CLERGY NOT ALLOWED AT 10TH ANIV OF 911

Clergy Ban At 9/11 Memorial Ceremony Inspires Complaints 911 Memorial First Posted: 9/2/11 11:11 AM ET Updated: 9/2/11 02:42 PM ET By Jaweed Kaleem

When the Sept. 11 memorial is dedicated with a solemn ceremony of remembrance at ground zero this year, the names of the 2,983 deceased will be read by victims' families interspersed with remarks from city officials and politicians, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and President Barack Obama. But some Christian religious leaders complain that other important voices will not be heard.A growing group of mostly conservative Christian leaders say organizers have shut out clergy and formal prayers from this year's annual 9/11 observance, which has taken on additional significance as the 10th anniversary of the attacks approaches and the long-awaited memorial opens.It's unbelievable, says Richard Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, who has been sending email blasts to constituents about the the lack of clergy. We live in a country where the overwhelming majority of people identify as Christian or have a religion, and clergy were some of the first people to respond on 9/11 to minister to victims. Why aren't they welcome today? Clergy have never been an official part of the 10 remembrance ceremonies at ground zero, which include one six months after the attacks and one on each 9/11 anniversary since. Instead, the events have featured moments of silence during which audiences may reflect and pray. Six such moments are planned this year -- two to recall when each of the twin towers was struck, two to recall when each tower fell, one to mark Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania, and one to remember the attack on the Pentagon. But while there has been little controversy over the lack of formal religion at previous ceremonies, this year's event has generated petitions and responses from religious figures across the country.In addition to Land, influential conservative Christian groups, including the American Family Association, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and the Family Research Council, have called on Bloomberg to change course, as has the televangelist Rev. Pat Robertson.

I'm stunned. This event affected the whole psyche and soul of the country, and you are going to have no prayer? What's a memorial service if you are going to leave God out of it completely? It seems kind of hollow, said Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association, which has sent action alerts to its 2.3 million subscribers urging them to write to Bloomberg to protest the ceremony lineup.The Family Research Council, led by Tony Perkins, has also been sending notices to its base. Since launching a petition last week that says the clergy exclusion is offensive to the families of victims and strangely overlooks the role that faith played in bringing healing to countless lives,the group has gathered more than 53,000 signatures.Despite objections, Bloomberg's office has said it won't change the 9/11 plans.The ceremony was designed in coordination with 9/11 families with a mixture of readings that are spiritual, historical and personal in nature. It has been widely supported for the past 10 years and rather than have disagreements over which religious leaders participate we would like to keep the focus of our commemoration ceremony on the family members of those who died. This year's six moments of silence allow every individual a time for personal and religious introspection,Evelyn Erskine, a spokeswoman for the mayor, said in an email.Erskine added that while clergy have never been a formal part of the event, they have attended in previous years, including some who are relatives of 9/11 victims. Those clergy have been allowed to read names of victims like any other family member.

In one of his recent weekly radio shows, Bloomberg warned that the event cannot be political and said it would offer a poem or quote or something that each one of the readers will read with no speeches whatsoever.There’s an awful lot of people that would like to participate, but you just can’t do that once you open it up. So the argument here is, it’s elected officials and those who were there at the time and had some influence,the mayor said on the show.Among those calling for formal religious representation, there are differing views on which clergy should be invited. Land of the Southern Baptist Convention said there should be a Catholic priest, Protestant minister, rabbi and imam.Wildmon said that in a country where the Christian religion is dominant in terms of numbers, a Catholic or Protestant would be appropriate.In a blog post, Dave Silverman, president of American Atheists, wrote that all religious representatives should take part as long as there is an invocation on behalf of nonreligious people.Not all religious leaders are objecting to the ceremony's lineup.Many people would understandably prefer to see a presence of clergy, but priority must be given to families of victims -- that is the overriding concern,said Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis. If you do include clergy, then the question becomes,Which faiths should be represented, which are not represented, how does one include everyone? Potasnik said that the controversy should not overshadow all the progress and work that has been done by and among different faiths since 9/11 and noted that other commemorative events will have clergy and prayer. These include an event organized by the New York Police Department on Sept. 8 at Lincoln Center, which will include Rabbi Alvin Kass, the chief of chaplains for the NYPD; Cardinal Edward Egan, the archbishop emeritus of New York; and Bloomberg. Representatives of the Archdiocese of New York are participating in several 9/11-related events, and the Interfaith Center of New York is also hosting many 9/11-related gatherings.

Video Game Allows Frustrated Libs Chance to Kill Tea Party Opponents Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com September 7, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d5VL2HHDPA&feature=player_embedded

Following Teamster Jimmy Hoffa’s comments that liberals should take out the Tea Party, a company has created a video game centered around slaughtering establishment political figures who have aligned themselves with the hijacked Tea Party.Tea Party Zombies Must Die was created by StarvingEyes Advergaming, an advertising agency that boasts Meow Mix and Pepsi as clients.The video game allows players to shoot or hack up Sarah Palin, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich, Brit Hume, Michele Bachmann, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Glenn Beck, the Koch Brothers, and Barbie-like Fox News and Americans For Prosperity employees.Americans For Prosperity is a front group for oil billionaire David Koch and Richard Fink. AFP is a major player in creating and funding the hijacked Tea Party. FreedomWorks is also responsible for sanitizing the original Tea Party of its Libertarian origins and turning it into a harmless cheering section for the establishment Republican Party.

In addition to high profile politicians such as Palin and Bachmann, the game allows players to murder generic white people who are outraged by an out of control federal government.Despite the obvious adolescent nature of the video game, it reveals how some liberals and Democrats feel about the political opposition – they want to kill them.The false right-left paradigm was designed to channel hatred and violence away from the plutocratic elite. Tea Party Zombies Must Die is a perfect example of a two minute hate session where hand-picked Tea Party stand-ups like Palin and Bachmann are offered up for sacrifice, albeit as mindless zombies in a virtual world.

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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G7 ministers see urgency but to offer no grand plan
Reuters By Daniel Flynn – SEPT 7,11

PARIS (Reuters) – A meeting of Group of Seven finance chiefs on Friday will discuss the struggling world economy and progress in regulating the financial sector but a coordinated action plan to calm markets is unlikely.Delegates at the one-day gathering in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille will seek to emphasize their commitment to preserving the fragile global recovery while avoiding promoting a one-size-fits-all approach, G7 sources say.Host country France is expected to indicate that different responses are appropriate in different countries to the latest crisis of confidence rocking world markets.This is not a G7 where we are expecting to prepare a formal communique, a French source said. We are sticking to the blueprint of recent G7 meetings, which have been informal ones.Growing fears of a tip back into recession are piling pressure on the G7 finance ministers and central bank governors to agree to moderate austerity drives in some rich economies and keep monetary policy ultra-loose.France is chair this year of both the Group of Seven major industrialized economies and the wider Group of 20, which must respond to sharp market sell-offs in August that betrayed high anxiety among investors over the euro zone's debt crisis and U.S. economic downturn.

SENSE OF URGENCY

Fears the global economy may have entered its most difficult period since the collapse of Lehman Brothers has injected urgency into Friday's talks but the sense of purpose evident in 2008 and 2009 is not yet evident.Gavin Friend, a strategist at National Australia Bank in London, said the G7 was unlikely to produce a grand plan but market expectations were running so high that a failure to come up with a weighty statement could disappoint. This meeting comes at a critical time,he said.
While Europe wants to keep its commitment to austerity, the United States is closer to the International Monetary Fund's position that fiscal stimulus is needed.President Barack Obama is due to announce a big job-creating package on Thursday.A Canadian official said on Tuesday that loosening austerity measures could ease short-term recession risks but pruning sovereign debt was the top goal. He said if there were to be any additional stimulus spending, it would be nowhere near the size of the 2008 round of globally coordinated fiscal stimulus.Britain, meanwhile, is sticking fast to its tough austerity program.International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has called for a recapitalization of European banks but sources said euro zone governments have no plans to inject any further capital into banks over and above the money earmarked for the financial sector in emergency loan programs to Greece, Ireland and Portugal, sources said.

With Asian economies deeply concerned about the West's debt crisis and slow growth, Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said on Wednesday euro zone debt would be high on the G7 agenda.I presume Europe's sovereign problems will have a prominent place on the G7 agenda,Shirakawa said, noting the whole world was at risk if Europe's debt woes destabilize its banks.A source in Brussels said the G7 would likely agree to keep monetary policy accommodative, slow fiscal consolidation in states where that is possible and implement structural reforms.The mood is not for finger-pointing, but what we can do together to address the issues, that have become incredibly more complicated,the source said.The G7 may also point to the need for a rotation of growth -- that when developed countries slow down, emerging economies like China pick up the slack. That could mean a call for economies with large current account surpluses to increase domestic demand and allow their exchange rates to appreciate.Currencies are bound to be discussed after the Swiss National Bank shocked markets by setting an exchange rate cap on the soaring franc.Japan's new finance minister Jun Azumi made clear on Monday that Tokyo was far from comfortable with current yen levels and said he would seek to convince G7 finance chiefs that a strong yen was detrimental for the world economy as well as Japan's.Three sessions of talks in Marseille will focus on the global economy and financial regulation, including discussion of the health of Europe's banking system.No final communique will be issued, but the talks will wrap up with a news conference at around 10:00 p.m. (2000 GMT).The first session of talks in Marseille will be a debate on financial regulation, including a discussion of the health of the banking system in Europe and elsewhere, introduced by future ECB Chairman Mario Draghi, who also chairs the Financial Stability Board tasked by the G20 with steering banking reform.

A session on the global economy will discuss recent events, including the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating and the euro zone's July 21 crisis package to strengthen its bailout fund. it will also discuss global macroeconomic coordination.A working dinner will include finance ministers, central bank governors and heads of global financial institutions.(Additional reporting by Catherine Bremer in Paris, Jan Strupczewski in Brussels, Leika Kihara in Tokyo and Louise Egan in Ottawa; Writing by Catherine Bremer, editing by Mike Peacock)

UBS: Euro Collapse Could Lead To Martial Law, Civil War-Hank Paulson-style fearmongering is desperate effort to save single currency, preserve plan for superstate Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Wednesday, September 7, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI3z0JexpXc&feature=player_embedded

In a similar vein to how Hank Paulson threatened martial law on the streets of America if the bailout failed to pass, top banks like UBS are now warning of authoritarian or military government and civil war in a bid to frighten away member states from leaving the euro.It’s a transparent ploy designed to create the pretext for empowering the EU to enforce a common economic policy across all member states, something that British Prime Minister David Cameron is now openly backing.In a UBS Investment Research release, the Swiss bank warns that should member states begin to desert the euro, precipitating a collapse of the single currency, some form of authoritarian or military government, or civil war, would likely ensue.The tone of UBS’ advisory sounds very sobering and authoritative, but we’ve seen this type of financial fearmongering before, during the 2008 bailout debate, which was eventually rammed through on the back of bellicose threats about martial law and economic armageddon.As Senator James Inhofe revealed, then Treasury Secretary Hank 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, at which he was a former CEO.

Lawmakers at the time were threatened with martial law and troops on the streets if they failed to vote for the bill, identical rhetoric we’re now hearing from UBS and others.The Obama administration also used economic terrorism to get an agreement pushed through on the debt hike. While telling Americans that a new great depression could be just days away if a compromise wasn’t reached, Obama was privately telling big banks not to worry, assuring them that such an event won’t happen.Billionaire investor George Soros has now joined the chorus, warning that the crisis has the potential to be a lot worse than Lehman Brothers, unless the European Union is handed more power to create a central economic authority.Of course, the populations of Greece, Italy, Portugal and others would most likely not resort to mass rioting and civil war if the euro was to disappear. Most of them would welcome the return of their old traditional currencies and the value of goods and services would simply be re-valued accordingly.There would be no mass panic, no civil unrest and no need for martial law, but the banking establishment has to make it appear that way in order to preserve the euro and keep the continent on track for a future amalgamation into a 4th Reich-style federal superstate, which was the agenda from the very beginning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI3z0JexpXc&feature=player_embedded

SOROS: Eurozone Crisis Could Be Worse Than Lehman
Gus Lubin Business Insider Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Legendary investor George Soros says the lack of central European authority could make this crisis worse than 2008. He tells the New York Times:This crisis has the potential to be a lot worse than Lehman Brothers. That is why the problem is so serious. You need a crisis to create the political will for Europe to create such an authority, but there is still no understanding as to what the authority will do.
Soros has said that Europe needs three things: a central authority, eurobonds and an exit mechanism for failing countries.Soros is bearish in general these days, predicting a new recession in the U.S. and closing his hedge fund to outside investors.

FAMINE

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

FAMINE

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: 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.

FEARFUL SIGHTS AND GREAT SIGNS FROM HEAVEN

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.

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

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

Firefighters begin to gain control over Texas blaze
Reuters By Karen Brooks | Reuters – SEPT 7,11

AUSTIN (Reuters) - Firefighters were gaining ground on Wednesday for the first time in their days-long battle against a large and deadly wildfire southeast of Austin, Texas, officials said.The 33,000-acre (13,000-hectare) Bastrop County Complex fire, which has forced the evacuation of about 5,000 people in the rural community, was about 30 percent contained as of Wednesday morning, said April Saginor, public information officer for the Texas Forest Service.The Bastrop fire, one of nearly 200 fires that have broken out across Texas in the past week, has killed two people and claimed 575 homes, the most houses ever destroyed by a single fire in Texas history.

Firefighters who have fought the blaze since Sunday were helped overnight by decreased winds and cooler temperatures, conditions expected to continue on Wednesday, officials said.The U.S. Forest Service has sent a team to the area to help coordinate the efforts, which include nearly 400 firefighters.So far, four people have died in wildfires in the state since Labor Day weekend, including a mother and infant daughter who were killed in northeast Texas on Sunday.Wildfires sweeping across drought-stricken state have destroyed more than 1,000 homes in the last several days.The Bastrop fire, the largest current blaze, stretches 24 miles long and 20 miles wide at its widest point.More than 3.6 million acres (1.5 million hectares) in Texas have been scorched by wildfires since November, fed by a drought that has caused more than $5 billion in damage to the state's agricultural industry and that shows no sign of easing.(Editing by Jerry Norton and Eric Beech)

Crews curb California fire sparked by plane crash
Reuters By Steve Gorman | Reuters – SEPT 7,11

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fire crews made decisive gains on Tuesday against a fierce blaze that destroyed 12 homes after it was ignited by a small-plane crash in Southern California, and evacuation orders were lifted late in the day for hundreds of dwellings.The fire had grown by roughly 5,000 acres between nightfall Monday and daybreak Tuesday as strong, erratic winds fanned the flames across steep, rugged terrain near the mountain town of Tehachapi, about 150 miles north of Los Angeles.
But the winds eased after dawn, allowing fire crews to go on the offensive and keep the blaze from expanding, said Daniel Berlant, spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.By Tuesday evening, some 2,100 firefighters backed by bulldozers and an aerial squadron of water-dropping helicopters and fire-retardant tanker planes had carved containment lines around 40 percent of the fire's perimeter, up from 5 percent early on Monday, he said.At day's end, the footprint of the blaze in the mountain slopes, canyons and ranch lands to the south and west of Tehachapi remained where it had been in the morning -- at 13,400 acres and holding.We really turned that corner with this fire with favorable weather conditions,Berlant told Reuters.We're starting to gain the upper hand.The so-called Canyon Fire was sparked late Sunday morning when a single-engine plane crashed near Tehachapi, killing the pilot and a second person aboard.The ensuing blaze quickly engulfed one nearby home, and 11 more dwellings were destroyed on Monday, fire officials said.A total of 650 residences, 1,500 commercial properties and 150 outbuildings were considered at risk at the fire's peak, and hundreds of those homes were ordered evacuated on the first day of the blaze.But with the fire threat abating on Tuesday evening, all evacuations were lifted, Berlant said. Power lines, wind farms and other facilities owned by Southern California Edison also were spared.(Editing by Greg McCune and Jerry Norton)

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.

Lee's remnants bring fresh flood worries to East
AP By BILL POOVEY, Associated Press – SEPT 7,11

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – As the leftovers from Tropical Storm Lee brought welcome wet weather to farmers in the Southeast, many areas of the East Coast were getting soaked Wednesday, bringing new concerns about flooding.Tornadoes spawned by Lee damaged hundreds of homes, and flooding knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people. Trees were uprooted and roads were flooded. Winds from the storm fanned wildfires in Louisiana and Texas. Lee even kicked up tar balls on the Gulf Coast.At least four people died in the storm.Lee was moving north, bringing heavy rain along with it. Flood warnings were in effect Wednesday and Thursday for much of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and upstate New York.Rising waters of a rain-swollen creek forced the evacuation of residents in the northeastern Pennsylvania city of Wilkes-Barre early Wednesday morning.Officials ordered the mandatory evacuation of about 3,000 residents. Rain from Irene also prompted evacuations there two Sundays ago.The National Weather Service issued flood warnings for parts of the Catskills and the Schoharie Creek valley. Those two eastern New York areas were devastated by Tropical Storm Irene on Aug. 28.

There were voluntary evacuations in the Town of Shandaken in the Catskills. Some schools in the Hudson Valley closed or delayed their start Wednesday.National Weather Service meteorologist Neil Stuart said some parts of the Catskills have seen three to five inches in the last few days and another one to three inches of rain could be on tap through Thursday.It's definitely more than they need,Stuart said.In New Jersey, major flooding was forecast for the Passaic River, which breached its banks during Irene and caused serious damage in some communities.Lee formed just off the Louisiana coast late last week and gained strength as it lingered in the Gulf for a couple of days. It dumped more than a foot of rain in New Orleans, testing the city's pump system for the first time in years. The storm then trudged across Mississippi and Alabama. By Tuesday, it had collided with a cold front leaving much of the East Coast wet, with unseasonably cool temperatures.At one point, flood watches and warnings were in effect from northeast Alabama through West Virginia to New England.In southeast Louisiana, Red Eubanks used a floor squeegee to clean up his restaurant and bar. His parking lot had been dry — and the headquarters for Livingston Parish sheriff's deputies and their rescue boat — but the nearby Amite River slowly rose and overflowed its banks.Water crept into the dining hall and back of Red's Restaurant and Bar. Eubanks' son and several friends put the refrigerator, freezers and salad display boxes on cinder blocks to protect them.This makes the fifth time I've had water in this building in 31 1/2 years,he said.In New Jersey, where many residents were still cleaning up after Hurricane Irene, the remnants of Lee were expected to drop anywhere from 2 to 5 inches of rain. Major flooding was forecast on Wednesday for the Passaic River, which breached its banks during Irene and caused serious damage in some communities.

On New York's Long Island, heavy rain and winds knocked out power to more than 9,000 utility customers for several hours on Tuesday. But Lee's damage paled in comparison with Irene. At least 46 deaths were blamed on that storm, millions lost power and the damage was estimated in the billions of dollars.Still, Lee was an unprecedented storm in some places. In Chattanooga, a 24-hour record for rainfall was set with 9.69 inches, eclipsing the previous record of 7.61 inches in March of 1886. By Tuesday, more than 10 inches of rain had fallen in the state's fourth-largest city, which had its driest August ever with barely a drop of rain.The soggy ground meant even modest winds were toppling trees onto homes and cars. A tree fell on a Chattanooga woman while she was moving her car, killing her, said police Sgt. Jerri Weary.In suburban Atlanta, a man died after trying to cross a swollen creek near a dam. Authorities in Alabama called off the search for a missing swimmer presumed dead in the rough Gulf waters and in Mississippi, another man drowned while trying to cross a swollen creek in a car. Two people in the car with him were saved when an alert motorist nearby tossed them a rope.There were other rescue stories, too. At a flooded apartment complex in Fort Oglethorpe in northwest Georgia, 33 people were saved by boat, Georgia Emergency Management Agency spokesman Ken Davis said.The American Red Cross set up a shelter for them and other residents displaced in Mississippi, where damage was reported in at least 22 counties.In Gulf Shores, Ala., black and brown chunks of tar ranging in size from marbles to baseballs washed up on the beach. Brandon Franklin, the city's coastal claims manager, said samples would be sent to Auburn University for chemical testing to determine if the tar is from last year's BP oil spill.Oil from the spill had soiled Gulf Coast beaches during the summer tourist season a year ago, though officials said the tar balls found so far didn't compare with the thick oil found on beaches then.BP has sent survey teams to conduct post-storm assessments along coastal beaches to determine what may have developed on the beaches and barrier islands as a result of Lee. The oil giant is prepared to mobilize response crews to affected areas if necessary, spokesman Tom Mueller said.In Cherokee County in northern Georgia, National Weather Service meteorologists confirmed that it was a tornado that damaged or destroyed about 400 homes. The twister was about a quarter-mile wide, with winds of around 90 mph. It traveled 24 miles on the ground, meteorologist Jessica Fieux said.One man received minor injuries from flying debris, but otherwise no one was hurt.Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner Ralph Hudgens toured a speedway and other neighborhoods damaged by the tornado.Sometimes a house would be hit, and a lot of damage, Hudgens said. And then the next door neighbor, nothing.The rain was a blessing for some farmers who had been forced to cut hay early and had seen their corn crop stunted by a summer drought.Obviously we would like to have this a while earlier,said Brant Crowder, who manages 600 acres of the McDonald Farm in the Sale Creek community north of Chattanooga. It's been hot and dry the last two months.As many as 200,000 had lost power across Alabama at the height of the storm, with most of the outages in the Birmingham area, Alabama Power spokeswoman Keisa Sharpe said. Outages were also reported in Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina.Meanwhile, in the open Atlantic, Hurricane Katia threatened to bring large swells to the East Coast but was not expected to make landfall in the U.S.Associated Press writers Jay Reeves in Orange Beach, Ala.; Bob Johnson in Montgomery; Ray Henry in Atlanta; Janet McConnaughey in New Orleans and Randall Dickerson in Nashville, Tenn., contributed to this report.

Maria forms as 13th named storm in Atlantic season
AP SEPT 7,11

MIAMI – Tropical Storm Maria has formed in the western Atlantic as the 13th named storm of this year's season.The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Wednesday the storm is about 1,220 miles (1,965 km) west of the Cape Verde Islands and moving west at 23 miles per hour (37 kph).It has top sustained winds of 50 mph (85 kph) and some slight strengthening is possible in the next 48 hours.Meanwhile, Hurricane Katia continues to blow as a Category 1 storm in the Atlantic and was not expected to hit land. It is forecast to pass between the U.S. East Coast and Bermuda over Wednesday night and Thursday.

Hurricane Katia continues to move northwestward: NHC
Reuters – Wed Sep 7, 8:09 am ET

(Reuters) – Hurricane Katia, currently a Category 1 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, continued to move northwestward, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in an early report Wednesday.At 8:00 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT), Katia was located about 310 miles southwest of Bermuda and was packing maximum winds of 90 miles per hour, the NHC said.A turn toward the north-northwest is expected later today, followed by a turn toward the north and then the north-northeast with an increase in forward speed late Thursday and early Friday,the NHC projected.Tropical cyclones become named tropical storms when their winds exceed 39 miles per hour and become hurricanes when their winds reach more than 74 mph.(Reporting by Antonita Devotta)

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Palestinians say they will press on with UN bid
APBy MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH - Associated Press | AP – SEPT 7,11

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinians say a last-minute American effort has failed to stop them from moving ahead with their U.N. statehood bid.Two senior White House envoys met Wednesday with Palestinian officials and tried to persuade them to drop their plan to ask the U.N. this month to approve their independence and instead resume peace talks with Israel.A senior Palestinian official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose the information, said the American envoys did not bring anything new concerning the peace process that would enable talks to resume.The Palestinians say they are turning to the U.N. after years of sporadic, and inconclusive, peace talks with Israel. The United States and Israel fiercely oppose the U.N. bid.

Palestinians deploy Obama speech in U.N. campaign
ReutersBy Tom Perry | Reuters – SEPT 7,11

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is an unlikely participant in a Palestinian campaign to drum up support for a bid to win U.N. recognition of their statehood -- a diplomatic move opposed by both his administration and Israel.But as part of an official media campaign begun this week, Palestinians have pulled from the archive some words spoken by Obama during the 2010 U.N. General Assembly, in which he alluded to the prospect of a Palestinian state joining the world body.When we come back here next year, we can have an agreement that can lead to a new member of the United Nations, an independent, sovereign state of Palestine living in peace with Israel, Obama says in his 2010 speech.Although described by U.S. officials as no more than an expression of hope, the Obama remarks are one factor cited by Palestinians when explaining their push for U.N. membership at this year's General Assembly, due to convene in a few weeks.If he said it, he must have meant it, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says during a 36-second radio spot.The ad is a reflection of Palestinian frustration with the Obama administration. The Palestinians feel Obama let them down, notably by failing to convince Israel to halt Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem -- part of the territories where they seek an independent state.Though the U.S. president's remarks were hedged, Abbas has described the statement as the Obama promise.Obama spoke just a few weeks after his administration had brokered a resumption of peace talks, which then collapsed a few weeks later over the settlement issue.The U.S. president's words are being used alongside excerpts of speeches by the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as part of the campaign. Verses penned by Mahmoud Darwish, the national poet who died in 2008, also feature.

The United States, Israel's closest ally, opposes the Palestinian U.N. initiative on the grounds that it is unhelpful to its Middle East diplomacy, which is still focused on bringing about a resumption of face-to-face peace talks.U.S. opposition in the Security Council will thwart any Palestinian bid for full U.N. membership, although the Palestinians could still secure an upgrade in their status to a non-member state by presenting a General Assembly resolution.We are reminding (Obama) of what he said in the United Nations in 2010,said Ahmad Zaki ElAreedi, director of Voice of Palestine radio, one of the Palestinian Authority-run institutions broadcasting the campaign.Western diplomats have pinned much of the blame for the moribund peace process on Israel, with Washington and European capitals roundly condemning a spurt of recent approvals for settlement building in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.While the United States has said it will side with Israel in the impending showdown in the United Nations, a big majority of U.N. members are likely to back the Palestinians.(Reporting by Tom Perry; editing by Crispian Balmer and Mark Heinrich)

Spain says supports Palestinian bid for statehood
ReutersBy Sonya Dowsett | Reuters – Sun, Aug 21, 2011

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain hopes a meeting of European Union foreign ministers on September 2 will bring progress toward the recognition of a Palestinian state, Minister of Foreign Affairs Trinidad Jimenez said.There's the feeling that now is the time to do something, to give the Palestinians the hope that a state could become reality, she said in an interview with El Pais newspaper published on Sunday.
We have to give them some signal, because if we don't it could generate great frustration for the Palestinian people.The meeting of EU foreign ministers in Sopot, Poland comes ahead of a United Nations General Assembly meeting later in September where President Mahmoud Abbas is seeking to upgrade the Palestinians' status, but is unlikely to emerge with full U.N. membership for his country.More likely is an upgrade of the Palestinian territories to become a non-member state from its current status as an observer. That would not need Security Council approval and would elevate the Palestinians' U.N. status to equal that of the Vatican.(Reporting by Sonya Dowsett; Editing by Jon Hemming)

Away from U.N. debate, Palestinian camp is on edge
Reuters By Tom Perry | Reuters – SEPT 7,11

JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Once again, it can be easier to find a rifle than a job in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin.Residents say occasional bursts of gunfire in its narrow streets are an economic indicator as telling as any. Many see the renewed disorder as a consequence of despair.The scene of heavy fighting in 2002 during the last Intifada, or uprising, Jenin camp today challenges the picture of a West Bank prospering under the Palestinian Authority (PA), the Western-backed and internationally-funded government.Young men who fought in the last uprising have since emerged from Israeli prisons to bleak prospects. Their local standing as heroes has not helped them to find work. They hold the PA responsible and say their anger is growing.I live in total despair,said a 25-year-old ex-fighter jailed by Israel at the height of the Intifada and jobless since his release five months ago. To me, the whole world seems black.The camp's 16,000 people, mostly descendants of Palestinians dispossessed when Israel was created in 1948, live with memories of a violent past and little hope for a better future.Some view the camp as a ticking bomb, especially at a time when Palestinian belief in any chance of peace with Israel -- or the removal of half a million Israeli settlers in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, annexed by Israel in 1967 -- has dissolved.Plans by the Palestinian Authority leadership to press a claim to statehood at the United Nations in September offer something to talk about, but little more.Its consequences hard to fathom, the diplomacy planned for New York appears a world away from the daily worries of getting by and the tensions that have surfaced recently within the camp.
In Jenin camp, locals say small groups of masked men have reappeared in the streets, reviving memories of lawless armed gangs that roamed here during the last Intifada.

SHOOTING, ARSON

A few weeks ago, dozens of bullets were fired at a community services center. Separately, UNRWA, the U.N. agency which cares for Palestinian refugees, was forced to suspend its operations temporarily following threats to its staff. The car of one local notable who lives just outside the camp was torched.Adding to the pressures, Israeli security forces have stepped up raids and arrests in the camp in recent months as part of investigations into the killing in April of an Israeli actor and director who ran a community theater.I won't tell you the situation is out of control, but it is not under full control,said Atta Abu Irmaila, a local leader in Fatah, the ruling party in the West Bank led by PA President Mahmoud Abbas. Things are very difficult. If it stays like this, anything is possible.Addressing the camp from mosque minarets, community leaders recently appealed for an end to displays of arms by masked men.Palestinians who know the camp's politics attribute recent disturbances to individual rivalries rather than friction between factions such as Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.Used to much worse, they say the trouble should not be overdrawn, but talk of tensions rooted in poverty -- at least some of the gunmen belong to the camp's jobless generation.A decade ago, the workforce of Jenin camp and the adjacent city of the same name would have found jobs in nearby Israel. That was before the last Intifada, when Israel identified Jenin as a hub for suicide bombings and shooting attacks.Its military response led to a 10-day assault in 2002 known among Palestinians as the Battle of Jenin.Today, tighter restrictions on access to Israel mean its labor market remains cut off to many. Veterans of the fighting also complain that the PA has failed to offer them employment.What's going on in the camp is because there is no work for the youth,said a 28-year old, a veteran of the fighting who was jailed by Israel for eight years and arrested recently by PA security forces on suspicion of opening fire in the camp.He was cleared of the charges. His treatment by the police has bred more resentment of the PA.When they come into the camp, they come in as if they are going into a war zone, he said. Like others, he would not give his name for fear that talking to the media would bring more police attention.I want to work. Tell me to demolish a mountain and I'll do it, said another Intifada fighter of the same age.We see that our children are going to be worse off than us. If things stay as they are, the pressure will generate an explosion,he said.

ANGER INSIDE

In a report issued in June, UNRWA highlighted a divergence between refugee and non-refugee prosperity in the West Bank, showing higher rates of unemployment among the refugees.Registered refugees account for close to 700,000 of the West Bank's Palestinian population of 2.4 million.Across the Palestinian workforce in the West Bank, one in four were unemployed, the report said.For the most vulnerable, UNRWA runs a job creation program that pays laborers $420 a month for short-term projects, such as building repairs. But it isn't enough to make Jenin prosper.By contrast, the city of Ramallah, the PA's administrative capital, has boomed, thanks in large part to injections of aid from international donors who have backed the PA's efforts to build institutions for statehood.Economic conditions have also improved in other West Bank towns, partly because Israel has relaxed some of the crippling restrictions on movement it imposed during the Intifada.The PA recognizes that Jenin needs more attention to remedy above average unemployment. The government is aware of the need to double the efforts,said Ghassan Khatib, PA spokesman.But the Authority faces an uphill struggle to win local confidence. Its economic policies are seen to be failing and its security forces are also looked upon with a degree of suspicion, their credibility undermined by repeated Israeli raids.Some question the Palestinian security forces' role when the Israeli army still acts as it pleases. Such sentiment generates warnings that the PA could be the focus of future anger.

I am the regional secretary general of Fatah but I do not work in politics. My job is social work,said Abu Irmaila. I cannot do politics -- I can't say: Come, there is a Fatah conference, or a march, or support the president, to someone who can't find food to eat.People are saying: We fought the Israelis, we offered martyrs and prisoners and our homes were destroyed. But you, oh Palestinian Authority, Fatah -- what have you done to us? he said.He believes trouble in Jenin camp could spark wider West Bank instability. If there is going to be an explosion in the country ... its starting point will be Jenin camp, he said.People have felt more hounded by the Israelis and the PA since the killing of Juliano Mer Khamis, the Israeli founder of the Freedom Theater, said Jacob Gough, who is now its director.Founded in 2006, the theater aims to provide a creative outlet for youths who have grown up through years of turbulence. There's a billiard hall, and there's us, said Gough.There's this anger inside and it's going to come out in certain ways. Some come to the theater, some go around with guns and shoot in the air,he said. People feel left out of society.(Editing by Alistair Lyon)

Palestinians resist US pressure on statehood bid
APBy MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH - Associated Press | AP – SEPT 7,11

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinians on Tuesday said they would not give in to American pressure to drop their bid for statehood at the United Nations, taking a tough position ahead of a meeting with a senior U.S. delegation.Two senior White House envoys, David Hale and Dennis Ross, arrived in the region on Tuesday for talks with Israel and Palestinian officials. The U.S. has been trying to persuade the Palestinians to drop their plan to ask the U.N. this month to approve their independence and instead resume peace talks with Israel.Yasser Abed Rabbo, a top adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said there was little the Americans could do to change the Palestinians' plans.We are going to the United Nations, regardless of objections or pressure, he said. Abbas is expected to meet with Hale on Wednesday. Ross, who is viewed by the Palestinians as pro-Israel, was not scheduled to attend the meeting.The comments signaled more frustration for President Barack Obama, who has made little progress in nurturing peace talks despite pledges to make Mideast diplomacy a priority.The Palestinians say they are turning to the U.N. after years of sporadic, and inconclusive, peace talks with Israel.

Israel captured the West Bank and east Jerusalem — areas claimed by the Palestinians — in the 1967 Mideast war. Both Israel and the U.S. oppose the U.N. initiative, saying peace can be reached only through negotiations. Israel has called for a resumption of talks without preconditions.The American team was meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday.Barak's office said his discussions focused on the regional situation and strategy issues,including the Palestinians. He did not elaborate. There was no immediate comment from either Netanyahu's office or the Americans.Abbas confirmed this week that he has held secret talks with the Israeli president and defense minister in recent weeks, but was unable to reach any breakthrough.In a separate matter, an Israeli defense official said Tuesday that the military has temporarily suspended its contentious policy of demolishing illegally built Palestinian homes in the West Bank. The official said the order was issued after determining the policy is not equally enforced against illegally built Jewish settler homes.Palestinians have bitterly complained that demolitions are arbitrary and lopsided and that it's difficult for them to get Israeli construction permits.The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the order, which was issued in an internal memorandum. He didn't say how long the order would last.Also Tuesday, Netanyahu condemned the torching of a mosque in the West Bank earlier in the week, that came a few hours after the Israeli military dismantled structures in an unauthorized West Bank outpost. The name of the outpost, Migron, was spray painted on the mosque, suggesting the act was settler retaliation for the demolitions.Menachem Froman, a rabbi from the settlement of Tekoa who promotes coexistence between Palestinians and settlers, visited the mosque on Tuesday to reconcile between the two sides.In Gaza Tuesday, a Palestinian militant was killed by an Israeli missile as he fired rockets at southern Israel, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Adham Abu Salmia said. The Israeli military said it hit militants firing mortars.Associated Press writer Amy Teibel in Jerusalem contributed to this report.