FED IS QUIETLY TAKING MONEY OUT

AVOID TAKING VACCINATIONS,THEY KILL AND MAIME MORE PEOPLE THEN THE ACTUAL INCIDENT THEY WANT TO PREVENT.


thewashingtonnote.com COULD THE SAUDIS AND AMERICA BE PLOTTING TO TAKE OUT IRANS NUCLEAR SITES TO SAVE THE OIL AND LET OBAMA BE THE MESSIAH TO MUSLIMS AND TO SAVE HIS TERM IN OFFICE FROM FALLING BELOW 40% OR LESS.AND WITH OKTAR THINKING THE WELLBOY MAUHDI IS ALREADY ALIVE AND TO BE REVEALED TO THE WORLD WHICH MEANS ISLAM HAS TO HAVE WORLD DOMINATION,IRAN WILL BE GOING FOR ISRAEL WITH ALL THEY GOT IF AMERICA ATTACKS THEM TO BRING MAUHDI OUT OF THE WELL AND INTO THE OPEN TO BE REVEALED TO THE WORLD.

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

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

Tropical Storm Danny forms in the Atlantic AUG 26,09

MIAMI – Tropical Storm Danny has formed in the open Atlantic off the Bahamas, and forecasters say it could get stronger as it moves toward the U.S.The storm has top winds of 45 mph and is moving to the west-northwest at 18 mph. As of 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, the storm's center was about 445 miles (715 kilometers) east of Nassau, Bahamas and about 775 miles (1,250 kilometers) south of Cape Hatteras, N.C.The current forecast has the storm on a path to clip the U.S. East Coast over the weekend, but a storm's track can be difficult to predict days in advance. People in the Bahamas and the southeastern U.S. are advised to monitor the storm.Meanwhile, far out in the Pacific, Tropical Storm Ignacio has weakened as it moves northwest with top winds of 45 mph.

Taiwan seeks to prevent epidemics after flooding By ANNIE HUANG, Associated Press Writer – Tue Aug 25, 8:16 am ET

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taiwanese authorities scrambled to disinfect villages Tuesday that were flooded in the worst typhoon to hit the island in 50 years after four soldiers helping with the cleanup were confirmed to have swine flu.The soldiers developed fevers and nausea after working in villages in Pingtung county in the south, said Steve Kuo, head of the Center for Disease Control. They later tested positive for swine flu, he added. An additional 200 soldiers who worked closely with them were pulled out of the villages and placed under medical observation, TV stations reported.

Taiwan's National Fire Agency says Typhoon Morakot left more than 670 people either dead or missing on the island.Meanwhile, some 100 residents in a Pingtung village who had developed the same symptoms were found not to have swine flu, but appeared to have been infected by polluted water, health official Chang Hsin-che told CTI Cable News.The village was among eight in Wandan Township flooded when Morakot struck Aug. 8-9. The storm triggered landslides and widespread flooding that trapped thousands of people in remote southern villages for days.Mud and garbage have been cleaned, but we fear many pigs and other animals' bodies are still buried under the logs flowing down from Kaoping River from mountains upstream,said Hung Li-yun, a Wandan Town official.

Hung said authorities began spraying the area with disinfectants soon after the typhoon hit, and the effort has continued since then to prevent flood-related epidemics.On Monday, Premier Liu Chao-hsiuan asked officials to increase efforts to prevent a large swine flu outbreak, especially at temporary shelters for the thousands whose homes were destroyed.He advised soldiers and volunteers working in the disaster-hit areas to wear face masks.The Center for Disease Control said Tuesday a 6-year-old boy and a 44-year-old woman died of swine flu this week, bringing Taiwan's total fatalities to five. The victims were from central Taiwan, which was not affected by the typhoon, it said.Kuo, the center's chief, said Taiwan has had nearly 40,000 swine flu cases, most of them mild.

DISEASES

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

DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS

REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.

REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries (DRUGS), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

SWINE FLU SOFT KILL
http://www.infowars.com/msnbc-hard-sell-propaganda-for-h1n1-soft-kill-vaccination/

MSNBC Hard Sell Propaganda for H1N1 Soft Kill Vaccination
Kurt Nimmo Infowars August 26, 2009

Dr. Nancy Snyderman, billed as chief medical editor at NBC News, says when the HHS bureaucrat Kathleen Sebelius speaks, we have to listen. Snyderman tells the talking heads on MSNBC that we should all line up and take our eugenics soft kill H1N1 vaccine.MSNBC talking heads try to stampede you into taking the deadly H1N1 vaccine.
Sebelius is a member of the globalist Bilderberg Group. Bilderberg advocates modern eugenics and plans to eventually reduce the world’s population by 80%, as called for by the 1974 UN Assessment on Biodiversity.The H1N1 virus is a big deal, Snyderman pontificates, and it will cut a swath through the population. Distrust of the government and big pharma, she warns, may be fatal. I can’t tell you what to do,she adds, but I can tell you what you should do, and what you should do is get this vaccination.There is the small matter that this virus outbreak is far less deadly than the normal seasonal flu, but that does not stop the editor from claiming that if you don’t get the vaccination you are playing Russian roulette.Anchor Dylan Ratigan tells us to stop being lazy and frightened and get off our derrieres and get this vaccination.

All of this sounds suspiciously familiar. Back in 1976, the government hyped up fears of a swine flu pandemic after a few cases were found in soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and one of them died, most likely of physical overexertion rather than from the infection. This led to the launch of a mass vaccination of 40 million against a pandemic that never materialized. Thousands filed claims for injury. At least 25 died and 500 developed paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome (see Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins, The vaccines are far more deadly than the swine flu).Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, a Chicago physician and author of Don’t Vaccinate Before You Educate, told Alex Jones on August 25 that the number of people who died from the 1976 vaccination program was probably much higher than the government admits. He claims the number of injured was likely in the thousands.No mention by NBC’s supposed medical editor of the well-documented risks of this experimented and untested vaccine. It is not simply the adjuvants, substances added in order to boost the immunogenicity of the vaccines, in particular the oil-based squalene, but also dangerous levels of mercury in the form of thimerosal, aluminum hydroxide, and heavy metals and other toxins in the vaccine.Earlier this month, a German health expert warned of cancer viruses in the vaccine. Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg warned that the nutrient solution for the vaccine consists of cancerous cells. Wodrag also described people’s fear of the pandemic as an orchestration that will result in great business for the pharmaceutical industry.Or did the editor mention warnings issued by the British Health Protection Agency about an increased risk of developing Guillain-Barre syndrome after taking a pandemic vaccine.Snyderman’s one-sided coverage and scare tactics border on criminal behavior, but then this is par for the course as the corporate media, in particular MSNBC, is a branch office of the CIA under Operation Mockingbird. The CIA was created by Wall Street and works in the service of the banksters and the global elite who have made no bones that they want to cull the herd and get world population down to around 500 million.

Swine flu test authorized for troops overseas By CHRISTINE SIMMONS, Associated Press Writer – Tue Aug 25, 11:12 pm ET

WASHINGTON – The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it has authorized the emergency use of a swine flu test for U.S. troops overseas, allowing the military to speed up diagnoses and treatment of a virus that could cause widespread infections again this fall.The FDA emergency authorization lets the Defense Department distribute the swine flu test to its qualified laboratories that have the right equipment and personnel to perform and interpret test results. The FDA authorized the swine flu diagnostic test for the public in April.The authorization allows for the use of unapproved medical products or unapproved uses of approved medical products during a public health emergency, the FDA said.The FDA said the test will help to speed up diagnosis of H1N1 infections so that deployed troops can quickly begin treatment.The Defense Department will use the test for combat units in the Middle East and on Navy ships, beginning with deliveries next month, according to a statement from the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense.

The announcement comes as the government is gearing up for the arrival of a vaccine. First supplies are likely by October but most not until the Thanksgiving season.Swine flu was declared to be a pandemic, or global outbreak, by the World Health Organization in June, and it is expected to make a strong return in the fall and winter. The WHO has said the virus has killed nearly 1,800 people worldwide.A presidential advisory panel said in a report presented Monday that a plausible scenario for the United States later this year is large-scale swine flu infections, possibly with 30,000 to 90,000 deaths, mostly among young children and young adults, and perhaps as many as 300,000 sick enough to require intensive care unit treatment at hospitals.Seasonal flu typically causes 30,000-40,000 annual deaths, mainly among people over 65.On the Net:Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense: http://tinyurl.com/nas9y4

E.U. Officials Lay Out Priorities for Swine Flu Vaccine By JAMES KANTER
Published: August 25, 2009

BRUSSELS — European Union health officials issued a list Tuesday of people who should be the first in line for vaccinations against the H1N1, or swine flu, virus.People at risk of severe disease, pregnant women and health care workers should be given priority for inoculations before the winter flu season, said the officials, who represent 27 E.U. countries and the European Commission.Prioritizing those groups is necessary because there will probably not be vaccine available for everyone initially, and even if there is, distribution will take time,the officials said in a statement.The officials said the recommendations were indicative and that countries may wish to adapt the prioritization in line with their epidemiology, health service provision and resources.They did not say whether vaccinations could be mandatory in some cases, although some governments, including Britain, have already ruled out that possibility.A similar group of E.U. officials said this month that there was no need to delay the return to school after the summer break. Even so, the E.U. officials said schools in some areas could be forced to close if outbreaks are particularly severe.In the United States, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reached a similar verdict Tuesday, saying that large-scale school closings would be ineffective in halting the spread of the virus. Instead, Ms. Sebelius said on NBC television, vaccinations would be the defense.What we learned last spring is that shutting a school down sort of pre-emptively doesn’t stop the virus from spreading, she said, according to The Associated Press. An expected resurgence in swine flu infections could occur as early as September, when school is back in, according to some health experts.

Tobacco seen killing 6 million people next year By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor – Tue Aug 25, 6:03 pm ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tobacco use will kill 6 million people next year from cancer, heart disease, emphysema and a range of other ills, global cancer experts said in a report issued on Tuesday.The new Tobacco Atlas from the World Lung Foundation and the American Cancer Society estimates that tobacco use costs the global economy $500 billion a year in direct medical expenses, lost productivity and environmental harm.

Tobacco's total economic costs reduce national wealth in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) by as much as 3.6 percent,the report reads.Tobacco accounts for one out of every 10 deaths worldwide and will claim 5.5 million lives this year alone,the report said. If current trends hold, by 2020, the number will grow to an estimated 7 million and top 8 million by 2030.Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on launched a tobacco center to oversee cigarettes and other related products, after winning the power to do so from Congress in June. On Tuesday it set up a committee of advisers to help guide it.Over the past four decades, smoking rates have declined in rich countries like the United States, Britain and Japan while rising in much of the developing world, according to the nonprofit research and advocacy organizations.

Some other findings from the report, available at http://www.tobaccoatlas.org/:
1 billion men smoke -- 35 percent of men in rich countries and 50 percent of men in developing countries.
About 250 million women smoke daily -- 22 percent of women in developed countries and 9 percent of women in developing countries.
Smoking rates among women are either stable or increasing in several southern, central and eastern European countries.
The risk of dying from lung cancer is more than 23 times higher for men who smoke than for nonsmokers and 13 times higher for women smokers.
Tobacco kills one-third to one-half of those who smoke. Smokers die an average of 15 years earlier than nonsmokers.
Nearly 60 percent of Chinese men smoke and China consumes more than 37 percent of the world's cigarettes.
50 million Chinese children, mostly boys, will die prematurely from tobacco-related diseases.
Tobacco use will eventually kill 250 million of today's teenagers and children.
Nearly one-quarter of young people who smoke tried their first cigarette before the age of 10.
Occupational exposure to secondhand smoke kills 200,000 workers every year.

One hundred million people were killed by tobacco in the 20th century. Unless effective measures are implemented to prevent young people from smoking and to help current smokers quit, tobacco will kill 1 billion people in the 21st century,the report predicts.China by far leads the world in cigarette production followed by the United States, Russia and Japan.Publicly traded cigarette makers include Altria Group Inc's Philip Morris unit, Reynolds American Inc's R.J. Reynolds Tobacco and Lorillard Inc's Lorillard Tobacco Co.(Reporting by Maggie Fox, editing by Alan Elsner)

Alex Jones website blocked under filter for criminal skills content
Aaron Dykes Jones Report August 25, 2009

We have received a tip informing us that the Oregon County Library in Thayer, Missouri has classified [cached] this website, JonesReport.com, as promoting criminal skills.Was this website blocked by Internet filters under the dubious auspices of promoting criminal skills for posting the controversial Obama as Joker image? While Internet filters blocking access to Infowars.com and PrisonPlanet.com have been in place for sometime in various reported libraries and workplaces, this is the first time an Alex Jones website has been outwardly labeled as criminal.How that term could be defined as to apply to one of Jones’ websites run by Alex Jones leads to only a few likely scenarios, all which unscore the same basic threat– that our free speech is under attack, and which is, itself, in the process of being criminalized.According to Norton, a leading online filtering service, term Criminal is classifies:Web sites that feature or promote criminal skills, provide instruction for threatening or violating the security of property or the privacy of people, or describe how to avoid complying with legally mandated duties and obligations.The use of the term criminal skills sounds like a bad interpretation of the Homeland Security report, where those with supposed right-wing views have been vilified as potential terrorists, or like the next in line of search filters and social networking sites censoring the controversial Obama-as-Joker poster image.The Department of Homeland Security report on Right-wing extremism even includes the term alternative media in its list of extremist lexicon.The site was reported blocked as of August 13, just days after Alex launched the Obama as Joker Poster contest. Could panicked controversy over so-called vandalism be the reason the site was restricted under for promoting criminal skills?

After the posters cropped up overnight on telephone polls, and yes, even mailboxes, complaints were issued and arrests were made with the idea that the posters were somehow offensive and thus, somehow not permitted or illegal.The media labeled the image, and its bearers,racist.After a man in Florida who plastered the Joker poster images around his area was questioned for alleged vandalism, the concept of the poster became criminalized.Only last week, it was reported that social networks like MySpace were caught censoring and removing Obama-Joker images and the general label sexually explicit/violence.It has also been reported that Flikr removed the orginal Obama-Joker artwork, and deleted the account of the political independent created the image, but did not originally use the word socialist under Obama’s face.The pampleteering of prominent founding father Thomas Paine perhaps most succintly embodies the spirit of the pre-Revolutionary war era and the freedoms guaranteed under the First Amendment that was enshrined in the Constitution afterwards– and remains a good indicator that the posting of even radical ideas on posters and paper was meant to be protected, not persecuted.Today, the right to say what we wish, and to make those words known on available mediums– including good old fashioned paper– should most certainly remain intact.

ISRAEL WILL BECOME A NATION. LITERALLY IN THE SPRING.

GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram,(CHANGED TO ABRAHAM LATER) Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:(PALESTINE,ISRAEL)
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

EZEKIEL 36:24
24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

EZEKIEL 37:9-28
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds,(ALL THE WORLD) O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.(COME TO LIFE)
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.(ISRAEL WILL HAVE A POWERFUL ARMY)
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.(BURNED BY HITLER)
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.(THE DRY BONES COME TO LIFE IN ISRAEL)
13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

MATTHEW 24:32
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:(ISRAEL WAS LITERALLY REBORN JUST BEFORE SUMMER,MAY 14,1948).

MARK 13:28
28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:

DANIEL 9:24
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

ISRAEL WILL BE IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM, THE SIGN OF THE START OF THE LAST GENERATION.

LUKE 21:24
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.

Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.
ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.

THERE IS NO PALESTINE - MEDIA NAME ONLY (PALESTINIANS ARE ARABS)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1KkYjhFryA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcanadafreepress%2Ecom%2Findex%2Ephp%2FChristianity%2DReligion&feature=player_embedded

Netanyahu to UK: Jerusalem is Sovereign Capital of Israel
by Hana Levi Julian AUG 25,09

(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told British officials Tuesday in London that Israel would not stop building in any area of its capital city. Netanyahu was in the British capital to meet with UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.At the front entrance to Number 10 Downing Street, where the meeting took place, hundreds of protesters yelled epithets such as Netanyahu's a war criminal.Others shouted Free Palestine and waved signs proclaiming Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine,Judea and Samaria are Palestinian territory and Let the Palestinians live.Prime Minister Netanyahu, accompanied by Israeli Ambassador to London Ron Prosor, entered the building through the back entrance, where they were met by Prime Minister Brown. All three were flanked by security details.Following the meeting, the two prime ministers held a joint news conference at which their differences were made clear. Despite Brown's insistence that the UK is a loyal friend to the Jewish State and supports the Israel-PA peace process the British prime minister underscored the UK demand that Israel halt construction in Judea, Samaria and parts of Jerusalem restored in 1967.

Prime Minister Netanyahu's response made it equally clear that he was having none of it.Jerusalem is not a settlement. It is the sovereign capital of the State of Israel, and Israel will not accept limits on its sovereignty there,he told reporters bluntly.We have been building in Jerusalem for 3,000 years.Moreover, growing Jewish families in the existing communities of Judea and Samaria need schools for their children and homes to live in, he added.This is different from grabbing land,he emphasized, and said he hoped to find a bridging formula that would enable Jews living in the regions to live a normal life.Israel has already removed more than 140 security checkpoints and roadblocks, Netanyahu pointed out, adding that it is now time for the Palestinian Authority to exhibit courageous leadership and recognize Israel as the Jewish homeland.He also discussed his disappointment with the inflammatory rhetoric that came out of the recent Sixth Annual Fatah General Assembly held in Bethlehem, at which PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was elected to another five-year term as the faction's leader. Fatah, he said, should have adopted a straightforward stance that it is willing and ready for an end to the conflict with Israel and all claims.Noting that he had come forward and expressed his support for a PA state, Netanyahu said the PA leadership should reciprocate. We need a demilitarized Palestinian state that recognizes Israel,he said.Recognition is the pillar of peace.

Fatah Convention: Incitement, No Peace
The convention, held earlier this month, appeared to be anything but a gathering of PA activists seeking peace, despite the generous financial support of the U.S. government, which gave Fatah $50 million to cover conference expenses, according to a report in the Syrian daily Al-Watan that was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). The paper said that the financial support was an attempt to strengthening Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. However, said the paper, the U.S. rejected Abbas' request for permission to fire Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.Convicted murderer Marwan Barghouti was elected to the faction's Central Committee. Also elected, according to the preliminary results, were Jibril Rajoub and Mohammed Dahlan. Not making the list was former PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, who had also served as head negotiator between the PA and Israel.
Delegates to the convention applauded loudly at the mention by Qureia of two terrorists who committed the worst terror attack in Israel's history.In their final meetings, the delegates approved a resolution stating that Jerusalem is an integral part of the Palestinian homeland and political entity.The holiest city in Judaism is awaiting our sacrifices, stated the resolution, which Fatah committed itself to carry out until Jerusalem returns to the Palestinians void of settlers and settlements.

Time Running Out on Iran
Netanyahu also told reporters that although Iran is not yet capable of completing construction of a nuclear weapon, the window of opportunity within which to stop the Islamic Republic from doing so is growing smaller.The prime minister said that,Time is running out, it is late in the day, but it is not too late.His British counterpart said,If there is no further progress immediately [on talks to suspend Iran's nuclear development activities], then I believe the world will have to look at stepping up sanctions against Iran as a matter of priority.

REVELATION 12:12-16
12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.(3 1/2 YRS TO KILL,STEAL,DESTROY)
13 And when the dragon (SATAN) saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman (MARY) which brought forth the man child. (JESUS IS JEWISH)(ISRAEL PERSECUTED THE WORST IN HISTORY YET)
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

Israel Makes Waves by Simulating an Earthquake
by Avraham Zuroff AUG 25,09

(IsraelNN.com) The Seismologic Division of the Ministry of National Infrastructure's Geophysical Institute will attempt to simulate an earthquake in the southern Negev on Thursday. The experiment, financed by the U.S. Defense Department, is a joint project with the University of Hawaii and is part of a scientific project intended to improve seismological and acoustic readings in Israel and its environs, up to a 1,000 km/621 mile radius.The experiment intends to improve the understanding of sound waves in the atmosphere. Scientists will then be able to fine-tune Israel’s seismological equipment to give advance warning of earthquakes. Measurements will also be taken in other countries, including Cyprus, Greece, France, and Germany.Israel will create a controlled explosion of 80 tons of explosive material, which will simulate the intensity of a tremor after an earthquake of Magnitude 3. Natural earthquakes of a similar intensity occur in the Middle East region about once a week, without the public feeling them.

Courtesy, U.S. Geological Survey

The results from the experiment will be available to the entire scientific community and is expected to make an additional contribution to scientific research of sound waves in the atmosphere and earthquakes.In the last few years, the Geophysical Institute has created several earthquake simulations in order to calibrate its equipment. In June 2004, the institute detonated 32 tons of explosives in the southern Negev. In June 2005, the institute detonated 20 tons in the Beit Alfa quarries in the Jezreel Valley south of the Galilee. The success of the experiments has significantly contributed to improving the accuracy of identifying earthquakes in Israel.The Ministry of National Infrastructure and Finance Ministry have recently financed a three-year plan to upgrade Israel’s seismological equipment, as part of Israel’s earthquake advance warning system.

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

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

ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

PA to Seek Int’l Court Ruling on Occupation AUG 25,09
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

(IsraelNN.com)
The Palestinian Authority is setting up a de facto state as a step to appeal to international courts to declare Israel an occupying power, according to James Hider, the Middle East bureau chief for the Times of London. Fayyad is preparing a new plan for the PA economy and security forces, and told the Times in a separate interview that it will enable the PA to establish a de facto state in two years.Hider wrote that PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad plans to go ahead with his plans regardless of the state of negotiations with Israel. His self-confessed cynicism is contained in a book he wrote this summer, called The Spiders of Allah: Travels of an Unbeliever on the Frontline of Holy War.Blaming both Israel and the PA for the current stalemate, he said that Fayyad’s plan would be to grow a functioning state around the continuing Israeli occupation and then ask the international community to judge whether such a military occupation was acceptable.Hider noted that the mutual anger and distrust between the PA and Israel stem from Israel’s continuing to build Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria while the PA, under Arafat, did not control varied terrorist organizations. His analysis failed to acknowledge that Arafat authorized hundreds of the deadly attacks, many of them suicidal, against Israeli civilians and soldiers.

The Bush administration is also on his blame list for having put little effort into enforcing the requirements set out in its own peace blueprint, allowing settlements to continue expanding and only focusing on building a centralized Palestinian security apparatus after Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007.

Fayyad Plans PA State: Intl. Airport, Stronger Armed Forces
by Maayana Miskin AUG 24,09

(IsraelNN.com) Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is set to reveal his plan for the infrastructure and economy of a PA state in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. According to Reuters, the plan includes an international airport in the Jordan Valley, foreign investors, and stronger armed forces.The plan also includes improving the PA economy and system of education, which currently rely almost entirely on foreign aid. Our national duty demands that we should do whatever we can to get our economy out of the cycle of dependency and alienation,Fayyad states.The PA must have strong and well trained armed forces in order to fight terrorism, Fayyad argued.While the plan lays out a relatively detailed set of goals, it does not explain how the PA will achieve them. However, the plan is still anticipated as a step forward for the PA, which has focused primarily on its demands in negotiations with Israel, and not on the infrastructure of the state it hopes to form.Fayyad, whose background is in finance, was reappointed by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas this year in the absence of PA elections. While he bears the title of prime minister, Abbas is the official head of the PA.Fayyad called on the PA to work towards the goals set out in his plan immediately, but simultaneously accused Israel of thwarting any chance of PA success via the Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria.The Israeli occupation is the only obstacle that hinders the stability, prosperity and the progress of our people,he declared.The plan will be officially unveiled on Tuesday.

REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE (THE EU DICTATORS TEMPLE)

ISAIAH 30:10-15
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

DANIEL 9:27
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.

REBUILT 4TH TEMPLE (THE TRUE MESSIAHS TEMPLE)

ZECHARIAH 6:12-13
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

ISAIAH 60:9-10
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.

ISAIAH 2:1-5
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

MARK 11:9-10,15-17
9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

EZEKIEL 40 TO 48 IS THIS 4TH TEMPLE TO BIG FOR THE MOUNT I BELIEVE TO BE BUILT 25 MILES FROM JERUSALEM.

Arab League Furious over Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount
by Maayana Miskin AUG 24,09

(IsraelNN.com) The Arab League reacted with fury on this week to reports that a small group of Jews had prayed on the Temple Mount on Sunday. Secretary-General Amr Moussa termed the spontaneous prayer gathering a violation of international law.Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, head of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem, led the guided tour on the Temple Mount. While guards on the mount have a policy of preventing Jewish prayer or religious gestures such as kneeling or bowing, Rabbi Ariel's group managed to briefly pray at the site.This is the first time since 1967 that Jews have conducted prayers on Al-Aksa during the month of Ramadan,Moussa declared.We condemn this act,he added, in the name of the 22 countries belonging to the League.The prayer session was a serious blow to the holiness of the site,Moussa claimed, adding that Jews should not be allowed to pray at the site whether it is Ramadan or any other time of year.

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City is the site on which the Temple and Second Temple once stood, and according to Judaism, is the holiest place on earth. For approximately 1,000 years, the mount has housed the Al Aksa mosque.Rabbi Chaim Richman, another Temple Institute leader, said Moussa was misinformed. Rabbi Ariel's prayer was not the first of its kind – in fact, Jews pray on the Temple Mount whenever they can, he said, and always have.There's a positive commandment for Jewish people to pray on the Temple Mount,Rabbi Richman explained.I was on the Temple Mount on Wednesday, and I prayed.Far from being a violation of international law, Jewish prayer at the site is a fundamental human right, he said.We go there out of a deep desire to express the most basic human right that we have, which is to pray to G-d.

EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnq5cQMiAB8&feature=related

REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)

REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.

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 shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950

Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.

OBAMA IS A FORERUNNER OF THE EU WORLD DICTATOR.

Obama’s variation of Soviet style rule--NOT governance,Obama Attacks CIA to Quell ObamaCare Protests and Establish Secret Police By Sher Zieve Tuesday, August 25, 2009

In December 1917 Bolshevik Russian leaders, including one of the founders of Socialist thuggery Vladimir Lenin, established the Cheka—Russia’s first political secret police. With almost unlimited power, the Cheka implemented campaigns of terror against the wealthy, land owners and those who opposed Lenin and Bolshevism.In 1922, once most of Russia’s opposition to their new absolute rulers had lessened, the Cheka was disbanded. However, under the singularly oppressive Josef Stalin, Cheka was reinstated and ultimately renamed The People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) and what would be known as Stalin’s Great Terror of the 1930s began.The NKVD was used against any and all Russian citizens who opposed Stalin or those who had the audacity to practice their religious beliefs. During this time period, hundreds of thousands of them were sent to the then frozen wasteland of Siberia. But, these were the lucky ones. During Stalin’s brutal reign, over 20 Million (some reports advise at least 28 Million) were executed in one way or another for opposing Stalin and his policies—14.5 million were starved to death, over 1 Million were directly executed, 9.5 Million were deported to Stalin’s goon-run work camps or Gulags (political prisons). Note: Some historians place the number sent to Stalin’s Gulags at 18 Million.

Is History Beginning to Repeat Itself?
As the resistance to ObamaCare (aka ObamaTotalControl) continues to grow within the American populace, America’s dictator-in-chief and his increasingly radicalized entourage had to find something to switch the attention of US citizens away from their looming demise under ObamaCare-Part 2 (did you know part 1 had already been covertly passed?).Therefore, Obama chose the ever-popular-amongst-the-leftists attack on the CIA.Besides this will be the proverbial stone that kills, at least, two birds at the same time.The non Obama-run CIA (Obama already has his personal replacement White House Secret Police interrogation Unit ready to go) is being replaced by ObamaThugs. Considering Obama’s swift and certain establishment of the ObamaCzars (now at around 50) who report only to him, Obama’s version of the NKVD should expand rather quickly.ObamaLackey and US Attorney General Eric Holder has called for investigations of the CIA’s alleged torture against those who attacked the USA—some who killed at least 3,000 people on 9/11/2001 and/or continued to kill and fight Americans worldwide.This is the same Eric Holder who dismissed the legally obtained convictions of New Black Panthers who had physically intimidated those they deemed non-Obama voters during the 2008 elections.It also allowed Obama and his media a new story to cover that they can now use in their attempts to—once again—stop the bloodletting and reporting brought on ObamaCare and silence the American people. And to what purpose and what end are those newly-refurbished-and-now-being- staffed encampments on nationwide military bases to be used? To date, no one in government or the military has answered the question.

ObamaCare Part 1 passed in ObamaStimulus Package
David H. Janda, M.D. recently wrote his column The Obama Health Care Plan—in One Word.In this he explains how part ObamaCare Part 1 has already been passed, as it was covertly placed in the Obama Stimulus bill.In H.R. 1: Final Stimulus Bill pages 136, 151, 63, 73, 135, 153 and 351 healthcare and establishment of the Obama bureaucrats committee known as the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research is addressed.Thus began the attack on American’s healthcare—without our knowing it.This was due to Obama and his minions shouting You MUST pass this bill without reading it! And so they did.Do you see why WE must now slow down or stop Obama & Co in their tracks? Obama’s variation of Soviet style rule—NOT governance—is already becoming law.Again, PLEASE keep up your townhall protests to the Orwellian ObamaCare.Democrat leaders—including Obama—are again telling the American people (Sunday via Obama mouthpiece Sen. Charles Schumer D-NY) that it plans to ram ObamaCare down our throats. But, we must remain peaceful—though vocal—for as long as possible.

UNHCR calls for creation of more child immigrant centres Submitted by Sahil Nagpal on Tue, 08/25/2009 - 17:29. Featured Athens Greece

Athens - The director of UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency in Greece, called Monday for the creation of more special centre for unaccompanied child immigrants and refugees.The arrival of an increasing number of unaccompanied minors in Greece is a major problem,George Tsarbopoulos, the director of UNHCR in Greece told the German Press Agency dpa in a telephone interview.Tsarbopoulos, who recently paid a two-day visit to the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos, called for the creation of more reception centers similar to the Agiasos centre for unaccompanied minors currently in operation on the island.The minors should not be kept in detention but referred to adequate reception facilities responding to their needs. These days the Agiasos centre received more than 150 children while it was only created to house 100,he said.

More such facilities should be created since the existing ones are insufficient. To that effect, we are in contact with the Ministry of Health and Social Solidarity, which has promised to resolve the issue of children still remaining in the Pagani (Lesbos) detention centre by transferring them to proper facilities by the end of the month, as well as to create new reception facilities for unaccompanied children.He said the Agiasos centre was in good condition and met all the proper health requires. Dpa erroneously reported on Monday that the UNHCR had called for the centre to be closed. The UNHCR director made the comments after reports of dozens of minors detained at Pagani recently went on a hunger strike to demand their release from the horribly overcrowded centre.More than 800 persons, including 150 unaccompanied minors, are currently detained at the Pagani centre, which has a capacity of 250.The children, some of them detained for two months, had released a letter during a recent hunger strike denouncing the deplorable conditions in which they are being kept, including ill-treatment by the police, unclean water, diseases and no access to a courtyard.Clearly human rights are not being respected ... I saw 150 women with 50 babies cramped in one room and almost all the babies had health problems, according to what Medecins San Frontieres staff working in Pagani reported, Tsarbopoulos stated.

He said that the Pagani detention centre should be closed and a new modern constructed which meets with European and international human rights standards, as the government had promised almost one year ago.Lesbos is a major transit point for migrant smugglers operating from nearby Turkey from where thousands of migrants have attempted to gain access to the European Union via Greece.(dpa)

Prosecutor to talk with clergy about slain pastor AUG 26,2009

ANADARKO, Okla. – An Oklahoma district attorney is to meet with pastors in a town where a preacher was brutally killed inside her own church.Prosecutor Bret Burns said he wanted to meet with the pastors on Wednesday to talk about the case. The body of 61-year-old Carol Daniels was found Sunday in the Christ Holy Sanctified Church in Anadarko (AN-uh-DAR-koh). A preliminary autopsy found she died of multiple sharp force injuries.Burns says the crime scene was the most horrific he's seen in nearly 20years as a prosecutor.He declined to elaborate and Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Jessica Brown would not discuss the details of the case, including when Daniels died, a possible motive or what evidence was found at the church.

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 WED AUGUST 26,2009

09:30 AM -4.12
10:00 AM -18.97
10:30 AM +23.73
11:00 AM +18.28
11:30 AM -8.09
12:00 PM -6.50
12:30 PM -0.76
01:00 PM -5.29
01:30 PM -16.93
02:00 PM +14.36
02:30 PM +11.41
03:00 PM -9.15
03:30 PM -2.12
04:00 PM +4.23 9543.52

S&P 500 1028.12 +0.12

NASDAQ 2024.43 +0.20

GOLD 947.00 +1.00

OIL 71.41 -0.64

TSE 300 10,918.91 -1.62

CDNX 1185.79 +2.12

S&P/TSX/60 656.87 -0.17

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +8.69%
S&P +13.81%
Nasdaq +28.36%
TSX Advances 871,declines 614,unchanged 245,Volume 440,760,110.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 394,Declines 424,Unchanged 380,Volume 221,236,677.

Dow -23 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -53 points at low today.
Dow +44 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $948.20.OIL opens at $71.23 today.

INVENTORIES
CRUDE OIL +200,000 BARRELS.
GASOLINE -1.7 MILLION BARRELS.
DISTILLATE +800,000 BARRELS.
REFINERY UTILIZATION +0.1% TO 84.1%

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -53 points at low today so far.
Dow +44 points at high today so far.

DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 1,416,declines 2,180,unchanged 105,New Highs 79,New Lows 30.
Volume 2,973,650,407.
NASDAQ Advances 1,073,declines 1,482,unchanged 109,New highs 54,New Lows 06.
Volume 948,445,098.
TSX Advances 614,declines 585,unchanged 277,Volume 214,985,658.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 296,Declines 302,Unchanged 273,Volume 107,038,861.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -53 points at low today.
Dow +44 points at high today.
Dow +0.04% today Volume 154,634,599.
Nasdaq +0.01% today Volume 1,936,059,954.
S&P 500 +0.01% today Volume N/A

ROBERT WELSH HERE GOT IT DEAD ON HOW AMERICA COMES TO NOT(NWO BANKERS TAKEOVER)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZU0c8DAIU4

BRINGING BACK BERNANKE
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1226320178&play=1
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1226252925&play=1
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1226191992&play=1
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1226184231&play=1
OIL TOMORROW
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1226267113&play=1
ORBITZ ON HEALTH CARE
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1226189802&play=1
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1227155186&play=1

Sarkozy calls for worldwide bonus rules AUG 26,09

PARIS – President Nicolas Sarkozy is urging other countries to follow France's example and limit bonuses handed out to bank traders to avert the kind of risk-taking blamed for fueling the financial crisis.Sarkozy also says that current world governance systems such as the Group of Eight are stupid and that they should be broadened to include poorer nations.Sarkozy was speaking to French ambassadors Wednesday in an annual foreign policy speech ahead of a Group of 20 summit of leading rich and developing countries in Pittsburgh next month.Sarkozy says France will ask other summit participants to follow France's lead on bonuses. French banks agreed Tuesday to change the way they hand out bonuses and punish traders who lose money for their banks.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

PARIS (AP) — President Nicolas Sarkozy will lay out his diplomatic strategies for Iran, Syria and other key areas, in a speech to France's ambassadors Wednesday overshadowed by the uncertain plight of two Frenchwomen charged in Iran with fomenting unrest.Sarkozy took a diplomatic risk in seeking Syria's help earlier this month in winning the release of French researcher Clotilde Reiss and embassy employee Nazak Afshar.The gamble worked, at least partially: Afshar was released on bail, and France specifically thanked Syria for its help. Reiss, too, was released on bail, though neither can leave Iran pending a verdict. The women are among more than 100 people on a mass trial of pro-reform opposition supporters accused of trying to mount a soft revolution.

While details of Syria's gesture are scant, it comes amid signs of thaw with the West.

The U.S. lists Syria as a sponsor of terrorism, and Damascus has long been criticized in the West for its support of radical Palestinian groups and the militant Hezbollah in Lebanon.But Sarkozy and President Barack Obama have sought to improve ties with Syria, which appears to be quietly seeking to improve its image in the West after years of isolation. Syria's assistance to former colonial ruler France was seen as a signal to the West that Damascus wants to help defuse tensions over Iran's postelection turmoil.Iran, however, is keen on preventing Syria — its closest Arab ally — from migrating closer to the West.Sarkozy is likely to address the Iranian political unrest and its nuclear programs in his diplomatic speech Wednesday.The U.S. and its allies want Iran to suspend uranium enrichment, a process that can be used to produce fuel for both nuclear energy and nuclear weapons.Sarkozy many also renew France's push for an international conference on Mideast peace, after his efforts to end Israeli offensive in Gaza earlier this year.Sarkozy is likely to use the speech to press his ideas for increasing control over world markets to prevent another global financial crisis. Sarkozy plans to propose international rules on curbing banker bonuses and cracking down on tax havens at a summit of the Group of 20 leading rich and developing countries in Pittsburgh next month.

As more banks fail, private investors gain favor By MARCY GORDON, AP Business Writer – Wed Aug 26, 12:01 am ET

WASHINGTON – As the tally of U.S. bank failures mounts, federal regulators could be extending an embrace to private investors seeking to buy failed institutions.Private equity funds have been targets of criticism for their risk-taking and outsized pay for managers. But the depth of the banking crisis appears to have tempered the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s resistance to private investors buying failed banks. In part, that's because fewer healthy banks are now willing to acquire other, ailing institutions.The FDIC board, meeting in a public session Wednesday, is expected to ease restrictions proposed for private equity firms early last month, people familiar with the issue say. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the rules haven't been made public in final form yet.The move would follow the stream of recent developments. In July, when bondholders rescued commercial lender CIT Group Inc., it marked the first time since the crisis erupted last fall that private investors had saved a big financial firm without federal aid or oversight.Rising loan defaults, fed by tumbling home prices and worsening unemployment, have hammered banks. Eighty-one have failed so far this year. The closings have drained billions from the FDIC deposit insurance fund, which insures regular bank accounts up to $250,000 and is financed with fees paid by U.S. banks.

The FDIC estimates bank failures will cost the fund around $70 billion through 2013. The fund stood at $13 billion — its lowest level since 1993 — at the end of March. It's slipped to 0.27 percent of insured deposits, below a congressionally mandated minimum of 1.15 percent.The FDIC seizes failed banks and seeks buyers for their branches, deposits and soured loans. Under the crush of failures, the agency says private equity can inject vitally needed capital into the system, especially with fewer healthy banks looking to acquire failed institutions.There's an enormous need for private money to do this,said Josh Lerner, a professor of finance at Harvard Business School.There's the sense that you have a lot of money which is currently sitting on the sidelines.A potential sweet spot for private equity buyers are banks with $5 billion to $20 billion in assets, said Chip MacDonald, an attorney at Jones Day in Atlanta. Falling within that range was BankUnited FSB, a Florida thrift with $12.8 billion in assets that closed in May. BankUnited was sold for $900 million to a group of private equity investors that included billionaire Wilbur Ross' firm, without the new FDIC policy being in effect.Private equity firms tend to buy distressed companies, slash costs and then resell them a few years later. They invest their own capital to buy a company and pump it up with money from other investors.

Such leveraging to buy companies amounts to, on average, three-to-one for private equity firms: They invest $3 in outside capital for each $1 they put up themselves. The roughly 2,000 private equity firms in the U.S. have around $450 billion in capital to invest, according to the Private Equity Council, the industry's 2-year-old advocacy group.Investors in private equity funds include pension funds, university endowments and charitable foundations.Organized labor still denounces private equity as vultures and job-killers. Unions got a sympathetic ear from many Democrats in Congress in 2007, when several key lawmakers pushed to raise taxes for managers of private equity firms as well as hedge funds. That tax campaign stalled.The private equity industry is exploiting the economic crisis to enrich itself, said Stephen Lerner, director of the private equity project at the Service Employees International Union.They are trying to use their political and financial sway to get into what they see as bargain basement prices for very little risk.But with the financial crisis and recession causing banks to fail at the fastest pace since the height of the savings-and-loan crisis in 1992, support is building among regulators to use private equity money to bolster the industry.We want nontraditional investors,FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said in early July, when the agency proposed its rules. There is a significant need for capital, and there is capital out there.

Regulators also have begun to reach overseas.

On Friday, the FDIC seized Guaranty Bank, a big Texas lender, and sold most of its operations to the U.S. division of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA, Spain's second-largest bank. Guaranty was the second-biggest U.S. bank to fail this year, with about $13 billion in assets. Its sale marked the first time during the crisis that a foreign bank had bought a failed U.S. institution. In the FDIC policy as proposed, the most important requirement is for private equity investors to maintain enough cash in the banks they acquire, as measured by its capital leverage ratio. The ratio is a measure of health, reflecting a bank's capital divided by its assets. Investors would have to maintain a ratio of at least 15 percent for three years. Most banks have ratios lower than that. Citigroup Inc., for example, had a reported ratio of around 9 percent as of June 30. The mandate could be reduced to 10 percent or lower in the final rules, the people familiar with the issue say.A private equity role in the FDIC's resolution of failed banks would be in addition to private investors' participation in a Treasury program to buy banks' bad mortgage-backed assets. That program is intended to relieve banks of up to $40 billion of these assets, whose value plummeted with real estate prices.But some analysts question whether this program will provide much benefit. Rising unemployment and loan defaults appear to have surpassed soured bank securities as threats to the financial sector.

Stocks edge higher after jump in home sales By Sara Lepro, Ap Business Writer – AUG 26,09

NEW YORK – Reports showing jumps in home sales and factory orders are keeping stocks afloat.Major stock indicators reversed early losses and edged slightly higher in early trading Wednesday after the Commerce Department said new home sales rose 9.6 percent in July — the fourth straight monthly increase. Sales rose to 433,000, the strongest pace since September and well above the 390,000 figure economists expected.

Earlier Wednesday, the Commerce Department said orders for goods expected to last at least three years rose 4.9 percent in July — the biggest jump in two years and more than the 3 percent increase economists had expected.The day's news followed upbeat readings on consumer sentiment and home prices on Tuesday that sent stocks to fresh highs for the year.The market's gains on Wednesday were modest, reflecting the caution that still pervades Wall Street. After a five-month run-up in stocks, with little break, investors are unsure how much further the market can go without seeing actual economic growth.Matt King, chief investment officer at Bell Investment Advisors said much of the improving economic data has already been factored into stocks.We're just moving on momentum more than anything else,he said.

In early trading, the Dow Jones industrials moved higher for a seventh straight day, rising 13.45, or 0.1 percent, to 9,552.74, after being down as much as 45 points prior to the home sales data.The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 1.15, or 0.1 percent, to 1,029.15, and the Nasdaq composite index rose 3.45, or 0.2 percent, to 2,027.68.Advancing issues were roughly even with decliners on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 315.2 million shares, compared with 394.9 million shares at the same time on Tuesday.In other trading, the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 1.19, or 0.2 percent, to 584.41.Shares of homebuilders surged for a second day after the housing data. Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. rose 36 cents, or 7.9 percent, to $4.93, tacking on to its 6.5 percent jump the day before. DR Horton Inc. rose 67 cents, or 5.1 percent, to $13.72.Retail stocks were mostly higher after a handful of upbeat earnings reports. Shares of Dollar Tree Inc. rose $2.98, or 6.2 percent, to $50.88 after the company posted a 51 percent jump in its second-quarter profit as its deeply discounted goods attracted cash-strapped consumers.Government bond prices dipped after the positive economic data and ahead of an auction of $39 billion in five-year notes. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 3.45 percent from 3.44 percent late Tuesday.

Stocks got a lift Tuesday after improving data on home prices reinforced the notion that the battered industry is stabilizing. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index rose 1.4 percent in the second quarter, the first quarterly increase in three years. Traders also welcomed a more upbeat report on consumer sentiment from the Conference Board.The dollar rose against other major currencies. Prices for gold and other metals fell.Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average rose 1.4 percent. In afternoon trading, Britain's FTSE 100 declined 0.4 percent, Germany's DAX index fell 0.3 percent, and France's CAC-40 rose 0.1 percent.

Four financials dominate NYSE stock action in August By Ryan Vlastelica – Tue Aug 25, 2:15 pm ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) – In late August's quiet trading, four troubled financial companies have accounted for a big piece of total volume on the New York Stock Exchange, with all four rallying on little news.Citigroup (C.N), Bank of America (BAC.N), Freddie Mac (FRE.N) and Fannie Mae (FNM.N) have dominated trading recently as each has more than doubled in price from 2009 lows.On Monday and on Tuesday morning, the four accounted for more than 40 percent of composite volume on the NYSE. Some attributed this to bets on hoped-for economic improvement and ongoing government support, but others said the volume was due to speculation in popular names with low share prices.We've been referring to the heavy volume on these as the dash for trash, said Jon Najarian, the co-founder of Optionmonster.com in Chicago. No one is buying them based on their fundamentals, they're buying based on what the government might do keep them alive.All four companies were hit hard during Wall Street's meltdown in late 2008. Fannie and Freddie were essentially nationalized by the government to prevent them from going under last fall.Citigroup fell 1.9 percent to $4.73 on Tuesday, while Dow component Bank of America was up 1.5 percent to $17.61. Freddie Mac was up 0.5 percent to $2.06 while Fannie Mae surged 7.7 percent to $1.83.

The recent action may be indicative of a short squeeze, as all four companies are prime targets of short sellers, who borrow shares and sell them in a bet that share prices will go down.When momentum starts to turn, however, short-sellers are forced to cover their bets, increasing the buying pressure on those names. But that may not last forever, and some believe the stocks are poised to fall once this flurry of activity dissipates.Intraday buyers are moving it, and if they decide to stop, and the buyers go away, the stocks are going to drop down like they did in March,said Joe Saluzzi, comanager of trading at Themis Trading in Chatham, New Jersey.

BIG VOLUME

Tuesday, Citigroup was the volume leader on the NYSE with about 681.7 million shares, as of 1:15 p.m. Citigroup was followed by Fannie with 557.2 million shares, Freddie with 188.4 million and Bank of America with 148.9 million.To compare, the fifth most-traded stock was General Electric (GE.N) with 42.4 million shares traded.The total listed volume for the NYSE was 3.858 billion, meaning that combined volume for the four represented more than 41 percent of the total day's volume. On Monday, those four companies also accounted for 43 percent of the volume.The surge in volume among these names started around August 10. This was just after troubled insurer American International Group (AIG.N) reported better-than-expected earnings, and amid signs of U.S. economic improvement.Bank of America would seem to be the outlier in this group. The other three are all in single digits, and therefore targets of daytraders looking for quick trading profits.The volume in B of A is based on institutional ownership, Najarian said.An institution can't trade Freddie or Fannie because they're too cheap. All you see in them is hedge funds and money players.Najarian said institutions were buying into Bank of America in an attempt to play into the recovery thesis.People are having a hard time finding cheap stocks,Najarian said.They're looking for the cheapest of the decent stocks. Clearly, in the institutional investor's mind, Bank of America is one of the stocks they're choosing.(Editing by Kenneth Barry)

Mortgage applications rise as refinancing demand jumps By Julie Haviv – Wed Aug 26, 7:02 am ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. mortgage applications rose for a second straight week, with demand for home refinancing loans rising to its highest level since early June, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday.Applications for loans to buy a home, an early indicator of sales, rose slightly, but nevertheless gained for a fourth consecutive week. The trend bodes well for the hard-hit U.S. housing market, which has been showing signs of stabilization.The Mortgage Bankers Association said its seasonally adjusted index of mortgage applications, which includes both purchase and refinance loans, for the week ended Aug 21 increased 7.5 percent to 566.4.Jim Gillespie, president and chief executive officer, Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC, in an interview with Reuters, said that while recent data on home sales and prices point to stabilization, certain consumers are missing from the market.For the market to stabilize permanently we are missing one key element and that is the move-up buyer, said Gillespie, who is based in Parsippany, New Jersey.The move-up buyer is a homeowner who chooses to move to a larger home due to a lifestyle change such as a marriage, an addition to their home, a job promotion or a job transfer, he said.Once that move-up buyer is back in the market then we will see a true long-term stabilization of the market,he said.Borrowing costs on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, excluding fees, averaged 5.24 percent, up 0.09 percentage point from the previous week and above the all-time low of 4.61 percent set in the week ended March 27. The survey has been conducted weekly since 1990.

Interest rates, however, were well below year-ago levels of 6.44 percent.The MBA's seasonally adjusted purchase index rose 1.0 percent to 280.4.Low mortgage rates, high affordability, and the government's $8,000 tax credit, part of the stimulus bill, for first-time home buyers have helped pave the way for stabilization.But with the tax credit set to expire in several months and distressed properties making up a high proportion of sales, the recent flurry of activity masks uncertainty about the long-term outlook.Right now the market has investors taking advantage of the great deals out there, mostly distressed properties in foreclosure or selling as short sales and first-time home buyers who are taking advantage of the first-time home buyers tax credit,Gillespie said.If that tax credit expires the end of November then the real estate market recovery will probably stall,he said.Gillespie said what is truly needed is a $15,000 tax credit for all buyers of primary residences for a period of one year with no income caps so all levels of buyers have an incentive to get back into the market.A $15,000 tax credit will go a long way to helping us out of our economic situation today,he said.The four-week moving average of mortgage applications, which smooths the volatile weekly figures, was up 3.5 percent.

REFINANCING JUMPS

The Mortgage Bankers seasonally adjusted index of refinancing applications increased 12.7 percent to 2,233.5, the highest level since the week ended June 5. The refinance share of applications increased to 56.5 percent from 53.3 percent the previous week, but remained significantly lower than the peak of 85.3 percent in the week ended January 9. The adjustable-rate mortgage share of activity remained unchanged from the previous week at 6.5 percent.The U.S. housing market has suffered the worst downturn since the Great Depression and its impact has rippled through the recession-hit economy, as well as the rest of the world.The housing market, however, has been showing signs of stabilization, with sales rising and home price declines moderating in many regions of the country. In fact, home prices in some regions have risen.

Some analysts, however, say prices may fall again, with a wave of more foreclosures in the pipeline.Fixed 15-year mortgage rates averaged 4.58 percent, up from 4.52 percent the previous week. Rates on one-year ARMs increased to 6.74 percent from 6.66 percent.

IMF: Belarus's economy improving, but foreign reserves short
Submitted by Mohit Joshi on Tue, 08/25/2009 - 15:28.

Minsk - Belarus's economy is showing signs of a turnaround, but the country's dwindling foreign currency and gold reserves are a major concern, a representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Tuesday.We consider this (the shortage of currencies and gold) one of the main problems of the Belarus economy,Marek Belka, senior representative of the IMF to Belarus, said at a meeting with Belorussian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky.An IMF delegation headed by Belka met on Tuesday with Sidorsky and government representatives, as well as with the senior leadership of the National Bank of Belarus.Chronic Belorussian shortages of convertible currency and gold reserves, and possible Belorussian inability to repay foreign obligations, including its debt to the IMF, were the main topics of Tuesday's discussions between Belorussian and IMF officials, Marek said.The decline in foreign reserves is slowing, however, and the Belorussian economy is showing signs of stabilization, Belka said.

The IMF is satisfied with the economic policies conducted by the Belorussian government he said.Sidorsky said Belarus's economy is mending from the impact of the international financial crisis.During the summer months the Belorussian economy has seen real expansion,Sidorsky said.Trade and production declined in January and February, but in recent months Belarus has seen moderate but continuous growth, Sidorsky said.We expect that this tendency will continue,he said.By IMF count, Belorussian foreign reserves increased in June by 512 million dollars to 3.16 billion dollars, largely because of IMF loans.Belarus in early 2009 received the first 800-million-dollar tranche of a planned total 2.5-billion-dollar loan programme.The second tranche, worth 680 million, was paid out in June.(dpa)

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Geithner: Auditing the Fed is a line that we don’t want to cross James Corbett
The Corbett Report August 26, 2009

In an interview released today by Digg and the Wall Street Journal, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was pressured about the growing popular movement to Audit the Fed spearheaded by Texas Congressman Ron Paul. A visibly uncomfortable Geithner attempts to dismiss the question by stating I’m sure people understand that you want to keep politics out of monetary policy.When Geithner is again pressed on the issue, he makes the stunning assertion that conducting an audit of the Federal Reserve—something never before done in its 96 year history—is a line that we don’t want to cross,proclaiming that such a move would be problematic for the country.Watch the interview in the player below:Geithner’s response that auditing the Fed would give politicians dangerous control over American monetary policy is mistaken at best and a deliberate lie at worst. Allowing the public to know what happened to their $24 trillion in bailout money does not give undue control of monetary policy to the people’s elected representatives. Instead, such an audit would finally allow the public to see how their money has been spent in the midst of the largest spending binge in the history of the world’s economy, hardly an unreasonable demand given the well-documented revolving door between the Treasury and Goldman Sachs, the main recipient of bailout funds. Ultimately, the Treasury Secretary is left spewing the absurdity that I think even the sponsor of that bill recognizes how important it is to us to have the Fed independent of politics,which can only be said to be true insofar as Ron Paul—the sponsor of House Resolution (HR) 1207— wants to abolish the Federal Reserve system altogether.That the Wall Street Journal would even pressure the Treasury Secretary on serious issues like the Audit the Fed movement may be surprising, given that the Wall Street Journal is a mouthpiece of the financial oligarchy and that editor Paul Gigot, like Geithner himself, is a Bilderberg attendee. Needless to say, this was not a typical inside-the-beltway interview. Instead, questions were submitted and voted on by the Digg community, with the top 10 questions being posed to Mr. Geithner.

As a result, the Secretary was bombarded by pointed questions about his documented tax evasion from 2001-2004, the wisdom of spending trillions of dollars in the light of long-term dollar devaluation and even, in the words of one particularly irate questioner, Why are you running the Treasury Department? Despite presumably having had time to prepare responses to each question well in advance, Geithner is still visibly discomfited by the entire exchange, picking at his shirt cuff and coughing nervously throughout the interview.In one particularly telling moment, Geithner even admits We have been forced to do just extraordinary things and, frankly, offensive things to help save the economy.That these questions are only being asked now, almost a year into the bailout and several months after the new administration has taken office, further highlights how the controlled corporate media is doing everything in its power to keep to well-trodden and uncontroversial areas in their interviewing of key administration officials. This interview is testimony to the power of the citizen journalism movement that is attempting to hold those in power accountable for their actions. We can only hope that the Obama Administration lives up to their promise to be the cyber administration by allowing more such question-and-answer sessions in the future.

Aug 25, 2009, 9:29 a.m. EST Early withdrawal-Commentary: The Fed is now quietly taking money out of the By Irwin Kellner, MarketWatch

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. (MarketWatch) -- Guess what? The Federal Reserve has not only stopped depositing copious amounts of liquidity into the economy -- it now appears to be in the process of making a sizable withdrawal. A close look at quantitative measures of monetary policy reveals a sudden change in trend. After growing at unprecedented rates for well over a year, these aggregates stopped rising several months ago and have since declined, according to data provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.For example, the monetary base -- the raw material for the money supply -- has fallen at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 8% from early April of this year through mid-August, after soaring at a 187% pace during the previous eight months.

Kellner's ForecastsSee economic calendardate report forecast previous
August 25 Consumer confidence 48.0 46.6
August 26 Durable goods orders 2.0% -2.2%
August 26 New home sales 390,000 384,000
August 27 GDP -1.4% -1.0%
August 27 Jobless claims 550,000 576,000
August 28 Personal incomes 0.2% -1.3%
August 28 Consumer spending 0.3% 0.4%
August 28 Consumer sentiment 65.0 63.2
/conga/story/misc/kellners-forecast.html 23999 And after ballooning from $100 billion to nearly $1 trillion between September 2008 and mid-May, adjusted reserves have since declined at a 43% clip, to just over $800 billion.As a result, the Fed's two measures of the money supply, M2 and MZM, have begun to contract. M2 has shrunk at a 3% pace since the middle of June, while MZM, the St. Louis Fed's measure of liquid money, is down by 2% over the same period.Both had been rising by rates as much as 15% earlier this year. These are sharp enough changes over a long enough period to suggest that our central bankers are more concerned about inflation developing down the road than you might think, judging by their public statements.And with good reason. As I pointed out in my column of Dec. 23, 2008, the Fed can't wait for all the stars to align or for the umpire of the business cycle, the National Bureau of Economic Research, to make the official call that the recession has ended. It must act long before if it is to prevent another burst of inflation.

The markets are already concerned about inflation. The yield curve has steepened over the past few months, while the spread between the plain vanilla 10-year Treasury note and its TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Security) counterpart has jumped from zero at the beginning of this year to 2 percentage points today.To be sure, no one expects the Fed to hike interest rates anytime soon. But some forecasters think that by the second quarter of 2010, the effects of these reductions in liquidity will result in the federal funds rate rising above the top of the central bank's current target range.This will mark the beginning of what could be a rather aggressive tightening of monetary policy. After all, it would follow a period of aggressive easing.This V-shaped configuration for monetary policy is why I think the recovery will look like a W. ( See my column of Aug. 11.)It is also a good reason to take some profits from the recent run up in stocks -- along with the fact that the two worst months for equities, September and October, are just around the corner.Irwin Kellner is chief economist for MarketWatch, and is Distinguished Scholar of Economics at Dowling College in Oakdale, N.Y.

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Ron Paul: If HR 1207 Doesn’t Pass, The People Will Be Outraged By tmartin • August 24, 2009.Last Friday, Ron Paul talked about the prospects and challenges of getting HR 1207 passed, and what we can do to make it happen.Event: John Birch Society Luncheon Location: Houston, TX Date: August 21, 2009

Transcript

Ron Paul: The odds of this bill being passed as a bill on itself (a stand-alone bill), quite frankly I think are very slim. It could happen if the American people put enough pressure on them and things come together, but the odds aren’t very good.

The odds of the bill being passed, with their strong effort to water it down a bit, are pretty good, I think they know that there is such strong public sentiment that they are going to permit something, and they’ll probably attach it to some horrible, horrible bill for reform on the regulatory system. So, that’s a possibility of what will happen. But the question comes up; why, if you have a majority of the people who are for it, why don’t they just bring it to the floor. Don’t they have to? No, they don’t have to. The 290 vote means that you have enough votes for it to pass under suspension. The super-majority support it, so just bring it to the floor. They could if they wanted to, plus they could bring it up on Monday. The first Monday we go back. It could be under suspension.I imagine there wouldn’t be very many who would oppose it, but it’s not going to happen. The establishment does not want this, and I think if you get to be president or vice-president or speaker of the House, the establishment has a lot of influence on those individuals. So, they will be restrained in bringing this up, unless the momentum continues, and I think that is a possibility.

We don’t know exactly what will happen, but something is going to happen in the next several months. Let’s say they take that bill and they do nothing. Let’s say they refuse to, or pass something that is totally worthless. I think then, those individuals, the groups, the citizens who have been pushing this bill, as well as the 75% who think that transparency is a good idea, they are going to be outraged, because it will prove our point that they would defy this huge majority of people and common sense and the Constitution in order to protect their secrecy on what they are doing.So, I work on the assumption, I do not know for sure, but I know one thing, we can continue with this issue. This issue is going to be important for a long time to come. How would you bring it to the floor? Is there a rule in the House that allows you to bring it to the floor when you have more than half the people in Congress supporting it? Yes, you can. You can get people to sign a discharge petition, forcing it out. But I haven’t chosen that way, because I think the chances are slim to none to even get Democrats to sign on to it, because they are really partisan. They will sign on to a bill, but to challenge and start going with a discharge petition, that’s sort of like saying,We’re rejecting the entire leadership of the Democratic party. And their political livelihood depends on at least a working relationship with their leadership.So, I don’t see that as being practical. What I do see as practical is building up the momentum of the people and spreading this message and insisting on it. We will be hearing a lot more about this, but the effort to do this, I think shows you what the freedom movement can do. This is one bill, one very important bill, and it could do a lot of good, but it means that if you put the package together right and you are on the right side of these issues and you present them and it’s truthful and it’s constitutional and you can show the benefits economically speaking and you can work on transparency… you can put coalitions together, and that’s what we need to do.

Gaza Islamization Continues, Schoolgirls Told Cover Up
by Maayana Miskin AUG 24,09

(IsraelNN.com) Gaza took another step towards strict Islamic law this week with the imposition of new dress codes on schoolgirls. Girls and young women returning to school on Sunday were told that they must wear jilbab, traditional Islamic sleeved robes, and cover their hair, or they would not be allowed to return to class.Posters hung in Gaza City schools announced that all girls would be required to wear navy blue jilbab, a white headscarf, and white or black shoes. Dozens of students reported being sent home after appearing in school in jeans.In addition, public high school classes have been separated, with boys and girls learning in different buildings.

According to some Gaza residents, the new rules are being enforced on members the region's small Christian minority as well, despite the fact that Christians are generally considered exempt from following Islamic law. However, the laws have not been enforced within private Christian schools.Hamas officials denied Monday that they were connected to the new school dress codes. The decision to enforce strict standards of dress was made at the local level, by individual principals, Hamas claimed.Most girls and their families were in favor of the new dress codes, they added.Reports of a new school dress code caused anger in Judea and Samaria, where Palestinian Authority loyalists accused Hamas of violating the PA charter, which forbids the enforcement of a public dress code. Earlier this month, a Gaza judge ordered that all female lawyers cover their hair in court. The decision caused a wave of protest from lawyers and human rights groups in Gaza, Judea and Samaria. Hamas distanced itself from that decision as well, saying the matter was a private issue for the courts to deal with.Several weeks ago, Hamas was accused of enforcing an informal dress code on women living in Gaza, and of allowing local militias to enforce strict standards of modest dress and behavior.

EU: Airlines must join emissions trading plan or face penalty
Updated AUG 24,09

BRUSSELS (AP) — Nearly 4,000 commercial airlines, business jet operators and air forces from around the world will have to join the European Union greenhouse gas emissions trading plan by 2012 or be penalized when flying to the continent, the EU said Saturday.The bloc's official gazette published Saturday the list of operators, which includes major airlines such as Lufthansa, Alitalia, Quantas, KLM, Emirates, US Airways and United.Also listed are European airplane manufacturers Airbus and Dassault, hundreds of private business jet operators, as well as a number of military services such as the U.S. Navy and the air forces of Israel and Russia.Aviation has been included into the emissions trading scheme and this list is part of a directive that was adopted in 2008 to bring the aviation sector into that scheme, EU spokeswoman Katharina von Schnurbein said.Under the program, operators will have to submit plans for monitoring their emissions by January 2010.

MUSLIM NATIONS

DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

Russia eyes landmark purchase of French warship By Denis Dyomkin – AUG 26,09

ULAN BATOR (Reuters) – Russia wants to buy from France an advanced warship which can launch amphibious assaults, a general said on Wednesday.The Kremlin has made re-equipping Russia's 1.1 million- strong armed forces a priority after last year's war with Georgia showed serious problems with outdated hardware and inadequate electronic equipment.Gen. Nikolai Makarov, the chief of the general staff, told reporters on Wednesday during a state visit to Mongolia that Moscow wanted to buy a 21,300 ton Mistral-class helicopter carrier and might jointly build several more with France.The ship can be used to launch amphibious assaults or as a mobile command and control center. It would be Russia's biggest one-off purchase of weapons abroad.We are considering a possibility of buying such a ship in France, and arranging the joint output of vessels of the same class in the future,Makarov said.The talk at this stage is about one, but we want to launch joint production to make at least a series of four or five of these. We hope to agree on our contractual obligations by year-end.Makarov declined to give the cost of the carrier -- an amphibious assault ship able to carry helicopters, personnel, armed vehicles and tanks for thousands of miles overseas but analysts estimated it at 300 million euros.Some analysts questioned the purchase of the ship they said was too expensive for Russia's strained budget and unnecessary for its navy. The French navy operates two of the ships and plans a third.Mistral is an expedition ship for colonial countries, said Konstantin Makiyenko from Center for Strategy and Technology Analysis think-tank.

This is a ship which Russia does not need and which will rob resources from other more useful projects,Makiyenko said Russia's biggest arms purchase abroad so far was buying drones from Israel in a deal totaling between $50 million and $100 million.The five-day war with Georgia last August, launched to repel Tbilisi's attempt to retake the rebel province of South Ossetia, also presented Russia with the challenge of trying to control the Black Sea coast, where NATO warships appeared during the conflict.Despite a peace deal mediated by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, tensions remain high in the region viewed by the West as a key energy transit route from the Caspian to Europe.Tbilisi reacted calmly to Russia's plans to purchase a Mistral-class warship, which are marketed by French naval concern DCNS, a quarter owned by defense electronics group Thales.There is no country, whether that's a NATO member country or another country, that would be restricted in any way from having a business relationship with Russia,National Security Council Secretary Eka Tkeshelashvili told Reuters.Makarov also said Russia could consider buying in France a small number of FELIN modular infantry combat suits combining weapons, communication and positioning devices.In 2004, Sagem Defense Systems won a contract to supply them for the French army.In principle, it is in many respects better than our own (equipment),he said.Makarov said the purchase of FELINs should send a strong signal to domestic arms producers, who have failed to meet the needs of the armed forces.Our producers do not understand what we want from them,he said.(Reporting by Denis Dyomkin, writing by Oleg Shchedrov and Michael Stott, editing by Angus MacSwan)

INVENTION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.

2 PETER 3:10-11
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

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

ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

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

REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).

MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

RUMOUR HAS IT THAT AMERICA AND SAUDIS WILL WANT TO BOMB IRAN IN THE NEXT MONTH TO STABALIZE THE OIL AND TO QUIET IRAN DOWN.WE WILL SEE.IT WILL BE WITH NATO TROOPS AND A OVERWELMING RESPONSE TO OVERPOWER IRAN.RUMOUR HAS IT AND ISRAEL WILL NOT BE INVOLVED.TIME WILL TELL,WE WILL SEE.THE SAUDIS AND OBAMA ARE SUNNIS AND IRAN ARE SHI'ITES.IN THIS CASE THE SUNNIS WANT TO GET RID OF THE SHI'ITES.REPORTS HAVE SAID AMERICA HAS NOT WANTED ISRAEL INVOLVED,QUOTE WE AMERICA AND NATO TROOPS WILL LITERALLY SWEEP IN.TRIPLE BUNKER BUSTERS WILL TAKE OUT THE NUCLEAR SITES RUMOUR HAS IT AND NOT MANY IRANIANS HURT AND OBAMA WILL BE THE OIL ,MUSLIM,ISRAEL MESSIAH FOR SAVING THE WORLD FROM IRAN.

New Developments in Iran's Missile Capabilities: Implications Beyond the Middle East Tuesday, 25 August 2009 10:44 News from Jerusalem

This missile already poses a threat to a number of European Union countries
Iran is vigorously pursuing several missile and space programs at an almost feverish pace with impressive achievements. The Iranians have upgraded their ballistic missiles to become satellite launchers.To orbit a satellite is a very complicated project. There are missile stages, and a careful guidance and control system to insert the satellite into a stable, desired trajectory.They took the Shahab, extended it a bit, added more propellant, and now they have the Safir space launch vehicle. Moreover, the Iranians built a two-stage satellite launcher, instead of the usual three stage rockets for space-lift vehicles. This is incomparable to anything we know - an impressive engineering achievement.In spite of the Missile Technology Control Regime and in the face of sanctions, Iran has succeeded in acquiring the needed infrastructure and to raise a cadre of proficient scientists and engineers backed by academic and research institutes. Iranian missile technology is moving ahead of the level developed by the North Koreans.The solid-propellant Sejil missile signifies a breakthrough. This missile already poses a threat to a number of European Union countries. Based on its demonstrated achievements in solid propulsion and staging, Iran will face no significant hurdle in upscaling the Sejil into a compact, survivable intermediate-range ballistic missile. A range of 3,600 km. will be sufficient to put most of the EU under threat.Contrary to an initial report by U.S. and Russian scientists for the EastWest Institute, with the Sejil, Iran has demonstrated its proficiency in using solid-fuel rockets that have much shorter preparation times than do older liquid-fuel missiles. The West must already prepare for the period in the not-too-distant future when Iran deploys nuclear warheads on its missile forces, which can be dispersed in mountainous regions of Iran and will not be easy to find.

Iran Invests in Nuclear and Missile Technology

The cumulative weight of Iranian missile development achievements in the last two years puts Iran's programs into a context which might be wider than the Middle East. Up to now, the Iranian programs could fit only a local scenario. However, recent developments may show not necessarily the intention but at least the capability of the Iranians to extend their missile program to potential targets beyond the Middle East.The Iranians love to show their hardware in parades. They have two armed forces: the army and the Pasdaran, the Revolutionary Guard. The army holds its parade on April 22 every year, while the Pasdaran holds its parade in December. During the big parade the army held in 2008, they displayed guns and artillery, all of which had been purchased before 1979 during the time of the Shah. They showed a modern tank that they make in small numbers, but most were Soviet T55s, a tank from the 1950s. Obviously they are not investing much money in ground forces or in new armament.
During the air show, some 220 planes flew above Tehran, but, again, they were F5s made in America and bought during the Shah's time, Mirage F1s, and Iraqi aircraft which were flown to Iran during the Gulf War. There were F4 Phantoms, F14 Tomcats, and MIG 21s. The most modern fighter aircraft they flew was a MIG 29 from 1992.So we see that the money is not being invested in the ground forces or in the air force. Where is the money going? It goes into nuclear technologies and missiles. They can make all the excuses in the world that everything is for peaceful purposes, but the fact is that Iran's biggest budgets are going to nuclear technology and missile technology.

Iran's Engineers Become More Advanced than North Koreans

In 1988 the Iranians had only Scud B and Scud C missiles. Ten years later they had their first operational Shahab III. The Iranians bought the Shahab, which has a range of 1,300 km., from North Korea, including the production line. We now see the Iranians building underground silos for the Shahab, to make it more survivable.The Iranians are also now capable of taking an unguided rocket like the Zalzal - that Hizbullah also has - and turning it into a guided rocket with a range of 200 kilometers. This is an original Iranian project; we don't see it anywhere else.They have also upgraded their ballistic missiles to become satellite launchers. To orbit a satellite is a very complicated project. There are missile stages, and a careful guidance and control system to insert the satellite into a stable, desired trajectory. They took the Shahab, extended it a bit, added more propellant, and now they have the Safir space launch vehicle. They launched it twice and the second time it was successful; for a while they had a test satellite in orbit. They built a two-stage satellite launcher with a very elegant upper stage, incomparable to anything we know - an impressive engineering achievement.Up to now, North Korea has been the fountainhead of technology to Iran. In the 1990s and the early 2000s we saw the North Korean No-dong missile appearing in Iran, as well as the Shahab II and Shahab III, which in North Korea are called the Wassong V and Wassong VI. The Scud is a North Korean invention which was also exported to Iran. But looking at April's North Korean satellite launch attempt, they used a satellite launcher that looks nothing like what we see in Iran. It was completely different, much bigger and heavier, and with three stages.This means that the connection between Iranian and North Korean technology is not that tight anymore, and the pupils are now the teachers. The Iranians have reached a level of proficiency which has disconnected them from North Korea and in some cases they are more advanced than the North Koreans. The Iranians are now going to deploy a missile which is nothing like what the North Koreans have, so a connection may now be the other way around. Start watching Iran not as a market for North Korean merchandise but as an exporter of Iranian missile technologies.

Iranian Breakthrough: A Solid Fuel Missile

On May 19, 2009, the EastWest Institute issued a report entitled Iran's Nuclear and Missile Potential: A Joint Threat Assessment by U.S. and Russian Technical Experts, claiming that There is no reliable information at the present on the state of Iran's efforts to develop solid propellant rocket motors.The next day, on May 20, the Iranians successfully fired a solid fuel Sejil rocket. Solid propellant leaves a trail of particles behind, while liquid propellant has transparent flames that don't leave any trail, so video reports of the launch are quite revealing.What is also impressive here is the pace of development. In 2005 we heard for the first time about the coming of the Sejil. The first flight occurred thirty months after the end of development of the solid propellant motors. Iran's space program is even more impressive.They have the engineers to understand what they are doing. They have the system engineers to engineer fixes and they have the program managers to run the whole program. They have demonstrated the ability to manufacture a 14-ton solid propellant rocket motor, and they have the infrastructure they need. To build such a rocket you need big, expensive installations. They are not available for sale, they are controlled by the Missile Technology Control Regime, but Iran has managed to acquire them. All of this infrastructure is in Iran. Another point on the proficiency of their engineers: I received a list of Iranian technical publications from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, all of them dealing with big solid propellant rocket motors.The Iranians conducted six major tests of multi-stage missiles in eighteen months by two different teams from two different test ranges with all the instrumentation and flight control guidance system telemetry. When there is a challenge, they overcome the challenge.

Europe Coming into Iranian Missile Range

The Iranian defense minister has spoken of two missiles: the Kadr I that goes 2,000 km. and the Sejil that goes more than 2,000 km. Why is 2,000 km. significant? Less than 2,000 km. does not threaten Europe. Beyond that you are starting to threaten Europe.Two weeks after the EastWest Institute report came out, Ted Postol of MIT, one of its authors, published an addendum to the report. Based on data he presented, our calculations show that the Sejil has an actual range of about 2,500 km. Such a range could reach Warsaw and, indeed, six European Union countries: Poland, Slovakia, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Greece. The Tabriz launch area in Iran is as big as Azerbeijan, bigger than Israel and half of Jordan. It's about 50,000 sq. km., full of mountains, valleys, and canyons. You can hide thousands of ballistic missiles there with a very high probability of survival. So the capability to make a survivable missile that can threaten Europe now exists in Iran.Iran is vigorously pursuing several missile programs and a space program at a feverish rate. No one else, except the Chinese perhaps, is working at such a speed. In spite of all the sanctions, the Iranians have managed to acquire all the needed infrastructure to make advanced missiles and develop a technology cadre. They are building up technological universities. They have been in the business for twenty years.The solid propellant Sejil is the watershed breakthrough. The Iranians have the technology right now to produce an intermediate range ballistic missile that can threaten Europe. Whether they do it or not involves the question of intention, but they are capable of doing it. The EastWest Institute report estimates that it will take Iran about six years to fit a nuclear warhead on a missile. If this is true, then the time to start missile defense in Europe is now. The fact that the Iranians are building that capability is something that should be brought to public view.The distance from Iran to Israel remains the same no matter what missiles the Iranians develop. From an Israeli anti-missile defense perspective, the threat remains more or less the same, whether it's a Shahab III or a Sejil. But while the implications of Iran's continued missile development are not so great from an Israeli point of view, they may be quite significant for those who live beyond the Middle East.

Uzi Rubin has been involved in Israeli military research, development, and engineering programs for almost forty years. Between 1991 and 1999 he served as head of Israel's Missile Defense Organization, and in that capacity he oversaw the development of Israel's Arrow anti-missile defense system. He was awarded the Israel Defense Prize in 1996. This Jerusalem Issue Brief is based on his presentation to the Institute for Contemporary Affairs in Jerusalem on August 6, 2009.JCPA

Yemen War: Where US and Iran Jockey for Regional Primacy Tuesday, 25 August 2009 04:31News from Jerusalem Embattled northern Yemen town of Saada

The latest paroxysm of Yemen's five-year war with the rebel Houthis has left more than 2,000 dead in less than a month and up to 150,000 homeless. Yemeni government troops are battling around 15,000 Iranian-armed and trained Houthi rebels dug into the northern Sadaa mountains on the Saudi Arabian border. Saudi air force bombers are pounding the rebels and the Egyptian air force and navy are ferrying ammunition to the Yemen army with US encouragement and funding.This is the second war in less than a year in which US allies are pitted against Iran-backed forces. The first was Israel's three-week campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which ended last January.This strategically-located, poor Red Sea country, for years a critical stage for the war on Islamist extremists, has now become a key arena where the United States and Iran jockey for regional primacy. In that respect, the Yemen conflict compares in importance with the 2006 Lebanon War and the Gaza conflict. Its outcome will bear heavily on the relative strategic positions in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea regions of the US - as well as Saudi Arabia, Egypt and indirectly Israel too - vis-à-vis Iran.

DEBKAfile's military sources point to eight salient features of the ongoing Yemen conflict:

1. Two weeks ago, president Ali Abdullah Saleh's army launched the sixth round since the year 2000 of his war with the Houthis, deploying about 20,000 troops for a major offensive to dislodge the 15,000 Houthis from their mountain fastnesses (12-18,000 feet tall) in the northern province of Saada.

2. The Houthis are Zaydis who claim they adhere to the purest form of Shiite Islam. They are fighting to bring the true faith to Yemen by restoring the Zaydi imamate overthrown in 1962. Their name derives from the movement's founder, Badreddin al-Houthi, who was killed by the Yemeni army in 2004. The Houthi Shiites and Iranian Shia have nothing in common barring Tehran's exploitation of the Yemeni rebels as a proxy force (like the Lebanese Hizballah) for gaining Iran a military foot through the door to the Saudi Arabian border and the southern Arabian peninsula.

3. The sheer quantities of hardware the Iranians managed to transfer to the Houthis in two weeks amazed Washington, Sanaa, Riyadh and Cairo, even through Iran had previously displayed this capability by the speed with which it replenished and augmented Hizballah losses after the 2006 war against Israel. The Yemeni army is therefore hard put to quell the heavily-armed insurgents or even prevent the battles from spilling out of the Saada region into other parts of the country, including the capital.

4. Fearful that the conflict and Zaydi influence may seep across Yemen's northern border into the southern Saudi regions of Najran and Asir, Saudi Arabia has sent its air force to help the Yemeni army by pounding the Houthi strongholds in Saada's mountain villages.

5. The small 66,000 Yemeni army, lacking organized military stockpiles, soon began running out of ammunition and military equipment. The Egyptian army is running these necessary supplies to Yemen through a naval and aerial corridor.

6. The Obama administration has pitched in with financial assistance for the Saudi and Egyptian efforts to help Yemen. This was agreed at the meeting the US and Egyptian presidents held at the White House last Tuesday, Aug. 18. In this fashion, US president Barack Obama is making a stand against Iran alongside Hosni Mubarak and King Abdullah.

7. Just as the US and Israel were taken by surprise by the Iranian surrogate Hizballah's military capabilities in the 2006 Lebanon War, so too were the US and its allies astonished by the Houthi rebels' command of the battlefield. The Yemeni army's First Mechanized Infantry Division, fortified by every one of its six paratroop and commando brigades and Saudi air support, has proved unable in two weeks of combat to break into the rebels' mountain strongholds.

8. Without this breakthrough, the conflict threatens to spread and escalate into the biggest and most dangerous war to strike any part of Arabia in the last 18 years, ever since Saddam Hussein ordered the Iraqi army to invade Kuwait in 1991.Debka

Powerful Iraqi Shiite leader dies in Iran By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer – AUG 26,09

BAGHDAD – Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the scion of a revered clerical family who channeled rising Shiite Muslim power after the fall of Saddam Hussein to become one of Iraq's most influential politicians, died Wednesday in Iran, the country that was long his key ally. He was 59.The calm, soft-spoken al-Hakim, who died of lung cancer, was a kingmaker in Iraq's politics, working behind the scenes as the head of the country's biggest Shiite political party.But for many in Iraq's Shiite majority, he was more than that — a symbol of their community's victory and seizure of power after decades of oppression under Saddam's Sunni-led regime. Al-Hakim's family led a Shiite rebel group against Saddam's rule from their exile in Iran, where he lived for 20 years, building close ties with Iranian leaders.After Saddam's 2003 fall, al-Hakim hewed close to the Americans even while maintaining his alliance with Tehran, judging that the U.S. military was key to the Shiite rise.Among Iraq's minority Sunnis, he was deeply distrusted, seen as a tool of Shiite Iran. Al-Hakim's outspoken support for Shiite self-rule in southern Iraq was seen by Sunnis and even some Shiites as an Iran-inspired plan to hand Tehran control of Iraq's Shiite heartland, home to most of its oil wealth.His death comes at a time of political upheaval among Iraq's majority Shiites. The alliance of Shiite parties that al-Hakim helped forge and that has dominated the government since the first post-Saddam elections in 2005 has broken apart ahead of January parliamentary elections, pitting a coalition led by al-Hakim's party against another led by Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.As al-Hakim largely withdrew from the public arena due to his illness, his son and political heir Ammar has taken the lead in his party, the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council.

Ammar's relative lack of experience has raised some questions over whether he will be able to hold the organization together at a sensitive time in Iraqi politics, but party leaders have insisted they would remain united behind the al-Hakim family.Ammar announced his father's death in a statement read on his party's al-Forat television station. He said his father, who spent decades in jihad and struggle, has joined the ranks of the martyrs.The station showed scenes from the elder al-Hakim's life while playing somber music.Two top aides, Humam Hamoudi and Jalaluddin al-Saghir, told The Associated Press that al-Hakim had been rushed to a hospital in Tehran after his condition deteriorated and died Wednesday. Al-Hakim was diagnosed with lung cancer in May 2007 after tests at the prestigious University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He chose to receive his chemotherapy treatment in Iran.Deputy parliament speaker, Shiite Khalid al-Attiyah, described his death as a loss for Iraq.

We offer our condolences to all the Iraqi people for the death of al-Hakim. He is one of the symbols of Iraq ... we hope political leaders will continue his work.The Kurds, who allied with the Shiite coalition al-Hakim built, said his death was a loss to those who worked to reconcile Iraq's often warring religious and ethnic factions.
He had a significant role in Iraq's national unity and was working hard to narrow the different opinions among all Iraqis,Fuad Hussein, spokesman for Kurdish Regional President Massoud Barzani told The AP.We hope that all the Iraqi people and their leaders will follow his example and directions and never abandon his ideology and path.Al-Hakim was born in 1950 in Najaf to one of Shiite Islam's most prestigious clerical families. His father was Grand Ayatollah Muhsin al-Hakim, among the most influential Shiite scholars of his generation.The younger al-Hakim studied theology in Najaf and married the daughter of Mohammed Hadi al-Sadr, member of another prominent Iraqi Shiite clan. After the 1970 death of his father, al-Hakim and his brothers became active in political opposition to Saddam's Baath Party.He was jailed several times until he and most of the family fled to neighboring Iran in 1980 following a crackdown by Saddam on the Shiite opposition. In Iran, his older brother, Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, founded the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the forerunner of the SIIC. Abdul-Aziz headed the group's military wing, the Badr Brigade, which fought alongside Iranian forces during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War.The al-Hakim brothers returned to Iraq soon after the collapse of Saddam's government. On Aug. 29, 2003, a massive vehicle bomb exploded outside the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, killing Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim and more than 80 others. Abdul-Aziz stepped into the leadership of the Supreme Council. The younger al-Hakim lacked his brother's charisma, religious standing or political acumen. But he proved a fast learner and able leader, quickly building the party into Iraq's largest Shiite political organization. He served on the leadership councils formed by the Americans. Then, in the 2005 parliament election, he forged a grand alliance of Shiite parties — backed by Iran's foremost Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, which swept up a majority.

The coalition allied with the Kurds to form a government, though it constantly struggled to keep Sunni allies.But signs of fraying among Shiites began to show in key Jan. 31 provincial elections, when members of the coalition competed against each other in the Shiite south. The Supreme Council suffered an embarrassing defeat in much of the south, while al-Maliki — head of the rival Dawa party — surged because of his popularity from security gains. The results were also seen as a voter backlash against religious parties as well as the Supreme Council's failure to improve public services in the south, where it had dominated since 2003.Two days before al-Hakim's death, his SIIC joined with followers of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to form a new political alliance to contest January parliamentary elections. The new Iraqi National Alliance excluded al-Maliki, making overt the new disunity among Shiites. Al-Hakim is survived by his wife and three other children besides Ammar.Associated Press Writers Hamza Hendawi, Sinan Salaheddin and Hamid Ahmed contributed to this report.

Ukraine coast guard intercepts Russian migrant riding raft to EU
Posted : Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:32:39 GMT Author : DPA

Kiev - A Ukrainian coast guard patrol intercepted and detained a Russian man trying to make his way into the European Union with the assistance of a home-made raft, according to a Tuesday Ukraine Border Troops statement. The suspect aged 45 set sail from Russia's Taman peninsula near the Kerch Strait, opposite Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in the Black Sea.The raft was constructed of discarded plastic water bottles, fabric, and binding materials, according to the report.The Russian's plan according to the coast guard account was to cross illegally into Ukraine via the Kerch Strait, and then travel overland to Ukraine's border with Romania.The Kerch Strait varies in width from 4.5 to 15 kilometres. Crew of a Ukraine coast guard cutter took the man into custody near Cape Zmeyny, roughly halfway into the raft journey.Ukrainian medical personnel found the man to be in good health, and Ukrainian officials turned him over to authorities in Russia, where he could face illegal border crossing charges.The man had a criminal record in Russia, and documents in his possession showed he had been in Romania recently, according to the Border Troops report.Ukraine shares borders with Romania, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, and is frequently crossed by illegal migrants attempting to reach the EU.The Ukraine route is particularly popular with potential illegal migrants living former Soviet republics, who in most cases may enter Ukraine from Russia without a visa.Ukrainian border personnel nonetheless routinely turn back persons with criminal records - a possible cause of the man's construction of a raft, according to the report.

HANNAH THE WOMAN OF PRAYER

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Hannah - A Woman of Prayer - Historical Background

The first book of Samuel covers a period from the birth of Samuel, last of the judges, to the death of Saul, the first of the kings of Israel.This is a period of about 115 years; from about 1100BC to 1010BC.

The author is unknown except it is believed that a part of the book was written by Samuel.Not all of the book could have been written by him because it records his death (I Samuel 25:1).Also, I Chronicles 29:29 lists who another author of this book could have been.In the beginning of the first book of Samuel we find a woman named Hannah, who is only mentioned in the first two chapters.

Family Background

We do not know who her parents were or what city she was from.Her early life is not recorded only her family life after her marriage.

Chapter 1

1 SAMUEL 1:1-2
1 Now there was a certain man of Ramath-aim-zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
2 And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

Verses 1-2 - Hannah's husband, Elkanah, was a Levite and belonged to a priestly tribe, the Kohathites (1 Chron. 6:33-38).He was a priest who followed the common custom of polygamy.His wife, Peninnah, could have children but his wife, Hannah, was barren.

Levites - God provided in the Law that the Levites would not have an assigned territory but live throughout the land in each of the tribes.

Barren - There were many barren women throughout the Scriptures who later conceived children who became great men:

Woman-Child

Sarah-Isaac
Rebekah-Esau/Jacob
Rachel-Joseph and Benjamin
Manoah's wife-Samson
Ruth-Obed
Elizabeth-John the Baptist

1 SAMUEL 1:3
3 And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there.

Verse 3 - as was the yearly custom, Elkanah went to sacrifice in Shiloh.

Shiloh - was a small Old Testament village about 20 miles north of Jerusalem. It was important because it served as the religious center for the Hebrew people during the period of judges before the kingdom was united under the leadership of David.

Sacrifice - was a sacrifice based upon the system of sacrifice that was set up for their worship in the Temple.(see Richard Booker's book, The Miracle of the Scarlet Thread).

1 SAMUEL 1:4-5
4 And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.

Verses 4-5 - Elkanah gave his wife, Peninnah, and her sons and daughters their portion of the sacrifice. But to Hannah, the one whom he loved most, he gave more - or possibly the best portion.

1 SAMUEL 1:6
6 And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

Verse 6 - Elkanah loved Hannah but Hannah was barren. One of the only rights that a woman had at this time was the right to bear children - it was considered God's blessing - the more children, the more you were blessed by God. So many times, when a woman was barren - she was not blessed by God and the blame went to God - for shutting up her womb.Apparently, Peninnah could see how much more Elkanah loved Hannah, and so she began to make remarks toward her.She possibly viewed Hannah as a rival that lived in her house.

1 SAMUEL 1:7
7 And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

Verse 7 - The cruel remarks were not just a one time occurrence.Every time that Elkanah went to offer a yearly sacrifice, Peninnah made cruel remarks to Hannah. It is not recorded that Hannah sought revenge or that any kind of conflict happened - only that these remarks hurt Hannah and she wept and did not eat.

1 SAMUEL 1:8
8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?

Verse 8 - At this particular time, the remarks which were made by Peninnah caused Hannah to weep and Elkanah noticed.He knew that Hannah, like all women of this time, grieved because she had no children.But apparently, he did not know about the cruel remarks because, even though he saw her weeping, the questions he asked her indicate he assumes that she is grieved because of being barren.

1 SAMUEL 1:9-10
9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.
10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.

Verses 9-10 - Hannah was the fourth woman in the Bible who was barren and grieved because of it.
Sarah - (Abraham) laughed when she was told of having a son
Rebekah - (Isaac) her husband prayed for her
Rachel - (Jacob) in her grief, demanded of Jacob Give me children or else I die.
Hannah - (Elkanah) took her problem to God.

Hannah was very prayerful and went to the Temple.The priest, Eli, was sitting at his seat by the Temple door.In the ancient Mid-East it was the custom for certain officials to place a stool or a seat in a courtyard or near the gate of the city where they could sit in judgment. They would sit in these judgment seats and hear cases or complaints.These seats had no backs, which may be why Eli was sitting near a post.

1 SAMUEL 1:11
11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.

Verse 11 - The prayer that Hannah offered to God is recorded in this verse.

In her prayer, she made a vow/covenant with the Lord, If thou wilt remember me...give me a man child...then I will give him back.no razor…upon his head...what is she promising God? Not only to give him back to the Lord but to dedicate him to God.
This type of vow is called The Nazarite vow.The Nazarite vow was an oath taken to abstain from certain worldly influences and to consecrate oneself to God.Among the Jews, the vow was an option for most persons; it could be taken for a short period of time or for life.

Nazarites expressed their dedication to God by:

1. Abstaining from all intoxicating drinks and grape products
2. Refusing to cut their hair
3. Avoiding contact with the dead
4. Refusing to eat food regarded as unclean (Numbers 6:3-7)

When the specified period of time was completed, the Nazarite could appear before the priest for a ceremony of release.Nazarites who broke their vows could be restored only by observing specific restoration rites (Numbers 6).Some of the persons that took this vow in the Old Testament include Samson and Samuel.In the New Testament because of his self-denying life-style, John the Baptist was believed to have been a Nazarite.To be a Nazarite, one had to have a disciplined life and a strong commitment to God.Notice:Hannah made this promise of dedication to God before she was pregnant.

1 SAMUEL 1:12
12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli marked her mouth.

Verse 12 - As Hannah prayed to the Lord, Eli watched her and watched her lips. Her prayer was apparently silent - Eli could hear no words.

1 SAMUEL 1:13
13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.

Verse 13 - The Jews were a very festive people - and because Eli heard nothing, he assumed that she was drunk.

1 SAMUEL 1:14
14 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.

Verse 14 - Eli did not ask if she had been drinking, but just assumed because of the celebration all around that she had been.

1 SAMUEL 1:15
15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.

Verse 15 - Hannah replied that she was a woman of a sorrowful spirit because of her circumstances (barren/being reminded by the other wife). But notice in her response to Eli, Hannah took her sorrow to God. She chose not to allow her circumstances to make her a bitter person but turned to God.

1 SAMUEL 1:16
16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.

Verse 16 - The daughter of Belial means worthless,has an evil affiliation.

1 SAMUEL 1:17
17 Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.

Verse 17 - Eli's response was typical of a priest, Go in peace - the Lord will grant your request.

1 SAMUEL 1:18
18 And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.

Verse 18 - Now Hannah felt better - her burden was lifted. She ate, and her countenance changed.

1 SAMUEL 1:19
19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.

Verse 19 - When the Lord answered her prayers in the Scriptures, the term the Lord remembered her is used.

1 SAMUEL 1:20
20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.

Verse 20 - A miracle has occurred to a barren woman named Hannah.She had a son and named him Samuel, asked of the Lord.

1 SAMUEL 1:21-22
21 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
22 But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.

Verses 21-22 - The time came to go for the yearly sacrifice at the Temple.The last time Hannah was there she poured her heart out to the Lord but this time she requested that Elkanah go without her.

1 SAMUEL 1:23
23 And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.

Verse 23 - To her request, Elkanah agreed.

1 SAMUEL 1:24
24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.

Verse 24 - It is recorded in other Jewish writings that Hannah nutured Samuel and weaned him until about three years old (2 Maccabees 7:27).But when the time came Hannah took gifts: three bullocks, 1 ephah of flour (about 65 bushels) and a bottle of wine.

1 SAMUEL 1:25
25 And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.

Verse 25 - As part of her thanksgiving and worship to God, the bullock was sacrificed by Eli (as a priest that was his ordinance to perform).

1 SAMUEL 1:26-28
26 And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.
27 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:
28 Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.

Verses 26-28 - Hannah, a woman of great faith and love, spoke to Eli.
1. She identified herself
2. Reminded him of her prayer and told of God’s answer
3. She repeated her part of the covenant – to lend Samuel to the Lord for as long as he should live.

Chapter 2

1 SAMUEL 2:1-10
1 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
5 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
6 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.
9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
10 The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.

Verses 1-10 - Hannah's entire prayer is recorded

The horn symbolized like a rock - power, strength, protection. There are many scholars who believe that the term horn used by Hannah in her prayer was a reference to the coming of the Messiah and some believe that because of this Hannah could have been a prophetess.

1 SAMUEL 2:11-17
11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.
12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
13 And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;
14 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.
15 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
16 And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.

Verse 11 - Elkanah went to Ramah to his house.He left Samuel to be taught by Eli and minister to the Lord.

1 SAMUEL 2:18-19
18 But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
19 Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

Verses 18-19 - Samuel grew and ministered before the Lord. During his younger years (it's not recorded how long a period of time) while Samuel was living in the Temple, Hannah visited him. She made a coat that she took for him each year.

1 SAMUEL 2:20
20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home.

Verse 20 - Eli, the priest, blessed Elkanah and Hannah.

1 SAMUEL 2:21
21 And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.

Verse 21 - Because Hannah had been faithful and had lent or given Samuel which was her best and her first the Lord blessed her with more children (3 sons and 2 daughters).The story of Hannah, as found in the Scriptures, now ends.She is not mentioned again in the Old Testament or in the New Testament.

The lessons we can learn by studying the life of Hannah:
1. God sometimes withholds blessings until we are submissive to His will.
2. We can handle all things with God - even cruel and thoughtless remarks.
3. God answers prayers.
4. When we covenant with the Lord, and we honor our part, God will send His blessings.
5. In everything, we should rejoice.