their hands and feet cut off on alternate sides, or to be banished from the land. This is to humiliate them in this life, then they suffer a far worse retribution in the Hereafter.

VI. Other Shari’ah Crimes, Punishment, & Blood Money
A. Ta’zir Penalties
Discretionary penalties, or Ta’zir, are punishments delivered at the qadi’s subjective decision. The purpose is to punish acts against man and God, and sometimes includes reparation and repentance, writes Forte. These punishment vary in severity:

1.Private admonition to the guilty party, sometimes by letter;
2.Public reprimand in court;
3.Public proclamation of the offender’s guilt;
4.Suspended sentence;
5.Banishment;
6.Flogging;
7.Imprisonment;
8.Death.
Forte says many crimes are covered by Ta’zir that for some reason have eluded Hadd penalties, such as apostasy (ridda —although some schools consider this hadd), wine selling, homosexual activity, bodily harm or murder, bestiality, perjury, slander and usury.

B. Fines & Blood Money
Fines are paid to the state, whereas blood-money (diya) goes to a victim or kin, based upon his blood-status. Bloodprice is the victim’s worth, only calculable against that of the accused, which controls the punishment. A person cannot receive retaliation for killing a person of a lower bloodprice. For example, a Muslim cannot be executed for murdering a slave or member of the protected classes, being Christians or Jews, deemed dhimmis, i.e. the People of the Book (Bible).

C. Public Scorn, Imprisonment & Banishment
A common punishment is public exposure to scorn (tashir). Achieved by shaving the culprit’s head, or covering his face with soot (especially for false witnesses) and parading him sitting backwards on an donkey, through the community, with a town-crier announcing his sins. Banishment (nafy, taghrib) is associated with two crimes—simple banditry and illegal sex. If a woman is banished for being sexually immoral, a male relative must travel with her to make sure she stays chaste. Imprisonment (habs) is not normally used for penal law, but as a means to encourage debtors to pay.

D. Retaliation
Retaliation for injuries (qisas ma dun al-nafs) comes as Lex Talionis, eye-for-eye punishment in the form of amputations, blinding, and infliction of wounds the victim received. A recent Saudi case involved a man sentenced to judicial paralysis for severing the spinal cord of another. This should not be done till the victim has healed, in case he dies.

E. Theft & Amputation
Muhammad probably borrowed amputation (qat) for theft from the pagan Quaraysh tribe, who inflicted this punishment on rival tribesmen caught stealing, says Forte. While Muslim jurists claim amputation is to prevent recidivism, it more likely originated as judicial revenge. The hand is removed at the wrist, the stump cauterized in boiling oil, at the criminal’s expense, and the hand can be hung around the thief’s neck for three days. Cross-amputation (al-qat min-khilaf) is a punishment for brigands, ie highway robbers.

F. Flogging (Jald)
Flogging by leather whip is a very common punishment under the Shari’ah. The executioner administers this penalty, but should not raise the whip arm above the shoulder. The more serious a crime, the harder the executioner should flog the criminal. For example, one convicted of illegal sex should be beaten more severely than one guilty of drinking alcohol. Men are whipped standing, women seated. Men are stripped to the waist, while women are allowed to keep on clothes. As advised in Qur’an 24:2, the punishment should be public. The blows are to be spread over the body, except for dangerous places, like the head or genitals, as the purpose for whipping is not death.

G. Executions: Beheading, Stoning & Other Means
There are many ways to execute a criminal under Shari’ah. Typically, the mode of execution is beheading by sword, as done at famed Chop-Chop Square in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. But the crime defines the manner. For example, homosexuals are executed in typically dramatic fashion, by stoning, beheading, thrown from a high wall or building, hanging, immolated by fire, or buried alive (despite male homosexuality reportedly being rampant in the Middle East, according to Raphael Patai’s Arab Mind).

Execution may be used as retaliation, done by the kin of the victim, according to Qur’an 16:126 & 2:194, which calls for the murderer to be executed in the same manner as he killed his victims. Only if this would result in extended torture will the sword be substituted. The Government will inspect the proposed execution weapon and decide if the person can handle it properly. If not, then a substitute executioner will be arranged.

Death by Stoning (Rajm), or lapidation, is delivered by a crowd with the ultimate intent of killing the victim, writes Peters. The stones used should neither be too large, which would kill the criminal too quickly, nor too small, which would delay the job. The proper size is a stone which fills the hand. Women are to be dug into the earth up to their waists before the event. If the conviction is based upon accusations, the accusers are the first to throw. If the conviction is based upon a confession, the state representative is first to toss.

For Highway Robbery (Qat’ Al-Tariq), if a killing resulted during an attempted robbery, the punishment is beheading by sword. If a murder occurred during an actual theft, the punishment is execution by crucifixion (salb), the body left dying three days. Unlike a normal murder, the family of the victim cannot choose blood-money (diya) instead of execution.

Apostates may renounce Islam by word or deed, including rejecting axiomatic articles of faith, like denying Muhammad’s mission, fasting, or disrespecting the Qur’an. The apostate (ridda) is given three days to reflect, then put to death. Some schools only execute men, whereas the women are kept alive but flogged during the hours of prayer, according to Peters. Frank Vogel, in Islamic Law & Legal System: Studies of Saudi Arabia states that apostates are beheaded in Saudi Arabia before huge crowds on Friday afternoons, in the public square, directly after prayer time has ceased.

Dhimmis, as Christians and Jews, have no inherent rights or status under the Shari’ah, being harbis, or enemy aliens, naturally at war with Islam. It is only by way of the jizyah, or yearly treaty of war tax, that these can qualify for temporary protection. Should a dhimmi lapse in protection, they can be killed on the spot and their property taken without recompense, according to Schacht. Further, any persons not Muslim or dhimmi are considered pagans and are to be instantly killed under classical shari’ah doctrine.

Conclusion
Even the simplest person can deduce that classical Islamic Shari’ah law cannot possibly fit into the modern world anywhere on the globe. But it is especially impossible to apply this system in America, the land that created modern religious freedom, and let millions escape oppression. Most alarming, the Islamic law does not change to fit into other cultures, but is always offered as a perfect gift, delivered at the edge of a sword.Is it not the most obvious fact imaginable that American law is a thousand times fairer and safer than Shar’iah? Therefore, what kind of a mentality would want to force so much injustice, punishment and destruction upon the American people—in the name of God &¬† the Religion of Peace? That Rauf claims this antiquated, unsophisticated and brutal legal system agrees with American law and society says much more about his intentions for his Ground Zero mosque than it does any other topic he will ever discuss.

[a]This idea cannot help but evoke John’s description of the pre-incarnate Christic Logos (Word), In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him… (John 1:1; 18). Undoubtedly, such imagery influenced Muhammad’s fertile imagination when rendering the Qur’an.

Climate Research Has Been Hampered by the IPCC and Governments for over Twenty Years By Dr. Tim Ball Thursday, September 30, 2010-CANADA FREE PRESS
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/28222

Politicizing of climate science by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and governments directed it to proving that only human CO2 was causing climate change. This ensured almost no advance in climate science in 20 years. It is said, inaccurately, that the science is settled. It is accurate to say the IPCC and governments settled the science.Three scientists from the beginning of the 20th century had a profound impact on our view and understanding of the world and climate, yet are virtually unknown. They knew each other well; one was related by marriage to another. They worked together and the connections influenced their contributions to a global view and understanding of climate change. Vladimir Koppen produced a global climate classification that is the basis of most systems since. His training combined meteorology, climatology and botany and his system used plants as an indicator of climate. Koppen’s daughter married the second scientist, Alfred Wegener. His contribution was the continental drift theory that provided a fundamental foundation for geology. The third was Milutin Milankovitch, Serbian mathematician and climatologist, whose work combined the effect of changes in Sun/Earth relationships on climate change.All three saw their ideas challenged in the appropriate scientific way, but have withstood attempts to disprove them. Despite this, the public is generally unaware of their work and its implications. They challenged prevailing views, which always creates a struggle. They also challenged the underlying view of uniformitarianism, the western scientific idea that change is gradual over long periods of time. A common denominator for all their ideas was lack of a mechanism that drove the discernible patterns and evidence.

Alfred Wegener
As early as 1620, Frances Bacon noticed the similarity between the coastlines on each side of the Atlantic. Wegener applied the idea to all the continents and showed how they fit together as a single continent he called Pangea. He hypothesized they began to separate about 300 million years ago, first dividing into two continents he called Gondwanaland and Laurasia. These continue to separate and define the areas of earthquakes, volcanoes and other features that cause catastrophic events. The idea that continents could move was incomprehensible. It wasn’t until the 1960s that Vine and Mathews identified the mechanism of convective cells within the mantle. They drive the crust to converge and diverge creating all the major features on Earth. Continental Drift is now a fully accepted theory that is the basis of geology. One aspect of continental drift that received attention in Hubert Lamb’s 1977 masterpiece Climate: Present, Past and Future, (Volume 2) is the effect of different land/ocean patterns on climate. This can include even relatively small but critical changes. For example, consider the different ocean circulation before the closing of the gap between North and South America.

Milutin Milankovitch
Early studies by geologists and glaciologists attempted to find a climate mechanism to explain the evidence of massive ice sheets during the recent Ice Age. Louis Agassiz identified the existence and extent of the ice sheets in Europe as early as 1837, but it wasn’t generally accepted until the 1860s. There were many theories. One that endured was Joseph Adhemar’s proposal that the likely cause was changes in the earth’s solar orbit. James Croll was the major contributor to the orbital variation idea and calculated orbital eccentricity for different latitudes over 3 million years, published in 1867. Milankovitch spent years combining changes in the sun/earth relationships including changes in orbit, tilt and date of equinox. He wanted to find the mechanism primarily responsible for climate change. Prior to computers he calculated variations in solar energy received at every five degrees of latitude over 650,000 years. He published them in 1920 as, Mathematical Theory of Heat Phenomenon Produced by Solar Radiation. His work caught the attention of Koppen who sent him a postcard. It said he was working with his son-in-law Alfred Wegener on a book about past climates and they were very excited by the mechanism Milankovitch proposed. In 1924 he published, with Koppen, the now classic graph of variation in summer radiation for 65°N that identified the correlation with Ice Ages (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Intensity of radiation curve for 65°N. Ice Ages names are for Europe.
Source: Imbrie and Imbrie, 1979, Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery.

Milankovitch acknowledged that without Koppen’s input from his extensive understanding of global climate patterns he would not have identified that summer temperatures at 65°N were the critical issue.Milankovitch’s theory was initially accepted as a plausible answer to the major fluctuations and triggered research in the 1950s. Then it was pushed aside because it showed glaciers in a part of Alaska that the new technique of radiocarbon dating indicated were forested. It turned out the radiocarbon was wrong because it assumed constant solar energy. A reference to Milankovitch was immediately challenged. It wasn’t until the 1980s that a reference to his work went unchallenged. The amazing thing is most still don’t know that Earth’s orbit changes significantly because of the gravitational pull of the planets, especially Jupiter. They still don’t know the earth tilt swings between 21.8° and 24.4° or that the date on which critical events, Equinox and Solstices, are constantly changing.At a presentation at the University of Victoria I stated that the IPCC computer models do not include the Milankovitch Effect. A person challenged this and said the models do include it. He was confused because some models do include it, but not those used by the IPCC. On a radio program Andrew Weaver, a lead author of the computer model chapters in the IPCC Science Report called and said it was not included because it was insignificant on a short time scale. Figure 2 shows a plot of variations in the amount of solar radiation at 65° north for a period of 1 million years.

Figure 2: Variations in the amount of insolation (incoming solar radiation) at 65°N.
Source: BERGER, A. 1978. Long-term variations of daily insolation and quaternary climatic changes. J. Atmos. Sci. 35: 2362–2367.Range of variation is approximately 100 watts per square meter, which far exceeds the 2 watts per square meter the IPCC attributes to humans.

Vladimir Koppen
Koppen’s work is least known or acknowledged even in science yet it holds potential for understanding climate and climate change. It is more important than the IPCC and most climate research because it recognizes the importance of water in all its forms.Koppen, Wegener, and Milankovitch did more to help us understand the world and its dynamic systems than most, yet they’re virtually unknown. Some blame lies with the education system used to indoctrinate and keep people ill informed or misinformed. It’s the only explanation for continued teaching of a fixed pattern of sun/earth relationships when science knew 100 years ago how much it changed? However, the biggest hindrance since its inception in 1988 is the IPCC and governments who accepted their findings. They reinforced them by funding only research that proved their views. They settled the science.

Greenism By Barry Napier Thursday, September 30, 2010

In Canada Free Press I give many examples, in a variety of articles, of the myriad falsities inherent in the green movement. Sometimes, falsity can be accepted as a side-effect of stupidity, but not in this case. The green movement is the province of intelligent middle classes. So, why is it that these people come out with such nonsense? It’s because their intellect doesn’t match their intelligence, making them accept emotionalism rather than truth. In other words, they are prejudiced against reality.One of the most recent pro-green articles by foolish people was, to my surprise, in MENSA magazine (October 2010), written by a newly-degreed fellow reading geology. Way back over 40 years ago I thought of joining MENSA, but then, as today, I cannot think of a benefit. And, now I have read the article, I can see that intelligence is no defence against propaganda and fakery. The article itself is not worthy of inclusion in a journal for people with high intelligence… it is just a collection of the usual propaganda, all hot air and no reason. I do not doubt the author’s intelligence, only his ignorance riding on the back of vanity.

If The First Statement is a Lie…
In law, it does not matter how often an item (usually a car) is sold on, if the item was stolen in the first place, every transaction thereafter is illegal and those who foolishly buy without checking will lose their money. The same applies to intellectual activity – if the first claim, statement, or theory is wrong, it does not matter how many people repeat it, it will still be wrong.In my AIDS research I discovered a shocking fact - that all doctors took their information about HIV and AIDS from a very small source… mostly from homosexual groups and those influenced by them, including the Department of Health! Therefore, said the doctor who verified this fact, every doctor and health professional took in the same errors and deceptions, and so were all equally duped by error! And so AIDS is now rampant, as is the behaviour that leads to it. Those we hope are experts are, then, nothing of the sort… they are as prone to being deceived as everyone else. And it is the public that suffers, as lie after lie is passed around, masquerading as truth and medical fact.In the same way, everyone involved in the green movement, or with sympathy for it, take their supposed facts from the same small number of sources. Most do not even know what the original sources are. The result is a widely brainwashed population led by similarly brainwashed experts. They ignore any other information, usually referring to it as bigotry, even though they do not examine the material properly. More importantly, they do not bother to check the veracity of the information they rely on, given to them by dubious sources such as Mann (he of the infamous hockey stick) and the IPCC.

These hot-greens also fail to recognise who is behind the greenism, and why. In my book, The Global Green Agenda, I prove beyond doubt that what is behind the environmental movement is not concern for the planet, but the sticky hands of very rich men who want to get richer, and governments who want extra taxes without the need for a genuine reason! To get what they want they base themselves in Marxism and Fascism, which are behind all environmental/ecology claims and plans since the mid 1800s. If this does not concern our greenies, then there is something seriously wrong with their line of thinking. Intelligent they may be – but sensible they are not! It is intelligence bereft of intellectual excellence. They can shout, huff and puff, but it makes no difference, because flaws are flaws and deception is deception.

The Article
The article even has a propaganda title: No Question. Sound familiar? It should, because it has been Al Gore’s mantra, used by the IPCC and others, for over ten years. It does not just deny the validity of anti-green science, even though greenies actively stop it from appearing in the media and science journals. Nothing like a refusal to examine another scientific argument just in case it upsets the apple cart! Very scientific. The author, Robin George Andrews does just that, by trotting out the same old, same old. There is nothing new in his paper, only a repeat (forgive my yawn) of the usual pro-green nonsense that pretends to be genuine. Sadly for Andrews, he appears to be rattled badly by the very existence of anti-green material, but he is unable to gather together anything of us to combat it. He just gets mad! If he gets that upset, maybe he ought to get out of the anthropogenic heat of the scientific kitchen.Andrews again repeats the Al Gore lie by saying in his sub-title: The existence of man-made global warming is a scientific fact and should not be a matter of debate in the media.There you have it – because he says it, it MUST be true! The fact is, he is hopping mad because, at last, the media are starting to catch on, that maybe greenies are not so expert after all. All Andrews research is going down the drain and he can’t hack it. He only shouts insults.

Greens Rule!
What’s he talking about? Environmental claims have NEVER been a matter of debate, whether in science or in the media (particularly the socialist-led BBC) – and that is the problem! All we get are greenie experts refusing to allow another argument into journals and the media, so that no-one can evaluate the other side. This is why anti-greens have been furiously fighting to be heard. Of course, having the floor, the pro-greens simply denounce anti-greens and use humiliation as a weapon. Rather like the antics of Democrats, who see their power possibly slipping away. But, so far, no-one has seen a proper and full evaluation of the green claims in public, government, or in the media. Check the last ten years’ output! This is why the Climate Unit at Anglia University got into trouble, by deleting vital emails, fostering snide remarks to scientists who did not share their view, hiding the facts and issuing fake data. The IPCC 2007 Report, the one that gave the impetus for governments to steal our taxes for non-essential green policies and so valued by Andrews, did the same thing, only publishing pro-green articles and nothing else. The IPCC also altered the data in others, sometimes drastically. I found at least two dozen deliberate fraudulent articles in the IPCC Report! And I am in contact with several Lead Authors of the IPCC Report, who are angry because their work was changed without their knowledge. Andrews merely does not mention all this. Convenient.The aim of greenism is not what greenies think it is. While they dance about in fairy circles to appease Mother Earth, politicians use the fraudulent information to extort stupidly high taxes and remove freedom of choice of energy sources, burying anything critical. This is a classic Marxist move and it is what Al Gore and others are aiming at. Now, back to the article…

Weather… A Geology Specialism?
Andrews says he recently graduated from Imperial College with a degree in Geology. Congratulations. He admits he is not a qualified scientist. Yes, we know that by what he says. But, he claims to have done extensive research into the global warming idea. Hm. What information did he imbibe, and why? And what information did he cast aside… and why? His article proves that he relies solely on greenie material, even though much of it has been proved to be fraudulent and has been debunked. Or, shown to be just plain wrong. Yet, Andrews does not mention those articles proven to be fraudulent. Naughty boy.Since when is geology qualify a man in weather systems? Since when does a newly-degreed young man, full of idealism but no experience, equal an established climatologist in the business for many years? What he is saying is that he knows more than weather scientists who refuse the greenie argument. Sorry, but Andrews must have a much better reason to ditch their work than global warming is a scientific fact! I do not care how much research this fellow says he has done, if he prefers propaganda to truth. Saying something is a scientific fact is NOT the same as proving it, especially when calling it a fact is equal to calling it a fully-fledged law of science. And no theory can claim that, until it has undergone a long period of experiment, verification, falsification, etc! Nothing in global warming science has come anywhere near this kind of scientific rigour, nor have greenies had sufficient time to warrant calling their science fixed and irrefutable. Oh dear, Andrews, you have made a bit of a boob. Publishing it in the journal of a self-praise group does not make it any more correct. A geologist is not a weather expert. Full stop. That is not so bad. What brings Andrews to his knees is not his ignorance, but his refusal to admit the truth in anti-green research done by men twice or three times his age, who are experts in their field, even when most of the IPCC 2007 report has been shown to be fake.

Shut Up – It’s a Fact!
Andrews deplores the angle taken by a recent BBC News 24 programme, which stated that most of the public do not believe there is global warming. Andrews said that this aggravated him (he is aggravated a lot!). No doubt. Maybe he needs some time in the real working world, because few people will bow to his every whim and demand, or let him get away with nonsense. It might shock him to learn that even intelligent people, many of them in relevant science jobs, do not accept his naïve view of global warming, gleaned from cornflake packets (or so it seems). How will he react to them? With a subtle Shut up and a kick in the teeth? Experts disagree with you – get over it.Andrews goes on to vaunt his own research ability by saying that the public has a misunderstanding about global warming. Oh Yes? Or is it that they are sick to the teeth of the lies of Al Gore and pals, and can see the truth, whereas Andrews and friends cannot? He even says the media have failed to understand this public rejection of the facts. I think Andrews has been away somewhere exotic, because the media to date has mainly ignored the public and all anti-green reports. To put it nicely, Andrews is too full of himself.

The young man (I assume he is young and therefore still in his post-teen, psychologically-black-and-white stage of thinking) further deplores that the BBC presents climate change as still under debate. He almost chokes with rage because the BBC said scientists do not all agree on what causes global warming.Perhaps he should take a powder… this is the first time the BBC has admitted to this truth. Until now it has solidly backed the horse it thought was winning – Labour (Marxism) and greenies. But, times are changing, and governments are no longer threatening us with green policies. Well, not as much as they used to anyway. That is the only reason the BBC has backed down, apart from the other fact, that many thousands of scientists reject the green global warming argument – specifically, that mankind causes it.It is always infuriating when long research is turned upside down by the facts. Andrews must learn to cope with this, as does any scientist worth his salt. He has simple backed the wrong horse and now feels foolish.

Do Scientists Agree?
No, they don’t! In the USA alone over 32,000 signed the Oregon Petition. Of course, greenies went into a spin about that and immediately tried to rip it apart. Many more thousands of scientists throughout the world reject the human-cause claims. So, for Andrews to say the science is simple and should be accepted, is preposterous. There is no proven link between carbon dioxide and changes in climate. Climate changes… because it does. There is certainly no proof that mankind causes global warming. As I said, saying something is true does not necessarily make it true!

Andrews continues what is really a diatribe rather than an argument, by saying that an extremely small minority of scientists disagree with the science behind climate change.This is another claim, oft repeated, without proof. How does he know how many scientists do not agree, or, for that matter, agree? I know how many disagree in the Petition, and from reports I have read for several years. Many scientists who once supported global warming claims now no longer do so, because they see how erroneous the science is. The truth is, no-one knows exact numbers – Andrews has again succumbed to propaganda.I find it remarkable that, as a non-experienced geologist, Andrews can assert confidently that: when their analysis of the evidence is reviewed, it is always found to be flawed. Again – saying it does not make it true! And how does a newly degreed fellow know how to examine the claims made by scientists expert in their field? I find his assertion vain to say the least. Is he willing to argue against those IPCC Lead Authors I know? Or, the climatologists I know who categorically reject the green theories? Andrews says (as if he had access to these people’s minds) that anti-greens have a variety of motives. You mean just like greenies? Or is he again guessing, based on his own aggravated state, attributing motives when they are usually hidden deep in the psyche?

Here Comes the Hockey-Stick Again!
As part of his aggressive attack (it is not a defence), Andrews directs us all to accept the infamous hockey stick first made popular by Al Gore, the high priest of get-rich-quick. The hockey stick and its inventor, Mann, was debunked, not just once, but twice, because it was not feasible, used massaged data, and ignored all the known facts. Once again, our friendly Andrews says that he is aggravated because (he knows, of course) those who are anti-green are somehow funded by big oil, etc. Does he mean like the Climate Unit at East Anglia? Or, Al Gore and his cronies? Or many green scientists? Maybe it is better if he doesn’t mention that one.As if he has many years experience with the media and in science, Andrews then says that the media is teaching the public how to be uncritical… rather like a man named Andrews, a recent geology student, who thinks he knows everything about everything, even men’s motives. The insult to the scientific method he implies is being ignored by the media (remember – it is only recently that the media bothered to air views that were not green), should be aimed back at his own presuppositions, based as they are on green propaganda rather than on truth. The insult is being constantly thrown about by Mann, the IPCC and those greens who think they can get away with it.

Not Only Global Warming…
The reader will have to forgive my direct opposition to Andrews; I do so robustly because he dares to bad-mouth serious scientists in a public arena without once giving facts. He must learn to be wise. Those of us who KNOW anthropogenic warming is a lie, and we have had enough of being pushed aside, especially by young men with more mouth than reason. I am really surprised that MENSA even contemplated publishing what he said, which is old stuff, regurgitated.I must say that Andrews is an all-round expert. Not content with saying expert scientists are failures and incapable of having scientific ability, he vaunts his own importance, this time by attacking Creationists and Intelligent Design scientists. He assumes, so it seems, that both camps are the same, when they are not. They might sometimes coincide, but, in the main, Intelligent Design can be toted by people without even a remote interest in God. Even so, wanting to show this as an example of how those he considers to be fools will believe anything, he says that Intelligent Design has absolutely no solid evidence to support it. (He must be reading New Scientist – they get in a tizzy about it, too). So, how much time did Andrews spend on his degree course, if he has become so expert in not just every aspect of climate change, but also Intelligent Design? Maybe I’m being picky, but unless his brain is the size of New York, how does he did he do it in such a short space of time? I am really jealous of his ability… at 63, in spite of a clutch of degrees and long experience, relatively, I know less now than I did when I was Andrews’ age! Intelligent Design has no proofs? The implication is that evolution has proof for its claims. But, it has not! In a university on this planet I heard an evolutionist giving a Darwin Lecture, and he plainly admitted that there were not enough proofs for evolution to fill the floor of a small room! Or, to put it another way, the evidences used by evolutionists to prove evolution do not exist - plenty of evidences but no proofs. Only one proof is necessary to prove evolution to be real – the mechanism of change. Until that mechanism is shown to exist, evolution remains an unproved theory. Hang on… just like intelligent design. What a coincidence!

Facts… or Just Repeated Claims?
With another yawn, I see that Andrews then says evolution is an accepted scientific fact, even though a growing number of quite serious scientists (not Christians) are veering towards Intelligent Design (ID). How annoying (or to use his own word: aggravating”) for Andrews! This lad seems to be aggravated by just about everything, except his own importance. Fewer and fewer scientists now believe in the Big Bang, let alone evolution. But, of course, I am aggravating Andrews with these trivial facts.Let me put it this way – it is up to evolutionists to prove their case, not for others to disprove evolution. There is no need to disprove what has never, ever been proved to be true. The only reason evolution is thought to be true, is because evolutionists say it is, repeatedly. To cast doubts on scientists of Intelligent Design, etc., is to throw out a smoke screen to cover the bad science in evolution. Andrews can cut me down with his scythe-like mind by simply showing me the mechanism of change that would completely vindicate evolutionism. This is where I am more confident than he is, for I know there is no such mechanism.To quote our geology expert (who has yet to speak geologically): Intelligent design, supported by no concrete evidence, is merely speculation and extraordinary claims, and is simply unscientific. Does he mean like the way astrophysicist Stephen Hawking recently talked of aliens, or the way he blatantly and publicly said that matter created itself from nothing? Eh?? He is an evolutionist, of course, so he must be right, with or without proofs. On the other hand, how can an evolutionist say that matter created itself, from absolute nothing?

Evidence – or Proof?
Notice, too, that Andrews uses the wrong word – concrete implies proof, not mere evidence. Perhaps he should become familiar with both words so that he doesn’t get them mixed up. So, if ID is only speculation because it has no proofs – what does that mean for evolution, if even an evolutionist says there are none? Back to the drawing board, Mr Andrews.To underscore his use of propaganda rather than facts, Andrews goes on to refer to people who refuse to accept anthropogenic global warming as irrationalists. Even though they research their subjects, in which they are experts, and Andrews is not? Here, though, he at last uses evidences in a correct manner. He says there is an overwhelming amount of evidence in support of… manmade global warming. There he is correct. But, because he does not know the difference between evidence and proof, his argument is less dramatic than he thinks. One can amass millions of evidences, but they must all point irrefutably in the same direction before they can be called proofs… if, that is, they have been thoroughly investigated and falsified, etc. Global warming by mankind has not been scrutinized properly. Sorry Andrews, but you are wrong again. Knowing the difference between evidence and proof is basic to genuine scientific research… something too many warmists fail to bother with.Andrews continues by waffling over the same ground, without proving a sausage! (Sorry to be so un-MENSA-like). Sadly, he quotes the 20o7 IPCC Report as being on the side of his claims. Again I must say Oh Dear, what a boob. The number of flaws and deliberate frauds in that Report are so numerous as to even embarrass a Gore or an Obama! I have recounted a number of them in Canada Free Press. Don’t take my word for them – listen to the ones who admitted to making the frauds in the first place.

Oops Again!
Once again, Andrews misuses his words by saying Science… is based on evidences. Oh no it isn’t! Evidences are only steps to forming proofs, not proofs in themselves. Warmist theories are not proven at all; they are only weak hypotheses. Andrews is pointing his finger in the wrong direction… it should be firmly jabbing his own chest until he learns to distinguish evidences and proofs (bearing in mind that even proofs are in flux, with possible refutations waiting in the wings).Then, in his final paragraph, Andrews says the only sensible thing in the whole article. He says that if the media continues to convince the public that warming by humans is not proved, then it will not be long before we stop putting in the effort to counter it… Hear, hear! When that happens we will all be better off, freer, and able to speak our minds. We should not be basing our lives on the whims of warmists who loathe human beings, or on the demands of governments hungry for our taxes. Let’s get rid of warming theories/hypotheses, and return to sense and real science. Regardless of what MENSA experts think they are saying. It takes far more than intelligence to muster a worthwhile intellectual attack! I hope MENSA continues to publish this kind of nonsense, because it certainly amuses people like me.

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AND THE OTHER ISSUE WE MUST KEEP ON THE TABLE AND IN PEOPLES MEMORY IS THAT BARRY SOETORO IS REALLY BARACK OBAMAS REAL NAME AND HE WAS BORN IN KENYA NOT AMERICA.BARRY SOETORO AKA BARACK OBAMA IS NOT ELLIGABLE TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA GOVERNMENT.EVERYTHING HE SIGNS IN BARACK OBAMA IS ILLEGEL,BECAUCE HIS REAL NAME IS BARRY SOETORO.AMERICAS CONSTITUTION WILL BE IN SHAMBLES ONCE THIS SCAM IS FINALLY REVEALED TO THE WORLD.

BY THE TIMELINE IN OBAMAS OWN BOOKS-OBAMA WENT TO PAKISTAN ON HIS INDONESIAN PASSPORT.ANOTHER ISSUE OUT OF 400 PEOPLE AT COLUMBIA THAT GRADUATED THE YEAR OBAMA OR BARRY SOETORO DID,NO ONE COMES FORWARD TO SAY THEY KNEW HIM.HOW COME AT HAWAII HOSPITAL WERE OBAMA CLAIMS HE WAS BORN,NO NURSES OR ANYBODY CAME FORWARD TO SAY THEY WITNESSED OR TOOK PART IN THE BIRTH.THIS BARRY SOETORO OR AKA BARACK OBAMAS LIFE IS A COMPLETE FRAUD.AND AMERICA IS CONNED TO BELIEVE THE LIE.WHY WOULD SOETORO AKA OBAMA SPEND 2 MILLION DOLLARS TO STOP ALL THESE LAWSUITS IF THERES NO COVERUP.HE WOULD JUST SHOW THE PROOF OF EACH EVENT-PLACE OF BIRTH,CERTIFICATE AND REAL NAME BARRY SOETORO INDONESIAN PASSPORT.

The proof is everywhere from statements and affidavits from Government parliament sources and Obama’s own Grandmother who says she saw him born in a hospital in Mombassa Kenya. The former ambassador to Kenya says Obama was born in Mombassa Kenya, so do others. Check out the affidavits at www.obamacrimes.com and join Phil Berg and other concerned citizens for a huge eligibility protest march May 29th 12-4pm.

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As Obama Pretends at Its Freedom, His Gov’t Plans Takeover of Internet
By Warner Todd Huston Thursday, September 30, 2010 CANADA FREE PRESS

In an address to the United Nations on Thursday, Sept. 23, President Obama pledged to preserve a free and open Internet and would call out nations that censored content.In a veiled reference to China and other nations that censor the Internet, Obama said that a civil society fosters open government. Civil society is the conscience of our communities, and America will always extend our engagement abroad with citizens beyond the halls of government. And we will call out those who suppress ideas and serve as a voice for those who are voiceless.We will promote new tools of communication so people are empowered to connect with one another and, in repressive societies, to do so with security, Obama said. We will support a free and open Internet, so individuals have the information to make up their own minds. And it is time to embrace and effectively monitor norms that advance the rights of civil society and guarantee its expansion within and across borders.Yet even as Obama stood giving high sounding words to a free and open Internet and scolding other nations that have oppressive controls on Internet access for their own citizens, Barack Obama’s own government has itself been quietly making plans to take over the Internet from private companies.Obama’s Federal Communications Commission Chairman, Julius Genachowski, has been angling to use telephone regulations from the 1930s to try and take over full control of the Internet. One wonders how Obama can have the gall to claim that he wants a free and open Internet when he is trying to take control of it himself? How long would the Internet stay free and open once the federal government takes hold of it and begins to decide what will be allowed and not allowed over it’s infrastructure?

As always, Barack Obama talks out of both sides of his mouth claiming all at once that he is for open access, and promoting new technologies and businesses while at the same time making plans for Bi Government to control it all from Washington.
Henry Waxman (D, CA), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, also seems to be very confused about what is going on with the idea of the FCC grabbing control over the Internet.On one day this week he wanted to introduce legislation that would put Congress in the driver’s seat on regulation thereby cutting out the FCC from regulating the Internet, but then the very next day he reversed himself 100% and decided it wouldn’t be a good idea. It is a bit hard to understand such a whiplash-inducing move but it has happened nonetheless.Still, if Congress takes up a consideration of how to handle the Internet this should forestall the FCC’s attempts to forcibly take over the Internet via fiat regulation.Anyone interested in keeping the government’s hands off the full control of the Internet should pressure Waxman to take up his original position. Others that can put off the FCC’s power grab are Marsha Blackburn (R, TN) — who has come out in opposition to government control of the Internet — and Rep. Rick Boucher (D, VA), another member of Energy and Commerce Committee.A good mode of pressure is to cite a new poll that says that the public is not in favor of the government take over of the Internet.BroadbandforAmerica.com has an interesting report about a survey made by Hart Research Associates that seems to indicate that there is substantial opposition to government Internet regulation.The survey shows that 75 percent oppose government regulation with 55 percent saying that government should not regulate the Internet at all. In other words, respondents did not want the government saying how business should be conducted on the Internet and were reticent to agree that government should restrict or control Internet providers. Congress should be made aware of these fact.

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Bill Gates says vaccines can help reduce world population
Mike Adams NaturalNews October 1, 2010

In a recent TED conference presentation, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, who has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to new vaccine efforts, speaks on the issue of CO2 emissions and its effects on climate change. He presents a formula for tracking CO2 emissions as follows: CO2 = P x S x E x C.

P = People
S = Services per person
E = Energy per service
C = CO2 per energy unit

Then he adds that in order to get CO2 to zero, probably one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty close to zero.Following that, Bill Gates begins to describe how the first number — P (for People) — might be reduced. He says:The world today has 6.8 billion people… that’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.You can watch this yourself at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUJMR3BUm2s&feature=player_embedded
http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A…

Reducing the world population through vaccines

This statement by Bill Gates was not made with any hesitation, stuttering or other indication that it might have been a mistake. It appears to have been a deliberate, calculated part of a well developed and coherent presentation.So what does it mean when Bill Gates says if we do a really great job on new vaccines… we could lower [world population] by 10 or 15 percent? Clearly, this statement implies that vaccines are a method of population reduction. So is health care, which all NaturalNews readers already know to be more of a sick care system that actually harms more people than it helps.Perhaps that’s the whole point of it. Given that vaccines technology help almost no one from a scientific point of view (http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_v…), it raises the question: For what purpose are vaccines being so heavily pushed in the first place? Bill Gates seems to be saying that one of the primary purposes is to reduce the global population as a mechanism by which we can reduce CO2 emissions. Once again, watch the video yourself to hear him say it in his own words:http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A…

How can vaccines actually be used to reduce world population? Let’s conduct a mental experiment on this issue. If vaccines are to be used to reduce world population, they obviously need to be accepted by the majority of the people. Otherwise the population reduction effort wouldn’t be very effective.And in order for them to be accepted by the majority of the people, they obviously can’t just kill people outright. If everybody started dropping dead within 24 hours of receiving the flu shot, the danger of vaccines would become obvious rather quickly and the vaccines would be recalled.Thus, if vaccines are to be used as an effective population reduction effort, there are really only three ways in which they might theoretically be effective from the point of view of those who wish to reduce world population:

#1) They might kill people slowly in a way that’s unnoticeable, taking effect over perhaps 10 – 30 years by accelerating degenerative diseases.

#2) They might reduce fertility and therefore dramatically lower birth rates around the world, thereby reducing the world population over successive generations. This soft kill method might seem more acceptable to scientists who want to see the world population fall but don’t quite have the stomach to outright kill people with conventional medicine. There is already evidence that vaccines may promote miscarriages (http://www.naturalnews.com/027512_v…).

#3) They might increase the death rate from a future pandemic. Theoretically, widespread vaccination efforts could be followed by a deliberate release of a highly virulent flu strain with a high fatality rate. This bioweapon approach could kill millions of people whose immune systems have been weakened by previous vaccine injections.This is a known side effect of some vaccines, by the way. A study documenting this was published in PLoS. Read the story here: http://www.naturalnews.com/028538_s…Here’s the study title and citation: Does Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Increase the Risk of Illness with the 2009 A/H1N1 Pandemic Virus? Viboud C, Simonsen L (2010) Does Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Increase the Risk of Illness with the 2009 A/H1N1 Pandemic Virus? PLoS Med 7(4): e1000259. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000259 The short answer is yes, seasonal flu vaccines do cause increased susceptibility to the H1N1 pandemic virus. In other words, seasonal flu vaccines could set up the population for a hard kill pandemic that could wipe out a significant portion of the global population (perhaps 10 to 15 percent, as Bill Gates suggested).

Conveniently, their deaths could be blamed on the pandemic, thereby diverting blame from those who were really responsible for the plot. As yet another beneficial side effect for the global population killers, the widespread deaths could be used as a fear tool to urge more people to get vaccinated yet again, and the entire cycle could be repeated until world population was brought down to whatever manageable level was desired… all in the name of health care! The more people around the world are vaccinated before the release of the hard kill pandemic virus, the more powerful the effect of this approach.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.Perhaps not coincidentally, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into vaccine programs targeting people all over the world. One such program is researching the development of sweat-triggered vaccines that could use specially-coated nano-materials to deliver vaccines to people without using injections.More interestingly, his foundation has also invested millions in sterilization technologies that have been called a temporary castration solution. (http://www.naturalnews.com/028887_v…)
It seems that the actions of the Gates foundation are entirely consistent with the formula for CO2 reduction that Bill Gates eluded to in his TED conference speech: CO2 = P x S x E x C.By reducing birth rates (through sterilization technologies) and increasing vaccine penetration throughout the world population (by using sweat-triggered nano-vaccines), his stated goal of reducing the world population by 10 to 15 percent could be reached within just a few years.

Who will be left alive? The smart people.The interesting thing about all this is that this campaign to reduce global population through vaccines will obviously not impact people who consciously avoid vaccines. And those people, by and large, tend to be the more intelligent, capable people who actually have an improved ability to move human civilization forward with thoughtful consideration.I can only imagine that those people designing this vaccine-induced population control measure might be sitting around a table chuckling to themselves and saying, It’s only the stupid people that are going to be killed off anyway, so this is actually helping the future of humankind! (Their words, not mine.)In a weird world government kind of way, this effort might actually be based on some distorted vision of philanthropy where some of the most powerful people in the world quite literally believe the way to save humanity is to kill off as many of the gullible people as possible. Vaccines are, in effect, an evil genius kind of way to conduct an IQ test on the population at large: If you go get vaccinated every flu season, you’re not too bright and probably don’t engage the kind of strong mental faculties that humanity will no doubt need if it is to face a future where it is now all but obvious we are not alone in the universe.If humanity is to save itself from its own destruction and compete as an uplifted species in our universe, killing off the least intelligent members of society (or making them infertile) may appear to the world controllers to be a perfectly reasonable approach. I disagree with that approach, but it may be precisely what they are thinking.In any case, choosing to receive a seasonal flu shot is undoubtedly an admission that you have failed some sort of universal IQ test, whether or not this is the intention of world influencers such as Bill Gates. More importantly, it is also a betrayal of your own biology, because it indicates you don’t believe in the ability of your own immune system to protect you even from mild infections.Perhaps the world vaccine conspirators figure that if people are willing to betray themselves anyway, it’s not much different for governments and institutions to betray them as well. In other words, if you don’t even care enough about your own health to take care of your health, why should any government care about protecting your health, either? As you ponder this, also consider something else: The U.S. is going broke due to sick-care costs which are rising dramatically under the new federal health care reform guidelines. Can you guess the fastest and easiest way to reduce those health care costs? If you guessed, unleash a hard-kill pandemic that takes out a significant portion of the weak or sick people then you guessed right. Sadly, killing off those most vulnerable to sickness could save the U.S. government literally billions of dollars in sick-care expenditures. Plus, it would save Social Security yet more billions by avoiding ongoing monthly payouts. (Again, I am completely against such an approach because I value human life, but I also know we live in a world where the people in charge have little or no respect for human life and will readily sacrifice human lives to achieve their aims.)

As far as Bill Gates goes, consider his statement in the context of what we’ve discussed here: The world today has 6.8 billion people… that’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.It suddenly seems to make a lot of sense when you understand that reducing the population reduces CO2 emissions, and using more vaccines on more people increases the death rate of the population.My advice? Try to avoid being among those 10 to 15 percent who get culled through global vaccine programs. You will not only save your life, you’ll also pass the universal IQ test which determines whether you’re smart enough to know that injecting your body with chemicals and viral fragments in order to stop seasonal flu is a foolish endeavor.Be healthy and wise, and you’ll survive the world depopulation effort that victimizes conventional thinkers who don’t have the intelligence to question what they’re being told to do by their own corrupt governments.

Will the Dollar Rebound Before Being Dissolved Into Global Currency?
Eric Blair Activist Post October 1, 2010

Every time the dollar begins to decline, I wonder, Is this it, is this the end to the fiat dollar? The fundamentals suggest that it should be finished, but just as the world is about to declare it dead, miraculously a global storyline seems to emerge just when needed and foreign investors rush back in for safety. A clear example was the steady drumbeat of a sovereign-foreign-debt war that resulted in reports of whether the Euro would even survive, while the dollar enjoyed a triumphant ride up victory mountain.There is little hope for the dollar rebounding as the Fed’s quantitative easing not only continues, but must increase dramatically to make up ground from lost investors and higher deficits. Photo: Packmatt.Since the world declared the Euro debt crisis saved, the focus has shifted to exposing America’s deficit problems, which has led to the dollar collapsing to its 5-month low against the Euro. There seems to be a growing realization by foreign countries that a volatile dollar as the world’s reserve currency is unhealthy for their nations and the global economy as a whole — especially as it pertains to vital commodities like oil and food. This increased awareness is causing foreign governments to invest more in other currencies, gold, and even vast stretches of agricultural land — while beginning to advocate for a more stable global reserve currency.Some are defining this volatility as all out international currency wars. The Telegraph reported on Brazil’s fears of a currency war:Brazil’s finance minister Guido Mantega has complained repeatedly over the past month that his country is facing a currency war as funds flood the local bond market to take advantage of yields of 11pc, vastly higher than anything on offer in the West.

We’re in the midst of an international currency war. This threatens us because it takes away our competitiveness. Advanced countries are seeking to devalue their currencies,he said, pointing the finger at America, Europe and Japan. He is mulling moves to tax short-term debt investments.There seems to be little hope for the dollar rebounding as the Fed’s quantitative easing not only continues, but must increase dramatically to make up ground from lost investors and higher deficits. Can anything reverse the trend and boost the dollar once again? Perhaps the powers-that-be don’t want the dollar to re-strengthen, as indicated by Stephen Lewis from Monument Securities in the Telegraph article, where he said: The Fed is playing a risky game toying with more QE. There are already signs of investor flight into commodities. The danger is a repeat of the spike in 2008, which was a contributory cause of the Great Recession. Further QE at this point may prove self-defeating.

If history is any indicator, the only thing that may temporarily strengthen the dollar is another manufactured disaster, or global uncertainty, which may entice investors back to U.S. Treasury bonds because they’re still widely considered the safe haven investment during a crisis. The U.S. is still viewed as the world super power and most innovative economy despite its current economic woes and insurmountable debts. Therefore, during times of international crisis or collective doubt, the big institution investors tend to flock to the dollar, apparently under the assumption that America is best equipped to weather global storms.Recent news that Ireland’s sovereign debt needs a $40 billion bailout, along with the renewed austerity protests around Europe, or perhaps a major gold scandal may begin to reverse the dollar’s decline once again. However, the severely debased dollar is unlikely to rebound to previous highs given the international awareness of America’s financial problems. Understanding that the goal of the global elite is to move toward a global currency, ultimately they must kill the dollar and other major currencies.When the world has suffered enough pain from maintaining the volatile dollar as the reserve currency, they will demand, if not beg, for something more stable. The IMF is pushing to implement the Bancor, which has been introduced as the currency name for the basket of currencies called Special Drawing Rights (SDR). In America, when the dollar reaches near worthless levels, the desperate public will likely grasp at any solution. Much like during Katrina when the newly homeless were given ATM cards by the government, we may see the IMF roll out Bancor ATM cards. This will accomplish two goals of the agenda at once: a global currency that is cashless. But maybe not before one more good crisis.

The Risk of Currency Devaluation Bob Chapman
The International Forecaster October 1, 2010

It is interesting to watch Wall Street defy reality. This is a scene we’ve observed since the early 1960s, the effect of debt on the economy and the nation and in turn on its currency. The result of the profligacy over all those years is the biggest bull market in history in gold and silver. As we write gold is toying with $1,300 and silver with $21.50. Each day a new high is reached in spite of a pending options expiration and the perpetual market rigging and manipulation by the US government.
Government goes on its merry way because they have a Federal Reserve. There will be no cutback in deficit spending. Photo: Ken Mayer.One of the things that astound us is that few professionals have seen this coming over the past 10-1/2 years, and even those that do believe do not think this is an earth-shaking event. What we are about to experience is an event that only occurs every 300 to 500 years. All we can imagine is that they have a very limited perspective of history and particularly economic and financial history.Unbeknownst to most gold and silver shares, coins and bullion have been under accumulation since 2000, by the smart money. Gold alone on a compound basis has been up just under 20% annually. It should also be noted that gold demand rose 36% in the second quarter.Several events of recent vintage have changed the atmosphere in which gold and silver reside. Six or eight months ago the major NYC banks arranged for a major rally in the dollar, which ran from 74 to 89. It is now back to 79. The problems in Greece were the catalyst, as well as other EU-euro zone member problems. This caused the euro to fall from $1.50 to $1.19. It is now at $1.35. This temporarily boosted the dollar. About 11 weeks ago we predicted a new quantitative easing program in the US and it was put into operation about a month ago. This is the way the Federal Reserve again intends to keep the US economy from collapsing. The result of this move is that again foreign central banks are moving to cheapen their currencies, because the dollar is again falling in value. That is reflected in the increasing foreign exchange dollar reserves of many countries. What they do to cheapen their currencies in US dollar terms is to print their own national currency and purchase dollars. With those dollars they buy US Treasuries or spend them. That process cheapens their currency in dollar terms. This is called intervention.

The prevailing attitude is that if a nation doesn’t cheapen its currency others will and that would leave a nation at a disadvantage in terms of trade and pricing exports. This has been going on for years and US administrations have overlooked the practice. That is because it cheapens exports into the US, holds down inflation and creates buyers for Treasury and Agency bonds and US stocks and investments. Unfortunately for the US other nations have decided US debt is so onerous that they are diversifying into other currencies, purchasing items such as commodities and in some cases buying gold. The argument against gold has been that there is no interest on the investment. They perpetually do not understand that gold has been appreciating in value for the last ten years just shy of 20% annually. Thus their argument for not owning gold is incorrect. It has cost nations dearly and will continue to do so. The real reason that they do not purchase gold is because of pressure from the US government.The most visible intervention in the currency markets was that of Japan in a desperate attempt to cheapen the value of the yen in violation of agreements with other major nations. Their manipulation into the $4 trillion Forex market was totally unsuccessful. Japan and others are faced with increases in money and credit by the Fed in its efforts to again liquefy the US economy. Any attempt to fight another $2.5 trillion by foreign nations is going to be futile. The currencies of almost every nation will rise and there is little they can do about it. The US dollar has been abandoned in an effort to save an American economy that is in serious trouble. The currency devaluations will come, but will be unsuccessful. Russia is an exception and has thus far failed to use stimulus to weaken its rouble. Every time the IMF tries to suppress gold prices with its gold sales, Russia is right there buying it up, which must infuriate the elitists in Europe and the US. Almost 2/3s of their economy’s growth loss has been due to drought and fires, but with close to $500 billion in foreign exchange, they have no trouble buying gold, which puts those reserves at close to 24 million ounces. It is an easy way to dump dollars.Over and over again we hear central banks worldwide announcing how they are going to defend their currencies in order to keep their exports inexpensive. We wonder when someone in Washington is going to catch on to what has been perpetually done to injure the US economy? Free trade, globalization, offshoring and outsourcing doesn’t work. It has cost 8 million American jobs over the past 12 years and lowered wages from $30.00 an hour to $14.00 an hour, and caused a depression. British mercantilism has never worked except for those demeaning their currencies. The only answer for America is to impose stiff tariffs on foreign goods and services and junk NAFTA, CAFTA and the WTO. Just look at what China has done as an example. The yuan is undervalued by 40% and they could care less. They keep right on devaluing their currency and then complain about the loss in the value of the dollar and US Treasuries they buy as a result of currency manipulation. If the US is ever to survive economically they have to put an end to criminal devaluations.Government goes on its merry way because they have a Federal Reserve. There will be no cutback in deficit spending.

All the government has to do is request that the Fed purchase their debt and they do so by creating money and credit out of thin air. This is monetization and it’s inflationary. This is how government pays for mandated services. The taxes for such were already extracted from the public, but unbeknownst to most of the public these funds have already been spent. This is how Social Security, Medicare and all those other bailout services are being funded. Foreigners are buying only 25% of US government debt. The slack is and has been assumed by the Fed, which the people eventually get to pay for. Today we are in a lull, a sort of magical time, when the very superstructure of the system is being destroyed, but it is not particularly noticeable. The economy, we might add, is going sideways, with the assistance of $2.5 trillion a year. That can last for several years but in the end inflation goes rampant and sometimes becomes hyperinflation as we have seen in the Weimar Republic and most recently in Zimbabwe. Inflation, as consumers can attest to, is already climbing and the roar of higher inflation is not far off. One of the events that will kick that off will be bank lending of the funds they hold, some $1.5 trillion, which presently are sterilized, but become monetized once they are lent or spent. We can assure you that day is just over the horizon. This, once raging, will cause political, social and perhaps military conflict. If you look back in history when such problems existed those in power create another war or they subject their own people. Historically this hasn’t been difficult, but today is different, because talk radio and the Internet have allowed people to know and understand what has been and will be forced upon them and by whom.

Richard Russell:They call it competitive devaluations or more vulgarly beggar thy neighbor.In the new rough world of 2010, every nation wants to export. The biggest aids in exporting are (1) cheap labor, (2) access to ample raw materials, (3) a cheap, low-priced, competitive currency. China keeps its yuan on the cheap side by forcing it below the purchasing power of the dollar. Treasury Secretary Timmie Geithner and more recently, Barack Obama himself, have been badgering the Chinese to halt their manipulations and to allow the yuan to float higher. China’s answer is We can’t hear you, and when pressed further the Chinese retort, We’ll allow the yuan to float when it serves China’s purposes.In order to compete with the mighty Chinese exporting machine, the rest of the Asian nations force their currencies down. The net result is a series of competitive devaluations. The sum of the story is that every nation wants to export. and no nation wants a strong currency. So what’s the US’s answer? Our answer is that if China won’t allow the yuan to rise, then we’ll flood the market with new dollars and allow the dollar to sink. That’s the trade-off, China must allow the yuan to rise or the US will set off quantitative easing #2. The US must be competitive, even if we have to sacrifice the almighty dollar. The Chinese complain that to allow their currency to rise too far will mean millions of their factories will be forced into bankruptcy and millions of Chinese will lose their jobs. China’s reserves include a staggering $2.5 trillion in dollar-denominated US securities (mostly treasuries). If the dollar sinks, China stands to lose hundreds of billions of dollar in purchasing power. China, it seems to me, is stalling, playing for time, while it gets rid of its dollar liabilities by switching to shorter maturities, by increasing its mix of other currencies while decreasing its dollar position, and by buying gold with its dollars. Meanwhile, the Fed’s policy-makers are ready to take the big gamble with the dollar. At last Tuesday’s meeting, Fed Chairman Bernanke hinted that the Fed is ready to flood the system with additional dollars in a campaign to push longer-term interest rates lower, and to pressure the dollar to the downside. This announcement served to drive the dollar index down to its lowest level since last March.Last week the Dow rose 2.4%, S&P 2.1%, Nasdaq 3.5% and the Russell 2000 rose 3%. Cyclicals rose 1.9%; transports 1.8%; consumers 2.1%; utilities 2%; banks 0.2%; broker/dealers were unchanged; high tech rose 2.6%; semis 3.5%; Internets rose 3.9% and biotechs 1.5%. Gold bullion rose $22.00, the HUI rose 2% and the USDX rose 2.6% to 79.28.Two-year T-bills fell 2 bps to 0.43%; ten-year T-notes fell 14 bps to 2.60% and 10-year German bunds fell 8 bps to 2.34%.The Freddie Mac 30-year fixed mortgage rates were unchanged at 4.37%, the 15’s were unchanged at 3.82%, one-year ARMs rose 6 bps to 3.44% and 30-year jumbos rose 1 bps to 5.33%.Fed credit fell $2.8 billion, as Fed foreign holdings of Treasury and Agency debt rose $3.7 billion. Custody holdings for foreign central banks have increased $258 billion YTD, or by 12% annualized and YOY they are up 12.6%.Total money market funds fell $10.6 billion to $2.803 trillion. Total commercial paper jumped $27.8 billion to $1.064 trillion.Rumors persist that Bank of America just received $13 billion in emergency funds to keep the bank solvent. The word is HSBC has problems as well.

SIPC has $1.2 billion and can borrow $2.5 billion from the Treasury. This certainly is not much money for the undertaking they are involved in.

The August Chicago Fed National Activity Index fell 0.53 to after being down 0.11 in July.On Friday regulators seized three corporate credit unions and will have to repackage $50 billion in troubled assets.We have been warning you on credit unions. This is just the beginning.Regulators shut two more banks bringing the 2010 total to 127.Record-low interest rates are stoking the biggest increase in U.S. share buybacks ever. American companies announced $55.9 billion in repurchases since June, data compiled by Birinyi Associates Inc. show. That adds to $93.5 billion in the second quarter and $108.3 billion during the first three months of the year, compared with $125 billion in all of 2009. Corporations are using debt to pay for buybacks.Leveraged-loan returns rose to their highest level of the year this week as Brickman Group Holdings Inc. took advantage of investor demand and marketed a loan without financial-maintenance requirements. Investors in search of extra yield have turned to high- risk, high-return loans, driving supply to more than double this year and allowing companies to bring so-called covenant-lite deals to market. Those loans are devoid of restrictions such as a mandate on maximum leverage, or debt to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.Bank of America has been busted using some seriously outrageous tactics to try to collect debts so small they’re barely worth the paper they’re written on.It wasn’t until ABC News ambushed BOFA CEO Brian Moynihan Michael-Moore style outside his office that the firm finally responded by firing its debt-collection firm.Regulators announced a rescue of the nation’s so-called wholesale credit unions…Friday’s moves include the seizure of three wholesale credit unions and an unusual plan by government officials to manage $50 billion of troubled assets inherited from failed institutions. To help fund the rescue, the National Credit Union Administration plans to issue $30 billion to $35 billion in government-guaranteed bonds, backed by the shaky mortgage-related assets.

Bernanke and the NY Fed are boosting stocks ahead of the November election. If the GOP takes control of at least one chamber of Congress, Ben’s ways and means of rigging and bailing out will be audited.The Fed did a $3.89B POMO on Friday. For the week, the NY Fed monetized $11.15B of Treasuries. At 14 to 1 bank leverage, this is sizable juice. Hedge funds can employ even greater leverage.Heavy dollar inflows into Brazil could pose credit risks for the country’s banking system, Brazilian Central Bank chief Henrique Meirelles said Friday, defending his bank’s intervention measures in the foreign exchange market.Ergo, the world is accelerating its beggar they neighbor competitive currency debasement scheme instead of allowing the necessary economic and financial restructuring. Soon, more of the market will become alarmed at increasing central bank and sovereign credit risk. Then this inflate of die party will get very interesting. A Return to Beggar They Neighbor? Beggar-thy-neighbor currency devaluations proved ruinous for the global economy in the 1930s. Is the world setting off down the same slippery slope again? As in the 1930s, competitive devaluations, whether by fair means or foul, are likely to increase international tensions and risk protectionist responses. Meanwhile, they will do nothing to address the global imbalances that led to the crisis or tackle the chief problem facing the advanced economies today: lack of domestic demand in many countries.Japan Signals Determination on Yen Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara said that Japan’s government is determined to prevent further appreciation of the country’s currency and raised the possibility of further government intervention to curb the yen’s rise.

What More Fed Easing Means For Markets: America On Sale The Fed is going to do whatever it takes to support this market. They don’t care what it is.… Investors are looking at what the news is and they’re reacting to it, and the reaction isn’t necessarily a healthy one at all times,says Andre Julian, CFO and senior market strategist at OpVest Wealth Management in Irvine, Calif. They’ve lost perspective on the long term: What are we going to do with inflation? What are we going to do when the dollar isn’t worth as much? A Grand Unified Theory on Market Manipulation [August 2, 2009]A limiting factor is that the rules of the game have changed quickly, and what we believe is important to the major players now may not necessarily have been important twelve or even six months ago… The theory for which we have the greatest supporting evidence of manipulation surrounds the fact that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRNY) began conducting permanent open market operations (POMO) on March 25, 2009 and has conducted 42 to date.These days are highly correlated with strong paint-the-tape closes, with the theory being that the large institutions that receive the capital injections are able to leverage this money by 100 to 500 times and

http://www.precisioncapmgt.com/wp-content/uploads/PCM-A_G.U.T._of_Market_Manipulation.pdf

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Gold is the final refuge against universal currency debasement States accounting for two-thirds of the global economy are either holding down their exchange rates by direct intervention or steering currencies lower in an attempt to shift problems on to somebody else, each with their own plausible justification. Nothing like this has been seen since the 1930s. The managers of all four reserve currencies are playing fast and loose: the Fed is clipping the dollar; the Bank of England is clipping sterling; the European Central Bank is buying the bonds of EMU debtors to stave off insolvency, something it vowed never to do just months ago; and the Bank of Japan has just carried out two trillion yen of unsterilized intervention…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8026324/Gold-is-the-final-refuge-against-universal-currency-debasement.html

Policy makers must do more than print money and hope for the best Quantitative easing might seem the easiest option but it is storing up major problems for the future. The regulatory failure that brought the Western world to this impasse and the gross irresponsibility shown by the investment banks and ratings agencies is shocking. Central bankers lowered rates in the aftermath of 9/11 and the dot-com crash, then kept them low for far too long so pumping up the biggest

credit bubble in history.Now, the Western world’s policy response amounts to printing money and heaping debts upon debts, while shoving the banking sector’s losses on to the general public – and, particularly, their children and grandchildren. This is perhaps the most systematic act of inter-generational theft the world has ever seen.But that’s not the point at least for now. The point for now is that QE and the related fiscal boosts simply are not working.As Simon Johnson has written: The finance industry has effectively captured our government and recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. Strong words from a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund but no less true for that.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/liamhalligan/8025121/Policy-makers-must-do-more-than-print-money-and-hope-for-the-best.html

An intriguing pick-up in Treasury settlement fails First, there’s been a relatively strong burst of settlement failures in the US Treasury repo market in the last week.
According to data compiled the New York Fed, failures to receive shot up to 87,173 versus 14,356 the previous week, while failures to deliver hit 85,827 versus 9,377 the highest since January 6, 2010 on both counts. Meanwhile something else that’s curious in the market. If you’re interested in trading the 30-year spot-future basis, there’s a potentially interesting arbitrage opportunity that’s opened up since about August. [US 30-year bonds are out of whack with USZs.]

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/09/24/352581/an-intriguing-pick-up-in-treasury-settlement-fails/The explanation for both of the above noted conditions is: the system is running out of deliverable product because it is still too levered, with the Fed’s NZIRP and QE as a driving dynamic.The use of derivatives has far exceeded any pressing need for hedging in real markets or financial markets and has become a kind of speculative instrument,the 83-year-old former central banker said…It’s going to take a long time to repair the basic disequilibrium in the economy,Volcker said.

The substantial drop in credit card debt in the United States since early 2009 has been widely attributed to newly frugal consumers. But analysts say that a significant portion of the decline is actually the result of financial institutions writing off billions of dollars in credit card debt as losses…A study released last week by Evolution Finance’s CardHub.com, calculated that financial institutions charged off about $20 billion each quarter from early 2009 through early 2010, about equal to the amount of the decline in outstanding credit card debt…President Barack Obama’s $30 billion small community business lending program faces one big challenge: many of the community banks and businesses it’s supposed to help don’t want it…Bank executives say their customers don’t want loans, even at low interest rates, because the sluggish economy has chilled expansion plans. Some say the federal money isn’t worth it because they fear it will come with too much regulatory oversight. We have taken a strategic decision not to have our primary regulator, the government, also be a partner in our bank, said William Chase Jr., CEO of Triumph Bank in Memphis.Tens of thousands of people will lose their jobs within weeks unless Congress extends one of the more effective job-creating programs in the $787 billion stimulus act: a $1 billion New Deal-style program that directly paid the salaries of unemployed people so they could get jobs in government, at nonprofit organizations and at many small businesses.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation postponed its decision on approving a rule that would study failures of mega-banks so that its bankruptcy doesn’t affect the markets.The rule based on the Dodd-Frank Act was expected to be adopted, but instead the agency decided to discuss a proposal on the subject. The proposal is expected to be discussed with the Financial Stability Oversight Council before its approval.A second proposal on the subject will also be introduced by the agency in Q1 of 2011. This may include methods to examine how funds are deployed in the recovery process and how taxpayer funds will be recovered from the industry.

The United States on Monday set final duties ranging up to 61 percent on hundreds of millions of dollars of copper pipe from China in one of several disputes causing friction between the two countries.The U.S. Commerce Department announcement came one day after Beijing slapped final duties ranging from 50.3 percent to 105.4 percent on chicken parts from the United States.

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 FRI OCT 01,2010

09:30 AM +3.43
10:00 AM +64.37
10:30 AM +8.78
11:00 AM +14.91
11:30 AM +18.36
12:00 PM +30.43
12:30 PM +25.55
01:00 PM +30.28
01:30 PM +47.27
02:00 PM +32.93
02:30 PM +54.04
03:00 PM +51.88
03:30 PM +44.26
04:00 PM +41.53 10,829.68

S&P 500 1146.24 +5.04

NASDAQ 2370.75 +2.13

GOLD 1,320.00 +10.40

OIL 81.61 +1.64

TSE 300 12,363.10 -5.60

CDNX 1744.79 +36.53

S&P/TSX/60 714.00 -1.07

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +61 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -8 points at low today.
Dow +64 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,317.50.OIL opens at $81.23 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -8 points at low today so far.
Dow +77 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -8 points at low today.
Dow +77 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,321.80 (NOT AT CLOSE)

Ireland reveals massive extent of banking debt
HONOR MAHONY 30.09.2010 @ 17:40 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Union attention swung to Ireland on Thursday (30 September) as the government revealed the full extent of the country's banking crisis, likely to result in a budget deficit of 32 percent of GDP this year.The total cost of the bailouts for Irish banks could run to €50 billion, with the lion's share of this going to the massively indebted Anglo Irish Bank, potentially needing as much as €34.3 billion and certainly no less than €29.3 billion.Anglo Irish developed to a size where its balance sheet, its annual turnover, was half the national wealth and it became in itself a systemic threat to the financial viability of the state, finance minister Brian Lenihan said on Thursday.That particular nightmare the government has had to live with, the Irish people have had to live with, and I have had to live with since September 2008. We're now bringing closure to that.Previous estimates of the total bank bail-outs had suggested they would amount to €33 billion. The new figures, revealed after it became clear that the size of the banking debts had been under-estimated, mean Ireland is on course for the largest deficit of a eurozone member since 1999, when the single currency was created. State support for the banking system accounts for roughly two thirds of the sum.Eurozone rules require that countries keep their budget deficit within three percent of GDP - something the government is maintaining it can still achieve by 2014.The government also announced that there will be no bond auctions for the remainder of this year and that it is fully funded until mid-2011.

But the sky-high budget deficit means that the population, already angered by the banks' lending carelessness during the property boom times and the resulting cuts in public spending, are to be subject to another bout of austerity measures.The new measures are to be announced in November as part of a four-year budgetary plan to enable to Dublin to keep to its 2014 commitment. Trade unions have already promised to demonstrate ahead of the budget. Last December, the government announced the toughest budget in the state's history, cutting social welfare spending, day-to-day spending and reducing infrastructure investment.The dire financial situation has seen the government's popularity plunge. A poll published by the Irish Times on Thursday gave Prime Minister Brian Cowen's centre-right Fianna Fail 24 percent, the same as the opposition Fine Gael Party. Labour, which has never had a majority in parliament, is polling at 33 percent.The EU also has its eye firmly on Ireland amid fears that Dublin may eventually have to turn to emergency aid, as Greece was forced to do earlier this year.To calm the markets, Brussels has been making supportive noises. Economic and monetary affairs commissioner Olli Rehn said: We strongly endorse finance minister Lenihan's handling of this issue, while Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the eurozone finance ministers, said he does not believe Ireland will need to tap into the EU's €440 billion rescue fund.Experts do see a difference between Ireland and Greece however.[Ireland's] figures for the first months of this year, in terms of trade, are that exports are doing well. The balance of payments is going to move into surplus and that is the really big difference with Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy. They have to do an awful lot to get rid of their balance-of-payment deficits,John Fitzgerald, a research professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute of Ireland, told this website.

In the Irish case, we are moving into balance-of-payments surplus this year, meaning the people of Ireland will actually be repaying debt this year. The private sector will be paying more than the government is borrowing. That makes the Irish situation very different.In order to get to the 2014 target, the government has said there will be spending cuts or tax increases amounting to €7.5 billion over the next four budgets.According to Professor Fitzgerald, following Thursday's figures and based on an optimistic growth scenario, Dublin will have to find an extra billion euros on top of this. In a more pessimistic scenario, [the government] would need to do significantly more to reach the 2014 target.

EU takes Britain to court over online data protection
VALENTINA POP 30.09.2010 @ 18:54 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission on Thursday (30 September) said it is to take the United Kingdom to court for not fully implementing data privacy rules for online users and allowing service providers to use behavioural advertising based on the websites visited by web surfers.The legal case follows complaints from UK internet users who claim to have been spammed with ads as a result of so-called deep-packet inspections revealing the patterns of their daily online activities. Despite requests made last year by the commission, London has so far failed to amend its legislation so that it complies with EU law. Under community rules, member states need to ensure the confidentiality of the communications and related traffic data by prohibiting unlawful interception and surveillance. Also, online users need to be asked for freely given specific and informed consent before being targeted by ads. Britain also has failed to establish sanctions in case of infringements and no independent authority is in charge of supervising implementation.The current UK law authorises interception of communications not only where the persons concerned have consented to interception but also when the person intercepting the communications has reasonable grounds for believing that consent to do so has been given. British authorities are punishing only intentional interception, whereas EU law requires that members states prohibit any unlawful interception and ensure sanctions against such activity regardless of whether it was on purpose.The original case was brought after British Telecoms (BT) angered consumers by running two secret trials of deep-packet inspection technology on broadband customers, without their consent, during 2006 and 2007.This is great news: [the case] showed there are big holes in the UK privacy laws. We need an official body to deal with citizens' complaints about illegal commercial interception and enforce our legal privacy rights, Jim Killock, from the Open Rights Group, a London-based pressure group campaigning for online privacy, said in a statement.More and more technologies can break our privacy rights. UK law needs to provide real protection, he added.British authorities meanwhile expressed their disappointment over the commission's decision. We are planning to make changes to address the commission's concerns, and will be setting out more detail on any necessary amendments or legislation in due course,the Home Office said in a statement.

MUSLIM NATIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE 4 HORSES OF REVELATION

REVELATION 6:1-9
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
3 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

THE 4 HORSES IN REVELATION HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH ZECHARIAH 6 HERE.THE CONNECTION IS CLEAR.

ZECHARIAH 6:1-8
1 And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.
2 In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
3 And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.
4 Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?
5 And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
6 The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.
7 And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.
8 Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.

Beware neo-imperial Russia, Kaczynski says
MATEJ HRUSKA 30.09.2010 @ 18:53 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Former Polish prime minister and leader of Poland's main opposition party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has warned of Russia's neo-imperial foreign policy to all 738 MEPs in Brussels and to dozens of ambassadors. The message, in the form of an as-yet-unpublished opinion piece due to appear shortly in the Wall Street Journal, accuses Russia of systematically trying to re-acquire its sphere of interest at a time when the US is paying less attention to Europe. There are more signs that there is increasingly less America in Europe. This is bad for both sides. Unfortunately, this is taking place at a time when Moscow's neo-imperial foreign policy causes no objections from the major playmakers in Europe and the US.It criticises EU states for allegedly putting bilateral business interests with Russia ahead of EU values and strategic considerations. Such attempts are simply a gift to those states that do not recognise democratic values and human rights. They [Russia] may appear to be more attractive business partners but they do not adhere to the values and standards that dominate the Euro-Atlantic political sphere.It also defends the idea of national vetoes against EU policy - a tactic for which the Kaczynski-era Poland became notorious in Brussels in 2006 and 2007.Referring to Belgium and Germany, Mr Kaczynski wrote: Two out of three EU countries that use the instrument of veto most often are the A students of European integration ... This means that it is possible to love European unity and, at the same time, creatively oppose some of its aspects.The opinion piece was also mailed out to MEPs by Mr Kaczynski's Law and Justice party colleague, Ryszard Legutko, who sits with the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the EU parliament.Former Polish foreign minister Anna Fotyga also sent it to all the EU member states' embassies in Warsaw as well as to the Polish missions of the US, Canada, Israel, Switzerland, Norway, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia.

Mr Kaczynski lost the presidential election in Poland in June to the liberal-centrist and Russia-friendly politician Bronislaw Komorowski.The snap vote took place after his twin brother and former president Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash in Russia in April. The Russian authorities' solemn reaction prompted a short-lived wave of pro-Russian sentiment in Poland, mixed with conspiracy theories about an FSB plot.

Russia: Unilateral Iran sanctions illegal
Press TV September 30, 2010

Russia’s envoy to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, says unilateral sanctions against Iran over Tehran’s nuclear program runs contrary to international law.All members of the international community must act in solidarity and on the basis of mutual responsibility, Churkin told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.He added that unilateral sanctions against Iran undermine the very foundation of further joint efforts to resolve the Islamic Republic’s nuclear issue.We must put an end to this practice that runs counter to international law and is negatively politically charged, the Russian envoy said.After US-engineered UN sanctions were imposed against Iran in June, the United States and the European Union followed suit, imposing their own unilateral sanctions.While the US possesses and has used nuclear weapons in the past, Washington, in a politically-motivated move, in early September, imposed additional sanctions against Iran, which does not possess nuclear weapons nor does it seek to develop such weapons.

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.

US envoy plans more talks with Abbas, Netanyahu By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH, Associated Press Writer – Thu Sep 30, 3:38 pm ET

RAMALLAH, West Bank – A U.S. emissary racing against the clock to salvage Mideast peace negotiations scheduled another quick round of meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders after talks Thursday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ended inconclusively.Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are deadlocked over Israeli settlement construction. Earlier this week, Netanyahu refused to extend a 10-month-old moratorium on new housing construction in West Bank settlements. Abbas has warned he'll quit U.S.-sponsored peace talks unless the moratorium is extended.Abbas' final decision is expected Wednesday, when Arab League foreign ministers meet in Cairo. The U.S. is preceding that meeting with diplomatic efforts toward Arab governments, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters in Washington Thursday.We're talking to other governments in the region about how to support the leaders as they work through these difficult issues and make difficult decisions in the coming days, Crowley aid.We're doing everything we can to keep this moving forward.Underscoring the sense of urgency, Europe's top diplomat, Catherine Ashton, rushed to the region for talks with Abbas and Netanyahu on Thursday and Friday.And in what could be seen as encouragement and cover for the talks to proceed, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said in a statement Wednesday that the moment of truth had arrived for those seeking to resolve the conflict and that the consequences of failure this time are too catastrophic to imagine.

He called on Israel to freeze its settlements, which he said, aim to change facts on the ground and thus jeopardize the peace process and render the negotiations meaningless.White House emissary George Mitchell met with Abbas for two hours at his West Bank headquarters on Thursday. After the meeting, Mitchell said the U.S. was determined to continue, and we are continuing, our efforts to find common ground between the parties to enable the direct negotiations to continue.Mitchell, who has been shuttling between Israelis and Palestinians since Tuesday to try to forge a compromise, did not mention the settlement issue.Mitchell will meet again separately with Netanyahu and Abbas on Friday, Crowley said.Before Thursday's meeting, Abbas adviser Nabil Shaath said no progress has been made toward a compromise.Apparently the Israelis are determined to swallow and steal the land and consider that much more important than peace, Shaath told The Associated Press. Unless the settlement activities stop completely, there is no use in continuing these negotiations.Netanyahu apparently fears renewing the settlement curb could fracture his pro-settlement coalition. The Palestinians argue that there is no point negotiating as long as settlements gobble up land they want for a future state. Various compromises have been considered, including limiting new construction to major settlement blocs, but Shaath said only a full settlement freeze would suffice.
The Arab League meeting was initially scheduled for Monday, but was put off until Wednesday. An Arab diplomat, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue, suggested the meeting was delayed because some ministers asked for further discussions to forge a unified Arab position.Associated Press Writer Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.

US and Europe toil to save Israel-Palestinian peace talks
by Nasser Abu Bakr – Thu Sep 30, 4:55 pm ET

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – US envoy George Mitchell held crucial talks with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Thursday and pledged to maintain intensive efforts to salvage peace talks with Israel.Keeping up the pressure, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton was also in the region and met Abbas ahead of meetings on Friday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Speaking to reporters after two hours of talks with Abbas at his West Bank headquarters, Mitchell did not disclose details of their conversation, but said he would meet the Palestinian president again on Friday.We are determined to continue our efforts to find common ground between the parties to enable the direct negotiations to continue, Mitchell said. We will continue our efforts intensively in the coming days.
Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina reiterated after the Mitchell meeting: We will not negotiate without a complete freeze on settlements activity.Mitchell hopes to persuade Abbas to stick with the negotiations despite Israel's refusal, so far, to extend restrictions on Jewish settlement building in the occupied West Bank.Ashton, who also met Abbas in Ramallah, is set to meet Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad on Friday before talks with Netanyahu and Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak, an EU official said.Ashton made no statement after meeting Abbas, whose spokesman said she supported the Palestinian position on the settlements freeze during their meeting.In a statement before her visit, she said: As I have said, the EU regrets the Israeli decision not to extend the moratorium on settlements.The US and EU diplomats are seeking to stave off a breakdown of negotiations, which only restarted this month.

The issue is Israel's refusal to extend a 10-month moratorium on settlement building, as demanded by the Palestinians and urged by both the European Union and the United States.The moratorium expired on Sunday, but the Palestinians have said they will reserve a final decision on whether to withdraw from the talks until after Abbas has conferred with Arab foreign ministers.He had been due to meet the ministers in Cairo next Monday, but the Arab League announced on Thursday that the discussion had been postponed for two days to give more time for US-led efforts to save the peace talks.It has been decided that the meeting of the Arab League peace committee will take place on October 6, Ahmed Eissa, spokesman for Arab League chief Amr Mussa, told AFP.The delay was intended to allow Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to attend the meeting, in light of the latest developments and efforts by the United States for peace talks, Eissa said.But Cairo wants the meeting to be postponed until a gathering in Libya on October 8-9 because October 6 is a holiday in Egypt, the official MENA news agency reported later on Thursday.Netanyahu's ruling coalition depends heavily on nationalist hardliners close to the settler movement.The Israeli premier has baulked at renewing the partial freeze while urging Abbas to stick with the talks, which were relaunched on September 2 after a 20-month hiatus. Saeb Erakat, the principal Palestinian negotiator, said Abbas had sent US President Barack Obama a letter arguing that by renewing settlement construction it was the Israelis, not the Palestinians, who were endangering peace efforts. We have demanded a total halt to Israeli settlement building... to give the peace process the chance it deserves, Erakat said.

Israel's Maariv daily reported that in return for a 60-day extension of the settlement freeze, Obama was offering Netanyahu a guarantee that he would supply Israel with advanced weapons and block any attempt to bring the issue of Palestinian statehood before the UN Security Council. Israel's Y-net news website said senior Obama adviser Dennis Ross had told key senators the president wanted two months more of a freeze.In Washington, the White House denied Obama had sent Netanyahu a letter outlining inducements.The denial came after a US analyst with ties to Ross posted an online article detailing inducements Obama purportedly offered Netanyahu in return for a two-month extension of the moratorium.No letter was sent to Prime Minister Netanyahu. We?re not going to comment on sensitive diplomatic matters, said Tommy Vietor, a White House spokesman.

White House: Nothing Offered in Exchange for Freeze
by Maayana Miskin SEPT 30,10

Netanyahu was criticized by the Left after a report Wednesday according to which he had rejected a promise of U.S. support in exchange for continuing the freeze on construction for Judea and Samaria Jews. Washington insider David Makovsky had claimed that the U.S. sent Israel a letter offering, among other things, to sell some of its most sophisticated weapons to Israel if it would freeze construction for two more months.The letter also allegedly offered a U.S. veto on an Arab League attempt to get the United Nations to vote, without waiting for Israel and the PA to reach an agreement, for the creation of an Arab state, to be named Palestine, in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. In addition, Obama was said to have committed not to ask for an additional construction freeze when the two months were over.On Thursday night, White House officials denied the report. No letter was sent to the Prime Minister,they stated.The officials went on to say that they are not going to comment on sensitive diplomatic matters, and did not confirm or deny that the U.S. may make future promises in exchange for a construction freeze.Chairman Yaakov Katz (Ketzaleh) of the National Union party criticized Yitzchak Molcho, a senior advisor to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Thursday evening for his reported role in the affair. MK Katz warned, The offer of advisor Molcho is like the advice of Achitofel, which will bring about the downfall of Netanyahu for the same reason he fell a decade ago.Achitofel was a wise man of the time of King David who gave the king bad advice with disastrous results. The expression advice of Achitofel is an Israeli idiom alluding to suggestions for actions which sound sensible but are fraught with disaster.

Ten months ago, Israel offered a one-time temporary construction freeze under which the hundreds of thousands of Jews living in Judea and Samaria would be prohibited to build in any way, including adding on to existing homes, building much needed classrooms or beginning construction on approved building projects. The offer was meant to bring the Palestinian Authority to the negotiating table.The PA initially refused to negotiate despite the freeze, but agreed to start talks in the ninth month, so as to use the continuation of the freeze as a condition for continuing talks. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas then demanded that Israel continue the freeze, threatening to leave talks if building resumed.Netanyahu refused, and building resumed this week.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Israeli Jews in Second Hakafot Dances
by Gil Ronen SEPT 30,10

Simchat Torah ended Thursday evening in the Land of Israel but tens of thousands of Jews will be dancing with the Torah scrolls in the Second Hakafot (Hakafot Shniyot), in a tradition that is meant to show identification with the Jews who live abroad, for whom Simchat Torah only began Thursday evening. The plus in the land of Israel is that the holiday is over and musical bands can accompany the dancers. In Jerusalem, the official Second Hakafot were scheduled to begin at 8:00 PM in Gan HaPaamon's basketball courts. Second Hakafot will also be held in Nazareth, Akko and Yafo, with police approval and security arrangements, as well as in many towns, synagogues, and neighborhoods all over the country.Shmini Atzeret falls on the eighth day of Sukkot but is considered a holiday unto itself, and is specified in the Bible. The holiday is an extension of Sukkot, signifying G-d and the Jewish people's desire to extend the holiday.Simchat Torah is the celebration marking the annual completion of the Torah, which is read in weekly portions on Sabbaths. This holiday is not mentioned in the Bible but was established by the Jewish Sages at a later period. The two holidays occur on the same day in the Land of Israel, but for Jews living outside the land of the forefathers, Simchat Torah is held on the day after Shmini Atzeret. By dancing the Second Hakafot, Israeli Jews share the celebration of their brothers and sisters abroad.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

SUKKOT WRAP UP PICTURES
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Razed but Not Abandoned: Hakafot at Homesh
by Gil Ronen SEPT 30,10

Five years and two months after the Israeli government razed Homesh as part of the Disengagement, activists celebrated Simchat Torah at the site and went on to dance the Second Hakafot there. Homesh was one of four communities in northern Samaria that were bulldozed in 2005 at the same time that Israel evicted all Jews from Gaza and demolished Gush Katif. The Homesh activists held prayers, festive meals and danced with Torah scrolls on Simchat Torah. They were joined by yeshiva students who have been studying at Homesh for the past two years, and by other guests from all over the country.Border Police raided Homesh before the holiday but could not find the activists, who had found hiding places among the rocks ahead of time. The security forces left the scene shortly before the holiday began.It felt uplifting, said one of the guests immediately after the holiday. There was great holiday joy in the air and excitement about the right to dance the Hakafot at the very place where a very grave and criminal deportation occurred. Simchat Torah in a place like Homesh gives us renewed energy and forces for the next year.On Thursday evening, the Second Hakafot were held at the Homesh and Sa-Nur Deportees' Neighborhood at the community of Shavei Shomron. The children of the deportee families danced with little Torah scrolls facing the mountain on which Homesh once stood.Holding Simchat Torah at Homesh is the most symbolic thing,the Homesh First organization stated. The forces that destroyed Sa-Nur and Homesh wanted one central thing : to crush religious Zionism, which is the power of Torah and love of Israel joined together.We are confident that by the next winter, the political establishment, which already overwhelmingly admits that the deportation was a bad mistake, will correct that mistake and formally reestablish the razed communities – beginning with Homesh, Sa-Nur, Ganim and Kadim, and then, with G-d's help, the communities of Gush Katif, the organization continued.The Disengagement was designed as a gesture of appeasement to Israel's enemies in the hope that it would bring about peace. Instead, it resulted in the takeover of Gaza by the barbaric and genocidal terrorist group Hamas.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Rahm Emanuel will Resign Friday
by Gil Ronen SEPT 30,10

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is almost certain to resign Friday morning and White House staffer Pete Rouse is the likely interim replacement. Rouse was Obama’s chief of staff when he served in the Senate. Emanuel is expected to run for mayor of Chicago, Illinois. He already has a campaign manager and will reportedly begin his campaign for Chicago mayor by meeting with voters there on Monday.The Associated Press quoted two people familiar with [Emanuel's] plans, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Emanuel was a Congressman from Illinois before becoming Mr. Obama's chief of staff at the White House.Emanuel's relationship with Israel has been rocky, and many Israelis believe he was a driving force behind various attempts by the White House to humiliate Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and to pressure Israel inordinately on matters regarding the negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. According to some reports, Netanyahu once called Emanuel a self hating Jew, but the prime minister has denied saying this.Emanuel is Jewish. Rouse has a Japanese mother and a white father.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Death toll in southern Mexico mudslides up to 32 By IXTLI X. MARTINEZ, Associated Press Writer - SEPT 30,10

OAXACA, Mexico – A rain-soaked hillside crumbled and crushed an elderly couple in their home Thursday, and rescuers found more bodies buried by earlier landslides, raising the death toll from a series of slides in southern Mexico to at least 32.In the worst disaster, a mudslide surged into a community in Chiapas state Wednesday, killing 16 people and injuring 13, while another avalanche claimed three lives in the nearby town of Angel Albino Corzo, federal officials said.Heavy rains have beleaguered much of Mexico's south for weeks.Another landslide Thursday morning in the town of Villa Hidalgo Yalalag in Oaxaca state buried an 80-year-old man and his 68-year-old wife, said Mayor Onesimo Cuevas.He said relatives and neighbors recovered the bodies themselves after the slide, which came when a rain-drenched hillside collapsed on their home.The couple's death came two days after a huge mudslide roared down a hill another Oaxaca town, touching off a scare that hundreds of people might have been lost. Officials later lowered the likely death toll to 11 in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec.Searchers have recovered the bodies of four family members: The pregnant wife of the chief health official, their two teenage daughters and their 5-year-old son, Oaxaca state police said in a statement Thursday.The statement said a the body of a 39-year-old man was also pulled from the rubble early Thursday, but it was unclear if he was the health official.The death toll from the four landslides stood at 32.The area was battered by the remnants of a hurricane one week and a tropical storm the next.

The U.S. government offered to pay for a team of Mexican rescuers to travel to the site.Oaxaca state's Civil Protection operations coordinator, Luis Marin, said the state had seen three days straight of intense rain. The state government warned residents south of the city of Oaxaca of flooding from overflowing rivers and opened shelters in other parts of the state.Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, which had 9,000 residents in 2005 according to Mexican census data, is a community high in the Sierra Norte mountains known for maintaining its indigenous culture, especially its music. Residents speak the native language, Mixe, and its youth orchestra plays throughout Mexico.Associated Press writer Manuel de la Cruz in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico, contributed to this report.(This version CORRECTS that two teenage girls were daughters of town health official rather than sisters.)

Death toll rises to 5 in Jamaican floods, slides By DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press Writer - SEPT 30,10

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Searchers scoured muddy river banks and debris-clogged gullies for more victims of Tropical Storm Nicole on Thursday as the confirmed death toll in Jamaica from floods and mudslides rose to five.Rain continued to fall on the capital, Kingston, and emergency workers were trying to locate at least 14 more missing people, about half of whom were believed to have been swept away in landslides that roared through a shantytown. Officials warned the death toll was certain to rise as they rushed to confirm several reports of storm fatalities.The numbers will be going up, I'm sure, said Richard Thompson, the deputy director-general of Jamaica's disaster management office who put the death toll at five.The latest death toll included two construction workers who died early Thursday when a shack in an upscale neighborhood in the hills above Kingston collapsed in a landslide triggered by rains on saturated ground, Thompson said. The laborers were sleeping in the shack to save money while working on a client's house.Also killed was 5-year-old Tashanna Wallace, who was crushed in a bed when a snapped tree branch broke through the wooden house where she lived with her grandmother in St. Catherine parish.She never leave me. Everywhere is me and her, the Jamaica Observer quoted the grandmother, Jerdene Muir, saying Thursday.I don't know what I'm going to do now.

The storm broke apart over the Atlantic late Wednesday afternoon, but intermittent rains increased the risk of additional slides across the island. Schools and universities stayed closed for a second day, while about 30 percent of those served by Jamaica's utility company were without power, officials said.Broken mains and clogged pipes left tens of thousands of people without water service, and residents were increasingly frustrated by long lines for basic necessities. Some bridges had collapsed, complicating relief efforts.One landslide toppled a two-story concrete shack and killed a 14-year-old boy. Rescuers using heavy equipment had not yet found the rest of his family, which neighbors said included four sisters, the youngest just 3.Some neighbors who gathered near the destroyed house in Sandy Park Gully said the family was surely dead and voiced frustration that emergency personnel had not yet found their bodies.It's too slow, too slow. They've got to get them out, said George Reid, who gathered with onlookers to watch emergency personnel enter the squatter community.Authorities said the bodies might have been swept down the gully, which runs to the sea.The shantytowns are built on unstable banks of gullies where thousands live illegally due to a lack of affordable housing. Authorities were keeping an eye on the murky brown waters that overflowed from the gullies, saying they could still pose a threat to residents.Prime Minister Bruce Golding told reporters that his government will seek to identify affordable housing options for the thousands of poor islanders who risk their lives by illegally building ramshackle homes along the paved gullies and other dangerous areas.What we are going to have to do is see how we can identify solutions that are within their affordability and work out an arrangement with them over time as to how they are going to pay for it. Once we do that then we enforce as vigorously as possible the no build rule, he said.For many years, Jamaican politicians have called for an end to squatter settlements, but little progress has been made. A recent government survey indicated there are nearly 600 informal settlements islandwide, with about 16 percent of the total in Kingston and abutting St. Andrew parish.

While many islanders focused on removing debris and mopping up the water in their homes, others worried about two new tropical waves developing over the Atlantic. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said there was a fair chance the waves could merge and develop into a tropical depression in the next couple of days, though the path of the storm is still unclear.I hope this is the end of it, said Kingston resident Christopher Brown, who was walking to his job at a construction site.It feels like we're a punching bag — a big wet punching bag.Associated Press Writer Howard Campbell contributed to this report.

Storms drench much of the East Coast; 5 killed By TOM BREEN and TOM FOREMAN Jr., Associated Press Writers - SEPT 30,10

RALEIGH, N.C. – A massive rainstorm drenched the East Coast from the Carolinas to Maine on Thursday, causing at least five deaths, flooding roads and washing away months of dry weather.The worst of the rain fell in North Carolina, where Jacksonville picked up 12 inches — nearly a quarter of its typical annual rainfall — in the six hours. Four people, including two children, were killed when the sport utility vehicle they were traveling in skidded off a rain-slicked highway and tumbled into a ditch filled with water, North Carolina troopers said. A fifth victim likely drowned when his pickup veered off the road and into a river that was raging because of the rain.The rain was part of a system moving ahead of the remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole, which dissipated over the Straits of Florida on Wednesday. Much of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast were starting to move into a drought after the dry summer, and the fall storm provided several inches of much-needed rain.In Walpole, N.H., Erin Bickford said the deluge was a welcome sight for her eight acres of vegetables. She said she hoped the moisture also would recharge wells that went dry in the town.We had almost no rain at all. Often, we could see it raining across the river, but it didn't come here. It was just dust. Even if it did rain, it would be a tiny bit, maybe half an inch,she said.North Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper Gary Edwards said troopers initially reported five people were killed in the crash because two children, 3-year-old twins, did not have a pulse when emergency workers arrived on scene. However, rescuers were able to revive them and they were taken to a hospital alive. One of the twins later died, a news release from the patrol said.

Edwards said the family of five from Atlanta was traveling westbound on U.S. 64 east of Creswell around 12:20 p.m. when their Jeep Cherokee hit a patch of standing water, hydroplaned and skidded off the highway into the ditch.Creswell is approximately 145 miles east of Raleigh.The four killed were identified as the driver, Daniel Alvarez, 25; his wife, Natalie Owens, 26; Zacharia Alvarez, 3; and Ariela Alvarez, 1. Zacharia's twin, Ezekiel, was taken to a hospital in Greenville, N.C.Crews throughout the northeast worked to pull fallen leaves from storm drains. Schools in North Carolina were closed and some farther north planned to cancel classes Friday so students wouldn't have to travel on flooded roads. Baltimore Gas and Electric says approximately 40,000 of its Maryland customers have lost power.Josh Barnello, 12, took advantage of his day off to take a look at a pond that overflowed its banks in Carolina Beach.Someone was paddling a canoe down the street earlier,said Barnello, a budding meteorologist who used a wind speed gauge he got for Christmas to record gusts of 53 mph near his house.Forecasters expected those heavy winds to spread up the coast, possibly toppling trees and power lines made unstable by the saturated ground.

The winds also were churning up big waves that were eating away at a living shoreline of rocks, sand and grasses built this year on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, said Bob Gilbert from his waterfront home in Churchton, about 10 miles south of Annapolis.There's not a boat in sight, Gilbert said. The waves are really choppy and nasty-looking.The rain caused several other wrecks Thursday, including a crash between two transit buses in Maryland that left 26 people hurt.Standing waters and fallen limbs on tracks slowed several Amtrak trains, while some Northeast airports reported flight delays of up to three hours. Much of eastern Pennsylvania was under flood warnings as storms could bring as much as 6 inches of rain before leaving the area on Friday and parts of Virginia had 7 inches.

Back-to-back storms have dropped a third of the rain Wilmington, N.C., usually gets all year in just five days. The 21 inches collected since Sunday was the highest five-day total in nearly 140 years of records, topping Hurricane Floyd's mark of 19 inches set in 1999, the National Weather Service said. Sheila Mezroud said sandbags kept floodwaters out of her Carolina Beach home for only a short time.I have to walk through an inch of water to get from the living room to the bathroom,she said.
Foreman reported from Raleigh. Associated Press writers Sandy Kozel in Washington; Jim Fitzgerald, Deepti Hajela and Frank Eltman in New York; Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, S.C.; Ben Nuckols in Baltimore; and Holly Ramer in Concord, N.H., contributed to this report.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

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.

Two powerful earthquakes hit eastern Indonesia By ALI KOTARUMALOS, Associated Press Writer – Wed Sep 29, 7:57 pm ET

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Two powerful earthquakes hit waters off eastern Indonesia in rapid succession Thursday, prompting officials to briefly trigger a tsunami warning.

The U.S. Geological Survey said a 7.2 magnitude quake off Papua province, centered just 7 miles (12 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor, struck less than a minute after a 6.6 temblor in the same location.Several strong aftershocks followed.The quakes rocked the nearby islands of Tual and Dodo at around 2 a.m. local time as people were sleeping, police said, adding there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.The region on Indonesia's easternmost edge is remote and sparsely populated.Located 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) from the capital, Jakarta, the epicenter was closer to the northern Australian city of Darwin, which sits some 560 miles (900 kilometers) to the south.The Indonesian meteorological and geophysics agency issued a tsunami warning, but lifted it 90 minutes later after the threat had passed, said Fauzi, who heads the agency.Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that make the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.A giant quake off the country on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 230,000 people, half of them in Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh.

Quake rocks Samoa on tsunami anniversary
by Alan Ah Mu – Wed Sep 29, 11:14 pm ET

APIA, Samoa (AFP) – Samoa on Wednesday marked the first anniversary of a tsunami that killed 143 people, as a fresh earthquake heightened painful memories of the Pacific nation's worst natural disaster.Dawn vigils were held across the country for victims of the tsunami, which also claimed 34 lives in American Samoa and nine in Tonga.In a freak seismic catastrophe, three quakes in rapid succession measuring magnitude 7.8 to 8.1 unleashed waves as high as 15 metres (50 feet) that flattened villages and tourist resorts.Head of state Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi he was still haunted by the images that confronted him when he visited the disaster zone with Prime Minister Tu'u'u Anasi'i Leota.The anguish and raw pain we witnessed when dead or dying bodies were recovered from thickets, bush or trees, sent our emotions awry and our tears flowing freely, he said in a televised national address.The tsunami swept through more than just the physical life of Samoa. It also swept through our spiritual, religious, cultural, social, mental, emotional and material lives.In a chilling reminder of the danger still facing residents in the Pacific's quake-prone Ring of Fire, an earthquake rocked Samoa about an hour after the dawn services.

There were no reports of damage from the tremor, which the US Geological Survey said measured magnitude 5.4 and hit at a depth of 35 kilometres (21.7 miles), 190 kilometres southwest of the capital Apia.But unnerved locals gathered around radio and television sets, ready for a tsunami alert that would have sent them fleeing to high ground.It brought back memories, I had lots of mates that died in the tsunami, Apia hotelier Fred Crichton told the stuff.co.nz website.Some communities, including the village of Saleapaga where 32 people died, have relocated permanently to the hills, while others have stayed on the coast but spent the past year preparing for another tsunami.Disaster planning was previously simply theoretical, it?s now very meaningful to Samoan communities, Samoa Red Cross Secretary General Tautala Mauala said.Some communities that remain near the ocean are constructing escape routes up steep cliffs to prevent being trapped by another tsunami. Others are including disaster risk reduction in community plans.Elsewhere, tourist resorts have been rebuilt with more robust structures than those swept away by the killer waves.Resort manager Lydia Sini To'omalatai said she was initially too scared of the sea to rebuild.But at the end of the day, we decided no, it's a must that we do, she said.

This is our family livelihood... not only for our family but to provide for the poor and help the church community as well as our village.On Sunday, the Samoan government will hold a national memorial day in the deeply-religious country and unveil a memorial plaque dedicated to the tsunami's victims. In Tonga the anniversary was commemorated with church services and a day of fasting and in American Samoa, the the tsunami's anniversary was declared a public holiday. American Samoa?s Governor Togiola Tulafono told a memorial service that the anniversary would help provide closure for relatives of the dead.

Indian court: Hindus, Muslims must share holy site By BISWAJEET BANERJEE and RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press Writers - SEPT 30,10

LUCKNOW, India – For 150 years, Hindus and Muslims both claimed a site that is sacred to their religions, which triggered some of the worst rioting in India's history. On Thursday, a court came up with a compromise: Split it.Both sides said they would appeal, and the muted reaction to the potentially explosive verdict generated hopes that the increasingly confident country, with its growing regional clout and skyrocketing economy, has moved beyond its divisive history.(This) shows that we have become a mature nation, said Kamal Farooqui, a member of the Muslim Personal Law Board.In advance of the ruling, the government sent hundreds of thousands of police into the streets, arrested more than 10,000 people to keep them from inciting violence, and pushed another 100,000 to sign affidavits saying they would not cause trouble.The dispute over the religious site in the city of Ayodhya, 350 miles (550 kilometers) east of New Delhi, has been one of the country's most contentious issues.Hindus argued that the Babri Mosque erected there by Muslims in 1528 stood on the site of the birthplace of the Hindu god Rama, and they filed suit in 1950.In 1992, while the legal case lingered, tens of thousands of Hindu extremists ripped apart the mosque with spades, crowbars and their bare hands as security forces watched. A small tented shrine to Rama now stands on the site.

The demolition sparked nationwide riots that killed 2,000 people and shook the foundations of India's claim to be a multiethnic, secular democracy.The High Court in the state of Uttar Pradesh ruled that the 64-acre (25-hectare) site should be split, one-third to the Muslim community and the rest to two Hindu groups.The Hindus will keep the area where the mosque once stood because the court determined it was the birthplace of Rama and archaeological evidence showed a temple had predated the mosque, according to the judgment.Hindus want to build an enormous temple to Rama on the site, while Muslims want to rebuild the mosque. The ruling will likely force both groups to scale down those plans.The court said the status quo should be maintained at the site for three months.It's not a victory or defeat for any party. It's a step forward. We hope this matter will be resolved, said Zaffaryab Jilani, a lawyer for the Muslim community, who said he would appeal the verdict to the Supreme Court.H.S. Jain, one of the Hindu plaintiffs, also said he would appeal because 100 percent of the land belongs to Hindus. Why split it? Public reaction to the verdict was restrained.In Ayodhya, Hindus rushed to nearby temples to give thanks, but the atmosphere throughout town was peaceful. In Lucknow, where the decision was issued, shops were closed, streets were deserted and police were on patrol in the hours after the verdict.Hindu and Muslim groups in Mumbai, a flash point for previous Hindu-Muslim violence over the temple dispute, appealed for peace.We hope all problems regarding matters with Hindus and Muslims can be settled in this amicable way, said Haji Arfat, a leader of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, an offshoot of the Shiv Sena, a Hindu fundamentalist group. More than 40,000 police and paramilitary forces had fanned out across the city, liquor stores and many schools were closed and many business shut down early in anticipation of the ruling. But there were no signs of violence in India's financial capital.Many in India say the country has moved on, with Hindu nationalist groups on the wane and the younger generation more interested in their education and cell phones than communal divisions.

Even hard-liners called for healing.

Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, which was implicated in the destruction of the mosque, said the ruling should clear the way for construction of the Rama temple.I will appeal to Muslims to forget the past. We have got an opportunity to act together, he said. Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat state that saw some of India's worst religious rioting, said the judgment would strengthen the country's unity.Many of those accused of inciting violence two decades ago also appealed for peace. Lal Krishna Advani, a prominent leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, has been charged over his alleged connection to the demolition, although his trial has been mired for years. On Thursday, he praised the country for receiving the verdict with maturity, and said it opens a new chapter for national integration.Nessman reported from New Delhi. Associated Press writers Erika Kinetz in Mumbai and Nirmala George and Ashok Sharma in New Delhi contributed to this report.

Stuxnet file hints at Israeli link: NY Times
– Thu Sep 30, 11:22 am ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Stuxnet worm attacking computers in Iran includes a reference to the Book of Esther, the Old Testament story in which the Jews pre-empt a Persian plot to destroy them, and is a possible clue of Israeli involvement, The New York Times reported on Thursday.A file inside the Stuxnet code is named Myrtus, an allusion to the Hebrew word for Esther, and is a possible Israeli calling card or, perhaps, a red herring designed to throw investigators off the track, the Times said.

According to security software experts and analysts, Stuxnet may have been designed to target Iran's nuclear facilities and suspicions have fallen on Israel and the United States.Iran said this week that Stuxnet is mutating and wreaking havoc on computerised industrial equipment there but denied the Islamic republic's first nuclear plant at Bushehr was among the facilities penetrated.Stuxnet specifically attacks Siemens supervisory control and data acquisition, or SCADA, systems commonly used to manage water supplies, oil rigs, power plants and other industrial facilities.The self-replicating malware has also been found lurking on Siemens systems in India, Indonesia and Pakistan, but the heaviest infiltration appears to be in Iran, according to researchers.No one has claimed credit for Stuxnet and a top US cybersecurity official said last week that the United States does not know who is behind it or its purpose.The Times noted that there is no consensus among security experts about who may be behind Stuxnet but said there are many reasons to suspect Israel's involvement.Israel has poured huge resources into Unit 8200, its secretive cyberwar operation, and Stuxnet may be a clear warning in a mounting technological and psychological battle with Iran over its nuclear program, the newspaper said.The Times said Ralph Langner, a German computer security consultant, was the first to note that Myrtus is an allusion to the Hebrew word for Esther.

Shai Blitzblau, head of the computer warfare laboratory at Maglan, an Israeli company specializing in information security, told the Times he was convinced that Israel had nothing to do with Stuxnet.We did a complete simulation of it and we sliced the code to its deepest level, he said. We have studied its protocols and functionality. Our two main suspects for this are high-level industrial espionage against Siemens and a kind of academic experiment.

Brazil, China, EU press US to step up in Doha negotiations
– Wed Sep 29, 1:03 pm ET

GENEVA (AFP) – Brazil, China and the EU pressed the United States Wednesday to show greater engagement in WTO talks on a global free trade deal amid concerns the world's biggest economy is failing in its leading role.Many members have taken note that, in the Doha Round negotiations, particularly over the past two years, the US seems to have stepped back from its due leadership role, said Chinese ambassador Sun Zhenyu, during a review of Washington's trade policies at the World Trade Organization.While the United States is asking developing countries to make more offers to clinch a deal, it has failed to indicate how it might improve its own offer on issues of concern to developing countries, said Sun, echoing concerns from Brazil.The European Union also urged the United States to step up on the issue, including by making a further contribution of its own in the negotiations and by being realistic in what it seeks from others.The US has been at the forefront of those who have recognised the value of an open, rules-based international trading order, said John Clarke, who heads the EU delegation in Geneva.Recently, however, we see some signs that this commitment and willingness to lead by example may be dwindling. This is of great concern, he told the WTO meeting.Beyond the Doha talks, Washington also came under fire over various trade policies, with China especially critical of its handling of the economy and the dollar.We are very much concerned about how the US would take practical and responsible measures to prevent the dollar glut and maintain the stability of the currency, Sun said.Washington's agriculture policies were another sore point, with the WTO secretariat calling for cuts in farm subsidies, saying that support for the agriculture sector was so considerable that it could affect market prices.

In a report on Washington's policies since 2007, the trade body said that while promoting its exports, the United States should also reduce distorting measures ... including ... support for agriculture.The WTO noted that support under the multi-billion-dollar 2008 Farm Act is mostly linked to prices and or production.Thanks to this support,producers of cereals, oilseeds, and cotton are effectively insulated from market prices while sugar and dairy have market price support programmes,the WTO said.The large size of the agriculture sector means that the absolute amount of support is considerable, varies from one year to another depending on prices, and can affect world prices,it added.Brazil also hit out against US farm policies.

Agriculture accounts for only 0.8 percent of US (economic output) and it employs just 1.4 percent of its labour force, noted Roberto Azevedo, Brazil's envoy to the WTO.Nevertheless, this sector displays a considerable arsenal of trade-restrictive and distorting measures.Azevedo pointed out that most of the subsidies are concentrated on crops such as cotton soybeans and rice.When prices drop, those subsidies will be in place again precisely at the moment when they will provoke the largest distortions and most damage to producers elsewhere, he charged. Washington's farm subsidies are a key sticking point holding up long-stalled Doha negotiations for a new global free trade deal.

Sudan to make foreign currency available ahead of referendum
– Thu Sep 30, 1:16 pm ET

KHARTOUM (AFP) – Sudan's central bank said on Thursday it will inject foreign currency into the market to face a rise in the US dollar fed by concerns over January's referendum in the south on possible independence.As of Sunday we will increase the amount of foreign currency in banks, central bank governor Saber Mohammed Hassan told reporters.The central bank, which has limited foreign currency reserves, had recently announced a series of measures to confront trading on the black market.The Sudanese pound was trading at 2.50 against the dollar on Thursday while it fetched 3.20 dollars on the black market.Hassan said the dollar had gained 15 percent in a week because of unfounded information concerning the referendum on self-determination in south Sudan and the effect it will have on the economy.It is true that a partition will have consequences but it is not impossible to face up to it, he added.The referendum on possible independence was a key provision of the 2005 peace deal that ended 22 years of war between the north and the south in which some two million people died.Many fear that it could lead to lead to the partition of Sudan, Africa's largest nation.

Global tax forum urges more transparency
SEPT 30,10

SINGAPORE (AFP) – A forum set up to tackle tax fraud and bank secrecy, blamed in part for the global financial meltdown, said countries were taking their commitments seriously but urged greater transparency.The forum, giving its initial report card on eight countries, highlighted the need to maintain good accounting records, but voiced concern at the difficulty in securing information on nominees and trusts.

Around 200 delegates to the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes took part in two days of talks in Singapore, an Asian banking centre that has vowed to tackle cross-border tax cheats.There clearly is an issue... about the availability of ownership information, in particular, in the case of trusts, in the case of nominees, said Pascal Saint-Amans, who heads the secretariat for the meeting.Is the information on the person hiding behind the nominee available? Not always and that's a source of concern,said Saint-Amans, who is in charge of tax supervision for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the OECD is leading a drive for transparency and accountability to ensure that huge sums of money cannot be moved around the world without record or checks.Delegates at the closed-door meeting which ended Thursday endorsed the first phase of a peer review process on eight jurisdictions, namely Bermuda, Botswana, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, India, Monaco, Panama and Qatar.The review examined the legal and regulatory frameworks in place to ensure transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes, and a second will be carried out later to study their actual implementation.Botswana and Panama were the only two jurisdictions among the eight judged ineligible to move to the second review until they complete the requirements in the first phase, according to a statement issued after the meeting.

These reports show that this is not just a numbers game, it is about having in place a legal and regulatory framework which enables an effective exchange of information.
Jeffrey Owens, director at the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration at the OECD which sponsors the forum, said the meeting also discussed how developing countries can benefit from the tax exchange information regime.He said the OECD will work with developing countries on how they can protect the confidentiality of tax information provided and ensure that they are used solely to ferret out tax cheats from their countries.

Canada to chair meeting of G7 finmins, bankers
– Wed Sep 29, 6:19 pm ET

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada will chair a meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven major industrialized nations in Washington next month, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Wednesday.The International Monetary Fund meets in Washington on October 8-9 and the G7, which Canada chairs, will meet on the sidelines of that gathering. The G7 session is expected to be informal, with no final communique.Flaherty strongly suggested the G7 meeting would tackle the question of global currencies, in particular widespread unhappiness at what many see as China's policy of keeping the yuan artificially weak.I have been speaking with some of our colleagues in the G7 as we prepare for meetings next week in Washington. We will have a G7 meeting there of finance ministers and central bankers which I will chair, he told reporters.Currency issues are major issues in the world. They distort trading relationships ... We believe that currencies, including the Asian currencies, including the Chinese currency, need to be more flexible so that our trading relationships are more rational, Flaherty said.The Group of 20 major economies is now the main global economic forum. G20 finance ministers and central bank chiefs will meet in Gyeongju, South Korea, on October 22-23.(Reporting by Louise Egan, writing by David Ljunggren; editing by Rob Wilson)

Perils of clashes with China over currency and rare-earth exports By the Monitor's Editorial Board CSM – Wed Sep 29, 5:44 pm ET

Is the world heading into a dangerous storm of trade reprisals and economic sanctions? Individually, such actions often seem worthy. The US House, for instance, passed a bill today that would make it easier for the Commerce Department to penalize China for manipulating its currency rate – an unfair way to favor Chinese exporters.But Beijing appeared to anticipate that move this week by slapping high tariffs on imports of American poultry.Two weeks ago, Japan helped its ailing exporters by intervening in currency markets – for the first time in six years – to devalue the yen. Many Latin American and Asian nations have also artificially altered their currency rates to create export-related jobs.But taken together, such actions amount to a global currency war, warns Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega. Too many nations are competing with devaluations to create a trade advantage but causing damage to the market-based system of world trade.The United States, meanwhile, has led many nations to tighten sanctions on Iran and North Korea for their nuclear programs. But then, in a similar political move that sent shivers around Asia and into the Pentagon, China last week halted exports of rare earth minerals to Japanese high-tech industries in a dispute with Japan over a set of small islands. One Japanese official called China’s action a surprise attack, a phrase often used by the US for the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.What made China’s retaliation so troubling is that it controls 97 percent of the world’s production of these 17 exotic metallic elements, such as dysprosium. They contain unusual properties that are critical for making computers, TVs, smart bombs, fighter jets, battery-driven cars, wind turbines, and many other advanced products.

Over the past five years, Beijing has begun to slowly restrict rare-earth exports in order to force foreign manufacturers to set up industries in China, such as electric-car factories, even as the world’s appetite for these elements has grown.Using trade as a tool or weapon can easily get out of hand, especially if a country like China has little regard for maintaining the system that governs the global economy or seeks strong leverage over other nations’ strategic industries and defenses. As former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin once said, China must use its advantage in rare-earth resources to create economic superiority.In October, the Pentagon plans to issue a report on how the US should respond to Chinese control of the rare-earth market. While China commands nearly all of the world’s production, it has only about 57 percent of global reserves. The US used to be self-sufficient in rare-earth production. But it gave up production in 2002 when a Colorado company, Molycorp Minerals, was closed down because of cheaper exports from China. The company hopes to reopen in 2012 – if investors can be found. The process of extraction is costly, dirty, and dangerous.One idea is for the US to set up a stockpile of rare-earth elements. But a report in April by the US General Accountability Office said it may take 15 years for America to revive its industry and avoid vulnerability to China’s mercantile and manipulative use of these exports. In Japan, officials want to devise alternatives to rare-earth minerals so the country can never again be held hostage to Chinese demands.The threat of reciprocity always hangs over any nation’s trade sanctions. History shows that sanctions can sometimes lead to war, as happened in 1941 when the US stopped vital exports of oil to Imperial Japan for its occupation of China.Sanctions have a mixed record in changing the course of world affairs. Sometimes they work, as they did in forcing an end to white rule in South Africa, to Vietnam’s occupation of Cambodia, and to Libya’s drive to build weapons of mass destruction. Often they don’t work, as was the case with sanctions on Saddam Hussein’s Iraq or military-controlled Burma (Myanmar).China went a step too far with its rare-earth squeeze on Japan. Many nations noted it. The global economy needs safeguarding – even if China has yet to understand that.