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Mom Arrested After Refusing TSA Molestation of Daughter Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com July 13, 2011

Andrea Fornella Abbott of Clarksville, Tennessee, was arrested by Nashville airport authorities after she refused to let the TSA fondle her daughter.Abbott said she did not want her daughter to be touched inappropriately or have her crotch grabbed, according to a police report.Her outrage at the security procedure landed her in jail. She was charged with disorderly conduct and released on bond, according to The Tennessean.(She) told me in a very stern voice with quite a bit of attitude that they were not going through that X-ray, Sabrina Birge, an airport security officer, told police.Abbott was told by the woman that naked body porno scanners are 10,000 times safer than your cell phone and uses the same type of radio waves as a sonogram.
Earlier this month, it was revealed that the TSA, under the guidance of the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, deliberately misled the public on the health risks associated with the naked body scanners.The Electronic Privacy Information Center published documents released under a Freedom of Information Act request that show the TSA has been caught covering up a growing number of cases of cancer among TSA airport body scanner operators who conduct the screenings in close proximity to the radiation-emitting devices.

Despite the baseless assurance that the device is safe, Abbott told Birge she did not want her daughter’s naked body revealed by the scanner.She attempted to take cell phone video of the incident but was prevented from doing so.In April, the TSA defended its serial molestation procedures after a video surfaced showing agents fondling a six year old girl at the New Orleans airport.The TSA has admitted that fondling children is government policy.Some folks are asking if the proper procedures were followed. Yes. TSA has reviewed the incident and the security officer in the video followed the current standard operating procedures, a TSA spokesman explained on the agency’s official blog.

Vladimir Putin Calls Bernanke A Hooligan, Angry At American Money Printing Tyler Durden Zero Hedge July 13, 2011

Who would have thought that Ron Paul’s ideological ally in his quest to take down the Chairsatan would be none other than the Russian dictator-in-waiting (or rather, in actuality), Vladimir Putin.In a speech before the of economic experts at the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian prime minister had the following to say: Thank God, or unfortunately, we do not print a reserve currency but what are they doing? They are behaving like hooligans, switching on the printing press and tossing them around the whole world, forgetting their main obligations.What appears to have angered the former KGB spy is the end of QE2. According to RIAN: Putin’s comments came in the wake of the completion of the US’ quantitative easing (QE) 2 program on June 30, in which the Federal Reserve bought $600 billion worth of its Treasury bonds. The Fed’s first round of QE, which ended in March last year, amounted to less than half the size of QE2. We can’t wait to hear what expletive Putin will usher once Bernanke launches QE3.What are the next steps: The Russian authorities have said they would like to see a basket of currencies including the ruble replacing the dollar as the main reserve currency, although most analysts have said a more realistic target for Russia would be if the ruble became a regional reserve currency for the CIS.

Too bad most analysts are right 9 out of -7 times. And last time we checked Russia was the largest oil producer in the world, which means it can do pretty much whatever it wants. Which, assuming Russia forms a 21st century axis with China and Germany, as many have suggested, means that while analysts can downplay the impact of what Russian ambitions in the monetary arena mean, pretty soon the only reserve currency in the world will be the one backed not with Tomahawk missiles or printing presses, but actual, hard assets.

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.

Palestine: EU bid to avoid UN vote on independence has failed-East Jerusalem: control of the city, a holy place for Arabs and Jews, is at the centre of the conflict (Photo: Hadar)ANDREW RETTMAN 13.07.2011 @ 09:27 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Palestinian leaders have declared that an EU-led attempt to revive Arab-Israeli peace talks has failed, leading them to go full-speed ahead for UN recognition instead.Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas made the statement in Ramallah on Tuesday (11 July) following a meeting with his Greek counterpart, President Karolos Papoulias.We will go to the United Nations and we hope the United States will not use its veto, but that we will go with its agreement ... The fact that there is no statement from the Quartet is a negative indication that there is deep division between them, he said.His remarks come after the Quartet - the EU, Russia, the UN and the US - met on Monday in Washington at foreign minister level to establish parameters for new negotiations, such as the EU idea that a two-state solution should be based on borders before the 1967 war.The Quartet did not issue a communique as expected.US secretary of state Hilary Clinton said the meeting was excellent. Russia's Sergei Lavrov said the fact that we didn't produce a statement doesn't mean we disagree and abandoned the effort. EU foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton, who initiated the Washington event, has stayed silent on the outcome.For his part, Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the UN, told Israeli daily Haaretz in an interview that he will submit the UN bid in the coming weeks.The Americans just could not deliver the Israelis, he said on the Washington meeting, referring to Israel's rejection of 1967 lines.

The Palestinians are confident that between 130 and 150 UN member states will acknowledge their bid, including a number of EU countries, such as Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden and the UK.Asked by Haaretz on EU support for the move, Mansour said: Just hold tight. You will be hearing interesting news soon about it before September.The US is expected to veto Palestine's UN membership at UN Security Council level, giving it a status similar to Kosovo (widely recognised, but blocked by Russia from joining the New York-based body) or Taiwan (recognised but blocked by China).Even without UN membership, the result could cause a sea change in Israeli-Palestinian relations: Palestine could apply to join the International Criminal Court in The Hague and file suits against alleged Israeli war crimes, it could ask Israelis on occupied land to become Palestinian citizens or leave and it could seek extra rights as prisoners of war for the 5,000-or-so Palestinians currently in Israeli jails.The move could also ignite what is already a tinder box situation in the Middle East.Asked by Haaretz what might happen the day after the UN vote, Mansour looked to Tahrir square in Cairo as an analogy for potential mass protests by Palestinians demanding change.The Palestinian people are like the Egyptian people and are capable of doing remarkable things. But these things you don't give orders for. If the Egyptian people managed to change the US position in 18 days so that [US President] Obama told his ally [Egyptian leader] Mubarak to leave, what will the position of the international community be if the Palestinian people will say we want independence - and we want it now?

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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GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,587.00 (NOT AT CLOSE)

NATURAL GAS THURSDAYS +84 BCF

Ireland downgraded to junk in spiralling euro-crisis
VALENTINA POP 13.07.2011 @ 09:27 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - US-based credit rating agency Moody's on Tuesday (11 July) downgraded Ireland's debt to junk status, amid growing market concerns about the stability of the eurozone as the debt crisis reaches Italy and Spain.Citing the growing possibility that Ireland may need a second bailout at the end of 2013 and the increased likelihood that this bailout will require private sector participation, Moody's downgraded the country's rating by one notch to Ba1 status - meaning that its bonds are now considered non-investment grade and pensions funds, for instance, are no longer allowed to purchase them.Moody's made the same move last week when it downgraded Portugal's rating by three notches to Ba2 status. Greece's rating is considerably lower - Caa1 which stands for substantial risk, just three steps before what a rating agency considers default and with no perspective for investors to recover their money.With EU finance ministers insisting - following pressure by Germany, the Netherlands and Finland - on having private creditors involved in a second Greek bailout, Moody's warns that the outlook remains negative and that similar pressure will be felt on each of the countries next in line for a second refinancing.Although Ireland's Ba1 rating indicates a much lower risk of restructuring than Greece's Caa1 rating, the increased possibility of private sector participation has the effect of further discouraging future private sector lending and increases the likelihood that Ireland will be unable to regain market access on sustainable terms in the near future,it said.

The same is true if Greek debt is restructured, even if this is done through financial re-engineering of EU banks, says the ratings agency.European Investment Bank chief Philippe Maystadt on Tuesday said that the eurozone will buy back Greek bonds at market rates, in order to relieve some of its €168 billion debt, whose costs are spiralling due to the bad rating.There is a proposal which is backed by the European Central Bank (ECB), by the European Commission, and which we are going to discuss, which would consist in enabling the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) to buy back Greek bonds at market rates,he said on RTL tv following a meeting of eurozone finance ministers on Monday.Maystadt also confirmed the likelihood of a special EU summit in the coming days to deal with the spreading debt crisis that has reached Italy and Spain.Markets abhor uncertainty,he said.When a situation is unclear markets think the worst. Therefore they must be reassured and it must be done with clarity.A similar push for eurozone leaders to announce some clear measures came Tuesday from former French finance minister Christine Lagarde, currently head of the International Monetary Fund.The IMF welcomes the statement by the Eurogroup reaffirming their commitment to safeguard financial stability in the euro area. We look forward to the prompt implementation of the important measures outlined in their statement, she said in a statement.After weeks of haggling and a decision to postpone until September an agreement on a second Greek bailout, finance ministers on Monday were forced by the Italian crisis to break the taboo of having the EU bailout fund (EFSF) buy up Greek debt.Meanwhile,shows that the next country in trouble in the medium term may be France, if private sector indebtedness is considered.Solvency is a big problem in the southern countries - Greece, Portugal, Cyprus and Malta - but Italy, Spain and even France are also on a dangerous path, the study claims.

Rehn calls for responsibilty over economic rules
HONOR MAHONY 13.07.2011 @ 09:19 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - With the political credibility of the EU in tatters over its handling of the eurozone crisis, monetary affairs commissioner Olli Rehn has appealed to MEPs and governments' responsibility for Europe as they continue to haggle over laws designed to prevent such a crisis happening again.The so-called six pack of legislation will tighten economic governance in the EU but is currently stuck in the legislative pipeline as member states and MEPs battle it out over the automaticity of sanctions for countries that exceed budget deficit and debt limits.
A hoped-for June deadline for agreement has already been missed. The delay in reaching a deal as well as fears that the teeth will be removed from the proposal adds to the growing perception that the EU is unable or unwilling to remedy its problems.There should be a political agreement on it as soon as soon as possible in order to reinforce confidence in the capacity to act of the European Union and to overcome the current sovereign debt crisis, said EU monetary affairs commissioner Olli Rehn, after a meeting of EU finance ministers on Tuesday (12 July).It is important to the medium and short-term fiscal prudence but it is important for the perceptions of today already in the short-term.He called on the sense of responsibility for Europe among MEPs and member states to reach an agreement and said he was ready to offer some of [his] summer holiday if needed.While the automaticity of sanctions is the main sticking point, the parliament itself is divided over the nature of the measures. The socialists want them to contain growth-boosting elements while centre-right and liberal MEPs simply want to concentrate on cutting deficits.I would virtually discount an agreement in July although there have been many twists and turns in the process, one parliament official told this website.

Last centimetre

The Polish presidency, which started running the day-to-day affairs of the EU on 1 July, has indicated it is pushing to get the whole package wrapped up in one vote, probably in September.We're really down to differences in one, at most two items and it's really the last centimetre and not the last mile. However, maybe because it's just the last centimetre, it's proving harder work than one might think, said Polish finance minister Jacek Rostowski.The rules are meant to increase Brussels' oversight of public finances in member states, after the parlous state of Greece's finances was revealed in 2010, following years of unnoticed build-up.The commission is keen to see the rules in place with member states already grumbling about fiscal targets set by Brussels under the European semester, a new system of centralised oversight on national economic planning.I want to underline that today we can only encourage the member states to do so (meet their fiscal targets), but tomorrow, provided that the package of economic governance is adopted, we can also enforce our messages, said Rehn.But still there are doubts about whether the beefed up rules will be enough.Speaking to MEPs earlier this month, Rostowski said: We need to develop support programmes and reform programmes of the kind that the [International Monetary Fund] does on a regular basis.Without more comprehensive measures, I don't think the eurozone will be the kind of strong structure that we all need it to be, he said, according to Dow Jones.

Lack of women in top jobs to cause problems for EU economy HONOR MAHONY 13.07.2011 @ 09:26 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU's internal market will suffer if companies do not put more women on their boards, the EU's gender equality commissioner Viviane Reding said Tuesday (11 July).Reding made the claim while standing alongside Chantal Gaemperle, a board member at French luxury label LVMH, who had just signed an EU-sponsored pledge to increase the number of women in the company.The commissioner said that come March next year she will look to see whether companies have made a clear, precise and measurable evolution towards greater gender balance within their walls.If yes, there will be no need for European legislation. If no, we will have a problem with the internal market, said the commissioner explaining that major companies who work across the EU will be confronted with different national laws on women quotas.Reding's thinking is that if there is a public procurement tender in Spain, for example, Spanish companies who already have to oblige by national quota laws will have an immediate advantage over a German company, which does not.France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy all have national rules concerning the representation of women in business.

The commissioner, who wants to boost female boardroom positions to 30 percent by 2015 and to 40 percent by 2020, said she is completely supported by internal market commissioner Michel Barnier.Currently women make up 10 percent of directors and 3 percent of chief executive officers in the EU's largest companies, with the number of women on corporate boards increasing by around half a percentage point per year.
Although Reding has been increasingly vocal about her campaign, to date only seven companies have signed up to the public pledge, up and running since March.And while LVMH is the largest company to have done so, the move represents something of a hollow victory for Reding as a French law, in place since early 2011, requires that the company's board be made up of 40 percent women by 2017.Reding, in her third term as EU commissioner, has experience with these types of uphill battles. She took on the mobile phone companies in her previous commission life using similar tactics. When mobile phone companies ignored her, she regulated to bring prices down.She is supported by the EU parliament, which earlier this month said Brussels should make such quotas mandatory. An EU law in an area dealing with employment and social policy is likely to be controversial among member states, however.

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.

IDF Attacks Terror Targets in Gaza
by Elad Benari JULY 14,11

The IDF retaliated overnight Wednesday to the latest firing of Kassam rockets from the Gaza region and attacked several terror targets in the Gaza Strip.The IDF Spokesperson confirmed the attacks and said that IAF aircraft had hit two smuggling tunnels in southern Gaza and an additional terrorist tunnel northern Gaza. All three targets were directly hit, and all aircraft returned to their base safely.The IDF will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israeli citizens or soldiers, and will know to respond decisively to terrorist activity or firing of rockets from the Gaza Strip where and when it deems fit, said the Spokesperson’s statement. The Hamas terrorist organization bears responsibility for the attacks.Earlier on Wednesday, a rocket launched from Gaza hit a southern Israeli community. The IDF website said the community was located within the Eshkol Regional Council and was home to approximately 10,000 residents. There were no physical injuries or damage to property in the attack.Two Kassam rockets were also fired on Tuesday evening from Gaza, landing in the Sdot Negev Regional Council area. One rocket caused light damage to a house in a local kibbutz. The second rocket landed in an open area.

A short time later, a mortar shell fired by terrorists from the Gaza region landed and exploded in an open area near a kibbutz in the western Negev. There were no casualties or damage.The IAF responded to these attacks as well, attacking and directly hitting two weapon manufacturing sites in the Gaza region early Wednesday morning.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Panetta Accuses Iran of Killing American Soldiers; What Next? by Amiel Ungar JULY 14,11

America's new secretary of defense, Leon Panetta, has a reputation for candor. Panetta was characteristically outspoken about Iranian involvement in support of Shiite insurgents in Iraq. During his visit to Iraq and after missiles were fired from a Shiite neighborhood into the protected Green Zone of the city, Panetta blamed Iran for supporting the insurgents and warned:We cannot sit back and simply allow this to continue to happen, he said of Iran’s efforts to arm Iraqi insurgents. “This is not something we’re going to walk away from. It’s something we’re going to take on head on.We are very concerned about Iran and the weapons they are providing to extremists here in Iraq.We're seeing more of those weapons going in from Iran, and they've really hurt us.While these accusations have been made before by American military sources, this time the accusations came from the very top of the American security establishment.Iran was quick to deny any involvement and claimed that the accusations were baseless, intended to sow discord among the countries in the region and reflected an American need to cover up its failure.

However, the US Defense Department made sure to drive home to reporters that the US was not grasping at straws in blaming Iran. The US Defense Department reported a tour conducted by Army Major General Jeff Buchanan, who escorted journalists on a visit to Joint Task Force Troy, a professional team that knew how to identify the origin of explosives even if they were made to look like improvised homemade devices.
The verdict:And the forensic teams can categorically state that the weapons are from Iran. In one case, an IRAM built in Iran was turned over to the Quds Force – part of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard – and then given to an Iraqi extremist in Kitab Hezbollah, a terrorist group that is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Quds Force.The report also quotes Army general Lloyd J Austin III who claims that the Iranians were motivated by a desire to show that they had driven the Americans from Iraq.What does the United States expect to get from going up front with the warnings about Iran? Perhaps the US is getting around to chastising Iran militarily, but public sentiment in the United States militates against it. Perhaps it means that the US will go after the Shiite militias in Iraq that are backed by Iran.Another theory is that the US wants to signal the Iraqi government not to get too cozy with Iran. Iraq has become Iran's third largest trading partner and has recently signed a trading agreement lifting tariffs with Tehran. It is not certain that Panetta's warnings will influence the Shiite leadership in Baghdad. At best they may want the US to balance Iran.One can speculate on a third theory that harks back to the days of Ronald Reagan. Reagan could not understand why the Soviet Union was allowed to pin down the United States by backing guerrilla movements, while the United States abstained from similar tactics. By this reasoning, if the Iranians are arming anti-American guerrillas, the United States could possibly play tit-for-tat.

According to the Arab publication Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, published in London, a senior Iranian officer claimed that his country reserved the right to attack bases of Iranian Kurdish rebels in Iraq and accused the Kurdistan regional government president Massoud Barzani of supporting the rebels by providing training bases:We will not allow the terrorists to settle on the Iraqi territory with the support of the United States and the Zionist regime for the purpose of attacking Iran. We shall move against these terrorists.Similarly, the Iranian ambassador to Baghdad expressed his dismay about the continued operation of a camp of the outlawed Iranian Mujahideen-e-Khalq.Although the organization was originally Marxist in orientation, it has drawn support from Conservative American politicians including Tom Ridge, who served as secretary of homeland security under president George W Bush; Andrew Card, who was chief of staff of the Bush White House' and Rudy Guliani, the former mayor of New York City.These politicians want the organization to be legitimized and removed from the list of terrorist organizations as Ridge stated:The terrorist organization that the United States should be worried about is Iran, not the MEK ... When I think of Iran, I think of Hamas and Hizbullah and the Palestinian Islamic jihad. I think about their advance towards a nuclear state,(IsraelNationalNews.com)
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Hamas Rocket Slams into Israel
by Gil Ronen JULY 13,11

Rocket fire launched from Gaza hit a southern Israeli community on Wednesday. The IDF website said the community was located within the Eshkol Regional Council and was home to approximately 10,000 residents.Rockets were also launched at southern Israeli communities on Tuesday. No one was reported hurt and no damage was reported in either attack.As a response to rocket fire from Gaza on Tuesday, the Israeli Air Force targeted two weapon-manufacturing sites in the northern Gaza Strip. Direct hits were confirmed.According to the Israel Security Agency (ISA), the month of June, 2011, saw an overall decrease in number of terror attacks with 47 attacks compared to 72 in May and 101 in April. Attacks from Gaza in June, however, slightly increased from May. June saw five attacks and May seeing three.The IDF stated that it will not allow the southern communities of Israel to continue living under constant threat, and will continue to respond determinedly to any terror attempt against the citizens of Israel. The IDF holds the Hamas terrorist organization solely responsible for any terrorist activity emanating from the Gaza Strip.(Israel NationalNews.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.

THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.

Japan and South Korea at Risk from Typhoon Mo-an
ContributorNetwork Tammy Lee Morris – Wed Jul 13, 3:50 pm ET

Japan and South Korea could see damage from a typhoon that is gearing up in the Pacific this week. A tropical storm that has gained power and reached typhoon status to become Typhoon Ma-on could unleash flooding and destruction upon two countries already reeling from natural disaster.By the end of the week Ma-on could wreak havoc on the southern part of Korea and southwestern Japan, bringing the potential for high winds and heavy rains at the site of the already-battered tsunami and nuclear disaster site in Honshu, Japan and adding to flooding that has been slamming South Korea.According to Accuweather.com, the tropical storm turned typhoon is expected to strengthen and intensify during the weekend. It was classified as a full-fledged typhoon on Wednesday. Ma-on is expected to veer north, bringing heavy flooding and damaging winds to parts of Japan and South Korea.Japan and South Korea have already seen plenty of disaster this year and the Korean peninsula is currently dealing with devastating floods that have caused landslides and flooded farmland and more than 350 homes. Rainfall in the western South Korea region topped 15 inches over two days early this week. One area in southwestern South Korea saw 19 inches of rain late last week and the previous weekend saw a 24-hour period of rain that measured 13 inches on Jinju.

As of Monday, 12 people had already died from the most recent torrential rain in South Korea after being crushed by landslides. The end of June saw Typhoon Meari bring excessive rain that has contributed to the flooding that is still going on in the Korean peninsula. Another typhoon will only add to that misery.Japan's northeast has suffered this year already after the 9.0 Tohoku Earthquake in March that spawned a deadly tsunami and brought about nuclear crisis within the country. Damage from a typhoon will only stretch the resources of a country that is already struggling to recover.Ma-on could elevate to super typhoon status while in the open sea and it is expected to intensify while in the Philippine Sea as it continues its westerly path. It is expected to turn north or northwest which will bring it in direct line with southern Japan and southern Korea. If Ma-on does not turn northward, a direct westerly path will take it to Taiwan.Tammy Lee Morris is certified as a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) member and is a trained Skywarn Stormspotter through the National Weather Service. She has received interpretive training regarding the New Madrid Seismic Zone through EarthScope -- a program of the National Science Foundation. She researches and writes about earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes and other natural phenomena.

Monsoon Season Arrives with a Bang in Las Vegas
ContributorNetwork Todd Jacobs – Tue Jul 12, 11:27 pm ET

FIRST PERSON | Summer in Las Vegas is not only warmer, it is usually wetter as well. July marks the beginning of monsoon season, and mother nature did not wait to put on a show once July arrived in the Las Vegas Valley. Rain arrived as soon as the calendar turned to the first day of flash flood season; now the city is hearing emergency warnings on the radio more often than Katy Perry.Many visitors to Las Vegas are not ready for the extreme weather conditions this time of year, but there are guidelines to follow, especially as July 7-10 features rain in the National Weather Service forecast for Las Vegas.Las Vegas is not as bad as it once was when it comes to flash flooding, but there are still bad areas to avoid. Some of the worst areas are the new swaths of homes that were not fully developed before the real estate crash in 2008. Areas in Southern Highlands and North Las Vegas now see flash flooding any time there is substantial rainfall.The flash flood potential rating posted on the National Weather Service site shows two areas at serious risk. Areas to the south and to the north are the two appear in red for the next couple of days. Red represents the highest potential for flash flooding.

These areas are still lacking flood channels and are the most likely candidates to experience flash flooding. The summer monsoon season can catch drivers off guard easily. A typical monsoon can drop up to 2 inches in less than 15 minutes, turning a low-lying area into a raging river in a matter of minutes.Another aspect of the summer monsoon season is the phenomenon known as the Haboob. A Haboob, Arabic for a strong wind or wind phenomenon, takes place when a monsoon breaks out on the desert floor and pelts the loose silt of the desert, raising a massive dust storm up to 3,000 feet high. Phoenix and other Arizona cities suffered their first Haboob of the season Wednesday. The dust cloud darkened the skies in seconds, enveloping the cities in dust and silt.Our Amazing Planet gives Phoenix the honor as the Haboob capital of the world. Although Phoenix has several Haboobs a year, the storm is also common in the Sahara Desert in Africa and in Iraq, among other dry, desolate places around the world.Las Vegas has small experience with Haboobs but the area is known more for flash floods. There are still some areas on the Las Vegas Strip prone to flooding. The garage behind the Imperial Palace is notorious for flooding when Las Vegas Boulevard experiences a lot of rainfall in a short time.The key to driving in Las Vegas this time of year is awareness of the surroundings. Do not cross any areas where water is running across the road. A car can get sucked up and swept away in running water that is just a few inches deep.Todd Jacobs is a Las Vegas resident with knowledge of the city and surrounding desert areas of Nevada and beyond.

Rights Group Urges Congress To Scrap Privacy Busting Internet Bill Steve Watson Infowars.com July 13, 2011 Internet privacy

A prominent online rights group has urged US lawmakers to scrap a proposal that would see all internet providers required by federal law to store information on their customers.The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) appealed before a House Judiciary Committee hearing this week, asking that Congress recognize the fact that retaining identifying information would put at risk 99.9% of Internet users.The legislation in question is H.R. 1981, a bill to address concerns about children pornography. EPIC is concerned, however, over provisions within the bill that will require Internet Service Providers to store temporarily assigned IP addresses for future government use.EPIC President Marc Rotenberg pointed out that it is more prudent to seek data minimization rather than data retention, in the wake of increased risk of data breaches and identity theft. Rotenberg noted that enforced data retention would make ISPs more vulnerable to hackers, citing the LulzSec group, which recently claimed responsibility for temporarily shutting down a CIA website and other high-profile hacks.Minimizing stored user data reduces incentives for hackers to attack data storage systems by reducing the amount of data available to steal. Minimization also reduces the costs of data breaches, Rotenberg said in prepared testimony.Rotenberg suggested that the data could be used to bring criminal charges that were unrelated to child pornography, a concern that was shared by Michigan Rep. John Conyers.

Although this data retention requirement has been introduced as part of a bill focused on child sexual exploitation, there is no evidence to suggest that the majority of law enforcement requests for customer subscriber information relate to child protection cases. Rotenberg argued.Advocates for the legislation include the National Sheriffs’ Association, which has said it strongly supports mandatory data retention. The bill has also attracted endorsements from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, as well as the FBI.It would give the government sweeping authority to mandate the collection and retention of personal information obtained by business from their customers, or generated by the business in the course of providing services, for subsequent examination without any reason to believe that information is relevant or necessary for a criminal investigation, Rotenberg further testified.The EPIC President also noted that the bill would create a new immunity that hasn’t previously existed under the Wiretap Act, allowing ISPs to escape liability if problems resulted.By extending blanket immunity and a good faith defense to these ISPs, Congress would foreclose the ability for consumers to seek damages under [the Electronic Communications Privacy Act] for violations of that law,Instead, ISPs would be free to share their retained IP address information with law enforcement at any time, even if the current legal exceptions, such as those for voluntary disclosure, are not met. Rotenberg said.EPIC wishes to see the relevant sections of the bill re-written by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who introduced the legislation in May.Smith told Rotenberg that he would take on board EPIC’s suggestions and look into them, but added that he would give the benefit of the doubt to saving the children.EPIC noted that the prospect for passage of H.R. 1981 was significantly diminished at the hearing after Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) said he would oppose the measure.
Further reading: http://epic.org/privacy/intl/data_retention.html

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Senator: Obama Creating Panic To Push Through Debt Hike Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Senator Jim DeMint has accused President Barack Obama and Timothy Geithner of deliberately fostering panic in order to push through an agreement that would allow the debt ceiling to be raised, accusing the White House of burning the clock in order to push a decision close to the deadline, echoing how Congress was threatened with martial law in America before the 2008 bailout vote.On Sunday Treasury Secretary Geithner painted a grim picture of the so-called economic recovery, telling NBC’s Meet the Press, it’s going to feel very hard, harder than anything they’ve experienced in their lifetime now, for a long time to come.Geithner also told Fox News that the US would be forced into default if an agreement on raising the debt ceiling was not reached.Accusing Geithner of playing chicken little by irresponsibly spreading fear of a catastrophe, DeMint said the administration was deliberately fanning the flames of panic in order to secure a deal on its own terms.

It’s not ideal but we don’t need to panic and rush into a deal and the President has actually been burning the clock with these secret negotiations pushing us against a deadline so he can create this panic, DeMint told NBC’s The Today Show.We need to keep calm and if the President would work with us on some reasonable cuts, we’ll work with him on giving him an increase on the debt limit. Now is not the time to panic and do something else that is going to make our economy worse and cost us most jobs, he added.Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke echoed Geithner’s warning today, telling Congress that if it fails to raise the debt ceiling by August 2, the economic fallout could be catastrophic,self defeating and dire.We are not going to default, we have enough tax revenue to pay our bills, said DeMint.It certainly will be disruptive if we continue going on the track we’re going on right now. We have enough asserts, Social Security, Medicare trust fund to pay those benefits if necessary.Geithner and Bernanke’s threats sound eerily similar to those made by former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson before the 2008 bailout vote. In an effort to stampede lawmakers into voting for the bailout bill, Paulson threatened lawmakers with martial law in America if the legislation failed to pass.Senator James Inhofe later confirmed that Paulson told members of Congress the crisis would be far worse than the great depression if Congress didn’t authorize the bill to buy out toxic debt, a proposal which he abandoned the day after he got the money, added Inhofe, referring to how immediately after it was approved, Paulson announced that the bailout money would not be used to buy up toxic debt but would instead be injected directly into banks like Goldman Sachs, of which he was a former CEO.Senator DeMint has also stated his opposition to a draconian proposal by Republican Senator Mitch McConnell that would hand the Obama administration the authority to raise the debt ceiling by giving them power of the purse.Republicans weren’t elected last November to make it easier to spend and borrow and add to our debt, DeMint told CBS’ The Early Show Wednesday.The US Constitution clearly states that Congress has the exclusive authority to raise and spend money. Article I section 8 states, The Congress shall have Power….to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States, and to borrow Money on the credit of the United States.If this plan goes forward it represents yet another alarming advance in the Obama administration’s establishment of an executive dictatorship, which we have documented at length.