EU COULD SEND TROOPS TO GEORGIA

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Tropical depressions could form in Atlantic Tue Aug 12, 7:48 AM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Energy and commodities markets on Tuesday were watching a couple of low-pressure systems in the Atlantic Ocean that could develop into tropical depressions over the next day or so. Neither system, however, is expected to reach the Gulf of Mexico over the next five days, if at all, according to the major weather models.In the central Atlantic, a broad area of low pressure associated with a tropical wave about 650 miles east of the Lesser Antilles could develop into a tropical depression during the next day or so as it moves west-northwest at 10 to 15 miles per hour, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its 8 a.m. EDT report.The NHC said an Air Force Reserve hurricane hunter aircraft was scheduled to investigate the central Atlantic system later today, if necessary.

Most weather models showed the central Atlantic system would steer north of the Lesser Antilles and threaten the Turks and Caicos and Bahamas in about five days.In the eastern Atlantic, the NHC said a tropical depression could form over the next day or so within a large area of disturbed weather extending from the Cape Verde Islands west-southwest for several hundred miles as it moves west at about 10 to 15 mph.Most weather models showed the Cape Verde system would not threaten land in North America this week. It should be about 700 miles northeast of the Virgin Islands in about five days, according to the weather models.If either system strengthens into a tropical storm, with winds of 39 to 73 mph, the NHC will name it Fay.Energy traders watch for storms that could enter the Gulf of Mexico and threaten U.S. oil and gas production facilities.Commodities traders likewise watch storms that could hit agriculture crops like citrus and cotton in Florida and other states along the Gulf Coast to Texas.(Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by John Picinich)

Tropical Storm Hernan continues to weaken Tue Aug 12, 5:16 AM ET

MIAMI - Tropical Storm Hernan continues to weaken far out in the Pacific. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says that as of 5 a.m. EDT Tuesday, the storm's maximum sustained winds had decreased to near 50 mph. Forecasters say the storm could weaken to a tropical depression later in the day.The weakening comes a day after Hernan lost it's hurricane status.The storm's center is located about 1,505 miles west of the southern tip of Baja California, Mexico. It's moving toward the west near 9 mph.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY

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

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

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

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

EU ARMY VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv9D8agUzLY

EU ARMED FORCES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTdZgASnXOk&feature=related

NATO ARMY MOSTLY EU COUNTRIES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t3fgVLGx84

NATO THE REVELUTIONARY ALLIANCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7hhZtaO5HU&feature=related

RUSSIAM ARMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPdPKkZS6Pk

RUSSIAN MILITARY POWER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMm-sxhho_g

ISRAEL DEFENCE FORCES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TmWi3f_BSk&feature=related

IDF TRAINING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TmWi3f_BSk&feature=related

WOMAN OF THE ISRAEL DEFENCE FORCES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMe1HfPNq7Y&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szHUOxMaDyc&NR=1

Aug 12, 2008 18:24 Sarkozy says EU could send peacekeepers to Georgia
By ASSOCIATED PRESS Jerusalem POST Inter.

The French president says the EU could provide peacekeepers for Georgian conflict if all parties agree. Nicolas Sarkozy says the European Union is ready to send peacekeepers to the area of Russia's conflict with Georgia over its breakaway province of South Ossetia. Russia has its peacekeepers deployed to both regions, but Georgia says they back separatists. Sarkozy was speaking after holding talks with Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday. Medvedev has indicated that Russia would not yield ground, and says Russian peacekeepers will stay in the regions.

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) 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).

Finnish islands cause headache for EU treaty approval
LISBETH KIRK AUG 12,08 Today @ 09:24 CET

The Finnish autonomous Aland Islands are causing headaches for the Finnish government by demanding certain concessions from Helsinki in return for ratifying the EU's Lisbon Treaty.The local government in the capital Mariehamn has said it will ratify the bloc's latest institutional rule book only if it gets the nod for four demands, with the vote in the Aland 30-member strong parliament expected in the autumn.The minister responsible for the islands, former MEP Astrid Thors, visited Aland on Monday (11 August) but only offered some good news on one of the demands - Aland will get some sort of speaking rights within the EU.She did not offer any concessions on Aland's request for a seat in the European Parliament or participation in the council of ministers' work (where EU member states are represented) on a role in controlling subsidiarity, the EU principle that power should, where possible, be used a local levels.But Mrs Thors did promise a special Aland document would be drawn up to settle the issue.I'm hoping for a historical settlement between Aland and Finland on how we are to handle EU relations and to guarantee Aland positions are considered, said Astrid Thors at a press conference, according to local daily Alandstidningen.She described the document as historical and said it would commit the Finnish government to listen to Aland's point of view.

Although Finland is able to ratify the Lisbon Treaty without the consent of the Aland parliament, Mrs Thors said that would lead to an unclear situation.Finland must negotiate with the EU on what to do with Aland, a representative of the Finnish ministry of justice, Sten Palmgren, added.The Aland Islands are situated at the entrance to the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland and forms an autonomous, demilitarized Swedish-speaking province of Finland.When Finland became a member of the European Union in 1995, Aland's accession was dependent on the consent of the Aland Parliament. After two separate referendums it was agreed that Aland's relationship to the EU would be regulated in a special protocol, which is part of Finland's treaty of accession. It states that Aland shall be regarded as a third territory with respect to indirect taxation. It also contains certain special provisions relating to the purchase of real property and the right to conduct a business in Aland, and confirms Aland's special status under international law.

EUROPEAN UNION INFORMATION
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761579567_1/European_Union.html

DANIEL 9:24-27 VIDEO ( DAN 9:26 THE DICTATOR FROM THE EU (REVIVED ROME))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl3beM2Dayo

70 WEEKS OF DANIEL 9:24-27 3 PART SERIES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1VcTU5SE6g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxTiDdDS_Fg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6stDZRTEgs&feature=related

SPAIN AND ALL EU NATION KINGDOM INFORMATION
http://www.euimmigration.org/eu_spain.html

JUAN CARLOS/HUGO CHAVEZ SHUT UP VIDEOS
http://search.msn.com/video/results.aspx?q=youtube.%2f+Spain+Juan+Carlos&FORM=BVIR

JUAN CARLOS IN NORWAY
http://www.norwaypost.no/cgi-bin/norwaypost/imaker?id=25004

KINGDOM OF THE ANTICHRIST (THE EU)(MUSLIMS THIS GUY THINKS IT IS)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAG1sGjXQhw&feature=related

CLAIMS OF SYRIA AS FUTURE EU DICTATOR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tezXFphvYkU&feature=related

EU MAPS
http://search.msn.com/images/results.aspx?q=EU+countries&go=&form=QBIR

EU NEWS CLIPS
http://search.msn.com/video/results.aspx?q=EU+countries&FORM=BVIR

CLUB OF ROME WEBSITE
http://www.clubofrome.org/

EU enlargement past, present and future Next stages 1952-2007

Seven countries are waiting in the wings to join the European Union. Croatia and Turkey started accession talks on 3 October 2005. Turkey could complete them in 15 years, Croatia in five. The other Balkan countries have been told they can join the EU one day, if they meet the criteria. These include democracy, the rule of law, a market economy and adherence to the EU's goals of political and economic union.

ALBANIA

Albania is not expected to join the EU until 2015 at the earliest. It has not yet applied for membership. The EU and Albania concluded a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA), seen as the first step towards membership, in June 2006. The negotiations took three-and-a-half years - three times longer than they took in Croatia's and Macedonia's case. This is because the EU thought Albania was moving too slowly in the fight against corruption and organised crime.

BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA

Bosnia-Hercegovina is not expected to join the EU until 2015 at the earliest. More than a decade after the 1992-5 war, it signed a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU in June 2008. The EU was satisfied with progress in four key areas - police reform, co-operation with the international war crimes tribunal, public broadcasting and public administration reform. The EU maintains a peacekeeping force and a police mission in Bosnia-Hercegovina, where most Serbs live in the autonomous Republika Srpska. The Bosniak-Croat federation and Republika Srpska together form Bosnia-Hercegovina.

CROATIA

Applied for membership: February 2003 Confirmed as candidate country: June 2004
Negotiations started: October 2005 Accession talks were delayed by seven months as Croatia struggled to convince the EU it was doing its best to find war crimes suspect Gen Ante Gotovina. He was arrested in the Canary Islands in December 2005.

Croatia is expected to be ready to join the EU by the end of the decade, but that could be delayed by problems reforming EU institutions under the controversial Lisbon Treaty. The future of the treaty itself remains uncertain. The EU is urging Croatia to reform its judiciary and public administration, and keep co-operating with the war crimes tribunal. Various chapters in the negotiations have opened, including economic policy, financial control, freedom to provide services, consumer and health protection, external relations.

MACEDONIA

Applied for full membership: March 2004 Confirmed as candidate: December 2005 .The European Commission welcomed the peaceful elections held in July 2006, but no date has yet been set for membership talks to begin. The commission is closely monitoring progress on political, economic and other reforms. Hopes that accession talks would open in 2008 suffered a blow from election violence in June and a subsequent boycott of parliament by ethnic Albanian opposition parties. A bitter dispute with Greece over Macedonia's name continues to hamper the country's bids to join the EU and Nato. Macedonia was admitted to the United Nations in 1993 using the temporary name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Fyrom). Greece insists the name Macedonia applies only to a region in northern Greece. A date of 2012 has been suggested as a possible target for the country to join the EU.

MONTENEGRO

Talks with the EU on a Stability and Association Agreement (SAA) began shortly after the country voted, in May 2006, to end its union with Serbia. The SAA was signed in October 2007 and now needs to be ratified by all the EU member states. It will take a few years for Montenegro to be given EU candidate status. Montenegro's former Prime Minister, Milo Djukanovic, said he hoped his country would succeed in joining the EU before Serbia or Macedonia.

SERBIA

Serbia's arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in July 2008, after nearly 13 years on the run, drew EU praise for the new pro-Western government in Belgrade. But Mr Karadzic's former military chief Ratko Mladic is still wanted on charges of crimes against humanity. The issue of co-operation with the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague has overshadowed Serbia's ambition to join the EU and end its years of relative isolation. Serbia is aiming first for greater trade with the EU, and then an opportunity to discuss in detail the kind of economic and political reforms it would need to join the EU. Serbia signed a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU in April 2008, but it has not yet been ratified. Belgrade's ties with the EU have been strained by Kosovo's declaration of independence - a declaration recognised by most EU members. Serbia insists that Kosovo remains part of its territory. Serbia is unlikely to join the EU until at least 2015.

TURKEY

Applied for full membership: 1987.Confirmed as candidate: December 1999. Negotiations started: October 2005 .Turkey met the last condition for accession talks in July 2005, when it extended a customs union with the EU to all new member states, including Cyprus. However, it failed to ratify the customs union and its ports and airports remain closed to Cypriot traffic. The EU responded, in December 2006, by freezing accession talks in eight out of 35 policy areas. Turkey's EU negotiations have made slow progress, amid concern about freedom of speech and democracy in Turkey, as well as the Cyprus tensions. But Turkey's bid may get fresh impetus from recent moves to restart the Cyprus peace talks and a Turkish Constitutional Court decision not to ban the ruling AK Party. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and a number of other senior politicians in the EU want Turkey to have a partnership deal with the EU, rather than full membership.

Mediterranean Union priorities explained

A Paris summit hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy has launched a 43-nation Union for the Mediterranean. Mr Sarkozy was delighted to get so many Arab leaders and Israel together .The new grouping embraces the 27 EU nations along with countries in the Middle East and North Africa that form the Mediterranean Sea's eastern and southern rim. In a declaration, the 43 nations - including Israel and Arab states - pledged to pursue a mutually and effectively verifiable Middle East Zone free of weapons of mass destruction. Mr Sarkozy singled out as a success the fact that Israel's prime minister had sat at the same table as Syria's president. The two countries are still technically at war. The leaders of the Palestinian Territories and many other Arab countries also attended Sunday's summit, though Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi boycotted it. The declaration speaks of the leaders' determination to transform the Mediterranean into an area of peace, democracy, co-operation and prosperity. The new union is aimed at building on the Barcelona Process for Euro-Mediterranean co-operation, launched in 1995.

Among its stated goals are: An ambition to build a common future based on the full respect of democratic principles, human rights and fundamental freedoms
Determination to eradicate terrorism and to combat its sponsors .Creation of a free trade area in the Euromed region by 2010 and beyond and the promotion of all-round regional economic integration .Promoting orderly managed legal migration and fighting illegal migration. The summit was co-chaired by Mr Sarkozy and Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak. Future summits - to be held twice-yearly - will also be co-chaired, emphasising the partnership of EU members and non-EU Mediterranean countries. The summits will be hosted alternately by EU and non-EU countries.

A joint secretariat will be set up to oversee projects and find partners, and the union's structures should be fully operational by the end of 2008. The summit produced some practical projects - outlined in an annex to the declaration - with each member state free to participate: De-pollution of the Mediterranean: Cleaning up sea water and coastal areas Sea and land highways: Developing port infrastructure, coastal motorways, modernising the trans-Maghreb train, co-operation in maritime safety Civil protection: Joint efforts to prevent and respond to natural and man-made disasters.Alternative energy: Exploring the feasibility of a Mediterranean Solar Plan to develop solar power as a key energy source, along with other green energy sources.Higher education: Establishing a Euro-Mediterranean University, based in Slovenia, promoting academic mobility and partnerships among member states' universities Mediterranean business initiative: Providing technical and financial help for small and medium-sized companies, using voluntary contributions from member states.

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 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 have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

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.

ELECTION 2008 Obama camp still can't verify return of Arab cash. More questions than answers in illegal Middle East donor affair August 11, 2008 10:13 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2008 WorldNetDaily

JERUSALEM – One week after WND reported Palestinian brothers inside the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip illegally contributed to Barack Obama's campaign, the Democratic presidential candidate's team has not responded to repeated WND requests for a clarification regarding how purported refunds were returned. The brothers told WND their money was not refunded.Last week it was exposed Palestinian Gazans Monir, Hosam and Osama Edwan made a series of donations online at Obama's official campaign website totaling more than $30,000.The donations violate election laws, including prohibitions against receiving contributions from foreigners and accepting more than $2,300 from one individual during a single election.The Wall Street Journal reported it spoke to Obama officials who said the nearly $33,500 in donations were received between Sept. 20 and Dec. 6 of last year and that most of the money was returned by Dec. 6. The campaign claimed, however, the refunds were not reported to the Federal Election Commission due to a technical error.The Obama camp insisted the remaining $2,500 was refunded Aug. 4 and that all the refunds will be reflected soon in an amended report. The campaign said new controls are in place to prevent any similar attempts in the future.But WND spoke to the brothers, who denied the Obama campaign refunded their money.No, we did not receive any money back from the Obama campaign at any time, said Monir Edwan.

The Edwans continue to maintain their financial transactions made on Obama's campaign website were not actual donations but purchases of Obama for President T-shirts.The transactions, however, were listed as donations in U.S. government election filings.Obama's campaign also told the Wall Street Journal last week the funds from the Edwans were for the purchase of T-shirts.The Obama team has not explained why T-shirt revenue was reported to the FEC as contributions.The Atlas Shrugs blog, which first highlighted the unusual Edwan contributions, meanwhile, has posted copies of FEC letters from as early as last April requesting additional information for 36 contributors, including the Edwans. The FEC letters, which document the contributions in question, state the donations may be excessive – exceeding the allotted amount for each individual.The question arises: Why didn't the Obama campaign immediately report back to the FEC in April that the illegal Edwan money had been returned four months prior, as the campaign now claims. The FEC, in fact, had to send an additional letter just last month requesting an explanation.In addition, the explanation – both from the Obama camp and from the Edwans – that the brothers purchased T-shirts from the Gaza Strip doesn't appear to stand up to close scrutiny. The Edwans claimed to WND the T-shirts were received in Gaza last December.When the Edwans made their contributions online, they listed their street as Tal Esaltan, which they wrote was located in Rafah, GA. The same address was listed in all relevant FEC filings.

Rafah is not a city in Georgia.

A WND investigation last week tracked down the Edwans living in the Tal Esaltan neighborhood of Rafah, a large refugee camp in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.The brothers could not explain how the purportedly purchased T-shirts arrived in Gaza if the campaign had a mistaken address in Georgia. The T-shirts would have been shipped to the purported Rafah, GA address.That the Edwans were able to contribute any money to Obama's campaign from Gaza also raises questions into the methods used by the presidential candidate's website to accept online donations.The website donation form asks each donor to affirm he or she is a U.S. citizen and is above the age of 16 but doesn't require donors to prove their citizenship status, such as providing a social security number. The form further requires the donor to affirm the contribution is not coming from a corporation, political action committee or lobby group.

MEDIA MATTERS Michael Savage vows to take Islam fight to Supreme Court.Popular radio host seeks to expose CAIR's international funding sources August 10, 2008 4:50 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2008 WorldNetDaily

Michael Savage (San Francisco Chronicle)

Talk-radio host Michael Savage has announced he will bring his recently dismissed copyright infringement lawsuit against the Council on American-Islamic Relations to the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes of making public the Islamic group's sources of funding.Savage's suit – originally filed in San Francisco district court – alleged CAIR illegally published singled-out quotes and audio excerpts from his show regarding Islam, misappropriated his words and used the clips for its own fundraising purposes, damaging the value of his copyrighted material.CAIR last year waged a public campaign using excerpted Savage remarks to urge advertisers to boycott his top-rated program. CAIR stated its campaign successfully resulted in Savage losing $1 million in advertising.Part of Savage's lawsuit alleged CAIR received millions in foreign funding and that it may have been wrongfully acting as a lobbyist or agent for a foreign government, violating the Islamic group's nonprofit status.Savage also alleged CAIR was engaged in racketeering, describing the group as a mouthpiece of international terror that helped fund the 9/11 attacks, a contention strongly denied by CAIR.But his lawsuit was tossed last month by San Francisco District U.S. Judge Susan Illston, who argued it is legal to use excerpts of a public broadcast for purposes of comment and criticism.Illston, nominated to her position by President Bill Clinton, wrote in her ruling that Savage could try to rewrite the racketeering portion of his suit to better fit the specifics of his case.

Savage's attorney Daniel Horowitz told WND he is reworking the suit to directly address Illston's respectful ruling. He said the new suit includes over 200 pages of supporting documents, including 200 pages of transcripts of the meeting in which CAIR was founded.On his program last week, Savage announced if Illston again rejects his suit, he will bring the case to the higher 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and then to the Supreme Court.I'm going to open up this case. I'm going to sue CAIR. I'm bringing a lawsuit back against them. It's going to cost me a fortune, Savage said. And when Judge Illston rejects it again, which she will do because she's a minion of the Bill Clinton crowd, I'm going to take it over her head and I'm going to go to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, where again I'm going to hit a stonewall. And then I'm going to take it to the Supreme Court until eventually I force CAIR to describe who their funding sources are.Horowitz said if the suit goes to the Supreme Court, he will seek to procure the representation of attorney Martin Garbus, who has famously won numerous high-profile Supreme Court cases.Savage pointed to CAIR's recent complaint against the Abercrombie & Fitch clothing company for not hiring a Muslim woman dressed in a head scarf as evidence the Islamic group is expanding its targets beyond talk radio.The woman applied for a job in Oklahoma City. The local Abercrombie manager allegedly said a scarf does not fit the company's image.Don't you understand what they're doing to this country? asked Savage. How they're targeting the Midwest, talk radio, one talk show host at a time? One company at a time? Don't you know that CAIR is going to come for you?

Continued Savage: First they came for Michel Savage, and you didn't raise your voice and you laughed. Then they came after Abercrombie and Fitch, and you didn't raise your voice because you weren't in the retail business. Tomorrow they'll come after you and your business.Addressing CAIR directly, Savage warned: One day you're going to hit the wrong judge in the wrong city at the wrong time and then the American people are going to find out where your funding is coming from.The top radio host urged listeners to make online donations at his website to help fund his lawsuit.

Foreign contributions to CAIR established

In May 2007, CAIR was identified by the government as an unindicted co-conspirator in a case involving the Holy Land Foundation, a charity allegedly affiliated with Hamas. Federal prosecutors in the case listed CAIR under the category: Individuals/entities who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee and/or its organizations.The government also listed Omar Ahmad, CAIR's founder and chairman emeritus, under the same category.CAIR is registered as a nonprofit organization recognized as tax-exempt under IRS codes, which restrict lobbying on behalf of a foreign government. CAIR's website claims it receives no foreign government support.But CAIR's headquarters near the U.S. Capitol until recently was owned by the ruler of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and the ruler's foundation has pledged $50 million to capitalize a long-term CAIR public-relations campaign.The UAE formally recognized the Taliban, and Dubai reportedly acted as the transit point for cash for the 9/11 hijackers. Two of the hijackers were from the Emirates, and one served in the UAE military.Until 2005, the Al Maktoum Foundation run by Dubai's ruler Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid held the deed to CAIR's headquarters just three blocks from the Capitol. The same foundation reportedly has held telethons to raise money for families of Palestinian martyrs during the intifada – or terrorist war – started in September 2000 against Israel. It recently pledged a $50 million endowment for CAIR.CAIR argues that any assertions it receives money from foreign governments is disinformation.This is yet another attempt to invent a controversy, the group said. CAIR's operational budget is funded by donations from American Muslims.CAIR, however, has never publicly acknowledged $1 million controlling interest that the ruler of Dubai's foundation took in its national headquarters just one year after 9/11.The group also received $500,000 from Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, the sheik whose $10 million relief check after 9/11 was rejected by then-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani after he blamed U.S. policy toward Israel for the attacks.There is nothing criminal or immoral about accepting donations from foreign nationals, CAIR asserted. The U.S. government, corporations and non-profit organizations routinely receive money from foreign nationals.Bin Talal is not a member of the Saudi Arabian government, the group added in a statement. He is a private entrepreneur and international investor.This may be a distinction without a difference, Savage's lawyers argue, since bin Talal is a member of the Saudi ruling family.CAIR is proud to receive support of every individual, CAIR argued, as long as they are not an official of any foreign government and there are no strings attached to the bequest.The UAE endowment to CAIR was specifically earmarked for public relations efforts to repair the image of Arabs and Muslims in America after public outrage doomed a Dubai bid to run U.S. ports.Lawyers for Savage argue that CAIR may have used UAE funds and other foreign support to attack the radio host.

US, allies weigh punishment for Russia By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer AUG 12,08

WASHINGTON - Scrambling to find ways to punish Russia for its invasion of pro-Western Georgia, the United States and its allies are considering expelling Moscow from an exclusive club of wealthy nations and canceling an upcoming joint NATO-Russia military exercise, Bush administration officials said Tuesday. But with little leverage in the face of an emboldened Moscow, Washington and its friends have been forced to face the uncomfortable reality that their options are limited to mainly symbolic measures, such as boycotting Russian-hosted meetings and events, that may have little or no long-term impact on Russia's behavior, the officials said.

With the situation on the ground still unclear after Russian President Dmitri Medvedev on Tuesday ordered a halt to military action in Georgia, U.S. officials were focused primarily on confirming a ceasefire and attending to Georgia's urgent humanitarian needs following five days of fierce fighting, including Russian attacks on civilian targets.It is very important now that all parties cease fire, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said. The Georgians have agreed to a ceasefire, the Russians need to stop their military operations as they have apparently said that they will, but those military operations really do now need to stop because calm needs to be restored.At the same time, however, President Bush and his top aides were engaged in frantic consultations with European and other nations over how best to demonstrate their fierce condemnations of the Russian operation that began in Georgia's separatist region of South Ossetia, expanded to another disputed area, Abkhazia, and ended up on purely Georgian soil.The idea is to show the Russians that it is no longer business as usual, said one senior official familiar with the consultations among world leaders that were going on primarily by phone and in person at NATO headquarters in Brussels where alliance diplomats met together and then with representatives of Georgia.For now, the Bush administration decided to boycott a third meeting at NATO on Tuesday at which the alliance's governing board, the North Atlantic Council, was preparing for a meeting with a Russian delegation that has been called at Moscow's request, officials said.

On the table for future action is the possible cancellation or U.S. withdrawal from a major NATO naval exercise with Russia that is scheduled to begin Friday, the officials said. Sailors and vessels from Britain, France, Russia, and the U.S. were to take part in the annual Russia-NATO exercise aimed at improving cooperation in maritime security.The exercise, which is being hosted by Russia this year, began a decade ago and typically involves around 1,000 personnel from the four countries, the officials said.In the medium term, the United States and its partners in the Group of Seven, or G-7, the club of the world's leading industrialized nations that also includes Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, are debating whether to effectively disband what is known as the G-8, which incorporates Russia, by throwing Moscow out, the officials said.Discussions are also taking place on whether to revoke or review the May 2007 invitation to Russia to join the 30-member, Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which consists primarily of established European democracies, the officials said.The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because no decisions have yet been made and consultations with other countries involved are still ongoing.Bush spoke on Monday and Tuesday with fellow G-7 leaders as well as the heads of democratically elected pro-Western governments in formerly Eastern Bloc nations, some of which are among NATO's newest members and have urged a strong response to Russia's invasion of a like-minded country.On Monday on his way home from the Olympics in China, Bush talked with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus and Polish President Lech Kaczynski. He then spoke to Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, the White House said. On Tuesday, he spoke with Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.Rice, who returned early to Washington late Monday from vacation to deal with the crisis, held a second round of talks with foreign ministers from the Group of Seven countries in which they were briefed on European Union mediation efforts led by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who met Tuesday with Medvedev in Moscow.They believe that they have made some progress and we welcome that and we certainly welcome the E.U. mediation, Rice told reporters at the White House.

Despite the flurry of activity, there was still uncertainty about whether Russia had in fact halted its military action in Georgia with reports of continued shelling of civilian and military sites.The State Department on Tuesday recommended that all U.S. citizens leave Georgia in a new travel warning, saying the security situation remained uncertain. It said it was organizing a third evacuation convoy to take Americans who want to leave by road to neighboring Armenia. More that 170 American citizens have already left Georgia in two earlier convoys. Just hours after Bush said in a White House address that the invasion had substantially damaged Russia's standing in the world and demanded an end to what he called Moscow's dramatic and brutal escalation of violence, Medvedev said he had ordered an end to military action. But Georgia insisted that Russian forces were still bombing and shelling and White House spokesman Tony Fratto said Tuesday it was too early to comment on Medvedev's move. We are trying to get an assessment of what a halt means and whether it is taking place, of course, the spokesman added. Typifying the administration's dilemma, a planned late-morning White House briefing by national security adviser Stephen Hadley was postponed until further notice due to ongoing developments in Georgia and in Moscow, where Sarkozy was meeting with Russian officials on behalf of the West. The State Department on Tuesday recommended that all U.S. citizens leave Georgia in a new travel warning, saying the security situation remained uncertain. It said it was organizing a third evacuation convoy to take Americans who want to leave by road to neighboring Armenia. More that 170 American citizens have already left Georgia in two earlier convoys. Associated Press writers Jennifer Loven, Anne Gearan and Pauline Jelinek contributed to this report.

Georgia says Russia bombed after order to halt war By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI, Associated Press Writers AUG 12,08

TBILISI, Georgia - Russia ordered a halt to the war in Georgia on Tuesday, after five days of air and land attacks that sent Georgia's army into headlong retreat and left towns, military bases and homes in the U.S. ally smoldering. Georgia insisted that Russian forces were still bombing and shelling. Despite the televised order by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Russia launched an offensive Tuesday in Abkhazia, sending tanks, armored personnel carriers and artillery toward the breakaway region.

Georgian troops were forced out of their last stronghold in the separatist province, said Maj. Gen. Anatoly Zaitsev, a defense official in Abkhazia. The claim that Georgian forces were gone could not immediately be confirmed.And hours before the order to stop fighting, Russian jets bombed the crossroads city of Gori, near the separatist region of South Ossetia. Gori's post office and university were burning Tuesday, but the city was all but deserted after most remaining residents and Georgian soldiers fled Monday ahead of a feared Russian onslaught.In Moscow, Medvedev said Georgia had been punished enough for its attack on South Ossetia. Georgia launched an offensive late Thursday to regain control over the separatist province, which has close ties to Russia.The aggressor has been punished and suffered very significant losses. Its military has been disorganized, Medvedev said.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, speaking before a crowd of thousands at a Tbilisi square, said the invasion was not because Russia wanted control of the breakaway regions.They just don't want freedom and that's why they want to stamp on Georgia and destroy it, he said, as red and white Georgian fluttered.Tens of thousands of terrified residents have fled the fighting — South Ossetians north to Russia, and Georgians west toward the capital of Tbilisi and east to the country's Black Sea coast.Both sides have traded accusations of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Russia has accused Georgia of killing more than 2,000 people, mostly civilians, in the separatist province of South Ossetia. The claim couldn't be independently confirmed, but witnesses who fled the area over the weekend said hundreds had died.

Many Georgians also have been killed in the fighting and on Tuesday, the Georgian security council said it filed a lawsuit in the International Court of Justice for alleged ethnic cleansing. The overall death toll was expected to rise because large areas of Georgia were still too dangerous for journalists to enter and see the true scope of the damage.It feels like an annexed country, said Lasha Margiana, the local administrator in one of the villages in the Kodori Gorge, where fleeing Georgians said the entire population had abandoned their homes.Zaitsev, the commander in Abkhazia, said only local forces — not Russian ones — were involved in the operation to squeeze out the Georgians. But an AP reporter visiting the village of Chuberi saw 135 Russian military vehicles heading toward the Kodori Gorge. Georgian officials said their troops in the gorge were being attacked by Russians.Medvedev assailed the West for supporting Georgia in the conflict: International law doesn't envision double standards.In Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian provincial capital now under Russian control, the body of a Georgian soldier lay in the street along with debris. A poster hanging nearby showed Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the slogan Say yes to peace and stability as South Ossetian separatist fighters launched rockets at a Georgian plane soaring overhead. Broken glass and other debris littered the ground.If there are any emerging hotbeds of resistance or any aggressive actions, you should take steps to destroy them, Medvedev ordered his defense minister at a televised Kremlin meeting.U.S. officials were focused primarily on confirming a ceasefire and attending to Georgia's urgent humanitarian needs It is very important now that all parties cease fire, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said. The Georgians have agreed to a ceasefire, the Russians need to stop their military operations as they have apparently said that they will, but those military operations really do now need to stop because calm needs to be restored.Russia's foreign minister called for Saakashvili to resign. Medvedev said Georgia must pull its troops from the two Russian-backed breakaway provinces and allow them to decide whether they want to remain part of Russia. Ossetians and Abkhaz must respond to that question taking their history into account, including what happened in the past few days, Medvedev said grimly. Thousands of Georgians poured out their support for their president at a rally in Tbilisi, crowding a main square and nearby streets as far as the eye could see and holding aloft fluttering red-and-white Georgian flags.

Georgia, which is pushing for NATO membership, borders the Black Sea between Turkey and Russia and was ruled by Moscow for most of the two centuries preceding the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union. South Ossetia and Abkhazia have run their own affairs without international recognition since fighting to split from Georgia in the early 1990s. Both separatist provinces are backed by Russia, which appears open to absorbing them. Medvedev said Tuesday that Russian peacekeepers will stay in both South Ossetia and Abkhazia; Saakashvili said his government will officially designate Russian peacekeepers in those breakaway provinces as occupying forces.

The Russian onslaught angered the West and drew tough words from President Bush, but some Georgians are disappointed that the U.S. did not intervene to protect its tiny ally. I'd like to think the words really do matter, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza said Tuesday in Tbilisi. Bryza declined to say if the U.S. would provide military support in the event that Russia expands its operations: I hope we'll never come to the question of what we do if Russia refuses to observe international law.Georgia sits on a strategic oil pipeline carrying Caspian crude to Western markets bypassing Russia, has long been a source of contention between the West and a resurgent Russia, the dominant energy supplier to Europe. The British oil company BP shut down one of three Georgian pipelines as a precaution, although the company said it had no evidence the pipelines had suffered damage. In villages around the South Ossetian provincial capital, separatist fighters reportedly were setting fire to Georgian houses and searching for hidden Georgian fighters. An AP photographer in the village of Ruisi near South Ossetia saw fresh damage from a Russian air raid that locals said came just 30 minutes before Medvedev's televised statement. Residents said three villagers were killed and another five wounded when a Russian warplane raided the village. One slain victim, 77-year old Amiran Vardzelashvili, was struck by a fragment in the heart while was working in a field.

The Georgian government said another nearby village, Sakorinto, also was bombed after Medvedev announcing a halt to fighting, as was an ambulance in the Black Sea province of Adzharia. The U.N. and NATO called meetings Tuesday to deal with the conflict, while Poland's president and the leaders of four former Soviet republics flew to Georgia for a meeting of solidarity with Saakashvili. The Russian state has once again shown its face, its true face, said Poland's Lech Kaczynski, who was being joined by counterparts from Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine and Latvia. But he said it was good news that Medvedev ordered a halt to the war. At the White House on Monday, Bush had demanded that Russia end a dramatic and brutal escalation of violence in Georgia, agree to an immediate cease-fire and accept international mediation. Russia has invaded a sovereign neighboring state and threatens a democratic government elected by its people. Such an action is unacceptable in the 21st century, Bush said in a televised statement. Associated Press writers Chris Torchia reported from Zugdidi, Georgia and near the Kodori Gorge; Misha Dzhindzhikhashvili from Tbilisi, Georgia; David Nowak from Gori, Georgia; Douglas Birch from Vladikavkaz, Russia; Jim Heintz, Vladimir Isachenkov and Lynn Berry from Moscow; and Pauline Jelinek from Washington.

Russia's Medvedev halts military action in GeorgiaAP foreign, Tuesday August 12 2008 By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered a halt to military action in Georgia on Tuesday, after five days of air and land attacks that took Russian forces deep into the small Western-allied nation. Medvedev said on national television that the military had punished Georgia enough for its attack on South Ossetia. Georgia launched an offensive late Thursday to regain control over the separatist Georgian province, which has close ties to Russia. The security of our peacekeepers and civilians has been restored, Medvedev said. The aggressor has been punished and suffered very significant losses. Its military has been disorganized.The Russian president, however, said he ordered the military to defend itself and quell any signs of Georgian resistance. If there are any emerging hotbeds of resistance or any aggressive actions, you should take steps to destroy them, he told his defense minister at a televised Kremlin meeting. Hours before Medvedev's announcement, Russian forces bombed the town of Gori and launched an offensive in the only part of Abkhazia still under Georgian control, tightening the assault on the beleaguered nation as French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew to Moscow carrying Western demands that Russia pull back. Medvedev told Sarkozy that Georgia must pull its troops out of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and pledge not to use force again. Sarkozy, whose nation holds the rotating EU presidency, said in a televised meeting that Georgia's sovereignty, integrity and security must be protected. The U.N. and NATO called meetings to deal with a conflict that blew up in South Ossetia and quickly developed into an East-West crisis that raised fears in former Soviet bloc nations of Eastern Europe. Five European presidents were headed to Russia and Georgia to mediate.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday that Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili should leave office and that Georgian troops should stay out of South Ossetia permanently. Moscow will not talk to Saakashvili, Lavrov said; the best thing for Saakashvili to do would be to step down.Russian troops who had advanced into Georgia on Monday from South Ossetia, took positions near Gori on the main east-west highway as terrified civilians fled the area, and President Saakashvili said his country had effectively been cut in half. Russian jets targeted administrative buildings and a street market in the center of Gori on Tuesday, Georgia's security chief Alexander Lomaia said, but there was no immediate information about casualties. The Russians had also opened a second front in western Georgia on Monday, moving deep into Georgian territory from separatist Abkhazia. They seized a military base in the town of Senaki and occupied police precincts in the town of Zugdidi. Lomaia said Tuesday that the Russians had left Senaki. But Russian troops attacked Georgian forces who continued to hold the northern part of Abkhazia's Kodori Gorge, Lomaia said, Abkhazian officials said their own forces were carrying out the artillery attacks and that Russian forces were not involved in that fighting. At least 9,000 Russian troops and 350 armored vehicles were in Abkhazia, according to a Russian military commander. Georgia's deputy Interior Minister Eka Sguladze said Tuesday that Russian troops remained at their positions near Zugdidi and Gori. An AP reporter who visited Zugdidi on Tuesday morning saw several Russian armored vehicles and dozens of troops outside the town's central police station. The mood in the city was calm, people were moving around and many stores that shut previously were open for business Tuesday. The Russian onslaught, accompanied by relentless Russian air raids on Georgian territory, angered the West, bringing the toughest words yet from U.S. President George W. Bush. Georgia, which sits on a strategic oil pipeline carrying Caspian crude to Western markets bypassing Russia, has long been a source of contention between the West and a resurgent Russia, which is seeking to strengthen its role as the dominant energy supplier to the continent.

Saakashvili endorsed an EU plan calling for an immediate cease-fire, in talks Monday with French and Finnish foreign ministers. Sarkozy was to negotiate the plan in Moscow, and the presidents of Poland and the former Soviet states of Ukraine, Lithuania and Estonia were headed to Georgia on Tuesday. Bush had demanded Monday that Russia end a dramatic and brutal escalation of violence in Georgia, agree to an immediate cease-fire and accept international mediation. Russia has invaded a sovereign neighboring state and threatens a democratic government elected by its people. Such an action is unacceptable in the 21st century, Bush said in a televised statement from the White House. Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States of hypocrisy in a tough statement that reflected both the measure of his anger at the West. Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said more than 2,000 people have been killed in South Ossetia since Friday, most of them Ossetians with Russian passports. The figures could not be independently confirmed, but refugees said hundreds had been killed. Both separatist provinces are backed by Russia. Russian officials had given signals that the fighting could pave the way for them to be absorbed into Russia. Georgia borders the Black Sea between Turkey and Russia and was ruled by Moscow for most of the two centuries preceding the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union. South Ossetia and Abkhazia have run their own affairs without international recognition since fighting to split from Georgia in the early 1990s. Associated Press writers Chris Torchia reported from Zugdidi, Georgia; Misha Dzhindzhikhashvili from Tbilisi, Georgia; David Nowak from Gori, Georgia; Douglas Birch from Vladikavkaz, Russia; Jim Heintz, Vladimir Isachenkov and Lynn Berry from Moscow; and Pauline Jelinek from Washington.

UK warns of Russia catastrophe AUG 12,08.Mr Brown says there is a pressing need for fighting to end. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown says there is no justification for Russia's military action in Georgia.

He said the intervention threatens the stability of the entire region and risks a humanitarian catastrophe. There is a clear responsibility on the Russian government to bring this conflict quickly to an end, he said. Tory leader David Cameron branded Russia a dangerous bully and urged the international community to stand up and condemn its action in Georgia. He also called for Georgia's membership of Nato to be speeded up.

Speedy resolution

Mr Cameron told the BBC: The only language that bullies understand is when someone stands up to them.UK nationals have been advised not to travel to Georgia and those in the country have been urged to leave. Continued aggression against Georgia - and especially an escalation of the conflict beyond South Ossetia - will only serve to damage Russia's international reputation.

Gordon Brown
UK Prime Minister

As fighting over the disputed region of South Ossetia threatens to spread more widely, Mr Brown warned there was an immediate and pressing need to end the fighting and disengage all military forces. He said the Georgian government had offered a ceasefire and he urged the Russians to reciprocate without delay. Continued aggression against Georgia - and especially an escalation of the conflict beyond South Ossetia - will only serve to damage Russia's international reputation and its relations with countries across the globe, he said. Mr Brown has held discussions with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon in recent days. Foreign Secretary David Miliband has also held talks with G7 and EU foreign ministers. What Russia has done here is used massive and disproportionate force....It has acted as a massive and dangerous bully and we can't allow this to go ahead without it being challenged.

David Cameron
Conservative leader

We are committed to working with those partners in the EU, UN, OSCE [Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe] and G7 to ensure a peaceful and speedy resolution to this crisis which maintains Georgia's territorial and political integrity, Mr Brown added. Earlier, Mr Cameron warned that there were very, very worrying consequences if Europe failed to speak with one voice that what Russia is doing is wrong. What Russia has done here is used massive and disproportionate force. It's breached international law and it has violated Georgia's territorial integrity, he told BBC Radio 4's The World at One. It has acted as a massive and dangerous bully and we can't allow this to go ahead without it being challenged.Mr Cameron conceded that Georgia's decision to send troops into South Ossetia was a bad strategy, but he said there could be implications for Baltic states that still identify with Russia if nations fail to speak out.

Unclear objectives

Amnesty International has called on Georgia and Russia to provide safe passage to people fleeing from the conflict and allow unimpeded access to humanitarian relief to those in affected areas. The calls for an immediate ceasefire were echoed by the British ambassador to Georgia, Denis Keefe. who said the objective of the Russians was unclear. They have gone well beyond the conflict zones which they used as the grounds for their action in the first place, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

They have bombed in different areas in the country. They have sent their troops into different areas of the country. The result is a real and pressing need for a ceasefire to disengage military forces. I think the question of what the Russians are trying to achieve is impossible to answer from Tbilisi at the moment. What is clear here is that we need a ceasefire and we need it now.

Report: Iraq contracts have cost billions By KIMBERLY HEFLING, Associated Press Writer Tue Aug 12, 12:17 PM ET

WASHINGTON - The United States has paid $85 billion to contractors in the Iraq theater for work ranging from food service to guarding diplomats, according to a report released Tuesday. The report was prepared by the Congressional Budget Office, and noted that spending for contractors account for about 20 percent of spending for operations in Iraq.The United States has relied more heavily on contractors in Iraq than in any other war. There are currently at least 190,000 contract employees working in the Iraq theater, with the ratio at about one contractor for every U.S. service member, according to the report.The report will likely give new fodder to critics who have accused contractors of over billing and providing shoddy work. In the last year, U.S. contractors have been investigated in connection to the shooting deaths of Iraqis and in the accidental electrocution deaths of U.S. troops.Of the total paid to contractors, CBO estimated that $6 billion to $10 billion went to pay for security operations.The study did not include figures for 2008, so the total paid since the invasion of Iraq in 2003 is probably much higher.The report was prepared at the request of the Senate budget committee.

AP IMPACT: Underground FEMA fuel tanks could leak By EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer AUG 12,08

WASHINGTON - The government owns hundreds of underground fuel tanks — many designed for emergencies back in the Cold War — that need to be inspected for leaks of hazardous substances that could be making local water undrinkable. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has known since at least the 1990s that tanks under its supervision around the country could be leaking fuel into soil and groundwater, according to Associated Press interviews and research.The agency knows of at least 150 underground tanks that need to be inspected for leaks, according to spokeswoman Debbie Wing. FEMA also is trying to determine by September whether an additional 124 tanks are underground or above ground and whether they are leaking.There has been no documentation of reported leaks or harm to communities from the FEMA tanks, Wing said, although former agency officials and congressional testimony suggest that the federal tanks have long been seen as a problem.Many of these tanks were built to store 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel and placed around the country at the height of the Cold War back in the 1960s to fuel electric generators that could sustain emergency broadcasts by radio stations in case of a nuclear attack or other catastrophe. Made of steel, the tanks inevitably rust over time and allow fuel to escape.Steel tanks left in the ground for decades rot like Swiss cheese, said Pat Coyne, director of business development for Environmental Data Resources Inc. Coyne said a joke in the industry is: What percentage of steel tanks leak? 100 percent!

In the late 1980s and early 1990s the government insisted on better-made tanks. The underground tanks of today must have safety measures including leak detection and an extra shell made with material resistant to gasoline, diesel and ethanol, Coyne said.

The FEMA tanks are part of a larger problem. More than 500,000 leaking storage tanks — most of which are filled with fuel and oil — are buried across the country, according to Environmental Data Resources, based in Milford, Conn. That's about half of all the underground tanks in the country, the consulting company says. Those tanks are owned privately or by local, state and federal agencies.Because they're underground, leaking tanks can go undetected for years. If diesel leaks into drinking water, affected people could be at a higher risk of cancer, kidney damage and nervous system disorders, said Rochelle Cardinale, one of the lead coordinators for underground tank cleanup in Iowa. A gallon of fuel can contaminate 1 million gallons of water.FEMA says the hundreds of federal tanks have not always been its responsibility. The Federal Communications Commission also has had oversight, although FCC spokesman Clyde Ensslin said the commission believed FEMA was responsible for monitoring and maintaining the tanks. FEMA said it spent $8 million in the 1990s removing and repairing some of them.FEMA now acknowledges that it is the agency responsible for all of the tanks in question.But Senate testimony from 1992 suggests FEMA has long tried to avoid having to deal with the tanks.For years FEMA resisted acknowledging the problem or seeking funds for remediation, former FEMA union president Leo Bosner said in 1992 before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee.He said then there were more than 2,000 underground oil storage tanks that FEMA had paid for or acquired over the years. But FEMA came out with a legal opinion that year concluding that it wasn't responsible for the tanks.

Congress eventually decided it didn't matter which agency owned the tanks — FEMA would fund tank inspection, removal and replacement, said Bill Cumming, who at the time ran FEMA's ethics program.FEMA did eventually receive reports about leaking tanks, said Jane Bullock, who was the agency's chief of staff in the Clinton administration.Many of FEMA's out-of-use fuel tanks today have yet to be inspected because officials only recently finished going through decades of paperwork from the different federal agencies that at one point participated in the emergency broadcasting program.We are committed to upholding our obligations to remediate, remove or upgrade them as necessary, FEMA spokesman Dan Stoneking told the AP. We believe in adhering to any relevant environmental rule or law and will do so.FEMA disclosed the problems to the EPA in August 2007, a step that could lead to reduced penalties against FEMA. In May, the EPA formally requested information about the status of the tanks. FEMA said it now oversees 1,129 defunct tanks — including the hundreds that could be leaking — many of which were inherited from the FCC and the Civil Defense Preparedness Agency. Recently FEMA found the location of most of the defunct tanks by looking through old records. To determine the tanks' conditions requires a physical inspection, and agency contractors have been going to each location and searching with hand-held metal detectors and other tools. FEMA will determine what to do with the defunct tanks — such as remove them or fill them with sand — on a case-by-case basis, because of varying state laws. A 2005 law required all federal agencies to submit an inventory to Congress and the EPA of all the tanks they owned or operated, and whether the tanks were in compliance with the law.

The inventory was pushed by private gasoline retailers who long have argued that they were being targeted for violations by a government that wasn't following its own rules. In the 1960s the federal government gave fuel tanks and generators to radio stations across the country so that vital information could be broadcast during an emergency. The program was managed by the FCC in some parts of the country, and elsewhere by the former Civil Defense Preparedness Agency. Broadcast stations volunteered for the program, and by 1979 about 700 stations participated.

When FEMA was created in 1979 it took over programs run by the civil defense agency. Broadcast stations began to drop out of the program and funding was slowly eliminated between 1987 and 1994. FEMA manages fewer tanks now because of new broadcast technology and a realignment of oversight responsibilities to states. Now FEMA oversees only 38 in-use underground tanks that are being maintained to comply with EPA rules. These tanks are used for broadcast stations and to fuel generators to keep emergency operations centers running during a disaster. Associated Press writer Dina Cappiello from Washington and researcher Jennifer Farrar from New York contributed to this report.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

THE JUDGEMENT OF THE NATIONS

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.

DANIEL 12:8-13
8 And I (DANIEL) heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, (at the 3 1/2 yr mark of the 7 yr treaty) and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

MATTHEW 25:31-46
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

Israeli PM offers Palestinians 93% of West Bank Tue Aug 12, 8:52 AM ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has offered a peace plan giving the Palestinians 93 percent of the occupied West Bank, an Israeli newspaper said on Tuesday. But the Palestinians denied the report.Israel's Haaretz newspaper said the proposed border is at the heart of a broader plan that would compensate the Palestinians with the equivalent of 5.5 percent of the West Bank adjacent to the Gaza Strip and a route connecting Gaza to the West Bank itself.However, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas would only receive the land and the overland connection once his forces retake the Gaza Strip from the Islamist Hamas movement, which seized power in the coastal territory in June 2007, the newspaper said.But Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said the report was baseless.These are half-truths used by Israelis as a test balloon so they can blame the Palestinian authority should the negotiations fail, Erakat told AFP.Haaretz said the proposal has been offered in the context of US-backed peace talks relaunched in November with the goal of resolving the decades-old conflict by the end of the year.The proposed agreement however would be a shelf agreement to be implemented in the coming months and years, and would not immediately include the thorny issue of the future status of Jerusalem, Haaretz said.

The Palestinians have demanded mostly Arab east Jerusalem, which Israel occupied and annexed in the 1967 Six Day War, as their capital, while Israel considers the entire Holy City its eternal, undivided capital -- a claim not recognised by the international community.The agreement would however include a complex solution to the Palestinian refugee problem, allowing some refugees from the 1948 war to return to Israel while settling most of the 4.5 million refugees and their descendants in the Palestinian state.The seven percent of the West Bank annexed by Israel would include the major settlement blocs around Jerusalem -- home to most of the 250,000 Israeli settlers in the territory -- and some settlements in the northern West Bank.

The final Palestinian state would be demilitarised.

Erakat dismissed the idea of a partial agreement. We are not a bazaar, he said. We want a complete Israeli withdrawal from the territories it occupied in 1967, including Jerusalem, and agreement on all the final status questions, he added.

Olmert's spokesman Mark Regev declined to comment on the report but told AFP the negotiations with the Palestinians are making progress on a number of subjects, particularly borders.These negotiations are serious and are aimed at a common objective, he added.The negotiations, which have shown little visible progress since they were formally relaunched after a seven-year hiatus, were dealt a further blow last month when Olmert announced he would resign later this year.The premier has been dogged by six corruption probes and in recent months, he had faced widespread calls to resign, including from members of his own fragile governing coalition.

Olmert announced on July 30 he would step down after his centrist Kadima party chooses a new leader in a vote set for September 17.

Palestinians reject proposal by Israeli PM AUG 12,08

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected an Israeli peace proposal because it does not provide for a contiguous Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, Abbas's office said on Tuesday. Nabil Abu Rdainah, Abbas's spokesman, told the official WAFA news agency Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's plan showed a lack of seriousness.Olmert's proposal does not offer a solution to competing claims to the holy city of Jerusalem, and would only be implemented once Abbas reined in militants and re-established control of the Gaza Strip, which Hamas seized a year ago.Under the proposal, Israel would give to the Palestinians some 92.7 percent of the occupied West Bank, plus all of the Gaza Strip, according to Western and Palestinian officials briefed on the negotiations.

In exchange for West Bank land that Israel would keep, Olmert proposed a 5.3 percent land swap giving the Palestinians a desert territory adjacent to the Gaza Strip.

Olmert's proposal first emerged several months ago and was published in detail on Tuesday by Israel's left-leaning Haaretz newspaper, prompting Abu Rdainah's response.

The Israeli proposal is not acceptable, Abbas's spokesman said. The Palestinian side will only accept a Palestinian state with territorial continuity, with holy Jerusalem as its capital, without settlements, and on the June 4, 1967 boundaries.
Abu Rdainah was referring to the borders that existed prior to the 1967 Middle East war in which Israel seized Arab East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan and the Gaza Strip from Egypt.

He called the Israeli proposal a waste of time.

Launched in November with the goal of reaching a statehood deal in 2008, the U.S.-sponsored talks have shown little outward sign of progress and have been marred from the start by violence and disputes over Israeli settlement building.The chances of a peace deal faded further with Olmert's announcement last month that he would step down as prime minister once his centrist Kadima party chooses a new leader in September.Olmert spokesman Mark Regev declined to comment on any proposal, but said progress had been made in recent months, especially on the issue of borders.We are committed to continuing the effort to try to reach a joint Israeli-Palestinian document, he said.But another Israeli official said Olmert was merely trying to establish his legacy. There is going to be no agreement, period, he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior leader from Hamas, the Islamist group that routed Abbas's forces to take control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, called the offer a political test balloon to ascertain the Palestinian reaction.

Hamas will not busy itself much on this issue because the Palestinian people will never accept it,Zahar said.(Reporting by Adam Entous in Jerusalem, Mohammed Assadi in Ramallah and Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza; Writing by Adam Entous; Editing by Jon Boyle)

Israel stages war games on occupied (on their GOD GIVIN LAND) Golan Tue Aug 12, 5:53 AM ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel launched large-scale military exercises on Tuesday on the occupied Golan Heights along the Syrian border on Tuesday in the presence of senior political and military officials. There is a reinforcement on the other side, and it's not by chance that we are training intensively on the Golan Heights and on a major scale, Defence Minister Ehud Barak, who observed the drills, told army radio.

He was referring to the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militia Hezbollah, which Israel says has been rearming with help from Syria and Iran since the 2006 Lebanon war, widely regarded in Israel as a failure.Barak said UN resolution which ended the 34-day war failed to fulfill its goals.There has been a very significant reinforcement of Hezbollah in recent years, and we are examining the possibility that the balance of power has shifted with the introduction of sophisticated weapons from Syria, Barak said.The August 2006 resolution demanded the pullout of the Israeli army from south Lebanon and its replacement by a UN-backed Lebanese army deployment and called for the disarmament of Hezbollah and other armed groups.But in the two years since, Israel has repeatedly accused Hezbollah of rearming with rockets and other sophisticated weapons smuggled into Lebanon from Syria.Israel has itself continued regular overflights of Lebanon, which are in violation of the agreement.Barak also warned the government against slashing defence spending in a proposed budget aimed at reducing overall expenditure by some 2.6 billion dollars, saying Israel cannot afford the luxury of undermining its security.The exercises on the Golan were taking place despite the resumption of indirect Turkey-mediated peace talks between Israel and Syria in May after an eight-year break.Israel captured and occupied the strategic plateau in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and annexed it in 1981.

Kuwait donates 80 mln dlrs to aid Palestinians: World Bank AUG 12,08

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The World Bank said Tuesday that Kuwait has donated 80 million dollars to a trust fund in support of Palestinians, becoming the first Arab nation to contribute to the aid program. Kuwait signed an agreement Monday allowing the transfer of 80 million dollars to the World Bank-administered trust fund to support the ongoing Palestinian Reform and Development Program, the bank said.That contribution brings to 275 million dollars the amount of transfers available from the trust fund and the linked World Bank funds, of which 148 million dollars has already been disbursed.The financial resources will provide support for education, health care and other vital social services for the Palestinian people and for the economic reforms currently underway, the bank said.The other contributors to date are Australia, Britain, Canada, Finland, France, Norway and Poland.

Hamas blasts militants who break truce with Israel Tue Aug 12, 8:56 AM ET

GAZA CITY (AFP) - The Hamas rulers of Gaza on Tuesday lashed out at militants who fire rockets at Israel from the Palestinian territory in violation of a seven-week-old truce, calling them collaborators. About the rocket-firing, I think those who are responsible are those who collaborate with Israel because there is a consensus by all Palestinian groups to respect the truce, said Mahmud Zahar, the most influential leader of the Islamist Hamas movement in Gaza.On Monday, a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip slammed into an empty field outside the southern Israeli city of Sderot, causing no casualty or damage.Zahar told a Gaza radio station that the party which fired the rocket was linked to Israel as they provide a pretext to exercise pressure on the Palestinian people.After the latest firing, Israel on Tuesday closed the Nahal Oz crossing to Gaza that is used to ferry in fuel and the Sufa passage for food deliveries to the impoverished and blockaded territory.In all, 40 rockets and mortar rounds have been fired from Gaza since a truce between Hamas and Israel went into effect in and around Gaza on June 19, according to the Israeli army.Hamas, which seized power in Gaza in June 2007, insists it is respecting the truce and has vowed to crack down on smaller Palestinian militant movements which still fire at Israel.

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

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, 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

Stocks lower amid financial sector concerns By TIM PARADIS, AP Business Writer AUG 12,08

NEW YORK - Wall Street slid Tuesday as downbeat news from JPMorgan Chase & Co. and other financial companies raised more concerns about the ongoing impact of the credit crisis on the economy. The Dow Jones industrials fell more than 140 points.

The latest reminder of continuing troubles for banks and brokerages came when JPMorgan said late Monday it has incurred wider losses in its mortgage holdings so far in the third quarter than in the second quarter. The nation's second-largest bank by assets said in a regulatory filing it lost $1.5 billion, after hedges, in its mortgage-backed securities and loans this quarter, compared to $1.1 billion in the second three months of 2008.The losses were proof to investors that the financial sector's problems seem nowhere near a resolution.Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. fell after several analysts lowered their ratings and earnings estimates for the investment bank. And UBS AG, Switzerland's largest bank, reported further losses and write-downs of $5.1 billion during the second quarter.The market's losses were mitigated for part of the session by a drop in the price of oil — an illustration of the ongoing push-and-pull in the market between oil prices and any news about financials. The financial companies' problems sent major stock indexes to their lows in late trading.Oil trading was buffeted by several factors: differing views on whether global demand is falling or rising, and word from BP PLC that it had shut down an oil pipeline that runs through Georgia as a precautionary measure due to the fighting between Georgian and Russian troops. Light, sweet crude settled down $1.44 at $113.01 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil has fallen more than $30 from its July 11 high of $147.27, easing concerns on Wall Street about inflation.Some of the big bellwether financial-services companies are precipitating the correction that we're seeing, said Phil Orlando, chief equity market strategist at Federated Investors of Tuesday's retreat by stocks. Still, he said the run-up in stocks since oil began falling last month has made occasional retrenchments not unexpected.In late afternoon trading, the Dow fell 144.84, or 1.23 percent, to 11,637.51.

Broader stock indicators were lower. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 16.60, or 1.27 percent, to 1,288.72, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 13.48, or 0.55 percent, to 2,426.47.Bond prices rose as stocks fell. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, fell to 3.93 percent from 4.00 percent late Monday.The dollar was higher against most other major currencies, while gold prices fell.A Commerce Department report showed the nation's trade deficit shrank in June, rather than growing as expected. The trade imbalance dropped 4.1 percent to $56.8 billion in June from a revised May deficit of $59.2 billion, as exports rose to an all-time high. It was the smallest deficit in three months and was better than the $61.5 billion Wall Street expected.Ryan Detrick, senior technical strategist at Schaeffer's Investment Research, said that any good news of the day was simply overshadowed by the latest concerns about the financial services sector. Banks and brokerages have taken more than $300 billion of write-downs since the credit crisis began last year.The financial worries have just crept back in, Detrick said. But, given the rally we had last week, we're still holding on if you look at the big picture. We were due for some kind of a break.The Dow had gained 350 points over the previous two sessions.JPMorgan fell $4.37, or 10.5 percent, to $37.52. The stock plunged in the last hour of trading after Ladenburg Thalman analyst Richard X. Bove lowered his earnings estimates for the year.

Goldman Sachs declined $10.60, or 5.9 percent, to $167.58 after the analyst downgrades of some of its ratings.Wachovia Corp. fell $1.84, or 10.1 percent, to $16.36 after it announced plans to cut 600 more jobs than it previously expected as it tries to slash costs because of losses on mortgage debt. The bank also said in a quarterly regulatory filing that it has recorded an additional $500 million in legal reserves related to its settlement discussions with regulators concerning the sale of auction-rate securities. UBS fell $1.46, or 6.8 percent, to $20.23. The company also said Tuesday it will separate its divisions such as its private bank and its investment bank to bolster investor confidence. Declining issues outnumbered advancers by about 2 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 735.9 million shares. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 7.82, or 1.04 percent, to 743.24. Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 0.95 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.13 percent, Germany's DAX index declined 0.36 percent and France's CAC-40 fell 0.44 percent. On the Net: New York Stock Exchange: http://www.nyse.com Nasdaq Stock Market: http://www.nasdaq.com

FAMINE

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

Oil prices dip again on signs of waning demand By MADLEN READ, AP Business Writer AUG 12,08

NEW YORK - Oil prices fell again Tuesday, dampened by a stronger U.S. dollar and more evidence that developed countries such as the United States are cutting back on their energy use. Light, sweet crude dipped by $1.44 to settle at $113.01 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after falling as low as $112.31, a new three-month low. Oil is now nearly $35 below its July 11 record high of $147.27.The International Energy Agency lowered its forecast on Tuesday for oil product demand from 30 developed countries, located mostly in Europe and North America, to 48.6 million barrels a day, down 1.3 percent from last year.The Paris-based energy watchdog's report arrived a day after China said its crude imports in July, while historically strong, were down 7 percent from the same month last year.The IEA cautioned that it is too early to determine whether the recent fall in oil prices is a longer-term trend. It said demand in developing countries could offset declines in developed nations, and that it sees Chinese oil demand continuing to grow at a robust pace.And some economists have said that given the pullback in gasoline prices, demand could come back if motorists feel more comfortable with the cost of filling their gas tanks. The average U.S. retail gasoline price was $3.799 a gallon on Tuesday, according to auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express. That is down a penny from Monday, and down 31.5 cents from its July 17 record high.But the energy markets — which have seen heavy liquidation from large speculative funds since crude hit its record high — continued to make the bet that energy use is on the wane.The market's still heavily focused on demand deterioration, said Jim Ritterbusch, president of energy consultancy Ritterbusch and Associates in Galena, Ill.

A stronger dollar also weighed on oil prices. The euro traded at $1.4914, about the same as late Monday but at its lowest levels since February. The pound, meanwhile, fell to $1.8988, trading at its lowest levels since November 2006.Sometimes the cause and effect is difficult to define. It's a self-perpetuating, vicious circle going on, where oil falls, strengthens the dollar, then the strengthening dollar forces oil down more, Ritterbusch said.Meanwhile, traders continued to watch the conflict between Russia and Georgia, trying to figure out whether Russia's push into the country will result in a serious oil supply disruption. Russia ordered a halt to military action in Georgia on Tuesday, but Georgia insisted that Russian forces were still bombing and shelling.BP PLC said Tuesday it shut down the 90,000-barrel-a-day oil pipeline running from Baku on the Caspian Sea to Supsa on Georgia's Black Sea coast earlier. The London-based oil company emphasized, however, that the move was precautionary.Another larger pipeline operated by BP in the former Soviet Republic is already out of action after a fire last week on its Turkish stretch. A third pipeline in Georgia that BP uses to export oil, but does not operate, remains open.In other Nymex trading, heating oil fell 4.14 cents to $3.0781 a gallon, while gasoline futures slipped 2.34 cents to $2.8432 a gallon. Natural gas futures slid 1.9cents to $8.33 per 1,000 cubic feet.Associated Press Writers George Jahn in Vienna and Alex Kennedy in Singapore contributed to this report.

METEORS HIT THE EARTH

REVELATION 6:12-17
12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

REVELATION 8:12-13
12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels,which are yet to sound!

METEOR SHOWER
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_shower

2012 COMET
http://2012-comet.com/

2008 METEOR SHOWER VIEWING
http://stardate.org/nightsky/meteors/

2008 PERSEID SHOWER
http://current.com/items/89147297_the_2008_perseid_meteor_shower_is_on_august_12th

Mark your calendar: The 2008 Perseid meteor shower peaks on August 12th and it should be a good show.

The time to look is during the dark hours before dawn on Tuesday, August 12th, says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. There should be plenty of meteors--perhaps one or two every minute.The source of the shower is Comet Swift-Tuttle. Although the comet is far away, currently located beyond the orbit of Uranus, a trail of debris from the comet stretches all the way back to Earth. Crossing the trail in August, Earth will be pelted by specks of comet dust hitting the atmosphere at 132,000 mph. At that speed, even a flimsy speck of dust makes a vivid streak of light when it disintegrates--a meteor! Because, Swift-Tuttle's meteors streak out of the constellation Perseus, they are called Perseids.Serious meteor hunters will begin their watch early, on Monday evening, August 11th, around 9 pm when Perseus first rises in the northeast. This is the time to look for Perseid Earthgrazers--meteors that approach from the horizon and skim the atmosphere overhead like a stone skipping across the surface of a pond. Earthgrazers are long, slow and colorful; they are among the most beautiful of meteors, says Cooke. He cautions that an hour of watching may net only a few of these at most, but seeing even one can make the whole night worthwhile. A warm summer night. Bright meteors skipping overhead. And the peak is yet to come. What could be better?

The answer lies halfway up the southern sky: Jupiter and the gibbous Moon converge on August 11th and 12th for a close encounter in the constellation Sagittarius: sky map. It's a grand sight visible even from light-polluted cities. For a while the beautiful Moon will interfere with the Perseids, lunar glare wiping out all but the brightest meteors. Yin-yang. The situation reverses itself at 2 am on Tuesday morning, August 12th, when the Moon sets and leaves behind a dark sky for the Perseids. The shower will surge into the darkness, peppering the sky with dozens and perhaps hundreds of meteors until dawn. For maximum effect, get away from city lights, Cooke advises. The brightest Perseids can be seen from cities, he allows, but the greater flurry of faint, delicate meteors is visible only from the countryside. (Scouts, this is a good time to go camping.) The Perseids are coming. Enjoy the show! Source: Science@NASA, by Dr. Tony Phillips