TESTING TUESDAYS MARKET

THIS STORY IS FALSE THE ISRAELIS ARE PUTTING THE CHIPS IN ID CARDS THAT ALL MUST ACCEPT,IT WILL STILL LEAD TO THE MARK OF THE BEAST IMPLEMENTED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION WORLDWIDE IN THE FUTURE.

ISRAEL TO MICROCHIP ITS CITIZENS.
http://wingswatchman.org/WordPress/2008/11/17/israel-to-chip-citizens/

ISRAEL to be first country REQUIRING ALL CITIZENS to have MANDATORY RFID chips placed in their hands NOV 17,08

I haven't found a link to this breaking story, and would appreciate any links that is found to verify this story. THANKS!! Maariv Newspaper announces Israel will be first to implement mandatory RFID chips in citizens hands .Biblically Breakings News From Israel brough to you by Aviad Cohen 11.14.08

Maariv Newspaper announces Israel will be first to
implement mandatory RFID chips in hands of it's citizens

Before we get into this latest late breaking news, I would like to share this quote:

On October 3, 1940, the Vichy government of France passed the first Statut des Juifs (Jewish Statute). The law was modeled on the German Nuremberg Laws. Jews living in Vichy France were required to have their identification cards stamped with the word Juif (Jew). Moreover, they were not permitted to change residences, and they had to inform the police about any changes in marital status. The laws effectively enabled the regime to keep tabs on the Jews.Source: [link to www.holocaustchronicle.org]

Dear friends, it's Aviad Cohen reporting from Israel. Here is the scenario: I am standing in the living room of a Jewish friend's home in Israel this evening. He is sitting down reading Maariv newspaper's Sof Shavua (End of The Week). He starts to translate some Hebrew to me about how an article from the 11.14.08 newspaper is stating how the Israeli government is passing (or has passed) a law where all citizens will be required to have RFID chips implanted into their hand. Keep in mind this lengthy article is six pages long (666 get a hint). I started to explain to him about how the Bible prophesies about this. He also mentions that in the article it states that Israel will be the first country to implement the RFID chip as mandatory for all citizens. I was not shocked when I received this news since the Bible prophesies this happening, as mentioned in the Brit Chadasha (New Testament) in the book of Revelation. I just did not think that it would happen this fast and first out of all places, in Israel?. Keeping tabs on Jews is a red flag of something bad that is coming up ahead. For Israel to claim that they will be the first to establish the mark of the beast (mark on the hand) is a shock. How would Holocaust victims with tattoos on their arms from concentration camps react to the RFID chip implant? This is disgusting and even more disgusting is how many Jews will blindly/ignorantly take it in the name of countering terrorism. Who are the real terrorists? That remains to be the big brother question. I think the only ones who need to have tabs kept on them are the psychos who are coming up with chipping people. They are the real terrorists.

For most Israeli citizens hearing this news does not make that much sense since they do not read the Brit Chadasha and do not understand that what is going on today has been prophesied about in the Bible, but to a Yehudi Meshichi (Messianic Jew) like me, it makes total sense since I am Scripturally Informed.

GAYS MOB CHRISTIANS -VIDEO - STORY
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=81310

THESE GAYS ARE JUST AS BAD AS MUSLIMS FOR RIOTS AND VIOLENCE NOW.THESE GAYS DON'T SEEM TO LIKE GODS LAWS AS MARRIAGE IS ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN, NO EXCEPTIONS

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 storm hits Vietnam, casualties feared By Ho Binh Minh Ho Binh Minh – Mon Nov 17, 7:32 am ET

ns HANOI (Reuters) – A tropical storm hit central Vietnam on Monday, threatening severe floods, landslides and substantial damage to coffee output from the world's second-largest producer of the crop.Tropical Storm Noul, with winds of 88 kph (55 mph), made landfall around the beach resort of Nha Trang late on Monday and weakened to a tropical depression, state radio said.Noul is expected to cross the coffee-growing province of Lam Dong during the peak of the harvest in the Central Highlands. Torrential rains could halt the harvest and prevent farmers from drying beans outdoors, causing delays and lowering quality.There will be heavy rains that will cause flooding and landslides over the next two days, Bui Minh Tang, director of the national weather forecaster, told the Voice of Vietnam.Heavy rains were still expected in the densely populated Mekong Delta, which normally avoids the worst of the storms that roll in from the South China Sea.All offshore oil production from Vietnam, Southeast Asia's third-largest producer of crude oil, remained operational, a Petrovietnam official said.However, state television said Vietsovpetro, a Russian joint venture, would temporarily shut operation on four oil rigs and evacuate workers.Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung had ordered the immediate recall of all fishing boats in the area and said children should not go to school as preparations were made for mass evacuations across a 400 km (250 mile) swathe of coastline.More than 74,000 people needed evacuation while more than 133,000 fishermen were urged to take shelter, the government said.

In neighboring Cambodia, Prime Minister Hun Sen canceled a scheduled trip on Tuesday to the coastal province of Kampot, abutting Vietnam, because of the storm.Vietnamese government reports said more than 17,000 fishing boats were operating near the Spratlys in the path of the storm.The Mekong Delta, where the latest rice crop has been harvested, is rarely hit by storms. Typhoon Linda caught the region unawares in November 1997, killing at least 464 people.The government never revised an initial tally that listed more than 3,200 people as missing.(Additional reporting by Nguyen Nhat Lam and Ek Madra in Phnom Penh; Writing by Ed Cropley; Editing by Darren Schuettler and Paul Tait)

Flooding in Ethiopia kills 11, maroons hundreds Mon Nov 17, 5:31 am

ETADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – A river in Ethiopia's highlands burst its banks after heavy rains, killing 11 people and stranding hundreds more, the state news agency said on Monday.Flooding from the Wabe Shebelle river in southeast Ethiopia has submerged more than 100 villages, regional relief boss Eremdan Haji was quoted as saying by the Ethiopian News Agency.Inhabitants in 116 villages in an area covering a 90-km (56-mile) radius have been stranded on hillocks surrounded by the flood water, he said.Efforts to rescue hundreds of marooned people have become impossible due to the extent of land covered by the flood.Some 6,000 head of livestock and 2,500 hectares of crop were destroyed, the official added, saying the government had sent 18,000 tonnes of food aid to the region near Somalia.Local officials contacted by Reuters said they had no further information but were on their way to the flood area.(Reporting by Tsegaye Tadesse; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

North Carolina storm kills 2, destroys homes By MIKE BAKER, Associated Press Writer –Sat Nov 15, 9:08 pm ET

KENLY, N.C. – As a tornado ripped through his North Carolina neighborhood, Curt Jernigan huddled in his bathroom, praying for the raging winds to spare him.When Jernigan emerged from the home, he met a neighbor, his face covered in blood, who pleaded with him to help search for his wife. She had gone missing in the confusion of the storm. The 41-year-old Jernigan agreed to help out, but said he knew the effort to find the woman alive would be fruitless.When I saw what he had in his yard, I knew it wasn't going to be a rescue — it was a recovery. It's just devastation, Jernigan said.His grim thought proved correct. State police said his neighbor, Maryland Gomez, who was in her 60s, was one of two people killed by tornadoes and severe weather that swept across central North Carolina early Saturday.

Gomez's body was found amid the rubble that was once her home in Kenly, a community about 35 miles southeast of Raleigh, said state police spokeswoman Patty McQuillan. In neighboring Wilson County, authorities said a child also was killed. Several people were injured in the cluster of strong storms that hit some six counties.The only thing left standing of Gomez's home was her front porch, one of at least a half-dozen houses destroyed by the storms that also knocked down trees and power lines. Residents emerged at daybreak to find their homes in ruins, cars flipped over and debris strewn about.It was pretty massive destruction, Johnston County emergency management coordinator Derrick Duggins said. It goes to show the magnitude of what natural weather can do.In Kenly, family and friends piled up mattresses, took pictures of the damage and filled garbage bags with trash from Mark Stephenson's one-story brick home, leveled by the storm.Winds tossed family portraits into the woods some 200 yards away and the skeleton of a new camper the Stephensons had just bought sat nearby.One half of Stephenson's home was flattened, while a tree had fallen through the other half, on top of his 19-year-old daughter's bedroom. She was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.It's hard to believe, it's hard to take in, Stephenson said. We've got our lives and our health, so we're good to go.

His 14-year-old son, Hunter, pointed to what used to be his bedroom — now just a pile of bricks and beams. The room was being remodeled, so Hunter had been sleeping in the living room.I'm lucky, he said. It's crazy, if I would have been in there, I would have been dead.U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge, who represents the area, surveyed the damage Saturday, describing beams in the home where the woman was found as spaghetti-like. Gov. Mike Easley planned to tour the area Sunday or Monday after local officials have assessed the damage.A Red Cross shelter was opened at a church and National Weather Service officials were sending crews out to survey the damage.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Indonesia quake kills 4, buildings collapse By ALI KOTARUMALOS, Associated Press Writer – Mon Nov 17, 11:19 am ET

JAKARTA, Indonesia – A powerful earthquake jolted eastern Indonesia on Monday, killing at least four people, damaging hundreds of homes and briefly triggering a region-wide tsunami warning, officials said as they surveyed the damage.The 7.5-magnitude quake struck off the coast of Sulawesi island in the middle of the night, sending thousands fleeing homes, hotels and even hospitals.The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake struck 85 miles from the nearest city, Gorantalo, on Sulawesi island. It was centered 16 miles beneath the sea and was followed by two strong aftershocks.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center initially warned the temblor had the potential to generate a destructive tsunami along coasts within 600 miles. But even after local officials lifted the tsunami alert, frightened Sulawesi residents refused to go back indoors.In December 2004, a massive earthquake off Indonesia's Sumatra island triggered a tsunami that battered much of the Indian Ocean coastline and killed more than 230,000 people — 131,000 of them in Indonesia's Aceh province alone. A tsunami off Java island last year killed nearly 5,000.

By morning, officials were starting to get a better sense of the damage.Rustam Pakaya, the head of the Health Ministry's Crisis Center, said four people died and 77others were injured. About 800 homes were badly damaged, some of them flattened.

Robert Bano, a resident in the provincial capital, said the massive quake shook his house for more than two minutes, knocking paintings from the wall. He grabbed his crying children and, along with many others, ran outside.Some fled to high ground, others gathered in the streets.A few guests streaming from Paradiso Hotel were so afraid they fainted, the official news agency Antara reported.A witness in the city of Poso said patients from at least one hospital were evacuated.Indonesia is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.Associated Press Writer Niniek Karmini and Zakki Hakim contributed to this report from Jakarta.

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Residents return to devastated LA mobile home park By AMY TAXIN, Associated Press Writer NOV 17,08

LOS ANGELES – Stacks of charred bricks, blackened shells of cars and burned tree trunks were all that remained Monday in much of the community some residents once called the Beverly Hills of mobile home parks.The mostly retired residents returned to see what was left of their homes at Oakridge Mobile Home Park, where winds with hurricane intensity blew a wall of fire through hundreds of manufactured homes and set them ablaze so quickly that even firefighters had to drop their hoses and run.

It looks like a war zone — no trees, no buildings, said Michele Warneck, 54, who burst into tears after returning from the park. She had watched her two-bedroom house burn on the television news. Everything that was porcelain just blew up.Once considered a paradise with swimming pools and tennis courts, the park was now roamed by cadaver-sniffing dogs in search of anyone who didn't escape. That search ended Monday afternoon with investigators finding no evidence anyone perished.The inferno destroyed 484 homes in the park Saturday. Firefighters were able to save about 120 homes, but many were badly damaged and the park is flattened except for charred trees with blackened branches bent in one direction by the hot winds. Twisted metal foundations and pipes are all that is left of many homes.The fire was one of three in Southern California that have destroyed about 1,000 homes and apartments and burned 41,000 acres, or 64 square miles, forcing thousands to flee.Most evacuation orders were lifted by Monday, when clear skies and calm winds allowed firefighters to make some gains, but officials warned of another bad air day and classes were canceled at dozens of schools near fire zones in Orange County.In Sylmar, scores of residents stood in line outside a high school gymnasium for tours of the charred mobile home park where retirees once played tennis, took a dip in a jacuzzi and played Mah-Johng and poker.Those whose homes were destroyed were shuttled through the neighborhood in a black van. Authorities were still investigating the fire, so people weren't allowed to get out and sift through the ashes for scraps of their belongings.It's gone, said Ed Hurdle, 82, after taking one of the first park tours. The car is gone. The house is gone. It's twisted metal. It's totally charred there. There's no hope at all. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.A separate set of white police vans ferried residents whose homes were still standing so they could gather medication and other essentials.

My house was in great shape. All it was was dirty, said Betty Glassman, 78. I feel like I'm in a dream. Pinch me.Cadaver dogs searched the burned units, but found only the cremated remains of a man who died several years ago.Animal control recovered several dead animals and three live cats. Los Angeles County Assistant Coroner Chief Ed Winter said the cats could have been hiding under one of the units that wasn't damaged.Neighbors huddled together inside the gymnasium, which has been turned into a Red Cross shelter for evacuees, hugging each other and comparing notes about what they saw and what they were able to salvage.It's a disaster. It looks like Hiroshima, said Joan Costa, carrying plastic bags filled with makeup and medicines she had pulled from her home.The fire left a local hospital in darkness, and nurses used hand-cranked ventilators to keep patients alive when the fire knocked out power to Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in Sylmar. Authorities are investigating why the emergency generator failed. No patients were harmed during the 3 1/2-hour outage early Saturday.Elsewhere, the largest of the fires has burned more than 28,000 acres in Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties and has destroyed more than 250 homes and apartment units. San Bernadino became the fourth county declared a state of emergency. Los Angeles County Fire Inspector Frank Garrido warned residents returning their homes in the Diamond Bar area to watch for snakes, mountain lions and other wildlife who fled the flames into more populated areas.

In the Orange County suburb of Yorba Linda, residents returned to find more than 100 homes destroyed. Some hung signs thanking firefighters for saving their homes, others snapped photos of the scorched community. Lindey Lindholm sifted through the rubble of his home, searching for family heirlooms. It's all gone, Lindholm said. The first of the wildfires broke out in the Montecito area of Santa Barbara County, about 90 miles northwest of Sylmar.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said President-elect Barack Obama contacted him Sunday night to offer what help he could. Obama has turned his campaign Web site home page into a plea to help fire victims that includes a link to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's site, where people can sign up to volunteer or donate to the Red Cross or Salvation Army. Schwarzenegger on Monday asked the Bush administration to declare Southern California a federal disaster site. The governor also requested disaster loans for the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Santa Barbara and San Bernardino. He said many of the residents affected by the fires — particularly mobile home owners — lacked insurance or are seriously underinsured. The causes of all three fires were under investigation, although officials labeled the Santa Barbara-area fire human-caused, said Doug Lannon, a spokesman with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Lannon said the fire started in a Montecito landmark known to be a popular hangout for teenagers. He said it was possible someone was smoking in the brush or started a campfire there. Oakridge park resident Steve Fisher, 58, said he'd eventually like to move back there but doesn't know if he will — especially since he didn't have insurance on his home that burned.

I've never lived in a place with such a communal spirit, Fisher said. It was just like paradise.

CNN NEWS VIDEO
http://edition.cnn.com/video/

YAHOO NEWS VIDEO
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MIDEAST CONFLICT NEWS
http://news.yahoo.com/video/1874;_ylt=A0wNcxFdg6xIgbkAwD6z174F

ABC NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2461

FOX NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/3074

FOX BUSINESS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/3045

AP NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2529

BBC NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2918

REUTERS VIDEO NEWS
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2704

AFP NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/3091

CNBC NEWS VIDEO
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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

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE NOV 18,2008

09:30 AM -7.17
10:00 AM +17.76
10:30 AM +128.63
11:00 AM +114.13
11:30 AM +98.20
12:00 PM +182.93
12:30 PM +93.50
01:00 PM +34.33
01:30 PM -12.03
02:00 PM -89.05
02:30 PM -45.56
03:00 PM -90.50
03:30 PM -35.92
04:00 PM +151.17 8424.75

S&P 500 859.12 +8.37

NASDAQ 1483.27 +1.22

GOLD 737.5 -4.5

OIL 54.74 -0.21

TSE 300 8834.08 +38.63

CDNX 750.25 -35.54

S&P/TSX/60 534.53 +5.30

MORNING NEWS,STATS

Dow down -17 points 4 minutes into trading today.
Dow -20 at low this morning so far.
Dow +75 at high so far today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS

Dow down -138 at low today.
Dow +201 at high today.
S&P on pace for lowest close since March 14,2003.
Nasdaq on pace for lowest close since March 24,2003.
Dow,S&P 500,Nasdaq has not gained since last Thursday.
Major averages currently on pace for 3rd straight down week.
NAHB:Housing Market index falls to record low reading of 9 for OCT from 14 last month.
WSJ:Online spending rose 1% in OCT from a yr earlier,smallest increase since 2001.
Ford to begin employee pricing Discount Promotion,starting tomorrow to JAN 5,2009.

WRAPUP,NEW,STATS

Dow up 1.8% today.
S&P 500 up 1.0% today.
Nasdaq edges higher today.
Nasdaq closing at fresh 5 1/2 year lows today.
Crude oil dips to 22 month low today.
Stocks rally from lows in last hour of trading.
Stocks bounce from highs to lows to end with gains today.
Dow at low today -138 points.
Dow at high today +201 points.

Forecasters: U.S. in 14 month recession By Burton Frierson Burton Frierson – Mon Nov 17, 1:39 pm ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. economy fell into a recession last spring and will contract sharply this quarter as more than 200,000 workers per month are added to the rolls of the unemployed, a survey said on Monday.The Philadelphia Federal Reserve's latest Survey of Professional Forecasters removed some of the glow from an earlier report showing industrial output rebounded in October after hurricane disruptions produced a stunning fall in September.Early data from the factory sector also supported the grim view of the forecasters, showing manufacturing in New York state tumbled in November to yet another record low.Japan on Monday joined the euro zone in recession. Although the U.S. economy contracted in third quarter, that followed two consecutive quarters of growth, albeit helped by government stimulus payments. The arbiter of U.S. business cycles has not yet declared the economy in recession.The latest data and surveys provided new evidence that turmoil in credit markets was tightening its grip over the economy, which is unlikely to see any relief soon from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.The early signs suggest that the November data cycle is likely to be extremely weak, analysts at RDQ economics said in a research note.On Wall Street, stocks were weaker in volatile trade, though off early lows, while government bonds were mixed and the dollar was a shade higher against the yen.The Philadelphia Fed's survey predicted gross domestic product would shrink by 2.9 percent in the fourth quarter, a sharp downgrade from the previous prediction of 0.7 percent growth.It said the U.S. economy entered a recession in April and that it will last 14 months, which would make it one of the longest recessions since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Only the 16-month recessions in the mid-1970s and early 1980s were longer. Even though the economy was technically growing in April this year it would not be unprecedented for the National Bureau of Economic Research to declare a recession was occurring then.The NBER measures recessions by a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, rather than the traditional definition of two consecutive quarters of falling

GDP.

The recession of March-November 2001 did not include two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction. This year, the economy has lost 1.2 million jobs since an uninterrupted labor market slump started in January, while manufacturing has contracted for most of the year.The survey predicted the economy would shed an average of 222,400 jobs per month this quarter. It said first-quarter GDP would decline by 1.1 pct and the unemployment rate would hit 7.0 percent during the first three months of next year.

A separate report by the Federal Reserve showed U.S. industrial production rose a stronger-than-expected 1.3 percent in October after a downwardly revised September drop of 3.7 percent -- the biggest fall in more than 62 years.The September slide in industrial output was the steepest since a 5.0 percent decline in February 1946.The Fed said the revision to September output resulted, in part, from a larger estimate of the impacts that Hurricanes Gustav and Ike had on the chemical industry. This also set a lower base for October.The October improvement is not anything to cheer about, said Daniel Meckstroth, chief economist for the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI, a private economic research organization.

EMPIRE STRICKEN

In a separate report, the New York Fed said its Empire State general business conditions index fell to minus 25.43 in November from minus 24.62 in October. That was the lowest reading on manufacturing in New York state since the inception of the index in July 2001. The report paints a dim picture, said David Ader, head of government bond strategy at RBS Greenwich Capital, in Greenwich, Connecticut. Still, this is not exactly surprising but more confirmation, he added. Economists polled by Reuters had expected an even weaker reading of minus 26.10. The report, based on a survey of manufacturers in New York state, was generally bleak. The indexes for new orders and shipments slid to record lows, while the measures for unfilled orders, employment and inventories all slipped to their lowest levels since late 2001. As with many recent reports, the one silver lining was that inflation measures fell, which should give the Federal Reserve leeway to continue holding interest rates low as it fights the effects of the worst financial crisis in 80 years. The prices paid index fell for the fourth straight month and the prices received index tumbled to its lowest level in more than three years, the report said. (Reporting by Burton Frierson; Editing by Dan Grebler)

G20 leaders step back from co-ordinated stimulus plans
RENATA GOLDIROVA 17.11.2008 @ 10:17 CET

The world's 20 leading industrialised and emerging nations have backed fiscal stimulus plans to boost their economies but reached no agreement to co-ordinate such action - the preferred option of a number of European Union nations.The gathered leaders pledged to take over next four months a series of steps to support the global economy and stabilise financial markets.G20 leaders have agreed to some new regulation of banks and insurance houses, but there will be no new global financial architecture (Photo: French EU presidency/Laurent Blevennec)We are determined to enhance our co-operation and work together to restore global growth and achieve needed reforms in the world's financial systems, the group of 20 nations stated after a top-level meeting in Washington on Saturday (15 November). However, leaders reached no agreement on any internationally co-ordinated series of tax cuts and government spending to prime the economic pump, as some European leaders had favoured heading into the summit. The final conclusions also came well short of delivering any construction of a new global financial architecture or refounding capitalism as the current chair of the EU presidency, France's Nicolas Sarkozy, had famously demanded.The meeting brought together leading developed powers, including the US, Japan, the UK and Germany, as well as developing countries such as China, India, Argentina and Brazil. The G20 accounts for 85 percent of the global economy and two-thirds of the world's population.

World leaders tasked their finance ministers to begin working on moves to align global accounting standards, review pay practices that encourage excessive risk taking, and draft appropriate regulation and oversight of financial institutions, including rating agencies. The market should also see a stronger surveillance of cross-border firms by establishing supervisory colleges for all major cross-border financial institutions. We will implement reforms that will strengthen financial markets and regulatory regimes so as to avoid future crises, the leaders stated. In addition, they agreed that top emerging economies should have a bigger say in the key international financial institutions. The Financial Stability Forum - a group consisting of major national financial authorities - must expand urgently to a broader membership of emerging economies, the leaders said. But despite calls for improved regulation, world leaders also pledged to avoid over-regulation, saying it could hamper economic growth and capital flows. We underscore the critical importance of rejecting protectionism and not turning inward in times of financial uncertainty, they also said in a joint statement, committing themselves to not raise new barriers to investment or trade in goods and services over the next 12 months. The G20 leaders agreed to meet again under the same G20 format in April next year.

Richer safety net

Meanwhile, International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn told the BBC that his institution is likely to need more funding if it is to rescue ailing economies. The number of countries having problems at the same time has dramatically increased and they come to the IMF asking for support. So we need more resources, he was cited as saying on Monday (17 November).The question is to be able to face the problem in six months from now and I think all the heads of state and government are aware of the need for a strong IMF, he added, estimating its needs for extra funding to at least €80 billion. Mr Strauss-Kahn also advocated more ambitious interest rate cuts. In some parts of the world - Japan, the United States - interest rates have been cut very much, but it can be done more aggressively in other parts, he told the BBC, referring to the European Central Bank. I think now [the ECB has] room to decrease the interest rate, but nevertheless the stress has to be put on fiscal policy, he concluded.In separate news, Japan, the world's second largest economy has officially entered recession, with GDP shrinking 0.4 percent in the last quarter, the Japanese Cabinet Office announced today (17 November).

MONEYNETDAILY Bailout's blank check enraging Republicans Irate lawmakers demand Paulson show how $700 billion is spent November 17, 2008 8:53 pm Eastern
By Drew Zahn 2008 WorldNetDaily

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla.

In a letter written to fellow legislators over the weekend, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., added his voice to a dedicated resistance still fighting against the federal government's $700 billion bailout of the financial industry and demanding accountability for how the money is spent.Congress abdicated its Constitutional responsibility by signing a truly blank check over to the Treasury Secretary, Inhofe writes. However, the lame duck session of Congress offers us a tremendous opportunity to change course. We should take it.Inhofe joins other Republicans, such as S.C. Governor Mark Sanford, who have called into question how Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has allocated the first $350 billion of the $700 billion bailout package, officially called the Troubled Asset Relief Program.I firmly believe action is required by Congress, Inhofe writes. I plan to push for legislation that will require Secretary Paulson's plan for the remaining $350 billion in authorized TARP funds to be ratified by an affirmative vote in the U.S. Congress.Gov. Sanford sent a letter of his own last week directly to Paulson, citing examples just in South Carolina of financial institutions retiring executives with multimillion-dollar golden parachutes in order to qualify for bailout funds and banks that don't need the money applying for it anyway, just to remain competitive.The federal government, and by extension taxpayers, are being gamed, Sanford wrote. I think it's dangerous over the long run the way that taxpayers are being sapped.The Wall Street Journal reported last week that some $40 billion is being paid to executives of banking giants that are getting bailout payments, wrote Sanford. On top of that, Bloomberg reported today that the Federal Reserve is refusing to identify who is even getting $2 trillion in emergency loans.Join the effort to Stop the Bailout! with our hot-selling magnetic bumper sticker exclusively from WND!

Now Sanford is asking his constituents – and Inhofe is asking his colleagues – to demand accountability for how the bailout funds are spent.In the rush to do something about the turmoil in the credit markets, Congress has failed miserably in keeping an eye out for the taxpayers and watching for unintended consequences of this bailout, Gov. Sanford says in a statement on his website. To put it simply, taxpayers are getting gamed. While we continue to believe that the bailout was an incredibly bad idea in the first place, it's being made worse by loose rules and oversight that are putting taxpayers on the hook for billions more.It is just outrageous that the American people don't know that Congress doesn't know how much money he (Paulson) has given away to anyone, Inhofe told the Tulsa World.I just think we have to draw the line someplace, and the time is here, Inhofe said.

Secretary Paulson has come under even increased criticism following last week's announcement that he was scrapping the centerpiece of the $700 billion bailout – buying troubled mortgage-backed securities – in favor of other stimulus plans.My mouth is open, Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif. told a television interviewer about the announcement. It was a very hard vote for many of us who voted for that package, and now all of a sudden we have an audible and we're spending it on something else.Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, told the Los Angeles Times, When you see so many changes, you wonder if they really know what they're doing.Inhofe was also quick to condemn the switch in his letter to fellow senators:Why did Paulson reverse course?, Inhofe asks. Thursday's Los Angeles Times provides the answer. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson's decision to abandon plans to buy troubled bank assets shows that he has come to two conclusions about what was once the chief focus of the government's $700-billion bailout: The first is that it wouldn't work.In his announcement of the change of direction last week, the Times reported, Paulson suggested that the government's financial bailout had entered a time out period as Obama prepared to take office. Paulson said Congress must work with Obama to decide during the next couple of months what role federal officials should play in the housing market.If Inhofe is successful in persuading his colleagues, Congress will use the downtime to increase oversight on how the latter half of the bailout is spent.During the lame duck session, I will be taking the following actions, Inhofe pledges to his fellow senators. First and foremost, if Secretary Paulson submits his plan to Congress in order to access the remaining $350 billion while we are in session, a doubtful prospect, I plan to immediately introduce the disapproval resolution pursuant to Section 115 of the EESA and push for its enactment.I will also introduce and actively pursue enactment of legislation to do two things, Inhofe writes. First, it will … require an affirmative vote on the part of Congress to approve Treasury's plan for the remaining $350 billion, instead of the current statutory process which gives Secretary Paulson far too much latitude. Second, it will require a freeze on any remaining funds of the first $350 billion.It is imperative that we not allow that amount of money to be added to a deficit approaching $1 trillion this year without any input from the legislative branch,
Inhofe writes.

WORLD TERRORISM

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men

LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

PROBABLY THE EIFFEL TOWER WILL COME DOWN WITH A QUAKE BY THE READ OF IT HERE, BUT IT COULD BE TERRORISM,ONLY TIME WILL TELL.

ANGEL 3 TO DOCTOR DOCTORIAN.
Suddenly I heard earthquakes all over Europe. Countries that have had no earthquakes shall be shaken, said the angel. And suddenly, in my spirit, I saw the Eiffel Tower in Paris crumbling falling down. A great part of Germany destroyed. The great city of London - destruction everywhere.

Taliban threaten France with attacks: video NOV 17,08

DUBAI (AFP) - A Taliban military leader threatened to carry out attacks in Paris unless French troops are pulled out of Afghanistan, in a video broadcast on Al-Arabiya television.The video, which the Dubai-based TV station did not say how it obtained or when it was filmed, also claimed responsibility for an operation in August in which 10 French soldiers were killed.The video shows a Taliban military leader, identified as Faruq, saying in comments dubbed into Arabic that the French can await their response in Paris if French troops are not withdrawn from Afghanistan.He also claimed Taliban responsibility for an August 18 attack around 60 kilometres (40 miles) south of Kabul in which 10 French soldiers were killed and 21 wounded.The attack was widely attributed to the Taliban at the time, and the French media published photographs of Taliban wearing uniforms from troops killed in the clash.France currently has around 2,600 soldiers deployed in Afghanistan as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force as well as the US-led Operation Enduring Freedom.

FIRES STILL RAGE

Israel to free 250 Palestinian prisoners by Ezzedine Said Ezzedine Said – NOV 17,08

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Caretaker Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday that 250 Palestinian prisoners would be freed in a goodwill gesture, as Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas urged Israel to maintain the Gaza truce.The pair met in Jerusalem for the first time in two months, amid rising tension in and around the besieged Gaza Strip where Israeli forces and Palestinian militants have engaged in almost daily tit-for-tat attacks since November 4.Abbas had asked him to free Palestinian prisoners and Olmert told him of the decision to release 250 at the beginning of December, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said.In a similar move in August, Israel freed 198 Palestinian prisoners. More than 11,000 Palestinians are still held in Israeli prisons.A senior Israeli official said that none of the prisoners to be freed belongs to radical Palestinian movements such as Hamas, the Islamist movement which seized power in the Gaza Strip in June 2007.Since the Hamas takeover, the secular Abbas has held sway only in the West Bank.But he said that during his talks at Olmert's official residence in Jerusalem, Abbas stressed the need to maintain the truce in Gaza because it eases the suffering of the Palestinian people.He also urged Palestinian militants not to shatter the fragile truce that went into effect in and around Gaza on June 19. In other words, stop the futile rocket firings that don't help the Palestinian cause in any way, Abbas said.Abbas also met British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who said it was vital the ceasefire be maintained. The discussions you have had today (with Olmert) seem to me to be a very important contribution to that, Miliband told the Palestinian leader.

Miliband earlier toured Sderot, an Israeli town which regularly comes under rocket fire from neighbouring Gaza.A flare-up in violence last week prompted Israel to further tighten its blockade and completely seal off the aid-dependent Gaza Strip, though it allowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies on Monday for the first time in almost two weeks.Olmert told Abbas that Hamas is to blame for violations of the truce in and around the Gaza Strip, and warned that if violence escalates, Israel will have to respond, a senior Israeli official said.On Monday, several rockets fired from Gaza hit southern Israel without causing any casualties.Each side has accused the other of violating the ceasefire in the latest flare-up of violence in which volleys of rockets and mortar rounds have been launched at Israel and 15 Gaza militants killed since November 4.Israel generally responds to the Gaza attacks by tightening the blockade it imposed after the 2007 Hamas takeover, but said it allowed 33 truckloads of humanitarian supplies into the coastal strip on Monday.A UN spokesman said that many more deliveries will be needed in the impoverished and overcrowded territory.We cannot have another period when people are not getting their food assistance. We cannot allow people to get punished in that way, said Chris Gunness of the UN Works and Relief Agency, which distributes food to 750,000 Gazans -- half the population.The violence as well as the political and geographical division of the Palestinian territories between Hamas-ruled Gaza and the West Bank under Abbas have complicated the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.

Palestinians and the international community say continued Jewish settlement activity in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is major stumbling block in the talks that were relaunched at a US conference in November 2007 after a seven-year hiatus. I called for a halt to all settlement activity, Abbas said after his talks with Olmert.

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Even as winds calm, more Californians flee fires By JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press Writer NOV 16,08

DIAMOND BAR, Calif. – More residents of Southern California were urged to leave their homes Sunday despite calming winds that allowed a major aerial attack on wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and blanketed the region in smoke.

Fires burned in Los Angeles County, to the east in Riverside and Orange counties, and to the northwest in Santa Barbara County. More than 800 houses, mobile homes and apartments were destroyed by fires that have burned areas more than 34 square miles since breaking out Thursday.No deaths have been reported, but police brought in trained dogs Sunday morning to search the rubble of a mobile home park where nearly 500 homes were destroyed. They didn't find any bodies after searching about a third of the homes.This has been a very tough few days for the people of Southern California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said after touring damage.The smell of smoke pervaded metropolitan Los Angeles. Downtown skyscrapers were silhouettes in an opaque sky, and concerns about air quality forced organizers to cancel a marathon in suburban Pasadena where 8,000 runners had planned to participate.Fierce Santa Ana winds that fanned the fires on Saturday weakened Sunday morning, allowing firefighters to set backfires to prevent flames from advancing to hillside neighborhoods. Air tankers swooped low over suburbs, red fire retardant billowing from their bellies as they painted defensive lines between brushlands and homes. Big helicopters shuttled back and forth on water drops.The most threatening blaze had scorched more than 16 square miles in Orange and Riverside counties after erupting Saturday and shooting through subdivisions entwined with wilderness parklands. Multimillion-dollar homes were threatened in Diamond Bar in Los Angeles County as the out-of-control fire pushed northward.Fire officials on Sunday morning ordered 1,400 more residents to evacuate, in addition to 26,500 who had already been told to leave.Retired aerospace engineer Joe Gomez, who has lived in his palm-tree-lined Diamond Bar neighborhood for 45 years, stayed put despite being under a mandatory evacuation.I'm trying to use some logic here, said Gomez, 72, trying to gauge the direction of the wind and flames. I don't think it's going to come down this way.

In the early morning, winds pushed flames dangerously close to a church and adjacent mobile home park in the Olinda Village area north of Yorba Linda, but firefighters were able to beat it back. Only one mobile home was lost.Little fire activity was apparent in Orange County after dark Sunday, but the official containment estimate remained at zero.On Saturday, the fire burned 119 homes in the communities of Corona, Yorba Linda and Anaheim. In addition, 50 units of an apartment complex burned, Orange County fire spokeswoman Angela Garbiso said.Capt. Guy Melker of the Los Angeles County Fire Department stood on a balcony of a multimillion-dollar home in Diamond Bar, looking down into a canyon with flames on the far side.It's an interesting chess game right now, Melker said. Sometimes Mother Nature puts us in check, and our job is to put her in checkmate.As Melker spoke, a small spotter plane slipped low across a ridge, followed by a big air tanker that dropped its load along a ridge.In the Orange County city of Brea, fire destroyed the main building of a high school.About 50 miles to the northwest, a large fire that torched a mobile home park in the Sylmar area of Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley had moved into the rugged San Gabriel Mountains and was burning vigorously — but well outside the city.

Authorities said Sunday that 484 of the Oakridge Mobile Home Park's 608 units were lost. The fire also destroyed nine single-family homes and 11 commercial buildings.

The park was home to many elderly residents, and though no fatalities were reported and no one was reported missing, investigators were searching the site using trained dogs. The search was about 30 percent complete by midday Sunday. To this point no human remains have been found, said Deputy Police Chief Michael Moore. Fire officials estimated that at the peak of the Sylmar fire, 10,000 people were ordered to evacuate. However, many evacuation orders were lifted Saturday night, Fire Department spokesman Ron Haralson said. Five looting arrests were reported. About 90 miles northwest of Sylmar, a 3-square-mile fire that began in the upscale Santa Barbara County community of Montecito on Thursday night was 75 percent contained by Sunday morning after injuring at least 25 people. County spokesman William Boyer said 130 homes burned in the city of Santa Barbara and 80 burned in adjacent Montecito. Some of those destroyed were multimillion-dollar homes with ocean views. All evacuees but those from 260 homes were allowed to return by Sunday night. Associated Press writers Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Alex Veiga and Alicia Chang contributed to this report.

Wind-blown fires destroy hundreds of Calif. homes By AMY TAXIN, Associated Press Writer Amy Taxin, NOV 16,08

YORBA LINDA, Calif. – Walls of towering flames pushed by Santa Ana wind raged through Southern California hills early Sunday after destroying hundreds of homes and forcing thousands of residents to flee.Evacuees could only watch the wildfires from a distance and wait to learn the fate of their homes and possessions.I'm hoping my house will not burn down, but if it burns down that's my life, right? I've got to start from scratch again, said Jack Chen, 56, of Yorba Linda as he sat on a cot in a gym at Katella High School in Anaheim.Fires in Los Angeles County, to the east in Riverside and Orange counties, and to the northwest in Santa Barbara County had blackened nearly 29 square miles and destroyed more than 800 mobile homes, houses and apartments since Thursday night. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared states of emergency in all three counties.Forecasts indicated the Santa Ana wind would abate by Sunday afternoon, but humidity would remain very low.The most threatening blaze early Sunday had charred more than 11 square miles in Orange and Riverside counties since erupting Saturday and shooting through subdivisions entwined with wilderness parklands. Containment was just 5 percent.More than 60 homes burned in the communities of Corona, Yorba Linda and the Anaheim Hills area of Anaheim. In addition, 50 units of one apartment complex burned, Orange County fire spokeswoman Angela Garbiso said.On Sunday, fire was dangerously close to a mobile home park in the Olinda Village area north of Yorba Linda, but firefighters had been able to push it back, said Lynette Round, another fire spokeswoman.At one point a firefighter battling the Orange County apartment blaze ran down a street with two Pomeranian dogs — one white and one brown — under each arm and placed them in a TV news truck, then dashed back to the fire. The firefighter, who would not give his name, said he rescued the dogs from a burning apartment.Apartment resident Melody Ma, 24, said she took her sister to piano lessons Saturday morning, when the smoke appeared to be far away, then found she couldn't return home.There's things you can't replace like photos and stuff, said Ma, bursting into tears in a shelter.Evacuee Gail Slagel, 61, said she spent Saturday watching flames in the area around her house from the safety of a Yorba Linda strip mall.I just kept sitting there saying, Please, please, please, give me a home to come home to, don't let it be gone, she said as she sat outside a restaurant with her ash-covered poodle.Capt. Leonard Grill, a 20-year veteran of the Riverside County Fire Department, watched for flaring embers in a Yorba Linda neighborhood late Saturday.It's gotten worse and worse every year. I can't keep track of them anymore, Grill said of recent destructive wildfires. These used to be the out-of-the-ordinary fires, once-in-a-career kind of fires. Now they're every year.

Six firefighters from various agencies were injured in the blaze, including four Corona firefighters who were hurt when flames swept over their engine, Garbiso said. Two of the Corona crewmembers required hospital treatment but were released.A separate fire in the Orange County city of Brea charred more than 2 square miles and destroyed the main building of a high school.The largest fire had grown to more than 12 square miles in the Sylmar area of Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley since destroying 500 mobile homes, nine single-family homes and 11 commercial buildings early Saturday. Containment was put at 20 percent. Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Steve Ruda said there was almost total devastation in the Oakridge Mobile Home Park.

I can't even read the street names because the street signs are melting, Ruda said.

No deaths were reported at the park, but police Chief William Bratton said dogs would be brought in to search the rubble on Sunday to determine whether anyone perished there. Fire officials estimated that at the peak of the Sylmar fire, 10,000 people were ordered to evacuate. However, many evacuation orders were lifted Saturday night, Fire Department spokesman Ron Haralson said. Five looting arrests were reported. Among those who lost homes in the Sylmar fire was Linda Pogacnik, who said that after decades of driving a school bus full of noisy kids, she finally bought her dream house at the Beverly Hills of mobile home parks.It had this beautiful oval bathtub, and just a few nights ago I lit candles and put on soft music and got in, she said, sighing with the memory. The moon was full, and it made it look like the eucalyptus tree outside had little white lights.She left with only her dogs, some clothes and a few essentials. Left behind were photography books and scrapbooking materials that she said were going to be all I did for the rest of my life.Northwest of Los Angeles, authorities raised the number of homes lost in a fire that began in the Santa Barbara County community of Montecito on Thursday night. County communication director William Boyer said 106 homes burned in the city of Santa Barbara and 77 burned in adjacent Montecito. He said the final total could reach 200. The fire was 40 percent contained Saturday evening, according to city public information officer Browning Allen. Burned acreage was revised downward to 1,500 acres, or over two square miles, and that was expected to hold because of calming winds, Boyer said. At least half of the 5,400 evacuees had been allowed to return home by Saturday night. At least 13 people were injured in that fire. Associated Press writers Gillian Flaccus, Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Thomas Watkins, Alicia Chang, Bob Jablon, and Christopher Weber contributed to this report.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island hit by second earthquake NOV 16,08

JAKARTA: A second strong earthquake struck the northern region of Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island on Monday, after an earlier earthquake had triggered a tsunami warning, the country's Meteorological Agency said.The second earthquake had a magnitude of 6.0 on the Richter scale, following an earlier earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7, which struck an area 138 kilometres northwest of the provincial capital Gorontalo, on Sulawesi, at a depth of 10 kilometres, the agency said.The United States Geological Survey put the second earthquake at magnitude of 5.6, at a depth of 10 kilometres, 83 miles northwest of Gorontalo. reuters

Earthquake kills one in Indonesia
www.chinaview.cn 2008-11-17 09:38:48

JAKARTA, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- A 7.7 magnitude earthquake which struck waters off eastern Indonesia early Monday, killed one person and crashed several houses, an official said. Till 6:00 am on Monday, one resident has confirmed dead during the quake which hit Gorontalo area, located on Sulawesi island, and several houses including school houses were crashed,Detik.com, a leading local website quoted head of Central Crisis Management from the Health Ministry, Rustam F. Pakaya, as saying Monday morning. The quake occurred at 01:02 am local time forcing thousands of people in nearby coastal towns to flee homes, hotels and hospitals in panic. And till Monday morning most of the residents were still stayed outdoors because three big aftershocks hit the area, local reports said. The epicenter of the quake was located 138 km northwest of Gorontalo city in a depth of 10 km. Soon after the quake which lasted for more than two minutes, the local government announced a tsunami warning but it was lifted one hour later. Indonesia is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin. In December 2004, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake off Indonesia's Sumatra island triggered a tsunami that battered much of the Indian Ocean coastline and killed more than 230,000 people -- 160,000 of them in Indonesia's Aceh province alone.

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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

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON NOV 17,2008
09:30 AM -77.26
10:00 AM -75.11
10:30 AM -208.20
11:00 AM -192.51
11:30 AM -153.48
12:00 PM -12.19
12:30 PM +7.80
01:00 PM -10.36
01:30 PM -28.83
02:00 PM -30.03
02:30 PM -76.82
03:00 PM -92.20
03:30 PM -69.69
04:00 PM -223.73 8273.58

S&P 500 -22.54 850.75

NASDAQ -34.80 1482.05

GOLD 735.9 -6.6

OIL 55.03 -2.03

TSE 300 -268.75 8787.21

CDNX -15.82 785.79

S&P/TSX/60 -17.38 528.61

MORNING NEWS,STATS

Dow down -150 points in first 4 minutes.
Dow down -165 points at low today.
Dow -75 points at high so far today.
10:30AM NYSE STATS
-Advances 594,Declines 2,318,Unchanged 89.
-New Highs 1,New lows 176.
NASDAQ:Advances 741,Declines 1,578,Unchanged 190

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow down 35.94%
Nasdaq down 42.81%
S&P 500 down 40.53%

ERIN BURNETT IN RUSSIA TODAY
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15838220/

Russias RTS down 70% this year so far.
Russia Stocks halted 30 times since SEPT so far including today.
Russians pay $3.35 a gallon for gas.
Russias currency could fall 30%
SEC:Mark Cuban charged with insider trading of mamma.com

CITI:to eliminate 52,000 jobs by Q2 of 2009.
-18,100 from German,Indian asset sales.
-5,000-6,000 from other asset sales.
-25,000 more job cuts by Q2 of 2009.

Dow -233 points at low today.
Dow -75 points at hight today so far.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS

LIFTNG OIL PRICES
-OCT us industrial production rebounds.
-Hijacked Saudi oil tanker off Kenyan coast.
-2 Mexican Ports shut after bad weather.
OIL DEMAND PRESSURE
-Japan joins Eurozone in recession.
-Retailers 3RD Quarter sales are very weak.
-US stocks still sliding.
OIL RANGES FROM $56 to $59 TODAY SO FAR.
OPEC may signal oil supply cut NOV 29,08 Cairo meeting.
CRUDE OIL still 60% below JULY record high.

NASDAQ has lost around 6-8% in last 6 trading sessions.
Major averages move lower for 5TH time in 6 sessions today so far.
WSJ:Bank of America increasing stake in China construction Bank to 19.1% from 10.75%.

ERIN BURNETT IN RUSSIA TODAY
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15838220/

Moscow has more Billionaires than any other city in the World.
Russian stocks have lost $1 TRILLION since Medvedevs Presidency.
Only 40% of Russians trust commercial Banks.
Metals,Energy,Food account for 80% of the Russian Economy.
Current Russia per capita income $12,000 - $14,000.
Russia wants per capita anual income to reach $30,000 by 2020.

THE BRICS INTERNET USAGE
-Brazil 26.1%
-Russia 23.2%
-China 19.0%
-India 05.2%
TOP 5 INTERNET USERS IN EUROPE
-Germany 52.5 MILLION users.
-United Kingdom 41.8 MILLION users.
-France 36.2 MILLION Users.
-Italy 34.7 MILLION users.
-Russia 32.7 MILLION users.
-Google controls over 30% of Russian market for online Ads.
VLADIMIR PUTIN
-Time 2007 man of year.
-Russians Approval rating 80%.
-30% of Russians want Putin lifetime President.

Dow -250 points at low today.
Dow at high today +73 points.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS

Dow down 2.5% today.
Dow below 8300 points today.
Dow Industrials down 2.5% today.
S&P down 2.2% today.
S&P down 4 of the last 5 sessions.
Nasdaq down 2.3% today.
Crude oil down 3% today to$55.

Stocks finish lower as recession worries deepen By SARA LEPRO and MADLEN READ, AP Business Writers NOV 17,08

NEW YORK – Wall Street finished sharply lower Monday as investors pored over more signs of economic weakness, including a huge round of layoffs in the financial sector.After a turbulent week that sent the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 340 points, investors found little solace in the latest news. Stocks zigzagged throughout the session, finally giving way to a stream of late-day selling that left the Dow Jones industrials lower by 223 points.In a signal that banks are still struggling in the wake of massive losses tied to bad mortgage debt, Citigroup Inc. is cutting another 53,000 jobs in the coming quarters. The company said that in addition to job cuts, it plans to lower expenses by about 20 percent and has reduced its assets by more than 20 percent since the first quarter of the year.Investors were also nervously waiting to see whether the nation's troubled automakers would get a bailout. Senate Democrats, who plan to introduce legislation Monday, want to use part of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout to help prop up Detroit's Big Three carmakers: General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC. A vote was expected as early as Wednesday.Meanwhile, a better-than-expected reading on industrial production did little to boost investor sentiment. The Federal Reserve said Monday that industrial output rose 1.3 percent last month, after plunging in September by the largest amount in over 60 years. Economists, on average, had expected an increase of 0.2 percent, according to a survey by Thomson/IFR.Still, the improvement wasn't encouraging enough, said Anthony Conroy, managing director and head trader for BNY ConvergEx Group, adding that investors want a more concrete sign that the economy could be improving.I think we're seeing a tremendous amount of bad economic data, he said. Earnings have basically hit a wall and don't seem like they are coming back anytime soon.According to preliminary calculations, the Dow fell 223.73, or 2.63 percent, to 8,273.58, near its lows of the session.

Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 22.54, or 2.58 percent, to 850.75, while the Nasdaq composite index dropped 34.80, or 2.29 percent, to 1,482.05.The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 5.16, or 1.13 percent, to 451.36.Declining issues outpaced advancers by a 2 to 1 margin on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to a light 1.1 billion shares.The moves on Monday followed a massive sell-off last week that saw the Dow finish down 5 percent; the S&P 500 index down 6.2 percent; and the Nasdaq down 7.9 percent. The major indexes have fallen for four of the past five sessions.Analysts believe the market is still searching for a bottom after last month's huge losses, and that the pattern of volatility will continue for some time. Woody Dorsey, president of financial forecasting firm Market Semiotics, said the market is trapped in a seesaw pattern.It is a very technical trade, he said. The difficulty is there is no dominant positive or negative story that the market is operating on. ... There's nothing here that people can grab on to.In the meantime, investors are still facing a barrage of bad economic news.Wall Street was also disappointed by a lack of direction taken to resolve the global financial crisis at the meeting of Group of 20 international leaders in Washington this weekend. However, the leaders did pledge to keep working together to provide loans to financial institutions.In corporate news, Target Corp. on Monday became the latest retailer to post dour results, citing lower sales at established stores as the reason for a 24 percent drop in profit. Lowe's Cos., meanwhile, said its third-quarter profit also fell 24 percent, better than expected, but it predicted a fourth-quarter profit below the average analyst forecast.The reports follow a spate of disappointing earnings and forecasts from companies like Macy's Inc., Starbucks Corp. and Best Buy Co. as they battle a severe pullback in consumer spending. Investors fear that Americans' clampdown on spending — which accounts for about two-thirds of economic activity in the U.S. — will prolong a worsening economic slump.

On Monday, the Bush White House stressed that it steadfastly opposes drawing funds from the bailout plan to help the nation's automakers. The administration supports the idea of helping the struggling companies, but said the $25 billion that Democrats favor taking from the rescue plan should come, instead, from a Department of Energy program previously approved to develop fuel-efficient vehicles. General Motors shares added 8 cents, or 2.66 percent, to $3.09. Ford slipped 5 cents to $1.75. Meanwhile, the layoffs planned at Citigroup underscored the ongoing distress in the financial sector. The company said total headcount is being reduced by 20 percent from its peak of 375,000 at the end of 2007; the company had already announced in October that it was eliminating about 22,000 jobs from those levels. The New York-based bank has posted four straight quarterly losses, including a loss of $2.8 billion during the third quarter. The fallout from this year's global credit crisis has claimed jobs on all corners of Wall Street, from hedge fund managers to floor traders and beyond. Some industry experts forecast the job losses could come close to 200,000 before the year is over. On Sunday, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said seven top executives, including Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein, opted out of receiving cash or stock bonuses for 2008 amid the ongoing credit crisis. Citi's leaders may also go without bonuses this year — a move that would effectively amount to a substantial pay cut for the company's executives. Citigroup shares fell 65 cents to $8.87. Goldman sank $4.39, or 6.6 percent, to $62.34. Government bond prices were higher as investors looked for safety. The three-month Treasury bill's yield fell to 0.10 percent from 0.14 percent late Friday, and the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell to 3.68 percent from 3.72 percent late Friday. Lower yields indicate higher demand. The dollar fell against most other major currencies, and gold prices also declined. Light, sweet crude closed at a 22-month low, falling $2.11 to settle at $54.95 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

In Asian trading, Japan's Nikkei index rose 0.71 percent, despite a report showing the second-straight quarterly decline in gross domestic product — signaling a recession. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index fell 0.10 percent. In European trading, Britain's FTSE 100 fell 2.38 percent, Germany's DAX index fell 3.25 percent, and France's CAC-40 fell 3.32 percent. On the Net: New York Stock Exchange: http://www.nyse.com Nasdaq Stock Market: http://www.nasdaq.com On the Net:
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G20 leaders step back from co-ordinated stimulus plans
RENATA GOLDIROVA Today NOV 17,08 @ 10:17 CET

The world's 20 leading industrialised and emerging nations have backed fiscal stimulus plans to boost their economies but reached no agreement to co-ordinate such action - the preferred option of a number of European Union nations.The gathered leaders pledged to take over next four months a series of steps to support the global economy and stabilise financial markets. G20 leaders have agreed to some new regulation of banks and insurance houses, but there will be no new global financial architecture (Photo: French EU presidency/Laurent Blevennec)We are determined to enhance our co-operation and work together to restore global growth and achieve needed reforms in the world's financial systems, the group of 20 nations stated after a top-level meeting in Washington on Saturday (15 November). However, leaders reached no agreement on any internationally co-ordinated series of tax cuts and government spending to prime the economic pump, as some European leaders had favoured heading into the summit. The final conclusions also came well short of delivering any construction of a new global financial architecture or refounding capitalism as the current chair of the EU presidency, France's Nicolas Sarkozy, had famously demanded.

The meeting brought together leading developed powers, including the US, Japan, the UK and Germany, as well as developing countries such as China, India, Argentina and Brazil. The G20 accounts for 85 percent of the global economy and two-thirds of the world's population. World leaders tasked their finance ministers to begin working on moves to align global accounting standards, review pay practices that encourage excessive risk taking, and draft appropriate regulation and oversight of financial institutions, including rating agencies. The market should also see a stronger surveillance of cross-border firms by establishing supervisory colleges for all major cross-border financial institutions. We will implement reforms that will strengthen financial markets and regulatory regimes so as to avoid future crises, the leaders stated. In addition, they agreed that top emerging economies should have a bigger say in the key international financial institutions. The Financial Stability Forum - a group consisting of major national financial authorities - must expand urgently to a broader membership of emerging economies, the leaders said.

But despite calls for improved regulation, world leaders also pledged to avoid over-regulation, saying it could hamper economic growth and capital flows. We underscore the critical importance of rejecting protectionism and not turning inward in times of financial uncertainty, they also said in a joint statement, committing themselves to not raise new barriers to investment or trade in goods and services over the next 12 months. The G20 leaders agreed to meet again under the same G20 format in April next year.

Richer safety net

Meanwhile, International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn told the BBC that his institution is likely to need more funding if it is to rescue ailing economies. The number of countries having problems at the same time has dramatically increased and they come to the IMF asking for support. So we need more resources, he was cited as saying on Monday (17 November).The question is to be able to face the problem in six months from now and I think all the heads of state and government are aware of the need for a strong IMF, he added, estimating its needs for extra funding to at least €80 billion. Mr Strauss-Kahn also advocated more ambitious interest rate cuts. In some parts of the world - Japan, the United States - interest rates have been cut very much, but it can be done more aggressively in other parts, he told the BBC, referring to the European Central Bank. I think now [the ECB has] room to decrease the interest rate, but nevertheless the stress has to be put on fiscal policy, he concluded.In separate news, Japan, the world's second largest economy has officially entered recession, with GDP shrinking 0.4 percent in the last quarter, the Japanese Cabinet Office announced today (17 November).

Gulf stocks plunge as G20 fails to halt panic
Sun Nov 16, 7:15 AM

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Stock markets in the Gulf states plunged on the week's opener Sunday as panic from the fallout of the global economic crisis continued to dampen investor sentiment.The slump came despite the approval by leaders of the G20 nations of an action plan on Saturday to restore global growth and prevent future financial upheaval while promising new spending plans and a set of reforms.Markets of Dubai, Muscat and Doha were the biggest losers, while the Saudi market, the largest Arab bourse, fluctuated sharply at the opening after diving 7.4 percent on Saturday to its lowest level since March 2004.In the United Arab Emirates, the two bourses of Dubai and Abu Dhabi continued to reel under the woes of the flagging real estate sector amid reports of a sharp drop in the prices of units.Turnover was sharply down from this year's average, an indication that many investors are staying away amid a huge sell-off that included blue chip stocks.Traders said the sell-off came mainly from investors who were forced to liquidate stocks in order to raise cash to meet debt commitments.The Dubai Financial Market closed down 5.9 percent 1,981.44 points, the first time in more than four years it has dropped below the 2000-point barrier.

Market leader, property giant Emaar shed 9.75 percent, just off the maximum allowed 10 percent to close at 2.87 dirhams (0.78 dollars).Emaar, which is trading at a four-year low, has so far plunged more than 80 percent this year. DFM dropped for the seventh straight session and has dived more than 29 percent since the start of last week. It is down 66.6 percent on the year.The Abu Dhabi Securities Market recovered most of its losses to finish down 0.34 percent at 2,755.62 points, spurred by the key real estate sector which gained 0.4 percent.The energy sector was up 5.1 percent and banks one percent. All other sectors dropped.The Saudi bourse reversed opening gains and was trading down 2.4 percent by mid-day, diving below the 5,000-point mark for the first time in almost 55 months.The leading petrochemicals sector was 2.6 percent lower and banks dropped 4.1 percent.The Tadawul All-Shares Index (TASI) slumped 7.4 percent on the week's opener Saturday as market leaders petrochemicals SABIC and Al-Rajhi and SAMBA banks dropped by the maximum allowed level.The Doha Securities Market slumped 5.1 percent to just above 5,500 points, a two-year low.

The small Muscat Securities Market retreated 6.1 percent to below the 6,000-point mark while the Bahrain Stock Exchange lost 0.35 percent.Kuwait Stock Exchange, the second largest in the region, remained closed on Sunday after a court ordered trading halted on Thursday to stem heavy losses by small investors.Commerce and Industry Minister Ahmad Baqer, who is the head of KSE Committee, said the bourse has filed an appeal against the suspension. The court held its deliberations and the ruling is expected any time.Even if the court lifts the suspension, trading will not resume on Sunday as the bourse trading hourse are over for the day.

Japan enters first recession in seven years NOV 16,08

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's economy, the second largest in the world, has entered its first recession in seven years as the global financial crisis batters exports and business investment, official data showed Monday.Japan joins Germany and Italy on the list of major economies that are officially in recession, despite emergency steps by world powers to try to shield the global economy from months of turmoil on financial markets.The Japanese economy unexpectedly contracted by 0.1 percent in the three months to September, after shrinking 0.9 percent in the second quarter of the year, according to figures from the Cabinet Office.The data showed that the economy is in a recession phase. There are risks it may worsen further, said Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Kaoru Yosano.It is the first time since the third quarter of 2001 that Japan has entered a recession, which is usually defined as two or more consecutive quarters of negative economic growth.Gross domestic product (GDP) contracted at an annualised rate of 0.4 percent.Analyst forecasts, on average, had been for modest growth of 0.1 percent quarter-on-quarter. Tokyo's Nikkei stock index fell 1.3 percent in early trade.Business investment slumped 1.7 percent in the third quarter while exports were worse than expected, as the financial crisis triggered by a US housing slump squeezed other major economies.Japan was dragged down by the weakness in the global economy, said Kyohei Morita, chief Japan economist at Barclays Capital, who expects the recession to last for four quarters in total.

Although Japan has not suffered financial turmoil on the same scale as the United States or Europe, its trade-dependent economy remains highly vulnerable to global downturns.Japan is as export-driven as ever. So as long as exports are slowing due the weakness of the global economy, we cannot escape, said Morita.After suffering a series of on-off recessions in the 1990s, Japan had been slowly recovering on the back of brisk exports and business investment.Corporate profits, however, are now sliding as exports suffer from the global slowdown, prompting companies to slash investment in new equipment and factories, which had been a key driver of economic growth.Consumer spending rose 0.3 percent in the third quarter helped by a hot summer and demand for televisionswho ahead of the Beijing Olympics.But analysts said Japanese consumers are likely to tighten the purse strings as the economy worsens and companies shed workers.We are already seeing the start of a vicious cycle in which a worsening labour market leads to slack consumption, said Naoki Murakami, chief economist at the Monex brokerage firm.Analysts see little prospect of a recovery any time soon. The Japanese economy is expected to contract 0.1 percent in 2009, according to the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

EU car makers eye multi-billion rescue package
VALENTINA POP Today NOV 17,08 @ 09:26 CET

The European Investment Bank (EIB) could help out struggling European car makers with a credit programme worth up to €40 billion, with details expected next week, the Financial Times reports.With car sales dropping 15.5 percent in Western Europe in the past month, car makers on the continent are turning to national governments and EU institutions to rescue them from the spreading recession.The €40 billion rescue package from the EIB would be double the amount the American congress is proposing to save US car giants General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler.Details of the bail-out could be put forward next week, when the European Commission expected to make proposals to bolster struggling industries in the face of the economic slowdown.Top executives of German car maker Opel are to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday (17 November) in a special cabinet session. Opel is struggling not to go under with its American owner General Motors, threatened by bankruptcy, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. General Motors said earlier this month it had drawn on the last of its credit lines from banks. With just €12.8 billion left in the bank, and about €9.5 billion needed to fund its day-to-day operations, it could run out of money within weeks.The German government already helped national car makers earlier this month by scrapping taxes on new cars bought over the next six months for up to two years in the case of low-emission models, as part of a €12 billion, two-year package of growth-boosting measures to help out the slowing economy.British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is also under pressure from car makers to suspend rises announced earlier this year in vehicle excise duty, while French President Nicolas Sarkozy promised to mobilise €400 million for research and development of low-emission cars.On the other side of the Atlantic, president-elect Barack Obama made the case for the €20 billion aid proposed by the Democrats to help out the Big three, saying collapse would be a disaster. A week ago, Mr Obama urged the outgoing president George Bush not to block an aid package, when the two men had their first meeting at the White House.

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).

Irish voters may back Lisbon treaty, poll reveals
LUCIA KUBOSOVA Today NOV 17,08 @ 09:21 CET

A fresh poll has suggested the Irish could back the EU's Lisbon treaty in a second attempt, repeating the same scenario as with the vote on the previous EU institutional reform. The survey published in Irish Times on Monday (17 November) indicates there has been a change of mood among Ireland's voters since the June referendum, as 43 percent of respondents say they would vote for the Lisbon treaty against 39 percent who would vote No and 18 percent who have no opinion.The Irish voters likely to see another campaign on the EU's Lisbon Treaty - poll suggests they might vote Yes if offered certain guarantees (Photo: EUobserver)

The poll asked people if they would vote for a modified document which would allow Dublin to keep a national commissioner in the EU executive. Under the existing version of Lisbon, the 27-strong commission should be reduced so that from 2014, two thirds of member states would rotate in being represented in the EU's key law-proposing body. The other modification suggested by the authors of the poll was that the Irish would get clear confirmation of their neutrality and their right to rule on issues such as abortions or taxation, in a document attached to the treaty - an idea already supported by several EU leaders as a way to enable a second ballot in Ireland.The Irish Times pointed out that when the don't knows are excluded this gives the Yes side 52.5 percent, with the No side on 47.5 percent, which compares to the referendum result in June of 53.4 percent No and 46.6 percent Yes.The Irish government is due to decide on whether to hold a second vote in early December. We will make that decision in advance of the December meeting, Irish foreign minister Micheal Martin told RTE television on late Sunday (16 November), referring to the EU summit of heads of states and governments to be held in Brussels on 11-12 December.

We have looked at a variety of alternatives, Mr Martin added in the TV interview, noting that the research carried out by the government has shown up a range of issues people were concerned about.A similar scenario as suggested by the Irish Times poll was followed in October 2002 when the Irish voted on the EU's currently-applicable Treaty of Nice for the second time, after rejecting it in a referendum held in June 2001.Back then, the government of Bertie Ahern received a so-called Seville Declaration on Ireland's policy of military neutrality from the European Council, the gathering of EU leaders.

Iceland drafts plan for 2011 EU entry
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today NOV 17,08 @ 09:31 CET

Iceland's prime minister has announced the set-up of a commission to investigate joining the European Union.An initial plan has already been drafted by the country's foreign ministry that would see a membership application made in early 2009, aiming for entry some time in 2011, according to a report in the Financial Times which appeared at the weekend.The prime minister, Geir Haarde, also said that his centre-right Independence Party would hold its 2009 conference in January instead of October as scheduled, to consider EU membership.In announcing the move on Friday (14 November), Mr Haarde said We have always said that we will assess at any given time how we co-operate with Europe.This process will help us make our future decisions.

Until now, Iceland has never applied for EU membership, and the population has historically been strongly opposed to the idea. After the bottom falling out of the Icelandic banking sector and a run on the currency in recent weeks, many are now convinced of the need to adopt the euro, but EU officials have repeatedly told the north Atlantic nation that the euro cannot be adopted without joining the union first.The crisis has sharply boosted support for EU membership in Iceland, climbing to a current 70 percent up from around 50 percent ahead of the crisis.On Saturday, some 6,000 people - two percent of the population - protested outside the Icelandic parliament, attacking the government for its handling of the crisis. According to local reports, several people carried EU flags.

Icesave deposits guaranteed

In separate news, a bitter row between Iceland and EU member states the UK and the Netherlands over savers' deposits in local subsidiaries of Icelandic banks appears to have been resolved.On Sunday, the Icelandic government announced it is to refund the deposits of those banking with Icesave, the collapsed internet bank owned by the now nationalised Landsbanki.Iceland's attempts to access IMF funding were threatened in recent weeks as London and the Hague - as well as Berlin - insisted that Reykjavik guarantee foreign deposits before the taps were opened.According to a statement from the Icelandic Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Talks between Iceland and several EU member states, initiated by the French EU Presidency, led to a common understanding that will form the basis for further negotiations.The EU-chaperoned deal will see the government covering the deposits of insured depositors in the Icesave accounts in accordance with EEA law.In return, the EU, under the French Presidency, will continue to participate in finding arrangements that will allow Iceland to restore its financial system and economy.European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso had said on Wednesday that aid could only be delivered after Iceland and some EU member states reach an agreement on ...issues related to deposit guarantee schemes and protection of foreign depositors.

France overstepped mandate on missile shield moratorium
RENATA GOLDIROVA Today NOV 17,08 @ 09:13 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Prague and Warsaw have poured cold water on French calls for a moratorium on a planned US missile shield in Europe, with both capitals saying that president Nicolas Sarkozy overstepped his mandate. I don't think that third countries, even such good friends as France, can have a particular right to express themselves on this issue, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Saturday (15 November).At the NATO summit in Bucharest in April this year, the entire 26-nation Alliance - including France - backed the planned US missile shield in Europe (Photo: wikipedia)The Polish leader described Mr Sarkozy's comments as his own point of view, [with] no impact of the future of the project, according to AFP, adding that The question of the anti-missile shield is governed by an agreement between Poland and the United States.A similar message came from the Czech republic, with the country's deputy prime minister Alexandr Vondra saying he was taken by surprise.

France did not discuss its viewpoint with us ... As far as I know, the French presidency mandate for the EU-Russia summit did not contain a position on the US missile defence system, he said. French President Nicolas Sarkozy - currently chairing the 27-nation EU - had spoken alongside his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on Friday (14 November), following the top level EU-Russia meeting in Nice.

He suggested that the EU, Russia and the US meet in mid-2009 in the framework of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe in order to lay foundations of future pan-European security. Until then, please, no more talk about deployment of missile and anti-missile systems, the French leader said.

His remarks no doubt pleased the Russian ear.

Moscow sees US plans to place components of a missile shield in Poland and the Czech republic as a direct threat to its security and the broader military balance. Earlier this month, the Kremlin threatened to deploy short-range missiles in Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave between Lithuania and Poland, if the shield gets up and running.Russian President Dmitry Medvedev defended the standpoint by saying at Friday's summit that All [Russian] decisions were in response to the behaviour of nations in Europe, which without consulting anyone had agreed to deploy new systems on their own territory.It is better to have a global anti-missile system in which Russia also participates, he later suggested.According to Mr Vondra - speaking to EUobserver - the Russians are currently testing the US president-elect the same way as Nikita Khrushchev once tested John F. Kennedy, while Prague continues to hope that neither the Europeans nor the Americans will fall into the trap.The Czech deputy prime minister referred to the Cuban missile crisis of the early 1960s - a risky muscle-flexing exercise during the Cold War - when the Soviet Union stationed its weapons in Cuba in response to the deployment of US ballistic missiles in Turkey. In addition, Mr Vondra pointed to the NATO summit in Bucharest in April this year, stressing that back then the entire 26-nation Alliance, including France, approved the US missile shield project. The alliance was tasked to develop options for a comprehensive missile defence architecture - something that would allow a NATO-designed short and medium range missile defence system to be bolted onto the American one designed for protection from long range attacks. The fresh comments by France differ from the NATO summit conclusions, Mr Vondra said.Speaking in Washington on Saturday (15 November), French President Nicolas Sarkozy seemed to back down from his previous comments. Every country is sovereign to decide whether it hosts an anti-missile shield or not, he was cited as saying by AFP. But it still remains to be seen how the US project in Central Europe will progress under the new White House chief, Barack Obama, who enters office on 20 January. The Democrat is surrounded by people questioning the military efficiency of the system. We don't expect, even for political reasons, any revolution but of course, the new president will take a new look and we know what the position of the president-elect is. He told me that he wanted to make sure the thing worked, Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski said last Friday.

WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL

DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.

Russia, China against Iran sanctions: Russian Official NOV 16,08

Press TV - Russia and China are against the Western powers' call for fresh sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, a Russian official declared. Russia is against the sanctions pushed forward by some of the six, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov told Interfax on Friday pointing to the recent meeting of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany. The Western countries are for the sanctions. China like Russia did not back it, he added, a day after the meeting was held in Paris to discuss Iran's nuclear program, AFP reported. A French Foreign Ministry statement stressed that the UN Security Council reaffirmed the importance of the dual-track approach, namely holding talks with Tehran and at the same time considering more sanctions on Iran. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner also told journalists We have always been supporters of both sanctions and dialogue.
... Payvand News - 11/16/08

TORAH PORTION FROM NOV 16 - 22, 2008

SINCE WHAT ISRAEL READS WILL BE FULFILLED IN THAT WEEK I WILL BE PUTTING THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTION ON FOR ALL OF US TO KEEP TRACK OF ISRAEL HAPPENINGS.

TORAH PORTION FROM NOV 16, 2008 6PM TO NOV 22,2008

GENESIS 23:1 - 25:18
1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
6 Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.
10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,
11 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.
12 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.
13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.
14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
17 And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure
18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
20 And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.

GENESIS 24:1-67
1 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:
3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?
6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.
7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.
9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
12 And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.
13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.
15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
21 And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.
22 And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
23 And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?
24 And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
25 She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.
26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.
27 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.
28 And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these things.
29 And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.
30 And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.
32 And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him.
33 And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
34 And he said, I am Abraham's servant.
35 And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
36 And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.
37 And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:
38 But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
39 And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me.
40 And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:
41 Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.
42 And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
43 Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;
44 And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's son.
45 And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.
46 And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.
49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.
50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.
52 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he worshipped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth.
53 And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
54 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.
55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.
56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
57 And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth.
58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.
59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.
60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
62 And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt in the south country.
63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.
64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
65 For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
66 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.
67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

GENESIS 25:1-18
1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.
2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
4 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;
10 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.
12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
13 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
14 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.
17 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.
18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.

PROPHETS PORTION

1 KINGS 1:1-31
1 Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
2 Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
3 So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
4 And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.
5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.
7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.
8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:
10 But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.
11 Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?
12 Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.
13 Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?
14 Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
15 And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.
16 And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?
17 And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest it not:
19 And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.
20 And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
22 And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet also came in.
23 And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
24 And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?
25 For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king's sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah.
26 But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.
27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?
28 Then king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba. And she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.
29 And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,
30 Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.
31 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.

NEW TESTAMENT PORTION

MATTHEW 8:19-22
19 And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
21 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

MATTHEW 27:3-10
3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.
8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;
10 And gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord appointed me.

LUKE 9:57-62
57 And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
58 And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
59 And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
61 And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.