Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Real War With Gog Magog: Computers And Money
http://soulmazal.blogspot.com/2012/01/real-war-with-gog-magog-computers-and.html
The Cyber War is in full gear, with hackers threatening cyber war and damage into the billions of Israeli infrastructure. Israel promptly threatens the same.And to the financial end, perhaps Obama's little covert sanction war is starting to work?
Click Here For Cyber War Details!
Ynet News:
The spring of 2012 will be critical for the Middle East. All the regional players are preparing for it at this time already, ahead of April. Everyone – not only in Jerusalem and in Washington – smells the gunpowder in the air.Behind the tense, escalating statements issued by senior American defense officials lies a menacing reality emerging in Iran. It is for good reason that the US Navy commander admitted last week that he doesn’t sleep well at night as result of developments in the Hormuz Straits. And when the admiral doesn’t sleep well, while the US secretary of defense sets red lines for the Iranians, we can assume that here too our soldiers sleep with their uniforms and shoes on.Everybody talks about the spring, because everyone is convinced that Israel will be striking Iran at that time, a move that will ignite the Middle East. The scenario is rather banal and emerges in every defense panel in the global media: This year, the Iranians will complete the task of moving their nuclear project deep underground, and from that moment an aerial strike would be much less effective. Hence, a strike appears to be required as soon as is possible.
However, there is another possibility that is much more realistic, much closer to materializing, and unrelated to an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites. This scenario asserts that the ones to first pull the trigger will be the Iranians, against the backdrop of Tehran’s economic chokehold and growing global isolation. Iran is starting to be pushed into a corner in the face of existing pressure, and more so as result of pressures to be exerted very soon.Tehran’s economic collapse is already around the corner. The regime sees the thousands standing in line at banks these days in order to exchange the local currency for dollars – but there are none. On the black market, the gap already stands at 60%. Nobody can predict the breaking point that would prompt Ahmadinejad to act desperately; the point where the ayatollahs feel threatened enough to resort to a military provocation that would bully the world and exact such high price as to prompt the international community to lift the chokehold.
Israel a junior partner
The naval exercise held recently in the Persian Gulf dealt with, among other things, the closure of the Hormuz Straits. The Iranian Navy commander publically declared that the drill examined the Navy’s deployment in a way that would not allow for unsupervised maritime traffic. The exercise also pertained to the offensive aspects of contending with foreign fleets that sail in the Gulf and may prevent Iran from imposing the blockade.In other words, the Iranians made clear that one of these days they intend to clash not only with Persian Gulf fleets, but also with the Americans, French and Brits who secure the free flow of oil and in fact stabilize its price. The Iranians threaten to break this formula: Curb the flow of oil and drive prices up to an intolerable level, which would require the world to open the door to Iranian oil and lift the pressure on Tehran.Suddenly, the scenarios have changed. The explosion will occur not because of an Israeli strike, but rather, as result of panic among Iran’s top brass in the face of the sanctions. The Middle East will see a war over oil, money and goods – not because of a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.The Russians grasped this a while ago. Their UN envoy recently said that the greatest threat to global stability is the crisis in the Hormuz Straits. This is one of the reasons the Russians are not excited by the prospect of tighter sanctions.
The first to smell the vapors of war are the Emirates along the Persian Gulf. They will also be the first to be hit. Hence, the oil barons there are in a mad rush to complete the installation of an oil pipeline to Oman’s ports, thereby circumventing the Hormuz Straits. The pipeline and oil terminal project began in 2008 and is slated to end in May of this year, but officials in the Emirates fear it would be too late by then.We can assume that the meeting of NATO army chiefs to be held this week with a guest in attendance – IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz – will focus on the developing crisis in the Hormuz Straits. Under this scenario, Israel is a junior partner, which is mostly required to stay out.
Will the regional Gog flare result in a beis Hamikdash in 5772?
The 2012 Astrological event Venus Transit happens on June 6th. The Zohar seems to describe this as a star hanging for 60 days; we thought it was Elenin, but maybe Elenin was prep for the Venus Star. As such, 60 days before June 6th, arrives at the first day of the Omer this year - the day that the Beis Hamikdash comes from Shamayim davka, as described in the Talmud Sukkah.B''H!
Thursday, January 19, 2012
STOCK RESULTS JAN 19,12
Google Is Already Using SOPA-Like Censorship-Web giant blacklists websites, follows government orders to remove material Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Thursday, January 19, 2012
http://www.infowars.com/google-is-already-using-sopa-like-censorship/
Despite Google’s much-heralded support for the anti-SOPA movement, the web giant is already enforcing SOPA-like policies of its own, blacklisting legitimate websites from its news aggregator and following government orders to remove material from its search results and You Tube.As major Internet giants joined forces yesterday to protest legislation that would hand the U.S. government power to arbitrarily seize websites with no legal process under the pretext of copyright infringement, Google slapped a black censorship image over its logo and urged people to sign an anti-SOPA petition that has accrued over 5 million signees.However, Google’s main issue with SOPA is seemingly not related to their concerns about Chinese-style web censorship becoming commonplace, but rather which entity gets to wield those powers – large transnational corporations or governments.While Google criticizes SOPA publicly, it is already privately using SOPA-like powers to unfairly marginalize legitimate web content.Google News is a content aggregator that allows users to search thousands of news sources for relevant stories. Although the aggregator includes a plethora of obscure, occasionally offensive, and barely-read websites, in November 2010 Google took the decision to de-list PrisonPlanet.com and Infowars.com from its indexed news sources.Infowars.com alone is an internationally recognized news website that gets more traffic than MSNBC.com and innumerable other big mainstream news websites. Our articles are routinely featured on the Drudge Report, which itself is renowned as the primary agenda-setting news website in the United States, driving more traffic to individual stories than the likes of Facebook and Twitter combined.
Infowars owner Alex Jones is a nationally syndicated radio host whose broadcast appears on an ever-expanding list of big mainstream radio stations. Jones has been afforded feature profiles by the likes of Rolling Stone Magazine, who acknowledged his role as a pioneer in the media world.Infowars.com is clearly a legitimate and important news website that features original content which routinely makes an impact and occasionally goes viral. And yet Google de-listed the website from its news aggregator on a whim with no explanation provided. Since Google and its owner Eric Schmidt are prominent financial contributors to the Obama campaign, we can only assume we were blacklisted for political reasons.Whether you concur with our political stance or are rapidly against it, what can’t be argued is that we are a legitimate news outfit – but Google has arbitrarily banned us from appearing on their news search results.This is a clear example of how Google is already enforcing SOPA-like rules of its own choosing, without the need for any law to be passed by any legislative body.In addition, while concerns rage about the state obtaining the power to shut down websites and remove web content with no recourse, Google is already following orders from the federal government in the majority of cases in removing videos from its You Tube platform, including takedowns on the grounds that the videos contain government criticism.Google-owned You Tube has complied with thousands of requests worldwide to remove political protest videos that are clearly not in violation of any copyright or national security interests and do not constitute defamation.The number of takedown orders received by Google from authorities based in the United States rose dramatically over the past year, with demands to remove information increasing by 70 per cent. Google complied in removing the material in 63% of the cases.One such example was You Tube’s compliance with a request from the British government to censor footage of the British Constitution Group’s Lawful Rebellion protest, during which they attempted to civilly arrest Judge Michael Peake at Birkenhead county court.Google has also targeted our own You Tube channel for termination on numerous occasions merely for posting legitimate news content, such as the Wikileaks Apache helicopter footage, which appears on hundreds of other You Tube channels.
Crucially, Google has for years censored its own search results subject to the mandates of different governments across the world. SOPA and PIPA are merely an effort to codify into US law what is already taking place in more authoritarian countries, with the willing participation of Google itself.Many other web giants are also moving to censor the Internet, including VeriSign, who recently demanded the power to terminate websites deemed abusive with no legal oversight whatsoever.
Public wi-fi systems stationed in airports, train stations, libraries, schools, and workplaces also routinely censor political websites.Who needs government to censor the Internet when large corporations are already doing it? Amidst all the anti-SOPA rage, we should not be so naive as to give the likes of Google a pass when considering the totality of threats posed to free speech on the world wide web.We encourage people to at least be aware of alternatives to Google, search websites that will not enact SOPA-like censorship policies, such as StartPage.com. Watch a video below from November 2010 in which Alex Jones explains how Google is censoring the web – without the need for SOPA.
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
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU JANUARY 19,2012
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +19.07
10:30 AM +12.18
11:00 AM +23.27
11:30 AM +29.25
12:00 PM +33.34
12:30 PM +21.61
01:00 PM +19.15
01:30 PM +33.68
02:00 PM +23.16
02:30 PM +33.34
03:00 PM +18.09
03:30 PM +38.33
04:00 PM +45.03 12,623.98
S&P 500 1314.50 +6.46
NASDAQ 2788.33 +18.62
GOLD 1,655.80 -4.10
OIL 100.33 -0.26
TSE 300 12,380.69 +53.17
CDNX 1554.20 +4.15
S&P/TSX/60 707.30 +3.58
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +38 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -4 points at low today.
Dow +38 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,655.20.OIL opens at $101.45 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -4 points at low today so far.
Dow +38 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -4 points at low today.
Dow +38 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
CRUDE OIL -3.4 million barrels
GASOLINE +3.7 million barrels
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES +400,000 BARRELS
NATURAL GAS-THU -87 BCF
Breaking news: cancer drugs make tumors more aggressive and deadly S. L. Baker Infowars.com January 19, 2012
When natural health advocates warn against mainstream medicine’s arsenal of weapons used to fight cancer, including chemotherapy and radiation, their concerns often revolve around how these therapies can weaken and damage a person’s body in numerous ways. But scientists are finding other reasons to question some of these therapies. It turns out that while chemotherapies may kill or shrink tumors in the short term, they may actually be causing malignancies to grow more deadly in the long term.
For example, Natural News previously reported:
(http://www.naturalnews.com/029042_cancer_cells_chemotherapy.html) that scientists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center and UAB Department of Chemistry are currently investigating the very real possibility that dead cancer cells left over after chemotherapy spark cancer to spread to other parts of the body (metastasis). And now comes news that a little-explored specific cell type, the pericyte, found in what is called themicroenvironmentof a cancerous tumor actually may halt cancer progression and metastasis. And by destroying these cells, some anti-cancer therapies may inadvertently be making cancer more aggressive as well as likely to spread and kill.A study just published in the January 17 issue of the journalCancer Cellconcludes that anti-angiogenic therapies (which shrink cancer by cutting off tumors’ blood supply) may be killing the body’s natural defense against cancer by destroying pericyte cells that likely serve as important gatekeepers against cancer progression and metastasis. Pericytes cover blood vessels and support their growth.For the new research, Raghu Kalluri, MD, PhD, Chief of the Division of Matrix Biology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), investigated whether targeting pericytes could inhibit tumor growth in the same way that other antiangiogenic cancer drugs do.
Dr. Kalluri and his research team worked with mice genetically engineered to support drug-induced depletion of pericytes in growing tumors. Next, they removed pericytes in implanted mouse breast cancer tumors, decreasing pericyte numbers by 60 percent.
Compared with control animals, there was a 30 percent decrease in the size of cancerous tumors over 25 days. But there was a serious catch to these results. Contrary to conventional mainsteam medical wisdom, the scientists discovered the number of secondary lung tumors in the engineered mice had increased threefold compared to the control mice, indicating that the tumors had metastasized.
How cancer drugs can spread cancer cells
If you just looked at tumor growth, the results were good,Dr. Kalluri said in a press statement. But when you looked at the whole picture, inhibiting tumor vessels was not controlling cancer progression. The cancer was, in fact, spreading. This suggested to us that without supportive pericytes, the vasculature inside the tumor was becoming weak and leaky — even more so than it already is inside most tumors– and this was reducing the flow of oxygen to the tumor.That change, he explains, makes cancer cells more mobile, so they can travel through those leaky vessels to new locations. It also makes cancer cells behave more like stem cells, so they are better able to survive.Because cancer therapies such as Imatinib, Sunitinib and others are known to decrease pericytes in tumors, the scientists next carried out the same experiments in mice with primary tumors. Only this time, they used the chemotherapy drugs Imatinib and Sunitinib instead of genetic programs to decrease pericyte numbers. Both Imatinib and Sunitinib caused 70 percent pericyte depletion — and they also increased metastasis threefold.In order to see if their findings are relevant to human patients, the research team examined 130 breast cancer tumor samples of varying cancer stages and tumor sizes and compared pericyte levels with prognoses. The result? The samples with low numbers of pericytes in tumor vasculature correlated with the most deeply invasive cancers, distant metastasis and five to ten year survival rates less than 20 percent.These results are quite provocative and will influence clinical programs designed to target tumor angiogenesis,Ronald A. DePinho, president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, said in a press statement. These impressive studies will inform and refine potential therapeutic approaches for many cancers.For more information:
http://www.bidmc.org/
http://www.infowars.com/google-is-already-using-sopa-like-censorship/
Despite Google’s much-heralded support for the anti-SOPA movement, the web giant is already enforcing SOPA-like policies of its own, blacklisting legitimate websites from its news aggregator and following government orders to remove material from its search results and You Tube.As major Internet giants joined forces yesterday to protest legislation that would hand the U.S. government power to arbitrarily seize websites with no legal process under the pretext of copyright infringement, Google slapped a black censorship image over its logo and urged people to sign an anti-SOPA petition that has accrued over 5 million signees.However, Google’s main issue with SOPA is seemingly not related to their concerns about Chinese-style web censorship becoming commonplace, but rather which entity gets to wield those powers – large transnational corporations or governments.While Google criticizes SOPA publicly, it is already privately using SOPA-like powers to unfairly marginalize legitimate web content.Google News is a content aggregator that allows users to search thousands of news sources for relevant stories. Although the aggregator includes a plethora of obscure, occasionally offensive, and barely-read websites, in November 2010 Google took the decision to de-list PrisonPlanet.com and Infowars.com from its indexed news sources.Infowars.com alone is an internationally recognized news website that gets more traffic than MSNBC.com and innumerable other big mainstream news websites. Our articles are routinely featured on the Drudge Report, which itself is renowned as the primary agenda-setting news website in the United States, driving more traffic to individual stories than the likes of Facebook and Twitter combined.
Infowars owner Alex Jones is a nationally syndicated radio host whose broadcast appears on an ever-expanding list of big mainstream radio stations. Jones has been afforded feature profiles by the likes of Rolling Stone Magazine, who acknowledged his role as a pioneer in the media world.Infowars.com is clearly a legitimate and important news website that features original content which routinely makes an impact and occasionally goes viral. And yet Google de-listed the website from its news aggregator on a whim with no explanation provided. Since Google and its owner Eric Schmidt are prominent financial contributors to the Obama campaign, we can only assume we were blacklisted for political reasons.Whether you concur with our political stance or are rapidly against it, what can’t be argued is that we are a legitimate news outfit – but Google has arbitrarily banned us from appearing on their news search results.This is a clear example of how Google is already enforcing SOPA-like rules of its own choosing, without the need for any law to be passed by any legislative body.In addition, while concerns rage about the state obtaining the power to shut down websites and remove web content with no recourse, Google is already following orders from the federal government in the majority of cases in removing videos from its You Tube platform, including takedowns on the grounds that the videos contain government criticism.Google-owned You Tube has complied with thousands of requests worldwide to remove political protest videos that are clearly not in violation of any copyright or national security interests and do not constitute defamation.The number of takedown orders received by Google from authorities based in the United States rose dramatically over the past year, with demands to remove information increasing by 70 per cent. Google complied in removing the material in 63% of the cases.One such example was You Tube’s compliance with a request from the British government to censor footage of the British Constitution Group’s Lawful Rebellion protest, during which they attempted to civilly arrest Judge Michael Peake at Birkenhead county court.Google has also targeted our own You Tube channel for termination on numerous occasions merely for posting legitimate news content, such as the Wikileaks Apache helicopter footage, which appears on hundreds of other You Tube channels.
Crucially, Google has for years censored its own search results subject to the mandates of different governments across the world. SOPA and PIPA are merely an effort to codify into US law what is already taking place in more authoritarian countries, with the willing participation of Google itself.Many other web giants are also moving to censor the Internet, including VeriSign, who recently demanded the power to terminate websites deemed abusive with no legal oversight whatsoever.
Public wi-fi systems stationed in airports, train stations, libraries, schools, and workplaces also routinely censor political websites.Who needs government to censor the Internet when large corporations are already doing it? Amidst all the anti-SOPA rage, we should not be so naive as to give the likes of Google a pass when considering the totality of threats posed to free speech on the world wide web.We encourage people to at least be aware of alternatives to Google, search websites that will not enact SOPA-like censorship policies, such as StartPage.com. Watch a video below from November 2010 in which Alex Jones explains how Google is censoring the web – without the need for SOPA.
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
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU JANUARY 19,2012
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +19.07
10:30 AM +12.18
11:00 AM +23.27
11:30 AM +29.25
12:00 PM +33.34
12:30 PM +21.61
01:00 PM +19.15
01:30 PM +33.68
02:00 PM +23.16
02:30 PM +33.34
03:00 PM +18.09
03:30 PM +38.33
04:00 PM +45.03 12,623.98
S&P 500 1314.50 +6.46
NASDAQ 2788.33 +18.62
GOLD 1,655.80 -4.10
OIL 100.33 -0.26
TSE 300 12,380.69 +53.17
CDNX 1554.20 +4.15
S&P/TSX/60 707.30 +3.58
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +38 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -4 points at low today.
Dow +38 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,655.20.OIL opens at $101.45 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -4 points at low today so far.
Dow +38 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -4 points at low today.
Dow +38 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
CRUDE OIL -3.4 million barrels
GASOLINE +3.7 million barrels
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES +400,000 BARRELS
NATURAL GAS-THU -87 BCF
Breaking news: cancer drugs make tumors more aggressive and deadly S. L. Baker Infowars.com January 19, 2012
When natural health advocates warn against mainstream medicine’s arsenal of weapons used to fight cancer, including chemotherapy and radiation, their concerns often revolve around how these therapies can weaken and damage a person’s body in numerous ways. But scientists are finding other reasons to question some of these therapies. It turns out that while chemotherapies may kill or shrink tumors in the short term, they may actually be causing malignancies to grow more deadly in the long term.
For example, Natural News previously reported:
(http://www.naturalnews.com/029042_cancer_cells_chemotherapy.html) that scientists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center and UAB Department of Chemistry are currently investigating the very real possibility that dead cancer cells left over after chemotherapy spark cancer to spread to other parts of the body (metastasis). And now comes news that a little-explored specific cell type, the pericyte, found in what is called themicroenvironmentof a cancerous tumor actually may halt cancer progression and metastasis. And by destroying these cells, some anti-cancer therapies may inadvertently be making cancer more aggressive as well as likely to spread and kill.A study just published in the January 17 issue of the journalCancer Cellconcludes that anti-angiogenic therapies (which shrink cancer by cutting off tumors’ blood supply) may be killing the body’s natural defense against cancer by destroying pericyte cells that likely serve as important gatekeepers against cancer progression and metastasis. Pericytes cover blood vessels and support their growth.For the new research, Raghu Kalluri, MD, PhD, Chief of the Division of Matrix Biology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), investigated whether targeting pericytes could inhibit tumor growth in the same way that other antiangiogenic cancer drugs do.
Dr. Kalluri and his research team worked with mice genetically engineered to support drug-induced depletion of pericytes in growing tumors. Next, they removed pericytes in implanted mouse breast cancer tumors, decreasing pericyte numbers by 60 percent.
Compared with control animals, there was a 30 percent decrease in the size of cancerous tumors over 25 days. But there was a serious catch to these results. Contrary to conventional mainsteam medical wisdom, the scientists discovered the number of secondary lung tumors in the engineered mice had increased threefold compared to the control mice, indicating that the tumors had metastasized.
How cancer drugs can spread cancer cells
If you just looked at tumor growth, the results were good,Dr. Kalluri said in a press statement. But when you looked at the whole picture, inhibiting tumor vessels was not controlling cancer progression. The cancer was, in fact, spreading. This suggested to us that without supportive pericytes, the vasculature inside the tumor was becoming weak and leaky — even more so than it already is inside most tumors– and this was reducing the flow of oxygen to the tumor.That change, he explains, makes cancer cells more mobile, so they can travel through those leaky vessels to new locations. It also makes cancer cells behave more like stem cells, so they are better able to survive.Because cancer therapies such as Imatinib, Sunitinib and others are known to decrease pericytes in tumors, the scientists next carried out the same experiments in mice with primary tumors. Only this time, they used the chemotherapy drugs Imatinib and Sunitinib instead of genetic programs to decrease pericyte numbers. Both Imatinib and Sunitinib caused 70 percent pericyte depletion — and they also increased metastasis threefold.In order to see if their findings are relevant to human patients, the research team examined 130 breast cancer tumor samples of varying cancer stages and tumor sizes and compared pericyte levels with prognoses. The result? The samples with low numbers of pericytes in tumor vasculature correlated with the most deeply invasive cancers, distant metastasis and five to ten year survival rates less than 20 percent.These results are quite provocative and will influence clinical programs designed to target tumor angiogenesis,Ronald A. DePinho, president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, said in a press statement. These impressive studies will inform and refine potential therapeutic approaches for many cancers.For more information:
http://www.bidmc.org/
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
BELL CANADA YOUR LOVING BIG BROTHER
WELL PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD LETS GET TO KNOW OUR LOVING BIG BROTHER TELEPHONE AND INTERNET PROVIDER IN CANADA-MR BIG BROTHER BELL CANADA.
LETS TAKE A LOOK AT THE HEADS OF BELL CANADA.LETS START WITH ONTARIO CANADAS BOARD MEMBER.I WILL WARN USE ALL THESE ARE DEFINATELY NEW WORLD ORDER FOLKS.AND I MUST ADD BELL CANADA OUT SOURCES ITS INTERNET TECH TO MUSLIM COUNTRIES OF ALL THINGS.BELL AND ISLAM WHAT A CONNECTION TO PHONE IN TO AND WORK ON YOUR COMPUTERS.(MUSLIMS)
JUST NOTICE ALL THE CONTROL BELL CANADA HAS BY WHAT ITS BOARDS MEMBERS OWN AND CONTROL.NO WONDER THEY(BELL CANADA)HAVE SO MUCH POWER HERE IN CANADA.
THOMAS C. O'NEILL, F.C.A., Ontario, Canada-Chair of the Board, BCE and Bell Canada (Since February 2009) and Chartered Accountant
Mr. O’Neill was Chief Executive Officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting (provider of management consulting and technology services) from January 2002 to May 2002 and then Chair of the Board from May 2002 to October 2002.
Mr. O’Neill is a former Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of Queen’s University and a past member of the Advisory Council of Queen’s University School of Business. Mr. O’Neill graduated from Queen’s University with a BComm and is a chartered accountant. Mr. O’Neill received an Honorary LLD from Queen’s University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors.
Mr. O’Neill is also a director of Adecco S.A.,(THE BIGGEST STAFFING COMPANY IN THE WORLD) Bell Canada, Loblaw Companies Limited,(STORES) Nexen Inc.(A GLOBAL ENERGY LEADER) and The Bank of Nova Scotia.(BANKER)
BARRY K. ALLEN, Wisconsin, United States-Senior Advisor, Providence Equity Partners (Since September 2007)
Mr. Allen is currently a Senior Advisor of Providence Equity Partners (a private equity firm focused on media, entertainment, communications and information investments). Prior to joining Providence in 2007, he was Executive Vice-President of Operations of Qwest Communications International.Before his retirement from Qwest in June 2007, Mr. Allen was responsible for the company’s network and information technology operations. Prior to being named Executive Vice-President of Operations in March 2004, he served as Qwest’s Executive Vice-President of Operations and Chief Human Resources Officer. In addition, from January 2003 until the present, Mr. Allen has served as President of Allen Enterprises, a private equity investment and management company he founded. Mr. Allen holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Kentucky and an M.B.A. from Boston University.
Mr. Allen is a director on the BCE board since May 2009. He is also a member of the Corporate Governance Committee and the Management Resources and Compensation Committee.Mr. Allen is also a director of Bell Canada, Fiduciary Management, Inc. and Harley Davidson, Inc.
ANDRÉ BÉRARD, O.C., Québec, Canada-Corporate Director (Since March 2004)
Mr. Bérard was Chair of the Board of National Bank of Canada (chartered bank) from 2002 to March 2004, and Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of National Bank of Canada from 1990 to March 2002. He holds a Fellows Diploma from the Institute of Canadian Bankers and was Chair of the Executive Council of the Canadian Bankers’ Association from 1986 to 1988. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1995.
Mr. Bérard is a director on the BCE board since January 2003. He is also a member of the Audit Committee and the Management Resources and Compensation Committee.Mr. Bérard is also a director of Bell Canada, Bombardier Inc., Groupe BMTC Inc., Saputo Inc. and TransForce Inc.
RONALD A. BRENNEMAN, Alberta, Canada-Corporate Director (Since March 2010)
Mr. Brenneman was Executive Vice-Chairman, Suncor Energy Inc. (petroleum company) from August 2009 until February 2010 and was President and Chief Executive Officer of Petro-Canada (petroleum company) from 2000 until July 2009.Before January 2000, Mr. Brenneman spent more than 30 years with Imperial Oil Limited and its parent company, Exxon Corporation (both petroleum companies). He was a member of the board of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives until July 2009. Mr. Brenneman holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto and a MSc in Control Systems from the University of Manchester.
Mr. Brenneman is a director on the BCE board since November 2003. He is also Chair of the Management Resources and Compensation Committee and a member of the Pension Fund Committee.Mr. Brenneman is also a director of Bell Canada, Ithaca Energy Inc.,The Bank of Nova Scotia and WestJet Airlines Ltd.
Sophie Brochu, Québec, Canada-President And Chief Executive Officer, Gaz Métro (Since February 2007)
Ms. Brochu has worked in the energy industry for more than 20 years. She began her career in 1987 with SOQUIP (Société québécoise d’initiatives pétrolières) and held several positions, including Vice-President, Development, a position she held until 1997. Ms. Brochu joined Gaz Métro (natural gas distributor in Québec) in 1997 as Vice-President, Business Development where she held several positions including Executive Vice-President, responsible for all natural gas distribution activities in Québec. In 2007, she was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Gaz Métro.Ms. Brochu is a graduate in Economics from Université Laval in Québec City, where she specialized in the energy field. She is Chair of the Board of the Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History (Pointe-à-Callière). She is actively involved with Muscular Dystrophy Canada. Ms. Brochu was co-president of the Centraide of Greater Montréal campaign for 2010 and is also involved in the 80, ruelle de l’Avenir project, which aims to combat school dropout in the Centre-Sud and Hochelaga Maisonneuve neighbourhoods.
Ms. Brochu is a director on the BCE board since May 2010. She is also a member of the Audit Committee and the Corporate Governance Committee.Mrs. Brochu is also a director of Bell Canada and Gaz Métro.
ROBERT E. BROWN, Québec, Canada-Corporate Director (Since October 2009)
Mr. Brown is Chairman of Groupe Aeroplan Inc. and was President and Chief Executive Officer of CAE Inc. (a provider of simulation and modelling technologies as well as integrated training service for both civil aviation and defence customers) from August 2004 to September 2009.Prior to joining CAE Inc., Mr. Brown was Chairman of Air Canada during its restructuring from May 2003 to October 2004. Mr. Brown joined Bombardier Inc. in 1987 and was responsible for the Bombardier Aerospace sector from 1990 to 1999. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of Bombardier Inc. (aerospace, transportation and recreational products) from1999 to 2002. Mr. Brown also held various senior positions in federal ministries with economic vocations, including the position of Associate Deputy Minister of the Department of Regional Industrial Expansion. Mr. Brown holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Royal Military College and attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard University Business School.
Mr. Brown is a director on the BCE board since May 2009. He is also Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Pension Fund Committee.Mr. Brown is also a director of Bell Canada, Rio Tinto Limited and Rio Tinto PLC.
George Cope-President and Chief Executive Officer Bell Canada and BCE Inc.
George Cope is leading the transformation of Canada’s largest communications company into an efficient customer-focused competitor, based on a strategy of enhanced service capability, significant broadband network investments and a high-performance team culture.With industry-leading capital investments of approximately $6 billion in 2009 and 2010, Bell has launched a world-leading new mobile HSPA+ network and enhanced broadband fibre infrastructure to deliver advanced Television and Internet services.Mr. Cope is a seasoned Canadian telecommunications executive who had served in public- company CEO roles in the industry for more than 15 years prior to joining Bell in 2005. He has earned a reputation as an innovative telecom strategist and builder of high-performance teams, successfully launching three next-generation Canadian digital networks during his career.
Mr. Cope holds a BComm (Honours) degree from the University of Western Ontario and serves on the Advisory Board of the university’s Richard Ivey School of Business.Mr. Cope is also a director of Bank of Montreal and Bell Canada and Chair of the Board of Bell Aliant Inc.Mr. Cope holds a BComm (Honours) degree from the University of Western Ontario. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.Mr. Cope is also a director of Bank of Montreal and Bell Canada and is also the Chair of the Board of Bell Aliant Inc.
ANTHONY S. FELL, O.C., Ontario, Canada-Corporate Director (Since January 2008)
Mr. Fell is a former Deputy Chairman of Royal Bank of Canada. He was with RBC Capital Markets (investment bank) and predecessor companies for 48 years including 18 years as Chief Executive Officer and a further 8 years as Chairman until his retirement in 2007.Mr. Fell is a past Chairman of Munich Reinsurance company of Canada and the Investment Dealers Association of Canada and a past Governor of the Toronto Stock Exchange. Mr. Fell is also a past Chairman of the University Health Network, the United Way Campaign for Metropolitan Toronto, the Princess Margaret Hospital Capital Campaign and is a past Governor of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Program in Canada, St. Andrew’s College and the Ontario Division of the Canadian Arthritis Society. Mr. Fell was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2001 and received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from McMaster University in 2001 and from the University of Toronto in 2006.
Mr. Fell is a director on the BCE board since January 2002. He is also a member of the Audit Committee and the Management Resources and Compensation Committee.Mr. Fell is also a director of Bell Canada and Loblaw Companies Limited.
EDWARD C. LUMLEY, P.C., Ontario, Canada-Vice-Chairman, BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. (Since December 1991)
Mr. Lumley has been Vice-Chairman of BMO Capital Markets and its predecessor companies since 1991. From 1986 to 1991 Mr. Lumley served as Chair of the Noranda Manufacturing Group of companies. Prior to returning to the private sector; from 1974-1984 Mr. Lumley was a Member of Parliament during which time he held various cabinet portfolios in the Government of Canada, including Minister of Industry, International Trade, Communications and Science and Technology. Mr. Lumley is the Chancellor of the University of Windsor where he graduated a Bachelor of Commerce.
Mr. Lumley is a director on the BCE board since January 2003. He is also Chair of the Pension Fund Committee and a member of the Corporate Governance Committee.Mr. Lumley is also a director of Bell Canada, Canadian National Railway Company and Dollar-Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc.
THE HONOURABLE JIM PRENTICE, P.C., Q.C. Alberta, Canada-Senior Executive Vice-President and Vice Chairman, CIBC (Since January 2011)
Mr. Prentice is responsible for expanding CIBC's relationships with corporate clients across Canada and abroad, and with providing leadership on strategic initiatives to enhance CIBC's position in the market.Mr. Prentice is well known for his contribution to public life in Canada. He was first elected as the Member of Parliament for Calgary Centre North in 2004 and re-elected in 2006 and 2008. From January 2006 until November 2010 he was one of the most senior Ministers in the Canadian Government, serving variously as the Minister of Industry, the Minister of the Environment and the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. In addition, Mr. Prentice chaired the Operations Committee of Cabinet and sat on the Priorities and Planning Committee from 2006 through November 2010.
Prior to entering public office, Mr. Prentice practiced law in Calgary, specializing in commercial law and property rights. He served as the Co-Chair of the Indian Claims Commission of Canada from 1993 until 2000. He graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Commerce in 1977 and then entered Dalhousie Law School as a Dunn Scholar, graduating with his Bachelor of Laws in 1980. Mr. Prentice was designated a Queen’s Counsel in 1992.
Mr. Prentice is a director on the BCE board since July 2011. He is also a member of the Audit Committee.Mr. Prentice is also a director of Bell Canada.
ROBERT C. SIMMONDS, Ontario, Canada-Chairman, Lenbrook Corporation (Since April 2002)
Robert Simmonds is a seasoned Canadian telecommunications executive who has served in public company roles from 1994 to 2006. From 1985 until 2000, he served as Chairman of Clearnet Communications Inc., a Canadian wireless competitor that launched two all-new digital mobile networks. He became the Chairman of Lenbrook Corporation (national distributor of electronics components and radio products) in 2002, having been a founder and director of the company since 1977. Internationally regarded as a leading wireless communications engineer and mobile spectrum authority, Mr. Simmonds has played a key role in the development of Canada’s mobile spectrum policies for more than 30 years. He is an executive with the Radio Advisory Board of Canada (RABC), the body that provides unbiased and technically expert advice to the federal Department of Industry, and is a past Chair of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA). A laureate and member of Canada’s Telecommunications Hall of Fame and recipient of the Engineering Medal for Entrepreneurship from Professional Engineers Ontario, Mr. Simmonds earned his B.A. Sc. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto.
Mr. Simmonds is a director on the BCE board since May 2011. He is also a member of the Audit Committee and the Corporate Governance Committee.Mr. Simmonds is also a director of Bell Canada.
The Honourable Carole Taylor, British Columbia, Canada-Corporate Director (since Septembre 2010)
From December 2008 to January 2010, Ms. Taylor served as Chair of the Federal Finance Minister’s Economic Advisory Council. Ms. Taylor was also Senior Advisor for Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (law firm) until September 2010. She served as Minister of Finance for British Columbia from June 2005 to June 2008. In May 2005, Ms. Taylor was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia to represent the riding of Vancouver-Langara. From July 2001 to March 2005, she served as Chair of CBC/Radio-Canada. She is the incoming chancellor of Simon Fraser University.
Ms. Taylor is a director on the BCE board since August 2010. She is also a member of the Management Resources and Compensation Committee and the Pension Fund Committee.Ms. Taylor is also a director of Bell Canada and The Toronto-Dominion Bank.
PAUL R. WEISS, FCA, Ontario, Canada-Corporate Director (since April 2008)
Mr. Weiss is director and audit committee Chair at ING Bank of Canada and a director of Empire Life Insurance Company. He is Chair of the Board of Directors of Soulpepper Theatre Company, past Chair and a director of Toronto Rehab Foundation, and a director of Niagara International Music Festival.For over 40 years, until his retirement in 2008, he was with KPMG Canada. He served as Managing Partner of the Canadian Audit Practice, a member of KPMG Canada’s Management Committee, and a member of the International Global Audit Steering Group. Mr. Weiss holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Carleton University.
Mr. Weiss is a director on the BCE board since May 2009. He is also Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Pension Fund Committee.Mr. Weiss is also a director of Bell Canada and Torstar Corporation.(MEDIA)
AS WE SEE WE GOT AT LEAST 4 OR 5 BANKERS,2 MEDIA MOGOLS,AIR CRAFT OWNERS,AND JUST NUMEROUS OTHER MEMBERS OF BELL CANADA THAT GOT THE MONEY AND CLOUT TO CONTROL ALL OF CANADA.
LETS TAKE A LOOK AT THE HEADS OF BELL CANADA.LETS START WITH ONTARIO CANADAS BOARD MEMBER.I WILL WARN USE ALL THESE ARE DEFINATELY NEW WORLD ORDER FOLKS.AND I MUST ADD BELL CANADA OUT SOURCES ITS INTERNET TECH TO MUSLIM COUNTRIES OF ALL THINGS.BELL AND ISLAM WHAT A CONNECTION TO PHONE IN TO AND WORK ON YOUR COMPUTERS.(MUSLIMS)
JUST NOTICE ALL THE CONTROL BELL CANADA HAS BY WHAT ITS BOARDS MEMBERS OWN AND CONTROL.NO WONDER THEY(BELL CANADA)HAVE SO MUCH POWER HERE IN CANADA.
THOMAS C. O'NEILL, F.C.A., Ontario, Canada-Chair of the Board, BCE and Bell Canada (Since February 2009) and Chartered Accountant
Mr. O’Neill was Chief Executive Officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting (provider of management consulting and technology services) from January 2002 to May 2002 and then Chair of the Board from May 2002 to October 2002.
Mr. O’Neill is a former Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of Queen’s University and a past member of the Advisory Council of Queen’s University School of Business. Mr. O’Neill graduated from Queen’s University with a BComm and is a chartered accountant. Mr. O’Neill received an Honorary LLD from Queen’s University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors.
Mr. O’Neill is also a director of Adecco S.A.,(THE BIGGEST STAFFING COMPANY IN THE WORLD) Bell Canada, Loblaw Companies Limited,(STORES) Nexen Inc.(A GLOBAL ENERGY LEADER) and The Bank of Nova Scotia.(BANKER)
BARRY K. ALLEN, Wisconsin, United States-Senior Advisor, Providence Equity Partners (Since September 2007)
Mr. Allen is currently a Senior Advisor of Providence Equity Partners (a private equity firm focused on media, entertainment, communications and information investments). Prior to joining Providence in 2007, he was Executive Vice-President of Operations of Qwest Communications International.Before his retirement from Qwest in June 2007, Mr. Allen was responsible for the company’s network and information technology operations. Prior to being named Executive Vice-President of Operations in March 2004, he served as Qwest’s Executive Vice-President of Operations and Chief Human Resources Officer. In addition, from January 2003 until the present, Mr. Allen has served as President of Allen Enterprises, a private equity investment and management company he founded. Mr. Allen holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Kentucky and an M.B.A. from Boston University.
Mr. Allen is a director on the BCE board since May 2009. He is also a member of the Corporate Governance Committee and the Management Resources and Compensation Committee.Mr. Allen is also a director of Bell Canada, Fiduciary Management, Inc. and Harley Davidson, Inc.
ANDRÉ BÉRARD, O.C., Québec, Canada-Corporate Director (Since March 2004)
Mr. Bérard was Chair of the Board of National Bank of Canada (chartered bank) from 2002 to March 2004, and Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of National Bank of Canada from 1990 to March 2002. He holds a Fellows Diploma from the Institute of Canadian Bankers and was Chair of the Executive Council of the Canadian Bankers’ Association from 1986 to 1988. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1995.
Mr. Bérard is a director on the BCE board since January 2003. He is also a member of the Audit Committee and the Management Resources and Compensation Committee.Mr. Bérard is also a director of Bell Canada, Bombardier Inc., Groupe BMTC Inc., Saputo Inc. and TransForce Inc.
RONALD A. BRENNEMAN, Alberta, Canada-Corporate Director (Since March 2010)
Mr. Brenneman was Executive Vice-Chairman, Suncor Energy Inc. (petroleum company) from August 2009 until February 2010 and was President and Chief Executive Officer of Petro-Canada (petroleum company) from 2000 until July 2009.Before January 2000, Mr. Brenneman spent more than 30 years with Imperial Oil Limited and its parent company, Exxon Corporation (both petroleum companies). He was a member of the board of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives until July 2009. Mr. Brenneman holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto and a MSc in Control Systems from the University of Manchester.
Mr. Brenneman is a director on the BCE board since November 2003. He is also Chair of the Management Resources and Compensation Committee and a member of the Pension Fund Committee.Mr. Brenneman is also a director of Bell Canada, Ithaca Energy Inc.,The Bank of Nova Scotia and WestJet Airlines Ltd.
Sophie Brochu, Québec, Canada-President And Chief Executive Officer, Gaz Métro (Since February 2007)
Ms. Brochu has worked in the energy industry for more than 20 years. She began her career in 1987 with SOQUIP (Société québécoise d’initiatives pétrolières) and held several positions, including Vice-President, Development, a position she held until 1997. Ms. Brochu joined Gaz Métro (natural gas distributor in Québec) in 1997 as Vice-President, Business Development where she held several positions including Executive Vice-President, responsible for all natural gas distribution activities in Québec. In 2007, she was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Gaz Métro.Ms. Brochu is a graduate in Economics from Université Laval in Québec City, where she specialized in the energy field. She is Chair of the Board of the Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History (Pointe-à-Callière). She is actively involved with Muscular Dystrophy Canada. Ms. Brochu was co-president of the Centraide of Greater Montréal campaign for 2010 and is also involved in the 80, ruelle de l’Avenir project, which aims to combat school dropout in the Centre-Sud and Hochelaga Maisonneuve neighbourhoods.
Ms. Brochu is a director on the BCE board since May 2010. She is also a member of the Audit Committee and the Corporate Governance Committee.Mrs. Brochu is also a director of Bell Canada and Gaz Métro.
ROBERT E. BROWN, Québec, Canada-Corporate Director (Since October 2009)
Mr. Brown is Chairman of Groupe Aeroplan Inc. and was President and Chief Executive Officer of CAE Inc. (a provider of simulation and modelling technologies as well as integrated training service for both civil aviation and defence customers) from August 2004 to September 2009.Prior to joining CAE Inc., Mr. Brown was Chairman of Air Canada during its restructuring from May 2003 to October 2004. Mr. Brown joined Bombardier Inc. in 1987 and was responsible for the Bombardier Aerospace sector from 1990 to 1999. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of Bombardier Inc. (aerospace, transportation and recreational products) from1999 to 2002. Mr. Brown also held various senior positions in federal ministries with economic vocations, including the position of Associate Deputy Minister of the Department of Regional Industrial Expansion. Mr. Brown holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Royal Military College and attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard University Business School.
Mr. Brown is a director on the BCE board since May 2009. He is also Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Pension Fund Committee.Mr. Brown is also a director of Bell Canada, Rio Tinto Limited and Rio Tinto PLC.
George Cope-President and Chief Executive Officer Bell Canada and BCE Inc.
George Cope is leading the transformation of Canada’s largest communications company into an efficient customer-focused competitor, based on a strategy of enhanced service capability, significant broadband network investments and a high-performance team culture.With industry-leading capital investments of approximately $6 billion in 2009 and 2010, Bell has launched a world-leading new mobile HSPA+ network and enhanced broadband fibre infrastructure to deliver advanced Television and Internet services.Mr. Cope is a seasoned Canadian telecommunications executive who had served in public- company CEO roles in the industry for more than 15 years prior to joining Bell in 2005. He has earned a reputation as an innovative telecom strategist and builder of high-performance teams, successfully launching three next-generation Canadian digital networks during his career.
Mr. Cope holds a BComm (Honours) degree from the University of Western Ontario and serves on the Advisory Board of the university’s Richard Ivey School of Business.Mr. Cope is also a director of Bank of Montreal and Bell Canada and Chair of the Board of Bell Aliant Inc.Mr. Cope holds a BComm (Honours) degree from the University of Western Ontario. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.Mr. Cope is also a director of Bank of Montreal and Bell Canada and is also the Chair of the Board of Bell Aliant Inc.
ANTHONY S. FELL, O.C., Ontario, Canada-Corporate Director (Since January 2008)
Mr. Fell is a former Deputy Chairman of Royal Bank of Canada. He was with RBC Capital Markets (investment bank) and predecessor companies for 48 years including 18 years as Chief Executive Officer and a further 8 years as Chairman until his retirement in 2007.Mr. Fell is a past Chairman of Munich Reinsurance company of Canada and the Investment Dealers Association of Canada and a past Governor of the Toronto Stock Exchange. Mr. Fell is also a past Chairman of the University Health Network, the United Way Campaign for Metropolitan Toronto, the Princess Margaret Hospital Capital Campaign and is a past Governor of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Program in Canada, St. Andrew’s College and the Ontario Division of the Canadian Arthritis Society. Mr. Fell was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2001 and received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from McMaster University in 2001 and from the University of Toronto in 2006.
Mr. Fell is a director on the BCE board since January 2002. He is also a member of the Audit Committee and the Management Resources and Compensation Committee.Mr. Fell is also a director of Bell Canada and Loblaw Companies Limited.
EDWARD C. LUMLEY, P.C., Ontario, Canada-Vice-Chairman, BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. (Since December 1991)
Mr. Lumley has been Vice-Chairman of BMO Capital Markets and its predecessor companies since 1991. From 1986 to 1991 Mr. Lumley served as Chair of the Noranda Manufacturing Group of companies. Prior to returning to the private sector; from 1974-1984 Mr. Lumley was a Member of Parliament during which time he held various cabinet portfolios in the Government of Canada, including Minister of Industry, International Trade, Communications and Science and Technology. Mr. Lumley is the Chancellor of the University of Windsor where he graduated a Bachelor of Commerce.
Mr. Lumley is a director on the BCE board since January 2003. He is also Chair of the Pension Fund Committee and a member of the Corporate Governance Committee.Mr. Lumley is also a director of Bell Canada, Canadian National Railway Company and Dollar-Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc.
THE HONOURABLE JIM PRENTICE, P.C., Q.C. Alberta, Canada-Senior Executive Vice-President and Vice Chairman, CIBC (Since January 2011)
Mr. Prentice is responsible for expanding CIBC's relationships with corporate clients across Canada and abroad, and with providing leadership on strategic initiatives to enhance CIBC's position in the market.Mr. Prentice is well known for his contribution to public life in Canada. He was first elected as the Member of Parliament for Calgary Centre North in 2004 and re-elected in 2006 and 2008. From January 2006 until November 2010 he was one of the most senior Ministers in the Canadian Government, serving variously as the Minister of Industry, the Minister of the Environment and the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. In addition, Mr. Prentice chaired the Operations Committee of Cabinet and sat on the Priorities and Planning Committee from 2006 through November 2010.
Prior to entering public office, Mr. Prentice practiced law in Calgary, specializing in commercial law and property rights. He served as the Co-Chair of the Indian Claims Commission of Canada from 1993 until 2000. He graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Commerce in 1977 and then entered Dalhousie Law School as a Dunn Scholar, graduating with his Bachelor of Laws in 1980. Mr. Prentice was designated a Queen’s Counsel in 1992.
Mr. Prentice is a director on the BCE board since July 2011. He is also a member of the Audit Committee.Mr. Prentice is also a director of Bell Canada.
ROBERT C. SIMMONDS, Ontario, Canada-Chairman, Lenbrook Corporation (Since April 2002)
Robert Simmonds is a seasoned Canadian telecommunications executive who has served in public company roles from 1994 to 2006. From 1985 until 2000, he served as Chairman of Clearnet Communications Inc., a Canadian wireless competitor that launched two all-new digital mobile networks. He became the Chairman of Lenbrook Corporation (national distributor of electronics components and radio products) in 2002, having been a founder and director of the company since 1977. Internationally regarded as a leading wireless communications engineer and mobile spectrum authority, Mr. Simmonds has played a key role in the development of Canada’s mobile spectrum policies for more than 30 years. He is an executive with the Radio Advisory Board of Canada (RABC), the body that provides unbiased and technically expert advice to the federal Department of Industry, and is a past Chair of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA). A laureate and member of Canada’s Telecommunications Hall of Fame and recipient of the Engineering Medal for Entrepreneurship from Professional Engineers Ontario, Mr. Simmonds earned his B.A. Sc. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto.
Mr. Simmonds is a director on the BCE board since May 2011. He is also a member of the Audit Committee and the Corporate Governance Committee.Mr. Simmonds is also a director of Bell Canada.
The Honourable Carole Taylor, British Columbia, Canada-Corporate Director (since Septembre 2010)
From December 2008 to January 2010, Ms. Taylor served as Chair of the Federal Finance Minister’s Economic Advisory Council. Ms. Taylor was also Senior Advisor for Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (law firm) until September 2010. She served as Minister of Finance for British Columbia from June 2005 to June 2008. In May 2005, Ms. Taylor was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia to represent the riding of Vancouver-Langara. From July 2001 to March 2005, she served as Chair of CBC/Radio-Canada. She is the incoming chancellor of Simon Fraser University.
Ms. Taylor is a director on the BCE board since August 2010. She is also a member of the Management Resources and Compensation Committee and the Pension Fund Committee.Ms. Taylor is also a director of Bell Canada and The Toronto-Dominion Bank.
PAUL R. WEISS, FCA, Ontario, Canada-Corporate Director (since April 2008)
Mr. Weiss is director and audit committee Chair at ING Bank of Canada and a director of Empire Life Insurance Company. He is Chair of the Board of Directors of Soulpepper Theatre Company, past Chair and a director of Toronto Rehab Foundation, and a director of Niagara International Music Festival.For over 40 years, until his retirement in 2008, he was with KPMG Canada. He served as Managing Partner of the Canadian Audit Practice, a member of KPMG Canada’s Management Committee, and a member of the International Global Audit Steering Group. Mr. Weiss holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Carleton University.
Mr. Weiss is a director on the BCE board since May 2009. He is also Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Pension Fund Committee.Mr. Weiss is also a director of Bell Canada and Torstar Corporation.(MEDIA)
AS WE SEE WE GOT AT LEAST 4 OR 5 BANKERS,2 MEDIA MOGOLS,AIR CRAFT OWNERS,AND JUST NUMEROUS OTHER MEMBERS OF BELL CANADA THAT GOT THE MONEY AND CLOUT TO CONTROL ALL OF CANADA.
THE CASE AGAINST DIVIDING JERUSALEM
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v15908897gA4N3jCR?h1=Mid-East+Bible+Prophecy%3A+Jerusalem+Divided%3F
The Case for a United Jerusalem
By Nathan Diament Jan 15 2012, 6:30 PM ET 1 THE ATLANTIC
Dividing the holy city as part of a final-status agreement between Israelis and Palestinians ignores key realities on the ground Jerusalem / Reuters
Proponents of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict often insist that the only way to resolve competing claims over the holy city of Jerusalem is to divide it, with each half respectively serving as the capital of Israel and a future Palestinian state. Those who advocate this approach often try to make it more palatable by asserting, as Terrestrial Jerusalem founder Daniel Seidemann recently wrote in The Atlantic, that while many Israelis speak of Jerusalem being a "united" city since its eastern half came under Israeli sovereignty in 1967, such a perception is a "myth" because, in fact, Jerusalem is divided between largely homogeneous and internally contiguous Jewish and Arab neighborhoods across which the two groups rarely venture. Thus, they argue, a border could be drawn relatively easily along demographic lines, re-dividing the city between the two states.
9-11 Ten Years Later
The reality, however, is that Jerusalem today is a demographically intertwined city. To be sure, there are neighborhoods, particularly east of the security barrier, where Jews seldom venture. But modern-day Jerusalem is far more an interwoven checkerboard of Jewish and Palestinian enclaves. The Arab neighborhood of Beit Safafa, for example, lies between the Jewish neighborhoods of Talpiot and Gilo, while the Arab neighborhood Sheikh Jarrah lies between the Old City and the Jewish neighborhood of French Hill. Separating these neighborhoods between two countries would create an unwieldy and unsustainable border. While creative solutions have been proposed to ensure that a re-divided Jerusalem would remain interconnected, as any urban center must to thrive, experience shows that divided cities, such as Berlin and Baghdad, are fragile at best and combustible at worst. One significant reason against dividing Jerusalem is that many of the Palestinians who live in East Jerusalem wish to remain under Israeli sovereignty. Recent polling indicates that, despite the fact that municipal resources and services have not been evenly allocated between Jewish and Arab Jerusalem segments of the city, a plurality of Palestinians residing in eastern sections of Jerusalem would move from Palestinian Jerusalem to Israeli Jerusalem, if given the opportunity, should the city be re-divided. According to one of the pollsters:For most Palestinians who said they wanted to be citizens of Israel, approximately 35 percent said it was practical issues that dominate -- freedom of movement, higher income, health insurance, job opportunities, prosperity, more shops...People were concerned that if they became a citizen of Palestine, they had significant worries about losing employment in Israel, free movement in Israel, Israeli health care, and reduction in city services. ...Three-quarters of east Jerusalem Arabs are at least a little concerned, and more than half are more than a little concerned, that they would lose their ability to write and speak freely if they became citizens of a Palestinian state rather than remaining under Israeli control.But more contentious than the fate of Jerusalem's residential neighborhoods is the debate over the fate of the Old City - home to Judaism's holiest sites and among Islam's holiest sites. On a practical level, dividing the Old City along demographic lines would put Jewish holy sites on the Palestinian side and Muslim holy sites on the Israeli side. Israelis are understandably cautious about putting these sites solely under Arab control; when Arabs last controlled the Old City, from 1948 to 1967, Jews were barred from access.
To address this concern, numerous groups have proposed "special arrangements," such as international or joint Israeli-Palestinian administration over the Old City, to ensure protection of and access to these sites. But these proposals rely on international community support and enforcement to guarantee security and access, which Israel has legitimate grounds to doubt given the lackluster performance of the Multinational Force & Observers (MFO) in the Sinai (who abandoned their posts in the lead-up to the June 1967 War) and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) along Israel's northern border (who have failed in their mandate to prevent the re-arming of Hezbollah). Furthermore, the international community has consistently shown little regard for the Jewish attachment to holy sites, most recently seen in UNESCO's 2010 declaration that the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron is an integral part of the Palestinian territories.An additional problem with special arrangement proposals is that they tend to require more intimate and extensive cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians rather than granting the divorce from one another that both sides seem to be seeking through a peace deal. And this cooperation must succeed in the most sensitive of all locations.
Unlike these untested proposals, Israel has proven over the past four decades that its authority over all of Jerusalem can ensure protection of and access to holy sites. Since Jerusalem was reunited in 1967, pilgrims of all faiths have generally been allowed to visit the holy places of all religions. Muslim mosques, even those built atop the mount where Judaism's Holy Temple once stood, operate relatively freely - and under Islamic religious oversight. While some might contest that Israel does periodically place security restrictions upon entrance to holy sites, free access is the default policy under Israeli rule. But resolving the status of the Old City of Jerusalem is not just about geography nor about the practicalities of access to a single site; it is deeply intertwined with questions of national identity, history, and theology. Proposals for joint sovereignty, deferred sovereignty, or even divine sovereignty ignore the deep-rooted significance of the holy city. The search for a split the difference compromise also ignores the fact that the Old City of Jerusalem has been the national capital of the Jewish people for the past 3000 years and is Judaism's holiest site, while it is Mecca that plays that role for Muslims. The international community would never expect the Islamic world to cede sovereignty over Mecca; the Jewish people ought to be accorded no less respect with regard to the Old City of Jerusalem.One reason peace in the Middle East has not yet been possible is because most efforts to achieve it have been aspirational but untethered from reality. It is clear that re-dividing Jerusalem is neither feasible nor prudent. The international community must take off the table the option of dividing Jerusalem, in the same way that they have ended the debate over a right of return to Israel for Palestinian refugees. A sustainable peace can only be achieved with the entirety of Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty.
Imagine a Divided Jerusalem
by Eric on January 13, 2011
??? - The Berlin Wall - Berliner Mauerphoto © 1986 siyu | Berlin Wall
This week PA President Abbas said: Jerusalem is the heart of the Palestinian cause, and unless Jerusalem is the capital of an independent Palestinian state, there will not be peace.Imagine if Benjamin Netanyahu said the same thing, but turned the tables: Jerusalem is a Jewish city, the heart of the Jewish nation, and If Jerusalem does not remain in Jewish hands, there will never be peace.That post, from Elder of Ziyon, got me thinking. What if Jerusalem were really divided? What if the city became two? Lets look at a famous example of this situation:The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to divide East Berlin from West Berlin. The wall divided the Democracy from the Communists. It was a horrible situation for everyone. Families were separated. People were removed from their jobs. A rightfully united city became two.
It didn’t work then and it wouldn’t work now.Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has the sense to speak up about it. A divided Jerusalem would not just split the city, it would carve out ethnic lines based on an arbitrary war cease fire line from 1949.
Remember, that territory was never a country called Palestine.From 1517-1917, it was part of the Ottoman Empire. From 1917-1948, it was part of the British Mandate of Palestine.In 1948, it was conquered by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, making it a de-facto part of the country. In 1967, it was captured by the Israelis in a defensive war. It was never Palestine.The Arabs living in the Eastern half of Jerusalem from 1948-1967, a period when Jews were kicked out of the territory, were offered citizenship to Israel in 1967. Since the city was reunited, Jewish neighborhoods have grown next to Arab neighborhoods. The neighborhoods of Jerusalem are generally divided on Jewish/Arab ethnic lines, but there is no law mandating it. Arab Israelis and Jewish Israelis are treated as one under Israeli law.
Many Arabs chose not to accept Israeli citizenship. That was a choice, not a decree. There are many reasons for this, but some of Jerusalem’s Arabs have spoken up about their desire for citizenship. Despite what Hamas and the PLO might tell you, they are not all enthusiastic about having East Jerusalem carved out from the rest of the city.Read about what the Palestinians of Jerusalem really want. Read why some are now taking Israel’s offer for citizenship.If you want to see how bad things are for Arabs in Jerusalem, I suggest going to see yourself. It is a wonderful place with freedom of movement for all residents. There are no borders and no fences. It is a united city.This is not a cut and dry issue, but it is important to look at what everyone wants. Just because Mahmoud Abbas is the voice of West Bank Palestinians does not mean he speaks for everyone. Just because he refuses to move forward on a peace plan that does not include East Jerusalem as a Palestinian capital does not mean all of the Palestinians in Jerusalem want that too.
Do we really want another Berlin Wall? I don’t think so.
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v15908897gA4N3jCR?h1=Mid-East+Bible+Prophecy%3A+Jerusalem+Divided%3F
The Case for a United Jerusalem
By Nathan Diament Jan 15 2012, 6:30 PM ET 1 THE ATLANTIC
Dividing the holy city as part of a final-status agreement between Israelis and Palestinians ignores key realities on the ground Jerusalem / Reuters
Proponents of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict often insist that the only way to resolve competing claims over the holy city of Jerusalem is to divide it, with each half respectively serving as the capital of Israel and a future Palestinian state. Those who advocate this approach often try to make it more palatable by asserting, as Terrestrial Jerusalem founder Daniel Seidemann recently wrote in The Atlantic, that while many Israelis speak of Jerusalem being a "united" city since its eastern half came under Israeli sovereignty in 1967, such a perception is a "myth" because, in fact, Jerusalem is divided between largely homogeneous and internally contiguous Jewish and Arab neighborhoods across which the two groups rarely venture. Thus, they argue, a border could be drawn relatively easily along demographic lines, re-dividing the city between the two states.
9-11 Ten Years Later
The reality, however, is that Jerusalem today is a demographically intertwined city. To be sure, there are neighborhoods, particularly east of the security barrier, where Jews seldom venture. But modern-day Jerusalem is far more an interwoven checkerboard of Jewish and Palestinian enclaves. The Arab neighborhood of Beit Safafa, for example, lies between the Jewish neighborhoods of Talpiot and Gilo, while the Arab neighborhood Sheikh Jarrah lies between the Old City and the Jewish neighborhood of French Hill. Separating these neighborhoods between two countries would create an unwieldy and unsustainable border. While creative solutions have been proposed to ensure that a re-divided Jerusalem would remain interconnected, as any urban center must to thrive, experience shows that divided cities, such as Berlin and Baghdad, are fragile at best and combustible at worst. One significant reason against dividing Jerusalem is that many of the Palestinians who live in East Jerusalem wish to remain under Israeli sovereignty. Recent polling indicates that, despite the fact that municipal resources and services have not been evenly allocated between Jewish and Arab Jerusalem segments of the city, a plurality of Palestinians residing in eastern sections of Jerusalem would move from Palestinian Jerusalem to Israeli Jerusalem, if given the opportunity, should the city be re-divided. According to one of the pollsters:For most Palestinians who said they wanted to be citizens of Israel, approximately 35 percent said it was practical issues that dominate -- freedom of movement, higher income, health insurance, job opportunities, prosperity, more shops...People were concerned that if they became a citizen of Palestine, they had significant worries about losing employment in Israel, free movement in Israel, Israeli health care, and reduction in city services. ...Three-quarters of east Jerusalem Arabs are at least a little concerned, and more than half are more than a little concerned, that they would lose their ability to write and speak freely if they became citizens of a Palestinian state rather than remaining under Israeli control.But more contentious than the fate of Jerusalem's residential neighborhoods is the debate over the fate of the Old City - home to Judaism's holiest sites and among Islam's holiest sites. On a practical level, dividing the Old City along demographic lines would put Jewish holy sites on the Palestinian side and Muslim holy sites on the Israeli side. Israelis are understandably cautious about putting these sites solely under Arab control; when Arabs last controlled the Old City, from 1948 to 1967, Jews were barred from access.
To address this concern, numerous groups have proposed "special arrangements," such as international or joint Israeli-Palestinian administration over the Old City, to ensure protection of and access to these sites. But these proposals rely on international community support and enforcement to guarantee security and access, which Israel has legitimate grounds to doubt given the lackluster performance of the Multinational Force & Observers (MFO) in the Sinai (who abandoned their posts in the lead-up to the June 1967 War) and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) along Israel's northern border (who have failed in their mandate to prevent the re-arming of Hezbollah). Furthermore, the international community has consistently shown little regard for the Jewish attachment to holy sites, most recently seen in UNESCO's 2010 declaration that the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron is an integral part of the Palestinian territories.An additional problem with special arrangement proposals is that they tend to require more intimate and extensive cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians rather than granting the divorce from one another that both sides seem to be seeking through a peace deal. And this cooperation must succeed in the most sensitive of all locations.
Unlike these untested proposals, Israel has proven over the past four decades that its authority over all of Jerusalem can ensure protection of and access to holy sites. Since Jerusalem was reunited in 1967, pilgrims of all faiths have generally been allowed to visit the holy places of all religions. Muslim mosques, even those built atop the mount where Judaism's Holy Temple once stood, operate relatively freely - and under Islamic religious oversight. While some might contest that Israel does periodically place security restrictions upon entrance to holy sites, free access is the default policy under Israeli rule. But resolving the status of the Old City of Jerusalem is not just about geography nor about the practicalities of access to a single site; it is deeply intertwined with questions of national identity, history, and theology. Proposals for joint sovereignty, deferred sovereignty, or even divine sovereignty ignore the deep-rooted significance of the holy city. The search for a split the difference compromise also ignores the fact that the Old City of Jerusalem has been the national capital of the Jewish people for the past 3000 years and is Judaism's holiest site, while it is Mecca that plays that role for Muslims. The international community would never expect the Islamic world to cede sovereignty over Mecca; the Jewish people ought to be accorded no less respect with regard to the Old City of Jerusalem.One reason peace in the Middle East has not yet been possible is because most efforts to achieve it have been aspirational but untethered from reality. It is clear that re-dividing Jerusalem is neither feasible nor prudent. The international community must take off the table the option of dividing Jerusalem, in the same way that they have ended the debate over a right of return to Israel for Palestinian refugees. A sustainable peace can only be achieved with the entirety of Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty.
Imagine a Divided Jerusalem
by Eric on January 13, 2011
??? - The Berlin Wall - Berliner Mauerphoto © 1986 siyu | Berlin Wall
This week PA President Abbas said: Jerusalem is the heart of the Palestinian cause, and unless Jerusalem is the capital of an independent Palestinian state, there will not be peace.Imagine if Benjamin Netanyahu said the same thing, but turned the tables: Jerusalem is a Jewish city, the heart of the Jewish nation, and If Jerusalem does not remain in Jewish hands, there will never be peace.That post, from Elder of Ziyon, got me thinking. What if Jerusalem were really divided? What if the city became two? Lets look at a famous example of this situation:The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to divide East Berlin from West Berlin. The wall divided the Democracy from the Communists. It was a horrible situation for everyone. Families were separated. People were removed from their jobs. A rightfully united city became two.
It didn’t work then and it wouldn’t work now.Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has the sense to speak up about it. A divided Jerusalem would not just split the city, it would carve out ethnic lines based on an arbitrary war cease fire line from 1949.
Remember, that territory was never a country called Palestine.From 1517-1917, it was part of the Ottoman Empire. From 1917-1948, it was part of the British Mandate of Palestine.In 1948, it was conquered by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, making it a de-facto part of the country. In 1967, it was captured by the Israelis in a defensive war. It was never Palestine.The Arabs living in the Eastern half of Jerusalem from 1948-1967, a period when Jews were kicked out of the territory, were offered citizenship to Israel in 1967. Since the city was reunited, Jewish neighborhoods have grown next to Arab neighborhoods. The neighborhoods of Jerusalem are generally divided on Jewish/Arab ethnic lines, but there is no law mandating it. Arab Israelis and Jewish Israelis are treated as one under Israeli law.
Many Arabs chose not to accept Israeli citizenship. That was a choice, not a decree. There are many reasons for this, but some of Jerusalem’s Arabs have spoken up about their desire for citizenship. Despite what Hamas and the PLO might tell you, they are not all enthusiastic about having East Jerusalem carved out from the rest of the city.Read about what the Palestinians of Jerusalem really want. Read why some are now taking Israel’s offer for citizenship.If you want to see how bad things are for Arabs in Jerusalem, I suggest going to see yourself. It is a wonderful place with freedom of movement for all residents. There are no borders and no fences. It is a united city.This is not a cut and dry issue, but it is important to look at what everyone wants. Just because Mahmoud Abbas is the voice of West Bank Palestinians does not mean he speaks for everyone. Just because he refuses to move forward on a peace plan that does not include East Jerusalem as a Palestinian capital does not mean all of the Palestinians in Jerusalem want that too.
Do we really want another Berlin Wall? I don’t think so.
STOCK RESULTS JAN 18,12
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
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED JANUARY 18,2012
09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM +34.67
10:30 AM +77.88
11:00 AM +56.12
11:30 AM +54.61
12:00 PM +46.66
12:30 PM +59.15
01:00 PM +76.71
01:30 PM +75.41
02:00 PM +60.25
02:30 PM +71.16
03:00 PM +64.64
03:30 PM +89.94
04:00 PM +96.88 12,578.95
S&P 500 1308.04 +14.37
NASDAQ 2769.71 +41.63
GOLD 1,660.90 +5.60
OIL 100.89 +0.18
TSE 300 12,327.52 +94.69
CDNX 1550.05 +12.33
S&P/TSX/60 703.69 +5.20
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -15 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -15 points at low today.
Dow +78 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,645.30.OIL opens at $101.05 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -15 points at low today so far.
Dow +97 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -15 points at low today.
Dow +97 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
CRUDE OIL +
GASOLINE +
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES
Iran Threatens To Torpedo US Aircraft Carriers-Three US warships stationed in waters near Strait of Hormuz Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Wednesday, January 18, 2012
A senior Iranian military commander has warned that Iran has the capability to sink US aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf using detection-evading submarines that can fire torpedoes.Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army’s Self-Sufficiency Jihad Rear Admiral Farhad Amiri, Stated that Iran’s submarines are able to ambush and hit enemy vessels specially US Aircraft carriers from the seabed throughout the Persian Gulf,reports the Fars News Agency.Amiri said that while the United States was focused on Iran’s surface capabilities, the greater threat was posed by its fleet of submarines which, Are noiseless and can easily evade detection as they are equipped with the sonar-evading technology and can fire missiles and torpedoes simultaneously.
Amiri added that the submarines could easily target and hit an aircraft carrier traversing in the nearby regions.After the US sailed the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier through the Strait of Hormuz in the midst of Iranian wargames, Iranian Army Commander Major General Ataollah Salehi warned America to keep its warships out of the region.The US has made it clear that should Iran try to block the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil choke point, a red line will have been crossed.
Three US aircraft carriers are now stationed just outside Iranian waters, in addition to 15,000 troops that were sent to Kuwait at the end of last week.A massive joint naval drill between the US and Israel that was set to coincide with Iranian wargames later this month was postponed earlier this week, with explanations varying as to why the exercise was called off.Russia, which has its own warships stationed in the region, today reiterated its opposition to a military strike on Iran, with foreign minister Sergei Lavrov warning an attack would be a catastrophe for relations between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in the Middle East.Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has stated that Israel is still very far off a decision on whether not not to attack Iran over its nuclear program.
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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CNBC VIDEOS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED JANUARY 18,2012
09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM +34.67
10:30 AM +77.88
11:00 AM +56.12
11:30 AM +54.61
12:00 PM +46.66
12:30 PM +59.15
01:00 PM +76.71
01:30 PM +75.41
02:00 PM +60.25
02:30 PM +71.16
03:00 PM +64.64
03:30 PM +89.94
04:00 PM +96.88 12,578.95
S&P 500 1308.04 +14.37
NASDAQ 2769.71 +41.63
GOLD 1,660.90 +5.60
OIL 100.89 +0.18
TSE 300 12,327.52 +94.69
CDNX 1550.05 +12.33
S&P/TSX/60 703.69 +5.20
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -15 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -15 points at low today.
Dow +78 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,645.30.OIL opens at $101.05 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -15 points at low today so far.
Dow +97 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -15 points at low today.
Dow +97 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
CRUDE OIL +
GASOLINE +
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES
Iran Threatens To Torpedo US Aircraft Carriers-Three US warships stationed in waters near Strait of Hormuz Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Wednesday, January 18, 2012
A senior Iranian military commander has warned that Iran has the capability to sink US aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf using detection-evading submarines that can fire torpedoes.Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army’s Self-Sufficiency Jihad Rear Admiral Farhad Amiri, Stated that Iran’s submarines are able to ambush and hit enemy vessels specially US Aircraft carriers from the seabed throughout the Persian Gulf,reports the Fars News Agency.Amiri said that while the United States was focused on Iran’s surface capabilities, the greater threat was posed by its fleet of submarines which, Are noiseless and can easily evade detection as they are equipped with the sonar-evading technology and can fire missiles and torpedoes simultaneously.
Amiri added that the submarines could easily target and hit an aircraft carrier traversing in the nearby regions.After the US sailed the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier through the Strait of Hormuz in the midst of Iranian wargames, Iranian Army Commander Major General Ataollah Salehi warned America to keep its warships out of the region.The US has made it clear that should Iran try to block the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil choke point, a red line will have been crossed.
Three US aircraft carriers are now stationed just outside Iranian waters, in addition to 15,000 troops that were sent to Kuwait at the end of last week.A massive joint naval drill between the US and Israel that was set to coincide with Iranian wargames later this month was postponed earlier this week, with explanations varying as to why the exercise was called off.Russia, which has its own warships stationed in the region, today reiterated its opposition to a military strike on Iran, with foreign minister Sergei Lavrov warning an attack would be a catastrophe for relations between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in the Middle East.Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has stated that Israel is still very far off a decision on whether not not to attack Iran over its nuclear program.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
STOCK RESULTS JAN 17,12
I WAS WATCHING DR PHIL TODAY AT 5PM EST.HE HAD ON ABUSED WOMEN THAT ALMOST GOT MUDERED BY THEIR HUSBANDS FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.I HAVE GOT A QUESTION FOR THE SHOWS ON TV.WHY ARE THERE NEVER ANY MUSLIM WOMEN ON THESE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHOWS.POOR MUSLIM WOMEN AND GIRLS ARE TORTURED AND KILLED JUST FOR GOING OUTSIDE ALONE OR JUST TALKING TO A MAN OUTSIDE THEIR HOMES.THIS VIOLENCE AGAINST ISLAMIC WOMEN HAS TO STOP.FOR A SO CALLED PEACEFUL RELIGION,ISLAMIC-MUSLIM WOMEN HAVE NO EQUAL RIGHTS,THEIR TREATED LIKE RATS AND DISCARDED.THIS OUTRAGE HAS TO BE STOPPED.MUSLIM WOMEN MUST STAND UP AND BE COUNTED TO GET THEIR TRUE EQUAL RIGHTS IN ISLAM.ISLAMIC MEN (I CAN'T EVEN CALL THEM MEN,I CALL THEM BRUTE JACKASS BEASTS).SMARTEN UP AND LOVE YOUR WIFE AND YOUR DAUGHTER,NOT MURDER(HONOR KILL)THE PERSON WHO CAN BRING ANOTHER LIFE INTO THIS WORLD.
Honor Killing is Absolutely Islamic!
by Syed Kamran Mirza 01 Jul, 2005 (Updated 16 Jan, 2008)
Honor killings, which occur with shocking regularity in certain parts of the Middle East and South Asia, target women whose actions – actual or suspected – violate the honor of their family, an honor which is thought to depend on the sexual purity of its female members. Victims are always being killed/slaughtered mercilessly by her own family members. Honor killing is a manifestation of global phenomenon in general and Muslim nations in particular. Since this terrible inhumane practice does exists only among the Muslims of the world—very often civilized people do blame Islam as the precursor of this dreadful act. Most others do not agree with this notion at all; and they try to put the blame on the tribal/cultural practice, and do not consider Islam is anyway responsible for it. In this essay I shall analyze the real issues, cause and origin, and pattern of this heinous act amongst the Muslims of the world to postulate if there is any link, or incitements that originates from the very core of Islam.
What is honor killing?
Honor killing is the bone chilling horrific cruelty committed by the family members—father, mother, brothers, brother-in-laws, even in some cases own sisters also. In this terrible episode the victim is always the daughter/sister or other blood related young women who get killed. Perpetrators are always the family members stated above. Family honor is one of the core values of Arab society. Anything from speaking with an unrelated man, to rumored pre-marital loss of virginity, to an extra-marital affair, refuses forced marriages; marry according to their will; or even women and girls who have been raped—can stain or destroy the family honor. Therefore, family members (parents, brothers, or sisters) kill the victim in order to remove the stain or maintain, and protect the honor of the family. Killers are given light sentences, sometimes with little or no jail time at all. The killers mainly defend their act of murder by referring to the Koran and Islam. Family guardian will say that they are merely following the directives set down in their Islamic ethical beliefs.
http://www.islam-watch.org/SyedKamranMirza/honor_killing.htm
The chips that are good for your health
Pharmacy to sell edible microchips that will alert doctors if patients are not taking right medicines. Steve Connor Author Biography Tuesday 17 January 2012
An edible microchip that records the precise details of a patient's pill regime will be available in Britain by the end of year following a commercial deal that opens the door to an era of digital medicines.Click HERE to view Smart pill: How the new technology works'
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An American biomedical company has signed up with a British healthcare firm to sell digestible sensors, each smaller than a grain of sand, that can trigger the transmission of medical information from a patient's body to the mobile phone of a relative or carer.The aim is to develop a suite of intelligent medicines that can help patients and their carers keep track of which pills are taken at what time of day, in order to ensure that complex regimes of drugs are given the best possible chance of working effectively.Ultimately, the plan is for every one of the many pills taken each day by some of the most chronically-ill patients, especially those with mental health problems, to be digitally time-stamped as they are digested within the body.The healthcare company Lloyds- pharmacy said it intends to sell the edible microchips of Proteus Biomedical of California by the end of the year, as part of a trial to test whether NHS patients would be prepared to pay privately to ensure that they or their relatives take the right medicines at the right time.
There is a huge problem with medicines not being taken correctly,said Steve Gray, healthcare services director of Lloydspharmacy.Anyone taking several medications knows how easy it can be to lose track of whether or not you've taken the correct tablets that day,he added.Add to that complex health issues and families caring for loved ones who many not live with them and you can appreciate the benefits of an information service that helps patients to get the most from their treatments and for families to help them to remain well.Lloydspharmacy said the World Health Organisation has found that about half of all patients fail to take their medicines correctly, which can lead to people not getting the full benefits of treatment, or ending up with harmful side-effects.Unused prescription medicines are estimated to cost the NHS nearly £400m a year.The Proteus technology is based on the company's digestible sensors, which are no bigger than a grain of sand. They are composed of the ingredients commonly found in food and are activated when they come into contact with stomach fluids.At the heart of the technology is a tiny silicon wafer separating tiny quantities of copper and magnesium, which effectively forms a microscopic battery that generates an electric current when immersed in the acidic environment of the stomach.These electric currents, which can be given individual signatures to match the drug taken with the edible sensor, are detected passively by an intelligent patch stuck to the patient's skin, in much the same way that electrocardiogram (ECG) skin patches can record the electric currents within the heart.
The patch, which is designed to be worn for seven days, includes a flexible battery and chip that records the information and sends it by Bluetooth wireless technology to the mobile phone of a relative or professional carer.In the future the goal is a fully integrated system that creates an information product that helps patients and their families with the demands of complex pharmacy, said Andrew Thompson, the chief executive and founder of Proteus Biomedical.What we know is that we've created many pharmaceuticals with great potential but much of that potential is not realised because these drugs are not being used properly.Neither company was prepared to comment on the cost of the digestible microchips, but industry sources suggested a starting cost of about £50 per week.
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).
Eurozone bail-out fund loses triple A rating
Today JAN 16,12 @ 20:43 By Valentina Pop
BRUSSELS - The Eurozone's bail-out fund was downgraded by one notch to AA+ by the US ratings agency Standard&Poor's on Monday (16 January) - a move likely to put an extra financial burden on contributing nations, many of whom were themselves downgraded last week.Designed to fund the rescue packages for Greece, Ireland and Portugal, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) owed its triple A rating to guarantees from eurozone countries, two of which - France and Austria - saw their own top rating cut by one notch on Friday, along with other countries further down the ratings ladder.The EFSF’s obligations are no longer fully supported either by guarantees from EFSF members rated AAA by S&P, or by AAA rated securities. Credit enhancements sufficient to offset what we view as the reduced creditworthiness of guarantors are currently not in place,Standard&Poor's said in a statement.The move is likely to lower the firepower of the fund, unless contributing countries step up their loan guarantees to the facility.The downgrade has a consequence - if it wants to keep its triple A status, it will have to lend less or, if not, the cost of lending will go up. If it wants to maintain the same capacity to lend, at the same price, you will have to have additional contributions from member states,European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi said on Monday evening during a hearing in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.EFSF chairman Klaus Regling took note of the downgrade and argued that its lending capacity will not be changed.The EFSF has sufficient means to fulfill its commitments under current and potential future adjustment programmes until the European Stability Mechanism [permanent bail-out fund] becomes operational in July 2012.
Eurozone finance ministers chairman Jean Claude Juncker, whose country is hosting the EFSF, also sought to downplay the effects of the downgrade.S&P's decision will not reduce EFSF’s lending capacity of €440 billion. EFSF will continue to be backed by unconditional and irrevocable guarantees by euro area member states.He added that the other two major ratings agencies, Fitch and Moody's have not downgraded the fund or indicated they would do so.Earlier that day, a commission spokesman went to some lengths to downplay the importance of Friday's decision to downgrade Austria, Cyprus, France, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. He argued that ratings agencies are not privy to all the economic and financial data about member states that the EU commission has.ECB chief Draghi also noted that all ratings agencies had a terrible loss of reputation over last crisis and said that his institution in the last few years has avoided having a mechanical reliance on them.
Critics says that ratings agencies, having failed to spot the build-up to the financial crisis in 2008, are now being over-zealous to make up for it.
Draft text: EU ministers worried by Israeli actions in Jordan Valley Today JAN 16,12 By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS - A draft statement for EU foreign ministers next week says Israel's monopolisation of land and water in the occupied West Bank is worrying and endangers the two-state solution.The text - provisionally agreed by mid-level EU diplomats on Monday (16 January) - says: Against a backdrop of worrying developments in 2011, particularly with respect to settlements under Area C, the EU reaffirms its commitment to a two-state solution ... The viability of a two-state solution must not be jeopardised.The draft conclusions also say the EU welcomes Jordan's recent efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks and urges both sides to build confidence and create an atmosphere of trust for the negotiations.Area C is a 62 percent chunk of the occupied West Bank designated by the Oslo accords in the 1990s as being under full Israeli control.The reference by ministers to worrying developments is based on an internal report by EU heads of mission in Israel from 14 December which blames it for using red tape to force the native Palestinian population off its most fertile farmland.
The report - seen by EUobserver - notes that in 1967 there were between 200,000 and 320,000 Palestinians in the Jordan Valley, most of which lies in Area C, but that just 56,000 live there today.The Jewish population has grown from 1,200 to 310,000 over the same period.It notes that Israeli farms use most of the water resources in the area to produce export crops. Meanwhile, Palestinians get access to just 25 percent of available water at higher prices, limiting them to low intensity agriculture.All 27 EU countries endorsed the internal report and one EU diplomat said the draft ministers' statement is likely to go through more or less unchanged.
Another diplomat warned that pro-Israeli EU countries - such as the Netherlands and the Czech Republic - will try to make sure the formal EU communique does not offend their ally.There are still two or three [lower-level] meetings this week before the EU ministers' meeting next week [23 January], so the text could change completely, or there might be no text at all if they can't agree, the contact said.
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.
Iran warns of consequences if Arabs back oil sanctions ReutersBy Ramin Mostafavi | Reuters – Sun, Jan 15, 2012
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran warned Gulf Arab neighbors on Sunday they would suffer consequences if they raised oil output to replace Iranian crude facing an international ban.In signs of Tehran's deepening isolation over its refusal to halt nuclear activity that could yield atomic bombs, China's premier was in Saudi Arabia probing for greater access to its huge oil and gas reserves and Britain voiced confidence a once hesitant European Union would soon ban oil imports from Iran.
Major importers of Iranian oil were long loath to embargo the lifeblood of Iran's economy because of fears this would send oil prices rocketing at a time - amidst debt and deficit crises and high unemployment - when they could least afford it.But strong momentum for oil sanctions has been created by a U.N. watchdog report saying Iran appeared to have worked on designing an atom bomb.A new U.S. law signed by President Barack Obama on New Year's Eve would freeze out of the U.S. financial system any institution dealing with Iran's central bank - which processes its oil revenues.If fully applied, the law would make it impossible for most countries to buy Iranian oil. Washington is offering waivers to countries to let them keep buying Iranian oil for now, but demanding they gradually cut their imports back.Leaders from some of the Asian countries that buy the most Iranian oil have begun touring the Middle East to secure alternative supply lines from Arab states. European buyers suggest they will also lean more heavily on Arab oil producers should an EU ban come into effect.Feeling increasingly encircled, Iran's hardline Islamic clerical elite has lashed back by threatening to block the main Middle East oil shipping route. Since the New Year, Tehran also began to enrich uranium in an underground bunker and sentenced an Iranian-American citizen to death on espionage charges.Tensions in the Gulf have caused occasional spikes in oil prices in recent weeks. The sanctions are also having a real impact on Iran's domestic economy, causing prices of imported staples to soar and the rial currency to tumble.Iran holds a parliamentary election in March, its first since a presidential vote in 2009 led to eight months of street protests. Those demonstrations were put down by force, but since then the "Arab Spring" has shown the vulnerability of states in the region to public anger fueled by economic hardship.
IRAN WARNS GULF ARABS
Iranian OPEC Governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi said Tehran would regard as an unfriendly act any move by neighboring Gulf Arab oil exporters to make up for Iranian crude.If (they) give the green light to replacing Iran's oil these countries would be the main culprits for whatever happens in the region - including the Strait of Hormuz, Khatibi told the Sharq daily newspaper, referring to the narrow sea channel through which a third of the world's oil tanker traffic passes.Our Arab neighbor countries should not cooperate with these (U.S. and European) adventurers... These measures will not be perceived as friendly, he said.Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said on Saturday the world's No. 1 oil exporter - the only one in OPEC with significant unused capacity - was ready and able to meet any increase in demand. He made no direct reference to sanctions on Iran.Iran's navy commander Habibollah Sayyari said Tehran could exert control over the Strait of Hormuz. The United States, whose warships patrol the region, says it will not tolerate any attempt to disrupt shipping through the strait.Military experts say Iran could not challenge the huge U.S.-led fleet that guards the strait for long, but its threats raise the risk of miscalculation that could flare into a clash.The United States and Israel postponed military exercises scheduled to take place in coming weeks to later in the year. Officials in both countries denied the postponement was connected with the increasing tension over Iran.Oil prices were down at the end of last week as anticipation of downgrades by Standard & Poor's of several indebted euro zone economies countered the buoyant effect of anxiety about Iranian threats to shipping. But the standoff over Iran pointed to continued support for higher prices, brokers and analysts said.
Iran's foreign ministry said on Sunday it had received a letter from Washington about the Strait of Hormuz and there was no decision yet on whether to reply. A ministry spokesman did not divulge the contents of the letter.Tehran had said on Saturday it had written to Washington with evidence the CIA was involved in the assassination of a nuclear scientist, blown up by a bomb attached to his car last week, the latest of several such killings.Western countries suspect Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons capability. Iran says it is only interested in nuclear technology for peaceful purposes such as generating electricity.
CHINA SEEKS OIL OPTIONS IN GULF
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was pressing Saudi Arabia to open its oil and gas wealth to more Chinese investment, Chinese media said on Sunday. China has been Iran's biggest oil buyer.Although Beijing opposes further international sanctions on Iran, it has already cut its purchases of Iranian oil by more than half for the first two months of this year.China and Saudi Arabia are both in important stages of development and there are broad prospects for enhancing cooperation, Wen told Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Nayef on Saturday, according to Xinhua news agency.Michal Meidan, an analyst with London's Eurasia Group, said: Beijing is concerned with the potential response to bellicose Iranian statements and the spike in oil prices that would ensue from greater turmoil in Syria and Iran.Wen was also scheduled to visit the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, two other big OPEC exporters across the Gulf from Iran.British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Sunday he was confident the 27-member European Union would impose resounding sanctions on Iran's oil industry and possibly other sectors at an EU foreign ministers meeting on January 23.
After protracted reluctance to act arising from the dependence of some debt-ridden EU economies on Iranian oil, member states have agreed in principle to ban it and have been working on details of how this will be implemented.Last year EU countries collectively bought about a fifth of Iranian exports, roughly on par with China.
Any EU-wide prohibition of Iranian oil would probably take effect gradually.Grace periods on existing contracts of one to 12 months have been proposed to allow importers to find other suppliers before implementing an embargo.Hague said: Our sanctions are part of trying to get Iran to change course and to enter negotiations and we should not be deterred from implementing those. We will continue to intensify our own sanctions and those of the European Union.
IRANIAN DEFIANCE
Some analysts say Iran's leadership, which has thrived on defiance of the West since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, is more likely to dig in rather than back off in response to sanctions aimed at stopping a nuclear program many Iranians regard as a matter of national sovereignty and modernization.A year after the collapse of the last big power talks with Iran, its deepening nuclear defiance has raised concern of war if harsher sanctions do not change its course.Israel, reputed to have the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal, sees Iran's nuclear and missile projects as a mortal threat which it will resort to force as a last resort to stop.The risk of Israel triggering Middle East upheaval with a unilateral strike has the war-weary United States worried.U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey is to make his first visit to Israel on Thursday. Israeli media say he will try to persuade his hosts not to surprise Washington on Iran.Israel's vice prime minister voiced disappointment that the new U.S. legislation gives Obama leeway to allow sanctions waivers to countries to keep buying Iranian crude.The (U.S.) Senate passed a resolution, by a majority of 100-to-one, to impose these sanctions, and in the U.S. administration there is hesitation for fear of oil prices rising this year, out of election-year considerations,Moshe Yaalon told Israel Radio.Obama has said he is determined to deny Tehran the means to develop an atom bomb. His aides cast their sanctions strategy as a bid to work collaboratively with foreign powers and win over states that import Iranian oil without shocking energy markets.(Additional reporting by Robin Pomeroy in Tehran, Daniel Fineren in London, Dan Williams in Jerusalem, Adrian Croft in London, Chris Buckley in Beijing; Writing by Mark Heinrich; Editing by Peter Graff)
Israel requests delay in US-Israel missile defense exercise By Laura Rozen | The Envoy – Sun, Jan 15, 2012
A major U.S.-Israeli missile defense exercise that had been planned to take place in the spring has been postponed due to a request by the Israeli Defense Ministry, American and Israeli officials told Yahoo News Sunday.Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak issued a request to the Pentagon last month that the planned joint exercise be postponed, a U.S. official told Yahoo News Sunday.It was Barak,the U.S. official said on condition of anonymity.The Jewish Telegraph Agency's Ron Kampeas reported earlier Sunday that the exercise was being postponed, ostensibly because of Israeli budget cuts.But American officials are privately concerned that the Israeli request for a postponement of the exercise could be one potential warning sign that Israel is trying to leave its options open for conducting a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities in the spring. In that case, it would not wish American forces to then be on the ground, the thinking goes.
An Israeli official downplayed that interpretation. He told Yahoo News Sunday that another possible reason for the delay may be that the Americans and Israelis both considered that such a huge maneuver at this time of heightened tensions between the West and Iran could potentially inflame the situation.The Israeli Defense Ministry made the decision in consultation with the Pentagon, he said, and the two nations' defense agencies had been expected to issue a joint statement indicating the exercise will be postponed until the second half of the year.Some Washington observers found both cited Israeli rationales for the delay--budget cuts and Israeli concern about further raising tensions with Iran--as conspicuously thin.U.S. officials publicly, like their Israeli counterparts, however, said such delays aren't all that unusual.I do know there were a variety of factors at play in this case, but in general, leaders from both sides believe that optimum participation by all units in best achieved later in the year,U.S. European Command (EUCOM) spokesman Captain John Ross told Yahoo News by email Sunday.Following close consultation between US European Command (EUCOM) and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), exercise Austere Challenge 12 will be conducted during the second half of 2012,Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told Yahoo News by email Sunday.It is not at all uncommon for routine exercises to be postponed,Kirby added.General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is due to arrive in Israel Thursday for consultations, the Associated Press reported. It will be Dempsey's first trip to Israel since assuming the top Pentagon military post in September.The Obama administration is concerned that Iran's recent statement that it is expanding nuclear operations with more advanced equipment may push Israel closer to a strike,the AP reported said.
EPA drops jackboot on necks of couple for daring to build on their own land J. D. Heyes Natural News January 17, 2012
Stories about overreach from Washington, D.C. abound, but just when you think you’ve heard them all comes yet another that makes you shake your head in disbelief and wonder just whom is supposed to be working for whom in this grand old Republic of ours.Taking into account that most of us want clean air, fresh water to drink and a sustainable environment – and that government has a role to play in ensuring these resources are preserved – there comes a point where that role grows well beyond its original intent and begins to infringe on the constitutional rights of the citizens. Just ask Mike and Chantell Sackett,who are battling the leviathan Environmental Protection Agencyjust to be able to build a home on land they bought years ago in Idaho.They bought all of the permits. They spent thousands of dollars preparing the land. But just as they were ready to begin construction, the EPA swooped in, pronounced their property a wetlands (even though it sits in the middle of a residential neighborhood that contains sewer lines and scores of other homes) and issued a compliance order calling on them to return the land to its original state or face daily fines of $37,500per day.
And here is where the comedy of errorsreallybegins.Surely officials at the EPA would be reasonable, the Sackett’s thought. After all, there were homes surrounding their plot of land. There was infrastructure. And they’d done everything they were supposed to do to “comply” with all of the rules. With all of that in mind, they appealed to the agency for a hearing on the issue. But instead of hearing the couple out, EPA officials blew them off, rejecting their appeal out of hand. So, with little alternative, the couple decided to take the plunge, hire some lawyers and sue the EPA to get the agency to listen.The agency’s response? The EPA said the couple wasn’t allowed to sue. Huh? On the one hand, the agency was arguing that it wasmore than capableof handling complaints like that of the Sackett’s through its administrative process. But on the other hand, it wasn’t giving the coupleaccessto its administrative process: A classic Catch-22.As if that outrage wasn’t enough, the agency then tried to claim that no one has the constitutional right to bypass a compliance order and go straight to federal court for relief. So, no right to appeal, and no right to sue.Sure.Throughout, the EPA maintained that the couples’ land indeedwason a wetlands so, undaunted, the couple took the economic plunge anddidbring their case to federal court where, in the end, it wound up before the U.S. Supreme Court. And there, the tragic comedy continued.
Justice Elena Kagan, a former solicitor general and one of the high court’s most liberal members, took the EPA’s side. Oblivious to the fact that the EPAdeniedthe Sackett’s initial request for an appeal, Kagan asked, Couldn’t you have gotten the legal determination that you wanted through that process? Attorneys for the plaintiffs patiently explained that process was prohibitively costly and time-consuming – especially since they didn’t live in a wetlands area to begin with.
The good news is, at least some of the justices were empathetic to the Sackett’s plight, seemingly realizing the daunting task they faced in trying to get an unresponsive system to be…responsive.Don’t you think most ordinary homeowners would say this kind of thing can’t happen in the United States?Justice Samuel Alito asked Justice Department attorney Malcolm Stewart.Source:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/09/supreme-court-hears-case-dream-house-stopped-by-epa/
Fluoride Linked to #1 Cause of Death in New Research
Anthony Gucciardi Infowars.com January 17, 2012
Groundbreaking new research has linked sodium fluoride to cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide. Researchers found that fluoride consumption directly stimulates the hardening of your arteries, a condition known as atherosclerosis that is highly correlatedwith the #1 killer. Sodium fluoride is currently added to the water supply of many cities worldwide, despite extreme opposition from health professionals and previous studieslinking it to decreased IQ and infertility.In their research, scientists examined the relationship between fluoride intake and the hardening (calcification) of the arteries. Studying more than 60 patients, the researchers found a significant correlation between fluoride consumption and the calcification of your arteries. Published in the January edition of the journal Nuclear Medicine Communications, the research highlights the fact that mass fluoride exposure may be to blame for the cardiovascular disease epidemic that takes more lives each year than cancer. In 2008, cardiovascular killed 17 million people.According to the authors of the study:The coronary fluoride uptake value in patients with cardiovascular events was significantly higher than in patients without cardiovascular events.Amazingly, this is not the first report to come out on the dangers of water fluoridation, however the United States government along with other nations have allowed for the continued fluoridation of the public water supply despite these key findings. In fact, the U.S. government has even gone on record stating that a reduction in water fluoridation needs to occur following the results of a massive study that found water fluoridation affected cognitive function to the point of lowering the IQ of children. It turns out that the announcement was little more than a public relations stunt to curtail the massive wave of activism that followed the findings.
Government Admits Dangers Yet Continues to Pump Fluoride Into Your Water Supply
Over 24 other studies have unanimously concluded that fluoride negatively impacts cognitive function. In addition to these 24 studies focusing on cognition, over 100 animal studies have linked fluoride to an increase in male infertility, diabetes, and a whole host of other health problems. In the latest study on cognition, it was found that that 28% of the children who lived in an area where fluoride levels were low achieved the highest test scores. This means that the children exposed to less fluoride scored normal or advanced, while only 8% of fluoridated children did the same.In fact, the safety precautions regarding sodium fluoride are quite telling themselves:
Risk and Safety Phrases.
R25 – Toxic if swallowed.
R32 – Contact with acid liberates very toxic gas.
R36/38 – Irritating to skin and eyes.
S1/2 – Keep locked up and out of reach of children.
S22 – Do not breathe dust.
S36 – Wear suitable protective clothing.
S45 - In case of accident or if you feel unwell, seek medical advice immediately (show the label whenever possible.)
But what about cavity prevention?
Since 1962 the government has recommended fluoride levels between 0.7 and 1.2 milligrams per liter in the nations drinking water. Toted as an excellent cavity blocker, fluoride has been praised for its alleged power to prevent tooth decay and boost oral health. Research has now revealed that fluoride, the very substance that is supposed to prevent tooth decay, actually does nothing to prevent against cavities. In fact, vitamin D has been found to be significantly more effective in cavity prevention without the extreme side effects. Instead of damaging your body, vitamin D slashes your risk of just about everything fluoride consumption causes.
According to the latest numbers, over 72 percent of Americans drink water treated with fluoride. Is it any wonder that cardiovascular disease rates are off the charts? Perhaps most concerning is the fact that fluoride does not even prevent cavities, which is the very reason legislators have pushed to keep it in the public water supply despite the links to deadly disease. Even if fluoride was found to prevent cavities, would it be worth the adverse effects? Fluoride should be completely removed from the international water supply as it is a threat to public health. Until the proper legislation is passed, acquiring a high-quality water filter that removes fluoride is vital for the health perseverance of you and your family.This article first appeared at NaturalSociety.com
Honor Killing is Absolutely Islamic!
by Syed Kamran Mirza 01 Jul, 2005 (Updated 16 Jan, 2008)
Honor killings, which occur with shocking regularity in certain parts of the Middle East and South Asia, target women whose actions – actual or suspected – violate the honor of their family, an honor which is thought to depend on the sexual purity of its female members. Victims are always being killed/slaughtered mercilessly by her own family members. Honor killing is a manifestation of global phenomenon in general and Muslim nations in particular. Since this terrible inhumane practice does exists only among the Muslims of the world—very often civilized people do blame Islam as the precursor of this dreadful act. Most others do not agree with this notion at all; and they try to put the blame on the tribal/cultural practice, and do not consider Islam is anyway responsible for it. In this essay I shall analyze the real issues, cause and origin, and pattern of this heinous act amongst the Muslims of the world to postulate if there is any link, or incitements that originates from the very core of Islam.
What is honor killing?
Honor killing is the bone chilling horrific cruelty committed by the family members—father, mother, brothers, brother-in-laws, even in some cases own sisters also. In this terrible episode the victim is always the daughter/sister or other blood related young women who get killed. Perpetrators are always the family members stated above. Family honor is one of the core values of Arab society. Anything from speaking with an unrelated man, to rumored pre-marital loss of virginity, to an extra-marital affair, refuses forced marriages; marry according to their will; or even women and girls who have been raped—can stain or destroy the family honor. Therefore, family members (parents, brothers, or sisters) kill the victim in order to remove the stain or maintain, and protect the honor of the family. Killers are given light sentences, sometimes with little or no jail time at all. The killers mainly defend their act of murder by referring to the Koran and Islam. Family guardian will say that they are merely following the directives set down in their Islamic ethical beliefs.
http://www.islam-watch.org/SyedKamranMirza/honor_killing.htm
The chips that are good for your health
Pharmacy to sell edible microchips that will alert doctors if patients are not taking right medicines. Steve Connor Author Biography Tuesday 17 January 2012
An edible microchip that records the precise details of a patient's pill regime will be available in Britain by the end of year following a commercial deal that opens the door to an era of digital medicines.Click HERE to view Smart pill: How the new technology works'
http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/ia1715chips-graphicjpg-6290634.html
An American biomedical company has signed up with a British healthcare firm to sell digestible sensors, each smaller than a grain of sand, that can trigger the transmission of medical information from a patient's body to the mobile phone of a relative or carer.The aim is to develop a suite of intelligent medicines that can help patients and their carers keep track of which pills are taken at what time of day, in order to ensure that complex regimes of drugs are given the best possible chance of working effectively.Ultimately, the plan is for every one of the many pills taken each day by some of the most chronically-ill patients, especially those with mental health problems, to be digitally time-stamped as they are digested within the body.The healthcare company Lloyds- pharmacy said it intends to sell the edible microchips of Proteus Biomedical of California by the end of the year, as part of a trial to test whether NHS patients would be prepared to pay privately to ensure that they or their relatives take the right medicines at the right time.
There is a huge problem with medicines not being taken correctly,said Steve Gray, healthcare services director of Lloydspharmacy.Anyone taking several medications knows how easy it can be to lose track of whether or not you've taken the correct tablets that day,he added.Add to that complex health issues and families caring for loved ones who many not live with them and you can appreciate the benefits of an information service that helps patients to get the most from their treatments and for families to help them to remain well.Lloydspharmacy said the World Health Organisation has found that about half of all patients fail to take their medicines correctly, which can lead to people not getting the full benefits of treatment, or ending up with harmful side-effects.Unused prescription medicines are estimated to cost the NHS nearly £400m a year.The Proteus technology is based on the company's digestible sensors, which are no bigger than a grain of sand. They are composed of the ingredients commonly found in food and are activated when they come into contact with stomach fluids.At the heart of the technology is a tiny silicon wafer separating tiny quantities of copper and magnesium, which effectively forms a microscopic battery that generates an electric current when immersed in the acidic environment of the stomach.These electric currents, which can be given individual signatures to match the drug taken with the edible sensor, are detected passively by an intelligent patch stuck to the patient's skin, in much the same way that electrocardiogram (ECG) skin patches can record the electric currents within the heart.
The patch, which is designed to be worn for seven days, includes a flexible battery and chip that records the information and sends it by Bluetooth wireless technology to the mobile phone of a relative or professional carer.In the future the goal is a fully integrated system that creates an information product that helps patients and their families with the demands of complex pharmacy, said Andrew Thompson, the chief executive and founder of Proteus Biomedical.What we know is that we've created many pharmaceuticals with great potential but much of that potential is not realised because these drugs are not being used properly.Neither company was prepared to comment on the cost of the digestible microchips, but industry sources suggested a starting cost of about £50 per week.
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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MORNING,NEWS,STATS
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Dow +113 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +150 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,658.30.OIL opens at $100.28 today.
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WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
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CDNX 1538.93 +2.90
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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).
Eurozone bail-out fund loses triple A rating
Today JAN 16,12 @ 20:43 By Valentina Pop
BRUSSELS - The Eurozone's bail-out fund was downgraded by one notch to AA+ by the US ratings agency Standard&Poor's on Monday (16 January) - a move likely to put an extra financial burden on contributing nations, many of whom were themselves downgraded last week.Designed to fund the rescue packages for Greece, Ireland and Portugal, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) owed its triple A rating to guarantees from eurozone countries, two of which - France and Austria - saw their own top rating cut by one notch on Friday, along with other countries further down the ratings ladder.The EFSF’s obligations are no longer fully supported either by guarantees from EFSF members rated AAA by S&P, or by AAA rated securities. Credit enhancements sufficient to offset what we view as the reduced creditworthiness of guarantors are currently not in place,Standard&Poor's said in a statement.The move is likely to lower the firepower of the fund, unless contributing countries step up their loan guarantees to the facility.The downgrade has a consequence - if it wants to keep its triple A status, it will have to lend less or, if not, the cost of lending will go up. If it wants to maintain the same capacity to lend, at the same price, you will have to have additional contributions from member states,European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi said on Monday evening during a hearing in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.EFSF chairman Klaus Regling took note of the downgrade and argued that its lending capacity will not be changed.The EFSF has sufficient means to fulfill its commitments under current and potential future adjustment programmes until the European Stability Mechanism [permanent bail-out fund] becomes operational in July 2012.
Eurozone finance ministers chairman Jean Claude Juncker, whose country is hosting the EFSF, also sought to downplay the effects of the downgrade.S&P's decision will not reduce EFSF’s lending capacity of €440 billion. EFSF will continue to be backed by unconditional and irrevocable guarantees by euro area member states.He added that the other two major ratings agencies, Fitch and Moody's have not downgraded the fund or indicated they would do so.Earlier that day, a commission spokesman went to some lengths to downplay the importance of Friday's decision to downgrade Austria, Cyprus, France, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. He argued that ratings agencies are not privy to all the economic and financial data about member states that the EU commission has.ECB chief Draghi also noted that all ratings agencies had a terrible loss of reputation over last crisis and said that his institution in the last few years has avoided having a mechanical reliance on them.
Critics says that ratings agencies, having failed to spot the build-up to the financial crisis in 2008, are now being over-zealous to make up for it.
Draft text: EU ministers worried by Israeli actions in Jordan Valley Today JAN 16,12 By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS - A draft statement for EU foreign ministers next week says Israel's monopolisation of land and water in the occupied West Bank is worrying and endangers the two-state solution.The text - provisionally agreed by mid-level EU diplomats on Monday (16 January) - says: Against a backdrop of worrying developments in 2011, particularly with respect to settlements under Area C, the EU reaffirms its commitment to a two-state solution ... The viability of a two-state solution must not be jeopardised.The draft conclusions also say the EU welcomes Jordan's recent efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks and urges both sides to build confidence and create an atmosphere of trust for the negotiations.Area C is a 62 percent chunk of the occupied West Bank designated by the Oslo accords in the 1990s as being under full Israeli control.The reference by ministers to worrying developments is based on an internal report by EU heads of mission in Israel from 14 December which blames it for using red tape to force the native Palestinian population off its most fertile farmland.
The report - seen by EUobserver - notes that in 1967 there were between 200,000 and 320,000 Palestinians in the Jordan Valley, most of which lies in Area C, but that just 56,000 live there today.The Jewish population has grown from 1,200 to 310,000 over the same period.It notes that Israeli farms use most of the water resources in the area to produce export crops. Meanwhile, Palestinians get access to just 25 percent of available water at higher prices, limiting them to low intensity agriculture.All 27 EU countries endorsed the internal report and one EU diplomat said the draft ministers' statement is likely to go through more or less unchanged.
Another diplomat warned that pro-Israeli EU countries - such as the Netherlands and the Czech Republic - will try to make sure the formal EU communique does not offend their ally.There are still two or three [lower-level] meetings this week before the EU ministers' meeting next week [23 January], so the text could change completely, or there might be no text at all if they can't agree, the contact said.
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.
Iran warns of consequences if Arabs back oil sanctions ReutersBy Ramin Mostafavi | Reuters – Sun, Jan 15, 2012
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran warned Gulf Arab neighbors on Sunday they would suffer consequences if they raised oil output to replace Iranian crude facing an international ban.In signs of Tehran's deepening isolation over its refusal to halt nuclear activity that could yield atomic bombs, China's premier was in Saudi Arabia probing for greater access to its huge oil and gas reserves and Britain voiced confidence a once hesitant European Union would soon ban oil imports from Iran.
Major importers of Iranian oil were long loath to embargo the lifeblood of Iran's economy because of fears this would send oil prices rocketing at a time - amidst debt and deficit crises and high unemployment - when they could least afford it.But strong momentum for oil sanctions has been created by a U.N. watchdog report saying Iran appeared to have worked on designing an atom bomb.A new U.S. law signed by President Barack Obama on New Year's Eve would freeze out of the U.S. financial system any institution dealing with Iran's central bank - which processes its oil revenues.If fully applied, the law would make it impossible for most countries to buy Iranian oil. Washington is offering waivers to countries to let them keep buying Iranian oil for now, but demanding they gradually cut their imports back.Leaders from some of the Asian countries that buy the most Iranian oil have begun touring the Middle East to secure alternative supply lines from Arab states. European buyers suggest they will also lean more heavily on Arab oil producers should an EU ban come into effect.Feeling increasingly encircled, Iran's hardline Islamic clerical elite has lashed back by threatening to block the main Middle East oil shipping route. Since the New Year, Tehran also began to enrich uranium in an underground bunker and sentenced an Iranian-American citizen to death on espionage charges.Tensions in the Gulf have caused occasional spikes in oil prices in recent weeks. The sanctions are also having a real impact on Iran's domestic economy, causing prices of imported staples to soar and the rial currency to tumble.Iran holds a parliamentary election in March, its first since a presidential vote in 2009 led to eight months of street protests. Those demonstrations were put down by force, but since then the "Arab Spring" has shown the vulnerability of states in the region to public anger fueled by economic hardship.
IRAN WARNS GULF ARABS
Iranian OPEC Governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi said Tehran would regard as an unfriendly act any move by neighboring Gulf Arab oil exporters to make up for Iranian crude.If (they) give the green light to replacing Iran's oil these countries would be the main culprits for whatever happens in the region - including the Strait of Hormuz, Khatibi told the Sharq daily newspaper, referring to the narrow sea channel through which a third of the world's oil tanker traffic passes.Our Arab neighbor countries should not cooperate with these (U.S. and European) adventurers... These measures will not be perceived as friendly, he said.Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said on Saturday the world's No. 1 oil exporter - the only one in OPEC with significant unused capacity - was ready and able to meet any increase in demand. He made no direct reference to sanctions on Iran.Iran's navy commander Habibollah Sayyari said Tehran could exert control over the Strait of Hormuz. The United States, whose warships patrol the region, says it will not tolerate any attempt to disrupt shipping through the strait.Military experts say Iran could not challenge the huge U.S.-led fleet that guards the strait for long, but its threats raise the risk of miscalculation that could flare into a clash.The United States and Israel postponed military exercises scheduled to take place in coming weeks to later in the year. Officials in both countries denied the postponement was connected with the increasing tension over Iran.Oil prices were down at the end of last week as anticipation of downgrades by Standard & Poor's of several indebted euro zone economies countered the buoyant effect of anxiety about Iranian threats to shipping. But the standoff over Iran pointed to continued support for higher prices, brokers and analysts said.
Iran's foreign ministry said on Sunday it had received a letter from Washington about the Strait of Hormuz and there was no decision yet on whether to reply. A ministry spokesman did not divulge the contents of the letter.Tehran had said on Saturday it had written to Washington with evidence the CIA was involved in the assassination of a nuclear scientist, blown up by a bomb attached to his car last week, the latest of several such killings.Western countries suspect Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons capability. Iran says it is only interested in nuclear technology for peaceful purposes such as generating electricity.
CHINA SEEKS OIL OPTIONS IN GULF
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was pressing Saudi Arabia to open its oil and gas wealth to more Chinese investment, Chinese media said on Sunday. China has been Iran's biggest oil buyer.Although Beijing opposes further international sanctions on Iran, it has already cut its purchases of Iranian oil by more than half for the first two months of this year.China and Saudi Arabia are both in important stages of development and there are broad prospects for enhancing cooperation, Wen told Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Nayef on Saturday, according to Xinhua news agency.Michal Meidan, an analyst with London's Eurasia Group, said: Beijing is concerned with the potential response to bellicose Iranian statements and the spike in oil prices that would ensue from greater turmoil in Syria and Iran.Wen was also scheduled to visit the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, two other big OPEC exporters across the Gulf from Iran.British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Sunday he was confident the 27-member European Union would impose resounding sanctions on Iran's oil industry and possibly other sectors at an EU foreign ministers meeting on January 23.
After protracted reluctance to act arising from the dependence of some debt-ridden EU economies on Iranian oil, member states have agreed in principle to ban it and have been working on details of how this will be implemented.Last year EU countries collectively bought about a fifth of Iranian exports, roughly on par with China.
Any EU-wide prohibition of Iranian oil would probably take effect gradually.Grace periods on existing contracts of one to 12 months have been proposed to allow importers to find other suppliers before implementing an embargo.Hague said: Our sanctions are part of trying to get Iran to change course and to enter negotiations and we should not be deterred from implementing those. We will continue to intensify our own sanctions and those of the European Union.
IRANIAN DEFIANCE
Some analysts say Iran's leadership, which has thrived on defiance of the West since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, is more likely to dig in rather than back off in response to sanctions aimed at stopping a nuclear program many Iranians regard as a matter of national sovereignty and modernization.A year after the collapse of the last big power talks with Iran, its deepening nuclear defiance has raised concern of war if harsher sanctions do not change its course.Israel, reputed to have the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal, sees Iran's nuclear and missile projects as a mortal threat which it will resort to force as a last resort to stop.The risk of Israel triggering Middle East upheaval with a unilateral strike has the war-weary United States worried.U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey is to make his first visit to Israel on Thursday. Israeli media say he will try to persuade his hosts not to surprise Washington on Iran.Israel's vice prime minister voiced disappointment that the new U.S. legislation gives Obama leeway to allow sanctions waivers to countries to keep buying Iranian crude.The (U.S.) Senate passed a resolution, by a majority of 100-to-one, to impose these sanctions, and in the U.S. administration there is hesitation for fear of oil prices rising this year, out of election-year considerations,Moshe Yaalon told Israel Radio.Obama has said he is determined to deny Tehran the means to develop an atom bomb. His aides cast their sanctions strategy as a bid to work collaboratively with foreign powers and win over states that import Iranian oil without shocking energy markets.(Additional reporting by Robin Pomeroy in Tehran, Daniel Fineren in London, Dan Williams in Jerusalem, Adrian Croft in London, Chris Buckley in Beijing; Writing by Mark Heinrich; Editing by Peter Graff)
Israel requests delay in US-Israel missile defense exercise By Laura Rozen | The Envoy – Sun, Jan 15, 2012
A major U.S.-Israeli missile defense exercise that had been planned to take place in the spring has been postponed due to a request by the Israeli Defense Ministry, American and Israeli officials told Yahoo News Sunday.Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak issued a request to the Pentagon last month that the planned joint exercise be postponed, a U.S. official told Yahoo News Sunday.It was Barak,the U.S. official said on condition of anonymity.The Jewish Telegraph Agency's Ron Kampeas reported earlier Sunday that the exercise was being postponed, ostensibly because of Israeli budget cuts.But American officials are privately concerned that the Israeli request for a postponement of the exercise could be one potential warning sign that Israel is trying to leave its options open for conducting a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities in the spring. In that case, it would not wish American forces to then be on the ground, the thinking goes.
An Israeli official downplayed that interpretation. He told Yahoo News Sunday that another possible reason for the delay may be that the Americans and Israelis both considered that such a huge maneuver at this time of heightened tensions between the West and Iran could potentially inflame the situation.The Israeli Defense Ministry made the decision in consultation with the Pentagon, he said, and the two nations' defense agencies had been expected to issue a joint statement indicating the exercise will be postponed until the second half of the year.Some Washington observers found both cited Israeli rationales for the delay--budget cuts and Israeli concern about further raising tensions with Iran--as conspicuously thin.U.S. officials publicly, like their Israeli counterparts, however, said such delays aren't all that unusual.I do know there were a variety of factors at play in this case, but in general, leaders from both sides believe that optimum participation by all units in best achieved later in the year,U.S. European Command (EUCOM) spokesman Captain John Ross told Yahoo News by email Sunday.Following close consultation between US European Command (EUCOM) and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), exercise Austere Challenge 12 will be conducted during the second half of 2012,Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told Yahoo News by email Sunday.It is not at all uncommon for routine exercises to be postponed,Kirby added.General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is due to arrive in Israel Thursday for consultations, the Associated Press reported. It will be Dempsey's first trip to Israel since assuming the top Pentagon military post in September.The Obama administration is concerned that Iran's recent statement that it is expanding nuclear operations with more advanced equipment may push Israel closer to a strike,the AP reported said.
EPA drops jackboot on necks of couple for daring to build on their own land J. D. Heyes Natural News January 17, 2012
Stories about overreach from Washington, D.C. abound, but just when you think you’ve heard them all comes yet another that makes you shake your head in disbelief and wonder just whom is supposed to be working for whom in this grand old Republic of ours.Taking into account that most of us want clean air, fresh water to drink and a sustainable environment – and that government has a role to play in ensuring these resources are preserved – there comes a point where that role grows well beyond its original intent and begins to infringe on the constitutional rights of the citizens. Just ask Mike and Chantell Sackett,who are battling the leviathan Environmental Protection Agencyjust to be able to build a home on land they bought years ago in Idaho.They bought all of the permits. They spent thousands of dollars preparing the land. But just as they were ready to begin construction, the EPA swooped in, pronounced their property a wetlands (even though it sits in the middle of a residential neighborhood that contains sewer lines and scores of other homes) and issued a compliance order calling on them to return the land to its original state or face daily fines of $37,500per day.
And here is where the comedy of errorsreallybegins.Surely officials at the EPA would be reasonable, the Sackett’s thought. After all, there were homes surrounding their plot of land. There was infrastructure. And they’d done everything they were supposed to do to “comply” with all of the rules. With all of that in mind, they appealed to the agency for a hearing on the issue. But instead of hearing the couple out, EPA officials blew them off, rejecting their appeal out of hand. So, with little alternative, the couple decided to take the plunge, hire some lawyers and sue the EPA to get the agency to listen.The agency’s response? The EPA said the couple wasn’t allowed to sue. Huh? On the one hand, the agency was arguing that it wasmore than capableof handling complaints like that of the Sackett’s through its administrative process. But on the other hand, it wasn’t giving the coupleaccessto its administrative process: A classic Catch-22.As if that outrage wasn’t enough, the agency then tried to claim that no one has the constitutional right to bypass a compliance order and go straight to federal court for relief. So, no right to appeal, and no right to sue.Sure.Throughout, the EPA maintained that the couples’ land indeedwason a wetlands so, undaunted, the couple took the economic plunge anddidbring their case to federal court where, in the end, it wound up before the U.S. Supreme Court. And there, the tragic comedy continued.
Justice Elena Kagan, a former solicitor general and one of the high court’s most liberal members, took the EPA’s side. Oblivious to the fact that the EPAdeniedthe Sackett’s initial request for an appeal, Kagan asked, Couldn’t you have gotten the legal determination that you wanted through that process? Attorneys for the plaintiffs patiently explained that process was prohibitively costly and time-consuming – especially since they didn’t live in a wetlands area to begin with.
The good news is, at least some of the justices were empathetic to the Sackett’s plight, seemingly realizing the daunting task they faced in trying to get an unresponsive system to be…responsive.Don’t you think most ordinary homeowners would say this kind of thing can’t happen in the United States?Justice Samuel Alito asked Justice Department attorney Malcolm Stewart.Source:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/09/supreme-court-hears-case-dream-house-stopped-by-epa/
Fluoride Linked to #1 Cause of Death in New Research
Anthony Gucciardi Infowars.com January 17, 2012
Groundbreaking new research has linked sodium fluoride to cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide. Researchers found that fluoride consumption directly stimulates the hardening of your arteries, a condition known as atherosclerosis that is highly correlatedwith the #1 killer. Sodium fluoride is currently added to the water supply of many cities worldwide, despite extreme opposition from health professionals and previous studieslinking it to decreased IQ and infertility.In their research, scientists examined the relationship between fluoride intake and the hardening (calcification) of the arteries. Studying more than 60 patients, the researchers found a significant correlation between fluoride consumption and the calcification of your arteries. Published in the January edition of the journal Nuclear Medicine Communications, the research highlights the fact that mass fluoride exposure may be to blame for the cardiovascular disease epidemic that takes more lives each year than cancer. In 2008, cardiovascular killed 17 million people.According to the authors of the study:The coronary fluoride uptake value in patients with cardiovascular events was significantly higher than in patients without cardiovascular events.Amazingly, this is not the first report to come out on the dangers of water fluoridation, however the United States government along with other nations have allowed for the continued fluoridation of the public water supply despite these key findings. In fact, the U.S. government has even gone on record stating that a reduction in water fluoridation needs to occur following the results of a massive study that found water fluoridation affected cognitive function to the point of lowering the IQ of children. It turns out that the announcement was little more than a public relations stunt to curtail the massive wave of activism that followed the findings.
Government Admits Dangers Yet Continues to Pump Fluoride Into Your Water Supply
Over 24 other studies have unanimously concluded that fluoride negatively impacts cognitive function. In addition to these 24 studies focusing on cognition, over 100 animal studies have linked fluoride to an increase in male infertility, diabetes, and a whole host of other health problems. In the latest study on cognition, it was found that that 28% of the children who lived in an area where fluoride levels were low achieved the highest test scores. This means that the children exposed to less fluoride scored normal or advanced, while only 8% of fluoridated children did the same.In fact, the safety precautions regarding sodium fluoride are quite telling themselves:
Risk and Safety Phrases.
R25 – Toxic if swallowed.
R32 – Contact with acid liberates very toxic gas.
R36/38 – Irritating to skin and eyes.
S1/2 – Keep locked up and out of reach of children.
S22 – Do not breathe dust.
S36 – Wear suitable protective clothing.
S45 - In case of accident or if you feel unwell, seek medical advice immediately (show the label whenever possible.)
But what about cavity prevention?
Since 1962 the government has recommended fluoride levels between 0.7 and 1.2 milligrams per liter in the nations drinking water. Toted as an excellent cavity blocker, fluoride has been praised for its alleged power to prevent tooth decay and boost oral health. Research has now revealed that fluoride, the very substance that is supposed to prevent tooth decay, actually does nothing to prevent against cavities. In fact, vitamin D has been found to be significantly more effective in cavity prevention without the extreme side effects. Instead of damaging your body, vitamin D slashes your risk of just about everything fluoride consumption causes.
According to the latest numbers, over 72 percent of Americans drink water treated with fluoride. Is it any wonder that cardiovascular disease rates are off the charts? Perhaps most concerning is the fact that fluoride does not even prevent cavities, which is the very reason legislators have pushed to keep it in the public water supply despite the links to deadly disease. Even if fluoride was found to prevent cavities, would it be worth the adverse effects? Fluoride should be completely removed from the international water supply as it is a threat to public health. Until the proper legislation is passed, acquiring a high-quality water filter that removes fluoride is vital for the health perseverance of you and your family.This article first appeared at NaturalSociety.com
Monday, January 16, 2012
SPACE DEBRIS FALLS IN PACIFIC OCEAN
THE EARTH (WORLD) NEVER ENDS
ECCLESIASTES 1:4
4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
PSALMS 104:5
5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
MATTHEW 5:5
5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
PSALMS 37:29
29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
ISAIAH 45:17
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
EPHESIANS 3:21
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
LETS GET ONE MORE MYTH OUT OF THE WAY.THE WORLD NEVER ENDS UNLIKE THE GODLESS DINASOUR MEDIA AND PROPAGANDISTS ARE PROMOTING.SURE 4 BILLION DIE FROM SIN DURING WW3 BUT THAT STILL LEAVES 4 BILLION TO GO INTO KING JESUS' 1000 YEAR RULE ON EARTH LITERALLY.
WELL I DON'T AGREE ON A LOT OF THINGS NEWT GINGRICH SAYS.BUT I MUST GIVE HIM CREDIT SPEAKING TRUTH THAT THE PALESTINIANS ARE A MADE UP DELUTION TO DESTROY ISRAEL.THERE NEVER WAS A PALESTINIAN PEOPLE ONLY ARABS FROM JORDAN AND SYRIA.
WITH THE ARABS LOBBING MORE THEN 10,000 ROCKETS INTO ISRAELI WOMEN AND CHILDREN SINCE THE INTIFADA IN 2000.THESE MADE UP ,PRETEND PALESTINIAN PEOPLE JUST WANT ISRAEL TO DISAPPEAR FROM THE WORLD MAP SO THEY CAN STEAL ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM AS THEIR OWN.BUT GOD (KING JESUS) GETS THE LAST LAUGH ON THESE MURDERES AS 750 MILLION MUSLIMS DIE IN WW3 WHEN MOST OF THE MUSLIM NATIONS PLUS RUSSIA COME AGAINST ISRAEL WERE 5/6TH OF THEIR ARMIES ARE DEFEATED,FED TO THE MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL AND FOR 7 MONTHS IT WILL TAKE TO BURY THE SLAUGHTERED TROOPS FOR HATING ISRAEL AND JESUS WHO IS GOD.
Gingrich: Palestinians are an invented people By EMILY SCHULTHEIS | 12/9/11 3:50 PM EST Updated: 12/9/11 3:54 PM EST
In a clip from The Jewish Channel’s interview with Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker gives this hard-line answer when asked if he considers himself a Zionist:
Well, I believe that the Jewish people have a right to have a state, and I believe that the commitments that were made at the time – now, remember, there was no Palestine as a state, it was part of the Ottoman Empire, and I think that we’ve had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs and were historically part of the Arab community. And they had a chance to go many places and for a variety of political reasons we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940s. And I think it’s tragic.Gingrich isn’t the only GOP candidate who’s stood strongly with Israel this week, but this answer shows just how far-right his Israel position is.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70207.html#ixzz1jds0edHm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dHWJWJocD6A
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Strong earthquake hits off Antarctica's coast
By the CNN Wire Staff updated 6:05 AM EST, Mon January 16, 2012
(CNN) -- A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck Sunday off the coast of Antarctica, prompting a warning that there was a small possibility it could trigger a tsunami.The tremor was centered in waters south of South America's southern tip, about 334 miles (539 kilometers) west of Coronation Island and 388 miles northeast of Palmer Station in Antarctica, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.It hit at 9:40 a.m. local time (8:40 a.m. ET) on Sunday, according to the federal agency, and had an estimated depth of 6.2 miles.Afterward, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center released a statement saying that there appears to be no threat of destructive widespread tsunami because of the quake.But the agency did state there is a small possibility of a local or regional tsunami that could affect coasts located usually no more than a few hundred kilometers from the earthquake epicenter.Authorities in the region near the epicenter should be made aware of this possibility,the warning center added.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Deaths, detentions mount in Syria, activists say
By the CNN Wire Staff updated 7:45 AM EST, Mon January 16, 2012
Zabadani, Syria (CNN) -- The latest bloodshed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs came outside a bakery on Monday, when secret security forces fired indiscriminately on people in line, an opposition activist group said.Five people were killed and nine others were injured in shooting, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.In addition, security forces raided a university housing facility in Aleppo and arrested nine students Monday, the group said.Meanwhile, Syrian state-run media said an armed terrorist group fatally shot Brig. Gen. Mohammed Abdul-Hamid al-Awwad in the Gotta area while he was headed to work.And five soldiers died Monday while trying to defect from the army during a firefight between government and opposition forces in Idlib, according to the human rights group reported. Fifteen other soldiers successfully defected, the group said.
The chaos came after Qatar's ruler became the first Arab leader to suggest Arab troops should intervene militarily in Syria.In an interview that aired on CBS' 60 Minutes on Sunday, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani said, I think for such a situation -- to stop the killing, some troops should go. To stop the killing.The desperation to end a brutal government crackdown was evident Sunday, when crowds in a town surrounded by government troops cheered Arab League monitors who visited while others ran out of the town to escape the fighting inside.Residents of Zabadani, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) northwest of Damascus, lifted one of the monitors onto their shoulders and passed him around the crowd during Sunday's visit.
They told CNN that their water and electricity had been cut off for the past three days, and they showed off wounds they said had been inflicted by pro-government forces.The monitors got a different reception from Syrian soldiers, who berated them as the soldiers carried off the body of one of their comrades they said had been shot by opposition forces.The visit came as another 32 people were killed in several cities by government troops trying to crush a 10-month-old uprising against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, according to the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, an opposition umbrella group.During a visit to neighboring Lebanon, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivered a blunt message to al-Assad: Stop killing your people.On Sunday, al-Assad announced that he was granting amnesty to anti-government demonstrators for all crimes committed since the uprising began in March, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported.The decree applies to people who engaged in peaceful demonstrations, carried or possesses unlicensed weapons or ammunition and draft evaders, SANA said. Fugitives must hand themselves in by the end of the month to benefit from the amnesty, the agency reported.But fear of arrests or violence by the Syrian regime keep many Syrians on edge.When the monitors prepared to leave Zabadani, many of the thousands who greeted the monitors in town urged them to stay, warning that attacks by government troops would resume once they left.Some offered to show the monitors where Syrian tanks were hidden in the fields surrounding the city.Syria was required to pull heavy weaponry out of the cities under the agreement its signed with the Arab League in November, but Zabadani residents said the tanks pulled back only when the monitors were on their way.
Fares Mohammed, an LCC spokesman, said about 100 armored vehicles had surrounded the city for three days, and that power and water had been cut off as the city faced sub-freezing temperatures.More gunfire erupted as the monitors left town, and a soldier at another checkpoint rushed out to hammer at their vehicle.More than 5,000 people have died since mid-March, the United Nations has said. Opposition groups put the toll at more than 6,000. Al-Assad, who has characterized the anti-government protesters as armed gangs, says his security forces are battling terrorists intent on targeting civilians and fomenting unrest.But much of the international community holds al-Assad's regime responsible for killing dissidents.I say again to President Assad of Syria: Stop the violence. Stop killing your people, Ban said at a conference on political reform and democracy in Beirut on Sunday.The path of repression is a dead end.CNN cannot verify many accounts of what is happening in Syria because the government restricts the activity of journalists, though a number of journalists have been allowed in to the country in recent days to travel with Arab League monitors.The Arab League mission began December 26 and is expected to conclude on January 19. It has been mired in controversy from the start, from the choice to head the mission -- Lt. Gen. Mohammed Ahmed al-Dabi, once the head of Sudan's military intelligence -- to reports that the Syrian government was limiting the group's access.CNN's Nic Robertson and Hamdi Alkhshali contributed to this report.
POISONED WATERS
REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Russian space probe crashes into Pacific
South Asian News Agency (SANA) ⋅ January 16, 2012 ⋅
MOSCOW: A Russian space probe, which was designed to boost the nation’s pride on a bold mission to a moon of Mars but got stuck in Earth orbit instead, came down in flames on Sunday, showering its fragments into the Pacific Ocean south of Chile’s coast.The fragments of the Phobos-Ground landed in water 1,250 kilometres west of Wellington Island off Chile`s southern coast, the Russian military Air and Space Defence Forces said in a statement carried by the country`s news agencies.The military space tracking facilities were monitoring the probe`s crash, its spokesman Col. Alexei Zolotukhin said.The $170 million craft was one of the heaviest and most toxic pieces of space junk ever to crash to Earth, but space officials and experts said the risks posed by its crash were minimal because the toxic rocket fuel on board and most of the craft’s structure would burn up in the atmosphere high above the ground anyway.The Phobos-Ground was designed to travel to one of Mars twin moons, Phobos, land on it, collect soil samples and fly them back to Earth in 2014 in one of the most daunting interplanetary missions ever.It got stranded in Earth’s orbit after its Nov 9 launch, and efforts by Russian and European Space Agency experts to bring it back to life failed.Prof Heiner Klinkrad, Head of The European Space Agencies Space Debris Office that was monitoring the probe`s descent, said the craft didn’t pose any significant risks.
This one is way, way down in the ranking, he said in a telephone interview from his office in Berlin, adding that booster rockets contain more solid segments that may survive fiery re-entries.Thousands of pieces of derelict space vehicles orbit Earth, occasionally posing danger to astronauts and satellites in orbit, but as far as is known, no one has ever been hurt by falling space debris.Russia’s space agency Roscosmos predicted that only between 20 and 30 fragments of the Phobos probe with a total weight of up to 200 kilograms would survive the reentry and plummet to Earth.
Klinkrad agreed with that assessment, adding that about 100 metric tons of space junk fall on Earth every year. This is 200 kilograms out of these 100 tons,he said.
The Phobos-Ground weighed 13.5 metric tons (14.9 tons), and that included a load of 11 metric tons (12 tons) of highly toxic rocket fuel intended for the long journey to the Martian moon of Phobos and left unused as the probe got stranded in orbit around Earth.Roscosmos said that all of the fuel will burn up on reentry, a forecast Klinkrad said was supported by calculations done by NASA and the ESA.He said the craft’s tanks are made of aluminum alloy that has a very low melting temperature, and they will burst at an altitude of more than 100 kilometres.
The space era has seen far larger spacecraft crash.Nasa’s Skylab space station that went down in 1979weighed 77 metric tons (85 tons) and Russia’s Mir space station that de-orbited in 2001 weighed about 130 metric tons (143 tons). Their descent fueled fears around the world, but the wreckage of both fell far away from populated areas.The Phobos-Ground was Russia’s most expensive and the most ambitious space mission since Soviet times. Its mission to the crater-dented, potato-shaped Martian moon was to give scientists precious materials that could shed more light on the genesis of the solar system.Russia’s space chief has acknowledged the Phobos Ground mission was ill-prepared, but said that Roscosmos had to give it the go-ahead so as not to miss the limited Earth-to-Mars launch window.Its predecessor, Mars-96, which was built by the same Moscow-based NPO Lavochkin company, experienced an engine failure and crashed shortly after its launch in 1996. Its crash drew strong international fears because of around 200 grams of plutonium on board.
ECCLESIASTES 1:4
4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
PSALMS 104:5
5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
MATTHEW 5:5
5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
PSALMS 37:29
29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
ISAIAH 45:17
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
EPHESIANS 3:21
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
LETS GET ONE MORE MYTH OUT OF THE WAY.THE WORLD NEVER ENDS UNLIKE THE GODLESS DINASOUR MEDIA AND PROPAGANDISTS ARE PROMOTING.SURE 4 BILLION DIE FROM SIN DURING WW3 BUT THAT STILL LEAVES 4 BILLION TO GO INTO KING JESUS' 1000 YEAR RULE ON EARTH LITERALLY.
WELL I DON'T AGREE ON A LOT OF THINGS NEWT GINGRICH SAYS.BUT I MUST GIVE HIM CREDIT SPEAKING TRUTH THAT THE PALESTINIANS ARE A MADE UP DELUTION TO DESTROY ISRAEL.THERE NEVER WAS A PALESTINIAN PEOPLE ONLY ARABS FROM JORDAN AND SYRIA.
WITH THE ARABS LOBBING MORE THEN 10,000 ROCKETS INTO ISRAELI WOMEN AND CHILDREN SINCE THE INTIFADA IN 2000.THESE MADE UP ,PRETEND PALESTINIAN PEOPLE JUST WANT ISRAEL TO DISAPPEAR FROM THE WORLD MAP SO THEY CAN STEAL ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM AS THEIR OWN.BUT GOD (KING JESUS) GETS THE LAST LAUGH ON THESE MURDERES AS 750 MILLION MUSLIMS DIE IN WW3 WHEN MOST OF THE MUSLIM NATIONS PLUS RUSSIA COME AGAINST ISRAEL WERE 5/6TH OF THEIR ARMIES ARE DEFEATED,FED TO THE MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL AND FOR 7 MONTHS IT WILL TAKE TO BURY THE SLAUGHTERED TROOPS FOR HATING ISRAEL AND JESUS WHO IS GOD.
Gingrich: Palestinians are an invented people By EMILY SCHULTHEIS | 12/9/11 3:50 PM EST Updated: 12/9/11 3:54 PM EST
In a clip from The Jewish Channel’s interview with Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker gives this hard-line answer when asked if he considers himself a Zionist:
Well, I believe that the Jewish people have a right to have a state, and I believe that the commitments that were made at the time – now, remember, there was no Palestine as a state, it was part of the Ottoman Empire, and I think that we’ve had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs and were historically part of the Arab community. And they had a chance to go many places and for a variety of political reasons we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940s. And I think it’s tragic.Gingrich isn’t the only GOP candidate who’s stood strongly with Israel this week, but this answer shows just how far-right his Israel position is.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dHWJWJocD6A
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Strong earthquake hits off Antarctica's coast
By the CNN Wire Staff updated 6:05 AM EST, Mon January 16, 2012
(CNN) -- A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck Sunday off the coast of Antarctica, prompting a warning that there was a small possibility it could trigger a tsunami.The tremor was centered in waters south of South America's southern tip, about 334 miles (539 kilometers) west of Coronation Island and 388 miles northeast of Palmer Station in Antarctica, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.It hit at 9:40 a.m. local time (8:40 a.m. ET) on Sunday, according to the federal agency, and had an estimated depth of 6.2 miles.Afterward, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center released a statement saying that there appears to be no threat of destructive widespread tsunami because of the quake.But the agency did state there is a small possibility of a local or regional tsunami that could affect coasts located usually no more than a few hundred kilometers from the earthquake epicenter.Authorities in the region near the epicenter should be made aware of this possibility,the warning center added.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Deaths, detentions mount in Syria, activists say
By the CNN Wire Staff updated 7:45 AM EST, Mon January 16, 2012
Zabadani, Syria (CNN) -- The latest bloodshed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs came outside a bakery on Monday, when secret security forces fired indiscriminately on people in line, an opposition activist group said.Five people were killed and nine others were injured in shooting, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.In addition, security forces raided a university housing facility in Aleppo and arrested nine students Monday, the group said.Meanwhile, Syrian state-run media said an armed terrorist group fatally shot Brig. Gen. Mohammed Abdul-Hamid al-Awwad in the Gotta area while he was headed to work.And five soldiers died Monday while trying to defect from the army during a firefight between government and opposition forces in Idlib, according to the human rights group reported. Fifteen other soldiers successfully defected, the group said.
The chaos came after Qatar's ruler became the first Arab leader to suggest Arab troops should intervene militarily in Syria.In an interview that aired on CBS' 60 Minutes on Sunday, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani said, I think for such a situation -- to stop the killing, some troops should go. To stop the killing.The desperation to end a brutal government crackdown was evident Sunday, when crowds in a town surrounded by government troops cheered Arab League monitors who visited while others ran out of the town to escape the fighting inside.Residents of Zabadani, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) northwest of Damascus, lifted one of the monitors onto their shoulders and passed him around the crowd during Sunday's visit.
They told CNN that their water and electricity had been cut off for the past three days, and they showed off wounds they said had been inflicted by pro-government forces.The monitors got a different reception from Syrian soldiers, who berated them as the soldiers carried off the body of one of their comrades they said had been shot by opposition forces.The visit came as another 32 people were killed in several cities by government troops trying to crush a 10-month-old uprising against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, according to the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, an opposition umbrella group.During a visit to neighboring Lebanon, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivered a blunt message to al-Assad: Stop killing your people.On Sunday, al-Assad announced that he was granting amnesty to anti-government demonstrators for all crimes committed since the uprising began in March, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported.The decree applies to people who engaged in peaceful demonstrations, carried or possesses unlicensed weapons or ammunition and draft evaders, SANA said. Fugitives must hand themselves in by the end of the month to benefit from the amnesty, the agency reported.But fear of arrests or violence by the Syrian regime keep many Syrians on edge.When the monitors prepared to leave Zabadani, many of the thousands who greeted the monitors in town urged them to stay, warning that attacks by government troops would resume once they left.Some offered to show the monitors where Syrian tanks were hidden in the fields surrounding the city.Syria was required to pull heavy weaponry out of the cities under the agreement its signed with the Arab League in November, but Zabadani residents said the tanks pulled back only when the monitors were on their way.
Fares Mohammed, an LCC spokesman, said about 100 armored vehicles had surrounded the city for three days, and that power and water had been cut off as the city faced sub-freezing temperatures.More gunfire erupted as the monitors left town, and a soldier at another checkpoint rushed out to hammer at their vehicle.More than 5,000 people have died since mid-March, the United Nations has said. Opposition groups put the toll at more than 6,000. Al-Assad, who has characterized the anti-government protesters as armed gangs, says his security forces are battling terrorists intent on targeting civilians and fomenting unrest.But much of the international community holds al-Assad's regime responsible for killing dissidents.I say again to President Assad of Syria: Stop the violence. Stop killing your people, Ban said at a conference on political reform and democracy in Beirut on Sunday.The path of repression is a dead end.CNN cannot verify many accounts of what is happening in Syria because the government restricts the activity of journalists, though a number of journalists have been allowed in to the country in recent days to travel with Arab League monitors.The Arab League mission began December 26 and is expected to conclude on January 19. It has been mired in controversy from the start, from the choice to head the mission -- Lt. Gen. Mohammed Ahmed al-Dabi, once the head of Sudan's military intelligence -- to reports that the Syrian government was limiting the group's access.CNN's Nic Robertson and Hamdi Alkhshali contributed to this report.
POISONED WATERS
REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Russian space probe crashes into Pacific
South Asian News Agency (SANA) ⋅ January 16, 2012 ⋅
MOSCOW: A Russian space probe, which was designed to boost the nation’s pride on a bold mission to a moon of Mars but got stuck in Earth orbit instead, came down in flames on Sunday, showering its fragments into the Pacific Ocean south of Chile’s coast.The fragments of the Phobos-Ground landed in water 1,250 kilometres west of Wellington Island off Chile`s southern coast, the Russian military Air and Space Defence Forces said in a statement carried by the country`s news agencies.The military space tracking facilities were monitoring the probe`s crash, its spokesman Col. Alexei Zolotukhin said.The $170 million craft was one of the heaviest and most toxic pieces of space junk ever to crash to Earth, but space officials and experts said the risks posed by its crash were minimal because the toxic rocket fuel on board and most of the craft’s structure would burn up in the atmosphere high above the ground anyway.The Phobos-Ground was designed to travel to one of Mars twin moons, Phobos, land on it, collect soil samples and fly them back to Earth in 2014 in one of the most daunting interplanetary missions ever.It got stranded in Earth’s orbit after its Nov 9 launch, and efforts by Russian and European Space Agency experts to bring it back to life failed.Prof Heiner Klinkrad, Head of The European Space Agencies Space Debris Office that was monitoring the probe`s descent, said the craft didn’t pose any significant risks.
This one is way, way down in the ranking, he said in a telephone interview from his office in Berlin, adding that booster rockets contain more solid segments that may survive fiery re-entries.Thousands of pieces of derelict space vehicles orbit Earth, occasionally posing danger to astronauts and satellites in orbit, but as far as is known, no one has ever been hurt by falling space debris.Russia’s space agency Roscosmos predicted that only between 20 and 30 fragments of the Phobos probe with a total weight of up to 200 kilograms would survive the reentry and plummet to Earth.
Klinkrad agreed with that assessment, adding that about 100 metric tons of space junk fall on Earth every year. This is 200 kilograms out of these 100 tons,he said.
The Phobos-Ground weighed 13.5 metric tons (14.9 tons), and that included a load of 11 metric tons (12 tons) of highly toxic rocket fuel intended for the long journey to the Martian moon of Phobos and left unused as the probe got stranded in orbit around Earth.Roscosmos said that all of the fuel will burn up on reentry, a forecast Klinkrad said was supported by calculations done by NASA and the ESA.He said the craft’s tanks are made of aluminum alloy that has a very low melting temperature, and they will burst at an altitude of more than 100 kilometres.
The space era has seen far larger spacecraft crash.Nasa’s Skylab space station that went down in 1979weighed 77 metric tons (85 tons) and Russia’s Mir space station that de-orbited in 2001 weighed about 130 metric tons (143 tons). Their descent fueled fears around the world, but the wreckage of both fell far away from populated areas.The Phobos-Ground was Russia’s most expensive and the most ambitious space mission since Soviet times. Its mission to the crater-dented, potato-shaped Martian moon was to give scientists precious materials that could shed more light on the genesis of the solar system.Russia’s space chief has acknowledged the Phobos Ground mission was ill-prepared, but said that Roscosmos had to give it the go-ahead so as not to miss the limited Earth-to-Mars launch window.Its predecessor, Mars-96, which was built by the same Moscow-based NPO Lavochkin company, experienced an engine failure and crashed shortly after its launch in 1996. Its crash drew strong international fears because of around 200 grams of plutonium on board.
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