DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD REGIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
Brussels keen to redirect €82bn for jobs and growth
27.01.12 @ 17:37 By Valentina Pop
BRUSSELS - The EU commission wants to redirect €82bn worth of structural funds to projects aimed at boosting employment and growth, particularly in bailed-out countries, measures seen as both vague and inadequate by critics.Anticipating a demand from Monday's EU summit to redeploy as yet unspent structural funds for employment-related projects, the EU commission on Friday (27 January) announced its intention to work with member states on redistributing €82 billion.Speaking at a press conference with the Belgian premier, commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said: What we can do is to redeploy structural funds, as long as member states agree, because this is always a partnership between the commission and member states.
He gave the example of Italy, whose recently appointed technocrat government asked for a reprogramming of funds to the tune of €3.1bn for education, broadband and railway investments in the country's poorer southern regions.Now we would like to do the same with programme countries where there is high youth unemployment,Barroso said.
A similar programme has been agreed with Greece as well, where projects worth €11.5bn should help build motorways, schools and energy efficiency in housing, commission spokesman Ton Van Lierop told this website. The task force of EU commission experts deployed to the country last year with the aim of assisting the government with its structural reforms required by the EU and IMF will help in implementing these new priorities, he added.In Romania and Bulgaria, the EU's newest members and where structural funds go largely unspent year by year, the governments have accepted to have EU experts help them with the drafting and checking of the EU's notoriously bureaucratic project requirements.But experts are sceptical that this new strategy will have any impact on the forecast recession in most member states.It's not enough money to really make a difference. If it was €82bn for research or in fiscal deductions for small and medium enterprises, maybe it would, says Diego Valiante, an economist with the Centre for European Policy Studies, a Brussels-based think tank.Instead of doing more of the same - letting member states select all sorts of bridges to nowhere and other irrelevant projects, the EU commission should link structural funds with labour market reforms needed in most member states, he said.But Valiante also conceded that under the current budget - which ends in 2013 - there is little room for manoeuvre for both the commission and member states.This one is finished, we will have to wait for the next multi-annual budget to revamp the rules,he said.
EU points to oil reserves after Iran threat
27.01.12 @ 18:50 By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS - The European Commission has noted that there is a lot of oil around inside reserves in EU countries even if Iran makes good on threats to stop deliveries next week.Petrol pumps - even in Greece - will not dry up over night if Iran makes good on its threat (Photo: Antonio)Iranian MPs are due to discuss on Sunday (29 January) whether to immediately stop shipping an estimated 600,000 barrels of crude oil a day to member states in reaction to recent EU sanctions.The Union on Monday said it would stop buying Iranian oil in July unless it falls in with UN demands on its nuclear programme.Greece - which last year bought some 35 percent of its oil from Iran - is in the most delicate situation because the financial crisis has made other suppliers wary of giving it credit.The Greek foreign ministry is keeping quiet on the Iranian threat. But Athens in recent weeks exacted promises from fellow EU countries that they would stick by its side in the event of a disruption before it gave its nod to the anti-Iran sanctions.Greece itself has around 31 million barrels in its rainy-day stock according to the latest figures of the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) - enough to meet over 90 days of consumption without importing or producing a single drop.
Germany has 283 million barrels, enough for over 100 days of consumption. France, which pushed Greece to adopt the anti-Iran sanctions in the first place, is sitting on 160 million barrels, also enough for 90 days.European Commission spokeswoman Marlene Holzner told EUobserver on Friday:If you take all the reserves of all the member states together, it means there is a lot of oil around and if they decide to put it into the market, they can do it.She added: Yes, it [an immediate Iranian stoppage] would have an impact, but it's not the case that from one day to another one of our members would have no oil at all.For her part, EU foreign relations spokeswoman Maja Kocjancic said consultations between member states to make sure disruption scenarios do not leave anybody high and dry have been going on for quite some time.Oil markets on Friday stayed calm, with prices going up less than $1 per barrel.The market reaction was similar to Monday's, when prices went up by just over $1 after Iran repeated threats to block the Strait of Hormuz, a maritime conduit for Saudi oil exports.Western analysts do not believe Iran would risk a military confrontation with the US, which keeps two aircraft carriers nearby.
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.
Iranian Religious Leader: We're Already Nuclear-Senior Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami: Iran is already nuclear, U.S. too blind to realize that. By Elad Benari, Canada First Publish: 1/27/2012, 10:16 PM
Senior Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said on Friday that Iran is already a nuclear state and that Americans have not realized that.The United States says it will not allow Iran to be nuclear, but it is so blind that it hasn’t noticed that Iran has already become a nuclear state,Khatami was quoted by Channel 10 News as having said. He added that the U.S. has become isolated in the region, after its four slaves were removed from power. He was referring to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, former Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi, former Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.Khatami also addressed the EU’s embargo on Iranian oil imports, which was announced this week, and said that the Europeans decided to wait with the implementation of the sanctions until July because their economic situation is no better than Iran’s.Why did the Europeans decide to wait half a year before implementing the sanctions? The answer is simple - the Europeans have their own serious trouble - they were hit by the financial crisis,he said.Khatami added the embargo will hurt Europe more than it will hurt Iran, because Saudi Arabia will not be able to provide the required amount of oil to Europe, while the sanctions will only hurt 18 percent of Iran’s oil exports. (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.)
Barak: Eventually Even an Attack Won't Stop Iran-Defense Minister Ehud Barak: the world must stop Iran before it reaches a point where even a military attack won't stop it.By Elad Benari, Canada First Publish: 1/27/2012, 9:05 PM
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Friday that the world must stop Iran quickly before it reaches the point where even a military attack would not stop it from acquiring nuclear weapons.Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Barak said, The situation is urgent, because the Iranians deliberately drifting to what we call a resistant zone in which nothing will not block them.
Barak called for further harsher sanctions against Iranian banks and its oil industry so that we all know soon enough if the Iranians are willing to give up their nuclear weapons program.Barak’s comments come after earlier this week, the European Union slapped an embargo on Iranian oil. The sanctions would introduce a gradual ban on buying Iranian oil and petrochemicals, and that EU members would have to halt imports completely by July 1, 2012.Hours later, the U.S. Treasury announced sanctions against Iran’s Bank Tejarat, the third largest bank in the Islamic Republic.Bank Tejarat is accused of aiding Iranian programs to acquire weapons of mass destruction, including moving tens of millions of dollars to help a state-run agency acquire uranium.
On Thursday, President Barack Obama said his administration has imposed the toughest sanctions ever on Iran.They had a lot of bite. The Iranian regime is feeling them, Obama told ABC News. And, ultimately, I hope that we can resolve this through diplomatic means. But we're not taking any options off the table.(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.)
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(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
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.
Israel Uses Jordan Talks to Present Borders-During meeting in Jordan Israel presented, for the first time, its principles regarding the borders of a future Palestinian state.By Elad Benari First Publish: 1/27/2012, 4:13 AM
Israel presented this week, for the first time, its principles regarding the borders of a future Palestinian state. The borders were presented during Wednesday’s meeting in Jordan between attorney Yitzchak Molcho and the Palestinian Authority’s chief negotiator Saeb Erekat.One of the principles presented by Molcho is that, in a final settlement, most of the Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria will remain in Israeli territory, and the border will be drawn in such a way that most PA Arabs who currently reside in Judea and Samaria will be part of the Palestinian state.The borders presented by Molcho are similar to the route of the separation fence, which was constructed in such a way that most of the major settlement blocs remained on the western side of the fence. This includes Gush Etzion, Ma’aleh Adumim, Beitar Illit, Kiryat Sefer and Alfei Menashe. Israel insists that Ariel also be included as part of Israeli territory in a permanent status agreement with the PA.Molcho presented Israel’s position on borders orally and did not present Erekat with an official document on the matter. He presented a series of general principles, without displaying maps or indicating what percentages of territories Israel would be willing to give up as part of a permanent agreement. Having Israel present its position on borders was a central PA demand to continue talks in Amman under the auspices of King Abdullah, but in the past the PA has consistently rejected having the border be determined based the separation fence.
Presenting the principles on borders marks the first time the current Netanyahu government has agreed to discuss the territorial issue. However, analysts said on Thursday that it is likely a tactical move designed to put pressure on the PA and not give the entity an excuse to end talks by using the argument that Israel would not discuss the issue of borders.Wednesday marked the final exploratory meeting between Israel and the PA, and it ended with no progress. Erekat and Molcho made little headway in their fifth meeting, the last before the January 26 deadline set by the Quartet of peacekeeping nations to break the impasse and relaunch direct talks for a final status agreement between the two sides.Prior to the meeting, the PA-based Ma’an news agency reported that the PA refused to continue talks with Israel after the deadline.Erekat – a member of the Fatah terror faction's Central committee -- used a previous meeting to negotiate the release of all PA terrorist prisoners currently incarcerated in Israeli jails, rather than to focus his efforts on discussing the core issues relating to Israel-PA statehood.Among the issues Erekat raised at the last meeting was advocating for the release of Hamas legislator Aziz Dweik, who had been recently arrested by Israeli security forces.
Shabbat Rocket Attack on Nahal Oz-The PFLP took responsibility for a mortar attack on Nahal Oz late Friday after clashes with IDF forces in Ash-Shujaa’eya.By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 1/28/2012, 6:44 PM
The community of Nahal Oz came under attack on Friday night as residents tried to enjoy their Shabbat rest.No physical injuries or property damage were reported in the attack.The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigade, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), claimed to have fired four mortar rounds at the Gaza-belt community of Nahal Oz.They said in a statement that the shelling came as retaliation for an Israeli force storming Ash-Shujaa’eya east of Gaza City at 10:50 pm on Friday.The IDF force reportedly crossed into the area after a nearby watchtower on the Israeli side of Gaza security fence came under fire by terrorists in Ash-Shujaa’eya.However, a spokesman for the IDF said that a single rocket – not four mortar rounds – fell in an open area near Nahal Oz on Friday.A flare fired by the IDF over Ash-Shujaa’eya near dusk to illuminate the trouble spot on Saturday reportedly hit a family home.No physical injuries were reported in the incident.
Former IDF Chief: Israel Must Prepare for War-Ashkenazi: Israel must not cut its budget because shifting strategic realities demand it prepare for war. By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 1/27/2012, 1:08 PM
Former IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi warned, Thursday, that Israel could not afford to cut its defense budget and should prepare itself for war.In comparison to 10 years ago, the possibility of a conflict is not something that we just need to talk about,Ashkenazi said during a lecture at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.We never saw it coming. It happened on my watch, so it must be said. But if it's any consolation, Egypt never saw it coming either,Ashkenazi said of the so-called Arab Spring protests that have no turned into an Islamic winter in elections throughout the Arab world.The Middle East's plates are shifting. What the Egyptian army didn't know, I couldn't have known. (Egypt's) leaders did not know either,he said, adding the ultimate strategic picture was still changing.Ashkenazi told attendees that confronting Iran's nuclear ambitions required a multi-disciplinary approach that included covert, economic, and potentially military action.In my opinion, the strategy vis-à-vis Iran should be to do whatever is possible under the radar coupled with painful and crippling sanctions. However, we should also keep a viable military option on the table,he said.While Ashkenazi said sanctions were having an effect on Iran, he warned that time was running out since the Iranian nuclear program was moving forward at a rapid pace.Our mission now needs to be to slow down the clock and to speed up the clock of sanctions and hope that it works,he said.
Ashkenazi cautioned that Iran's strategic acumen should not be overestimated, saying Tehran had made some strategic blunders and was threatening to make others as pressure mounts.I believe Iran would be making a strategic mistake if it blocks the Strait of Hormuz. Another mistake was trying to kill the Saudi ambassador at a restaurant in the US capital. The Iranians are liable to make more mistakes under pressure,he said.Ashkenazi served as IDF chief of staff from 2007 until 2011 and certainly played a key role in preparing the military for a possible attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities. A 2007 strike against Syria’s nuclear reactor widely ascribed to Israel also happened on his watch.Ashkenazi, who oversaw operation Cast Lead in 2008-2009, said the new regime in Cairo made a new Gaza incursion a complex undertaking.The possibility of conducting another extensive operation in Gaza has become more complex following the events of the past year in Egypt and the change of government in that country,he said.I think that this government will not act like Mubarak. I do not think he was a Zionist, but you cannot ignore the fact that he was an anchor of stability in the region considering the not-so simple tests he passed – the wars in Lebanon or the intifada.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
EU AND INTERNET CENSORSHIP
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND)
WORLD GOVERNMENT
REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he 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:
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.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
http://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2012?idvideo=99977
EVERYONE HAS TO LISTEN TO THIS AT THE ECONOMIC FORUM,Prospects for Peace in the New Middle East Context - Annual Meeting 2012
Salam Fayyad, Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority
Shimon Peres, President of Israel
Chaired by
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum;
PERES SAYS THE WORLD HAS TO BE GLOBALISED AND THE GLOBE HAS TO BE INVOLVED IN THE PEACE PROCESS.AND HE ALSO SAID THAT JERUSALEM WHICH IS ONLY 2 KM IN LENGTH IS THE MOST CONTESTED PLACE ON EARTH.MANY WARS HAVE BEEN FOUGHT OVER THIS 2 KM LAND.FAYYAD OF COURSE SAYS ISRAEL MUST LET THE PALESTINIANS HAVE A STATE OF THEIR OWN WITH A DIVIDED JERUSALEM FOR BOTH SIDES.
FEMA Camp Rendition Hubs Discovered Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com January 27, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NnQNYiUJfM0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IGgZ8lgGfmU
On the Thursday evening edition of Infowars Nightly News, Alex Jones featured photo evidence of a FEMA rendition facility located at the airport in Los Angeles.The photos and an interview with an eyewitness who described the facility and its inward facing barbed wire fence and one-way turnstiles add more compelling evidence to the indisputable fact that FEMA operates as a modern version of the Gestapo.
FEMA Camps for the American People
Numerous FEMA camps scattered across the country are not designed to temporarily hold displaced citizens during natural disasters as the government would have us believe. Despite the denial and dismissal of the corporate media – most notably Glenn Beck – the camps are intended for the real enemy of the government and its banker overlords: the American people.In the above video, Alex also spotlights rendition facilities located at the Robert Mueller Airport in Austin, Texas, the Sand Point FEMA rendition hub in Washington state, and the notorious site at Pier 57 in New York City.The LAX hub is especially pertinent as the military and LA cops engage in Posse Comitatus busting exercises this week. The LAPD said the purpose of the training was in part to ensure the military’s ability to operate in urban environments,CBS Los Angeles reported on Wednesday.CBS, of course, did not draw any conclusions after it reported that military helicopters staged from Dodgers Stadium and ferried back and forth from local parks in the city. Sports stadiums have historically served as impromptu prisons for military dictatorships.The government has conducted a number of beta tests over the years in preparation for mass arrests and ultimately extraordinary renditions to black site torture dungeons.In addition to an alarming number of high profile military exercises, the government has worked in tandem with local police during events such as the the Republican and Democrat national conventions and periodic gatherings of the globalist elite in Pittsburgh and elsewhere. During the events, they have beta tested and honed their ability to arrest large numbers of people and hold them in squalid detention centers.
Infowars.com reporter Rob Dew experienced the process firsthand when he was arrested while covering the G20 in Pittsburgh and held at a military base.
Legal Precedents and Police State Preparations
The NDAA, National Defense Authorization Act, and the Enemy Expatriation Act are recent efforts to build a legal – if entirely unconstitutional – foundation for the police state and its semi-secret network of gulags and rendition camps under the auspices of FEMA.Prior to the NDAA, the government established important precedents through the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act, the latter a direct effort to nullify habeas corpus and allow the government to disappear suspected citizens.
The Constitution-busting Patriot Act emerged from the hysteria following the attacks of September 11, 2001, and spawned a raft of proposed anti-terror legislation, including The Universal National Service Act of 2003 and Patriot Act II, an earlier effort to trash habeas corpus. See Alex Jones’ The Secret Patriot Act II Destroys What Is Left of American Liberty from early February, 2003.NDAA allows for the wholesale kidnapping and disappearance of American citizens into the above mentioned FEMA camps. The legislation was paraded before the American people under the guise of fighting phantom terrorists, but as a large number of legal experts, civil libertarians and commentators have noted, it is designed for the American people, not al-Qaeda miscreants.The National Emergency Centers Act or HR 645 was established to provide a legal context for the camps covered above. The bill mandates that six separate facilities be established in different Federal Emergency Management Agency Regions (FEMA) throughout the country. For more on this key legislation, see Paul Joseph Watson’s New Legislation Authorizes FEMA Camps In U.S., posted in January of 2009.In December, we covered a push by KBR to outfit FEMA and U.S. Army camps around the United States under federal government contract. KBR’s call for FEMA camp service bids arrived soon after the NDAA was passed in the Senate.Contingency plans to suspend the Constitution and abduct enemies of the state go back to at least the 1980s. Rex 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984, was established under the pretext of a mass exodus of illegal aliens crossing the Mexican/US border, the same pretense used in the language of the KBR request for services.During the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987, however, it was revealed that the program was a secretive scenario and drill developed by the federal government to suspend the Constitution, declare martial law, assign military commanders to take over state and local governments, and detain large numbers of American citizens determined by the government to be national security threats.
FEMA Rendition Camps: The Emergent Face of Fascism in America
Rex 84, Operation Cable Splicer, and Garden Plot are programs specifically designed to facilitate the recently enacted NDAA and the above mentioned legislation and more going back to Clinton in the wake of the OKC bombing and the Waco massacre in the 1990s.The effort to turn America into a military police state where free-thinkers not drinking the government’s kool-aid can easily be disappeared into a nightmare world of secret CIA rendition flights to eastern European torture centers grew serious legs following the September 11 attacks and has entered a hyper state now that the NDAA is law.
Startling details on the rendition center at LAX adds more credence to the indisputable fact that the government is working to establish a network of camps for its political enemies. It underscores the fact that the controllers are hellbent on fully realizing fascism in America, complete with concentration camps where those opposed to the quest for global domination disappear, never to be seen again.
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Obama Accused of Contempt of Court in Birther Hearing-Secretary of State warns Obama – miss hearing at your own peril Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Friday, January 27, 2012
President Barack Obama was accused by prosecution lawyers of being in contempt of court after failing to show up for a birther hearing in Georgia that seeks to establish whether he is eligible to appear on the state ballot in November.As we reported earlier this month, so-called birthers,those who claim there is evidence to suggest Obama was not born in the United States, hailed a judges decision to hear the case as a potential roadblock to Obama even being permitted to run for a second term in the White House.Lawyers for area residents mounting birther challenges told Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi that Obama should be found in contempt of court for not appearing when under subpoena to do so. But Malihi did not indicate he would recommend that and cut off one lawyer when he criticized Obama for not attending the hearing,reports the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.It shows not just a contempt for this court, but contempt for the judicial branch,lawyer Van Irion told Malihi.
Earlier this week, Obama’s lawyer, Michael Jablonski, requested that Secretary of State Brian Kemp suspend the hearing, claiming it was not a legitimate issue and insisting he and his client would boycott the hearing. However, Kemp fired back, warning that the hearing was necessary under Georgia law and that Obama and Jablonski’s failure to participate would be at your own peril.Attendants packed the Georgia courtroom yesterday for the trial brought by residents who affirm that Obama was born in Kenya, making him ineligible to be US President.The birther argument was addressed by the White House in an unprecedented acknowledgement of the controversy surrounding the issue last year when a document purporting to be Obama’s birth certificate was released to coincide with the publication of bestselling author Jerome Corsi’s book, Where’s the Birth Certificate? Corsi and other skeptics were unconvinced by the move however, claiming that the document is a forgery created using modern computer techniques and has numerous discrepancies with a genuine 1961 birth certificate created by a typewriter.Corsi has also presented evidence that the supposed social security number contained on the document was never issued to Obama and in fact belonged to an individual in Connecticut.One time Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump repeatedly raised questions surrounding Obama’s background during the spring of 2011 before going cold on the issue, a move Corsi claimed was an organized political stunt to neutralize the issue.The judge in Georgia is expected to make a final ruling on the case after February 5, by which time attorneys are required to file their briefs.
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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DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD REGIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
EU countries sign unpopular anti-counterfeit treaty
Today JAN 27,12 @ 10:06 By Nikolaj Nielsen
BRUSSELS - The European Commission and 22 EU member states have signed up to a controversial trade agreement in a move marked by cyber attacks and street protests.
Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, the Netherlands and Slovakia were the only EU countries not to put pen to paper at the signing ceremony in Tokyo on Thursday (26 January) of the so-called Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta).The European Commission told EUobserver the hold-up is purely procedural and that they will come on board shortly.The international treaty was created in behind-closed-doors talks between EU countries and select other World Trade Organisation members over the past five years to enforce intellectual property rights on both digital and physical products.The commission says the EU loses some €8 billion every year from counterfeit items which flood its markets and that Acta will protect jobs.It will become EU law after it is ratified by the European Parliament and member states.The treaty arouses strong emotions among pro-free-speech campaigners, who say it gives authorities too much power, going beyond the equally controversial US Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa).In signs of a new crackdown on internet freedoms, the US' Federal Bureau of Investigation in recent days flexed its muscles over online file-sharing website Megaupload.Dutch police acting on US requests arrested one of its founding members and a similar sting operation took place on the other side of the world in New Zealand.
Acta critics believe signatories will not only gang up with internet providers against undesirable internet users but could also exploit it to undermine access to generic medicine in developing countries.The Tokyo events saw notable protests in the EU capital and in Poland.The European Parliament's website was taken off line on Thursday as hackers bombarded it with a 300,000 hit-a-second denial of service attack. In Warsaw, thousands took to the streets shouting slogans such as No to censorship and A free internet.Its passage through the EU parliament could be difficult amid strong distrust in some parts of the assembly.The French Socialist MEP Kader Arif who drafted the parliament's report on Acta resigned as rapporteur on Thursday.He called the treaty a masquerade and said it was rushed through without proper public consultation.Meanwhile, the Green group has accused parliament of burying a negative assessment by its legal services carried out last year.Numerous analyses over the past few months have raised serious doubts about the compatibility of Acta with EU law, particularly provisions on fundamental rights,” German Green MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht said.
Online petitions to put EU under public scrutiny
Today JAN 27,12 @ 08:44 By Honor Mahony
BRUSSELS - With just weeks until to go until the EU dips its toe into the unpredictable world of participatory democracy, internet giants are warning the European Commission it had better be prepared for scrutiny by a critical and highly-wired public.On 1 April, over 10 years since EU leaders publicly declared that they need to make the union more democratic, a system giving citizens the chance to shape European debate and potentially its legislation will go live.The so-called Citizens Initiative requires the European Commission to consider legislating in an area on the back of at least 1 million signatures from a minimum of seven (or one quarter) of member states.This new right will open a new chapter in the democratic life of the EU. Not only will it provide a direct gateway for citizens to make their voices heard in Brussels, it will also encourage real cross-border debates about EU issues,said EU commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic at a conference launching the initiative website on Thursday (26 January).Danish Europe minister Nicolai Wammen indicated the most important aspect of the new tool will be that citizens will have the chance to set the agenda,noting that getting a conversation going about an issue means already being half way there.With the Arab Spring showcasing the power of social networks such as Facebook to spread news and ideas, some at the conference suggested the Citizens Initiative will see the fairly disparate protests against unemployment and austerity measures in various member states become a single, widely-supported petition.
For her part, Facebook's policy chief in Brussels, Erika Mann says that humans love to have a connection and to live in a better world and that this all connects to the political world.Simon Hampton, European public policy director at internet search company Google, believes it is likely to be a game-changer for the way the commission interacts with citizens.The internet-powered citizen expects to be listened to. They want to be part of the conversation,he said. He added that the new tool puts the commission under scrutiny too.In a recent example in the US, the White House reconsidered a new anti-piracy law after thousands of people voiced concern about free speech on the internet and popular websites, such as Wikipedia, blacked out their homepage in protest.Some social network sites say they will be natural allies of the European initiative.Giuseppe de Martino, secretary general of video-sharing website Dailymotion, said his company could be a video platform that uses images to explain the initiative.Further down the line, successful initiatives are likely to be taken up by European political parties which will next year begin thinking about their campaigns for the 2014 European elections.But the first few months are likely to see a period of experimentation by both sides - citizens seeing how it works and the European Commission seeing how to respond.Critics have warned the initiative could be hijacked by one-horse issues pushed by a particular interest group.But the commission says this will be countered by the threshold of member states and signatures required. It also has several get-out clauses - initiatives cannot be called for actions which lie outside its powers or which are abusive, frivolous or vexatious.They are also prohibited from being contrary to EU values.The success of the EU's foray into participatory democracy is likely to depend on how fairly citizens think the commission applies these criteria.
US envoy talks down fears on internet snooping
26.01.12 @ 19:28 By Nikolaj Nielsen
BRUSSELS - A senior US official has tried to dispel the notion that post-9/11 America abuses internet privacy, as EU lawmakers and civil liberties activists look to the future of web policing.The state department's top official on international communications, Philip Verveer, who in his past work as a lawyer in the private sector also helped put together some of the US' biggest pieces of media legislation, led the mission to the EU capital on Thursday (26 January).He told press that US authorities adhere to stricter rules than some EU member states when attempting to access information stored on the cloud - the emerging market of online data storage and services provided by companies.Cloud data can belong to an individual from one country, be stored on a server in another country, which belongs to a company located in a third country and is managed by a sub-contractor from a fourth place. People who use Google Docs, for instance, typically do not know where their files are actually stored or who manages them.Despite the complexities of cloud computing, the US officials said it is already covered by EU and US bilateral frameworks on data protection dating back to 2001.We think there are serious misunderstandings about the availability to data by US law enforcement on the cloud,Verveer noted.
Verveer and a fellow official from the US mission to the EU, Stewart Robinson, said the so-called Patriot Act comes in for undue criticism.Passed less than two months after 9/11, NGOs such as the American Civil Liberties Union have said it gives authorities too much leeway on monitoring internet traffic and private emails in the name of national security.The US officials on Thursday said independent judges have to give law enforcement agents special permission to access anybody's email or private records in safeguards equivalent to those in EU countries.The Patriot Act is really not an issue at all and yet it surfaces a lot ... Claims that the Patriot Act give the US government carte blanche access to data from US providers are simply wrong,Robinson said.For its part, the European Commission on Wednesday published new legal proposals on how to protect people's online privacy.EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding told press that EU companies will in future face liabilities from both sides if they hand over data to US law enforcement agencies - from the US if they do not comply and from the EU if they give too much.This is a complicated question. We have put a solution into our regulation and the future will show if this will be operable or not,she said.For her part, Liberal Dutch MEP Sophie in't Veld told EUobserver that EU companies tend to give the US whatever it wants on the quiet.Reding had said that the Patriot Act does not apply in the EU. But In't Veld said that if a company has any kind of US presence, then the US can subpoeana data from its servers in Europe.Online privacy and free speech is gathering momentum as a popular cause around the world.The EU and 22 member states on Thursday in Tokyo signed a controversial treaty designed to combat intellectual property theft - Acta - which its critics say will curb internet freedom.With MEPs still due to ratify the text, hackers the same day fired a warning shot by launching a 300,000-hit-a-second denial of service attack on the EU parliament's website.An internal parliament email attributed the problem to the so-called Anonymous group.
Merkel: Transfer more powers to EU, not more money to bail-out fund 26.01.12 @ 09:04 By Valentina Pop
BRUSSELS - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said transferring more powers to EU institutions rather than increasing the size of the eurozone's future bail-out fund is the way to overcome the euro crisis.We have said right from the start that we want to stand up for the euro, but what we don't want is a situation where we are forced to promise something that we will not be able to fulfil, Merkel said Wednesday (25 January) in the opening speech of the World Economic Forum, an informal gathering of leaders and business magnates held every year in Davos, a Swiss mountain resort.Merkel resisted calls made by the International Monetary Fund and the Italian Prime Minister to increase contributions to the European Stability Mechanism, set to come into force in July with a firepower of €500 billion and aimed at lowering the borrowing costs of large euro-economies such as Italy and Spain.
Some say that it has to be double the size, then if that’s not big enough, others will say it has to be three times as big,she said.If Germany, as the representative of all European countries, promises something that can’t be kept in the event of a harsh attack by the markets, then Europe would have a wide-open flank.Instead, her solution is more integration, by transferring more powers from a national level to EU institutions such as the European Court of Justice, so that the continent is turned into a Europe that works.We have taken some steps closer to a fiscal union, but we can get faster, gain speed and become more decisive,she added, in reference to the inter-governmental treaty on fiscal discipline currently being negotiated among 26 member states, except Britain.She made similar remarks in an interview published earlier that day in five major newspapers from different EU countries, including The Guardian:We will only be able to strengthen our common currency if we co-ordinate our policies more closely and are prepared to gradually give up more powers to the EU. If we make loads of promises about debt reduction and sound budgeting, those need to be things that can be enforced or brought to court in the future. The point of the fiscal compact, after all, is to make it possible to check on those commitments. That means giving our [European] institutions more monitoring rights – and more bite.Merkel also warned in that same interview that amid all the billions in financial assistance and rescue packages, we Germans also need to watch that we don't run out of steam. After all, our capacities aren't infinite, and overstretching ourselves wouldn't help us or the EU as a whole.She is expected, however, to budge on the issue in March, when EU leaders meet to discuss potentially increasing the fund. In the past, she had also steadfastly ruled out any further contributions to bail-outs or the establishment of the permanent ESM, only to give in after painful negotiations - a tactic which has been criticised both at home and abroad.
No more Merkozy?
Meanwhile, her ranking as the de facto supremo of Europe has been highlighted by the plethora of top European politicians and financiers she received in Berlin ahead of an EU summit taking place in Brussels on 30 January.The leaders of Portugal, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Italy and IMF chief Christine Lagarde all visited Merkel in the past few days, with Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy set to do the same on Thursday.It's not even Merkozy anymore, it's just Merkel now,one senior EU diplomat noted, in reference to the Franco-German tandem named after Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel.The French president is struggling to regain voters' confidence ahead of the April presidential elections amid high unemployment rates and a downgrade of France's top credit rating by Standard & Poor's.
Israel says Iran drifting toward nuke goal line
Associated PressBy JOHN HEILPRIN | Associated Press – JAN 27,12
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Friday the world must quickly stop Iran from reaching the point where even a surgical military strike could not block it from obtaining nuclear weapons.Amid fears that Israel is nearing a decision to attack Iran's nuclear program, Barak said tougher international sanctions are needed against Tehran's oil and banks so that we all will know early enough whether the Iranians are ready to give up their nuclear weapons program.Iran insists its atomic program is aimed only at producing energy and research, but it has refused to consider giving up its ability to enrich uranium.The United Nations has imposed four rounds of sanctions against Iran, but veto-wielding Russia and China say they see no need for additional punitive measures. That has left the U.S. and the European Union to try to pressure other countries to follow their lead and impose even tougher sanctions.
We are determined to prevent Iran from turning nuclear. And even the American president and opinion leaders have said that no option should be removed from the table and Iran should be blocked from turning nuclear,Barak told reporters during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.It seems to us to be urgent, because the Iranians are deliberately drifting into what we call an immunity zone where practically no surgical operation could block them,he said.But while Barak called it a challenge for the whole world to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran, he stopped short of confirming any action that could further stoke Washington's concern about a possible Israeli military strike.Iran has accused Israel of masterminding the killing of Iranian scientists involved in the nuclear program, but Barak declined to comment on that.Earlier, he told a panel discussion that a stable world order is incompatible with a nuclear-armed Iran because countries such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt will all want the bomb.This will be the end of any nonproliferation regime, Barak said. The major powers in the region will all feel compelled to turn nuclear.
Separately, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urged a resumption of dialogue between Western powers and Iran on the nuclear issue.He said Friday that Tehran must comply with Security Council resolutions and prove conclusively that its nuclear program is not directed at making arms.The onus is on Iran,Ban said at a press conference.They have to prove themselves that their nuclear development program is genuinely for peaceful purposes, which they have not done yet.Ban expressed concern about the most recent report of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which strongly suggested Iran's nuclear program has a military purpose.On Thursday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran is ready to revive talks with the U.S. and other world powers but suggested that Tehran's foes will have to make compromises to prevent negotiations from again collapsing in stalemate.Iran says it won't give up its right to enrich uranium and produce nuclear fuel, but it has offered to allow IAEA inspectors to visit its nuclear sites to ensure that the program won't be weaponized.IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said at a Davos session that we do not have that much confidence if Iran has declared everything and its best information indicates that Iran has engaged in activities relevant to nuclear explosive devices.For now they do not have the capacity to manufacture the fuel,he said.But in the future, we don't know.Amano added that an IAEA mission would be sent Saturday to address this issue.If the enrichment to higher levels is in a declared facility, we can find it very quickly,he said.The problem is we do not know if these are all the declared facilities.Richard Haass, a former top U.S. diplomat who heads the Council on Foreign Relations, said international law justifies a pre-emptive strike only to stave off an imminent attack.The real question is can Iran assure us what it is not doing? he said.Israeli defense officials said Friday that new European sanctions on Iran could constrain Israel. They said any Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear facilities may lack international legitimacy while the world waits to see the effects of the new measures.
The officials spoke Friday on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss sensitive military matters.Much of the West agrees with Israel that Iran, despite its denials, is developing nuclear weapons technology. But the United States clearly worries that a military attack could backfire, by dividing international opposition to Iran — and send oil prices skyrocketing.Israel has attacked nuclear sites in foreign countries before. In 1981, Israeli warplanes destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor. In 2007, Israeli aircraft destroyed a site in Syria that the U.N. nuclear watchdog deemed to be a secretly built nuclear reactor.
But Israel is unlikely to strike without coordinating with the Americans, who maintain forces on aircraft carriers and military bases in the Gulf.In spite of his tough words to Iran, Ban said that dialogue among the three-plus-three — Germany, France and Britain plus Russia, China and the United States — is the path forward.
There is no other alternative for addressing this crisis than peaceful ... resolution through dialogue,said Ban.Ban noted that there have been a total of five Security Council resolutions so far on the Iranian nuclear program, four calling for sanctions.It's not just the West that is concerned.We take it for granted Iran would want nuclear weapons,Yan Xuetong, dean of the Institute of Modern International Studies at Tsinghua University, said of China. Certainly, China is working very hard with the international community to prevent this.John Daniszewski in Davos and Tia Goldenberg in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
Governments Worldwide Raise Acceptable Radiation Levels Based Upon Politics-Instead of protecting people, governments cover up by raising safe radiation levels – based on politics, not science.Washington’s Blog January 27, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UOgaBUDFeb4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oe2fMMaVE7Q
American and Canadian authorities have virtually stopped monitoring airborne radiation.Neither American nor Canadian authorities are testing fish for radioactivity.Does that mean that we don’t have to worry about radiation from Fukushima? It is a little hard to know, given that what is deemed a safe level of radiation is determined by politics … rather than science. For example, current safety standards are based on the ridiculous assumption thateveryone exposed is a healthy man in his 20s – and that radioactive particles ingested into the body cause no more damage than radiation hitting the outside of the body.And one of the main advisors to the Japanese government on Fukushima announced:If you smile, the radiation will not affect you.In the real world, however, even low doses of radiation can cause cancer. Moreover, small particles of radiation – called internal emitters – which get inside the body are much more dangerous than general exposures to radiation. See this and this. And radiation affects small children much more than full-grown adults.Indeed, instead of doing much to try to protect their citizens from Fukushima, Japan, the U.S. and the EU all just raised the radiation levels they deem safe.Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says that high-level friends in the State Department told him that Hillary Clinton signed a pact with her counterpart in Japan agreeing that the U.S. will continue buying seafood from Japan, despite that food not being tested for radioactive materials.
And the Department of Energy is trying to replace the scientifically accepted model of the dangers of low dose radiation based on voodoo science. Specifically, DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley Labs used a mutant line of human cells in a petri dish which was able to repair damage from low doses of radiation, and extrapolated to the unsupported conclusion that everyone is immune to low doses of radiation:In reality, not only is there overwhelming evidence that low doses of radiation can cause cancer, but there is some evidence that low doses can – in certain circumstances cause more damage than higher doses.As I pointed out in April:The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists reported that one of the best-known scientists of the 20th century – Dr. John Gofman – also believed that chronic low level radiation is more dangerous than acute exposure to high doses. Gofman was a doctor of nuclear and physical chemistry and a medical doctor who worked on the Manhattan Project, co-discovered uranium-232 and -233 and other radioactive isotopes and proved their fissionability, helped discover how to extract plutonium, led the team that discovered and characterized lipoproteins in the causation of heart disease, served as a Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California Berkeley, served as Associate Director of the Livermore National Laboratory, was asked by the Atomic Energy Commission to undertake a series of long range studies on potential dangers that might arise from the peaceful uses of the atom, and wrote four scholarly books on radiation health effects.
http://www.infowars.com/governments-worldwide-raise-acceptable-radiation-levels-based-upon-politics/
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND)
WORLD GOVERNMENT
REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he 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:
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.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
http://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2012?idvideo=99977
EVERYONE HAS TO LISTEN TO THIS AT THE ECONOMIC FORUM,Prospects for Peace in the New Middle East Context - Annual Meeting 2012
Salam Fayyad, Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority
Shimon Peres, President of Israel
Chaired by
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum;
PERES SAYS THE WORLD HAS TO BE GLOBALISED AND THE GLOBE HAS TO BE INVOLVED IN THE PEACE PROCESS.AND HE ALSO SAID THAT JERUSALEM WHICH IS ONLY 2 KM IN LENGTH IS THE MOST CONTESTED PLACE ON EARTH.MANY WARS HAVE BEEN FOUGHT OVER THIS 2 KM LAND.FAYYAD OF COURSE SAYS ISRAEL MUST LET THE PALESTINIANS HAVE A STATE OF THEIR OWN WITH A DIVIDED JERUSALEM FOR BOTH SIDES.
FEMA Camp Rendition Hubs Discovered Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com January 27, 2012
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IGgZ8lgGfmU
On the Thursday evening edition of Infowars Nightly News, Alex Jones featured photo evidence of a FEMA rendition facility located at the airport in Los Angeles.The photos and an interview with an eyewitness who described the facility and its inward facing barbed wire fence and one-way turnstiles add more compelling evidence to the indisputable fact that FEMA operates as a modern version of the Gestapo.
FEMA Camps for the American People
Numerous FEMA camps scattered across the country are not designed to temporarily hold displaced citizens during natural disasters as the government would have us believe. Despite the denial and dismissal of the corporate media – most notably Glenn Beck – the camps are intended for the real enemy of the government and its banker overlords: the American people.In the above video, Alex also spotlights rendition facilities located at the Robert Mueller Airport in Austin, Texas, the Sand Point FEMA rendition hub in Washington state, and the notorious site at Pier 57 in New York City.The LAX hub is especially pertinent as the military and LA cops engage in Posse Comitatus busting exercises this week. The LAPD said the purpose of the training was in part to ensure the military’s ability to operate in urban environments,CBS Los Angeles reported on Wednesday.CBS, of course, did not draw any conclusions after it reported that military helicopters staged from Dodgers Stadium and ferried back and forth from local parks in the city. Sports stadiums have historically served as impromptu prisons for military dictatorships.The government has conducted a number of beta tests over the years in preparation for mass arrests and ultimately extraordinary renditions to black site torture dungeons.In addition to an alarming number of high profile military exercises, the government has worked in tandem with local police during events such as the the Republican and Democrat national conventions and periodic gatherings of the globalist elite in Pittsburgh and elsewhere. During the events, they have beta tested and honed their ability to arrest large numbers of people and hold them in squalid detention centers.
Infowars.com reporter Rob Dew experienced the process firsthand when he was arrested while covering the G20 in Pittsburgh and held at a military base.
Legal Precedents and Police State Preparations
The NDAA, National Defense Authorization Act, and the Enemy Expatriation Act are recent efforts to build a legal – if entirely unconstitutional – foundation for the police state and its semi-secret network of gulags and rendition camps under the auspices of FEMA.Prior to the NDAA, the government established important precedents through the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act, the latter a direct effort to nullify habeas corpus and allow the government to disappear suspected citizens.
The Constitution-busting Patriot Act emerged from the hysteria following the attacks of September 11, 2001, and spawned a raft of proposed anti-terror legislation, including The Universal National Service Act of 2003 and Patriot Act II, an earlier effort to trash habeas corpus. See Alex Jones’ The Secret Patriot Act II Destroys What Is Left of American Liberty from early February, 2003.NDAA allows for the wholesale kidnapping and disappearance of American citizens into the above mentioned FEMA camps. The legislation was paraded before the American people under the guise of fighting phantom terrorists, but as a large number of legal experts, civil libertarians and commentators have noted, it is designed for the American people, not al-Qaeda miscreants.The National Emergency Centers Act or HR 645 was established to provide a legal context for the camps covered above. The bill mandates that six separate facilities be established in different Federal Emergency Management Agency Regions (FEMA) throughout the country. For more on this key legislation, see Paul Joseph Watson’s New Legislation Authorizes FEMA Camps In U.S., posted in January of 2009.In December, we covered a push by KBR to outfit FEMA and U.S. Army camps around the United States under federal government contract. KBR’s call for FEMA camp service bids arrived soon after the NDAA was passed in the Senate.Contingency plans to suspend the Constitution and abduct enemies of the state go back to at least the 1980s. Rex 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984, was established under the pretext of a mass exodus of illegal aliens crossing the Mexican/US border, the same pretense used in the language of the KBR request for services.During the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987, however, it was revealed that the program was a secretive scenario and drill developed by the federal government to suspend the Constitution, declare martial law, assign military commanders to take over state and local governments, and detain large numbers of American citizens determined by the government to be national security threats.
FEMA Rendition Camps: The Emergent Face of Fascism in America
Rex 84, Operation Cable Splicer, and Garden Plot are programs specifically designed to facilitate the recently enacted NDAA and the above mentioned legislation and more going back to Clinton in the wake of the OKC bombing and the Waco massacre in the 1990s.The effort to turn America into a military police state where free-thinkers not drinking the government’s kool-aid can easily be disappeared into a nightmare world of secret CIA rendition flights to eastern European torture centers grew serious legs following the September 11 attacks and has entered a hyper state now that the NDAA is law.
Startling details on the rendition center at LAX adds more credence to the indisputable fact that the government is working to establish a network of camps for its political enemies. It underscores the fact that the controllers are hellbent on fully realizing fascism in America, complete with concentration camps where those opposed to the quest for global domination disappear, never to be seen again.
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Obama Accused of Contempt of Court in Birther Hearing-Secretary of State warns Obama – miss hearing at your own peril Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Friday, January 27, 2012
President Barack Obama was accused by prosecution lawyers of being in contempt of court after failing to show up for a birther hearing in Georgia that seeks to establish whether he is eligible to appear on the state ballot in November.As we reported earlier this month, so-called birthers,those who claim there is evidence to suggest Obama was not born in the United States, hailed a judges decision to hear the case as a potential roadblock to Obama even being permitted to run for a second term in the White House.Lawyers for area residents mounting birther challenges told Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi that Obama should be found in contempt of court for not appearing when under subpoena to do so. But Malihi did not indicate he would recommend that and cut off one lawyer when he criticized Obama for not attending the hearing,reports the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.It shows not just a contempt for this court, but contempt for the judicial branch,lawyer Van Irion told Malihi.
Earlier this week, Obama’s lawyer, Michael Jablonski, requested that Secretary of State Brian Kemp suspend the hearing, claiming it was not a legitimate issue and insisting he and his client would boycott the hearing. However, Kemp fired back, warning that the hearing was necessary under Georgia law and that Obama and Jablonski’s failure to participate would be at your own peril.Attendants packed the Georgia courtroom yesterday for the trial brought by residents who affirm that Obama was born in Kenya, making him ineligible to be US President.The birther argument was addressed by the White House in an unprecedented acknowledgement of the controversy surrounding the issue last year when a document purporting to be Obama’s birth certificate was released to coincide with the publication of bestselling author Jerome Corsi’s book, Where’s the Birth Certificate? Corsi and other skeptics were unconvinced by the move however, claiming that the document is a forgery created using modern computer techniques and has numerous discrepancies with a genuine 1961 birth certificate created by a typewriter.Corsi has also presented evidence that the supposed social security number contained on the document was never issued to Obama and in fact belonged to an individual in Connecticut.One time Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump repeatedly raised questions surrounding Obama’s background during the spring of 2011 before going cold on the issue, a move Corsi claimed was an organized political stunt to neutralize the issue.The judge in Georgia is expected to make a final ruling on the case after February 5, by which time attorneys are required to file their briefs.
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
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DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD REGIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
EU countries sign unpopular anti-counterfeit treaty
Today JAN 27,12 @ 10:06 By Nikolaj Nielsen
BRUSSELS - The European Commission and 22 EU member states have signed up to a controversial trade agreement in a move marked by cyber attacks and street protests.
Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, the Netherlands and Slovakia were the only EU countries not to put pen to paper at the signing ceremony in Tokyo on Thursday (26 January) of the so-called Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta).The European Commission told EUobserver the hold-up is purely procedural and that they will come on board shortly.The international treaty was created in behind-closed-doors talks between EU countries and select other World Trade Organisation members over the past five years to enforce intellectual property rights on both digital and physical products.The commission says the EU loses some €8 billion every year from counterfeit items which flood its markets and that Acta will protect jobs.It will become EU law after it is ratified by the European Parliament and member states.The treaty arouses strong emotions among pro-free-speech campaigners, who say it gives authorities too much power, going beyond the equally controversial US Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa).In signs of a new crackdown on internet freedoms, the US' Federal Bureau of Investigation in recent days flexed its muscles over online file-sharing website Megaupload.Dutch police acting on US requests arrested one of its founding members and a similar sting operation took place on the other side of the world in New Zealand.
Acta critics believe signatories will not only gang up with internet providers against undesirable internet users but could also exploit it to undermine access to generic medicine in developing countries.The Tokyo events saw notable protests in the EU capital and in Poland.The European Parliament's website was taken off line on Thursday as hackers bombarded it with a 300,000 hit-a-second denial of service attack. In Warsaw, thousands took to the streets shouting slogans such as No to censorship and A free internet.Its passage through the EU parliament could be difficult amid strong distrust in some parts of the assembly.The French Socialist MEP Kader Arif who drafted the parliament's report on Acta resigned as rapporteur on Thursday.He called the treaty a masquerade and said it was rushed through without proper public consultation.Meanwhile, the Green group has accused parliament of burying a negative assessment by its legal services carried out last year.Numerous analyses over the past few months have raised serious doubts about the compatibility of Acta with EU law, particularly provisions on fundamental rights,” German Green MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht said.
Online petitions to put EU under public scrutiny
Today JAN 27,12 @ 08:44 By Honor Mahony
BRUSSELS - With just weeks until to go until the EU dips its toe into the unpredictable world of participatory democracy, internet giants are warning the European Commission it had better be prepared for scrutiny by a critical and highly-wired public.On 1 April, over 10 years since EU leaders publicly declared that they need to make the union more democratic, a system giving citizens the chance to shape European debate and potentially its legislation will go live.The so-called Citizens Initiative requires the European Commission to consider legislating in an area on the back of at least 1 million signatures from a minimum of seven (or one quarter) of member states.This new right will open a new chapter in the democratic life of the EU. Not only will it provide a direct gateway for citizens to make their voices heard in Brussels, it will also encourage real cross-border debates about EU issues,said EU commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic at a conference launching the initiative website on Thursday (26 January).Danish Europe minister Nicolai Wammen indicated the most important aspect of the new tool will be that citizens will have the chance to set the agenda,noting that getting a conversation going about an issue means already being half way there.With the Arab Spring showcasing the power of social networks such as Facebook to spread news and ideas, some at the conference suggested the Citizens Initiative will see the fairly disparate protests against unemployment and austerity measures in various member states become a single, widely-supported petition.
For her part, Facebook's policy chief in Brussels, Erika Mann says that humans love to have a connection and to live in a better world and that this all connects to the political world.Simon Hampton, European public policy director at internet search company Google, believes it is likely to be a game-changer for the way the commission interacts with citizens.The internet-powered citizen expects to be listened to. They want to be part of the conversation,he said. He added that the new tool puts the commission under scrutiny too.In a recent example in the US, the White House reconsidered a new anti-piracy law after thousands of people voiced concern about free speech on the internet and popular websites, such as Wikipedia, blacked out their homepage in protest.Some social network sites say they will be natural allies of the European initiative.Giuseppe de Martino, secretary general of video-sharing website Dailymotion, said his company could be a video platform that uses images to explain the initiative.Further down the line, successful initiatives are likely to be taken up by European political parties which will next year begin thinking about their campaigns for the 2014 European elections.But the first few months are likely to see a period of experimentation by both sides - citizens seeing how it works and the European Commission seeing how to respond.Critics have warned the initiative could be hijacked by one-horse issues pushed by a particular interest group.But the commission says this will be countered by the threshold of member states and signatures required. It also has several get-out clauses - initiatives cannot be called for actions which lie outside its powers or which are abusive, frivolous or vexatious.They are also prohibited from being contrary to EU values.The success of the EU's foray into participatory democracy is likely to depend on how fairly citizens think the commission applies these criteria.
US envoy talks down fears on internet snooping
26.01.12 @ 19:28 By Nikolaj Nielsen
BRUSSELS - A senior US official has tried to dispel the notion that post-9/11 America abuses internet privacy, as EU lawmakers and civil liberties activists look to the future of web policing.The state department's top official on international communications, Philip Verveer, who in his past work as a lawyer in the private sector also helped put together some of the US' biggest pieces of media legislation, led the mission to the EU capital on Thursday (26 January).He told press that US authorities adhere to stricter rules than some EU member states when attempting to access information stored on the cloud - the emerging market of online data storage and services provided by companies.Cloud data can belong to an individual from one country, be stored on a server in another country, which belongs to a company located in a third country and is managed by a sub-contractor from a fourth place. People who use Google Docs, for instance, typically do not know where their files are actually stored or who manages them.Despite the complexities of cloud computing, the US officials said it is already covered by EU and US bilateral frameworks on data protection dating back to 2001.We think there are serious misunderstandings about the availability to data by US law enforcement on the cloud,Verveer noted.
Verveer and a fellow official from the US mission to the EU, Stewart Robinson, said the so-called Patriot Act comes in for undue criticism.Passed less than two months after 9/11, NGOs such as the American Civil Liberties Union have said it gives authorities too much leeway on monitoring internet traffic and private emails in the name of national security.The US officials on Thursday said independent judges have to give law enforcement agents special permission to access anybody's email or private records in safeguards equivalent to those in EU countries.The Patriot Act is really not an issue at all and yet it surfaces a lot ... Claims that the Patriot Act give the US government carte blanche access to data from US providers are simply wrong,Robinson said.For its part, the European Commission on Wednesday published new legal proposals on how to protect people's online privacy.EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding told press that EU companies will in future face liabilities from both sides if they hand over data to US law enforcement agencies - from the US if they do not comply and from the EU if they give too much.This is a complicated question. We have put a solution into our regulation and the future will show if this will be operable or not,she said.For her part, Liberal Dutch MEP Sophie in't Veld told EUobserver that EU companies tend to give the US whatever it wants on the quiet.Reding had said that the Patriot Act does not apply in the EU. But In't Veld said that if a company has any kind of US presence, then the US can subpoeana data from its servers in Europe.Online privacy and free speech is gathering momentum as a popular cause around the world.The EU and 22 member states on Thursday in Tokyo signed a controversial treaty designed to combat intellectual property theft - Acta - which its critics say will curb internet freedom.With MEPs still due to ratify the text, hackers the same day fired a warning shot by launching a 300,000-hit-a-second denial of service attack on the EU parliament's website.An internal parliament email attributed the problem to the so-called Anonymous group.
Merkel: Transfer more powers to EU, not more money to bail-out fund 26.01.12 @ 09:04 By Valentina Pop
BRUSSELS - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said transferring more powers to EU institutions rather than increasing the size of the eurozone's future bail-out fund is the way to overcome the euro crisis.We have said right from the start that we want to stand up for the euro, but what we don't want is a situation where we are forced to promise something that we will not be able to fulfil, Merkel said Wednesday (25 January) in the opening speech of the World Economic Forum, an informal gathering of leaders and business magnates held every year in Davos, a Swiss mountain resort.Merkel resisted calls made by the International Monetary Fund and the Italian Prime Minister to increase contributions to the European Stability Mechanism, set to come into force in July with a firepower of €500 billion and aimed at lowering the borrowing costs of large euro-economies such as Italy and Spain.
Some say that it has to be double the size, then if that’s not big enough, others will say it has to be three times as big,she said.If Germany, as the representative of all European countries, promises something that can’t be kept in the event of a harsh attack by the markets, then Europe would have a wide-open flank.Instead, her solution is more integration, by transferring more powers from a national level to EU institutions such as the European Court of Justice, so that the continent is turned into a Europe that works.We have taken some steps closer to a fiscal union, but we can get faster, gain speed and become more decisive,she added, in reference to the inter-governmental treaty on fiscal discipline currently being negotiated among 26 member states, except Britain.She made similar remarks in an interview published earlier that day in five major newspapers from different EU countries, including The Guardian:We will only be able to strengthen our common currency if we co-ordinate our policies more closely and are prepared to gradually give up more powers to the EU. If we make loads of promises about debt reduction and sound budgeting, those need to be things that can be enforced or brought to court in the future. The point of the fiscal compact, after all, is to make it possible to check on those commitments. That means giving our [European] institutions more monitoring rights – and more bite.Merkel also warned in that same interview that amid all the billions in financial assistance and rescue packages, we Germans also need to watch that we don't run out of steam. After all, our capacities aren't infinite, and overstretching ourselves wouldn't help us or the EU as a whole.She is expected, however, to budge on the issue in March, when EU leaders meet to discuss potentially increasing the fund. In the past, she had also steadfastly ruled out any further contributions to bail-outs or the establishment of the permanent ESM, only to give in after painful negotiations - a tactic which has been criticised both at home and abroad.
No more Merkozy?
Meanwhile, her ranking as the de facto supremo of Europe has been highlighted by the plethora of top European politicians and financiers she received in Berlin ahead of an EU summit taking place in Brussels on 30 January.The leaders of Portugal, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Italy and IMF chief Christine Lagarde all visited Merkel in the past few days, with Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy set to do the same on Thursday.It's not even Merkozy anymore, it's just Merkel now,one senior EU diplomat noted, in reference to the Franco-German tandem named after Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel.The French president is struggling to regain voters' confidence ahead of the April presidential elections amid high unemployment rates and a downgrade of France's top credit rating by Standard & Poor's.
Israel says Iran drifting toward nuke goal line
Associated PressBy JOHN HEILPRIN | Associated Press – JAN 27,12
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Friday the world must quickly stop Iran from reaching the point where even a surgical military strike could not block it from obtaining nuclear weapons.Amid fears that Israel is nearing a decision to attack Iran's nuclear program, Barak said tougher international sanctions are needed against Tehran's oil and banks so that we all will know early enough whether the Iranians are ready to give up their nuclear weapons program.Iran insists its atomic program is aimed only at producing energy and research, but it has refused to consider giving up its ability to enrich uranium.The United Nations has imposed four rounds of sanctions against Iran, but veto-wielding Russia and China say they see no need for additional punitive measures. That has left the U.S. and the European Union to try to pressure other countries to follow their lead and impose even tougher sanctions.
We are determined to prevent Iran from turning nuclear. And even the American president and opinion leaders have said that no option should be removed from the table and Iran should be blocked from turning nuclear,Barak told reporters during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.It seems to us to be urgent, because the Iranians are deliberately drifting into what we call an immunity zone where practically no surgical operation could block them,he said.But while Barak called it a challenge for the whole world to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran, he stopped short of confirming any action that could further stoke Washington's concern about a possible Israeli military strike.Iran has accused Israel of masterminding the killing of Iranian scientists involved in the nuclear program, but Barak declined to comment on that.Earlier, he told a panel discussion that a stable world order is incompatible with a nuclear-armed Iran because countries such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt will all want the bomb.This will be the end of any nonproliferation regime, Barak said. The major powers in the region will all feel compelled to turn nuclear.
Separately, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urged a resumption of dialogue between Western powers and Iran on the nuclear issue.He said Friday that Tehran must comply with Security Council resolutions and prove conclusively that its nuclear program is not directed at making arms.The onus is on Iran,Ban said at a press conference.They have to prove themselves that their nuclear development program is genuinely for peaceful purposes, which they have not done yet.Ban expressed concern about the most recent report of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which strongly suggested Iran's nuclear program has a military purpose.On Thursday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran is ready to revive talks with the U.S. and other world powers but suggested that Tehran's foes will have to make compromises to prevent negotiations from again collapsing in stalemate.Iran says it won't give up its right to enrich uranium and produce nuclear fuel, but it has offered to allow IAEA inspectors to visit its nuclear sites to ensure that the program won't be weaponized.IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said at a Davos session that we do not have that much confidence if Iran has declared everything and its best information indicates that Iran has engaged in activities relevant to nuclear explosive devices.For now they do not have the capacity to manufacture the fuel,he said.But in the future, we don't know.Amano added that an IAEA mission would be sent Saturday to address this issue.If the enrichment to higher levels is in a declared facility, we can find it very quickly,he said.The problem is we do not know if these are all the declared facilities.Richard Haass, a former top U.S. diplomat who heads the Council on Foreign Relations, said international law justifies a pre-emptive strike only to stave off an imminent attack.The real question is can Iran assure us what it is not doing? he said.Israeli defense officials said Friday that new European sanctions on Iran could constrain Israel. They said any Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear facilities may lack international legitimacy while the world waits to see the effects of the new measures.
The officials spoke Friday on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss sensitive military matters.Much of the West agrees with Israel that Iran, despite its denials, is developing nuclear weapons technology. But the United States clearly worries that a military attack could backfire, by dividing international opposition to Iran — and send oil prices skyrocketing.Israel has attacked nuclear sites in foreign countries before. In 1981, Israeli warplanes destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor. In 2007, Israeli aircraft destroyed a site in Syria that the U.N. nuclear watchdog deemed to be a secretly built nuclear reactor.
But Israel is unlikely to strike without coordinating with the Americans, who maintain forces on aircraft carriers and military bases in the Gulf.In spite of his tough words to Iran, Ban said that dialogue among the three-plus-three — Germany, France and Britain plus Russia, China and the United States — is the path forward.
There is no other alternative for addressing this crisis than peaceful ... resolution through dialogue,said Ban.Ban noted that there have been a total of five Security Council resolutions so far on the Iranian nuclear program, four calling for sanctions.It's not just the West that is concerned.We take it for granted Iran would want nuclear weapons,Yan Xuetong, dean of the Institute of Modern International Studies at Tsinghua University, said of China. Certainly, China is working very hard with the international community to prevent this.John Daniszewski in Davos and Tia Goldenberg in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
Governments Worldwide Raise Acceptable Radiation Levels Based Upon Politics-Instead of protecting people, governments cover up by raising safe radiation levels – based on politics, not science.Washington’s Blog January 27, 2012
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American and Canadian authorities have virtually stopped monitoring airborne radiation.Neither American nor Canadian authorities are testing fish for radioactivity.Does that mean that we don’t have to worry about radiation from Fukushima? It is a little hard to know, given that what is deemed a safe level of radiation is determined by politics … rather than science. For example, current safety standards are based on the ridiculous assumption thateveryone exposed is a healthy man in his 20s – and that radioactive particles ingested into the body cause no more damage than radiation hitting the outside of the body.And one of the main advisors to the Japanese government on Fukushima announced:If you smile, the radiation will not affect you.In the real world, however, even low doses of radiation can cause cancer. Moreover, small particles of radiation – called internal emitters – which get inside the body are much more dangerous than general exposures to radiation. See this and this. And radiation affects small children much more than full-grown adults.Indeed, instead of doing much to try to protect their citizens from Fukushima, Japan, the U.S. and the EU all just raised the radiation levels they deem safe.Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says that high-level friends in the State Department told him that Hillary Clinton signed a pact with her counterpart in Japan agreeing that the U.S. will continue buying seafood from Japan, despite that food not being tested for radioactive materials.
And the Department of Energy is trying to replace the scientifically accepted model of the dangers of low dose radiation based on voodoo science. Specifically, DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley Labs used a mutant line of human cells in a petri dish which was able to repair damage from low doses of radiation, and extrapolated to the unsupported conclusion that everyone is immune to low doses of radiation:In reality, not only is there overwhelming evidence that low doses of radiation can cause cancer, but there is some evidence that low doses can – in certain circumstances cause more damage than higher doses.As I pointed out in April:The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists reported that one of the best-known scientists of the 20th century – Dr. John Gofman – also believed that chronic low level radiation is more dangerous than acute exposure to high doses. Gofman was a doctor of nuclear and physical chemistry and a medical doctor who worked on the Manhattan Project, co-discovered uranium-232 and -233 and other radioactive isotopes and proved their fissionability, helped discover how to extract plutonium, led the team that discovered and characterized lipoproteins in the causation of heart disease, served as a Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California Berkeley, served as Associate Director of the Livermore National Laboratory, was asked by the Atomic Energy Commission to undertake a series of long range studies on potential dangers that might arise from the peaceful uses of the atom, and wrote four scholarly books on radiation health effects.
http://www.infowars.com/governments-worldwide-raise-acceptable-radiation-levels-based-upon-politics/
Thursday, January 26, 2012
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Google announces privacy changes across products; users can’t opt out By Cecilia Kang, Published: January 24
Google will soon know far more about who you are and what you do on the Web.The Web giant announced Tuesday that it plans to follow the activities of users across nearly all of its ubiquitous sites, including YouTube, Gmail and its leading search engine.Google has already been collecting some of this information. But for the first time, it is combining data across its Web sites to stitch together a fuller portrait of users.Consumers won’t be able to opt out of the changes, which take effect March 1. And experts say the policy shift will invite greater scrutiny from federal regulators of the company’s privacy and competitive practices.The move will help Google better tailor its ads to people’s tastes. If someone watches an NBA clip online and lives in Washington, the firm could advertise Washington Wizards tickets in that person’s Gmail account.Consumers could also benefit, the company said. When someone is searching for the word jaguar, Google would have a better idea of whether the person was interested in the animal or the car. Or the firm might suggest e-mailing contacts in New York when it learns you are planning a trip there.
But consumer advocates say the new policy might upset people who never expected their information would be shared across so many different Web sites.A user signing up for Gmail, for instance, might never have imagined that the content of his or her messages could affect the experience on seemingly unrelated Web sites such as YouTube.Google’s new privacy announcement is frustrating and a little frightening, said Common Sense Media chief executive James Steyer. Even if the company believes that tracking users across all platforms improves their services, consumers should still have the option to opt out — especially the kids and teens who are avid users of YouTube, Gmail and Google Search.Google can collect information about users when they activate an Android mobile phone, sign into their accounts online or enter search terms. It can also store cookies on people’s computers to see which Web sites they visit or use its popular maps program to estimate their location. However, users who have not logged on to Google or one of its other sites, such as YouTube, are not affected by the new policy.The change to its privacy policies come as Google is facing stiff competition for the fickle attention of Web surfers. It recently disappointed investors for the first time in several quarters, failing last week to meet earnings predictions. Apple, in contrast, reported record earnings Tuesday that blew past even the most optimistic expectations.Some analysts said Google’s move is aimed squarely at Apple and Facebook — which have been successful in building unified ecosystems of products that capture people’s attention. Google, in contrast, has adopted a more scattered approach, but an executive said in an interview that the company wants to create a much more seamless environment across its various offerings.If you’re signed in, we may combine information you’ve provided from one service with information from other services,Alma Whitten, Google’s director of privacy for product and engineering, wrote in a blog post.
In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience,she said.Google said it would notify its hundreds of millions of users of the change through an e-mail and a message on its Web sites. It will apply to all of its services except for Google Wallet, the Chrome browser and Google Books.The company said the change would simplify the company’s privacy policy — a move that regulators encouraged.Still, some consumer advocates and lawmakers remained skeptical.There is no way anyone expected this,said Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a privacy advocacy group.There is no way a user can comprehend the implication of Google collecting across platforms for information about your health, political opinions and financial concerns.Added Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass), co-chair of the Congressional Privacy Caucus: It is imperative that users will be able to decide whether they want their information shared across the spectrum of Google’s offerings.Google has increasingly been a focus of Washington regulators.The company recently settled a privacy complaint by the Federal Trade Commission after it allowed users of its now-defunct social-networking tool Google Buzz to see contacts lists from its e-mail program.
And a previous decision to use its social network data in search results has been included in a broad FTC investigation, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is private.
Federal officials are also looking at whether Google is running afoul of antitrust rules by using its dominance in online searches to favor its other business lines.
Claudia Farrell, a spokeswoman for the FTC, declined to comment on any interaction between Google and regulators on its new privacy changes.
http://www.infowars.com/3-d-facial-scans-being-sold-to-the-public-under-the-guise-that-it-could-help-children/
Don't like something about yourself online? You'll soon be able to delete it thanks to sweeping new EU privacy laws By Katie Silver Last updated at 5:26 PM on 26th January 2012
Soon millions of internet users will have the right to be forgotten and order companies to erase all the data it has on them, according to new legislation announced by the European Commission yesterday.The reforms will set strong limits on how companies such as Google and Facebook protect users' information, threatening those who breach the code with hefty fines.Viviane Reding, the EU Justice Commissioner, said 70 per cent of European citizens were concerned about how their information was used online.Without a trace: Reding claims 70per cent of Europeans are concerned about how their information is used online. With proposed new laws, they will have a right to have this data erased.
A breach of the rules could mean fines of up to two per cent of a company's annual turnover, or $1 million (£840,000).The changes also require a company to tell its customers within 24 hours if their information has been hacked.This change came in the wake of Sony's six day delay in telling Playstation account holders of a hack attack which saw the personal information of millions of customers stolen.EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding is driving the right to be forgotten bill.EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding drives the 'right to be forgotten' billThe proposals under the EU Data Protection Regulation are expected to become law by the end of 2013 if they are approved by all 27 EU member states and the European Parliament.The data concerned will be everything an individual has given the companies themselves, including posts, uploaded songs and photos, Mina Andreeva, press officer for the Justice Commissioner, told MailOnline.If you haven’t given your consent, you have the right to object,she said.If the person doesn’t comply, you can appeal to your data protection officer.The legislation will not affect freedom of expression and the media, with Article 80 protecting the rights of journalists and bloggers.
The bill could spell serious trouble for companies like Facebook whose business models rely on this data
The bill could spell serious trouble for companies like Facebook whose business models rely on this data.Individual member states will need to make laws that ensure this, Andreeva said.But the move has rattled major technology and Internet-based companies, with executives concerned the legislation will be almost impossible to implement in full or will do serious damage to their business models.Access to a certain amount of personal information - and the digital trace that people leave after using the Internet for any length of time - is a critical element in the business model of companies from Amazon to Groupon.Lawyers also say the EU risks setting up a legislative landscape at sharp variance with that of the United States, where federal law puts less of the burden of responsibility on companies.Some warn that the proposed new rules in their current form will be too complicated and expensive to implement:Setting businesses an unachievable goal, whether they are European or the US technology giants that the Commission unfairly seems to be seeking to curb, is unhelpful in terms of compliance and frankly bad for consumers, said Mark Watts, data protection partner at technology law firm Bristows.On the other hand Google, one of the biggest companies that could be affected, offered a cautiously positive reaction:We support simplifying privacy rules in Europe to both protect consumers online and stimulate economic growth, said Al Verney, the company's spokesman in Brussels.It is possible to have simple rules that do both. We look forward to debating the proposals over the coming months.Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2092120/Don-t-like-online-You-ll-soon-able-delete-sweeping-new-EU-laws-data-privacy.html#ixzz1kac3SLOT
Google-phobics can just log off. They need to remember that every digital action has consequences By Dominique Jackson Last updated at 3:35 PM on 26th January 2012
I was sorely tempted to write this piece with my trusty fountain pen on an old piece of parchment and then jump onto my penny farthing to pedal the finished article up to Daily Mail towers and hand it over to the RightMinds team in person.Fortunately, thanks to the relentless pace of technological progress, I am able to gather my thoughts in the comfort of my own office and bash them out on a keyboard at my desk. Presently, I will push the publish button and, by the magic of the worldwide intra-webs, the finished blog post will appear on Mail Online.No matter how often I do this, it still feels to me like a minor miracle and I frequently give thanks for the computer and digital technology which has made all of our lives so much easier in so many, many ways.The latest outbreak of outrage is in response to Google¿s new unified privacy policy which comes into effect on 1st March.The latest outbreak of outrage is in response to Google¿s new unified privacy policy which comes into effect on 1st March
Am I worried that Google is about to link up every little bit of information it has gleaned about me from its various websites, so that it can bombard me with suggestions and adverts based on things I have already – willingly – tapped into their rather handy search engine, their hugely useful video clip site or my secondary email account? No, I am not worried. Not in the least.Anybody who is upset at the thought of an advert for cheap flights, for a new face cream or for a charming hotel in Tuscany popping up, as if unbidden, on their computer, has a very simple choice. They should simply foreswear the evil internet, just log off and while they are at it, why not go up to the attic where they might well have left their last dog-eared copy of the Yellow Pages.Privacy advocates have been grumbling for years about the sinister motives of the internet behemoths, of which the chief villain is, of course, Google. The latest outbreak of outrage is in response to Google’s new unified privacy policy which comes into effect on 1st March.The new policy will allow Google to combine information from any of its services to which you are signed in, treating you as a single user across all their products and thus vastly enhancing the quality of the information they hold about you.In a reversal of the company’s previous privacy policies, there is no opt-out on this new one. In short, if you are not happy with this collation of your data, you better not use Google any more. So far, so Big Brother. The end, as many critics have noted, of Google’s much vaunted Don’t be evil corporate motto.
But let’s get this clear. This move by Google cannot be compared to the genuine and huge-scale breach of privacy recently suffered by users of the O2 mobile phone network. In a suspected technical glitch, users of O2 and the associated Tesco and giffgaff networks found that their phone numbers were inadvertently sent to every website they had visited using their smart phones or mobile devices.Digital natives: Those born since 1980, who have no concept of a pre-internet world, have a very different sense of privacy than their elders.Digital natives: Those born since 1980, who have no concept of a pre-internet world, have a very different sense of privacy than their elders
The blunder has exposed O2 users to unwanted calls and spam messages. It highlights the vulnerability of so much of the technology we take for granted and shows us just how easily cyber security and data protection can be breached.We have a right to demand more vigilance from these companies but by the same token, perhaps we need to be a little more attentive ourselves? Have we been lulled into a false sense of security by the very ease and simplicity of all this technology? We have come to believe that the internet allows us to get something for nothing, all your information, music, entertainment and everything for free. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. We would do well to remember that every single time we go onto the internet, we are actually engaging in a transaction.
Just log off: if you dislike websites targeting adverts to you, you should simply avoid the net.Just log off: if you dislike websites targeting adverts to you, you should simply avoid the net.You receive your sought-for information in exchange for information you are in turn giving out – whether consciously or not. That includes your IP (internet protocol) address, your e-mail address, your preferred brand of toothpaste, your taste in music, food and holidays and even your taste in friends. Don’t want to publicise the latter? Better leave the computer/laptop/tablet/smartphone/mobile switched off.
You get to post your pictures on a forum such as Facebook or Flickr so all your friends around the world can see them with one click. In exchange for this facility, Facebook reserves the right to run little ads for things it reckons might well interest you in a little column down the right hand side. I never look at the ads myself. They seem to me to be a fair price to pay for the many ways in which I use Facebook. By the same token, by recklessly shopping on-line I seem to have let my supermarket into some of my best-kept secrets: the expensive loo paper; the cornucopia of dog treats; the sad predilection for cheap French burgundy; the occasional tub of premium ice cream.I suppose I could feel exposed? On the other hand, it certainly makes it much easier the next time I want to shop online and a list of my usual purchases pops up right away. It certainly saves all the bother of pushing round the trolley while squinting at a scribbled list – like I used to do.
Neither is any of this so-called spying particularly new. There has been a lively market in consumers’ personal details since the 20th century dawn of the advertising industry. Data protection laws may have been tightened of late but most advertisers can and will still sell your e-mail address and several other pertinent personal details for a song. You can pick up some databases for as little as a pound per thousand names.This move by Google cannot be compared to the genuine and huge-scale breach of privacy recently suffered by users of the O2 mobile phone network
This move by Google cannot be compared to the genuine and huge-scale breach of privacy recently suffered by users of the O2 mobile phone network.We are more than a decade into the 21st century and concepts of privacy and anonymity have altered dramatically in those ten years. For individuals of my generation and older, the frightening speed of the internet, its global reach and its sheer power can seem risky, threatening and perilous. It is no surprise that we feel vulnerable at the thought of – inadvertently - disclosing so many personal details.For the kids, digital natives born since 1980, who have no concept of a pre-internet world, it seems normal, natural and they have no reservations whatsoever about posting all manner of personal information on whatever forum. Good for them, I say, although I do tend to advise the jobseekers to take down the more risqué photos.Perhaps both cohorts would do well to remember that every digital action has a consequence and every digital action, from the simple process of logging onto a website to commenting on a newspaper article, is also a transaction. There is no such thing as a free lunch in our brave new connected world.Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2092126/Google-privacy-policy-changes-Every-digital-action-consequences.html#ixzz1kadQf043
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/
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India to pay gold instead of dollars for Iranian oil
Debka File January 25, 2012
India is the first buyer of Iranian oil to agree to pay for its purchases in gold instead of the US dollar, DEBKAfile’s intelligence and Iranian sources report exclusively. Those sources expect China to follow suit. India and China take about one million barrels per day, or 40 percent of Iran’s total exports of 2.5 million bpd. Both are superpowers in terms of gold assets.By trading in gold, New Delhi and Beijing enable Tehran to bypass the upcoming freeze on its central bank’s assets and the oil embargo which the European Union’s foreign ministers agreed to impose Monday, Jan. 23. The EU currently buys around 20 percent of Iran’s oil exports.
The vast sums involved in these transactions are expected, furthermore, to boost the price of gold and depress the value of the dollar on world markets.
Iran’s second largest customer after China, India purchases around $12 billion a year’s worth of Iranian crude, or about 12 percent of its consumption. Delhi is to execute its transactions, according to our sources, through two state-owned banks: the Calcutta-based UCO Bank, whose board of directors is made up of Indian government and Reserve Bank of India representatives; and Halk Bankasi (Peoples Bank), Turkey’s seventh largest bank which is owned by the government.
An Indian delegation visited Tehran last week to discuss payment options in view of the new sanctions. The two sides were reported to have agreed that payment for the oil purchased would be partly in yen and partly in rupees. The switch to gold was kept dark.India thus joins China in opting out of the US-led European sanctions against Iran’s international oil and financial business. Turkey announced publicly last week that it would not adhere to any sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program unless they were imposed by the United Nations Security Council.The EU decision of Monday banned the signing of new oil contracts with Iran at once, while phasing out existing transactions by July 1, 2012, when the European embargo, like the measure enforced by the United States, becomes total. The European foreign ministers also approved a freeze on the assets of the Central Bank of Iran which handles all the country’s oil transactions.However, the damage those sanctions cause the Iranian economy will be substantially cushioned by the oil deals to be channeled through Turkish and Indian state banks. China for its part has declared its opposition to sanctions against Iran.
DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources disclose that Tehran has set up alternative financial mechanisms with China and Russia for getting paid for its oil in currencies other than US dollars. Both Beijing and Moscow are keeping the workings of those mechanisms top secret.
Obama Signs Global Internet Treaty Worse Than SOPA-White House bypasses Senate to ink agreement that could allow Chinese companies to demand ISPs remove web content in US with no legal oversight Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Thursday, January 26, 2012
Months before the debate about Internet censorship raged as SOPA and PIPA dominated the concerns of web users, President Obama signed an international treaty that would allow companies in China or any other country in the world to demand ISPs remove web content in the US with no legal oversight whatsoever.The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was signed by Obama on October 1 2011, yet is currently the subject of a White House petition demanding Senators be forced to ratify the treaty. The White House has circumvented the necessity to have the treaty confirmed by lawmakers by presenting it an as executive agreement, although legal scholars have highlighted the dubious nature of this characterization.The hacktivist group Anonymous attacked and took offline the Federal Trade Commission’s website yesterday in protest against the treaty, which was also the subject of demonstrations across major cities in Poland, a country set to sign the agreement today.Under the provisions of ACTA, copyright holders will be granted sweeping direct powers to demand ISPs remove material from the Internet on a whim. Whereas ISPs normally are only forced to remove content after a court order, all legal oversight will be abolished, a precedent that will apply globally, rendering the treaty worse in its potential scope for abuse than SOPA or PIPA.
A country known for its enforcement of harsh Internet censorship policies like China could demand under the treaty that an ISP in the United States remove content or terminate a website on its server altogether. As we have seen from the enforcement of similar copyright policies in the US, websites are sometimes targeted for no justifiable reason.The groups pushing the treaty also want to empower copyright holders with the ability to demand that users who violate intellectual property rights (with no legal process) have their Internet connections terminated, a punishment that could only ever be properly enforced by the creation of an individual Internet ID card for every web user, a system that is already in the works.The same industry rightsholder groups that support the creation of ACTA have also called for mandatory network-level filtering by Internet Service Providers and for Internet Service Providers to terminate citizens’ Internet connection on repeat allegation of copyright infringement (the Three Strikes /Graduated Response) so there is reason to believe that ACTA will seek to increase intermediary liability and require these things of Internet Service Providers,reports the Electronic Frontier Foundation.The treaty will also mandate that ISPs disclose personal user information to the copyright holder, while providing authorities across the globe with broader powers to search laptops and Internet-capable devices at border checkpoints.In presenting ACTA as an international agreement rather than a treaty, the Obama administration managed to circumvent the legislative process and avoid having to get Senate approval, a method questioned by Senator Wyden.
That said, even if Obama has declared ACTA an executive agreement (while those in Europe insist that it’s a binding treaty), there is a very real Constitutional question here: can it actually be an executive agreement? asks TechDirt. The law is clear that the only things that can be covered by executive agreements are things that involve items that are solely under the President’s mandate. That is, you can’t sign an executive agreement that impacts the things Congress has control over. But here’s the thing: intellectual property, in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, is an issue given to Congress, not the President. Thus, there’s a pretty strong argument that the president legally cannot sign any intellectual property agreements as an executive agreement and, instead, must submit them to the Senate.26 European Union member states along with the EU itself are set to sign the treaty at a ceremony today in Tokyo. Other countries wishing to sign the agreement have until May 2013 to do so.Critics are urging those concerned about Obama’s decision to sign the document with no legislative oversight to demand the Senate be forced to ratify the treaty.
Google will soon know far more about who you are and what you do on the Web.The Web giant announced Tuesday that it plans to follow the activities of users across nearly all of its ubiquitous sites, including YouTube, Gmail and its leading search engine.Google has already been collecting some of this information. But for the first time, it is combining data across its Web sites to stitch together a fuller portrait of users.Consumers won’t be able to opt out of the changes, which take effect March 1. And experts say the policy shift will invite greater scrutiny from federal regulators of the company’s privacy and competitive practices.The move will help Google better tailor its ads to people’s tastes. If someone watches an NBA clip online and lives in Washington, the firm could advertise Washington Wizards tickets in that person’s Gmail account.Consumers could also benefit, the company said. When someone is searching for the word jaguar, Google would have a better idea of whether the person was interested in the animal or the car. Or the firm might suggest e-mailing contacts in New York when it learns you are planning a trip there.
But consumer advocates say the new policy might upset people who never expected their information would be shared across so many different Web sites.A user signing up for Gmail, for instance, might never have imagined that the content of his or her messages could affect the experience on seemingly unrelated Web sites such as YouTube.Google’s new privacy announcement is frustrating and a little frightening, said Common Sense Media chief executive James Steyer. Even if the company believes that tracking users across all platforms improves their services, consumers should still have the option to opt out — especially the kids and teens who are avid users of YouTube, Gmail and Google Search.Google can collect information about users when they activate an Android mobile phone, sign into their accounts online or enter search terms. It can also store cookies on people’s computers to see which Web sites they visit or use its popular maps program to estimate their location. However, users who have not logged on to Google or one of its other sites, such as YouTube, are not affected by the new policy.The change to its privacy policies come as Google is facing stiff competition for the fickle attention of Web surfers. It recently disappointed investors for the first time in several quarters, failing last week to meet earnings predictions. Apple, in contrast, reported record earnings Tuesday that blew past even the most optimistic expectations.Some analysts said Google’s move is aimed squarely at Apple and Facebook — which have been successful in building unified ecosystems of products that capture people’s attention. Google, in contrast, has adopted a more scattered approach, but an executive said in an interview that the company wants to create a much more seamless environment across its various offerings.If you’re signed in, we may combine information you’ve provided from one service with information from other services,Alma Whitten, Google’s director of privacy for product and engineering, wrote in a blog post.
In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience,she said.Google said it would notify its hundreds of millions of users of the change through an e-mail and a message on its Web sites. It will apply to all of its services except for Google Wallet, the Chrome browser and Google Books.The company said the change would simplify the company’s privacy policy — a move that regulators encouraged.Still, some consumer advocates and lawmakers remained skeptical.There is no way anyone expected this,said Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a privacy advocacy group.There is no way a user can comprehend the implication of Google collecting across platforms for information about your health, political opinions and financial concerns.Added Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass), co-chair of the Congressional Privacy Caucus: It is imperative that users will be able to decide whether they want their information shared across the spectrum of Google’s offerings.Google has increasingly been a focus of Washington regulators.The company recently settled a privacy complaint by the Federal Trade Commission after it allowed users of its now-defunct social-networking tool Google Buzz to see contacts lists from its e-mail program.
And a previous decision to use its social network data in search results has been included in a broad FTC investigation, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is private.
Federal officials are also looking at whether Google is running afoul of antitrust rules by using its dominance in online searches to favor its other business lines.
Claudia Farrell, a spokeswoman for the FTC, declined to comment on any interaction between Google and regulators on its new privacy changes.
http://www.infowars.com/3-d-facial-scans-being-sold-to-the-public-under-the-guise-that-it-could-help-children/
Don't like something about yourself online? You'll soon be able to delete it thanks to sweeping new EU privacy laws By Katie Silver Last updated at 5:26 PM on 26th January 2012
Soon millions of internet users will have the right to be forgotten and order companies to erase all the data it has on them, according to new legislation announced by the European Commission yesterday.The reforms will set strong limits on how companies such as Google and Facebook protect users' information, threatening those who breach the code with hefty fines.Viviane Reding, the EU Justice Commissioner, said 70 per cent of European citizens were concerned about how their information was used online.Without a trace: Reding claims 70per cent of Europeans are concerned about how their information is used online. With proposed new laws, they will have a right to have this data erased.
A breach of the rules could mean fines of up to two per cent of a company's annual turnover, or $1 million (£840,000).The changes also require a company to tell its customers within 24 hours if their information has been hacked.This change came in the wake of Sony's six day delay in telling Playstation account holders of a hack attack which saw the personal information of millions of customers stolen.EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding is driving the right to be forgotten bill.EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding drives the 'right to be forgotten' billThe proposals under the EU Data Protection Regulation are expected to become law by the end of 2013 if they are approved by all 27 EU member states and the European Parliament.The data concerned will be everything an individual has given the companies themselves, including posts, uploaded songs and photos, Mina Andreeva, press officer for the Justice Commissioner, told MailOnline.If you haven’t given your consent, you have the right to object,she said.If the person doesn’t comply, you can appeal to your data protection officer.The legislation will not affect freedom of expression and the media, with Article 80 protecting the rights of journalists and bloggers.
The bill could spell serious trouble for companies like Facebook whose business models rely on this data
The bill could spell serious trouble for companies like Facebook whose business models rely on this data.Individual member states will need to make laws that ensure this, Andreeva said.But the move has rattled major technology and Internet-based companies, with executives concerned the legislation will be almost impossible to implement in full or will do serious damage to their business models.Access to a certain amount of personal information - and the digital trace that people leave after using the Internet for any length of time - is a critical element in the business model of companies from Amazon to Groupon.Lawyers also say the EU risks setting up a legislative landscape at sharp variance with that of the United States, where federal law puts less of the burden of responsibility on companies.Some warn that the proposed new rules in their current form will be too complicated and expensive to implement:Setting businesses an unachievable goal, whether they are European or the US technology giants that the Commission unfairly seems to be seeking to curb, is unhelpful in terms of compliance and frankly bad for consumers, said Mark Watts, data protection partner at technology law firm Bristows.On the other hand Google, one of the biggest companies that could be affected, offered a cautiously positive reaction:We support simplifying privacy rules in Europe to both protect consumers online and stimulate economic growth, said Al Verney, the company's spokesman in Brussels.It is possible to have simple rules that do both. We look forward to debating the proposals over the coming months.Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2092120/Don-t-like-online-You-ll-soon-able-delete-sweeping-new-EU-laws-data-privacy.html#ixzz1kac3SLOT
Google-phobics can just log off. They need to remember that every digital action has consequences By Dominique Jackson Last updated at 3:35 PM on 26th January 2012
I was sorely tempted to write this piece with my trusty fountain pen on an old piece of parchment and then jump onto my penny farthing to pedal the finished article up to Daily Mail towers and hand it over to the RightMinds team in person.Fortunately, thanks to the relentless pace of technological progress, I am able to gather my thoughts in the comfort of my own office and bash them out on a keyboard at my desk. Presently, I will push the publish button and, by the magic of the worldwide intra-webs, the finished blog post will appear on Mail Online.No matter how often I do this, it still feels to me like a minor miracle and I frequently give thanks for the computer and digital technology which has made all of our lives so much easier in so many, many ways.The latest outbreak of outrage is in response to Google¿s new unified privacy policy which comes into effect on 1st March.The latest outbreak of outrage is in response to Google¿s new unified privacy policy which comes into effect on 1st March
Am I worried that Google is about to link up every little bit of information it has gleaned about me from its various websites, so that it can bombard me with suggestions and adverts based on things I have already – willingly – tapped into their rather handy search engine, their hugely useful video clip site or my secondary email account? No, I am not worried. Not in the least.Anybody who is upset at the thought of an advert for cheap flights, for a new face cream or for a charming hotel in Tuscany popping up, as if unbidden, on their computer, has a very simple choice. They should simply foreswear the evil internet, just log off and while they are at it, why not go up to the attic where they might well have left their last dog-eared copy of the Yellow Pages.Privacy advocates have been grumbling for years about the sinister motives of the internet behemoths, of which the chief villain is, of course, Google. The latest outbreak of outrage is in response to Google’s new unified privacy policy which comes into effect on 1st March.The new policy will allow Google to combine information from any of its services to which you are signed in, treating you as a single user across all their products and thus vastly enhancing the quality of the information they hold about you.In a reversal of the company’s previous privacy policies, there is no opt-out on this new one. In short, if you are not happy with this collation of your data, you better not use Google any more. So far, so Big Brother. The end, as many critics have noted, of Google’s much vaunted Don’t be evil corporate motto.
But let’s get this clear. This move by Google cannot be compared to the genuine and huge-scale breach of privacy recently suffered by users of the O2 mobile phone network. In a suspected technical glitch, users of O2 and the associated Tesco and giffgaff networks found that their phone numbers were inadvertently sent to every website they had visited using their smart phones or mobile devices.Digital natives: Those born since 1980, who have no concept of a pre-internet world, have a very different sense of privacy than their elders.Digital natives: Those born since 1980, who have no concept of a pre-internet world, have a very different sense of privacy than their elders
The blunder has exposed O2 users to unwanted calls and spam messages. It highlights the vulnerability of so much of the technology we take for granted and shows us just how easily cyber security and data protection can be breached.We have a right to demand more vigilance from these companies but by the same token, perhaps we need to be a little more attentive ourselves? Have we been lulled into a false sense of security by the very ease and simplicity of all this technology? We have come to believe that the internet allows us to get something for nothing, all your information, music, entertainment and everything for free. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. We would do well to remember that every single time we go onto the internet, we are actually engaging in a transaction.
Just log off: if you dislike websites targeting adverts to you, you should simply avoid the net.Just log off: if you dislike websites targeting adverts to you, you should simply avoid the net.You receive your sought-for information in exchange for information you are in turn giving out – whether consciously or not. That includes your IP (internet protocol) address, your e-mail address, your preferred brand of toothpaste, your taste in music, food and holidays and even your taste in friends. Don’t want to publicise the latter? Better leave the computer/laptop/tablet/smartphone/mobile switched off.
You get to post your pictures on a forum such as Facebook or Flickr so all your friends around the world can see them with one click. In exchange for this facility, Facebook reserves the right to run little ads for things it reckons might well interest you in a little column down the right hand side. I never look at the ads myself. They seem to me to be a fair price to pay for the many ways in which I use Facebook. By the same token, by recklessly shopping on-line I seem to have let my supermarket into some of my best-kept secrets: the expensive loo paper; the cornucopia of dog treats; the sad predilection for cheap French burgundy; the occasional tub of premium ice cream.I suppose I could feel exposed? On the other hand, it certainly makes it much easier the next time I want to shop online and a list of my usual purchases pops up right away. It certainly saves all the bother of pushing round the trolley while squinting at a scribbled list – like I used to do.
Neither is any of this so-called spying particularly new. There has been a lively market in consumers’ personal details since the 20th century dawn of the advertising industry. Data protection laws may have been tightened of late but most advertisers can and will still sell your e-mail address and several other pertinent personal details for a song. You can pick up some databases for as little as a pound per thousand names.This move by Google cannot be compared to the genuine and huge-scale breach of privacy recently suffered by users of the O2 mobile phone network
This move by Google cannot be compared to the genuine and huge-scale breach of privacy recently suffered by users of the O2 mobile phone network.We are more than a decade into the 21st century and concepts of privacy and anonymity have altered dramatically in those ten years. For individuals of my generation and older, the frightening speed of the internet, its global reach and its sheer power can seem risky, threatening and perilous. It is no surprise that we feel vulnerable at the thought of – inadvertently - disclosing so many personal details.For the kids, digital natives born since 1980, who have no concept of a pre-internet world, it seems normal, natural and they have no reservations whatsoever about posting all manner of personal information on whatever forum. Good for them, I say, although I do tend to advise the jobseekers to take down the more risqué photos.Perhaps both cohorts would do well to remember that every digital action has a consequence and every digital action, from the simple process of logging onto a website to commenting on a newspaper article, is also a transaction. There is no such thing as a free lunch in our brave new connected world.Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2092126/Google-privacy-policy-changes-Every-digital-action-consequences.html#ixzz1kadQf043
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 THU JANUARY 26,2012
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Dow +46 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
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GOLD opens at $1,727.40.OIL opens at $101.32 today.
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WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -34 points at low today.
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GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
NATURAL GAS-THU -109 BCF
India to pay gold instead of dollars for Iranian oil
Debka File January 25, 2012
India is the first buyer of Iranian oil to agree to pay for its purchases in gold instead of the US dollar, DEBKAfile’s intelligence and Iranian sources report exclusively. Those sources expect China to follow suit. India and China take about one million barrels per day, or 40 percent of Iran’s total exports of 2.5 million bpd. Both are superpowers in terms of gold assets.By trading in gold, New Delhi and Beijing enable Tehran to bypass the upcoming freeze on its central bank’s assets and the oil embargo which the European Union’s foreign ministers agreed to impose Monday, Jan. 23. The EU currently buys around 20 percent of Iran’s oil exports.
The vast sums involved in these transactions are expected, furthermore, to boost the price of gold and depress the value of the dollar on world markets.
Iran’s second largest customer after China, India purchases around $12 billion a year’s worth of Iranian crude, or about 12 percent of its consumption. Delhi is to execute its transactions, according to our sources, through two state-owned banks: the Calcutta-based UCO Bank, whose board of directors is made up of Indian government and Reserve Bank of India representatives; and Halk Bankasi (Peoples Bank), Turkey’s seventh largest bank which is owned by the government.
An Indian delegation visited Tehran last week to discuss payment options in view of the new sanctions. The two sides were reported to have agreed that payment for the oil purchased would be partly in yen and partly in rupees. The switch to gold was kept dark.India thus joins China in opting out of the US-led European sanctions against Iran’s international oil and financial business. Turkey announced publicly last week that it would not adhere to any sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program unless they were imposed by the United Nations Security Council.The EU decision of Monday banned the signing of new oil contracts with Iran at once, while phasing out existing transactions by July 1, 2012, when the European embargo, like the measure enforced by the United States, becomes total. The European foreign ministers also approved a freeze on the assets of the Central Bank of Iran which handles all the country’s oil transactions.However, the damage those sanctions cause the Iranian economy will be substantially cushioned by the oil deals to be channeled through Turkish and Indian state banks. China for its part has declared its opposition to sanctions against Iran.
DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources disclose that Tehran has set up alternative financial mechanisms with China and Russia for getting paid for its oil in currencies other than US dollars. Both Beijing and Moscow are keeping the workings of those mechanisms top secret.
Obama Signs Global Internet Treaty Worse Than SOPA-White House bypasses Senate to ink agreement that could allow Chinese companies to demand ISPs remove web content in US with no legal oversight Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Thursday, January 26, 2012
Months before the debate about Internet censorship raged as SOPA and PIPA dominated the concerns of web users, President Obama signed an international treaty that would allow companies in China or any other country in the world to demand ISPs remove web content in the US with no legal oversight whatsoever.The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was signed by Obama on October 1 2011, yet is currently the subject of a White House petition demanding Senators be forced to ratify the treaty. The White House has circumvented the necessity to have the treaty confirmed by lawmakers by presenting it an as executive agreement, although legal scholars have highlighted the dubious nature of this characterization.The hacktivist group Anonymous attacked and took offline the Federal Trade Commission’s website yesterday in protest against the treaty, which was also the subject of demonstrations across major cities in Poland, a country set to sign the agreement today.Under the provisions of ACTA, copyright holders will be granted sweeping direct powers to demand ISPs remove material from the Internet on a whim. Whereas ISPs normally are only forced to remove content after a court order, all legal oversight will be abolished, a precedent that will apply globally, rendering the treaty worse in its potential scope for abuse than SOPA or PIPA.
A country known for its enforcement of harsh Internet censorship policies like China could demand under the treaty that an ISP in the United States remove content or terminate a website on its server altogether. As we have seen from the enforcement of similar copyright policies in the US, websites are sometimes targeted for no justifiable reason.The groups pushing the treaty also want to empower copyright holders with the ability to demand that users who violate intellectual property rights (with no legal process) have their Internet connections terminated, a punishment that could only ever be properly enforced by the creation of an individual Internet ID card for every web user, a system that is already in the works.The same industry rightsholder groups that support the creation of ACTA have also called for mandatory network-level filtering by Internet Service Providers and for Internet Service Providers to terminate citizens’ Internet connection on repeat allegation of copyright infringement (the Three Strikes /Graduated Response) so there is reason to believe that ACTA will seek to increase intermediary liability and require these things of Internet Service Providers,reports the Electronic Frontier Foundation.The treaty will also mandate that ISPs disclose personal user information to the copyright holder, while providing authorities across the globe with broader powers to search laptops and Internet-capable devices at border checkpoints.In presenting ACTA as an international agreement rather than a treaty, the Obama administration managed to circumvent the legislative process and avoid having to get Senate approval, a method questioned by Senator Wyden.
That said, even if Obama has declared ACTA an executive agreement (while those in Europe insist that it’s a binding treaty), there is a very real Constitutional question here: can it actually be an executive agreement? asks TechDirt. The law is clear that the only things that can be covered by executive agreements are things that involve items that are solely under the President’s mandate. That is, you can’t sign an executive agreement that impacts the things Congress has control over. But here’s the thing: intellectual property, in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, is an issue given to Congress, not the President. Thus, there’s a pretty strong argument that the president legally cannot sign any intellectual property agreements as an executive agreement and, instead, must submit them to the Senate.26 European Union member states along with the EU itself are set to sign the treaty at a ceremony today in Tokyo. Other countries wishing to sign the agreement have until May 2013 to do so.Critics are urging those concerned about Obama’s decision to sign the document with no legislative oversight to demand the Senate be forced to ratify the treaty.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
MUFTI OPENLY SAYS KILL JEWS
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)
THIS IS HOW YOUR LOVING PEACE PARTNER TALKS ABOUT YOU.KILL JEWS IN THE NAME OF ISLAM.
PMW report shows that Mufti did apply call to kill Jews to current conflict by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik Jan. 23, 2012
The PA Mufti Muhammad Hussein repeatedly denied yesterday that he intended to teach Palestinians that their destiny is to kill Jews when he spoke at a Fatah celebration that was broadcast on PA TV earlier this month. His denial follows Palestinian Media Watch's exposure of the PA Mufti's speech in which he cited the Islamic tradition attributed to Muhammad, saying:The Hour [of Resurrection] will not come until you fight the Jews. The Jew will hide behind stones or trees. Then the stones or trees will call: Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.
However, the Mufti explained to AP, Reuters and Israeli radio and TV that he simply quoted Islamic tradition and therefore he is not responsible for its content. When interviewed on Israeli radio Reshet Bet, the PA Mufti claimed:We are not calling to kill Jews and we did not call to kill Jews, we never said kill Jews.The Hadith says [it]. I am not responsible for the Hadith. The Hadith is in the book. The Hadith is a noble Hadith, it is not my Hadith.[Reshet Bet (Israeli radio), Jan. 22, 2012]
The PA Minister of Religious Affairs, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, also defended the Mufti, saying on the same radio program:This is not incitement to kill Jews. We cannot change the historical religious writings and we don't want to change them. However, we are talking now about the reality. The reality is that we want to achieve a just peace.PMW rejects PA Mufti's and Minister of Religion's claims:The statements of the two highest religious authorities in the Palestinian Authority are misrepresentations of what the Mufti said. In fact, the words he chose to provide a context for the Hadith show that he quoted this Hadith that anticipates Muslims killing Jews, to make it relevant for the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
The Mufti introduced the Hadith by referring to the 47 years of Fatah's and the Palestinian revolution, thus placing the Hadith in today's context. He then added that this is a reliable Hadith from the reliable collections and part of accepted Islamic law and belief. After citing the Hadith, the Mufti claimed that Israelis are planting the Gharqad tree surrounding the [Israeli] settlements and colonies,thus suggesting that Israel is preparing for when the Muslims fulfill this Hadith and come to kill them. According to the Islamic tradition the Gharqad tree will be the only tree that will not call out to Muslims to kill the Jews hiding behind them. By saying Israelis are already planting Gharqad trees around their cities, the Mufti was explicitly relating the Hadith about the killing of Jews to the current time. He was not merely citing historical religious writings,as claimed.AP, Reuters, and Israeli radio and TV all cited the Mufti's quote and his denial that he did not present the Hadith as relevant today. However, none of the media quoted the context in which the Mufti cited the Hadith, which shows his denial to be a misrepresentation and that he did relate it to today's conflict.In addition, the Mufti claimed to MENA [Middle East News Agency] that possibly some sentences or phrases were cut from his speech, which were interpreted incorrectly.PMW affirms that we have the entire 5-minute speech as was broadcast on PA TV and that this is the authentic context.
Israeli PM responds
Israeli PM Netanyahu responded to the PMW report on the Mufti saying: These are grave words that the world needs to condemn, and asked the Attorney General to start a criminal investigation to determine if this violated Israel's incitement laws, the Jerusalem Post reported. [Jan. 22, 2012]The following is the Mufti's words at the Fatah event that show the context in which he cited the Hadith, followed by excerpts from AP and Reuters' reports:
Moderator at Fatah ceremony:
Our war with the descendants of the apes and pigs (i.e., Jews) is a war of religion and faith. Long Live Fatah! [I invite you,] our honorable Sheikh.PA Mufti Muhammad Hussein comes to the podium and says:47 years ago the [Fatah] revolution started. Which revolution? The modern revolution of the Palestinian people's history. In fact, Palestine in its entirety is a revolution, since [Caliph] Umar came [to conquer Jerusalem, 637 CE], and continuing today, and until the End of Days. The reliable Hadith (tradition attributed to Muhammad), [found] in the two reliable collections, Bukhari and Muslim, says:The Hour [of Resurrection] will not come until you fight the Jews.The Jew will hide behind stones or trees.Then the stones or trees will call:Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.
Except the Gharqad tree [which will keep silent].Therefore it is no wonder that you see Gharqad [trees] surrounding the [Israeli] settlements and colonies. This is Palestine, when we talk about it, from the beginning of the Jihad, with the continuation of the Jihad, with the struggle, and with the way of the Martyrs.[PA TV (Fatah), Jan. 9, 2012]
Israeli leader condemns Palestinian Muslim cleric
by Diaa Hadid Published: Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 11:01 a.m.
The Palestinians' top Muslim cleric faced sharp Israeli criticism Sunday for a speech in which he quoted a religious text that includes passages about killing Jews in an end-of-days struggle.Mufti Mohammed Hussein's comments came at a political gathering of supporters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He said his remarks were taken out of context and that he didn't incite people to kill Jews. But by speaking at the venue, Hussein appeared to be linking the battle to the conflict with Israel.The hour of resurrection will not come until you fight the Jews, Hussein told the gathering, citing a hadith, or saying attributed to the Prophet Muhammad. The Jews will hide behind stones and trees. But the trees and the stones will call: oh Muslim, oh servant of God, there is a Jew hiding behind me so come and kill him.
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The mufti delivered his three-minute speech on Jan. 7 in an Arab neighborhood of east Jerusalem during celebrations of the 47th anniversary of the Palestinian movement Fatah, said Itamar Marcus of Palestine Media Watch, an Israeli watchdog group that tracks incitement.Marcus' group posted excerpts of the speech on YouTube last week. The comments drew angry reactions from Israelis on Sunday.We're talking about a heinous offense that all nations of the world must condemn, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement sent to reporters by text message. He asked the Israeli attorney general to launch an investigation.It is unclear what authority Israel would have since Hussein is appointed to his position by the Palestinian president. There was no immediate comment from Abbas' office.Hussein, who is based in Jerusalem, said his comments were taken out of context.I was speaking about the final signs of the day of resurrection,Hussein said.I did not incite, and I did not call for killing. We are not, at present, at the end of days.The Quran, Islam's holy book, offers contradictory attitudes toward Jews and Christians. There are texts that enshrine tolerance and respect for other faiths, while others are spiked with hatred and incitement. ...
Israel condemns Palestinian cleric over sermon
by Dan Williams JERUSALEM | Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:30pm EST
(Reuters) - Israel condemned the Palestinians' top cleric on Sunday for reciting, at a meeting of the dominant U.S.-backed Fatah faction, a passage from Muslim scripture that called for the killing of Jews.Preaching on January 9 at a rally marking the 47th anniversary of Fatah's founding, Mufti of Jerusalem Mohammed Hussein read out a Hadith, or traditional text attributed to the Prophet Mohammad.The hour of judgment will not come until you fight the Jews, he said.The Jew will hide behind the stone and behind the tree. The stone and the tree will cry, Oh Muslim, Oh Servant of God, this is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.
The Palestinian Authority denied the sermon constituted a call to arms.It remained unclear if comments from such a senior cleric would derail efforts to resume exploratory peace talks with Israel, which began this month after more than a year of deadlock over the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has argued peacemaking has been blighted by incitement against the Jewish state from some Palestinian officials, said of the mufti's sermon: This is a very serious offence that all the countries of the world must condemn.He said he had asked Israel's attorney-general to open a criminal investigation. The Justice Ministry had no immediate comment.Interviewed by Reuters Television, Hussein described the Hadith as an end-of-times prophesy, not a political precept.There is nothing in my speech that calls for killing, he said.I was speaking about my people, its steadfastness and its existence in this land until the hour (of resurrection).Video of the rally circulated by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), an Israeli watchdog group, showed a man introducing the mufti by saying:Our war with the descendants of the apes and pigs is a war of religion and faith. Long live Fatah! The Koran retells the Exodus story of some Jews rebelling against Moses after their deliverance from bondage, and says God punished them by turning them into pigs and apes.Palestinian religious affairs minister Mahmoud al-Habash confirmed the details of the rally as they appeared in the PMW video but said: Our political position remains unchanged. We believe in peace. He (Hussein) was simply quoting a Hadith that talks about destiny, about what could happen in the future.
Israel captured East Jerusalem, including two major mosques that are under the mufti's authority, in the 1967 Middle East war. Israel deems the entire city its capital, a status not recognized abroad, where there is widespread support for the Palestinians' demand to found a state with a capital in East Jerusalem.On Netanyahu's orders, Israeli police last year detained for questioning two West Bank settler rabbis on suspicion they had encouraged the killing of Arabs. A Justice Ministry spokesman said a decision on prosecuting them was still pending.(Writing by Dan Williams; Additional reporting by Jihan Abdalla, Roleen Tafakji and Nidal al-Mughrabi; Editing by Douglas Hamilton and Janet Lawrence)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDoV8ZL9Xkc&feature=player_embedded
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)
THIS IS HOW YOUR LOVING PEACE PARTNER TALKS ABOUT YOU.KILL JEWS IN THE NAME OF ISLAM.
PMW report shows that Mufti did apply call to kill Jews to current conflict by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik Jan. 23, 2012
The PA Mufti Muhammad Hussein repeatedly denied yesterday that he intended to teach Palestinians that their destiny is to kill Jews when he spoke at a Fatah celebration that was broadcast on PA TV earlier this month. His denial follows Palestinian Media Watch's exposure of the PA Mufti's speech in which he cited the Islamic tradition attributed to Muhammad, saying:The Hour [of Resurrection] will not come until you fight the Jews. The Jew will hide behind stones or trees. Then the stones or trees will call: Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.
However, the Mufti explained to AP, Reuters and Israeli radio and TV that he simply quoted Islamic tradition and therefore he is not responsible for its content. When interviewed on Israeli radio Reshet Bet, the PA Mufti claimed:We are not calling to kill Jews and we did not call to kill Jews, we never said kill Jews.The Hadith says [it]. I am not responsible for the Hadith. The Hadith is in the book. The Hadith is a noble Hadith, it is not my Hadith.[Reshet Bet (Israeli radio), Jan. 22, 2012]
The PA Minister of Religious Affairs, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, also defended the Mufti, saying on the same radio program:This is not incitement to kill Jews. We cannot change the historical religious writings and we don't want to change them. However, we are talking now about the reality. The reality is that we want to achieve a just peace.PMW rejects PA Mufti's and Minister of Religion's claims:The statements of the two highest religious authorities in the Palestinian Authority are misrepresentations of what the Mufti said. In fact, the words he chose to provide a context for the Hadith show that he quoted this Hadith that anticipates Muslims killing Jews, to make it relevant for the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
The Mufti introduced the Hadith by referring to the 47 years of Fatah's and the Palestinian revolution, thus placing the Hadith in today's context. He then added that this is a reliable Hadith from the reliable collections and part of accepted Islamic law and belief. After citing the Hadith, the Mufti claimed that Israelis are planting the Gharqad tree surrounding the [Israeli] settlements and colonies,thus suggesting that Israel is preparing for when the Muslims fulfill this Hadith and come to kill them. According to the Islamic tradition the Gharqad tree will be the only tree that will not call out to Muslims to kill the Jews hiding behind them. By saying Israelis are already planting Gharqad trees around their cities, the Mufti was explicitly relating the Hadith about the killing of Jews to the current time. He was not merely citing historical religious writings,as claimed.AP, Reuters, and Israeli radio and TV all cited the Mufti's quote and his denial that he did not present the Hadith as relevant today. However, none of the media quoted the context in which the Mufti cited the Hadith, which shows his denial to be a misrepresentation and that he did relate it to today's conflict.In addition, the Mufti claimed to MENA [Middle East News Agency] that possibly some sentences or phrases were cut from his speech, which were interpreted incorrectly.PMW affirms that we have the entire 5-minute speech as was broadcast on PA TV and that this is the authentic context.
Israeli PM responds
Israeli PM Netanyahu responded to the PMW report on the Mufti saying: These are grave words that the world needs to condemn, and asked the Attorney General to start a criminal investigation to determine if this violated Israel's incitement laws, the Jerusalem Post reported. [Jan. 22, 2012]The following is the Mufti's words at the Fatah event that show the context in which he cited the Hadith, followed by excerpts from AP and Reuters' reports:
Moderator at Fatah ceremony:
Our war with the descendants of the apes and pigs (i.e., Jews) is a war of religion and faith. Long Live Fatah! [I invite you,] our honorable Sheikh.PA Mufti Muhammad Hussein comes to the podium and says:47 years ago the [Fatah] revolution started. Which revolution? The modern revolution of the Palestinian people's history. In fact, Palestine in its entirety is a revolution, since [Caliph] Umar came [to conquer Jerusalem, 637 CE], and continuing today, and until the End of Days. The reliable Hadith (tradition attributed to Muhammad), [found] in the two reliable collections, Bukhari and Muslim, says:The Hour [of Resurrection] will not come until you fight the Jews.The Jew will hide behind stones or trees.Then the stones or trees will call:Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.
Except the Gharqad tree [which will keep silent].Therefore it is no wonder that you see Gharqad [trees] surrounding the [Israeli] settlements and colonies. This is Palestine, when we talk about it, from the beginning of the Jihad, with the continuation of the Jihad, with the struggle, and with the way of the Martyrs.[PA TV (Fatah), Jan. 9, 2012]
Israeli leader condemns Palestinian Muslim cleric
by Diaa Hadid Published: Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 11:01 a.m.
The Palestinians' top Muslim cleric faced sharp Israeli criticism Sunday for a speech in which he quoted a religious text that includes passages about killing Jews in an end-of-days struggle.Mufti Mohammed Hussein's comments came at a political gathering of supporters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He said his remarks were taken out of context and that he didn't incite people to kill Jews. But by speaking at the venue, Hussein appeared to be linking the battle to the conflict with Israel.The hour of resurrection will not come until you fight the Jews, Hussein told the gathering, citing a hadith, or saying attributed to the Prophet Muhammad. The Jews will hide behind stones and trees. But the trees and the stones will call: oh Muslim, oh servant of God, there is a Jew hiding behind me so come and kill him.
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The mufti delivered his three-minute speech on Jan. 7 in an Arab neighborhood of east Jerusalem during celebrations of the 47th anniversary of the Palestinian movement Fatah, said Itamar Marcus of Palestine Media Watch, an Israeli watchdog group that tracks incitement.Marcus' group posted excerpts of the speech on YouTube last week. The comments drew angry reactions from Israelis on Sunday.We're talking about a heinous offense that all nations of the world must condemn, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement sent to reporters by text message. He asked the Israeli attorney general to launch an investigation.It is unclear what authority Israel would have since Hussein is appointed to his position by the Palestinian president. There was no immediate comment from Abbas' office.Hussein, who is based in Jerusalem, said his comments were taken out of context.I was speaking about the final signs of the day of resurrection,Hussein said.I did not incite, and I did not call for killing. We are not, at present, at the end of days.The Quran, Islam's holy book, offers contradictory attitudes toward Jews and Christians. There are texts that enshrine tolerance and respect for other faiths, while others are spiked with hatred and incitement. ...
Israel condemns Palestinian cleric over sermon
by Dan Williams JERUSALEM | Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:30pm EST
(Reuters) - Israel condemned the Palestinians' top cleric on Sunday for reciting, at a meeting of the dominant U.S.-backed Fatah faction, a passage from Muslim scripture that called for the killing of Jews.Preaching on January 9 at a rally marking the 47th anniversary of Fatah's founding, Mufti of Jerusalem Mohammed Hussein read out a Hadith, or traditional text attributed to the Prophet Mohammad.The hour of judgment will not come until you fight the Jews, he said.The Jew will hide behind the stone and behind the tree. The stone and the tree will cry, Oh Muslim, Oh Servant of God, this is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.
The Palestinian Authority denied the sermon constituted a call to arms.It remained unclear if comments from such a senior cleric would derail efforts to resume exploratory peace talks with Israel, which began this month after more than a year of deadlock over the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has argued peacemaking has been blighted by incitement against the Jewish state from some Palestinian officials, said of the mufti's sermon: This is a very serious offence that all the countries of the world must condemn.He said he had asked Israel's attorney-general to open a criminal investigation. The Justice Ministry had no immediate comment.Interviewed by Reuters Television, Hussein described the Hadith as an end-of-times prophesy, not a political precept.There is nothing in my speech that calls for killing, he said.I was speaking about my people, its steadfastness and its existence in this land until the hour (of resurrection).Video of the rally circulated by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), an Israeli watchdog group, showed a man introducing the mufti by saying:Our war with the descendants of the apes and pigs is a war of religion and faith. Long live Fatah! The Koran retells the Exodus story of some Jews rebelling against Moses after their deliverance from bondage, and says God punished them by turning them into pigs and apes.Palestinian religious affairs minister Mahmoud al-Habash confirmed the details of the rally as they appeared in the PMW video but said: Our political position remains unchanged. We believe in peace. He (Hussein) was simply quoting a Hadith that talks about destiny, about what could happen in the future.
Israel captured East Jerusalem, including two major mosques that are under the mufti's authority, in the 1967 Middle East war. Israel deems the entire city its capital, a status not recognized abroad, where there is widespread support for the Palestinians' demand to found a state with a capital in East Jerusalem.On Netanyahu's orders, Israeli police last year detained for questioning two West Bank settler rabbis on suspicion they had encouraged the killing of Arabs. A Justice Ministry spokesman said a decision on prosecuting them was still pending.(Writing by Dan Williams; Additional reporting by Jihan Abdalla, Roleen Tafakji and Nidal al-Mughrabi; Editing by Douglas Hamilton and Janet Lawrence)
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