GRAVE ROBBERS

RON PAUL FED VIDEO
http://www.infowars.com/federal-reserve-threatens-congress-over-hr-1207/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSJ-gFt4J1A&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScI4a1-Bd0s&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FMvor-D5Ns&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZGGHDKx7EY&feature=player_embedded

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnx6a5mlM9M (Ron Paul)
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDod-vegyhI (Ron Paul)
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8xG0wZfG4I
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVGiJpHNIPk
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyROultZMJA
Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQcYhW9MDD4

SENATORS OF CONGRESS
http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/112
http://senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
http://www.opencongress.org/committee/show/146
RON PAUL ON AUDIT THE FED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYiHE35kCQI&feature=player_embedded

AUDIT THE FED HAS 256 SIGNED UP AS OF SUNDAY.AND 8 SENATE SIGNED

Ron Paul’s Bill To Audit The Federal Reserve Now Has 224 Co-Sponsors
By tmartin • July 12, 2009

Ron Paul’s bill to audit the Federal Reserve (HR 1207) now has 256 co-sponsors, and the numbers keep growing! This is history in the making, and victory is within reach. Imagine what will happen if HR 1207, The Federal Reserve Transparency Act, comes up for vote in Congress! With more than 50% of the House of Representatives already co-sponsoring this bill, it has real potential to pass — BUT only if we educate and rally the people to support it and get our Congresspeople to put it to vote and pass it.

Step 1: Your Representative
If your representative is not on the following list of HR 1207 co-sponsors, call their offices, write to them, email them, etc. Let them know they need to support HR 1207. If you live in their district, let them know. Go to their office.

Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Step 2: Financial Services Committee
HR 1207 is now in the House Committee on Financial Services. This is THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP in this legislation! If it doesn’t get out of committee it will not come to a vote! There are 71 members on this committee and they are all listed below.

We need to let all members of the House Committee on Financial Services know that we want them to allow full House consideration of HR 1207 so it can move forward; we need them to support this. Now is the time.Call their offices, write to them, email them, etc. Let them know they need to support HR 1207. If you live in their district, let them know. Go to their office.

Help with this all important public outreach. NOW REALLY IS THE TIME!
Here’s a sample letter you can use:

Dear Representative,

Please co-sponsor and/or support H.R.1207, an effort to audit the Federal Reserve.

Recently, it has come to light that there is little to no accountability to the people on the part of the Federal Reserve. While the citizens of this country are required by law to give an accounting of every penny they come in contact with, the Federal Reserve has never been held to the same standard. During this time of extreme economic crisis, the people deserve an accounting of where our money is going.

Currently there are 256 co-sponsors for this legislation, and it is enjoying bi-partisan support. Your efforts in supporting this important legislation would go a long way in proving to your constituents that you not only hold the Federal Reserve to the same standard as you do your constituents, but it would also show that you believe in transparency. Anything less than support for this resolution suggests that you are in favor of secrecy and a lack of accountability to the people who pay the bills. We pay the tab; we have a right to know where our money is going.Unlike recent bills that you voted in favor of that had hundreds of pages and just a few hours to read, this bill can be read in under 5 minutes. I encourage you to take the time to read it, and then move to support it.Thank you in advance for your attention on this important legislation. I have every expectation that you will do right by your constituents and support this measure.

Sincerely,

Step 3: The People
Tell everyone you know about HR 1207 and ask them to support it and to contact their representative as well. Link to this page and to CampaignForLiberty.com.This initiative is crucial and we need to redouble our efforts to get HR 1207 passed.

Federal Reserve Threatens Congress Over HR 1207
Kurt Nimmo Infowars July 12, 2009

On Thursday of last week, the Federal Reserve’s vice chairman, Donald Kohn, threatened to jack up interest rates if Congress continues to expose some of the U.S. central bank’s most sensitive decisions to political scrutiny,Reuters reported.Any substantial erosion of the Federal Reserve’s monetary independence likely would lead to higher long-term interest rates as investors begin to fear future inflation,Kohn told a House of Representatives Financial Services subcommittee.Kohn’s threat came as Ron Paul’s bill to audit the Federal Reserve (HR 1207) has picked up 256 co-sponsors — more than 55% of the House of Representatives. HR 1207’s companion bill in the Senate, S 604, has already attracted 8 co-sponsors. Kohn and his boss Ben Bernanke are obviously very concerned over the prospect that the American people may soon have a look at their books.Ron Paul:political shenanigans going on with the Fed.

Kohn went before Congress as debate rages over Obama’s plan for regulatory reform, in effect granting the Fed power to gobble up companies in national socialist fashion and consolidate banking and securities across the board. In order to quell outrage over this brazen power grab, Obama and his bankster advisers propose a token council of regulators advise the Fed.On June 16, Goldman Sachs operative Timothy Geithner said:When you have too many people involved, there’s an accountability problem.In other words, Congress and the American people need to mind their own business. The Federal Reserve is an institution owned by the bankers, not the American people.Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are the United States government’s institutions,Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency in 1932 during the Great Depression,had entered into the Congressional Record.They are not government institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign swindlers.

McFadden’s international swindlers are running scared from HR 1207 and public anger over last year’s engineered financial crisis and Fed-orchestrated bailouts of investment bank Bear Stearns and insurer American International Group.The Federal Reserve strongly believes that removing the statutory limits on GAO audits of monetary policy matters would be contrary to the public interest by tending to undermine the independence and efficacy of monetary policy,said Kohn. He said accountability to the people would cast a chill on monetary policy deliberations held in secret behind closed doors.Kohn then threatened to jack up interest rates.The bond rating agencies view operational independence of a country’s central bank as an important factor in determining sovereign credit ratings, suggesting that a threat to the Federal Reserve’s independence could lower the Treasury’s debt rating and thus raise its cost of borrowing.Bernanke’s underling made no bones about the fact Paul’s bill is a direct threat to the independence of the Federal Reserve.History provides numerous examples of non-independent central banks being forced to finance large government budget deficits. Such episodes invariably lead to high inflation,he said. Given the current outlook for large federal budget deficits in the United States, this consideration is especially important.Talk about doublespeak. In fact, the Federal Reserve is all about huge federal budget deficits and a mounting federal debt. The Federal Reserve was established in 1913 by the banksters for the purpose of creating debt-based money secured by thin air. The American people are seriously and terminally indebted to the bankers and currently owe over $400 billion a year in interest alone, with no hope of every paying off the principal, which is in the tens of trillions.In 1910, before the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, the federal debt was a mere $1 billion, or $12.40 per citizen. Now the overall debt is over 80% of the annual output of the entire U.S. economy, as measured by the gross domestic product. When government obligations are considered, the debt balloons to an astronomical $56 trillion, or roughly $184,000 per American, according to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.It is simple, really — the larger the debt, the richer and more powerful the international bankers become. The Federal Reserve is their front organization and it runs roughshod over Congress.The passage of HR 1207 is not certain and it faces an even more strenuous uphill battle in the Senate. It is, at this point, our only practical hope of auditing the Fed, revealing its numerous crimes, exposing its mega-grand theft scams, and delivering Donald Kohn, his boss Bernanke, and the minions of the international banksters to justice.

LOST TRIBE OF ISRAEL PATHANS IN PAKISTAN,AFGHANISTAN
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/12884/
http://www.moshiach.com/tribes/ns/3.html
ISRAELIS MESSIAH BELIEFS
http://www.moshiach.com/topics/in-depth/maimonides.php
http://www.moshiach.com/topics/what/the-rationalist-approach-to-messianism.php
ISRAELI SIGNS OF LAST DAYS (A BIT DECIEVED)
http://www.moshiach.com/scholars/essays/a-taste-of-future.php
THE BIBLE SIGNS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2008/08/z-end-times-signs.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2007/05/all-last-days-scriptures.html
PALESTINIANS OF JEWISH HERITAGE
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-279707
JAY SHAPIRO TALKS ABOUT LIEBERMAN AND FOREIGN POLICY LAST 15 MINUTES OF SHOW,THIS COULD BE HOW THE EU FOREIGN MINISTER GUARENTEES ISRAELS SECURITY IN THE FUTURE.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/1176
TORAH TIDBITS
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/1169

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.

Second small earthquake strikes near The Geysers
Bay City News Service 07/12/2009 09:42:51 AM PDT

The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.0 struck this morning in Sonoma County.According to the USGS, the earthquake struck at about 4:30 a.m. and had a depth of 1.7 miles. The quake was centered two miles north of The Geysers and 11 miles east of Cloverdale, according to the USGS. It was the second small quake to strike in the area this morning. A 2.3 earthquake also struck nearby at about 2:15 a.m.That earthquake had a depth of 1.2 miles and was centered four miles east-southeast of The Geysers and 15 miles east of Cloverdale, according to the USGS.

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.

Hurricane Carlos heading west over the Pacific JULY 12,2009

MIAMI – Hurricane Carlos is heading west over the open waters of the Pacific Ocean and has weakened slightly.The Category 1 hurricane has maximum sustained winds near 80 mph, down from around 85 mph earlier Sunday. But forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say Carlos is expected to strengthen somewhat during the next 48 hours.As of 11 a.m. EDT, the hurricane was centered about 1,135 miles southwest of the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula.Carlos is moving west near 13 mph on a path taking it farther out to sea. Forecasters say hurricane force winds extend outward up to 25 miles from the eye of the storm.

Iraq lashed by sandstorms and battling drought By DEB RIECHMANN and SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writers - JULY 12,09

BAGHDAD – Below-average rainfall and insufficient water in the Euphrates and Tigris rivers have left Iraq bone dry for a second straight year, wrecking swaths of farm land, threatening drinking water supplies and intensifying fierce sandstorms that have coated the country in brown dust.The drought has dealt a harsh blow to hopes that reductions in sectarian violence over the last year would fuel an economic recovery. Instead, the government's budget suffered a double-hit: Lower than expected oil prices have crimped revenues and the scarcity of water will force Iraq to spend money to import most of the crops, especially wheat and rice, to meet domestic demand.

Look at this land. There is no water,said Ashur Mohamed Ahmood, slipping the tip of his black cane into deep cracks in his parched field. He cautioned children not to run, fearing their small bare feet would get stuck in the crevices crisscrossing the farm on the outskirts of Baghdad.Without water there are no plants. This is the plant,he says, uprooting a weed and throwing it back to the ground.Historically, Iraq has been one of the more fertile nations in the region, thanks to the Tigris and Euphrates, which flow southeasterly through the entire nation. But for a second year, cropland in the north and west is parched and farmers in south and central Iraq are suffering from low water flows in both rivers — a phenomenon caused in part by the construction of dams built in neighboring Turkey and Syria.Which country closed the water on us? Ahmood asked, reflecting the common belief among Iraqis that their country's neighbors are responsible for their plight. Let them open the water for us so we can live here and water our plants.As farmers complain of their ruined crops, the drought can be felt across the nation as gritty sandstorms lash Iraqis with increased frequency this summer. Last week's storm left tree leaves and vehicles coated with what looks like tan talcum powder.A decline in acreage where plant roots once knitted the soil has only increased the severity of sandstorms, which are blowing across Iraq with increased frequency — nearly 20 so far this year. Two people died in the eastern city of Kut, and hundreds of Iraqis complaining of respiratory problems crowded emergency rooms across Iraq during the most recent three-day sandstorm, which many said was the worst in memory.

The storms often ground commercial flights. They scuttled U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's scheduled trip earlier this month from Baghdad to the semiautonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, where much of the country's wheat is grown.Adding to the farmers' difficulties, the dwindling water supplies are suffering from high amounts of salt. The impact of the drought will continue for years to come unless there will be huge efforts to bring in modern irrigation systems and abundant water to drain areas affected with high levels of salinity,said Mahdi al-Qaisi, undersecretary of the Ministry of Agriculture.Desertification, especially in mid and southern Iraq, has been accelerated by people cutting down trees for firewood, underinvestment and the pounding the land has taken from military vehicles and operations, he said.The severity of the drought has resulted in a testy water dispute between Iraq and Turkey, which has built five dams along the Euphrates upstream from where it enters western Iraq. The quarrel recently cooled when Turkey agreed to release more water from its dams.Aoun Thiab Abdullah, director of the Iraqi Water Resources Ministry's national water resources center, said Iraq needs at least 500 cubic meters of water a second to flow from the Euphrates — nearly twice the current level — so that it can meet its needs in the south, especially in the areas where rice is grown.This year's grain harvest was forecast to be among the worst in a decade — virtually unchanged from last year and down about 45 percent from a normal year's harvest, according to Michael Shean at the U.S. Agriculture Department's foreign agriculture service. Rice won't be harvested until October, but water shortages earlier this year prompted Iraq to cut its rice crop in half in central and southern provinces.Alewi al-Shimmari, a father of six in Diwaniyah, south of Baghdad, used to grow rice on his entire 100-acre (40-hectare) farm, but the drought has left all but 12 acres (five hectares) useless for farming.More than 50 percent of families working as farmers left their villages and went to the city,al-Shimmari said.Lands that once were green farms are now turned to desert.U.S. State Department reconstruction teams in Anbar, an arid province in western Iraq, are helping Iraqis to continue drawing water from depleted lakes and ensure that water treatment plants can adequately treat the supply of drinking water.

They say some lakes in Anbar Province are 9 to 12 yards (30 to 40 feet) lower this year compared with last year. The water is so low that water intake pipes are exposed and cannot suck the water up into treatment plants. What water can be drawn is heavy with sediment. That coupled with increased salinity, sewage waste dumped into the Euphrates and agricultural runoff is making it increasingly difficult for water treatment plants to cleanse the supply of drinking water. As if ongoing bombings and drought weren't enough, Hassan al-Asadi, a member of the Dhi Qar provincial council in southern Iraq, said that a few months ago, water snakes that had lost their natural habitat along the rivers started to show up around houses near al-Chibaiysh marshland. The snakes were looking for food and dozens of people were bitten,he said, adding that for a time, Iraqi soldiers and policemen were shooting about 70 wayward snakes a day.Associated Press Writers Hamid Ahmed in Baghdad and Akram Mohammed in Nasiriyah, and cameraman Wameed Muwafaq Fathi in Baghdad, contributed to this report.

Spain liberalizing, but teen abortion hits a nerve By DANIEL WOOLLS, Associated Press Writer – Sun Jul 12, 11:31 am ET

MADRID – Spain's Socialist prime minister has irked his natural enemies on the right and in the Catholic church by legalizing gay marriage and instituting fast-track divorce. Now he has hit a raw nerve even among his supporters with a proposal to let 16-year-olds get abortions without parental consent.The debate is harsh and emotional, showing that for all the changes Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has introduced with his trailblazing social agenda since taking power in 2004, abortion remains sensitive in a country where most people call themselves Catholic, even if few churches are full on Sundays.Liberalizing teen abortion is part of a broader change proposed for Spain's abortion law, the main thrust of which is to allow the procedure with no restrictions up to 14 weeks into a pregnancy.The government gave the bill preliminary approval in May and Parliament is expected to take it up in the fall. Zapatero probably has the votes to get it passed. However, the outcry over teenagers may force him to backtrack.Under the current law, Spanish women can in theory go to jail for getting an abortion outside certain strict limits — up to week 12 in case of rape and week 22 if the fetus is malformed. But abortion is in effect widely available because women can assert mental distress as sole grounds for having an abortion, regardless of how late the pregnancy is.

Now Zapatero is seeking to deepen his mark on Spanish society. What he's proposing wipes away the threat of imprisonment and declares abortion to be a woman's right.
That is a qualitative change in Spanish culture and politics, said Javier del Rey, a professor of political communications at Complutense University in Madrid. Something that had been a crime is transformed into a right.Britain, France and Germany already allow minors to get abortions without parental permission. But here it's the issue that is dominating the debate.The conservative opposition Popular Party asks why a girl who cannot legally buy alcohol can have an abortion without asking her parents. The inconsistency is crushing," lawmaker Sandra Moneo wrote in the newspaper El Pais.No father or mother can understand the idea of a minor going through that trauma without the advice, support and opinion of her parents,Moneo said.Zapatero's camp counters by noting that 16-year-old Spaniards can choose to have open-heart surgery or chemotherapy without parental consent, but not an abortion.Tempers have flared on both sides. Conservatives were enraged when Bibiana Aido, the minister of equality, suggested abortion was no bigger an issue than breast enlargement.Socialists saw red when Antonio Canizares, a Spanish cardinal who holds a key position at the Vatican, seemed to play down a report detailing decades of sexual and other abuse of children by religious orders in Ireland and said abortion was worse.Zapatero himself was asked in a radio interview how he would feel if his daughter, after she turned 16, had an abortion without telling him.Zapatero said he would rather she tell him, and that it was up to parents to instill that kind of trust in their kids.But in the end, the decision is up to the person deciding whether to voluntarily interrupt a pregnancy, the premier said.Polling numbers are against him: A survey published last month by the newspaper La Vanguardia said 71 percent oppose the teenage abortion reform, and the proportion among Socialist voters was 60 percent. A poll in El Pais put the figures at 64 and 56 percent, respectively. Both surveys gave a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points.

Lawmaker Carmen Monton, the Socialists' point woman on the abortion bill, said it was designed to help girls from troubled families who need an abortion and cannot tell their parents. We are not legislating for model families with fantastic relations between parents and children. We are legislating for all of society,Monton said in an interview.Josefina Elias, president of the polling firm Instituto Opina, said she would not be surprised if Zapatero withdraws or tones down the proposal, and some suspect he put it forward to serve as something he can concede if necessary to win passage of the broader change.One idea already being floated is to oblige teens to tell their parents they plan to have an abortion, although not to obtain permission.

Elias said Zapatero's mistake was to forgo prior social debate about teen abortion. It has all been done like an elephant charging into a china shop,she said.

TRUTH ABOUT THE FLU SHOT
http://www.infowars.com/the-truth-about-the-flu-shot/

THERE GETTING US SUCKED IN TO GETTING MICROCHIP IMPLANTS INSTEAD OF USING PAY CARDS.THEY WANT A CASHLESS,CHEAPER WAY OF PAYING.

More universities won't accept credit cards for tuition
Updated Sun. Jul. 12 2009 10:03 AM ETThe Canadian Press

HALIFAX -- Students who are accustomed to the swipe now, pay later approach to tuition payments may have to re-think their finances this fall as more Canadian universities eliminate the option of paying with credit cards. Universities say they want to trim the transaction fees they pay to financial institutions and most schools are putting the money they save into their operating budgets, while others are directing the savings towards specific projects like bursaries for first-year students.This is the mark of a prudent university these days,said Alan Shaver, vice-president academic and provost at Dalhousie University in Halifax, which will stop processing credit card payments in September. About 40 per cent of Dalhousie students paid their tuition with a credit card last fall. That cost the school $1 million in processing fees.Shaver said the decision was made because Dalhousie's endowment isn't as large as it used to be. To keep the same number of scholarships and bursaries, money had to be cut from other areas. We're looking for ways where we can have the most bang for our buck,he said.Dalhousie joins St. Thomas University in Fredericton as the latest schools to make the shift away from plastic. The University of Prince Edward Island has announced plans to phase out credit cards next year, just as the universities of New Brunswick, British Columbia, Calgary and Alberta have done in recent years.

Taking away credit cards doesn't mean students will have to line up with stacks of cash. Students can still pay online and through telephone banking, debit, cheques, money orders and wire transfers.But student groups say these changes make a big difference to people who rely on credit to get to class. It's not just the convenience factor, or the ability to cash in with Air Miles. They say the change will hurt those who don't have any other options. A lot of students don't get enough loans and scholarships to cover the entire cost of their education and, therefore, they have to cover it with other ways and they rely on credit card payments to do that,said Shannon Zimmerman, president of Dalhousie's student union. Zimmerman said many Dalhousie students are frustrated they have to take on the extra cost in addition to paying the highest tuition in the country. In no case is paying by credit card an ideal situation but for some students it's going to be that much more difficult to get by when money is tight,said Katherine Giroux-Bougard, the national chairperson for the Canadian Federation for Students. Giroux-Bougard said it's difficult enough for students to pay for their education without worrying about having the funds up front.Dalhousie has put plans in place to waive late fees for students who are still waiting for their student loans to come in when tuition is due this September. Since the university made the decision to eliminate credit card payments over the summer, the school has been emailing students about the change.

Shaver doesn't anticipate problems in the fall.It's certainly possible for students to get a line of credit from their banks and who knows, they might even get a better interest rate than they would have putting it on their credit card,Shaver said. When the University of Alberta took credit cards off the list of payment options last year, thousands of concerned students joined Facebook groups calling for the administration to reverse the decision.Despite the reaction, the transition at the University of Alberta went smoothly, said Phyllis Clark, vice president of finance and administration.People have accepted that this is the way we do business, she said.Many schools like the University of Toronto, Queen's, McGill and Victoria have never processed credit card payments.

Cheney to CIA: Don’t Tell Congress
July 12, 2009

(ChattahBox)—A source confirmed to CNN that former Vice President Dick Cheney, directly ordered the C.I.A. to withhold information from Congress about a secret counterterrorism program devised days after the attacks of 9/11.The knowledgeable source confirmed that C.I.A. director, Leon Panetta, not only briefed the Senate and House Intelligence committees about the existence of the secret program, but also that Cheney was behind efforts to keep it hidden from Congress.The New York Times first reported on Saturday, citing an unnamed source, that Cheney was responsible for keeping Congress in the dark, when the counterterrorism program was created eight years ago. An unnamed Intelligence official told the Washington Post on Saturday night that it was generally known from the very beginning of the secret program that Cheney ordered it be kept from Congress.These same Intelligence officials confirm that the unidentified program did not involve the enhanced interrogation program or domestic intelligence activities.So, the big question is what exactly did the secret counterterrorism program involve and why did the Cheney and the C.I.A. place such importance on it? Intelligence and Congressional officials are, so far, remaining mum on the details of the project. But, what is known is that on June 23, Panetta first learned of the secret program formed within the C.I.A.’s counterterrorism unit from subordinates. Panetta then immediately shut down the program and briefed Congressional committees about the program the next day.

These new revelations involving Cheney, point to a larger problem during the Bush administration of engaging in illegal activities that it purposely kept from Congress, in the wake of the hysteria surrounding 9/11. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi was vilified by Republicans, with Newt Gingrich even calling for her impeachment, when she charged the C.I.A with not informing her about the use of waterboarding on a terrorism suspect.Whatever was specifically revealed to Speaker Pelosi at that disputed briefing in 2002, according to the NY Times, in any case, the briefing occurred only after a terrorism suspect, Abu Zubaydah, had been waterboarded 83 times.Cheney’s obsession with secrecy is legendary and permeated all levels of the Bush administration. On Friday, the inspectors general of five agencies released a scathing report on the widespread and out of control National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program, which was subject to Cheney’s fanatical secrecy.These new revelations of the C.I.A.’s withholding information arrive as lawmakers seek to amend the 1947 Intelligence Authorization Bill, to ensure that Congress is fully informed of future Intelligence activities.Lawmakers want to expand Intelligence briefings beyond the heads of house Intelligence oversight committees, the so-called Gang of eight. The White House is concerned some amendments go to far, raising significant executive privilege concerns.Congress and the White House are now negotiating on the parameters of the changes to the 1947 law.Meanwhile, the battle lines between Republicans and Democrats are beginning to take shape. Democratic lawmakers are outraged and plan to call for an investigation into the C.I.A.’s secret program, using its subpoena powers to compel testimony from intelligence officials involved in the secrecy.

This wasn’t an oversight. There was an order given to not inform Congress,said Democratic Rep. from Illinois, Jan Schakowsky.Republicans claim the Democrats are using the issue to support Speaker Pelosi’s claims that she wasn’t informed of the use of waterboarding.Republican lawmakers also contend that, since the secret counterterrorism program was only in the early planning stages and never got off the ground, the C.I.A. wasn’t required to notify Congress.The 1947 law also carved out a Congressional reporting exception, which states, to the extent consistent with due regard for the protection from unauthorized disclosure of classified information relating to sensitive intelligence sources and methods or other exceptionally sensitive matters.Despite Dick and Liz Cheney’s bombardment of the airwaves in recent weeks in support of the Bush administration’s use of torture, they both now have nothing to say are unavailable for comment, regarding Dick Cheney’s involvement in keeping the counterterrorism program secret from lawmakers.

Feinstein suggests CIA concealment broke law By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer - JULY 12,09

WASHINGTON – Six months into Barack Obama's presidency, his Democratic allies are pushing for twin investigations into Bush-era torture and anti-terrorism policies.
Two senators including the head of the intelligence committee suggested Sunday that the prior administration broke the law by concealing a CIA counterterrorism program from Congress.The assertion that Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the concealment came amid word that Attorney General Eric Holder is contemplating opening a criminal probe of possible CIA torture.A move to appoint a criminal prosecutor is certain to stir partisan bickering that could prove a distraction to Obama's efforts to push ambitious health care and energy reform.Obama has repeatedly expressed reluctance to probing alleged Bush-era abuses. He resisted an effort by congressional Democrats to establish a truth commission,saying the nation should be looking forward and not backwards.Regarding the 8-year-old counterterrorism program, the Bush administration's failure to notify Congress is a big problem, because the law is very clear,said Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

Congress should investigate the secrecy because it could be illegal,Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said.According to Feinstein, CIA director Leon Panetta told Congress late last month that he had just learned about the program, described it to us, indicated that he had canceled it and ... did tell us that he was told that the vice president had ordered that the program not be briefed to the Congress.We were kept in the dark. That's something that should never, ever happen again,said Feinstein.Feinstein said that she understands the need for strong countermeasures following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.However,I think you weaken your case when you go outside of the law,she added.Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said he agreed with Feinstein that the CIA should keep Congress informed. But Cornyn said the new assertion looks to me suspiciously like an attempt to provide political cover to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats. Pelosi has accused the CIA of lying to her in 2002 about its use of waterboarding, or simulated drowning.This continued attack on the CIA and our intelligence gathering organizations is undermining the morale and capacity of those organizations to gather intelligence,said Republican Judd Gregg of New Hampshire.

Reports about the counterterrorism program, Cheney's role in directing its existence be kept from Congress and the attorney general's consideration of a special prosecutor came on the eve of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.Regarding the Bush administration's conduct in the war on terror, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said that I've always preferred my idea of a commission of inquiry to look at all these issues.A Justice Department official told The Associated Press that Holder will decide in the next few weeks whether to appoint a prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's harsh interrogation practices. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on a pending matter.In response to the report, Justice Department spokesman Matt Miller said Saturday that Holder planned to follow the facts and the law and noted that Holder has said that it would be unfair to prosecute any official who acted in good faith based on legal guidance from the Justice Department.Feinstein and Cornyn spoke on Fox News Sunday. Durbin appeared on ABC's This Week.Gregg spoke on CNN's State of the Union.Leahy spoke on CBS's Face the Nation.Associated Press writer Nedra Pickler contributed to this report.

Modified: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 12:28pm Council on Foreign Relations backs amnesty for illegals, opposes Arpaio-style raidsPhoenix Business Journal - by Mike Sunnucks

The uber-establishment Council on Foreign Relations said Wednesday it favors granting legal status to many of the roughly 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., creating a guest worker program for low-skilled foreign workers to come and work in the U.S and opposes local police getting to conduct immigration raids.The CFR issued an immigration policy report Wednesday that looks to lift caps on foreign university students in the U.S. and allow skilled foreign graduates to get more work visas. The international policy group also wants to create legal paths to citizenship for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants already in the U.S.The CFR also said local police should not take lead roles in immigration enforcements and workplace raids. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas have been conducting immigration raids and prosecutions against businesses hiring illegal immigrants, as well as drop-houses used by smugglers trafficking illegal immigrants into Arizona from Mexico.The CFR report does not specifically mention Arpaio but the Valley’s sheriff is the most notable local enforcer of immigration laws in the U.S.

The CFR’s recommendations on guest workers and amnesty mirror plans to be pushed in Congress this year by President Barack Obama. Arizona State university professor Raul H. Yzaguirre and former Florida governor Jeb Bush served on the CFR task force that wrote the recommendations.The group also wants the U.S. to tweek or ease some post 9/11 security measures that have discouraged immigration and foreign tourism into the U.S. and want the U.S. government to develop new technologies to secure border areas, verify workers’ employment status and enforce immigration laws.The New York-based CFR is a heavyweight international policy group whose members includes powerful politicians, CEOs and university presidents as well as multinational corporations, media firms and private equity firms.The Council’s corporate members include Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Chevron, ExxonMobil Corp., Rothschild North America Inc., News Corp., General Electric, KBR Inc., Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Co., Soros Fund Management and Google Inc.U.S. Sen. John McCain, former Arizona governor Bruce Babbitt, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Arizona State University President Michael Crow and Thunderbird School of Global Management president Angel Cabrera are Arizonans that are CFR members.

Other notable CFR members include:Former U.S. Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, James Baker and Madeline Albright.Former U.S. Treasury secretaries Henry Paulson and Robert Rubin.Financier George Soros and JP Morgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon.Former Federal Reserve Bank chairmen Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker.
Former presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and former vice president Dick Cheney.Media notables such as NBC’s Tom Brokaw, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, Newsweek International editor and CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria and New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Punch Sulzberger.

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.

EU: Accept PA State as Full Member of UN
by Hana Levi Julian JULY 12,09

(IsraelNN.com) European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana is taking steps to move the establishment of a Palestinian Authority state through the United Nations, whether Israel agrees to it or not.Solana told a British audience in London on Saturday that Israel and the PA should be given a deadline by which to conclude negotiations for a two-state solution. If a final status agreement is not reached by that time, according to the Reuters news agency, Solana recommended that one be imposed by the United Nations instead.After a fixed deadline, a UN Security Council resolution should proclaim the adoption of the two-state solution, he said.It would accept the Palestinian state as a full member of the UN, and set a calendar for implementation. It would mandate the resolution of other remaining territorial disputes and legitimize the end of claims.He added, If the parties are not able to stick to it [referring to the UN-imposed timetable -ed.], then a solution backed by the international community should be put on the table.Solana added that the UN-imposed two-state solution should include resolution of issues such as control over Israel’s capital, the city of Jerusalem, as well as border definitions, security arrangements and the right of return by millions of foreign descendants of Arab refugees who abandoned their homes during the 1948 war.PA negotiator Saeb Erekat reiterated Sunday that no discussions between the Palestinian Authority and Israel would begin without a complete freeze of all Jewish construction in Judea Samaria. Erekat made the statement in response to a call by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to resume peace talks with Israel. There can be no compromises on construction, Erekat said.If Israel is allowed to build 1,000 or 2,000 housing units it will lead the PA and the Arab nations to believe the U.S. government cannot convince the Israeli government to stop building.PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has said repeatedly he is unwilling to come to the table unless Israel stops all building in the regions, including construction within the city limits of existing cities and towns.

Chief Rabbi: Land Reform Violates Jewish Law
by Hillel Fendel JULY 12,09

(IsraelNN.com) Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger has weighed in with a lengthy opinion sharply negating Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s proposed land privatization scheme – but is it too little, too late? Netanyahu is strongly pushing his land-reform program, a package that enjoys wide support as a means of reducing the seemingly-endless bureaucracy that has overtaken any aspect of life having to do with purchasing, selling, leasing or building on land in Israel.However, one important aspect is the subject of strong opposition – namely, his intention to privatize land owned by the Jewish nation and make it available for sale to private elements.At the behest of MK Zevulun Orlev (Jewish Home), Rabbi Metzger prepared a detailed, 20-page Halakhic [Jewish legal] opinion, in which he wrote that Netanyahu’s reforms violate the Torah’s commandments that the Land must never be sold forever and not to allow foreign elements to gain proprietorship over the Land.After going into the precise Halakhic categorizations of resident Muslims, Christians, idol-worshipers and friendly foreigners known as gerei toshav,Rabbi Metzger writes,Our country is still in a state of war, and we must therefore fear that hostile elements might seek to take advantage of the opportunity to buy lands privately, and will offer very high prices – something that will sorely test Jewish land-owners [Jews who currently lease land from the State – ed.]. Economic elements from enemy countries are likely to help [Arab] purchasers… This reform could lead, Heaven forbid, to the sale of parts of our Land to hostile foreigners.

MK Orlev said in response,It turns out that selling state-owned lands is not only an abuse of national treasures, as well as Zionist and national wantonness, but is also unacceptable from a Halakhic and Jewish standpoint.Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, a member of the board of Hebrew Nature, an organization that promotes Jewish-environmentalist responsibility in Israel, wrote a recent article entitled, They’re Selling Us.Rabbi Cherlow wrote that what he calls the great robbery of Jewish lands will endanger the character of the Jewish State, return us to the days of feudalism, and will subjugate the future of open areas to narrow economic interests.The land-reform package is included in the Likud’s coalition agreements with the Shas and Jewish Home parties. However, while Shas is hesitant to break this agreement, the Jewish Home is not, and has been working strongly against it. The United Torah Judaism party tends to favor it in the hope that it will ease the housing crunch for young hareidi-religious couples.The only hope, in terms of Shas,says a leading opponent of the plan,is to have Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef come out against it. However, he has already said that one of the major objections – that the land may not be sold forever – does not apply when the Jubilee laws are not in effect, such as nowadays. But he has yet to explain his position on the prohibition of lo techanem - Do not allow them proprietorship over the Land.Regarding the six MKs of the UTJ party, the source said, It is hoped that Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the leading hareidi Torah authority, will somehow be approached on this issue and issue a ruling on the gravity of the Biblical ban lo techanem.

Throwing Out National Lands Together with Bureacracy
Uri Bank, a Knesset candidate in the last elections, represents the National Union party on the board of directors of the Jewish National Fund and is a leading opponent of the land reform. All agree on the need for a major reform in the Israel Lands Authority (ILA),Bank told Israel National News.Unfortunately, Netanyahu feels that this means not only doing away with the ILA, but also privatizing the 80% of the country’s land that is controlled by the ILA.Adi Arbel, of The Institute for Zionist Strategies, explained that the immediate effect of such a change would be that whoever is currently leasing any land from the ILA would become, after paying a certain amount, the immediate owners of the land. This means, first and foremost, churches and the land that they lease in built-up areas such as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

Strong Left-Wing Opposition
Bank noted that the opposition is across-the-board: MKs such as Yaakov Katz (Ketzaleh) of the National Union, Orlev, Danny Danon of the Likud, Shelly Yechimovitch of the left flank of Labor, Chaim Oron of Meretz, and even Arab MKs, are all against the plan.Asked why the left-wing opposes the plan, Bank explained,They are against privatization in general, fearing that real estate sharks and foreign or local millionaires will buy up the land, thus hurting the little guy and forcing prices sky-high. If land is privatized, the average young couple in Israel will simply not be able to purchase an apartment.

Vote is Scheduled for Next Week
The Knesset vote is scheduled for a week from now, after the vote on the national budget this week. This was our only achievement so far,Bank said, having it separated from the budget deliberations. But I don’t know if that will help us so much…There is yet a chance that the vote will be further delayed, however. It is connected to the fact that the government is trying to have the Jewish National Fund's city lands included in the deal by trading Negev lands for the urban areas. Though the JNF board approved the deal by a 15-6 vote, three court cases are currently pending against this deal. Bank, Arbel and the others hope that the government will not want to pass the law without being sure that the JNF lands are included.

Coins in the Blue and White Boxes
Trying to do his part to ensure that Jewish national lands remain Jewish, Bank is opposing the JNF trade from within – and from without; he has filed one of the suits against it: We have the historic responsibility of preserving our national lands and keeping them Jewish. These lands were bought by the Jewish people, individually and collectively, by the pennies and dimes that Jews around the world placed in their little blue-and-white boxes over the past century.Specifically about the proposed trade, Bank says,We don’t have the moral right to trade top-quality city land for low-quality Negev land; it might bring cash now, but in the end, we will lose.

Supreme Court Option
Opponents of the privatization of the Jewish Nation’s holdings in the Land of Israel also say that if they fail and the law is passed, they will file a suit in the Supreme Court to the effect that the law voids a constitutional-type Basic Law regarding nationally-owned lands.

Israel's Netanyahu invites Abbas to talk peace By ARON HELLER, Associated Press Writer-JULY 12,09

JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday invited the Palestinians to sit down immediately to talk peace, but the Palestinian leader rebuffed the call, saying that Israel must first halt all West Bank settlement construction.The issue of Israeli settlements has emerged as a major sticking point in efforts to restart peace talks, which halted shortly before Netanyahu took office in March. The Palestinians have been bolstered by the United States' insistence that Israel freeze the settlement construction on lands claimed by the Palestinians.

Netanyahu, who for years was a vocal critic of Mideast peace efforts, recently reversed himself and for the first time endorsed the goal of establishing an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel as part of a final peace agreement. However, he attached a series of conditions rejected by the Palestinians, and they have been cool to his offer.There is no reason Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and I should not meet, anywhere in this country, to advance the political process,Netanyahu told the weekly meeting of his Cabinet.Netanyahu said he already has made a series of gestures, such as the removal of several military checkpoints in the West Bank, meant to improve the Palestinian economy.In recent weeks, we have made many efforts to ease their lives, especially regarding freedom of movement for Palestinians,he said.But I would like to make it clear that all of these efforts are unilateral on Israel's part. All these efforts can only go so far, and the results will multiply many times if only there is cooperation from the other side. ... Let us make peace, diplomatic peace and economic peace. Let us cooperate on these projects, he said.The Palestinians have been skeptical about Netanyahu's intentions. They say the Israeli gestures are not enough to revive an economy beaten down by years of conflict, and fear that Netanyahu is using his economic program as a way to divert attention from the core diplomatic issues of negotiating a final peace deal.Abbas has refused to meet Netanyahu and reiterated his stance at a news conference on Sunday that for negotiations on the key issues to resume, there must be a complete halt to settlement activities.

Netanyahu's predecessor, Ehud Olmert, spent more than a year negotiating with Abbas. The peace talks yielded no major breakthroughs, and during that time, Israel continued to build up its settlements. Nearly 500,000 Israelis now live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem — areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war and claimed by the Palestinians.Israel agreed under the U.S.-backed road map peace plan to freeze all building in the West Bank. But it has not honored that 2003 obligation, saying the Palestinians have not fulfilled their commitment to crack down on militant groups.

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 MON JULY 13,2009

09:30 AM +8.91
10:00 AM +13.37
10:30 AM +13.90
11:00 AM +76.86
11:30 AM +76.25
12:00 PM +128.93
12:30 PM +122.65
01:00 PM +120.99
01:30 PM +148.88
02:00 PM +132.48
02:30 PM +147.22
03:00 PM +139.51
03:30 PM +149.82
04:00 PM +185.16 8331.68

S&P 500 901.05 +21.92

NASDAQ 1793.21 +37.12

GOLD 919.30 +6.80

OIL 59.94 +0.05

TSE 300 9891.93 +144.80

CDNX 1047.63 +2.08

S&P/TSX/60 599.07 +9.02

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -7.18%
S&P -2.67%
Nasdaq +11.35%
TSX Advances 676,declines 737,unchanged 315,Volume 1,498,194,048.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 329,Declines 369,Unchanged 387,Volume 166,464,677.

Dow +30 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -15 points at low today.
Dow +85 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $911.60.OIL opens at $59.25 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -15 points at low today so far.
Dow +150 points at high today so far.

DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 2,360,declines 1,092,unchanged 119,New Highs 15,New Lows 41.
Volume 1,935,998,195.
NASDAQ Advances 1,369,declines 1,055,unchanged 142,New highs 9,New Lows 19.
Volume 668,484,971.
TSX Advances 421,declines 696,unchanged 280,Volume 616,231,394.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 176,Declines 255,Unchanged 232,Volume 50,553,260.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -15 points at low today.
Dow +185 points at high today.
Dow +2.27% today Volume 253,519,516.
Nasdaq +2.12% today Volume 1,814,746,280.
S&P 500 +2.49% today Volume N/A

G-8 CONCLUDED FRIDAY
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HARPER MEETS WITH THE POPE
http://watch.ctv.ca/news/latest/private-audience/#clip192549
GEITHNER INTERVIEW ON GPS FAREED ZAKARIA
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/07/12/gps.geithner.exclusive.cnn
OBAMA EUGENICS PROGRAM FOR AMERICA AND THE WORLD
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Geithner Says Pace of Economic Decline Slowed Dramatically
By Catherine Dodge

July 11 (Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that while the pace of decline in the U.S. economy has slowed dramatically,there are still enormous challenges.It’s going to be a while before we’re confident we’re going to have a strong, sustainable recovery in place,Geithner said, according to the transcript of an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS show to be broadcast tomorrow. The pace of job losses has slowed, consumers and businesses are more confident and financial markets are improving, Geithner said. If you think back to where we were at the end of last year, beginning of this year, you know, we had an economy falling at a remarkably rapid rate,he said. Investor concern that a recovery from the deepest recession in half a century may be delayed pushed stocks down for a fourth week. The unemployment rate rose in June to 9.5 percent, the highest in almost 26 years, and U.S. employers cut 467,000 jobs, according to a government report released last week.

The world’s largest economy contracted at a 5.5 percent annual pace in the first quarter of the year, capping the worst six-month performance in half a century. The economy probably shrank at a 1.8 percent rate from April to June, according to a Bloomberg survey of economists, who also predicted a return to growth in the current quarter.Geithner said it was too soon to determine whether a second economic stimulus package is needed.I don’t think that’s a judgment we need to make now, can’t really make it now prudently, responsibly.

Biggest Thrust

Economists expect the biggest thrust of the $787 billion stimulus measure that President Barack Obama signed into law in February will take effect in the second half of this year, Geithner said.We’re going to start to see that happen,he said.

Obama defended the stimulus plan today in his weekly radio and Web address, saying it has worked as intended.Republicans have stepped up criticism of the recovery program for not rescuing the economy. Some Democrats, including House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland, have said they are leaving open the possibility of another measure to augment the first package.Geithner praised Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, saying he is doing a terrific job in handling the economic crisis and deserves a lot of confidence.What the Fed did during this period was absolutely essential and helped stave off a much more catastrophic outcome,Geithner said Asked whether he was endorsing Bernanke’s reappointment, Geithner replied: Again, I said that the chairman has done an exceptional job, and I think he deserves a lot of confidence.Geithner also reiterated the Treasury’s position that a strong dollar is in the interest of the United States.To contact the reporter on this story: Catherine Dodge in Washington at cdodge1@bloomberg.net

EU nations, Turkey sign major pipeline deal
By Hande Culpan – JULY 13,09

ANKARA (AFP) — Four EU countries and Turkey signed an accord Monday on building a major US-backed gas pipeline to reduce European reliance on Russia amid lingering uncertainty on who will supply the gas.The prime ministers of Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Turkey, inked the intergovernmental accord, hailing it as a milestone in the Nabucco pipeline project, long delayed by lack of commitment from gas-exporting nations.The 3,300-kilometre (2,000-mile) conduit is planned to become operational in 2014 at an estimated cost of 7.9 billion euros (10.9 billion dollars), with a capacity to pump 31 billion cubic metres of gas from the Caspian Sea to Austria via Turkey and the Balkans, bypassing Russia.The project is of crucial importance for EU's and Turkey's energy security,European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said at the ceremony.Sometime ago people said the project would not go ahead. I believe this pipeline is now inevitable rather than just probable,he said.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan voiced confidence that the more steps we take (on realising the project), the more the interest of supplier countries will grow.His Hungarian counterpart Gordon Bajnai warned of extremely difficult moments in the coming years that will require the highest level of commitment.Azerbaijan is seen as the primary potential provider of gas for the conduit, with Turkmenistan, Iraq and Egypt also mentioned for the long term.Azerbaijan insists it has enough reserves for the conduit. But last month it raised concerns among Nabucco proponents, signing a deal to export gas to Russia starting in 2010.The Nabucco project aims to avoid a repetition of cut-offs that have disrupted Russian supplies to Europe during the winter, with Moscow accused of using the gas as a political weapon.A quarter of all gas used in Europe comes from Russia, with several southern European countries depending almost exclusively on Russian supplies.Russia is expected not to hinder directly or indirectly the Nabucco project,said Bulgarian premier Sergey Stanishev, whose country was among the hardest hit by the cut-offs.Nabucco is in direct competition with Russia's South Stream project, which will carry Russian gas through Bulgaria to Western Europe under the Black Sea.The project appeared to get a boost Friday when Turkmenistan said it was prepared to supply Nabucco with gas, despite its earlier reluctance.And Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who attended Monday's gathering here, said his country might contribute 15 billion cubic meters of gas.

But a US official cast doubt on the proposal, pointing at lingering disputes over natural resources between Baghdad and the Iraqi Kurds, who control oil- and gas-rich northern Iraq.Iraq needs some time to figure out how it is going to develop its natural resources and where it will sell that gas,Matthew Bryza, US deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, told reporters.Iran is another possible supplier, but both the United States and the EU are opposed to its participation.Still, Erdogan insisted Monday that Iran and even Russia might join the project when conditions allow in the long term.Two European banks have expressed readiness to finance the project, but analysts say securing the cost could be difficult in the global economic slowdown and uncertainty over suppliers.The project has been delayed also by Turkish demands to use 15 percent of Nabucco's gas for domestic use or even for re-export.EU officials said Ankara's concerns were to be addressed by an arrangement under which the pipeline would operate both ways, giving Turkey access to European stockpiles in times of need.Erdogan said the pipeline "will elevate Turkey to a significant position" for European energy security and help boost its struggling EU membership bid.Barroso praised Turkey's role, saying the project could open the door to a new era in relations between Turkey and the EU, and beyond.
The pipeline's shareholders are Austria's OMV, Turkey's Botas, Bulgaria's Bulgargaz, Hungary's MOL, Romania's Transgaz and Germany's RWE.

Britain and France record highest June job cuts
LUCIA KUBOSOVA Today JULY 13,09 @ 09:39 CET

Job losses across the European Union continue to outnumber job gains, with the highest number of announced lay-offs recorded in June in France and Britain, a fresh EU report showed.The situation in the labour market in the 27-member bloc keeps deteriorating, according to a monthly monitor conducted by the European Commission and published on Friday (10 July).The report points out that between September 2008 and June of this year, some 640,000 jobs disappeared while 219,000 posts were created. Last month alone there were 87 cases of restructuring-related job losses, which led to 50,000 workers being put out of work. France with 19,625 announced lay-offs and Britain with 11,528 jobs to go, topped the June list of EU countries with the highest number of restructuring cases in the labour market, followed by the Czech Republic (3,070), Poland (2,310), Germany (1,960) and (1,950).Manufacturing and education were among the sectors most affected by lay-offs last month, accounting for almost two-thirds of announced job losses, 33,000 out of a total of 50,000.While manufacturing has proven to be the most damaged sector – almost 340,000 jobs have been lost since last September, half of the total job losses – the June statistics in education result from plans by the French education ministry to next year not refill the some 16,000 posts of departing staff.Another area reporting significant job cuts last month was financial services with 8,000 jobs lost, including over 4,500 posts in the UK's Lloyds Banking Group.

Over a longer period, the retail sector has registered the most large-scale closures and lay-offs, with companies such as the UK's Woolworths and Stylo as well as Germany's Arcandor most indicative of the sector's difficulties.Despite the new figures however, the highest unemployment rates continue to be recorded in Spain (18.7%), Latvia (16.3%) and Estonia (15.6%), according to the latest figures by Eurostat, the EU's statistics office. On a slightly more positive note, some 10,000 jobs were announced in June, with 8,000 in the manufacturing sector, most significantly in Polish shipyards at Szczeczin (3,000 jobs) and Gdynia (2,000 jobs) and in the Czech Republic's Kutna Hora (1,000 jobs). Brussels' report claims that although unemployment continues to rise across Europe and the labour market outlook for the coming months remains bleak, there are increasing signs that the pace of deterioration is moderating.

EU-backed Nabucco to receive legal certainty
RENATA GOLDIROVA Today JULY 13,09 @ 08:21 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The Nabucco project, designed to cut the dependence of energy-hungry Europe on Russian gas, will reach an important milestone later today (13 July) as EU governments and Turkey are set to sign a key transit pact.The signature will show that we are determined to make the Nabucco pipeline a reality as quickly as possible,European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said ahead of the signing ceremony, which would effectively end six months of intense negotiations on the use of the pipeline. The 3,300-kilometer pipeline is expected to run between the Caspian Sea region and Austria, crossing Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary. Ankara, for its part, wanted to take 15 percent of the gas flowing through Nabucco at a discounted price for internal consumption or even for re-exportation, but was not granted this.The Nabucco's entire capacity amounts to 31 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year.The [EU-Turkey] agreement is a very significant one, says Karel Hirman, an energy expert from the Slovak innovation and energy agency.Turkey sought to become a gas dealer, while this agreement will make it a regular transit country profiting from transit fees.Once the basic legal pact is sealed, companies keen to use the Nabucco pipeline can bid for its capacity by signing contracts with the Nabucco Gas Pipeline International, a consortium consisting of gas companies from the five countries concerned plus Germany's energy giant RWE.Things have to be done step by step,the European Commission energy spokesperson Ferran Taradellas Espuny said, explaining that once the gas is contracted, then you start building the pipeline.

Brussels has put aside €200 million from EU coffers as a little carrot for companies to begin construction work as quickly as possible. The incentive is part of the bloc's €5 billion recovery package and so needs to be spent in 2009 and 2010 in order to boost the ailing European economy. The Nabucco International Company has to make a proposal of how it intends to spend the money before 15 July,the commission spokesperson said. Construction is expected to begin in 2011, with the €7.9 billion project possibly up and running by 2015. However, its success hangs by a thin thread, being highly dependent on whether a sufficient number of countries commit themselves to put gas into the Nabucco pipe. The EU's executive body has put its biggest hopes on Azerbaijan. The country, with proven natural gas reserves of some 850 billion cubic metres, is seen as Nabucco's first source of gas. In addition, Turkmenistan's president Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov on Friday (10 July) said that Ashgabat had a surplus of natural gas available to foreign customers, including the Nabucco pipeline.

Iraq, Egypt and even Iran at a later stage are also seen as potential suppliers, with the commission's Ferran Taradellas Espuny arguing that the European market, including price conditions, is extremely attractive for gas producers in the region.But Karel Hirman, a Slovak-based energy expert, pointed to possible competitors such as Russia and China.China has intensified efforts to be present in Central Asia, Mr Hirman said, pointing to a pipeline between the Asian tiger and Turkmenistan that should be operational from next year.The EU-backed Nabucco project gained fresh momentum after Russia at the beginning of the year turned off its gas taps, leaving Ukraine and a number of European customers stranded.Bulgaria and Slovakia - entirely reliant on Russian supplies - were most affected, with Bratislava claiming the economic damage amounted to some 0.5 percent of the country's gross domestic product.

German debate on EU decision-making powers heats up
HONOR MAHONY Today JULY 13,09 @ 17:30 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Germany's debate on how much national say there should be over further EU integration is intensifying two weeks after the country's constitutional court handed down a significant judgement on the EU's Lisbon Treaty.The judgement was initially greeted with relief by the pro-integration camp as it did not say the EU treaty was incompatible with the German constitution. But the 147-page ruling, now scoured by legal and constitutional experts, is causing strong discussion in political circles, just weeks before a new draft law incorporating the court's points is to be published.Only after this law has been approved by parliament, may final ratification of the Lisbon Treaty - the signature by the German president - be completed.The 30 June judgement said that parliament should have final say when the EU seeks to extend competences beyond what is foreseen in the Lisbon treaty.The CSU, sister party of the governing Christian Democratic Union, fired the first shot in the debate after intensely discussing the issue over several days.

Its chief Horst Seehofer on Saturday (11 July) said his party wants parliament to have veto power on EU decisions. He said the parliament should be allowed to take a stance on certain issues and the government should be bound by it, but that parliament does not have to be asked for its opinion on every single EU decision.We want the EU to be able to function but it must also be democratically legitimised, said Mr Seehofer.The CSU's position has been supported by the left wing Die Linke, which was one of the co-plaintiffs in the original court case arguing that German's democracy was being undermined. Gregor Gysi, head of Die Linke, told Deutschland Funk that the maximum should be made out of the judgement, so that lower house and senate get as much co-powers as possible.Tuesday (14 July) is set to be an important day for the Lisbon Treaty debate as chancellor Angela Merkel will attend a CSU convention to discuss the issue.

The regions, too

Other actors are also getting in on the discussion. The country's regions (Länder) have said they want a say on EU decisions. Wolfgang Reinhart, head of the Europe committee in the senate and leader of a working group on the regions, told the Sueddeutsche newspaper:We do not want the government to carry on doing what it wants in those areas where, according to the constitution, we have core competences.He also suggested that it should have more say in EU decisions on family policy, criminal law and internal security when regional interests are affected, noting that if the new law following the court judgement is not watertight then others will also try and bring a case before the court.The scope law is set to have strong repercussions for Berlin's room for manoeuvre in Brussels negotiations as well as on any steps for further integration in the EU, with Germany traditionally being the engine behind EU cooperation.

The Austrian model?

German politicians are already looking to other member states where parliament has a say over EU decisions, such as Austria.Austrian foreign minister Michael Spindelegger told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that on important issues he must consult with parliamentarians. According to the law, their position can be legally binding, he said.Austrian MPs receive all EU documents beforehand and can choose which themes they want to have a say on.According to Mr Spindelegger, some lessons have been learned over the 14 years in which the system has been in place. As an example, he said that at the beginning the position taken by parliament was sometimes too narrow so that the minister had no scope for flexibility. This reduced the parliament's position rather than enhanced it, he indicated.The minister said that now the parliament's opinions were normally formulated as recommendations giving Austrian politicians in Brussels flexibility so long as they follow certain important points or directions set by MPs.The formal binding [to parliament] and co-ordination of Austria's Europe policy is not a disadvantage. If a minister sets out good arguments, then the parliament will also follow the argumentation. That's democracy at work,Mr Spindelegger said.A first draft of the law is due on 26 August with the whole process supposed to be wrapped up before the general elections on 27 September.The extremely tight timetable is being made further difficult by the fact that politicians are now in election campaign mode. In addition, some of the law-makers supposed to take a leading role in forming the legislation have gone on holiday.

European Parliament gets on its feet
HONOR MAHONY Today JULY 13,09 @ 08:08 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – A new generation of MEPs will be trying to find their way around the famously labyrinth-like European Parliament building in Strasbourg this week as the constitutive session of the assembly gets under way.Almost half (49.8%) of the 736 deputies have been elected for the first time while women will represent just over a third of the assembly, which is also host to eight former prime ministers and boasts two octogenarians.The main buzz in the corridors will be one of deal-making as deputies divide up committee membership, firm up political alliances and formalise the political groups in parliament.There are 160 national groups represented within the parliament the vast majority of which are housed in the seven political groups ranging from the centre-right European People Party (265 MEPs) to the smallest, the newly-formed eurosceptic and right wing Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) with 30 members.Just 28 MEPs are not non-attached, including the deputies from Britain's far-right BNP and the France's National Front.While the EFD rose out of the ashes of the equally eurosceptic Independence/Democracy group in the last parliament, there is a whole new group this time round in the form of the anti-federalist European Conservative and Reformists.

British Conservatives form the backbone of this group and there has already been much speculation about how much influence it will have over the next five years, with many of its members previously having been allied to the European People's Party.The group already looks set to scoop a major committee however. Parliament insiders suggest British Conservative Malcolm Harbour will chair the internal market committee. Other important committees include the environment committee, set to be chaired by German socialist Jo Leinen and the industry committee, which could land in the lap of German centre-right deputy Herbert Reul.The parliament will also elect its new president. But the secret ballot, taking place on Tuesday, is unlikely to be nail-biting event as most groups have said they will vote in favour of Jerzy Buzek, a Polish centre-right MEP.This parliament, the seventh legislature since direct elections began in 1979, is set to be of extra interest to political scientists who have already remarked that it is more fragmented than previously, making it more difficult to forge majorities.This legislature also appears to have a more cohesive front of eurosceptics, who are gathered in two groups, representing 11.6 percent of deputies. In addition, after voters decided to punish or not vote for the left in large numbers in the June elections, it is also more right wing.A coalition of the EPP, the Liberals and the new European Conservatives group would give the right an absolutely majority in parliament.The liberals have ruled out working with what they call anti-Europeans however meaning that parliament is set to continue its traditional modus operandi of thrashing out deals between the two biggest groups, the EPP and the Socialists.

There are some major pieces of legislation coming its way in the coming months including new laws on financial regulation, to be proposed by the European Commission in the autumn, a telecoms bill which failed at the 11th hour in the last parliament and legislation on cross-border health care.The parliament, while finding its feet over the next couple of months, will also be keenly waiting for the new Lisbon Treaty to come into force. If ratified across the Union, the treaty will greatly increase MEPs' powers of co-legislation.The institution has already flexed its muscles by scuppering member states' plans to have a July vote on the next president of the European Commission, postponing it to autumn instead.

Swedish Presidency: research must focus on grand challenges
[2009-07-10]

At a conference on research and innovation held in Lund, Sweden, hosted by the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, approximately 350 researchers, policy makers and representatives from industry and research funding institutions agreed on a declaration stating that European research policy should focus on global grand challenges such as climate change, water shortage and pandemics.The Lund Declaration, approved at the New world - New solutions conference, was handed over on 9 July to Tobias Krantz, the Swedish Minister for Higher Education and Research.The global community is facing grand challenges,the declaration states. The European Knowledge Society must tackle these through the best analysis, powerful actions and increased resources. Challenges must turn into sustainable solutions in areas such as global warming, tightening supplies of energy, water and food, ageing societies, public health, pandemics and security,it adds.It must tackle the overarching challenge of turning Europe into an eco-efficient economy.The declaration followed two days of discussions about the direction of research, during which Dr Krantz elaborated on the three main research priorities of the Swedish presidency.

First, we must find ways to enhance the cooperation between research, education and innovation, he said.Second, we want to develop a new governance structure for the European Research Area (ERA). [...] We must be able to argue that money invested in European research is money well spent. A more efficient system is a prerequisite for winning that fight.Dr Krantz stressed that the Member States must engage themselves more in the development of the ERA, allowing better flow of knowledge and resources between Member States. Political will and determination must go hand in hand with academic freedom, he highlighted.The third priority, said Dr Krantz, is to re-examine the structure of the EU's research framework programme (FP).Instead of being overly bureaucratic with a technical thematic structure, I believe it should be focused on achievements. We should use the European research programme to build knowledge to meet the grand challenges we face: climate change, water shortage, poverty, diseases. This will not only help improve Europe's competitive advantage; I believe it will also make the framework programme easier to understand and more accepted,he explained.

Basic research is vital to academic freedom,the Swedish minister underlined. Researchers must have the guts and the resources to ask impolite and uncomfortable questions. Sometimes curiosity is a good enough reason to start a research project: [you] never know what it might lead to. That does not mean that private companies can't fund a research project - they certainly can. It just means that they will have to be prepared to get an answer they may not like.The Lund Declaration echoes this sentiment, and promotes strengthening frontier research initiated by the research community itself. It is fundamentally important to create knowledge diversity, endowing the European Union with expertise, especially when confronted with unforeseen grand challenges and shocks,it reads.Competition among researchers will ensure that research carried out in Europe is of international excellence.The declaration also calls for support of both business development and public policy goals. Measures are needed to maximise the economic and societal impact of new knowledge in areas such as industrial, environmental and social policies, agriculture and regional development,it reads.Links between these policy areas and research policies must be strongly improved.The document stresses the importance of well-networked knowledge institutions, calling for the modernisation of universities and cooperation between universities and research institutions. This is a key element for enhancing the competitiveness of European research, it says, also urging the creation and maintenance of world-class research infrastructures in Europe, including installations for big science as well as those serving the needs of social sciences and humanities.The Lund Declaration is a strong plea for increased resources for European research, for better cooperation between different levels and for more edgy innovation systems,said Pär Omling, Director-General of the Swedish Research Council.
The Declaration is a good start [to] the work that we will conduct during the next six months. The proposals in the declaration conform well with the priorities we have made,said a pleased Dr Krantz.For more information, please visit: Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union: http://www.se2009.eu

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EU releases EUR 72m for Mediterranean projects
10 July 2009, 18:25 CET Euromed

(BRUSSELS) - The European Commission announced Friday that it has allocated an additional 72 million euros (100 million dollars) for projects in the Mediterranean Sea region for 2009 and 2010.To mark the first anniversary of the Mediterranean Union, sealed in Paris on July 13, 2008, the EU's executive arm has decided to focus 22 million euros on cleaning up the sea.A 7.5-million-euro slice of the funds will be used for transport infrastructure, while five million will target alternative energy forms, with a focus on solar power.Other money will be spent on higher education, research and business investment, bringing the total overall European contribution for the two years to 90 million euros.More funds are provided by the European Investment Bank, participating states and the private sector.Launched to great fanfare by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the union brings together EU members with states from north Africa, the Balkans, the Arab world and Israel to try to foster cooperation in a volatile region.But like its regional predecessor, the Barcelona Process which stalled in large part over Arab-Israeli disputes, the Mediterranean Union got bogged down by Israel's attack on the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas missile strikes.The initiative resumed last month when environment ministers, including representatives from Israel and the Palestinian territories, met in Paris, while finance ministers held talks in Brussels this week.

Union for the Mediterranean: Commission increases contribution to priority projects - briefing10 July 2009 by eub2 -- last modified 10 July 2009

On the eve of the first anniversary of the launching of the Union for the Mediterranean (Paris, 13 July 2008), the European Commission has announced an additional contribution of EUR 72 million, for 2009-2010, to the areas identified as priorities by the Euro-Mediterranean Heads of State and Government in Paris. Work will focus on the de-pollution of the Mediterranean Sea, maritime and land highways, alternative energies, with a focus on the Mediterranean Solar Plant, higher education and research and supporting investment in businesses. Part of the funds will be dedicated to support the running of the Union for the Mediterranean Secretariat. With this contribution, the total community budget dedicated since July 2008 to the priorities identified by the Union for the Mediterranean amounts EUR 90 million.

Environment - De-pollution of the Mediterranean (EUR 22 million for 2009-2010)

The programme Sustainable Water Management and De-pollution of the Mediterranean will promote sustainable water management policies and practices in the region in the context of increasing water scarcity, combined pressure on water resources from a wide range of users and desertification processes in connection with climate change. Part of the funds will be dedicated to support the Mediterranean Water Strategy.EUR 7 million will be dedicated to the implementation of the Horizon 2020 Programme as from September 2009, with an additional EUR 1 million (pre-accession instrument) to allow the participation of the Balkan countries and Turkey in the programme.

Maritime and Land Highways (EUR 7.5 million)

The Mediterranean Motorways of the Seas, phase II and Integrated Maritime Policy for the Mediterranean programmes will contribute to the development of an efficient and integrated Mediterranean Transport Network. Building on phase I, the Mediterranean Motorways of the Seas II will focus on maritime and port operations and on connecting the railway routes with the maritime connections.

Alternative Energies: Mediterranean Solar Plan (EUR 5 million)

The creation of a Mediterranean Solar Plan is one of the major concrete initiatives of the Union for the Mediterranean. To support this initiative, t he Commission is carrying out studies to identify the most effective strategy to develop and implement the Mediterranean Solar Plan and to identify areas where the EU assistance could be more efficient. The Commission will cooperate, with EUR 5 million, to the establishment of favourable conditions (institutional, legislative, technological and investment climate) for the development of renewable energy resources in the Mediterranean partner countries, including the Solar Plan.

FEMIP ( EUR 32 million for 2009-2010)

The Facility for Euro-Mediterranean Investment and Partnership provides capital to the private sector on terms that are not available locally. FEMIP will contribute during 2009 and 2010 to the de-pollution of the Mediterranean, under the Horizon 2020 , to the development of renewable energy in the Mediterranean region under the umbrella of the Mediterranean Solar Plant, and to the development of sustainable transportation infrastructures, as foreseen in the Maritime and Land Highways priority project. Higher Education and Research - Euro-Mediterranean University.The Commission is providing a contribution of EUR 1 million to the Euro-Mediterranean University in Portoroz (Slovenia) to allow non EU Mediterranean students to participate in the programmes.The European Commission is in the process of identifying the financial needs and possibilities related to the running of the UpM Secretariat in order to allocate funds.Before this new package, the Commission had allocated EUR 18 million to projects such as Development and reinforcement of the civil protection in the region by building and strengthening the reaction capacity.
The Invest in Med initiative which supports investments in the region.Mediterranean Maritime Security via the SAFEMED programme.

(2nd LD) S. Korea, EU to announce conclusion of FTA later Monday: official
By Byun Duk-kun

STOCKHOLM, July 13 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the European Union (EU) have reached agreement on a proposed free trade deal, leaving only initialing and signing of the agreement before it can be submitted to their respective legislatures for ratification, a South Korean official said Monday.South Korea and the EU began negotiations on an free trade deal two years ago. In March this year, they reached a tentative agreement on the deal with two stickiest issues -- duty drawback and rules of origin -- remaining unsettled. The official said what he called a virtual conclusion of the free trade agreement (FTA) will be declared later Monday by South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, who are set to hold a bilateral summit here.Sweden assumed the six-month presidency of the EU at the beginning of the month.The leaders will announce that a mutual agreement on all remaining points of contention has been reached and will call for an early initialing of the deal following swift legal reviews,the official, well versed in the Korea-EU FTA negotiations, told reporters here.This means all negotiations have been concluded and that a Korea-EU FTA has been reached,the official added.Lee and Reinfeldt, in their announcement, are expected to say only that the negotiations have culminated rather than declare an official accord. The declaration, technically, needs to be made by the European Commission, the executive committee of the EU that has led the FTA negotiations with Seoul.At least three EU member states were earlier said to have opposed the EU's trade deal with South Korea, but the South Korean official, currently accompanying the president, said all the countries have withdrawn their reservations, with only one country saying it needs a little more time to deal with any domestic opposition.The sides should be able to conclude their legal reviews after a couple of meetings by the end of August and then hold an initialing ceremony sometime in September,the official told reporters.Brussels had claimed that the so-called duty drawback, which allows Seoul to return import tariffs to South Korean companies that use imported materials to make products for exports, would favor South Korean exporters.

The EU does not allow duty drawbacks under its existing free trade accords with Mexico and Chile. Also, South Korea wants items made at a joint industrial complex in North Korea to be treated as South Korean goods.The EU was South Korea's second-largest trading partner after China last year, with two-way trade reaching more than US$98 billion.If the pact is finalized, it will boost South Korea's exports by $11 billion and gross domestic product by 3.08 percent, according to a forecast by the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy.South Korea, Asia's fourth-largest economy, reached a free trade deal with the United States in March 2007, shortly before it launched talks with the EU, but the deal has remained stalled in both legislatures.sam@yna.co.kr(END)

GOP unifies against any more stimulus spending By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer - JULY 12,09

WASHINGTON – Republicans lined up Sunday in opposition to a second economic stimulus package, a rare demonstration of unity from an out-of-power political party in search of a rallying cry against President Barack Obama.Republicans called Obama's $787 billion spending plan a flop and said it hasn't fulfilled its hype. They criticized the White House for increasing the federal deficit and doing little to combat an unemployment rate that hit 9.5 percent in June.The reality is it hasn't helped yet, said Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. Only about 6.8 percent of the money has actually been spent. What I proposed is, after you complete the contracts that are already committed, the things that are in the pipeline, stop it.Obama urged patience with his spending program, which administration officials acknowledge was designed with incorrect or incomplete economic data.The stimulus package is working exactly as we had anticipated,Obama told CNN in an interview from Ghana that aired on Sunday.We always anticipated that a big chunk of that money then would be spent not only in the second half of the year, but also next year. This was designed to be a two-year plan and not a six-month plan,he said.

Republicans, though, were not willing to sit by idly.

I do think it is fair to say that the stimulus is a flop,said Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va. The goal that was set when we passed it was unemployment wouldn't rise past 8.5 percent, and what we see now is businesses just aren't hiring. Even the best projections have us losing 750,000 more jobs this year.Congress passed Obama's economic stimulus plan over the objection of out-of-power Republican lawmakers. Since then, GOP aides on Capitol Hill and officials alike have seized on the spending's shortcomings and unfilled promises.A lot of it has been spent on ridiculous projects, said Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican who was his party's presidential nominee last year.Obama's allies defended the spending they helped usher into law.It's a two-year plan and we're four months into it,said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.

Some, including billionaire Warren Buffett, have called for a second round of spending to steady the economy. Obama and his allies have said it's too early to make that decision; his critics, though, pledged to redouble their opposition to any second spending bill.I think that would be the biggest mistake we could ever make, McCain said.Kyl and Durbin appeared on ABC's This Week.Cantor spoke with Fox News Sunday.McCain was interviewed on NBC's Meet the Press.

ALL BUSINESS: More toxic loans could haunt banks By RACHEL BECK, AP Business Writer – Sat Jul 11, 5:43 am ET

NEW YORK – Japan's economy was paralyzed for a decade as banks failed to deal with their troubled loans. That's why it's nothing short of stunning to discover some U.S. banks are doing the same thing now.Despite all the tough talk out of Washington and Wall Street about how the U.S. can't repeat what happened in Japan, the reality is that banks are granting extensions to borrowers in one key category, commercial real-estate loans, so they don't default. It's a bet that economic conditions will improve before the loans come due.They are kicking the can down the road, hoping things will be better soon,said Barry Ritholtz, head of the financial research firm FusionIQ and author of the new book Bailout Nation.This maneuvering is being called extend and pretend in financial circles, reflecting banks' willingness to extend loan maturities because they believe — or hope rental rates and building values could come back to levels seen during the peak of the real-estate market in 2007.Ritholtz and other financial experts worry that banks are just delaying the inevitable by not dealing with troubled loans now. And since commercial loans are such an important part of the portfolio of many small and midsized banks, it also could constrain their ability to make other new loans. An average of 20 percent of local and regional banks' loan exposure is in commercial real estate vs 4 percent for the nation's biggest banks, according to data from Deutsche Bank.This is a bad strategy,said Bryan Marsal, CEO of the corporate restructuring firm Alvarez & Marsal.It is really about not facing up to where you are today.Unlike fixed-rate home mortgages, most commercial property loans are structured as balloon notes. Borrowers pay only interest for the first five or 10 years until the loans mature, and then the entire amount must be paid back.In the boom years, rising rents and property values made it easy for borrowers to find multiple lenders willing to roll over these loans into new and often larger principal amounts that allowed owners to take out millions of dollars in cash to buy other properties.That game has come to a crashing halt. Cash flows are down on many properties as rental and occupancy rates have fallen, causing the value of many properties to drop significantly. That's made it tougher for owners to refinance their loans.Delinquency rates on commercial loans have doubled in the past year to 7 percent as more companies downsize and retailers close their doors, according to the Federal Reserve.

In some cases, banks are offering a temporary fix by granting borrowers an extension on loan maturities. On paper, that looks like a plus for the bank because the borrower pays a fee or agrees to pay a higher interest rate, or both. This allows banks to avoid having to foreclose or write down these loans as impaired assets. They also can keep the loans on their books as if nothing were amiss.This lets the banks post results that are misleading because the loans have more risk to them than they are disclosing,said Len Blum, managing partner at the investment-bank Westwood Capital.They can pretend things are better than they are.That's just what banks in Japan did back in the 1990s. After its debt-fed real estate bubble burst, Japan slid into what has come to be known the lost decade because of its drawn out economic and financial malaise.Even though the Japanese government injected trillions of yen into its banking system, new lending was constrained because troubled loans clogged banks' balance sheets. In some cases, banks refused to foreclose when owners couldn't even pay the interest. Instead, they added the unpaid interest to the loan's principal in the hope that borrowers' problems would be alleviated by an improving economic climate, which never materialized.What's worrisome is the lack of transparency about how often this is happening now in the United States. Due to privacy issues, banks aren't required to disclose details of specific loan extensions, and most news that does trickle out comes from public companies announcing that they have reached accommodations with their lenders.Just this week, Bluegreen Corp., a Boca Raton, Fla.-based timeshare resort developer, said it had gotten the maturity dates of a combined $130.1 million in liabilities extended. Others getting loan extensions in recent months were Toys R Us, Tanger Factory Outlets and Washington Real Estate Investment Trust.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. believes that extending the maturity on commercial real-estate loans can be a value-maximizing and prudent approach,said FDIC spokesman Andrew Gray.

Gray said that its examiners are trying to make sure the loan extensions are being done prudently, and that credit losses are being recognized appropriately. The FDIC directly examines and supervises about 5,160 banks and savings banks. Bob Seiwert, who heads the Center for Commercial Lending and Business Banking at the American Bankers Association, said loan extensions should be done on a case-by-case basis and aren't necessarily a bad thing. Banks need to assess the chances of the principal amount being repaid and evaluate the viability on the loan on an ongoing basis, he said.It may still be a good project,Seiwert said.It just may need more time.There are already clear signs that worries about the commercial real estate market have constrained lending. The latest Federal Reserve Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey, from April, showed almost two-thirds of domestic banks had reported tightening lending standards and terms on commercial real estate loans over the previous three months.When lenders do the extend and pretend' routine because they don't want to deal with the problem ... what that causes them to do is to restrict their future lending. They pull back into their shell,said Marsal, who is also leading the liquidation of Lehman Brothers. When and if we do have an economic recovery, what it will do is slow the pace.Now imagine if the loans that are being extended turn up rotten a year or two from now. That could further hamper lending at local banks — the backbone of many small-town economies — meaning companies wouldn't be able to get loans to build new facilities or do renovations or repairs. Hiring would be curbed or more jobs cut, slowing consumer spending.The banks seem to think it is OK to hide their head in the sand and keep these kinds of loans on their balance sheets,said Westwood Capital's Blum.Until the banks really clean up their books, we risk repeating what happened in Japan.Rachel Beck is the national business columnist for The Associated Press. Write to her at rbeck(at)ap.org.

Canada eyes broader forum in addition to G8 Fri Jul 10, 9:15 am ET

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters) – Canada, which takes over G8 presidency next year, plans to create a broader forum to accompany deliberations of the eight major industrialized nations, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Friday.
Separately, Harper also pledged not to hike taxes to end the deficit and said he saw evidence that job losses were slowing.(Reporting by Randall Palmer)

No light at end of tunnel in Canada jobs, trade data
By Louise Egan – Fri Jul 10, 11:21 am ET

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Trade and employment data showed Canada still mired in recession at the middle of this year, and virtually guaranteed that the Bank of Canada would keep interest rates at rock bottom until mid-2010.Figures from Statistics Canada showed that fewer people lost their jobs in June than analysts had expected.But that appeared to be due largely to what one analyst dubbed a do-it-yourself recovery people trickling back to work through self-employment or in part-time jobs while full-time job creation was scarce.Net job losses in June totaled 7,400 and the unemployment rate rose to 8.6 percent from 8.4 percent in May, the highest since February 1998, Statscan said on Friday.The data triggered a short-lived rise in the Canadian dollar, but the mood darkened on closer look at the report.The good news, such as it is, stops at the headline, said Doug Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital Markets.Eric Lascelles, chief economics and rates strategist at TD Securities, said the numbers were better than expected but not proof of a recovery in the labor market.We need to be somewhat cautious though because the quality of those jobs are not what one might desire,he said.The Canadian dollar rose as high as C$1.1615 to the U.S. dollar, or 86.09 U.S. cents, after the report.

But it soon erased those gains. By 10:45 a.m., the Canadian unit was at C$1.1649 to the U.S. dollar, or 85.84 U.S. cents, down from C$1.1623 to the U.S. dollar, or 86.04 U.S. cents, at Thursday's close.The good news was that the pace of job losses slowed sharply in the second quarter at 13,000 compared with 273,000 in the first quarter, according to Statscan.But the economy shed about 48,000 full-time jobs in June and added 40,000 part-time positions. Self-employment rose by 37,000, while 45,000 regular jobs were lost.Clearly, a grim labor market is forcing many Canadians to eke out a living through self-employment,said Erin Weir, economist with the United Steelworkers.

PRIME MINISTER SEES MORE JOB LOSSES

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, speaking in Italy after the G8 summit, said he expects more job losses in coming months, although he put an upbeat spin on the numbers.Right now we have greater stability. We don't yet have full recovery, he said.We have definite signs the severity of the recession is slowing.The data point to unchanged central bank policy on July 21 -- the bank's next rate announcement -- and beyond. The Bank of Canada has cut its key interest rate to 0.25 percent, which it considers the lower limit, and promised to keep it there until June 2010 unless inflation spikes.Friday's jobs report showed that inflation was easing slightly, according to one key measure. Wages for permanent employees rose a year-on-year 3.4 percent in June, down from the average 4.2 percent pace in the first quarter. Statscan also said Canada posted its largest trade deficit on record in May at C$1.42 billion ($1.22 billion) as energy and autos exports to the dominant U.S. market plummeted. The deficit was C$389 million in April.New housing prices slipped 0.1 percent in May and were down 3.1 percent on the year.The bottom line is simply that the disturbing trend of weaker global trade is continuing to be an albatross around the neck of the Canadian economy,said Millan Mulraine, economics strategist at TD Securities. We expect trade to remain a source of drag on Canadian economic activity in the second quarter.Weak U.S. and global demand pushed exports down 6.9 percent to their lowest since September 1998. Exports fell in volume terms but also because of a sharp rise in the Canadian dollar versus the U.S. dollar in the month. Shipments to the United States, which buys about three-quarters of Canada's exports, tumbled 8.1 percent and Canada's trade surplus with its neighbor shrank to C$1.5 billion from C$2.6 billion in April.Total imports declined 3.5 percent.(Additional reporting by Frank Pingue and Nina Lex in Toronto; editing by Janet Guttsman)

Obama urges patience on economic stimulus plan July 12,09

WASHINGTON – With the economy still firmly in the grip of a tenacious recession, President Barack Obama is urging Americans to have patience and give his economic recovery plan time to work.Restating themes he laid out in his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama said in an op-ed posted early Sunday on The Washington Post's Web site that his $787 billion stimulus program was not expected to return the economy to full health, but to provide a boost that would stop the free fall.So far, it has done that,the president wrote.It was, from the start, a two-year program, and it will steadily save and create jobs as it ramps up over this summer and fall.He said his stimulus plan must be given time to work and appealed to Americans, who are increasingly uneasy with rising unemployment and ballooning budget deficits, to let his plan work the way it's supposed to, with the understanding that in any recession, unemployment tends to recover more slowly than other measures of economic activity.

The public has said in polls that it was willing to give Obama time to deal with the economic mess he inherited from President George W. Bush, but with unemployment pushing toward 10 percent, that patience will likely be tested.Republicans, sensing a political opening, have seized the opportunity to argue that Obama's economic stimulus plan was expensive and ineffective.Simply put, this is now President Obama's economy and the American people are beginning to question whether his policies are working,Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House Republican whip, said in the GOP's weekly address.Obama, in the op-ed, said Even as we rescue this economy from a full-blown crisis, I have insisted that we must rebuild it better than before.Health care costs must be controlled, jobs created within the U.S., worker training programs established and budget deficits reduced, he said.On the Net:
http://www.washingtonpost.com http://www.whitehouse.gov

SINS OF PEOPLE

2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous 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.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

DECIEVERS WAXING WORSE AND WORSE.

2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

MORE SIN SIGNS

EPHESIANS 5:5-8
5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

GRAVE ROBBERS
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MEXICO DRUG VIOLENCE AGAINST POLICE IN 6 CITIES
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July 10, 2009
Grave robbers hit historic site

CHICAGO - GRAVE robbers stripped at least 300 plots at a historic black cemetery outside Chicago, dumped many of the bodies and then resold the plots for a profit, officials said on Thursday.The years-long scheme was carried out by the cemetery's manager and three gravediggers who sold the used graves so they could pocket the fees rather than pass them along to the Arizona-based owners. This was not done in a very delicate way, Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart said at a press conference.They would excavate a grave, excavate the entire site and then they would proceed to dump the remains wherever they found a place to do it in the back of the cemetery.They would also sometimes leave the remains in the grave and pound them down and put someone else on top,Sheriff Dart said.It will likely take months before authorities can identify all of the bodies and restore the gravesites, Sheriff Dart said, adding that efforts will be complicated by the fact that the cemetery's records were destroyed and altered.We don't know what else to tell the people, but we are horrifically sorry they have been subjected to this,Dart said.We are working on making this right.The scheme came to light when Burr Oak Cemetery's Arizona-based owners contacted the sheriff's department after discovering a large discrepancy in the cemetery's finances.Burr Oak is one of Chicago's oldest predominantly African-American cemeteries and is home to a number of historic figures, including Emmett Till, whose 1955 murder galvanized the civil rights movement. Blues legend Dinah Washington and boxing champ Ezzard Charles are also buried at Burr Oak.

The gravesites that were stripped and then resold were very old and appeared not to have regular visitors, officials said.Scores of distraught family members flooded the cemetery to check on the graves of their loved ones and try to find answers.There should be a special place in hell for these graveyard thieves who have done so much to hurt these families,civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson said at the afternoon press conference.The cemetery's manager, Caroyln Towns, is also accused of pocketing cash from a fund she set up to build a memorial museum for Till. Towns and grave diggers Keith Nicks, Terrence Nicks and Maurice Daily were charged with dismembering a human body.This crime is a whole new dimension that shows us what lengths people would go through for financial gain,said Cook County prosecutor Anita Alvarez. -- AFP

TORAH PORTION FROM JULY 12 - 18 2009

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TORAH PORTION FROM JULY 12 2009 6PM - JULY 18 6PM 2009

NUMBERS 30:2 - 32:42
2 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
3 If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;
4 And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
6 And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;
7 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
9 But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;
11 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
12 But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
14 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.
15 But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
16 These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.

NUMBERS 31:1-54
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
3 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
5 So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.
12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
19 And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
20 And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.
21 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;
22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
24 And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:
27 And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
28 And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
29 Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD.
30 And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
32 And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
33 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
34 And threescore and one thousand asses,
35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
36 And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:
37 And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
38 And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.
39 And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and one.
40 And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute was thirty and two persons.
41 And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD'S heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
42 And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,
43 (Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
44 And thirty and six thousand beeves,
45 And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,
46 And sixteen thousand persons;)
47 Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
48 And the officers which were over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses:
49 And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.
50 We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.
51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.
52 And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.
53 (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.

NUMBERS 32:1-42
1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying,
3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
4 Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
5 Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.
6 And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
7 And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?
8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.
9 For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
10 And the LORD'S anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,
11 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.
13 And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
15 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
16 And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:
17 But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
18 We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
19 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.
20 And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,
21 And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,
22 And the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.
23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
24 Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
25 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:
27 But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith.
28 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:
29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:
30 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
31 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.
32 We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours.
33 And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.
34 And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
35 And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,
36 And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.
37 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
38 And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.
39 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.
42 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

PROPHETS PORTION

JEREMIAH 1:1-2:3
1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
2 To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.
12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
13 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.
14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
15 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

NEW TESTAMENT PORTION

MATTHEW 5:33-37
33 Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:
34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God’s throne:
35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

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TORAH PORTION FROM JULY 05 2009 6PM - JULY 11 6PM 2009

NUMBERS 25:10 - 30:1
10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
14 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.
16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.

NUMBERS 26:1-65
1 And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
2 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
4 Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
5 Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:
6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
7 These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
8 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.
9 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:
10 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
11 Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.
12 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:
13 Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
14 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
15 The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites:
16 Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:
17 Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
18 These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
19 The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
20 And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
21 And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
22 These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.
23 Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:
24 Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
25 These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.
26 Of the sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
27 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred.
28 The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.
29 Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.
30 These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:
31 And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:
32 And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
33 And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
34 These are the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.
35 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
36 And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.
37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
38 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:
39 Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites: and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.
42 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.
43 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.
44 Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.
45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
46 And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.
47 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
48 Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:
49 Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
50 These are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.
51 These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
52 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
53 Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
54 To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.
55 Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
56 According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.
57 And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
58 These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.
59 And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
60 And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
62 And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
63 These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
65 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

NUMBERS 27:1-23
1 Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
4 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.
5 And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.
6 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
8 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
9 And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.
10 And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren.
11 And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.
12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.
13 And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
14 For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
15 And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying,
16 Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
17 Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.
18 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;
19 And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
20 And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.
21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
22 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:
23 And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.

NUMBERS 28:1-31
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.
3 And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even;
5 And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil.
6 It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
7 And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering.
8 And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
9 And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:
10 This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
11 And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;
12 And three tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram;
13 And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil for a meat offering unto one lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
14 And their drink offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto a bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a ram, and a fourth part of an hin unto a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
15 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto the LORD shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
16 And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
17 And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
18 In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:
19 But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish:
20 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram;
21 A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
22 And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.
23 Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.
24 After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
25 And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.
26 Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
27 But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year;
28 And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram,
29 A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs;
30 And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you.
31 Ye shall offer them beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, (they shall be unto you without blemish) and their drink offerings.

NUMBERS 29:1-40
1 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.
2 And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish:
3 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram,
4 And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
5 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you:
6 Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
7 And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein:
8 But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD for a sweet savour; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish:
9 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, and two tenth deals to one ram,
10 A several tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
11 One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.
12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:
13 And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish:
14 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams,
15 And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:
16 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
17 And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
18 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
19 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering thereof, and their drink offerings.
20 And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;
21 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
22 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
23 And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
24 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
25 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
26 And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
27 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
28 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
29 And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
30 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
31 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
32 And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
33 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
34 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
35 On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:
36 But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish:
37 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
38 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
39 These things ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
40 And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.

NUMBERS 30:1
1 And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded.

PROPHETS PORTION

1 KINGS 18:46-19:21
46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.
4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
6 And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
7 And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.
8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:
12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
15 And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:
16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.
17 And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.
20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.

NEW TESTAMENT PORTION

MATTHEW 26:1-30
1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,
2 Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
8 But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
10 When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
12 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
13 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
16 And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
17 Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
18 And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
19 And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.
20 Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.
21 And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
22 And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?
23 And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
24 The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
25 Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.
26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.
30 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.

MARK 14:1-26
1 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
4 And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
8 She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
9 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them.
11 And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
12 And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
13 And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.
14 And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
15 And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.
16 And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
17 And in the evening he cometh with the twelve.
18 And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me.
19 And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?
20 And he answered and said unto them, It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish.
21 The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.
24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
25 Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.
26 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.

LUKE 22:1-20
1 Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
2 And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
3 Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
4 And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.
5 And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
6 And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude.
7 Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.
8 And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.
9 And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare?
10 And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in.
11 And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
12 And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there make ready.
13 And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
14 And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him.
15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
16 For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
17 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves:
18 For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.
19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

JOHN 2:13-22
13 And the Jews’ passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables;
16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise.
17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

JOHN 7:1-13,37-39
1 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
2 Now the Jews’ feast of tabernacles was at hand.
3 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
4 For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.
5 For neither did his brethren believe in him.
6 Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
8 Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.
9 When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.
10 But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
11 Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
12 And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.
13 Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.
37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

JOHN 11:55-12:1
55 And the Jews’ passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
56 Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?
57 Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.
1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

JOHN 13:1
1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

JOHN 18:28,39
28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
39 But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?

JOHN 19:14
14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!

ACTS 2:1-21
1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
12 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
13 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

ACTS 12:3-4
3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

ACTS 20:5-6,16
5 These going before tarried for us at Troas.
6 And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.
16 For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.

ACTS 27:9-11
9 Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,
10 And said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives.
11 Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul.

1 CORINTHIANS 5:6-8
6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1 CORINTHIANS 16:8
8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.

HEBREWS 11:28
28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.