STOCK RESULTS DEC 14,11

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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Dow -119 points at low today.
Dow -1 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,613.30.OIL opens at $96.82 today.

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Dow -1 points at high today so far.

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GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)

CRUDE OIL -1.9 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE +3.8 MILLION BARRELS
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES +487,000 BARRELS

LONG GUN RESISTRY BILL
http://www.parl.gc.ca/LEGISInfo/BillDetails.aspx?billId=5188309&Mode=1&Language=E
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Quebec launches legal battle to save long-gun registry-Postmedia News Dec 13, 2011 – 1:40 PM ET | Last Updated: Dec 13, 2011 3:14 PM ET Chris Wattie/REUTERSBy Kevin Dougherty

QUEBEC – Quebec’s Public Security Minister Robert Dutil announced Tuesday that the province will go to court to keep the Quebec portion of the federal long-gun registry in service.Ottawa’s Bill C-19 would abolish the federal registry.Quebec believes a system of registering weapons is essential in crime prevention, Dutil told reporters at a news conference, also attended by representatives of Quebec police forces, their unions, crime experts and crime victims.In the event Quebec wins its court battle and gets its hands on the gun records, Quebec would then adopt a bill to create its own arms registry.The Liberals established the gun registry in the mid-1990s but its origins date back to December 1989, when Marc Lepine walked into the engineering school of the University of Montreal with a semi-automatic rifle and shot 28 people, killing 14. He then took his own life.Dutil noted that 2,561 weapons were ordered seized across the province during the past year out of concerns for the safety of the owner or another person.Bill C-19 proposes that the arms registry be not only abolished but that all the records will be destroyed.

Dutil made his case for preserving the registry at House of Commons hearings on Bill C-19 in Ottawa, but his federal counterpart, Vic Toews, has said plans to destroy the registry would go ahead.The long-gun registry has long been a political hot button — wildly unpopular in much of the West and in rural Canada but enjoying broad support in Quebec. Advocates have argued it’s a much-needed tool for police to keep Canadian communities safe while critics call it a costly intrusion into the lives of law-abiding gun-owners.The Conservatives introduced Bill C-19 in October.With their majority in both the Commons and the Senate, the Tories now have the power to ensure the bill will be passed and that the long-gun registry will be abolished.A year ago, the minority Conservative government attempted to repeal the long-gun registry through a private member’s bill introduced by Tory MP Candice Hoeppner.That bill was narrowly defeated once the Liberals whipped all their MPs to vote as a block against it, and when some NDP MPs who had opposed the registry previously changed their votes to help keep it alive.During the spring election campaign, Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowed to introduce legislation if re-elected to kill the registry.We must stop targeting law-abiding gun owners, and instead focus our resources on real criminals,he said in a statement while campaigning in April.The RCMP has argued it’s an important tool used by police to keep track of firearms.The RCMP says the registry costs about $4-million to run but it was plagued by cost overruns when it was being launched in 2002. Then-auditor general Sheila Fraser pegged the costs at $1-billion.

EU Commission pushing for narrowest possible treaty
Today DEC 13,11 @ 17:40 By Honor Mahony

BRUSSELS - The European Commission is pushing to have the narrowest possible treaty to tightening budgetary rules among member states, arguing that most measures can be made using normal EU law-making procedures.EU officials are still digesting the implications of last week's decision by all member states, except the UK, to pursue an intergovernmental treaty, with the route currently raising more legal and political questions than it answers.One of main questions concerns the content of the agreement. Last week's summit agreement is very similar in tone and nature to the so-called six-pack of legislation, centralising budgetary surveillance, which came into force on Tuesday (13 December) and to the further moves announced in that direction by the commission late last month.Our legal analysis is that by far the vast majority of measures decided on Friday can be introduced through [EU] legislation,EU economic affairs commissioner Olli Rehn said Monday.At moment commission officials suggest that only the debt brake rule - requiring countries to have balanced budgets - and making sanctions easier to impose by changing the voting system would need to be in the new intergovernmental text.If you want to introduce and implement automatic sanctions, to which there is a reference in the new fiscal compact, it may be that you may require a treaty change for that, Rehn said.

Speaking to MEPs on Tuesday, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso pledged to make full use of Article 136 in the treaty - governing budgetary surveillance in eurozone countries - to see that most changes are made via the normal process of a commission proposal, which passes approval to parliament and member states.It could actually be reasonably limited, one source said, but added it depends how far member states will actually go.But even where the treaty will be drawn up remains in question. The secretariat of member states - the council - is expected to draw up the legal text, with work to start by the end of the week. A draft may already be on the table by next Tuesday, one diplomat said.This may then be discussed by the so-called euro-working group which consists of eurozone treasury officials as well as a representative from the commission's finance department.The group would have to be extended to those who wish to be involved said a diplomat from one non-euro country.But the diplomat added:No one knows the details yet.There is talk of using the Economic and Financial Committee, which has also includes representatives from the European Central Bank, or the regular meetings of EU ambassadors. However, this is complicated because these are bodies for all 27 member states, when only up to 26 are to be involved.

Ratification questions

One central question will be the ratification process. It remains unclear what will happen if one of the countries rejects the treaty.Meanwhile, non-euro countries are likely to push to be able to choose during the ratification process which measures would apply from the treaty coming into force and which will follow actual entry into the eurozone.The commission is also fighting to make sure that it would have the powers to oversee any agreement while the court could enforce it, something of a legal minefield, although commission officials say there is already legal precedent.
Euro-deputies are also looking for a seat at the negotiating table. So far, they have been offered the nebulous term of being associated with drawing up the text.
Joseph Daul, leader of the centre-right European People's Party, the largest group in the EU assembly, called for parliament to have its rightful role in the process, while his socialist counterpart Martin Schulz said it should be on the same level as the commission and the council.Governments want the treaty to be signed by the March EU summit at the latest. But much is expected to depend not only on how the legal and political questions are answered but also on what France and Germany expect from the text.French President Nicolas Sarkozy recently repeated that no new powers should be transferred to EU level. France may be keen to widen the scope of the text to include other issues dear to Paris, but which it only wants dealt with among states.

Visas and trade to dominate yet another EU-Russia summit Today DEC 13,11 @ 18:09 By Andrew Rettman

BRUSSELS - EU officials will tell Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Brussels on Thursday (15 December) they have serious concerns about recent elections. However, discussions on visas and trade are likely to dominate.The meeting comes a few days after tens of thousands of Russians on the streets of Moscow and St Petersburg called for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to go. The protest against rigged parliamentary elections was the biggest in 20 years.EU foreign relations spokeswoman Maja Kocjancic said on Tuesday EU officials will complain about electoral violations and urge Moscow to let people protest in peace.Russia's EU ambassador Vladimir Chizhov, in a press briefing on Monday gave a foretaste of what they are likely to hear back.There was quite a mixed group of people - some waving orange flags [in reference to the Orange Revolution in Ukraine], others waving imperialist flags, some waving red and black anarchist flags. There were parallel protests in support of the president and the prime minister ... all these are expressions of democracy, he said.There is one concern for the authorities - abiding by the law. And I can assure you that the laws regulating protests and rallies are no different to those in EU countries.The title of the EU's official press release on the Medvedev meeting - EU and Russia Move Strategic Partnership Forwards - indicates that its priorities lie elsewhere.

Russia will in Geneva the day after the EU summit sign up to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after 18 years of talks in what the EU hopes will end some commercial disputes, such as Siberian overflight fees for EU airlines, and provide impetus for stalled talks on a new EU-Russia partnership treaty.Apart from congratulating Medvedev on the move, the EU will on Thursday also agree a set of common steps for visa-free travel in future.WTO ratification is expected to take until mid-2012 and the visa talks are likely to take years.But EU countries are this week also planning to let Poland and Russia already drop visas for people living near the border of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, creating an immediate feel-good factor.On foreign policy, Chizhov said Russia will repeat warnings for EU countries to avoid military action in Iran and Syria.On the financial crisis, he said Russia is considering giving more money to the International Monetary Fund to help pay for future EU bail-outs in a sign of the EU's weakened position on the international stage.The veteran diplomat - this will be Chizhov's 26th EU summit - alluded to the open secret that neither the EU nor Russia want to hold two summits a year but are forced to under the terms of their old bilateral treaty.He referred to the event as yet another EU-Russia summit, adding: It is somewhat difficult to expect every summit to act as a major reassessment of bilateral relations.

13 December 2011 Last updated at 13:40 ET Canada under fire over Kyoto protocol exit Environment Minister Peter Kent:Kyoto is not the path forward for a global solution for climate change

Several countries have criticised Canada for formally withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.A spokesman for France's foreign ministry called the move bad news for the fight against climate change, a sentiment echoed by other officials.
Peter Kent, Canada's minister of the environment, has said the protocol does not represent a way forward.The move, which is legal and was expected, makes Canada the first nation to pull out of the global treaty.A spokesman for China's foreign ministry told reporters that the decision was regrettable and flies in the face of the efforts of the international community, Reuters news agency reported.The protocol, initially adopted in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, is aimed at fighting global warming. Through the agreement, countries like China and India take voluntary, but non-binding steps to reduce their carbon emissions.Japan's own environment minister, Goshi Hosono, urged Canada to stay in the protocol.

That Canada would withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol has been the worst-kept recent secret in climate change politics.On taking office in 2007, Stephen Harper's government found their predecessors, for all their green rhetoric, had done little to cut Canada's emissions.Rather than heading for a 6% cut from 1990 levels by 2020, the Kyoto pledge, it was and still is set for a rise of about 16% - more like 30% if you include forestry. The obvious answer, to huge distain from critics, was to say they wouldn't try meeting the target.Since then, the approach has been to copy the US line. Canada's current pledge is exactly the same as the US one - a cut of 17% from 2005 levels by 2020 - with the proviso that the number will change if the US passes legislation with a different target.And as the US is outside Kyoto, Canada's last act of mimicry was to leave as well.A burning question at the recent UN talks in Durban was whether Japan, Russia, Australia or New Zealand would follow Canada's lead - which would effectively leave just European countries inside.For the moment, it appears unlikely, as all like the flexibility Kyoto offers for meeting emission targets. But it's not impossible.But that will not happen, Mr Kent said. Kyoto, for Canada, is in the past, and as such we are invoking our legal right to withdraw from Kyoto,Mr Kent said.He said he would be formally advising the United Nations of his country's intention to pull out.

Impediment

He said meeting Canada's obligations under Kyoto would cost $13.6bn (10.3bn euros; £8.7bn): That's $1,600 from every Canadian family - that's the Kyoto cost to Canadians, that was the legacy of an incompetent Liberal government.Despite that cost, greenhouse emissions would continue to rise as two of the world's largest polluters - the US and China - were not covered by the Kyoto agreement, Mr Kent said.
We believe that a new agreement that will allow us to generate jobs and economic growth represents the way forward.Mr Kent's announcement came just hours after a last-minute deal on climate change was agreed in Durban.Talks on a new legal deal covering all countries will begin next year and end by 2015, coming into effect by 2020, the UN climate conference decided.Some countries, including India, were worried that the first nation to formally remove itself from the binding Kyoto agreement would jeopardise the future conferences.For low-lying island nation Tuvalu, most at-risk for rising sea levels, the withdrawal was more personal.For a vulnerable country like Tuvalu, its an act of sabotage on our future, Ian Fry, Tuvalu's lead negotiator told Reuters. Withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol is a reckless and totally irresponsible act.Peter Kent with Australia Minister for Climate Change Greg Combet during the Durban talks 11 December 2011 Australia delegate Greg Combet (left) defended Canada's decision

Australia's lead delegate, Minister of Climate Change Greg Combet has defended Canada's decision.The Canadian decision to withdraw from the protocol should not be used to suggest Canada does not intend to play its part in global efforts to tackle climate change, a spokesman told the Sydney Morning Herald.Mr Kent said that Kyoto was a dated document but said there was good will demonstrated in Durban, the agreement that we ended up with provides the basis for an agreement by 2015.Though the text of the Durban agreement provides a loophole for China and India, the Canadian minister said, it represents the way forward.Canada's previous Liberal government signed the accord but Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government never embraced it.Canada declared four years ago that it did not intend to meet its existing Kyoto Protocol commitments and its annual emissions have risen by about a third since 1990.

Canadian reaction on Kyoto withdrawal

Canada's withdrawal from Kyoto from not unexpected. In early December, Canada's The Globe and Mail looked at the likely costs or penalties of either failing to meet the 2012 Kyoto targets or withdrawing from the protocol. The question which remains is whether the effect on Canada's international reputation would be greater as a result of withdrawal or non-compliance, Andrew Leach writes.A CBC analysis argues that the original Kyoto protocol did its job, if only in the narrow sense of reducing the emissions of signatories. However, at the time same emissions levels in other countries grew. Robert Sheppard writes that Canada set naive set targets last time and by failing to live up to them has damaged its position.It's a legitimate argument: China needs to step up.he says.But how do you make it with a straight face when you haven't come anywhere close to meeting your own international obligations and you also want to turn around and sell China as much oil sands petroleum as it is willing to take? Globe and Mail opinion columnist Margaret Wente dismisses the Durban talks as absurd and says climate change conferences are more about power and money and the opportunity for growing economies to extract billions from rich countries.Meanwhile, Craig McInnes at the Vancouver Sun sees the Kyoto withdrawal as part of a larger abandonment by the Canadian government on the climate issue, and worries that while his fellow citizens say they care about the environment, they lack the will as consumers and citizens to make significant changes.

Citizenship veil ban coerces women to fit into the mainstream Published On Mon Dec 12 2011 Woman wears niqab in Netherlands.

Is the Canadian citizenship ceremony a place where Muslim women should show up with their faces covered to take the oath? Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government thinks not. And it’s a fair bet that a lot of Canadians would agree.Even in the Muslim community, the niqab and burqa are controversial. Only a tiny fraction of Muslim women go about veiled. The few who do deliberately hold themselves aloof from the wider community and display beliefs that run counter to ideals about equality between men and women. These are jarring signals to be sending at the very moment when one is joining the Canadian family.As Immigration Minister Jason Kenney sees it, the veil reflects a certain view about women that we don’t accept in Canada. We want women to be full and equal members of Canadian society and certainly when they’re taking the citizenship oath, that’s the right place to start. Again, most people would probably agree.All that said, should Canada be coercing women to fit into the mainstream, whatever that may be in our pluralistic society, by withholding citizenship, along with the right to vote, run for public office and hold some jobs? Is the citizenship ceremony the place to demand that newcomers give up deeply held religious or cultural practices that are perfectly legal and don’t hurt anyone else? Is it the place to be telling newcomers to behave and look just like us, or pay the price?

What matter of deep principle is Kenney trying to affirm here? And how does it square with Canada’s vaunted image as an open, tolerant, welcoming society? Indeed, where does the Conservative government get off by denying otherwise qualified people citizenship without benefit of a debate in Parliament and the appropriate legislation? It’s one thing to expect newcomers to speak English or French, to grasp something of our history and to respect our laws. It’s quite another to demand that they pay obeisance to mainstream cultural preferences. Where could this leave any minority? Ironically, this comes as the Supreme Court is weighing the case of a Muslim woman who wants to wear a niqab in court as she testifies against relatives whom she says sexually assaulted her. The issues are quite different: in a courtroom, a woman’s right to cover her face must be weighed against the accused’s right to a fair trial. But the high court is rightly giving due consideration to cultural accommodation even as the immigration ministry brushes the notion aside in a situation where no one else’s rights are at stake. There’s a gaping disconnect here.Unfortunately, the Harper government has never seen a Muslim veil that it didn’t want to ban. Kenney has also said he thinks it reasonable that Muslim women be forced to show their faces when they vote, even though hundreds of thousands of people have voted in past elections by mail-in ballot, sight unseen. He’d like to fix a problem that exists only in his mind.The remedy, in the case of citizenship oaths, should not be hard to find. Why not have the few veiled women who want to swear the oath unveil themselves before women judges, in private, or before a male judge if they are willing? (This would also address Kenney’s unpersuasive concern that some judges find it hard to tell whether veiled women are reciting the oath.) We know of no cases in Canada where women have refused to show their faces to obtain passports, driver’s licences and other documents, or to clear security and immigration at ports of entry. Why should administering a citizenship oath be so problematic? Unless, of course, the government is simply singling out a tiny number of women to curry favour with the majority. But that would be bigotry. Kenney believes in full and equal membership in society. A good place to begin would be to resist the impulse to punish those who are different – however much we disagree with their beliefs.
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Mixed reaction over federal veil ban at citizenship event By Andy Ivens, The Province December 13, 2011

Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced Monday that face coverings such as a burka or niqab (worn by an Egyptian woman pictured here) are now allowed at citizenship oath-taking ceremonies.Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced Monday that face coverings such as a burka or niqab (worn by an Egyptian woman pictured here) are now allowed at citizenship oath-taking ceremonies.
Photograph by: Odd Andersen, AFP/Getty Images.Women will be banned from wearing face coverings such as burka and niqab veils when swearing the oath of citizenship, under new rules announced Monday.Starting today, any individual will have to show his or her face when taking the oath of citizenship, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced in Montreal.Allowing a group to hide their faces while they are becoming members of our community is counter to Canada’s commitment to openness, equality and social cohesion, he said.Currently at airports, veiled Muslim women may opt to show their face only to a female security screener. They also may vote in elections without showing their face.But Kenney said as of Monday, all women must remove any face coverings before crossing the final hurdle to becoming a Canadian citizen.

Abdullah Khan, a member of the North Shore Islamic Information Centre, said a majority of B.C. Muslims likely won’t fight too strenuously against the new regulation.I think it’s fine, as long as you take it from the legal context, Khan told The Province.If you go in front of a judge to give testimony, you would be required to reveal your identity, so I think there’s nothing wrong with it legally.
Islam is also flexible to accommodate these needs, he added.But I’m sure there might be people that might try to make a political point out of it, but I think it would be hard to prove.But Waqar Jan, a settlement worker with the Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society, was upset by the minister’s proclamation.
The real issue is poverty among Muslim women, said Jan, who works with new immigrants in helping to find them jobs and integrate into Canadian society.It looks like the biggest threat to Canada is now the niqab or hijab.I’m disgusted, he added. My colleagues and friends, born and raised Canadians, are angry over it.Jan pointed to a recent Gallop survey among Muslims around the world that rated Canada the best country in which to live.

These views of Muslims about Canada, and you target them like this — this is alienating,said Jan.Late Monday, the B.C. Muslim Association (BCMA) issued a statement on the new regulation.We feel the government should have consulted experts on Islamic law before enforcing the regulation,it said.The minister’s remarks about niqab being a completely cultural practice are inaccurate.. . . [the] minister’s public comments about Muslim women’s previous practice as being ridiculous or frankly bizarre do not exude finesse and inclusiveness, said the statement authored by Mufti Aasim Rashid, spokesman on religious affairs for the BCMA.Karen Busby, a professor of law at the University of Manitoba, said Kenney’s announcement won’t survive a challenge, either in court or at a human rights tribunal.I have no doubt that the regulation will be struck down as a violation of the Charter [of Rights and Freedoms] or that the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal will find that the regulation violates the Canadian Human Rights code,Busby told The Province.
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