EVENTS IN TIME (BIBLE PROPHECY LITERALLY FULFILLED)(BY GOD)

I WRITE NEWS ABOUT AND PUT NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM PERTAINING TO BIBLE PROPHESY HAPPENINGS.JOEL 3:20 But Judah (ISRAEL) shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.(THATS ISRAEL-JERUSALEM WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED AGAIN)-WE CHRISTIANS ARE ALL WAITING PATIENTLY FOR THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE TO OCCUR.SO WE CAN GO TO JESUS AND GET OUR NEVER DYING BODIES.SO WE CAN RULE OVER CITIES OURSELVES.WHILE JESUS RULES FROM DAVIDS THRONE FOREVER IN JERUSALEM.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

1 MILLION NATIONWIDE AT TAX PARTIES

HERE WE GO AMERICA WANTS A WORLD CARBON TAX.AND WHO WILL BE GETTING THE CASH,THE IMF TO PAY FOR THE WORLD CURRENCY OR SPECIAL DRAWING RIGHTS THAT WILL BE AND IS BEING IMPLIMENTED BETWEEN BANKS RIGHT NOW.

JUSTIN WEBB VIDEO
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US to regulate CO2 emissions APR 17,09

The US government is to regulate the country's carbon dioxide emissions, having decided that it and five other greenhouse gases may endanger human health and well-being. The decision marks a major change from the Bush presidency, when the Environmental Protection Agency argued it could not regulate CO2 because the gas was not a pollutant.Justin Webb report from Washington.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Arab peace plan as part of Palestinian state push: U.S. By Mohammed Assadi – Fri Apr 17, 2:07 pm ET

RAMALLAH (Reuters) – U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell said on Friday that an Arab peace initiative should be part of a planned U.S. drive to create a Palestinian state.In two separate violent incidents in the West Bank on Friday, Israelis killed two Palestinian men.The Arab initiative of 2002 offers Israel normal ties with all Arab states in return for a full withdrawal from the lands it seized in the 1967 Middle East war, creation of a Palestinian state and a just solution for Palestinian refugees.The U.S. is committed to the establishment of a sovereign independent Palestinian state where the aspirations of the Palestinian people to control their destiny are realized. We want the Arab peace initiative to be part of the effort to reach this goal,Mitchell said after talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah.Mitchell did not elaborate on what part the Arab initiative might play in U.S. attempts to mediate a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians.U.S. leaders including President Barack Obama have made references to the Arab peace plan without ever endorsing the Arab demand that Israel withdraw from all the land Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war -- the West Bank including East Jerusalem, the Syrian Golan Heights, and the Gaza Strip, which is under siege.The previous U.S. administration of George W. Bush tried without success to use the Arab peace plan to draw Saudi Arabia and other conservative Gulf states into contacts with Israel before the Israelis gave any commitment to full withdrawal.

But Mitchell's remarks were another reminder to Israel's new right-wing prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that the United States wants to see progress.

Netanayahu, who saw Mitchell on Thursday, has yet to give a commitment to restart U.S.-backed talks with Abbas on core issues such as statehood borders, and the future of Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees.Israeli officials quoted Netanyahu as telling Mitchell that his right-leaning government wanted the Palestinians to first recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Palestinians have long rejected such explicit recognition of the Jewish nature of a state where one in five people is Arab.It is clear that there is a government in Israel that rejects signed agreements, that insists on continuing settlement activities,senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said.

Erekat said Abbas asked Mitchell to exert every possible effort to pressure Israel to commit to a two-state solution and to meet other obligations, including a freeze in Jewish settlement building in the occupied West Bank and a halt to home demolitions in Arab East Jerusalem.Netanyahu's two-week-old government has yet to take a public position on the Arab peace initiative.But in their meeting on Thursday, Netanyahu spoke to Mitchell about the need to involve in the process important moderate Arab states,including Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, a senior Israeli official said.

Another senior Israeli official quoted Mitchell as telling Netanyahu: We intend to seriously examine the Arab proposal.A senior Western diplomat familiar with the Obama administration's deliberations said Washington wanted to pursue the Arab peace initiative but was keeping its options open.We have put the flag squarely in the two-state solution camp but we haven't said how you get there, the diplomat said.

Netanyahu's predecessor, Ehud Olmert, said he saw positive points in the Arab peace initiative. But Israel opposes the return of Palestinian refugees to their former homes in what is now the Jewish state and wants to hold on to major settlement blocs in the West Bank. Mitchell's next stop is Egypt.

WEST BANK VIOLENCE

Palestinian hospital officials said a 30-year-old man died of a wound to the chest during a protest at the village of Bilin, site of almost weekly protests against the separation barrier which Israel is building in the Palestinian territory. Earlier in the day a Palestinian with a knife infiltrated the Jewish settlement of Beit Haggai in the southern West Bank and was shot dead by a security guard, the Israeli army said. In Gaza, Islamist Hamas's two senior leaders, Ismail Haniyeh and Mahmoud al-Zahar made their first public appearances, delivering sermons in mosques, witnesses said. The two went to ground and witnesses said that neither had been seen in public since December 27, when Israel launched a 22-day offensive to counter Palestinian short-range rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. The territory has been largely quiet since the Netanyahu government took power this month. He has set toppling Hamas among his long-term goals. (Additional reporting by Adam Entous and Dan Williams in Jerusalem and Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza, Writing by Ori Lewis and Adam Entous; Editing by Jonathan Wright)

US envoy meets Palestinian leader in peace bid by Nasser Abu Bakr – Fri Apr 17, 11:43 am ET

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) – US special envoy George Mitchell met Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Friday amid warnings that peace talks will remain stagnant unless Israel's new government commits to a two-state solution.Until the (Benjamin) Netanyahu government unequivocally affirms its support for the two-state solution, implements Israel?s roadmap obligations and abides by previous agreements, Palestinians have no partner for peace,top negotiator Saeb Erakat said after the meeting in the West Bank town of Ramallah.Mitchell emerged from the talks reiterating the two-state solution is the only solution and that a comprehensive peace in the region is in the US national interest.The largely right-wing cabinet of Israel's hawkish prime minister has distanced itself from past governments' support for the US-backed concept of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, and has called previous agreements into question.Mitchell and Abbas both emphasised the shared commitment of the (President Barack) Obama administration and the Palestinian leadership to the two-state solution,Erakat said in a statement.In the Gaza Strip, the territory's ruling Islamist Hamas movement in a statement called for action from Washington.We expect deeds, not fine words... The United States must adopt a clear stance against (Israeli) settlements on occupied Palestinian lands.Friday's Abbas-Mitchell talks came after meetings in Jerusalem on Thursday that highlighted the rift between the United States and Israel over the Middle East peace process.

While Mitchell stressed the US commitment to a two-state solution, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Israel's government needed time to come up with a new approach as the peace process had reached a dead end.Prime Minister Netanyahu said Israel expected the Palestinians to recognise the state of Israel as the state of the Jewish people.Palestinians angrily rejected that demand, which Erakat stressed does not figure in any peace treaty and does not conform with international law.Netanyahu?s new condition serves no other purpose than to stall progress towards negotiations, and to save his government from having to deal with the real issues,he said.Erakat named the issues as Israel?s refusal to end its occupation, to freeze all settlement activity, to lift restrictions on Palestinian movement, and to unequivocally support the two-state solution.For Palestinians, recognising Israel as a Jewish state would amount to abandoning the right to return of refugees, a key issue in the peace talks.

The contrasting positions highlighted the risk that Israel could be on a collision course with its most important ally, as Washington insists on the principle of a Palestinian state and Netanyahu refuses to endorse the plan.But Israeli media stressed that Mitchell willingly gave Netanyahu's government six to eight more weeks to formulate its policy, in inviting the prime minister to meet with Obama in May.

It is possible that a crisis with the American administration is on its way, and the route is leading to a collision, but for now the situation is under control, the Maariv daily said.Netanyahu says that the economy in the Israeli-occupied West Bank must improve before any other steps are taken in the faltering peace process.

Lieberman also sparked concerns by declaring that the new cabinet was not bound by a US-backed 2007 agreement to relaunch talks with the Palestinians. Israel has committed itself to the principle of a Palestinian state under the 2003 international roadmap for peace, which included a series of steps for Israelis and Palestinians to follow, eventually resulting in negotiations over core issues and the creation of a Palestinian state. The plan has made little progress since its launch by the Middle East Quartet -- the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States.

Mitchell who arrived in Israel on Wednesday, was due to fly on to Cairo. The former US senator played a key role in reaching the 1998 Good Friday accords that ended decades of violence in Northern Ireland.

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.

QUAKE IN AFGHAN
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Deadly quakes strike Afghanistan Villagers sift through the rubble APR 17,09

Two moderate earthquakes have hit eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 22 people and destroying about 200 homes, officials say. The US Geological Survey says a 5.5-magnitude quake struck at 0157 local time (2127 GMT), followed by a 5.1-magnitude aftershock two hours later. The quakes struck in Nangarhar province, about 50 miles (80km) east of Kabul near the Pakistan border. At least four villages were reported to have suffered serious damage. A provincial official in Jalalabad told the BBC that at least 30 people were also reported to be injured and that rescuers had been sent to the scene to retrieve bodies and help those hurt. The official said he feared the death toll could go higher.

Quake-prone

Ahmad Shekib Hamraz, a disaster management official, told AFP news agency the centre of the earthquake is located 45km (28 miles) from Sherzad district. An earlier photograph of Sherzad district, said to have been hit Survivors in Mir Gadkhel village were scrambling through the rubble of flattened houses to recover bodies after the quake, Reuters reported. Three of my family members were killed and seven are injured,villager Gul Mohammad said. I think about 40 people have died. Hundreds of houses have been destroyed.The earthquake is in a remote area that is difficult to reach by vehicle, the BBC's Martin Patience in Kabul says. The mountains of northern Afghanistan and Pakistan are hit by dozens of minor earthquakes every year. Because many Afghan homes are made of dried mud, even minor tremors can cause high casualties and widespread damage, our correspondent says. A 7.6-magnitude earthquake that rocked north-west Pakistan in October 2005 killed 74,000 people and displaced 3.5 million.

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.

Thousands flee as cyclone nears Bangladesh AccuWeather Fri Apr 17, 6:15 am ET

DHAKA (AFP) – Weather forecasters in Bangladesh said a tropical cyclone would hit the country's southern coast late Friday, as thousands of people in the path of the storm were evacuated from coastal areas.Cyclonic Storm Bijli was expected to intensify in the Bay of Bengal before making landfall near the southern port city of Chittagong.We have told everyone living in low lying areas to head to their nearest cyclone shelter,said Mohammad Manzoor Alam Bhuiyan, an administrator of one of the affected districts along the 300-kilometre (186-mile) coast.Alam expected the more than 500 cyclone shelters in his region, which have a collective capacity of 500,000 people, to be full before the end of the day.We have arranged dry food and clean drinking water. There is a medical team on standby.Boats had been brought to shore and fishermen were urged not to sail. Flights to and from Cox's Bazar and Chittagong were also suspended.More than 3,500 people were killed during Cyclone Sidr in November 2007, the second-strongest storm recorded in Bangladesh.In 1970, some half a million people died when a cyclone hit the impoverished country, while an estimated 138,000 people died as a result of a cyclonic surge in 1991.The lower death tolls in 1991 and 2007 were attributed to a network of cyclone shelters and a warning system introduced after the 1970 disaster.In neighbouring Myanmar, the military-run government's meteorological service urged residents of the country's western coastal region to stay away from the sea for two days until Bijli had passed.

All vessels... in Myanmar waters along the Rakhine coast are advised to take precautionary measures by navigating away from the area exposed to the threat from rough seas and strong winds until 18 April 2009,it said.In April last year Myanmar was hit by Cyclone Nargis, which left an estimated 138,000 people dead or missing and affected some 2.4 million people, mostly in its southwest delta region.

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

Bangladesh slaughters 2,300 birds over avian flu Fri Apr 17, 12:59 pm ET

DHAKA (AFP) – Bangladesh has culled 2,300 chickens this week, an official said Friday, as the impoverished country tries to contain a new outbreak of avian flu.

Ibrahim Hossain, who heads a government task force on the H5N1 strain, told AFP the birds had been killed after the virus was detected on a farm in Savar, just outside the capital Dhaka.Bangladesh was hit by bird flu in February 2007 with more than one million birds slaughtered. The last major outbreak was in November in which 10,000 birds were culled over a two-month period.Hossain said the virus appeared to be under control.Infection rates are much reduced this year. Last year we culled 1.65 million chickens in total and for this year we have culled 20,000 so far.Bangladesh's poultry industry is one of the world's largest, producing 220 million chickens and 37 million ducks annually.

VA says 3 positive HIV tests from follow-up tests By BILL POOVEY, Associated Press Writer APR 17,09

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Three patients exposed to contaminated medical equipment at Veterans Affairs hospitals have tested positive for HIV, the agency said Friday. Initial tests show one patient each from VA medical facilities in Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Augusta, Ga.; and Miami has the virus that causes AIDS, according to a VA statement.The three cases included one positive HIV test reported earlier this month, but the VA didn't identify the facility involved at the time.The patients are among more than 10,000 getting tested because they were treated with endoscopic equipment that wasn't properly sterilized and exposed them to other people's body fluids.

Vietnam veteran Samuel Mendes, 60, said he was surprised to learn of an HIV case linked to the Miami facility, where he had a colonoscopy. He was told he wasn't among those at risk.I was hoping and expecting to not get anyone contaminated like that, he said. It's probably a little worse than we thought.The VA also said there have been six positive tests for the hepatitis B virus and 19 positive tests for hepatitis C at the three locations.There's no way to prove patients were exposed to the viruses at its facilities, the agency said.These are not necessarily linked to any endoscopy issues and the evaluation continues,the statement said.The VA has said it does not yet know if veterans treated with the same kind of equipment at its other 150 hospitals may have been exposed to the same mistake before the department had a nationwide safety training campaign.An agency spokeswoman has said the mistake with the equipment was corrected nationwide by the time the campaign ended March 14. The problems discovered in December date back more than five years at the Murfreesboro and Miami hospitals.The VA's disclosure Friday was the department's first comment since April 3, when the VA reported the one positive HIV test.VA spokeswoman Katie Roberts has declined to provide any details on how widespread the problems might have been other than saying a review of the situation continues.

She said in an e-mail Friday that there is a very small risk of harm to patients from the procedures at each site.She said the HIV results still need to be verified in additional tests.The VA statement shows the number of potentially affected patients totals 10,797, including 6,387 who had colonoscopies at Murfreesboro, 3,341 who had colonoscopies at Miami and 1,069 who were treated at the ear, nose and throat clinic at Augusta.More than 5,400 patients, about half of those at risk, have been notified of their follow-up test results, the VA said.The Friday statement said the VA is continuing to notify individuals whose letters have been returned as undeliverable, and working with homeless coordinators to reach veterans with no known home address.

The statement also said the VA has assigned more than 100 employees at the three locations to ensure that affected veterans receive prompt testing and appropriate counseling.All three sites used endoscopic equipment made by Olympus American Inc., which has said in a statement it is helping the VA address problems with inadvertently neglecting to appropriately reprocess a specific auxiliary water tube.

Charles Rollins, 62, who served three tours in Vietnam with the Navy from 1966 to 1969, said the news concerns him because he's used the Augusta ear, nose and throat clinic several times. That's terrible,he said by phone as he socialized at an American Legion post in Augusta. Associated Press writers Lisa Orkin in Miami and Dorie Turner in Atlanta contributed to this report.

AUDIO PORK BARREL SPENDING
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Congress spending billions anonymously,Pork whistleblowers expose offenders from both parties April 17, 2009 12:00 am Eastern 2009 WorldNetDaily

A spokeswoman for an organization that highlights "pork" project funding by members of the U.S. Congress says there have been changes in Washington in recent weeks and months – lawmakers are leaving their names off of the projects they want. After we started going through it we started seeing a lot of anonymous earmarks, $7.8 billion in total,said Leslie Paige of Citizens Against Government Waste. Most were in the defense appropriations bill, with no name attached. In a lot of cases they don't even have a state identified [for where the money is going].Her comments came in an interview with Greg Corombos of Radio America/WND. The audio of the interview has been embedded here: The organization honored a number of projects, including the plan by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, to spend $1.8 million for swine odor and manure management research.The Narcissist Award went to Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., for $2 million for the Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program. Another spending program highlighted was by Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., who is spending $200,000 for tattoo removal. The Dim Bulb Award went to Michigan Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow, both Democrats, and Rep. Carolyn Kirkpatrick, another Democrat, for $951.500 for street lamps in Detroit.

Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., led the way with $653 million in pork, the organization said. The report said this year's Pig Book cites 10,160 projects costing $19.6 billion, up from $17.2 billion from a year ago. Among other spending plans: $3.8 million for the Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy in Detroit; $1.9 million for the Pleasure Beach water taxi service in Connecticut; and $95,000 for the Canton Symphony Orchestra Association in Ohio. Regardless of what you think you've heard about pork projects, they are not in any way reducing,Paige said. I think what's being promoted and promulgated in the media and by members of the leadership of this House and Senate are telling everybody is just not true,she said.

CNN AT TEA PARTY HASSELING TAX PEOPLE
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I NEVER KNEW ANDERSON COOPER OF CNN WAS GAY,ONE GUY WAS AT THE TEA PARTY WERE COOPER WAS AND HIM AND HIS LOVER WERE HOLDING HANDS AND MAKING FUN AND ACTING NUTS LIKE TYPICAL GAYS AT PARADES AND EVENTS,INTERESTING.

A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA 1 million attend tea parties in 50 states,Obama has awakened a sleeping giant April 17, 2009 12:00 am Eastern By Jerome Corsi and Chelsea Schilling 2009 WorldNetDaily

Aerial view of Alamo tea party protest in San Antonio, Texas (photo: Texas Tea Parties)An estimated 1 million Americans participated in at least 1,000 tea parties, according to reports by organizers tabulating the nationwide numbers, with documented protests held in 50 states. Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform told WND, The Obama administration has awakened a sleeping giant.Tax Day Tea Party national event coordinator Amy Kremer told WND she has confirmed that more than 850 parties took place. She has at least 100 more reports in her e-mail inbox that have not been posted. Sign a petition calling on Congress and the president to halt out-of-control spending Asked how many people attended the events, she responded, I would estimate it at over 1 million. I'm waiting on more numbers to come in from organizers right now. I can tell you it is absolutely over 750,000 right now.The largest protests occurred in Atlanta, Ga., with 15,000 participants. As many as 10,000 protesters participating in Sacramento, Calif., and Overland Park, Kan., according to data compiled by Americans for Tax Reform on more than 207 tea parties. Americans for Tax Reform has established an Internet page on the group's website where organizers of tea parties can submit attendance estimates to be included in the running tally.

Michael DePrimo, special counsel to American Family Association President Tim Wildmon, told WND that AFA's tea party website, Tea Party Day, had 2,031 confirmations that tea parties were to be held in as many cities. Since yesterday, we have had 394 cities give us reports, many with photographs, about the tea parties that were held,he said.We have not been able to get all the information up. We expect more to come in as the days go by.Glenn Beck reported yesterday on his Fox News program that official estimates of the participation in the Tea Party held in San Antonio, Texas, reached as many as 20,000 people. The Glenn Beck show broadcast on Fox News live on April 15, from the Tea Party held at the Alamo in San Antonio. The establishment in Washington, D.C., is terrified,Norquist said. There were no such demonstrations four months into the administrations of Democratic presidents Carter or Clinton.Norquist told WND that the Obama administration was taken by surprise by the nationwide protests because the administration had calculated increased government spending was supposed to be the popular part of President Obama's economic stimulus plan. Instead, Norquist said, the tea parties held in every state on Wednesday proved Americans nationwide are demonstrating in anger and disappointment against Obama administration plans for massive deficit spending. Tax Day protester in Kansas City, Mo., holds sign (photo: Posted to Tea Party Day)Imagine what happens when President Obama, House Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid begin to pay for their spend-fest with higher taxes and inflation,Norquist said. Kremer said the mainstream media have completely neglected their duty to accurately report on this nationwide movement. It's amazing that the mainstream media is reporting it the way that they are,she said. It's just crazy. It's basically just going to come down to us. We're now reporting it ourselves because they are not reporting it accurately.

Many say the mainstream media attempted either to ignore the protests altogether or characterized tea partiers as disgruntled Republicans unable to accept that they lost the 2008 presidential campaign or as rich taxpayers unwilling to pay their fair burden of taxes. However, Kremer said she is constantly receiving reports from organizers about the movement's resounding success. I think it was an absolute success,she said.We want to send a message to them: We hired them; we can fire them. They work for us. They seem to have forgotten that.She continued, If it means we have to go after every incumbent in office from now until 2012, we will do that. But the American people are tired of sitting by, and they are starting to step forward and take notice.

Did anybody notice? HAL LINDSEY April 17, 2009 1:00 am Eastern 2009

Hundreds of thousands of Americans came together in more than 300 locations across the nation to shout, Enough government! They met on Tax Day to protest the expanding government apparatus and big government spending. Thousands of protesters – some dressed in colonial wigs with tea bags hanging from their eyeglasses – showed up in states from California to Kentucky to Massachusetts, holding signs and reading speeches in protest of the Obama administration's tax-and-spend policies. It was probably the largest grass-roots organized event in the history of the republic. The governor of the state of Texas openly accused the federal government of overturning the rights we had one by one, making choices that would leave our Founding Fathers scratching their heads.Gov. Perry spoke to the crowd of thousands who turned out for the Dallas tea party. Perry went so far as to remind Washington that Texas retains the right as a republic to secede from the Union. Don't tread on me. But as far as much of the mainstream media were concerned, it all might just as well have happened on the dark side of the moon. The New York Times completely ignored a nationwide anti-government protest in favor of a demonstration in Afghanistan.

Plumb the depths of our in-the-tank news industry with A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media.What mainstream attention the effort did get was heavily propagandized. CNN openly mocked the tea parties and their thousands of participants as if they were all morons. MSNBC launched an all-out effort to marginalize it as a GOP political operation. Brent Bozell, president of the conservative Media Research Center, said the media coverage was insulting.I've never seen anything like it, Bozell said. The oral sex jokes on (CNN) and particularly MSNBC on teabagging ... they had them by the dozens. That's how insulting they were toward people who believe they're being taxed too highly.White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the White House was amused by the tea parties, but that nobody out there is making $250,000 a year – as if that were somehow relevant. President Obama said that he was completely unaware of the tea party protests. How can it be that the president could be unaware of a grass-roots protest movement of this size and scope? Doesn't he have a TV? Actually, it was possible to watch the news of the day and scan the daily headlines and never know anything about the protests, unless one took place near your house.

Those news organizations that did take notice of the events around the country presented them as a Fox News-promoted, GOP-affiliated non-event that drew pockets of Obama-haters. Only days before, the Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin to law-enforcement officials warning of the dangers posed by right-wing extremists that, according to the government definition from the bulletin, were the very people that showed up for the tea party demonstrations. Specifically cited were those who ... reject federal authority in favor of state and local authority.(Like tea party protesters?) I couldn't help but notice the fact that, despite the size of the crowds and the depth of their feeling, there was not a single recorded instance of violence. There was not a single riot among all those thousands of protesters in those hundreds of cities. Nobody's windows were smashed. Nobody was injured in clashes with police. Nobody was killed. It was astonishing to watch. Tens of thousands of Americans gathered together for no other purpose except to have their voices heard. They stood up ... only to discover to their shock and dismay that their own government now considers them to be enemies of the state and that the allegedly unbiased mainstream media marginalized them as nut jobs – or ignored them altogether. One would never have dreamed it possible in America. But that was before The Change That You Can Believe In. Now, it seems, anything is possible.

MELANIE LINKS
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Tea parties: Just the beginning April 17, 2009 1:00 am Eastern 2009 WND

They came on foot, by car, on Harleys. Some were assisted by metal walkers, others pushed in strollers. They also came from divergent political parties. Some love Barack Obama, some not so much. They carried signs, chanted, laughed and listened. But they had one message: America has had enough of big government. I have been around the block a few times when it comes to political activism. I've seen the worst from anti-American punks dressed in Pepto Bismol-colored skirts and orange jumpsuits. On Wednesday, I saw the best of America, and I recognize her from her roots. Yes, I'll dare say it: The tea parties that took the country on Wednesday came from the roots of America's founding, despite what the lying, pooh-poohing, dismissive, out-of-touch mainstream media reported. Did you see the ranting of the CNN newsbabe as she failed to report on one tea party and instead resorted to a liberal lashing that only radicals would call real news. Here's video of CNN correspondent Susan Roesgen while covering a Chicago tea party. Supply-side economics' father warns of the debilitating consequences of higher taxes in The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy – if We Let it Happen.Frankly, if CNN had any news judgment and even wanted to pretend to be objective, editors might want to fire Roesgen and hand her over to MSNBC where she could foam and bark with Keith Olbermann. Liberals were all for Cindy Sheehan protesting (actually sleeping in a hotel room and getting foot rubs) in Crawford, Texas. But they just hated to see true Americans giving big government the middle finger. I hate to give these nobodies attention, but you really need to look at some of the dribble coming from bloggers and the MSM. It is an idea unworthy of even Ronald Reagan at his most senile: Protest against what you perceive to be an oppressive government by gathering in a public place and waving tea bags,a lefty wrote. (Notice how liberals are so compassionate to President Reagan, who died after struggling with Alzheimer's. They are the heartless, clueless and drooling followers of their ONE, Barack Obama.) The left were emboldened with the election of their leader, Obama. But on Wednesday during the tea parties I attended, I heard outcry from Obama voters who are scared at the direction he is herding his sheeple. I heard from the elderly and the young. Most had never come to a protest before – and I didn't see a wild-eyed radical among the throngs of people who gathered.

I was in San Francisco, the belly of the leftist beast. Thousands showed up to stand for freedom. Why is this so offensive to the left? Because socialists and their brothers don't believe in freedom. They want the government to take our money, our private property, our guns, and then dish out the cash as the government sees fit. As Obama himself said during his campaign: They want to redistribute wealth. Now let me address this cockamamie idea that what happened this week from coast to coast was created by the Republicans or Fox News. I followed the tea parties along with my friend, Michelle Malkin, from the beginning. It started with a protest here and a protest there. Bloggers stepped in and the word began to spread among people who felt the same thing: There is something wrong in America. It didn't just start with this current administration. It began rearing its ugly head years ago. But like the movement against slavery in this country, the word grew. And the feeling of unease wouldn't go away. More and more Americans stepped up and said no.Then the singular cries turned into a battle cry. And, finally, Americans stood up. They would not fear the mainstream media, who mocked them. They would not fear the government, which calls them right-wing radicals. They would not fear the freaks on the left who promised to intimidate. As I walked across the street toward the federal building in San Francisco, I spoke with a woman who the day before had just completed radiation therapy for her breast cancer. But she was not going to let that stop her from expressing outrage over the direction this country is headed, including socialized medicine. Anybody who believes, who says or writes that what happened on April 15, 2009, was a right-wing conspiracy or a gathering generated from the GOP gives the Republican Party too much credit. It couldn't put together a tea party for two. An estimated 250,000 protesters came out on Wednesday. Just look at the presidential campaign and ask yourself: Could these bumbling fools get grandmas and grandchildren to march together for freedom? The Republicans couldn't even get Americans to stop supporting a socialist.

The tea parties were just a start. We will not rest until the government is back in the hands of the people, and run for the people. We won't back down, and our battle cry is freedom.Go to Aftertheteaparty.com to continue our work. Melanie Morgan is chairman of the conservative, pro-troop non-profit organization Move America Forward and co-author of American Mourning,which tells the stories of American heroism in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Her personal website is www.MelanieMorgan.com.

Dow ends best 6 weeks since 1938 on econ hopes By Ellis Mnyandu APR 17,09

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks rose on Friday, with the Dow scoring its biggest six-week gain since July 1938, helped by a reassuring report on the mood of consumers and stabilization in General Electric (GE.N) and Citigroup's (C.N) quarterly results.The Dow is up 22.7 percent over the past six weeks, making this the largest six-week gain since July 29, 1938.Friday's close also marked the S&P 500's longest weekly winning streak since 2007.The Reuters/University of Michigan survey showed that U.S. consumers have more confidence in the economy than they have had since the sudden collapse of Lehman Brothers in September, the latest in a spate of data suggesting the economic slump may be easing.GE and Citigroup both posted better-than-expected results, lifting the broader market, and bank stocks rallied as investors bet other financial companies could follow up with more news showing the sector is on the mend.

Among banks, shares of Bank of America (BAC.N), due to post quarterly results on Monday, climbed 2.5 percent to $10.60. The KBW Bank index (.BKX) climbed 3.4 percent and has come close to more than doubling since its March lows. GE shares gained almost 1 percent to $12.39.The rate of deceleration in the economy is slowing, said David Lutz, managing director of trading at Stifel Nicolaus Capital Markets in Baltimore.From a macro standpoint, the reason for a lot of the drive is just that we're continuing to get data points that show things are beginning to operate very well in the credit markets.The Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) rose 5.90 points, or 0.07 percent, to 8,131.33. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (.SPX) climbed 4.30 points, or 0.50 percent, to 869.60. The Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC) added 2.63 points, or 0.16 percent, to 1,673.07.

S&P UP 28.5 PERCENT FROM MARCH LOW

The surge capped the S&P 500's longest weekly winning streak since spring 2007 and added to its strong recovery since the stock market's descent to 12-year closing lows early last month.For the week, the Dow rose 0.6 percent, the S&P 500 advanced 1.5 percent and the Nasdaq gained 1.2 percent.The benchmark S&P 500 is now up 28.5 percent since the bear market closing low of March 9. Its year-to-date drop has narrowed to about 4 percent.On Nasdaq, a 1.6 percent gain in the shares of Apple (AAPL.O), the maker of the iPhone and iPod, underpinned the technology sector's advance ahead of Apple's quarterly results next week.Apple is probably going to have positive things to say,added Lutz.Apple's stock closed at $123.42, while Google (GOOG.O) gained 0.9 percent to $392.24, a day after posting a stronger-than-expected quarterly profit.

MCDONALD'S GAINS, BUT CITI FALLS

Also underpinning the market's advance were the gains in the shares of companies seen better able to withstand economic downturns. Shares of fast-food company McDonald's Corp (MCD.N) rose 2.5 percent to $56.09 after its chief executive told CNBC that he saw some thawing in economic conditions. The stock gave the top boost to the Dow.

Deutsche Bank said Procter & Gamble (PG.N), Colgate-Palmolive (CL.N) and Kimberly-Clark Corp (KMB.N) were undervalued at current levels. P&G rose 2.4 percent to $51.66, making it the Dow's second-biggest advancer, while shares of diversified health-care company Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) added 1.6 percent to $53.05. Profit-taking ahead of the weekend, however, tempered some of the upside, according to traders.

Citigroup reported a smaller-than-expected first-quarter loss, but its shares dropped almost 9 percent to $3.65 as some investors paused following the stock's strong run-up since early last month when the bank said, along with others, it had had a good start to 2009. Trading was active on the New York Stock Exchange, where about 1.95 billion shares changed hands, above last year's average daily volume of 1.49 billion. On the Nasdaq, about 2.42 billion shares traded, above last year's average daily volume of 2.28 billion. Advancers outnumbered decliners by a ratio of about 2 to 1 on both the NYSE and Nasdaq.(Editing by Jan Paschal)

GM readies plans for bankruptcy it hopes to avoid By David Bailey and Kevin Krolicki APR 17,09

DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Corp Chief Executive Fritz Henderson said on Friday the automaker was readying detailed plans for a bankruptcy filing that now appears more likely even as it races to complete a business plan under federal oversight.Henderson said GM faced no pressure from the Obama administration's autos task force to make a decision on whether to file for bankruptcy before an established June 1 deadline and said it was feasible that the automaker could still avoid bankruptcy despite the short time frame remaining.But Henderson also said the automaker was drawing up a game plan that would let it emerge as quickly as possible from bankruptcy if it needed to take that route.Given what we need to accomplish, I certainly felt a couple weeks ago that it was more probable that we would need to go through a bankruptcy process,Henderson told reporters on a conference call. That continues today.GM, which has been operating under $13.4 billion of emergency U.S. government aid, has not yet received the $4.6 billion of additional funding it had said that it would need to continue operating through the second quarter.Under the terms of its government rescue, GM has until June 1 to prepare deep cuts in its debt, labor costs, dealership network and brands to return to profitability.The final call on any bankruptcy will not be GM's alone to make, Henderson said.This would be one the management and Treasury would arrive at together,Henderson said of bankruptcy.

Henderson, who became CEO when the Obama administration ousted his mentor and predecessor Rick Wagoner at the end of last month, oversees a company that posted $82 billion of losses since 2005.In wide-ranging remarks intended to provide an update on GM's progress over the past two weeks, Henderson said the automaker has had contact with more than six potential investors for its European Opel brand.GM shares were down 7 cents of 3.6 percent at $1.87 on Friday afternoon. The stock has lost roughly half of its value since the end of March as investors price in increasing risk of bankruptcy which would be expected to wipe out existing equity.

TAKING THE WATCH APART

If GM fails to reach agreements to make deep reductions in some $28 billion of unsecured debt, cut labor costs and rework the funding of a healthcare trust for United Auto Workers union retirees, the automaker could be forced into bankruptcy.The autos task force, which is headed by former investment banker Steve Rattner, rejected turnaround plans in late March from GM and Chrysler LLC.The task force has told Chrysler it has until the end of this month to reach agreements for an alliance with Italy's Fiat SpA, a reduction in secured debt and resolution of labor issues with its unions.The UAW has been negotiating more intensely with Chrysler now because of its looming deadline, Henderson said, adding that GM expected the pace of its talks with the union to pick up in the next few weeks.Henderson said GM managers had been focused over the past two weeks on working with U.S. officials on a thorough review of the struggling automaker's operations and finances.That means that we're quite frankly taking the watch apart and then rebuilding it and asking questions,he said.

GM expects to have a new business plan ready by this month, and will then focus on a critical round of talks with the UAW and its bondholders, Henderson said. Talks with the UAW and GM's bondholders have been largely stalled since February. The two groups are being asked to take equity instead of most of the $48 billion they are collectively owed by the automaker. Henderson also said the automaker still planned to stick to its four core brands which include Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC, but was examining all elements of its brand strategy in its review with U.S. officials. If GM is forced to file for bankruptcy, it is considering two broad options intended to shorten the length of time the automaker would remain in court protection, Henderson said. Those options would include reaching agreements with key creditors in advance of a filing or using a bankruptcy code provision to split GM and sell some assets quickly out of bankruptcy, he said. (Additional reporting by Kevin Krolicki, Poornima Gupta, Soyoung Kim and David Bailey, editing by Dave Zimmerman and Matthew Lewis)

SEX SINS

1 CORINTHIANS 6:9,14-18
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

GALATIONS 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

FIRST ISLAM NOW ALLOWS MEN TO RAPE THEIR WIVES IN MARRIAGE AND THIS SWAP (SICK)A 2 YEAR OLD FOR SISTER.ISLAM NEEDS KING JESUS BIGTIME SO THEY CAN REPENT FROM THEIR SEX SINS AGAINST GOD.LIKE I SAID BEFORE ISLAM IS A SEX FOR MURDER CULT,NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.

Islamists fight Yemen law banning child marriage By DONNA ABU-NASR, Associated Press Writer – Thu Apr 16, 3:45 pm ET

SAN'A, Yemen – She was 2 years old when her father promised her in marriage to a man in his 30s. It was a swap, so the father could marry the man's sister without paying the obligatory bride-price.At age 9, the girl was put on a sack of rice to appear taller next to the bridegroom in the wedding picture. At 11, she was taken to her husband's house to live. Despite promising not to consummate the marriage before she reached puberty, he tied her to a bed, stuffed a rag in her mouth and raped her, she says.One day he tied me up and attacked me, the girl, who is now 13 and has fled her husband, told The Associated Press on Wednesday, choking with tears during an interview at an orphanage that has given her shelter. Her name and her husband's aren't being used to protect her identity.Child marriages are widespread in Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, where tribal customs dominate society. More than a quarter of its females marry before age 15, according to a recent report by the Social Affairs Ministry.The issue of child brides vaulted into the headlines here two years ago when an 8-year-old boldly went by herself to a courtroom and demanded a judge dissolve her marriage to a man in his 30s. She eventually won a divorce, and legislators began looking at ways to curb the practice.

In February, parliament passed a law setting the minimum marriage age at 17. But some lawmakers are trying to kill the measure, calling it un-Islamic. Before it could be ratified by Yemen's president, they forced it to be sent back to parliament's constitutional committee for review.Child marriage is an issue elsewhere. In neighboring, more affluent Saudi Arabia, several cases of child brides have been reported in the past year, though the phenomenon is not believed to be nearly as widespread as in Yemen.The U.S. on Wednesday sharply criticized the practice after a ruling by a Saudi judge upheld the marriage of a girl whose father gave her at age 8 to a man in his late 40s. The girl's mother has sought a divorce for her daughter.

Child marriage is a clear and unacceptable violation of human rights in our view. U.S. officials at all levels frequently raise with the Saudi government our human rights concerns, especially those dealing with children and marriages,State Department spokesman Robert Wood said.Saudi Arabia sets no minimum age for marriage. But the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan this week quoted the kingdom's new justice minister, Mohammed al-Issa, as saying the government is doing a comprehensive study on underage marriage that will include regulations. He did not indicate how long the process would take.In Yemen, poverty is the main reason families marry off young daughters, to get bride-prices up to several hundred dollars. Local traditions encourage the practice out of a belief a young bride can be shaped into an obedient wife, bear more children and be kept away from temptation.The weak government relies on support from tribal leaders and Islamists so is reluctant to take action on customs they support.

Yemen once set 15 as the minimum marriage age, but parliament eliminated it in the 1990s, saying parents should decide when a daughter marries.Legislator Sheik Mohammed al-Hazmi, one of the most ardent opponents of a minimum marriage age, says the new law is a Western plot aimed at Westernizing our culture.The West wants to teach us how to marry, conceive and divorce. This is cultural colonization that we reject,he told AP.Al-Hazmi said Islam permits the practice because nothing in the Quran and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad bans it. Everything that is not forbidden is permitted,he said.Lawmaker Sheik Shawki al-Qadhi vehemently disagrees. He said that according to Islamic law a ruler can ban that which is permitted if it is proven to cause harm.Regulations short of an outright ban won't work, he said. Are we going to post a policeman at every bedroom to ensure husbands don't consummate marriages before girls reach puberty? Al-Qadhi said he is confident the new law will survive review, though some say the age could be lowered to 15. The girl who spoke with the AP is now living at the Alrahma Foundation for Human Development, an orphanage in the capital, San'a. She first came to the orphanage when her father died, when she was 11. She had not yet moved in with her husband, because the agreement had been that she would do so at puberty.But she said her brother showed up at the orphanage and persuaded her to go with him, telling her they would seek a court annulment of the marriage. Instead, he took her to her husband's house in the southern town of Thammar for a bribe of about $200, the girl said. About nine months later, the husband forced her into sex, she said.She got a chance to break away when she developed stomach and vocal cord problems last year and her husband sent her to San'a for treatment. She escaped from the house where she was staying and fled to the orphanage 10 months ago.

Today, at 13, she is learning to read and write and beginning to think about the future.I want to become a businesswoman,she said, two tiny dimples lighting up her thin face.

Friday, April 17, 2009

FAIRNESS DOCTRINE IS NOT FAIR COVERAGE

PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS

JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME

PSALMS 14:1
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.

JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?

PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).

WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE (HATE SCAM NOT FAIRNESS)
http://www.cbn.com/media/index.aspx?s=/vod/MCH28
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/581524.aspx
JANET PARSHALL ON FAIRNESS DOCTRINE AT 14 MINUTE MARK
http://www.cbn.com/media/index.aspx?s=700club&title=The%20700%20Club&prgm=700club
RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS VIDEO ON 700 CLUB
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/580861.aspx
THE OBAMA DECEPTION A MUST WATCH (OBAMAS A MUSLIM DECIEVER)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw

LOOKOUT CHRISTIANS WHEN THIS FAIRNESS DOCTRINE IS PASSED,WE WILL BE HATED FOR TEACHING,PREACHING SALVATON AND HELL.THE WORLD CAN NOT STAND JESUS' MESSAGE OF SALVATION AND WE WILL BE PERSECUTED BIGTIME BY THIS BILL PASSING.OBAMA WANTS TO BACK DOOR THE BILL THROUGH THE FCC SO WATCH CLOSELY FOR THE SNEAKY VOTE TO GET IT PASSED INTO LAW.

YOU MUST SEE ON PAT ROBERTSON TALK SHOW HOST JANET PARSHALL TALK ABOUT THIS BILL AND HOW IT WILL ESPECIALLY AFFECT PEOPLE LIKE ME THAT BELIEVE PROPHECY.WE ARE CLASSIFIED AS RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS.NOW I KNOW WHY I GOT GOOGLE,AP,BELL ALL WATCHING MY SITE LIKE A HAWK,AND WHO KNOWS ALL THE GOVERNMENT SITES WATCHING ME.

The Fairness Doctrine: What Does It Mean?
By Jennifer Wishon CBN News Washington Correspondent
April 17, 2009

CBNNews.com - WASHINGTON -- Does the Fairness Doctrine offer balance to talk radio dominated by conservative talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh or does it stifle free speech? It is a question that's created controversy since it was implemented in 1949. The Federal Communications Commission abolished it in 1987, but some broadcasters fear pieces of the Fairness Doctrine are on the way back.If you let the government determine which speech is controversial and which isn't.worse than that, if you let the political appointees in any particular government administration make those decisions, you're just setting up a framework for abuse, said Dr. Frank Wright, President and CEO of the National Religious Broadcasters or NRB.The association's 1,400 member stations fear a reinstatement of even portions of the doctrine would require Christian stations to present viewpoints from other religions. Something they believe violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which guarantees the freedom of speech and religion.

It's anything, but the Fairness Doctrine,said Sen. Jim DeMint, R-SC. We call it the Unfair Doctrine,.DeMint has pushed legislation through the Senate that prohibits the doctrine's return. However, another amendment, sponsored by Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin, is also being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives.The bill reads that the Federal Communications Commission or FCC shall encourage and promote diversity in communications media ownership and ensure broadcast licenses are used in the public interest.Democratic staffers say the language reaffirms longstanding policies, but DeMint doesn't buy it.For all we know, diversity of ownership for a Christian station would mean atheists, Muslims, people of all kinds of beliefs which are…it could be different sexual preferences,he explained.We just don't know.Since the Fairness Doctrine was never law to begin with, only a regulation, some believe the real fight will transpire inside the FCC, an agency that's in transition with the new administration. Still others say cries over a Fairness Doctrine comeback are unwarranted.Dr. Christopher Sterling at George Washington University worked at the FCC while the doctrine was in place.You'll find people on the right and the left who agree that government ought to stay out of content,he said.Still, groups like the National Religious Broadcasters aren't taking chances. Instead, they're working hard to ensure the Fairness Doctrine remains part of broadcast history.Syndicated Talk Radio show host Janet Parshall will appear on Friday's The 700 Club to discuss the issue of the Fairness Doctrine and what it could mean for Christian radio stations.Check local listings. Parshall's entire interview will be posted to CBNNews.com Friday morning after 11:00 EDT.

October 29, 1993 Why the Fairness Doctrine is Anything But Fair
by Adam Thierer Executive Memorandum #368 ,This key research from 1993 has been updated in James Gattuso's new paper Back to Muzak? Congress and the Un-Fairness Doctrine http://www.heritage.org/Research/Regulation/wm1472.cfm

Legislation currently is before Congress that would reinstate a federal communications policy known as the fairness doctrine.The legislation, entitled the Fairness in Broadcasting Act of 1993, is sponsored in the Senate (S. 333) by Ernest Hollings, the South Carolina Democrat, and in the House (H.R. 1985) by Bill Hefner, the North Carolina Democrat. It would codify a 1949 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulation that once required broadcasters to afford reasonable opportunity for the discussion of conflicting views of public importance.The fairness doctrine was overturned by the FCC in 1987. The FCC discarded the rule because, contrary to its purpose, it failed to encourage the discussion of more controversial issues. There were also concerns that it was in violation of First Amendment free speech principles. The legislation now before Congress would enshrine the fairness doctrine into law.The doctrine's supporters seem not to appreciate just how much the broadcast world has changed since 1949. With the proliferation of informational resources and technology, the number of broadcast outlets available to the public has increased steadily. In such an environment, it is hard to understand why the federal government must police the airwaves to ensure that differing views are heard. The result of a reinstituted fairness doctrine would not be fair at all. In practice, much controversial speech heard today would be stifled as the threat of random investigations and warnings discouraged broadcasters from airing what FCC bureaucrats might refer to as unbalanced views.

Tested in Court
The fairness doctrine's constitutionality was tested and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark 1969 case, Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC (395 U.S. 367). Although the Court then ruled that it did not violate a broadcaster's First Amendment rights, the Court cautioned that if the doctrine ever began to restrain speech, then the rule's constitutionality should be reconsidered. Just five years later, without ruling the doctrine unconstitutional, the Court concluded in another case that the doctrine inescapably dampens the vigor and limits the variety of public debate (Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo, 418 U.S. 241). In 1984, the Court concluded that the scarcity rationale underlying the doctrine was flawed and that the doctrine was limiting the breadth of public debate (FCC v. League of Women Voters, 468 U.S. 364). This ruling set the stage for the FCC's action in 1987. An attempt by Congress to reinstate the rule by statute was vetoed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, and later attempts failed even to pass Congress.As an independent regulatory agency, the FCC has the power to reimpose the doctrine without congressional or executive action. So far, the Commission has taken no position on the Hollings-Hefner legislation or expressed an interest in reregulating on its own. Current FCC Chairman James Quello, though, has stated that, The fairness doctrine doesn't belong in a country that's dedicated to freedom of the press and freedom of speech.(Doug Halonen,Twelve to Watch in 1993,Electronic Media, January 25, 1993, p. 66.) The Clinton Administration has not taken an official position on the legislation.Supporters of reviving the fairness doctrine base their argument on the very same three faulty premises that the FCC and most judicial rulings have rejected.Faulty Premise #1: The scarce amount of spectrum space requires oversight by federal regulators.Reality: Although the spectrum is limited, the number of broadcasters in America has continuously increased.

Supporters of the fairness doctrine argue that because the airwaves are a scarce resource, they should be policed by federal bureaucrats to ensure that all viewpoints are heard. Yet, just because the spectrum within which broadcast frequencies are found has boundaries, it does not mean that there is a practical shortage of views being heard over the airwaves. When the fairness doctrine was first conceived, only 2,881 radio and 98 television stations existed. By 1960, there were 4,309 radio and 569 television stations. By 1989, these numbers grew to over 10,000 radio stations and close to 1,400 television stations. Likewise, the number of radios in use jumped from 85.2 million in 1950 to 527.4 million by 1988, and televisions in use went from 4million to 175.5 million during that period. (The Fairness Doctrine, National Association of Broadcasters, Backgrounder (1989).)Even if it may once have been possible to monopolize the airwaves, and to deny access to certain viewpoints, that is impossible today. A wide variety of opinions is available to the public through radios, cable channels, and even computers. With America on the verge of information superhighways and 500-channel televisions, there is little prospect of speech being stifled.Faulty Premise #2: Fairness or fair access is best determined by FCC authorities.

Reality: FCC bureaucrats can neither determine what is fair nor enforce it.

The second fallacy upon which the doctrine rests concerns the idea of fairness itself. As defined by proponents of the doctrine, fairness apparently means that each broadcaster must offer air time to anyone with a controversial view. Since it is impossible for every station to be monitored constantly, FCC regulators would arbitrarily determine what fair access is, and who is entitled to it, through selective enforcement. This, of course, puts immense power into the hands of federal regulators. And in fact, the fairness doctrine was used by both the Kennedy and Nixon Administrations to limit political opposition. Telecommunications scholar Thomas W. Hazlett notes that under the Nixon Administration, License harassment of stations considered unfriendly to the Administration became a regular item on the agenda at White House policy meetings.(Thomas W. Hazlett,The Fairness Doctrine and the First Amendment,The Public Interest, Summer 1989, p. 105.) As one former Kennedy Administration official, Bill Ruder, has said, We had a massive strategy to use the fairness doctrine to challenge and harass the right-wing broadcasters, and hope the challenge would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too expensive to continue.(Tony Snow, Return of the Fairness Demon,The Washington Times, September 5, 1993, p. B3.)

Faulty Premise #3: The fairness doctrine guarantees that more opinions will be aired.

Reality: Arbitrary enforcement of the fairness doctrine will diminish vigorous debate.

Of all arguments for the reinstitution of the fairness doctrine, the most inaccurate and insidious is that it will permit a greater diversity of opinion to be heard. By requiring, under threat of arbitrary legal penalty, that broadcasters fairly represent both sides of a given issue, advocates of the doctrine believe that more views will be aired while the editorial content of the station can remain unaltered. But with the threat of potential FCC retaliation for perceived lack of compliance, most broadcasters would be more reluctant to air their own opinions because it might require them to air alternative perspectives that their audience does not want to hear.Thus, the result of the fairness doctrine in many cases would be to stifle the growth of disseminating views and, in effect, make free speech less free. This is exactly what led the FCC to repeal the rule in 1987. FCC officials found that the doctrine had the net effect of reducing, rather than enhancing, the discussion of controversial issues of public importance,and therefore was in violation of constitutional principles. (FCC Ends Enforcement of Fairness Doctrine,Federal Communications Commission News, Report No. MM-263, August 4, 1987.) Even liberal New York Governor Mario Cuomo has argued that, Precisely because radio and TV have become our principal sources of news and information, we should accord broadcasters the utmost freedom in order to insure a truly free press.(Mario Cuomo, The Unfairness Doctrine,The New York Times, September 20, 1993, p. A19.)

Simple Solution
If the fairness standard is reinstituted, the result will not be easier access for controversial views. It will instead be self-censorship, as stations seek to avoid requirements that they broadcast specific opposing views. With the wide diversity of views available today in the expanding broadcast system, there is a simple solution for any family seeking an alternative viewpoint or for any lawmaker irritated by a pugnacious talk-show host. Turn the dial.1995 Persimmon IT, Inc.

FEAR OF YOU OUT OF YOUTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V025E_b5I4g&feature=player_embedded

Video Bloggers Fear You Being Phased Out Of YouTube
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, April 17, 2009

A new You Tube video getting a lot of attention highlights concerns that the You is being phased out of YouTube, as individual users are sidelined by regulation and censorship in favor of corporate domination of the popular video website, an eventuality that we first warned about years ago.The clip makes the case that You Tube has all but eliminated the prominence of individual video channels and artificially suppressed their chances of topping the popular ranking charts.In addition, the ranking charts themselves have been buried on the website and replaced with an assortment of featured videos, a combination of bland corporate promos and inane mindless clips, selected by You Tube bosses themselves, while viral videos voted on by individual users have been almost completely hidden.The top ranking and most discussed categories used to appear on the front page of the website, but are now demoted to a sub-tab, the video claims. However, looking at the You Tube website this morning, small links to these categories have now been added to the main page.

The clip points out that ratings have been removed from the most viewed page to prevent bland corporate videos from being voted down by users, which does appear to be the case. Inoffensive political videos are also being flagged for deletion while clips that amount to soft porn are allowed.The point made in the video about censorship is well received. We have had numerous accounts deleted by You Tube with little or no explanation and we receive e mails every week from people who have suffered the same fate. We have also documented how view counts on our videos have been altered to prevent them from going viral.The video also claims that You Tube is switching over to a new design which will place corporate-sponsored TV shows and movies on the front page while relegating individual users’ videos to a sub-page. This corresponds with the announcement that, YouTube…. is partnering with major studios to stream full-length movies and TV shows on its site for free,according to an Associated Press report.The growth of community websites like You Tube, Facebook and MySpace brings with it the very dangers that we first highlighted years ago when the social networking and video blogging phenomenon was first taking off, that such sites represented a cyber trojan horse and the media elite’s last gasp effort to reclaim control of the Internet and sink it with a stranglehold of regulation, control and censorship.

The domination of user-driven community websites owned by large corporations over websites run and owned by individuals has created the perfect opportunity for corporations to swallow Internet traffic and put individual blogs and websites in the shadows.Websites like You Tube became so successful because they allowed free reign for users to upload whatever videos they liked and put in place ranking systems determined by users themselves and not at the discretion of You Tube bosses. This meant that truly important videos, along with the usual celebrity trash that is par for the course, were allowed to go viral. However, since You Tube was bought by Google and changes were made to the website, You Tube has been dominated by bland paid-for corporate videos while videos popular with the actual community have been relegated to the sidelines.This was always the danger of investing so much power and interest in community websites owned by large transnational corporations, as we warned years ago.However, You Tube’s evolution from a community-driven first amendment outpost to a tightly regulated, corporate mouthpiece will only drive users away to smaller video blogging websites as well as a move back towards setting up their own private websites that aren’t subject to the controls of the corporate media oligarchy.MORE RESEARCH LINKS
http://www.infowars.com/video-bloggers-fear-you-being-phased-out-of-youtube/
http://www.infowars.com/obama-appointee-wants-soviet-styled-media/

Obama Appointee Wants Soviet-styled Media
Infowars April 16, 2009

It’s bad enough the Obama administration has pledged trillions to bailout the bankers and has made moves to control business in the private sector. Now they want a Soviet-styled media financed and run by the government.Brooks, who has taken up a post as an adviser at the Pentagon, advocated upping direct government support for public media and creating licenses to govern news operations.Influential Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa Brooks has hung up her journalistic hat and joined the Obama administration, but not before penning a public proposal calling for some radical ideas to help bail out the failing news industry, reports Fox News. Brooks, who has taken up a post as an adviser at the Pentagon, advocated upping direct government support for public media and creating licenses to govern news operations.Years of foolish policies have left us with a choice: We can bail out journalism, using tax dollars and granting licenses in ways that encourage robust and independent reporting and commentary, or we can watch, wringing our hands, as more and more top journalists are laid off,she wrote in her parting column on April 9.You can only imagine how such licenses would govern Infowars and the alternative media.

In the former Soviet Union, Pravda was an organ of the CPSU Central Committee, while Izvestiya was published by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. Ms. Brooks is advocating a likewise scheme here in America, formerly a land that respected the idea of an independent press and the First Amendment. She would put an end to all of this once and for all with her suggestion that media be licensed by the state. Brooks said her authoritarian scheme would help rescue the corporate media from a death spiral and left the government unaccountable to the journalists who must keep it honest. [I] can’t imagine anything more dangerous than a society in which the news industry has more or less collapsed,she wrote.Why is the corporate media in the process of collapsing? Because a growing number of people get their news from the internet and alternative media sources. Large numbers of people no longer trust the corporate media to tell the truth. Corporate media is a dinosaur that needs to either reinvent itself or go the way of the Brontosaurus. Instead, this Obama appointee wants to turn the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times (where she worked before joining team Obama) into Izvestiya.But then the argument is academic. The New York Times and the rest of the corporate media is owned and operated by the same corporatist and Wall Street leviathans that financed and supported the Soviet Union.

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 FRI APR 17,2009

09:30 AM +1.20
10:00 AM +8.21
10:30 AM -8.84
11:00 AM -18.16
11:30 AM -9.16
12:00 PM +10.30
12:30 PM +7.09
01:00 PM +8.76
01:30 PM +29.71
02:00 PM +46.28
02:30 PM +41.10
03:00 PM +19.68
03:30 PM +50.66
04:00 PM +5.90 8131.33

S&P 500 869.60 +4.30

NASDAQ 1673.07 +2.63

GOLD 868.90 -10.90

OIL 50.28 +0.30

TSE 300 9420.74 +77.37

CDNX 989.23 +7.10

S&P/TSX/60 573.03 +5.48

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -7.42%
S&P -4.20%
Nasdaq +5.92%
TSX Advances 941,declines 586,unchanged 271,Volume 2,547,050,498.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 384,Declines 391,Unchanged 373,Volume 253,074,364.

Dow +29 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -39 points at low today.
Dow +35 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $872.40.OIL opens at $51.20 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -39 points at low today so far.
Dow +35 points at high today so far.

DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 2,042,declines 1,508,unchanged 110,New Highs 9,New Lows 45.
Volume 3,701,554,539.
NASDAQ Advances 1,277,declines 1,312,unchanged 140,New highs 16,New Lows 10.
Volume 1,003,145,013.
TSX Advances 770,declines 512,unchanged 255,Volume 1,101,204,962.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 240,Declines 265,Unchanged 283,Volume 94,205,892.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -39 points at low today.
Dow +65 points at high today.
Dow +0.07% today Volume 537,674,431.
Nasdaq +0.16% today Volume 2,147,483,648.
S&P 500 +0.50% today Volume N/A

GM,CEO-BANKRUPTCY PROBABLE.
22 Dead in Afghanistan Quake.
Sony to slash more jobs.

RECORD LOWS DOW
-Sept 30,1996 5,882.17
-Oct 30,1996 5,993.23
-Nov 6,1996 6,177.71
-Dec 16,1996 6,268.35
-Apr 15,1997 6,587.16
-Apr 21,1997 6,660.21
-Apr 28,1997 6,783.02
-May 1,1997 6,976.48
-May 7,1997 7,085.65

RECORD LOWS S&P 500
-Sept 5,1996 649.44
-Sept 6,1996 655.68
-Sept 11,1996 667.28
-Sept 12,1996 671.13
-Oct 1,1996 689.08
-Oct 28,1996 697.26
-Nov 4,1996 706.73
-Nov 5,1996 714.14
-Dec 17,1996 726.04

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE,WEEKENDER
Dow -7.35%
S&P -3.73%
Nasdaq +6.09%
CANADAS WEEK ENDING STATS
TSX Advances 981,Declines 573,Unchanged 263,Volume 2,480,719,331.
TSX Venture Advances 395,Declines 365,Unchanged 366,Volume 199,510,543.

EU must ensure business respects human rights, says UN
ANDREW WILLIS 16.04.2009 @ 17:48 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - United Nations special representative on human rights and business John Ruggie told MEPs on Thursday (16 April) that governments must step up to the plate and accept their role in preventing human rights abuses related to business.While admitting that the international community was still only in the early stages of dealing with the topic, Mr Ruggie said the status quo was unacceptable. One thing is clear, even in this early state, business as usual isn't good enough for anybody, including business. We have to change our ways,he said. Last year the United Nations, under Mr Ruggie's stewardship, published a document, Protect, Respect and Remedy: a framework for business and human rights that attempted to define the different roles of governments and companies in the area. When a state adopts human rights instruments [such as guidelines for businesses produced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development], as the European states of course all have, they also adopt an obligation to protect against human rights abuses,he said.

This includes protection from potential abuses perpetrated by businesses, he added.

One failing in this area is the tendency of EU governments to define human rights excessively narrowly so that they are rarely mentioned in the domains that most affect EU businesses, such as corporate and investment law.As an example, Mr Ruggie pointed to the fact that the government of South Africa is currently engaged in a legal dispute with an Italian mining company that wants to be re-imbursed for the economic effects of the country's black economic empowerment act.There's a problem with that. If post-apartheid South Africa cannot adopt legislation to promote the rights of the majority population without fear of having to pay off a substantial sum of money to an Italian company, there is something wrong with the way we draft investment treaties,he said. Also addressing the European Parliament subcommittee on human rights, Jan Wouters, a professor with the Catholic University of Leuven told MEPs that the EU policy on corporate social responsibility was suffering from an implementation failure. Corporate social responsibility is continuously invoked in EU external policy documents, but very little action is taken,he said.

Industrial production down

While MEPs debated human rights issues related to business practices, new figures out on Thursday on industrial production for the euro area show a drop of 2.3 per cent in February of this year compared to January. The data produced by the European statistics office indicate that the fall is a dramatic 18.4 per cent when February's production levels are compared to the same month last year.At the same time, new inflation figures also produced by Eurostat indicate that annual inflation for March of this year was a meagre 0.6 per cent, down from 1.2 per cent in February. Such drops will strengthen the case for an interest rate cut next month when the European Central Bank meet on 7 May.

Rogues and has-beens invited to EU summit
ANDREW RETTMAN Today APR 17,09 @ 18:09 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Four leaders suspected of having blood on their hands, one who let police beat up peaceful protesters and one lame duck, are to receive invitations to an EU summit in May.The Czech EU presidency's foreign minister, Karl Schwarzenberg, personally handed an invitation to autocratic Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk on Friday (17 April). Similar invitations will be sent to Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine by Monday. The form of the invitation leaves each country free to decide who to actually send. But Mr Schwarzenberg's spokeswoman, Zuzana Opletalova, said Prague expects to host generally presidents or prime ministers - it depends on the constitution of each country.The Eastern Partnership summit is a Polish-Swedish initiative to promote democratic reform and boost EU energy security through better relations with the six former Soviet states. But human rights activists have accused the EU of putting geopolitical games ahead of foreign policy ethics in the scheme.The darkest stain on Mr Lukashenko's reputation is the disappearance on his watch in 1999 and 2000 of four opposition activists, whose families are still campaigning for judicial enquiries today.

In an eccentric public relations campaign, Mr Lukashenko has started to bring his four-year old son, Kolya, to top-level meetings, such as a summit with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in March. Asked if the boy would be welcome to meet the 27 EU leaders in Prague on 7 May, Ms Opletalova repeated: It is up to each country to decide who to bring.Kolya's presence may also be required in Mr Lukashenko's biggest public relations coup to date: the Vatican on Friday told Reuters that he will meet the Pope later this month.Meanwhile, the question of who Moldova will send to the EU summit is wide open. The country currently has no official government after inconclusive elections on 5 April. Caretaker President Vladimir Voronin is expected to informally retain control by taking the powerful post of parliament speaker or chair of the Communist party, leaving the option of a puppet president speaking for him in Prague. The Voronin administration has the death of three opposition protesters on its record after a police crackdown on 7 April, with the president this week announcing an amnesty that covers security forces involved in the killings.

Armenia's Mr Sargsyan has yet to hold anyone to account for post-election violence in March 2008 in which eight protesters and two policemen lost their lives.At least 300 protesters sustained serious injuries in clashes in Azerbaijan after President Ilham Alyiev was voted to power in October 2003. NGO Human Rights Watch says security forces also beat to death one man, 52-year old Hamidaga Zakhidov.

Different league

In a different league to the four men above, Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili fell from grace in terms of democratic credentials in November 2007 when riot police hospitalised 508 peaceful protesters in Tbilisi.A fresh round of anti-Saakshvili protests entered its eighth day in the Georgia capital on 17 April, with the president showing restraint for the time being but with the opposition hoping for a second crackdown to help oust him from power.Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko emerges as the cleanest of the six EU summit candidates. Ukraine transport minister Heorhiy Kyrpa was found dead in his home with gunshot wounds to the head shortly after the Orange Revolution that brought Mr Yushchenko to power in November 2004. The country's former interior minister Yuri Kravchenko also died in suspicious circumstances in March 2005. The deaths of the two men, both loyal to the pre-Orange Revolution regime, were never linked to the new administration.But Mr Yushchenko is himself a ghost politically-speaking, with long-running allegations of corruption and incompetence seeing his approval rating hit just four percent ahead of presidential elections later this year.

Sarkozy insults EU colleagues and US leader at lunch
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today APR 17,09 @ 09:26 CET

OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE BEWARE.
Nicholas Sarkozy, the talkative and not infrequently tactless French president, has once again been robustly, awkwardly blunt. His style, which has seen the politician call impoverished suburban youth scum and tell a heckler to sod off, asshole, normally brings a smile to the kind of conservative voters who find it refreshing to hear a politician abandon the langue du bois, or wooden speaking style historically used by the country's leaders.But this time those whom he has insulted are some of his most important international allies, and they might have a different sense of humour to the politically incorrect man on the street.At a lunch with 24 French senators and MPs from all parties invited to discuss the state of the ongoing financial crisis on Wednesday (15 April), the French president gave an update to his colleagues on the results of the recent meeting of the G20 in London.In so doing, he described Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister, as stupid, Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, as simply following Mr Sarkozy's lead and Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, as absent.By the end of the lunch, he had also cast the new American president, Barack Obama, as inexperienced and not up to speed on the issue of climate change.The sole global leader that remained high in the French president's estimation was the equally unpolished Silvio Berlusconi, for his repeated electoral successes.Mr Sarkozy had perhaps assumed that the private discussion would not be passed on by his guests, but among their number were not a few opposition politicians, and Liberation, the left-wing French daily, immediately published their reports of the meeting.

According to the politicians, the president said of his American counterpart: Obama has a subtle spirit, very intelligent and very charismatic. But he's only been elected two months and has never headed up a government ministry in his life.There are a certain number of things about which he has no position, he said, Liberation reports. I told him:I don't think you've really understood what we have done regarding CO2. You have talked, but one must act.The [EU] climate-energy package that I got passed during the french [EU] presidency will see in 2020 a reduction of emissions on 1990 [levels]. We in Europe have sanctions against states and companies. He just wants to return to 1990 emission levels and there are no sanctions.French magazine L'Express reports that Mr Sarkozy also joked about Mr Obama's saintly image in the context of a planned visit to France in June. I am going to ask him to walk on the [English] Channel, and he'll do it,the French leader said.Mr Sarkozy qualified the president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, as totally absent from the G20 and said of the German chancellor: When she realised the state of her banks and her automobile industry, she had no choice but to take on my position.The most piquant phrase came with dessert, for the Spanish prime minister. One can say many things about Zapatero ...He's maybe not very intelligent,Mr Sarkozy said. He added that intelligence is not a vital element in politics, as he knows many intelligent politicians who have failed to get re-elected.He then saluted the Italian prime minister for being able to surmount such hurdles. The important thing in a democracy is to be re-elected. Look at Berlusconi. He's been re-elected three times.The 24 deputies are scheduled to be invited for another presidential lunch briefing on the financial crisis in June.

Commission criticises think-tanks over lobby register
ANDREW WILLIS Today APR 17,09 @ 17:50 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Europe's anti-fraud commissioner, Siim Kallas, criticised EU think-tanks in Brussels on Friday (17 April) for failing to sign up to the European Commission's register of lobbyists. The lobby register lists the names of organisations that attempt to influence European legislation, their stated aims and funding sources amongst other details, but Brussels lobbyists - numbering an estimated 15,000 - do not have to sign up if they do not wish to as the register is voluntary. Mr Kallas said the register was not only intended for public relations firms working in Brussels but for all organisations wishing to influence policy formulation and decision-making processes in the European institutions. We explicitly and deliberately included think-tanks in the target group,he said. So far the European Policy Centre is the only Brussels-based think-tank to sign up to the register and was also the host of the breakfast meeting at which Mr Kallas chose to make the speech. Many European think-tanks gain part of their revenue through membership subscriptions from businesses that in turn hope to gain better access to EU officials by attending the same organised events. Mr Kallas singled out the Friends of Europe think-tank who are organising an event later this month entitled Investing in Africa's growth and health.This is obviously a very serious event, but with two senior representatives on the panels, it is also a lobbying opportunity for the company Total, the corporate co-organiser of the event, putting it in touch with the EU development commissioner, high EU officials and MEPs,he said.Nobody from the Friends of Europe was available to comment on Mr Kallas' remarks.

Guilty by association

One reason why Brussels-based think tanks have been slow to sign up to the register is concern that joining the list would add to the perception that their main role is indeed lobbying. Most see their work as promoting constructive debate on EU topics.
Our side of the story is really very simple, we objected to the inclusion of think-tanks in the same basket with lobbyists, that's the main problem we have with the register,Marco Incerti of the Centre for European Policy Studies told EUobserver. If you ask a think-tank to sign up as a registered lobbyist, you are providing more ammunition for those who claim think-tanks are lobbyists.Instead, the organisation chooses to list membership details and funding sources on its website. Mr Incerti pointed out that many think-tank employees are already labelled as lobbyists by the European Parliament as part of their system for categorizing groups entering the parliament buildings.Currently, different groups accessing the buildings such as members of the press, MEP assistants, and lobbyists are distinguished by the colour of their security badges.

EU dismayed by Romania mass citizenship plan
ANDREW RETTMAN Today APR 17,09 @ 09:24 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU institutions are appalled at Romania's proposal to give citizenship to up to 1 million Moldovans - a project that could damage Romania's standing inside the union. If the scheme goes ahead and Moldova retaliates by making dual citizenship illegal, the EU country would effectively annex one quarter of its neighbour's population in a scenario described by one EU official as frightening in terms of regional stability. Several EU staff questioned by EUobserver on Thursday (16April) believed the plan is political bluster ahead of Romania presidential elections and will never come to pass.This is just a proposal, an expression of will. I am not sure if it is not just a political statement,EU foreign relations spokeswoman Christina Gallach said. But the Czech EU presidency publicly rebuked Bucharest after a meeting between Czech EU minister Alexandr Vondra and Romanian foreign minister Cristian Diaconescu, in a sign of rising tension within the bloc.I told my Romanian colleague about our serious concerns of the possible risks arising from adopting simplified procedures for Romanian citizenship,Mr Vondra said.Bucharest on Wednesday night put forward a bill to extend the right to naturalisation for Moldovans whose grandparent or great-grandparent was a Romanian. Previously, only Moldovans with Romanian grandparents could apply. The draft law - which still needs parliamentary approval - also cut the deadline for processing paperwork from six months to five months and dropped a Romanian language test. The move is a tit-for-tat reaction to Moldova's decision to impose visa requirements on Romanian citizens after accusing Romania of trying to stage a coup following elections last week.

Under EU law, Romania is free to give citizenship to anybody it likes.

EU states in any case collectively naturalise over 730,000 people a year in what amounts to an annual mini-enlargement, bigger in scale than the individual populations of the smallest member states, Malta and Luxembourg. In 2006 - the latest data available - the UK and France each gave citizenship to some 150,000 people, while Germany gave passports to 125,000 individuals. But mass-scale naturalisation on the Romania-Moldova model would be unprecedented.

The Spanish gambit

Spain in 2005 normalised 600,000 irregular migrants. The move stopped short of granting EU citizenship but did give permanent residency and right to work, with Madrid at the time facing strong criticism for failing to consult EU colleagues. Poland at one point mooted offering citizenship to up to 1 million ethnic Poles left in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan following post-World War II changes to its borders and Stalinist relocations.But Warsaw feared potential complications in its bid to join the EU's passport-free Schengen zone. The final deal in 2007 - the right for ethnic Poles to apply for a Polish Card - limited rights to a refund of visa costs, access to healthcare and a cheap bus pass. People still haven't quite forgiven Spain. You see that in the little obstacles put in their way during day-to-day talks on immigration matters,one EU diplomat said.The EU institutions have a long memory.

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