ABBAS - I AGREED TO UNITED JERUSALEM

Caryl Matrisciana and Jan look into The Daniel Plan being kicked off by Saddleback Church and Rick Warren.
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_01_22A.mp3
Jim Tetlow returns to talk science and the foreknowledge of God. Scientific research continues to unfold the wonders and mysteries of our universe.
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_01_22B.mp3
ERIC BARGER IN HOURS 1&2 JAN 15,11 DECERNMENT & DECEPTION
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_01_15A.mp3
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_01_15B_.mp3

Hundreds of South Dakota dead birds poisoned by USDA By Mary Wisniewski, Editing by Greg McCune | Reuters – Thu, 20 Jan 7:34 PM EST

Mass bird deaths in northern Italian town, bad sunflower seed diet suspected
Sat, 8 Jan 11:14 AM EST

More than 80 dead birds found in small Quebec town prompts investigation
Fri, 7 Jan 7:04 PM EST

Hundreds more birds found dead in US state, tests find no diseases or poisons
Wed, 5 Jan 4:45 PM EST

4 and 20 blackbirds, and 3,000 more, dead in the sky: Fireworks may have sparked bird frenzy
Tue, 4 Jan 3:27 AM EST

Birds in Romania died of alcohol intake and not because of avian flu
Wed, 12 Jan 9:12 AM EST

THEY SURE ARE COMING UP WITH SOME DOOZY IDEAS WHY THE ANIMAL DEATHS.THE GOVERNMENT POISONINGS (OR EVIL INVENTIONS) ARE THE ONE I BELIEVE TO BE TRUTH.

Bird Die-Off Mystery Solved When Government …
Daily Intelligencer - … - Fri, 21 Jan 9:05 AM EST

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The deaths of 200 starlings in Yankton, South Dakota this week is no mystery -- they died as the result of poison set out by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, an official said on Thursday.USDA wildlife biologist Ricky Woods explained that a large group of starlings was causing problems in a north Nebraska cattle feedlot, eating the feed and leaving waste on both the feed and equipment. So the USDA put out DRC 1339 poison for the birds, Woods said.Lethal means are always a last resort, said Woods. In this situation it's what we had to do.Woods said most of the birds died near the site of the feed lot, but about 200 were strong enough to fly about 10 miles north to Yankton, where they died, puzzling some local residents. He could not say how many birds died altogether.Woods said putting out poison for birds is not common, but sometimes is necessary. It depends on the situation, he said. He said the poison would not harm another animal which ate one of the birds, such as a cat or a hawk.Large-scale bird deaths have recently been reported in the south, including 5,000 red-winged blackbirds which fell from the sky in Beebe, Ark. Wildlife experts determined that those birds died as a result of being startled by New Year's Eve fireworks, and then flying into buildings and trees.(Writing by Mary Wisniewski, Editing by Greg McCune)
MORE READINGS ON THE BIRD DEATHS.
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2011/01/investigative-death-of-birds-and-fish.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2011/01/polar-shift-could-this-have-killed.html

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

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.

ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

Abbas: I Agreed to a United Jerusalem
by Gil Ronen JAN 23,11

Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas told Arab television network Al-Jazeera Saturday that he had reached agreements with Ehud Olmert - when Olmert was prime minister - that Jerusalem would not be divided. The two leaders agreed, he said, that Jerusalem would remain open to all religions and would have two municipalities operating side by side, one Jewish and one Arab.Abbas used the Al Jazeera interview to call upon Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to agree to make these understandings the basis for renewing negotiations between the PA and Israel.Abbas also said that the understanding reached with U.S. President George W. Bush was that Israel would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of an independent Palestinian state that would be established along the 1949 Israel-Jordan border.

He accused Israel of torpedoing the understandings.At this stage there is no option to declare a Palestinian state without Israel's collaboration, Abbas said in the interview. A Palestinian state will be established only with agreement from Israel.
The so-called 1967 borders are the borders established by a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Jordan in 1949, after the failed attempt by numerous Arab armies to annihilate the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, three years after the Holocaust. A second genocidal plot against Israel in 1967, and another Israeli victory, brought about the liberation of Israel's timeless capital, Jerusalem, and the Biblical national heartland of Judea and Samaria.It is not known what caused Abbas to make an apparent about-face in his normally intransigent rhetoric and choose a conciliatory tone. One cause might be a perception that there is less support from the United States administration for a confrontation with Israel, and that Binyamin Netanyahu's government is more stable than Abbas had hoped.(Israel ationalNews.com)

Some in Israel weigh idea of provisional PalestineBy KARIN LAUB and DAN PERRY, Associated Press – Sun Jan 23, 2:39 pm ET

JERUSALEM – The idea of Israel recognizing Palestinian independence in some occupied areas now and promising to negotiate over the rest later is getting new attention in Israel as a way of blunting international pressure and dealing with the impasse in peace talks.The Palestinians dismiss it as a non-starter, fearing a temporary arrangement will quickly become permanent. They say it's time for a final and comprehensive deal after nearly 20 years of on-and-off negotiations.Palestinian suspicions are also stoked by the man behind the latest version of provisional statehood — ultranationalist Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, an outspoken critic of U.S. efforts to forge an Israeli-Palestinian deal by September.

Under Lieberman's emerging proposal, Israel would turn over between 45 and 50 percent of the West Bank to the provisional state, an Israeli government official said Sunday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the plan has not been fully formed.That's a public relations stunt — to throw the ball in our (side), chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said of Lieberman's plan, which, according to the Israeli daily Haaretz, has been given to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.The plan's proponents say the Palestinians would be hard-put to reject a smaller-than-wanted state if they are asked for little in return, and that even minor progress is better than the current deadlock.The Obama administration briefly managed to get Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to talk face-to-face in September, but talks quickly foundered over continued Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, the territories Israel occupied in 1967 which — along with Gaza — Palestinians want for their state.The U.S. seems to have given up on initial efforts to get Israel to halt settlement activity and it's not clear what the Obama administration plans to do next. The Quartet of Mideast mediators — the U.S., the European Union, the United Nations and Russia — meets in early February, but no new ideas have emerged.

Despite their rejection of the interim state idea, few Palestinian officials seem remotely optimistic about reaching a comprehensive deal with Israel — certainly under Netanyahu. While a border deal seems possible, agreement on partitioning Jerusalem and resettling Palestinian refugees appears remote.As a reflection of that impasse, perhaps, the Palestinians are forging ahead with their campaign to seek recognition of Palestinian statehood along the pre-1967 borders — theoretically incorporating areas where a half million Israelis have settled — from as many countries as possible. Their tentative plan is to seek the world's recognition in the fall, a move that may not give them a state on the ground, but might isolate Israel.One possible Israeli countermove is to recognize Palestinian statehood in parts of the West Bank, including those urban areas, or roughly 40 percent of the West Bank, where Abbas' Palestinian Authority already has some control.Netanyahu needs a countermeasure that will get Abbas off his back, depict Israel as an avid supporter of peace and, if possible, also paint the Palestinians as having yet again missed an opportunity to reach an agreement, wrote columnist Aluf Benn in Haaretz.

Another analyst, Yossi Alpher, said he believed the international community would not be willing to support another interim step and called it pathetic wishful thinking by Israeli hard-liners.The provisional state idea is not entirely new. It was included in the Quartet's road map peace plan of 2003, which envisioned three stages leading up to a final Israeli-Palestinian deal; the state in temporary borders was to come in the second phase. The road map never got off the ground and Abbas didn't like provisional statehood from the start.It's not clear what Netanyahu thinks of Lieberman's proposal, and Netanyahu's aides declined to comment. However, the plan would not involve dismantling any Israeli settlements at this stage, an element that should appeal to Netanyahu's pro-settler coalition.Einat Wilf, a lawmaker from the Independence faction, a recent breakaway from the center-left Labor Party, said the idea of an interim deal has its merits, though she said the government remains focused on a full agreement.A provisional state could be an intermediate way that gives the Palestinians the sovereignty they desire, gives to them in a fairly short period of time, and allows both Israel and the Palestinians to negotiate the questions of borders for example, as two sovereign states, she said.

The Reut Institute, an Israeli think tank, argues that the U.S. administration's package deal approach to peacemaking has not worked. If talks get stuck on one issue, there's no agreement. Calev Ben-Dor, a senior analyst at the institute, said a provisional state could work if it is contiguous — not a collection of isolated cantons separated by Israeli-controlled area. The international community would also have to guarantee that negotiations over the remaining issues would be held in the future with a clear vision for a final deal. This could address Palestinian fears about ending up with a mini-state.A Washington think tank with close ties to Israel, meanwhile, unveiled three options for an Israeli-Palestinian border deal to show that partition is still doable.The scenarios are based on Israel annexing between 3.7 percent and 4.7 percent of the West Bank in order to bring anywhere from 68 percent to 80 percent of Israeli settlers there under Israel rule. Palestinians would be compensated with an equal amount of Israeli land.Most settlers live near Israel's pre-1967 boundary, and the vast majority of them reside in areas that constitute a small percentage of the West Bank, wrote the study's author, David Makovksy, an analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Accordingly, a border agreement may be more plausible than it is generally believed to be.

Leaked Documents: PA Gave Israel Most of Jerusalem
by Elad Benari JAN 24,11

Secret Palestinian Authority documents that were leaked to Al-Jazeera television and were published on Sunday, say that PA negotiators apparently told Israel that it could keep most of east Jerusalem.The leaked documents, which some media outlets have termed The Palestine Papers, are in fact minutes of a 2008 meeting between PA, U.S. and Israeli officials. According to the documents, the Palestinian Authority suggested that Israel annex all the Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem with the exception of Har Homa.The motion was apparently presented by PA negotiator Abu Ala (Ahmed Qureia) in a meeting that was held in the presence of Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, and the PA’s chief negotiator Saeb Erekat.Abu Ala was quoted in the document as saying: This is the first time in history that we make such a proposition, and added that the PA had refused to make such a concession during negotiations led by former President Yasser Arafat in 2000.Al-Jazeera reported that the Jerusalem areas offered were areas where Jewish communities have been established, including French Hill, Ramat Alon and Gilo, as well as the Jewish Quarter and a part of the Armenian Quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City.

The network also made sure to claim that Israel had offered nothing in return for what it called this historic concession.Al-Jazeera said that it had other documents that it would publish shortly. It claimed that the additional documents show the Arabs were also ready to make other massive concessions on the issue of the right of return: They apparently offered to accept the return to Israeli territories of only 100,000 of those Arabs who fled at the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 and their descendants, who now number almost five million.The documents leaked on Sunday are part of some 1,600 documents related to the Middle East peace process which Al-Jazeera said it had obtained in recent months from a variety of sources. The Guardian newspaper in Britain has apparently also had access to the documents and said it had verified most of them.Erekat dismissed the documents shortly after they were released, and told Al-Jazeera that they are a bunch of lies. The Associated Press reported that the Palestinian Authority denied that the documents were authentic and in fact claimed that some of them were fabricated.Livni, now the opposition leader and then Foreign Minister, issued a statement on Sunday in which she said that she will continue to maintain discretion on the negotiations so that they may resume in the future.In any case, we do not intend to acknowledge any internal PA documents or interpretations, whether they are correct or not, including those reports, Livni's office said in the statement and added: Livni believes that an agreement which ends the dispute is a clear Israeli interest which can be reached through continued negotiations. She will continue to prove that through proper conduct, Israel’s interests can be kept in negotiations.

The office of then Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in response to the leaking of the documents that the documents have many inaccuracies. Because of the sensitivity of the matter we will not respond beyond that right now.Meanwhile, Hamas said that the documents revealed the Palestinian Authority's role in attempting to liquidate the Palestinian cause, Reuters quoted the organization as saying.The leaked documents come on the heels of an interview given by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to Al-Jazeera on Saturday. In the interview, Abbas claimed that he had reached agreements with Olmert that Jerusalem would not be divided. The two leaders agreed, he said, that Jerusalem would remain open to all religions and would have two municipalities operating side by side, one Jewish and one Arab.Abbas used the interview to call upon Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to agree to make these understandings the basis for renewing negotiations between the PA and Israel.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

US Think Tank: The Impossible is Achievable in Negotiations
by Maayana Miskin JAN 23,11

A United States think tank is continuing to push ideas for an agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, despite a freeze on negotiations. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy has released a set of maps suggesting possible territorial compromise in Judea and Samaria, stating, The impossible is indeed achievable.A series of interactive maps created by David Makovsky, Sheli Chabon and Jennifer Logan shows suggested land swaps, and the names and populations of Jewish and Arab communities. The territorial compromise approaches total capitulation by Israel. One proposal would see Israel keep just five percent of the land in Judea and Samaria, a suggested compromise between what the Olmert administration is believed to have offered PA Chairman Abbas in 2008, without Israeli voter or knesset approvial, and Abbas' demand for control over at least 98% of the region.

Makovsky explained that he aimed to keep PA territory contiguous, and to provide the PA with territory equal in size to all the land east of the 1949 armistice line, while including as many Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria as possible in Israel.The proposed land swap would see Israel give up Hevron, the biblical city that is home to the Tomb of the Patriarchs, Judaism's second most holy site.In addition, approximately 60,000 Israelis living in Judea and Samaria would lose their homes. Israel has yet to resettle many of the 9,000 Israelis forcibly removed from their homes in the 2005 Disengagement, let alone find them employment.The proposal relates only to the subject of territory in Judea and Samaria, and does not address other major sticking points in negotiations, such as the PA's demand that Israel allow millions of descendants of Arabs who fled during the War of Independence to return to Israel. Makovsky said his goal is to stimulate thinking, not to provide a complete solution.Analysts suggested that the proposal could aid U.S. President Barack Obama by opening the door to U.S. proposals for the borders of a PA state, even without negotiations.Israel and the PA resumed negotiations in 2010 after months, but the PA left the table shortly afterward, after Israel refused its demand to forbid Jewish home-building east of the 1949 armistice line.

Former MK Benny Elon has suggested another plan for ending the conflict, called the Israel Initiative. According to the plan, Jordanian citizenship would be granted to Palestinian Authority Arabs who would remain in their villages in Judea and Samaria. Jewish Israeli citizens would also remain in their communities in the area, which would be under Israeli sovereignty. The so-called PA Arab refugee camps would be dismantled as well. Israel and Jordan would work together to administer local affairs. The majority of Jordan's population consists of Palestinian Arabs, although the rulership is Bedouin.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

EARTH WORSHIP

DEUTERONOMY 17:3-4
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:

2 KINGS 23:5
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

States ban certain offset credits from EU's emission trading system
ANDREW WILLIS 21.01.2011 @ 17:23 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU member states have elected to ban the use of certain emission offset credits from the bloc's emissions trading system (ETS), currently embroiled in a separate controversy over cyber-theft. The vote on Friday (21 January) means that companies will be prevented from using the emission offsets - generated through projects that destroy certain powerful greenhouse gases linked to the refrigeration industry - from 1 May 2013.EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard, who proposed the ban last November, welcomed the decision by the EU Climate Change Committee of relevant member state experts.These projects raise concerns relating to their environmental integrity, value-for-money and geographical distribution, Ms Hedegaard said in a statement. Not only are some of these credits of doubtful value, continuing to use them is also not in the EU's interest as doing so could discourage host countries from supporting cheaper and more direct action to cut these emissions, added the Danish politician. The ban will apply to projects which destroy two industrial gases: trifluoromethane (HFC-23) produced as a by-product of chlorodifluoromethane (HCFC-22) production, and nitrous oxide (N2O) from adipic acid production.

EU officials say just 23 such industrial gas projects account for roughly two-thirds of all the credits generated through the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), with most of the projects carried out in China and other advanced developing countries.Climate campaigners hailed the European ban as a significant step forwards.The scandal surrounding HFC-23 credits severely damaged the credibility of the carbon market,said Natasha Hurley, EU Policy Advisor at CDM Watch.Today's vote marks an historic victory for environmental integrity over financial interests and puts the EU ETS back on the right track.But the group criticised the decision by member state experts to enforce the ban four months later than the commission's original proposal, saying this reflected pressure from a small group of investors who lobbied hard to extract as many concessions as possible. MEPs now has three months to comment on the proposal, after which the commission will formally adopt it.Friday's decision comes after a series of recent cyber-thefts forced trading exchanges dealing in ETS carbon allowances to grind to a halt on Wednesday. The closure is expected to last at least a week as the national exchanges seek to step up their security systems.The commission estimates roughly €30 million in carbon allowances have been stolen in the recent string of attacks which saw hackers gain access to computer systems and transfer the credits to separate accounts.

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

Human rights court deals blow to EU asylum system
VALENTINA POP 21.01.2011 @ 17:35 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU's asylum system known as the Dublin regulation was dealt a blow on Friday (21 January), as the European Court of Human Rights ruled that an Afghan translator should not have been sent back from Belgium to Greece, where he faced degrading and inhuman treatment.The Strasbourg-based judges found that both the Greek and the Belgian governments violated the European Convention on Human Rights when applying the EU law on asylum seekers and were given fines to the tune of some €6,000 and €30,000, respectively.The case was brought forward by an Afghan translator who first arrived in Greece in 2008 and later applied for asylum in Belgium. Under the Dublin regulation, member states are allowed to send back refugees to the first EU country where they arrived. Belgium did so, despite the plaintiff's warnings that he would be subjected to degrading treatment and put in prison-like facilities. The Belgian system also did not provide for a proper appeal from the asylum seeker.

On 15 June 2009, the Afghan was sent back to Greece and, upon arrival at Athens airport, he was immediately placed in detention, locked up in a small space with 20 other detainees where they were given little food, some dirty mattresses to sleep on and no access to the toilets or fresh air. Three days later, he was issued an asylum seeker's card and released, being forced to live on the streets, as he had no means of subsistence. His asylum applicant card was renewed in December 2009, but no housing was ever offered to him.In reaction to the Friday ruling, Belgian immigration minister Melchior Wathelet said his country had already suspended in October all transfers to Greece - a similar decision being taken earlier this week by Germany. The UK, Sweden, the Netherlands, Iceland and Norway also have halted expulsions to the Mediterranean peninsula.Greece effectively endangers the trust needed among member states to create a common asylum system, Mr Wathelet said in a statement, while urging Athens to shape up its asylum system as soon as possible.

Another 960 cases related to the Dublin regulation are pending in the Strasbourg court, most of which concern Greece, whose conditions for migrants were slammed by the UN, the Council of Europe, Human Rights Watch and other organisations.But human rights groups said that the ruling is also highlighting the fundamental flaw of EU's asylum rules and the need to bring it more in line with the reality on the ground.It's a blow to the Dublin system, because it shows how false its premise is - that protection of asylum seekers is granted all over Europe and their rights respected, Maria Hennessy from the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) told this website.An umbrella organisation for NGOs working on immigration issues, ECRE has been pushing for a long time for a revision of the Dublin regulation, but finds the proposals put on the table by the European Commission not bold enough.
There is some humanitarian reform in those proposals, but they don't address the underlying flaw of equal treatment. Also, they have to take into account the choice of the asylum seekers themselves, Ms Hennessy stressed.The Dublin rules were initially put in place in a convention among 12 member states in 1990, at a time when refugees in orbit were unsuccessfully trying to apply for asylum in several European countries - in a bid to establish some kind of responsibility to the country that first receives them.But this has led to more pressure on a handful of countries and goes against the responsibility and solidarity principles in the EU, the ECRE expert argues.Meanwhile, the European Commission reacted in line with the mood among member states - who see the development more as proof of Greece's incapacity to manage its borders than the need to scrap or change the Dublin regulation.I invite Greece to continue working to enhance the humanitarian situation of migrants, EU home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said in a statement. She also called on member states and the European Parliament to work for a balanced compromise on the amendments to the Dublin regulation. Among the envisaged changes, Ms Malmstrom exemplified an emergency mechanism allowing to suspend transfers in cases of particular pressure on the asylum system.

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

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

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

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

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

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Google Seeks to Weaken Search Engine Ranking of Content Farming Websites
Eric Blair Infowars.com January 23, 2011

Google has announced that it is fixing flaws in its algorithm that allows search results to be spammed, while also planning to weaken the search-ability of websites referred to as content farms. Matt Cutts, head of Google’s anti-spam team, writes:As pure webspam has decreased over time, attention has shifted instead to content farms, which are sites with shallow or low-quality content. In 2010, we launched two major algorithmic changes focused on low-quality sites. Nonetheless, we hear the feedback from the web loud and clear: people are asking for even stronger action on content farms and sites that consist primarily of spammy or low-quality content. (my emphasis)The only clear reference from Google about problems occurring from content farms in regards to spamming search results is from China: Last year Google faced a rash of webspam on Chinese domains in our index. Some spammers were purchasing large amounts of cheap .cn domains and stuffing them with misspellings and porn phrases. They claim this scheme led to irrelevant search results.Yet, their goal seems to be to weaken what has been referred to as news aggregating websites as one change that primarily affects sites that copy others’ content and sites with low levels of original content. This clearly describes many sites that present alternative news. However, plenty of alternative news sites and blogs have original material which they freely share, in part or in full, purely to support one another in disseminating the truth. This is of key importance to spread information in the absence of government or foundation funding, as enjoyed by much of the mainstream media. It is also a counter to censorship, so that a free market of ideas can flourish where people can investigate facts for themselves, rather than have opinions dictated from a limited number of sources.

According to a recent cheerleading article by TechCrunch, content farms indeed include websites that post any duplicate content word-for-word, Now, finally, it sounds like they’re going to do more to take on sites that just repurpose content from other sites (hopefully including the countless sites that repost TechCrunch articles verbatim).What’s odd is that everyone knows that original content already carries far more weight with Google algorithms than re-posted content. Additionally, backlinks from well-ranked relevant sites is also a huge factor in building a strong Google page rank, besides driving traffic to the source. Therefore, it would stand to reason that websites like TechCrunch should be overjoyed when other relevant sites post their content, as long as it is sourced with a hyperlink. Alexa ranks TechCrunch at 305 on the entire Internet, no doubt due to their 36,374 links that Alexa recognizes. Without allowing the sharing of their original content, this level of achievement would be impossible under the current Google algorithm.For those who understand this concept, if they punish sites that re-post content such as news aggregators that link back to them, the source will surely lose traffic and overall ranking despite being heavy in original content. Which begs the question, what people have been asking for stronger action against content farms? Because gauging the rise in popularity of alternative media (i.e. news aggregators), it seems that Internet users themselves aren’t the ones complaining.It is obviously the entrenched dinosaur media that despises having to play on a level field, especially as it pertains to truthful reporting and analysis. Former executive editor of the Washington Post, Leonard Downie Jr., addressed old media vs. new media in a September lecture where he excoriated so-called content farms as parasites living off journalism produced by others.He even claims re-posting of material, even if sourced, is stealing as reported by Politico:

The aggregators fill their websites with news, opinion, features, photographs and video that they continuously collect – some would say steal – from other national and local news sites, along with mostly unpaid postings by bloggers who settle for exposure in lieu of money,Downie said.Though they purport to be a new form of journalism, these aggregators are primarily parasites living off journalism produced by others. They attract audiences by aggregating journalism about special interests and opinions reflecting a predictable point of view on the left or right of the political spectrum, along with titillating gossip and sex. Revealing photos of and stories about entertainment and celebrities account for much of the highly touted web traffic to the Huffington Post site, for example.Downie rightly states that these sites attract an audience seeking a certain point of view, but ignores the fact that mainstream outlets do the same. Some would argue that the real strength behind news aggregators is the ability to expose the establishment’s gross injustices and other inconvenient truths without all the titillating distractions. As the masses become more aware of establishment lies, they are flocking to alternative sites who cut through the BS and present a clear path to the truth.

Google’s algorithm changes seem to be yet another tool being used to direct the flow of information away from the alternative media to selected mainstream news sources. It compounds actions already taken by Google in their involvement in upending net neutrality in favor of mega-media machines; the attempt by Congress to crack down on copyright infringement by blacklisting domain names; and copyright extortionist lawyers suing over wording in links.It’s obvious that the establishment will find a way to punish truth sites, either through technical penalization for re-posting material, reducing access speed, blogging taxes, lawsuits for copyright infringement, or by arbitrarily blacklisting the domain altogether.At it’s core, this new Google algorithm seems to punish information sharing in favor of protectionist conglomerates with large writing staffs. We in the alternative media would do well to recognize that these actions being taken by the elite of the media world are just another sign of their weakened state. Now is the time for the alternative media to seek more writers and more cooperation.

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.

Cold hits much of nation, Northeast faces storm
By Wendell Marsh – Sun Jan 23, 5:30 pm ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Temperatures in most of the country hovered near or below freezing on Sunday, with dangerous sub-zero wind chills threatening the Northeast and the Midwest into Monday, according to forecasters.The severely cold weather will set the stage for a potent winter storm early this week, forecasters for the Weather Channel said.AccuWeather.com's Alex Sosnowski predicted the Northeast is in for a storm rivaling last month's Christmas blizzard.More and more signs are pointing toward a major storm along much of the Atlantic Seaboard ... meaning a wind-whipped snow for some areas and wind-driven rain for others, he said on AccuWeather's website.The snowy shellacking isn't expected to arrive until Monday night after the Southeast gets its own cold soak, the Weather Channel said.

After a dry day region-wide on Monday, snow will begin to move in from the Midwest Monday night into Tuesday, with a stronger and messier system moving up the coast on Wednesday, Weather Channel meteorologist Mark Avery said.Upstate New York and New England were forecast to dip into the single digits.Meteorologist Daniel Brown of Springfield, Massachusetts, news channel abc40 said temperatures there could sink to a new record low of minus 20 degrees on Monday morning, beating the current record nadir of 12 below zero set in 1961.The bitter blast will loosen its grip by Tuesday afternoon, Brown said.

MUNICIPALITIES COPE WITH COLD

Springfield's police and homeless shelter officials will be working in the downtown streets, urging homeless people to seek shelter indoors, reported Springfield daily The Republican.Harsh weather so far this season has been especially hard on Southeastern states unaccustomed to ice and snow.Tennessee, which has had four major snowstorms so far this season, has depleted its stockpile of road salt, and schools have already overdrawn their bank of snow days.Tennessee Department of Transportation chief engineer Paul Degges wrote on the agency's website that TDOT is working to replenish its salt supplies. In the meantime, the state will increase its use of snow plows, and step up the use of salt brine and calcium chloride to stretch its de-icing capacity.Snow had already begun to coat Midwest and Plains areas on Sunday.Omaha, Nebraska woke up to as much as 8 inches of snow with temperatures falling as low as minus five degrees, prompting many churches to cancel Sunday services.But harsh weather that brought sub-zero wind chill and one to three inches of snow to the Chicago region moderated by mid-morning Sunday and will give way to temperatures to the mid-teens and partly cloudy skies, according to the National Weather Service.Scattered snow flurries are expected Sunday night after midnight with a chance of snow Monday. A heavy dose of rain and snow also was forecast for the northern tier of the West on Sunday night.

Temperatures have warmed to four degrees below zero in International Falls, Minnesota, up from 46 below zero on January 21, the coldest day in over 100 years, officials said Sunday.There were no deaths or injuries related to the weather in the border town of about 6,000 people and weather is expected to slowly improve to 25 degrees Fahrenheit by Wednesday.A storm front sweeping the Rockies was expected to bring gale-force winds and hurricane-strength gusts to the region, the National Weather Service reported in Great Falls, Montana.High-wind warnings and travel advisories were posted for the Montana capital of Helena and the central part of the state, with hazardous conditions stretching from the Canadian border to the Wyoming line.The storm was expected to push across Montana and into North Dakota by early Monday.(Additional reporting by Zach Howard in Massachusetts, Tim Ghianni in Tennessee, David Hendee in Nebraska, Eric Johnson in Illinois, and Laura Zuckerman in Idaho; Editing by Jerry Norton)

Brazil's landslide death toll reaches 806
– Sun Jan 23, 12:50 pm ET

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The death toll from floods and landslides that devastated a mountainous region near Rio de Janeiro has reached 806, state authorities said on Sunday, as rescue teams scoured the mud for the hundreds still missing.More than 20,000 people have also been forced from where they live or made homeless in the area, according to the statement posted on the state government's website.The disaster now ranks as the second-worst recorded in Brazil's history, according to United Nations data published in the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper on Saturday, eclipsed only by a meningitis outbreak that killed 1,500 people in 1974.Entire hillsides collapsed last week in the Serrana region, about 60 miles north of Rio, after the equivalent of a month's rain fell in 24 hours.Avalanches of mud and water ripped through mainly poor communities, tossing cars atop buildings and burying some families alive.At least 207 people were recorded missing earlier this week, suggesting the final death toll could be close to 1,000.

Local officials estimated at least 300 were missing.

Fears are now growing about disease. Alexandre Padilha, the health minister, visited the worst-affected town of Nova Friburgo on Saturday, and state health authorities have warned against coming into contact with contaminated river water.Landslides and flash floods are common in much of Brazil at this time of year, but the scale of the disaster has prompted renewed concerns that authorities failed to plan or take action to prevent the disaster.Earlier this week, the Brazilian government vowed to set up a national early warning system that could alert communities to approaching natural dangers.(Reporting by Samantha Pearson; Editing by Todd Eastham)

Southern Africa on alert for flash floods
– Fri Jan 21, 9:51 am ET

GENEVA (AFP) – Virtually every country in southern Africa is on alert for potentially disastrous flooding, the United Nations said on Friday, as exceptionally heavy rainfall was forecast to continue into March.We fear flash floods. It's rather common in the region and this time we are seeing heavier rainfall than in previous years, said Elisabeth Byrs, a spokeswoman for the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.Five countries are on alert for flooding -- Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia, -- and South Africa will now declare a disaster.All neighbouring countries including Madagascar are on alert, she told journalists.In South Africa flooding and storms have left 40 dead and forced 6,000 people to flee their homes so far, according to the UN, with reports of damage or casualties in Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, Malawi, Angola and Swaziland.Two of the biggest rivers in the region, the Zambezi and Okavango, are at about twice their normal levels early in the rainy season.

We could have an extremely major disaster if prevention measures are not stepped up over the next six weeks, Byrs said.The UN warned of the risk of increased cholera -- which is endemic in some countries -- and malaria in any major flood, as well as the danger of widespread destruction of crops in southern Africa's bread basket.Regional forecasts have predicted normal to above normal rainfall across the area in January to March.Relief workers fear a repeat of the kind of disaster that struck Mozambique in 2000, when devastating downpours caused massive floods that killed 800 people.

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.

Magnitude quake 6.1 hits Tajikistan: USGS
JAN 23,11

LONDON (Reuters) – A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck the central Asian republic of Tajikistan on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.It said the quake occurred at a depth of 55.6 miles, 66 miles southwest of Karakul at 9:45 p.m. EST.A Reuters witness said the quake was felt in the Tajik capital Dushanbe but the tremors were not very strong.

CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

China's new stealth fighter may use US technology lobodan Lekic And Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press – Sun Jan 23, 12:15 pm ET

BRUSSELS – Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority — and some of its technology, it turns out, may well have come from the U.S. itself.Balkan military officials and other experts have told The Associated Press that in all probability the Chinese gleaned some of their technological know-how from an American F-117 Nighthawk that was shot down over Serbia in 1999.Nighthawks were the world's first stealth fighters, planes that were very hard for radar to detect. But on March 27, 1999, during NATO's aerial bombing of Serbia in the Kosovo war, a Serbian anti-aircraft missile shot one of the Nighthawks down. The pilot ejected and was rescued.

It was the first time one of the much-touted invisible fighters had ever been hit. The Pentagon believed a combination of clever tactics and sheer luck had allowed a Soviet-built SA-3 missile to bring down the jet.The wreckage was strewn over a wide area of flat farmlands, and civilians collected the parts — some the size of small cars — as souvenirs.At the time, our intelligence reports told of Chinese agents crisscrossing the region where the F-117 disintegrated, buying up parts of the plane from local farmers, says Adm. Davor Domazet-Loso, Croatia's military chief of staff during the Kosovo war.We believe the Chinese used those materials to gain an insight into secret stealth technologies ... and to reverse-engineer them, Domazet-Loso said in a telephone interview.A senior Serbian military official confirmed that pieces of the wreckage were removed by souvenir collectors, and that some ended up in the hands of foreign military attaches.In Washington, an Air Force official said the service was unaware of any connection between the downed F-117 plane and development of Chinese stealth technology for the J-20. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the subject involves classified information.

Efforts to get comment from China's defense ministry were unsuccessful.China's multi-role stealth fighter — known as the Chengdu J-20 — made its inaugural flight Jan. 11, revealing dramatic progress in the country's efforts to develop cutting-edge military technologies.Although the twin-engine J-20 is at least eight or nine years from entering air force inventory, it could become a rival to America's top-of-the-line F-22 Raptor, the successor to the Nighthawk and the only stealth fighter currently in service.China rolled out the J-20 just days before a visit to Beijing by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, leading some analysts to speculate that the timing was intended to demonstrate the growing might of China's armed forces.

Despite Chinese President Hu Jintao's high-profile visit to the United States this week, many in Washington see China as an economic threat to the U.S. and worry as well about Beijing's military might.Parts of the downed F-117 wreckage — such as the left wing with US Air Force insignia, the cockpit canopy, ejection seat, pilot's helmet and radio — are exhibited at Belgrade's aviation museum.I don't know what happened to the rest of the plane, said Zoran Milicevic, deputy director of the museum. A lot of delegations visited us in the past, including the Chinese, Russians and Americans ... but no one showed any interest in taking any part of the jet.Zoran Kusovac, a Rome-based military consultant, said the regime of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic routinely shared captured Western equipment with its Chinese and Russian allies.The destroyed F-117 topped that wish-list for both the Russians and Chinese, Kusovac said. Russia's Sukhoi T-50 prototype stealth fighter made its maiden flight last year and is due to enter service in about four years. It is likely that the Russians also gleaned knowledge of stealth technology from the downed Nighthawk.

The F-117, developed in great secrecy in the 1970s, began service in 1983.While not completely invisible to radar, its shape and radar-absorbent coating made detection extremely difficult. The radar cross-section was further reduced because the wings' leading and trailing edges were composed of nonmetallic honeycomb structures that do not reflect radar rays.Kusovac said insight into this critical technology, and particularly the plane's secret radiation-absorbent exterior coating, would have significantly enhanced China's stealth know-how.Alexander Huang of Taipei's Tamkang University said the J-20 represented a major step forward for China. He described Domazet-Loso's claim as a logical assessment.There is no other stronger source for the origin of the J-20's stealthy technology, said Huang, an expert on China's air force. The argument the Croatian chief-of-staff makes is legitimate and cannot be ruled out.The Chinese are well-known perpetrators of industrial espionage in Western Europe and the United States, where the administration has also been increasingly aggressive in prosecuting cases of Chinese espionage. Western diplomats have said China maintained an intelligence post in its Belgrade embassy during the Kosovo war. The building was mistakenly struck by U.S. bombers that May, killing three people inside.What that means is that the Serbs and Chinese would have been sharing their intelligence,said Alexander Neill, head of the Asia security program at the Royal United Services Institute, a defense think tank in London. It's very likely that they shared the technology they recovered from the F-117, and it's very plausible that elements of the F-117 got to China.Stojanovic reported from Belgrade. Snjezana Vukic in Zagreb, Robert Burns in Washington and Peter Enav in Taipei contributed to this report.

ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded

DEUTERONOMY 7:7-8
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people;(ISRAEL) for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you,(ISRAEL) and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

ZECHARIAH 2:8
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

JEREMIAH 3:14
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you:(ISRAEL) and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

ISAIAH 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,(ISRAEL) in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

ISAIAH 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

ISAIAH 65:9,22
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

ISAIAH 56:5
5 Even unto them (ISRAELIS) will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name,(ISRAEL) that shall not be cut off.

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.

12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

Israel probe okays flotilla raid, Turkey stunned
by Sara Hussein – Sun Jan 23, 7:31 pm ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) – An Israeli probe ruled on Sunday that a May 2010 raid on Gaza-bound aid ships that killed nine Turks was in keeping with international law, a finding which stunned and dismayed Ankara.In its preliminary findings released the same day, a Turkish investigation said Israeli troops had used disproportionate force in boarding the flotilla of ships to prevent them from reaching Israeli-blockaded Gaza.The assault earned the Jewish state international censure, prompting Israeli MPs to appoint a commission to examine both the military operation's legality and Israel's blockade.In its report, Israel's six-member commission concluded that both the raid and the blockade of the impoverished Palestinian territory complied with international law.The naval blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip ... was legal pursuant to the rules of international law, the panel said.The actions carried out by Israel on May 31, 2010 to enforce the naval blockade had the regrettable consequences of the loss of human life and physical injuries, the report said.Nonetheless ... the actions taken were found to be legal pursuant to the rules of international law.The commission said Israeli troops encountered extreme violence when they boarded the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara, a ferry carrying around 600 people that led the six-ship flotilla.A group of activists from the Turkish Islamist IHH organisation on board the ship used firearms against the soldiers during the hostilities, the report said, repeating an allegation denied by the activists.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embraced the findings.I hope that those who hurried to judge Israel, who hurried to judge the soldiers and condemn them, I hope they will read this report and learn the truth about the incidents, Netanyahu said.The truth is simple. The soldiers defended their country and they defended themselves and that is not only their right, but their duty, Netanyahu said.The state of Israel stands behind them and thanks them for their courage.But Turkey reacted angrily, with Netanyahu's counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan charging that the Israeli report lacked any credibility, quoted by Turkey's Anatolia news agency.How can a report ordered and prepared in the same country have any value? the Turkish premier told journalists in Ankara. This report has no credibility.And a separate probe by Turkish investigators concluded that Israeli troops had used excessive force.The force used to intercept the Mavi Marmara exceeded the limits of what was appropriate and necessary, said Turkey's commission, which interviewed Turkish and foreign activists on the flotilla.

It called on Israel to pay compensation to families of the victims.The Turkish commission, in a separate statement, said it was stunned and dismayed by the conclusions of the report of the Israeli commission, which included two international observers.The attack carried out by Israel was a violation of rights, in times of peace or of war, and was also against all international principles, rules and norms, the commission said. Israeli rights groups also reacted with dismay. Israel's Physicians for Human Rights accused the commission of moral and legal blindness.In Gaza, the ruling Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas dismissed the Israeli report as a desperate attempt ... to improve the image (of Israel) by covering up the crime.The Mavi Marmara was the biggest of the vessels that in the group attempting to break Israel's blockade on the Gaza Strip, imposed in June 2006 after Gaza militants kidnapped an Israeli soldier.The Israeli commission heard testimony from high-ranking Israeli officials, including Netanyahu, Defence Minister Ehud Barak and army chief General Gabi Ashkenazi.None of the soldiers who actually participated in the raid were authorised to testify.

Two other panels are examining the incident.The United Nations Human Rights Council quickly formed its own inquiry panel, with which Israel refused to cooperate on the grounds that it was biased against the Jewish state.And in August 2010, UN chief Ban Ki-moon named his own panel to investigate, chaired by New Zealand former premier Geoffrey Palmer, and with representatives from both Israel and Turkey.UN spokesman Martin Nesirky, in an email sent to AFP, said on Sunday that the panel would review material provided by both sides, Israel and Turkey.