IDF ON ALERT FOLLOWING ATTACKS FROM GAZA

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Google's Safari Tracking Dilemma: Reality Check
By Ian Paul, PCWorld Feb 17, 2012 8:41 AM

Google reportedly breached the privacy of millions of Apple Safari users by fooling the web browser into accepting tracking cookies it normally wouldn't take. Google, however, says this is an unhappy accident and that Google never intended to track its users in this manner.It's a classic case of he said, she said. Here's what's going on.Apple's Safari is more aggressive by default than many browsers about blocking cookies that do not originate from the site you're visiting, such as cookies served by online advertising firms. These are referred to as third-party cookies and are used by most online advertising companies and common on major websites. Google got around Safari's privacy restrictions by exploiting a loophole that allowed the search giant to install a temporary cookie if a user clicked a +1 button embedded in online advertising, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.The matter primarily affects users of iOS and OS X devices where Safari is the default browser, but it potentially affects any system running Safari, which is also available for Windows.

How Google Did it

The trick, according Journal reports, involves sticking a hidden web form inside an online ad with a +1 button, similar to Facebook likes, on it. If the user clicks on the +1 button, the web form tells Safari that the user filled out the phony form when in fact she or he had not, which allowed Google to install the cookie.When a user appears to have explicitly interacted with content on a Website, Safari allows the site to install temporary cookies that are supposed to expire after 12 to 24 hours. As a result of this workaround, Google could ten catalog a user's browsing habits for its DoubleClick advertising business, according to research by Johnathan Mayer, a graduate student at Stanford University who first discovered Google's tracking behavior.For its part, Google says it wasn't tracking people on purpose and only wanted to ascertain when a user was logged into a Google account. We used known Safari functionality to provide features that signed-in Google users had enabled, says Rachel Whetstone, Google's senior vice president of communications and public policy, in a statement to PCWorld. If you were logged in, Google could then deliver personalized advertising and perform other functions, such as sending +1's back to a user's Google+ social networking profile.However, the Safari browser contained functionality that then enabled other Google advertising cookies to be set on the browser,Whetstone says. We didn’t anticipate that this would happen, and we have now started removing these advertising cookies from Safari browsers.Google also emphasizes that its advertising cookies do not collect any personal information.

[Click to enlarge] Google's privacy policy page was edited regarding Safari. (click to enlarge)

Google has also deleted language from one of its privacy policy pages that appeared to contradict its tracking practices as detailed by the Journal. Google allows you to install a browser cookie that tells the search giant not to store your browsing habits for online advertising purposes. But the company does not have a working version of this opt-out program for Safari users.The text on the page used to read: While we don't have a Safari version of the Google advertising cookie opt-out plugin, Safari is set to block all third-party cookies. If you have not changed those settings, this option effectively accomplishes the same thing as setting the opt-out cookie.Google has since removed that language from its site, but PCWorld was able to find the language in a cached version of the page dated February 14.

Common Practice by Default.

Installing third-party tracking cookies on your browser is common practice for online advertising companies. Your browsing information is then mined so the sites serve up targeted advertising that, in theory, you are more likely to click on. Given that Safari is one of the most popular mobile browsers owing to the success of iOS devices such as the iPhone and iPad, Google and other firms were handicapped by Apple's policies of disallowing third-party cookies by default. So Google, along with advertising firms such as Vibrant Media, Media Innovation Group, and PointRoll, used this workaround -- Google called it known functionality.It's not clear when this Safari loophole that enables advertising to circumvent a browser's privacy settings will be closed. Apple is reportedly working to stop this kind of activity, and the loophole has already been closed in WebKit, the open source version of Apple's Safari. The patch was created in August, and the Journal says in a blog post that the fix was made, ironically enough, by two Google engineers.Connect with Ian Paul (@ianpaul) on Twitter and Google+, and with Today@PCWorld on Twitter for the latest tech news and analysis.
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DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

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

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

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

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

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS FRI FEBRUARY 17,2012

09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +30.61
10:30 AM +33.34
11:00 AM +14.16
11:30 AM +25.25
12:00 PM +24.79
12:30 PM +24.60
01:00 PM +27.51
01:30 PM +34.78
02:00 PM +43.03
02:30 PM +42.27
03:00 PM +48.40
03:30 PM +61.53
04:00 PM +45.79 12,949,87

S&P 500 1361.23 +3.19

NASDAQ 2951.78 -8.07

GOLD 1,725.70 -2.70

OIL 103.45 +1.19

TSE 300 12,458.30 -27.29

CDNX 1658.15 +10.04

S&P/TSX/60 708.37 -1.99

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +46 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +47 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,730.60.OIL opens at $103.33 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +61 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +61 points at high today.

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

ITS SEEMS IN ITALY THEY FOUND 6 TRILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF FAKE US BONDS.ITS PROBABLY THE NWO CRUE WORKING TO STEAL CASH FROM EUROPE.FOR THEIR ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT.6 TRILLION COULD BUY OFF MOST OF THE WORLD WITH BRIBES AND THE WORLD GOVERNMENT COULD HAVE CAME ABOUT QUICK.

Trillions in fake US bonds seized From: AP
February 18, 2012 1:38AM

ITALIAN anti-mafia prosecutors have ordered the seizure in Switzerland of fake US Treasury bonds with a face value of $US6 trillion ($A5.6 trillion) - or over a third of US national debt.The bonds were found hidden in false compartments in three safety deposit boxes transferred in 2007 from Hong Kong to Zurich and eight arrests have also been made in Italy as part of the investigation, prosecutors said.Investigators said members of a criminal network had tried to use the bonds in emerging markets or give them to banks in exchange for money.The operation was the biggest for this type of investigation, Giovanni Colangelo, the head of the prosecutor's office in the city of Potenza in southern Italy which is leading the investigation, said.Everything began with an investigation into mafia clans in the Vulture-Melfese area in the southern Basilicata region, Mr Colangelo said.The investigation has allowed detectives to uncover an international network with people implicated in numerous countries.The counterfeiting of bonds, the transfer of the deposit boxes from Hong Kong to Switzerland, the global travel (of the suspects) had an enormous cost and we think that the interests are at a high level,he said.

The seizure was by no means the first of fake US bonds by Italian authorities but by far the one with the highest face value.In September 2009, Italian police seized $US116 billion in phoney bonds and arrested two Filipino nationals carrying them at Milan's airport.In June of the same year police arrested two Japanese nationals on the Italian-Swiss border carrying bonds with a face value of $US134 billion.

IT SEEMS TOEWS GOT PRIVATE INFORMATION SENT OUT BY AN NDP FROM THE GOVERNMENT IP ADDRESS.I'D CALL THAT A LOW SCAM JUST BECAUSE OF THE INTERNET,CELL PHONE PRIVACY BILL.I GUESS THE NDP PERSON THOUGHT,YOU STEAL OUR RIGHTS.I'LL GET A FEW OF YOUR SKELLETONS OUT OF THE CLOSET.TOEWS CALLS IT A COWARDLY ACT AND THAT THE NDP PERSON SHOULD HAVE USED HIS REAL NAME SAYS TOEWS NOT GO BEHIND THE NDP IP ADDRESS.

Vic Toews to request probe into Twitter account
Messages include details on minister's spending habits and divorce
By Laura Payton, CBC News Last Updated: Feb 17, 2012 12:48 PM ET

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is requesting a parliamentary investigation into an anonymous Twitter account leaking alleged details of his divorce following a media report that linked the account's IP address to a Parliament Hill server. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is requesting a parliamentary investigation into an anonymous Twitter account leaking alleged details of his divorce following a media report that linked the account's IP address to a Parliament Hill server. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press.Public Safety Minister Vic Toews will request a parliamentary investigation into a Twitter account that's being used to post his personal information and is linked to an IP address in the House of Commons.In an interview with Evan Solomon, host of CBC Radio's The House, to air Saturday, Toews says he's going to send a letter to Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer to request an investigation.The user account on the social networking site Twitter that's being used to post personal information on Toews has been linked to an IP address on Parliament Hill, the Ottawa Citizen reported Thursday night.An IP address is a unique number that identifies computers in a network, which suggests that someone who works on Parliament Hill may be posting Toews's personal information online.

No proof but allegations fly

The IP address serves anyone who works on Parliament Hill, including MPs and staff from all parties, non-partisan administrative and research staff, MPs' constituency staff accessing the network remotely and journalists. There is no wireless or public access.The newspaper report said employees working off that IP address also visited Paul Simon fan sites and updated Wikipedia articles to give them a pro-NDP bias, leading to a vicious question period Friday in which the Conservatives accused the NDP of being behind the account.Despite the wide range of people who use the IP address, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird took several opportunities to avoid answering questions, instead alleging the NDP were behind the Vikileaks30 Twitter account.Today we learned, Mr. Speaker, that the official NDP opposition have been caught in a nasty, dirty internet trick,Baird said in question period.I call on the NDP to stand up, to take responsibility for these dirty tricks, to apologize, Mr. Speaker, and to identify which one over there is responsible.NDP Whip Chris Charlton demanded Baird retract the allegations. IT staff at the House of Commons confirmed the IP addresses could belong to any member of House administration or any user from any political party, she said, and the Speaker's office is looking into it.I would call on the minister to table in this House any evidence to back up his unfounded claims and if he doesn’t have such evidence, I would like him to immediately apologize and withdraw his statements unconditionally,she said.Conservative House Leader Peter Van Loan refused to apologize, referring again to the media report.

Twitter feed set up Tuesday

The Twitter feed was set up on Feb. 14 and has already garnered more than 8,000 followers. The first tweet said it was in response to Toews's bill C-30, which would require internet service providers to turn over some customer information to police without a warrant.Messages posted on the page include details on topics such as Toews's spending habits and other more personal matters, including his divorce.Toews has faced pointed and personal criticism for leading the federal charge to pass a controversial online surveillance bill that was tabled in the House of Commons earlier this week.On Thursday, the popular social media site featured a deluge of tweets labelled #TellVicEverything.I spend a lot more work hours than I should on Twitter — but you probably already knew that,one user tweeted.With files from The Canadian Press

Germany and Italy confident about Greek bail-out
Today FEB 17,12 @ 17:29 By Valentina Pop

BRUSSELS - Berlin on Friday indicated it will give a green light to the second bail-out deal for Greece, backing down on the idea of postponing parts of the agreement until after Greek elections take place in April.German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and Greek premier Lucas Papademos held a joint phone call on Friday (17 February) in which they said they were confident a long-postponed deal to help Greece avoid bankruptcy will be sealed off at a meeting of eurozone finance ministers on Monday, Monti's office said in a statement.The detailed and constructive phone call took place after Merkel cancelled her planned visit to Rome Friday following the resignation of the German president.EU officials in Brussels also said that the pieces are falling into place ahead of the Monday meeting, with Germany and its triple A rated allies - Finland, Netherlands and Luxembourg - backing off from the idea of a partial deal to keep pressure on Athens after the elections.They realise the two-phased approach would compromise the whole operation, one EU source told this website, as the Greek government has only ten days left to auction new bonds as part of the so-called private sector involvement (PSI) aimed at relieving Athens of some €100bn worth of debt.

Another source said that private bondholders will be discouraged from carrying out the bond swap if governments do not sign up on Monday to their share of the bail-out (€130bn). A number of safeguards will be put in place, however, to ensure that the bail-out money is used primarily to bring down the country's foreign debt.The Franco-German idea of a special account sealed off from the Greek government will be part of the deal, both sources said - a reflection of the lack of trust in the local politicians. The escrow account will also be funded by Greek tax revenues when their tax collection will start working properly so as to pay off the country's debt.
But even with the total aid of €230bn, a gap of several billion euros is emerging. According to a new debt sustainability assessment drawn up by the troika earlier this week, the bail-out will meet the target of reducing Greece's debt to 120 percent of GDP by 2020, but only to 129 percent.That is where the European Central Bank and national central banks holding Greek bonds are expected to jump in. The same assessment suggests that if the ECB was re-distribute the profits on Greek bonds to central banks and if these then decided to give them back to Greece, debt would be cut for another 5.5 percent of GDP. The rest could come by a restructuring of Greek bonds held by the central banks themselves. But all of these elements still depend on the results of the PSI, sources say.

Stronger budgetary surveillance laws up for agreement
Today FEB 17,12 @ 17:45 By Honor Mahony

BRUSSELS - EU finance ministers meeting next week are set to sign off a first agreement on laws that would strongly increase Brussels' power to instruct eurozone countries on how to spend their national budgets.Applying to the 17 members of the single currency only, the two laws require that all national budgets are presented to the commission for assessment at the same - by 15 October latest, suggests a draft of the agreement.The EU executive would have the power to ask for a revision of the budget if it considers it likely to lead a breach of the rules underpinning the euro, which bind member states to keep minimal budget deficits.The 17 would be required to put in place independent bodies and to base their national budgets on independent forecasts, a move to depoliticise the process of drawing up the budget in member states by subjecting it to technocratic eyes.Countries already breaching the budget deficit rules will have to issue regular reports to Brussels and agree a partnership programme on how to get back on the right fiscal track.Those either experiencing or at risk of severe difficulties with their finances or those already in a bailout programme will be subject to far more invasive monitoring.Essentially, they would lose the power for any kind of discretionary spending. The draft rules would entitle the commission to grill them on the content and direction of fiscal policy, while Brussels would be entitled to see sensitive information such as on the financial health of individual banks.

Bailed-out euro members would remain under this hyper-surveillance regime until they have paid back at least three quarters of the money lent to them.Much of the draft, proposed by the commission last November, is to be approved by finance ministers at their Tuesday meeting (21 February) but a clause that would have essentially forced a country to undergo a bailout programme has been removed, said a contact close to the negotiations.The laws come on top of six further budgetary surveillance laws applying to all 27 member states that came into force in December.They form part of the EU's attempt to make sure the current sovereign debt crisis will never happen again, although critics say the laws infringe on national democracy.Following the ministers' green light, the draft will then go to parliament with real negotiations between the two sides expected to come in April after the proposal has made its way through committee.One of the sticky issues will be how much these laws should encompass what is in the fiscal discipline treaty, an intergovernmental document covering much of the same area, due to be signed by EU leaders in March.If the scope of these laws is too wide, it would raise the awkward question - already to be heard sotto voce in Brussels - about the point of having the fiscal treaty at all.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

EU firms join gold rush on drones
Today FEB 17,12 @ 09:16 By Andrew Rettman

BRUSSELS - EU firms have joined the gold rush on military and civilian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). But ethical and legal questions dog the technology.The global UAV market is worth $6 billion (€4.6bn) a year and will hit $12 billion by 2018, according to US forecaster Teal Group.It is not a real market. Currently, military-industrial complexes in China, Israel, the EU, Russia and the US make drones for their armed forces and sell them to close allies only. Almost half the spending is government research.But with big money at stake, some analysts predict rapid proliferation.China has made a copy of the predator - the pterodactyl. It's identified a hole in the market for attack UAVs and it plans to sell more widely. This will force everyone to sell more widely ... I've traced 51 countries which are interested in acquiring this kind of technology, but I'm sure there are more out there,Noel Sharkey - a British robotics professor who advises the military - told EUobserver.The predator was made notorious by CIA officers who sit in Nevada and launch rockets at people in Pakistan with no judicial or congressional oversight.The next step on the military side is combat drones (Ucavs) which can fly in dirty theatres of conflict - places with decent anti-aircraft defences. Another step is autonomy - drones which fire weapons based on algorithms because the human operator is too slow or cut off by electronic jamming.

One future Ucav is the Darpa Falcon - the US says it will fly at 21,000 km-per-hour and hit a target anywhere on the planet within 30 minutes of take off. Israel's Harpy already works by hovering in the air and sniffing out radar signals. If it senses one, it cross-checks a database of friendly radars then fires autonomously - even if the enemy radar is sitting on a school or hospital.On the civilian side, British police will use UAVs to observe crowds in the 2012 Olympics, while EU border control agency, Frontex, on 9 February test-flew an Israeli-made surveillance drone in Greece - the main entry-point for asylum seekers.Gunnar Holmberg, a researcher at Swedish arms firm Saab, noted that microchips are getting so light police could fly nano-drones inside buildings. It's free for the imagination, he said, in terms of UAV markets.

Sarkozy's euro-drone

Teal Group notes that US companies last year built about 1,800 drones out of the 2,600 made worldwide. European firms made 200. But almost all the big EU arms companies are building prototypes to meet future demand.The Neuron - a euro-Ucav being made by France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland - will in April do its first test drive on the tarmac. France's Nicolas Sarkozy and the UK's David Cameron in Paris on Friday (17 February) will, among other things, reveal details on Telemos, their joint effort to make a next-generation predator, designed to fly in 2018.The main problem holding back civilian sales is how to make sure UAVs do not bump into normal planes.As things stand, nobody from the European Defence Agency or from the European Commission, which have been tasked with drafting laws on how to share civilian airspace, can give a ball-park date for when they will be ready.
Another problem is that people care about their privacy.Tony Henley, an industry consultant, told this website: One minute a UAV is taking pictures of crops. But what if your wife is sunbathing topless in her garden close by? Who will protect her? The head of research at Frontex, Edgar Beugels, said he is unsure if UAVs will patrol the sky in his lifetime. But if they do, you probably won't see them, he added.The military questions are more acute.Sharkey has attracted ridicule for saying autonomous attack drones should be regulated by an international treaty - like chemical weapons or cluster bombs - because they kill people indiscriminately.

The Pope and the crossbow

Industrialists, such as Yves Robbins, in charge of marketing the Neuron on behalf of French firm Dassault, put the concerns down to fear of the unknown. When they invented the crossbow, the Pope said he would excommunicate any warrior that uses it because it's too barbaric. You get this when a new weapon comes along,he told EUobserver.When asked what he thinks of Sharkey's idea, Saab CEO Hakan Buskhe - whose firm is making Neuron's autonomous systems or brains - wrote back: The MTCR regime already exists (The Missile Technology Control Regime), which is an association of countries that share the goals of non-proliferation on unmanned delivery systems consisting of 34 countries.The MTCR is not legally binding and only covers UAVs which carry 500kg or more of munitions - a class which excludes anything on sale today.Speaking privately, some people working on Neuron do have mixed emotions.I would say thank God that intelligence services in Europe don't have enough money to run their own weapons programmes,an industry contact said, referring to CIA targeted assassinations. I don't think our politicians will let us build drones that fire by themselves,he added.

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 on Alert Following Attacks from Gaza-The IDF has been placed on high alert, after terrorists fire anti-tank missiles at IDF force and rockets at southern Israel.By Elad Benari, Canada First Publish: 2/17/2012, 8:34 PM

Rocket and missile fire from Gaza put the IDF on high alert on Friday evening, Channel 10 News reported.According to the report, an IDF force on patrol near the border with Gaza heard an explosion heard near the border fence.An IDF statement said the explosion was from an RPG anti-tank missile that was fired at the soldiers. As additional forces arrived on the scene, the statement said, an explosion was heard from within Gaza. No soldiers were hurt. The IDF responded using tank fire.
Earlier on Friday evening, terrorists from Gaza fired two rockets towards Israeli territory, one at the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council and the other at the Eshkol Regional Council. There were no reports of physical injuries or damages.A spokesperson for IDF’s Southern Command told Channel 10 that following the attacks, IDF forces have been instructed to maintain maximum vigilance.If it is proven that this was a terror attack we will respond accordingly, the spokesperson said.Earlier this week, the IAF struck two centers of terrorist activity in northern and central Gaza. The attack came after terrorists from Gaza fired at least four rockets at southern Israel.Last weekend, a barrage of rockets were fired at southern Israel. On Saturday night, Gaza terrorists fired a short-range Qassam rocket at southern Israel. The missile landed in the Eshkol Regional Council district, in an open area.

No one was physically injured and there were no reports of property damage.On Friday night, a Grad missile attack blew open a small crater between two homes in the Hof Ashkelon Coastal Region district.A nearby electric pole was damaged, cutting power to both homes. The shrapnel also penetrated the walls of at least one of the houses as residents were sitting in theliving room enjoying the evening. By a miracle, no one was physically injured in the attack.IAF aircraft later struck three terror tunnels in southern, northern and central Gaza. A weapon manufacturing site in northern Gaza was hit as well.(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)

Security Officials: More Attacks Coming-Israel's Counter-terrorism Bureau warned Friday that it expects more attacks on Israelis travelling abroad, and senior officials.By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 2/17/2012, 3:17 PM

Israeli counterterrorism officials warned Friday that Iran and its terror confederate Hizbullah are plotting more attacks on Israelis abroad.It appears as though Iran and Hezbollah are currently trying to carry out attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets abroad, Israel's Counter-terrorism Bureau said.Officials said they drew these conclusion in light of the findings emerging from the questioning of detainees, arrested in relation to recent attacks.The warning called on Israelis travelling abroad to be alert, avoid taking suspicious objects from strangers, and be responsive to local security guidelines.Iran and Hezbollah are continuing to try to carry out other attacks on targets abroad, one senior official told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. That means asking Israelis abroad to be vigilant.The official did not outline any specific threats or locations, but did say Israel has general information reflecting intent, that more attacks are coming.Noting that Iran had risked disrupting relations with countries it is on good terms with, the official said Tehran had demonstrated high motivation to hit Israeli targets.The warning comes after three separate attempts to target Israeli diplomats for assassination this week.

On Monday, a car bomb critically injured an Israeli diplomat’s wife in Delhi, while authorities in the Georgian capital of Tsbili disarmed a bomb attached to an Israeli embassy car.A botched bombing plot in Bangkok on Tuesday resulted in three Iranian nationals being arrested. One accidentally blew his legs off, one was arrested fleeing Thailand, and a third was arrested in Malaysia.Thai authorities, who have mounted a manhunt for two more Iranian suspects, say Israeli diplomats were the targets. One of the men being sought is believed to be the bomb maker.Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu unambiguously blamed Iran for all three incidents. Israeli officials suspect Lebanon's Hizbullah terror group of having carried them out on Iran's behalf.Tehran denied the report and said Israel had targeted its own diplomats as a part of a psychological warfare campaign it was mounting on Iran.
Meanwhile, Hizbullah chief Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said his group doesn't bother with such small attacks, which led to speculation it has senior Israeli officials in its crosshairs.The Israeli official said Israel took Nasrallah's threats seriously.After Nasrallah's speech, senior officials are a priority target, and that is definitely why we are following everything that points in that direction,he said.

UN General Assembly Condemns Syria-The United Nations passed a non-binding resolution condemning systemic human rights violations in Syria by the Assad regime. By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 2/17/2012, 2:12 PM


The United Nations on Thursday passed a resolution on Syria condemning the brutal government crackdown on dissent by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.The resolution passed the General Assembly - rather than the Security Council where China and Russia have thwarted moves against Syria - with 137 nations in favor and only 12 opposed.Introduced by Egypt on behalf of 27 other countries, including Arab states, Britain and the United States, the resolution condemns systematic human rights violations in Syria.The General Assembly is expected to next demand Syria immediately adopt an Arab League blueprint to calm the uprising, to cease all violence against civilians and return security forces to their barracks.Russia opposed the resolution, saying it fails to equally criticize the armed opposition mounted the Syrian Free Army that has risen up against Assad's regime in recent months.Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said resolution differs little from a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that Russia and China vetoed earlier this month.We can’t vote for that resolution, because it still remains unbalanced, Gatilov told Russian news agencies. It directs all the demands at the government, and says nothing about the opposition.Arab countries, who have called for a UN peacekeeping mission to Syria, have rejected amendments to the resolution proposed by Russia.Gatilov said a UN Security Council resolution would be required to send any UN peacekeepers to Syria.

Russia had warned that it would block any UN resolution calling for Assad to step down over his crackdown on an 11-month uprising estimated to have killed over 5,400 people.Syrian ambassador Bashar Jaafari criticized the Arab bloc during the session as being countries that do not want to help in reaching a peaceful solution for Syria.Arab League resolutions violate the sovereignty of Syria and conflict international laws … The Arab League are competing with enemies of the Arab world with its criticism of Syria, Jaafari added.What is happening in the region does not benefit any country other than Israel … We hope that the United Nations assists Syria in the face of extremism and terrorism.Assad's regime has repeatedly blamed terrorists - specifically naming al-Qaeda - for the violent episodes the country has witnessed since anti-government protests erupted last year.However, while there have been several high profile bombings in Syria that killed hundreds in recent months, the Syrian Free Army is not believed to have carried them out.Critics of Assad's regime say his intelligence forces staged the bombings as false flag operations intended to garner sympathy for the regime and justify the continued crackdown.
General Assembly resolutions cannot be vetoed and are nonbinding, but they can form populist global perceptions on major issues.
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Iran shadow war intensifies, crosses borders ReutersBy Andrew R.C. Marshall and Peter Apps | Reuters – Thu, Feb 16, 2012

BANGKOK/LONDON (Reuters) - The loudest noise that Thongma Danoi had ever heard was followed 20 minutes later by the strangest sight: a dazed and bloodied Iranian carrying two wire-adorned devices through the usually sleepy Bangkok neighborhood.He was losing a lot of blood, said Thongma, 68, who saw the Iranian man, later identified as Saeid Moradi, fleeing a rented house blown apart by a massive explosion on Tuesday. People were shouting, He's got a bomb! I tried not to look at him.Minutes later, he heard another explosion, as 28-year-old Moradi reportedly threw a second bomb at a taxi that wouldn't pick him up. His rampage ended nearby, outside a school, with a third explosion that ripped off one of the bomber's legs and damaged the other so badly it had to be amputated.Israel said the Bangkok blasts were evidence of an attempted terrorist attack and blamed Iran. Tehran denied involvement.As bombings go, this week's trio of apparent attempted attacks on Israeli targets -- which also included an attack on a car carrying the wife of an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi and a bomb found attached to an Israeli diplomatic vehicle in the Georgian capital Tbilisi -- seemed unusually inept.But security experts believe they sent a clear message, the first serious retaliation for a quietly waged but increasingly bloody campaign of sabotage waged against Iran's nuclear program.

At least four Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed in recent years in attacks believed to have been carried out by or for Israel's intelligence services. While Israel invariably refuses to comment, some security analysts also suspect it has been involved in a string of major explosions at military and nuclear facilities in Iran, such as one in November that killed more than a dozen, including a senior Iranian general.Tehran denied any involvement in this week's attacks, accusing Israel of staging them itself. But there are widespread suspicions that the real intent may have been to warn the Jewish state that Iran is prepared to retaliate in kind.I see in what happened a message to the effect of: Anything you can do, I can do too,said Gad Shimron, a former Mossad field officer who writes on intelligence matters.In other words, if Israel uses terror for its security needs, it can expect reprisals from the other side.In an environment of growing tension, paranoia and fear, there is a risk of escalation fuelled by worries over Iran's nuclear program, a potential Israeli strike on Iran and a devastating wider conflict in the Gulf.
There is more and more pressure on all sides,says Anthony Cordesman, a former senior U.S. intelligence and defense official and now chair of strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Washington D.C.-based think tank. All of them are interacting now in ways that make it harder and harder to anticipate the actions of each other.

MIRROR IMAGE ATTACK

While some Western officials say it is too soon to blame Tehran for this week's attacks, security analysts point to growing circumstantial evidence. Thai authorities said similar magnetic bombs were used in New Delhi, Tbilisi and Bangkok.
While they did not blame Iran directly, they said the two other men arrested in relation to the Bangkok blasts -- one in the Thai capital and the other in Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia as he bought a ticket to Tehran after fleeing Thailand -- were also Iranian.The attack in Delhi -- in which a motorcycle attacker attached a magnetic or sticky bomb about the size of an iPad to an Israeli diplomatic vehicle -- appeared to be a virtual mirror image of the lethal January 11 attack on Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan in Tehran traffic.Indian police say they have yet to track down the young man in a leather jacket riding a red motorcycle who eyewitnesses said attached the device before racing away. But they said they were investigating phone calls made to foreign numbers from the immediate area just after the attack, particularly four calls made to Iran, Lebanon and Pakistan.Tal Yehoshua-Koren, the wife of Israel's defense attache to Delhi was injured in the attack. If the bomber had attached the device to the side of the car with the petrol tank, its occupants would have been less likely to survive, police said.Iran has long used proxy groups such as Lebanon's Hezbollah and Hamas in the Palestinian territories to attack its enemies overseas, and intelligence experts believe they may have done so again in this case. Tehran's relationship with Hamas has frayed in recent years, but Iran remains close to Hezbollah.

Other analysts believe the culprits may be members of Tehran's hardline Revolutionary Guard, perhaps from the Quds Force, believed responsible for extraterritorial operations.Conspiracy theories are rife . Some even point to the possibility that Israel itself might have orchestrated the attacks to damage Iran's relationship with key Asian powers particularly India, a current main purchaser of Iran's oil.The situation is getting worse and worse and it of course provides a good excuse for anyone who wishes to engage in real hostilities,said Farhang Jahanpour of Oxford University's Faculty of Oriental Studies.

SHADOWY PROXY GROUPS

For most analysts, however, these attacks plus an alleged plot last year to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States -- which U.S. authorities say they thwarted -- suggest Iran is now taking new risks or has signaled its proxies may do so.We are now seeing evidence of Iranian willingness to go after foreign targets in a way that has not been that much in evidence before, says Nigel Inkster, a former deputy chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), now at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies.Whether we're talking about the Iranians themselves or proxies such as Hezbollah, it is very difficult to know. It's also not clear whether they are acting on direction from the top or have simply been given the impression they (now) have greater flexibility.The relative ineptitude of the attacks suggests Tehran wanted to send a message rather than inflict heavy casualties.The Iranians aren't interested in a truck-bomb-level attack on an Israeli embassy because that could provoke a conflict, said Paul Quaglia, director of security consultancy PSA Asia and a 20-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency.But they're upset about having ... nuclear scientists hit. Farming out these low-level bomb attacks against diplomats is the next best thing.Israel too is also suspected of using a range of shadowy local resistance groups in Iran. Some of their members may not be aware of who they are ultimately working for, a technique known as false flagging.Several reports suggest Israeli agents may have impersonated their US counterparts in recruiting or directing members of the People's Mujahideen of Iran -- often known by its initials MEK -- or Jundallah, a group sometimes linked to al Qaeda that is based largely in the province of Baluchistan.There is some evidence that this has been happening,said former MI6 deputy chief Inkster. It may be one of the things that has soured the relationship between Israel and the US. The false flag issue always makes things more complicated.

LESSONS OF HISTORY

The United States denies any involvement in the lethal attacks within Iran -- even issuing a rare condemnation of the January car bomb killing.One Gulf security source told Reuters he believed U.S. agencies were directly involved in some attacks, working alongside MEK. U.S. officials have denied such suggestions, saying they would never work with the resistance groups partly because they were suspected to have been infiltrated by Iranian intelligence.Former and serving U.S. and other Western officials say the CIA does not have the authorization -- or finding -- from the White House to conduct lethal attacks within Iran, although few doubt they are involved in a wide range of other intelligence operations.While the emerging shadow war might escalate in the months to come, not everyone believes it heightens the risk of a wider conflict that the United States, Iran and Israel are keen to avoid.
But the lesson of history -- particularly 1914, when the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in a Sarajevo sidestreet sparked a world war -- is that mistakes can happen.Everyone here is used to playing the long game," says former U.S. official Cordesman, saying he believed outright war was still likely to be avoided. But you can still have someone on a street corner in the middle of nowhere... who sparks something that changes the course of history." (Additional reporting by Dan Williams in Jerusalem, Mark Hosenball and William Maclean in London, Sinsiri Tiwutanond in Bangkok, John Chalmers and Satarupa Battacharjya in New Delhi)(Reporting By Peter Apps, editing by Rosalind Russell)