FIRES STILL ADVANCING IN LA

guardian.co.uk FIRES STILL RAGE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

RUSSIA - AMERICA TO CRASH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIDP6U-JzSs&feature=player_embedded

Russian Professor: Collapse Of America Could Begin In Two Months
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Russian Professor Igor Panarin says that events are continuing to confirm his doomsday prediction first made over 10 years ago, that the United States will completely collapse like the Soviet Union before the end of 2010, and warns that the chaos could begin to unfold in as little as two months.Panarin, doctor of political sciences and professor of the Russian Diplomatic Academy Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told journalists during the unveiling of his new book yesterday that President Obama has done nothing to forestall the fast approaching crisis and that it could begin to properly unfold in November.Obama is the president of hope, but in a year there won’t be any hope,said Panarin.He’s practically another Gorbachev – he likes to talk but hasn’t really managed to do anything. Gorbachev at least had been a secretary of a regional communist party administration, whereas Obama was just a social worker. His mentality is totally different. He’s a nice person and talks nicely – but he’s not a leader and will take America to a crash. When Americans understand that – it will be like a bomb explosion.Since 1998, Panarin has been warning of a future disintegration of the United States and the collapse of the dollar. The recent election victory for Japan’s Democratic Party is another sign that the economic collapse of the U.S. is imminent, according to Panarin.

Today I received another confirmation that the collapse of the dollar and the US is inevitable. Japan’s Democratic Party won the election, and I’d like to remind you that its leader [Yukio Hatoyama] has the snubbing of the dollar among his economic plans. In plainer words, he plans to transfer Japan’s monetary reserves from US dollars into another currency. The move will seriously accelerate the dollar’s exchange slump as early as this November. Disintegration will follow shortly,he said, adding that next year China would also begin to massively dump the dollar and that Russia would begin to sell oil and gas for roubles.Panarin previously stated that the dollar would eventually be replaced with a common Amero currency as a new monetary unit, referring to the Security and Prosperity Partnership agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.He foresees the U.S. breaking up into six different parts, roughly along lines similar to those of 1865 during the Civil War, The Pacific coast, with its growing Chinese population; the South, with its Hispanics; Texas, where independence movements are on the rise; the Atlantic coast, with its distinct and separate mentality; five of the poorer central states with their large Native American populations; and the northern states, where the influence from Canada is strong,according to Panarin.Longer term, Panarin predicts that the breakaway states will eventually be taken over by the European Union, Canada, China, Mexico, Japan and Russia and America will cease to exist altogether, as depicted in the illustration above.

Panarin blames the collapse on a political elite that implements an absurd and aggressive policy that aims to create conflicts around the planet and warns that increasing firearms sales in the U.S. are a sign that people are preparing for chaos in the aftermath of a total financial meltdown.In my opinion, the probability of the US ceasing to exist by June, 2010 exceeds 50%. At this point, the mission of all major international powers is to prevent chaos in the US,Panarin concluded.

AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)

EZEKIEL 39:21
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

ISAIAH 18:1-2
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

JEREMIAH 50:11,37,12
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;(BACKSLIDERS)
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.(A NATION OF MINGLED PEOPLE)
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:(MOTHER ENGLAND) behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

JEREMIAH 51:13,7,53
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.

REVELATION 18:3,5,7
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK ON AMERICA)

REVELATION 18:9-11,15-21
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,(NUKE ATTACK I BELIEVE)
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.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
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,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
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.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

I DECIDED TO PHONE INTO LAURIE ROTH AGAIN AND THIS TIME I READ THE RUSSIA AMERICA SCRIPTURES TO HER.LISTEN TO (HOUR 3) AUGUST 31,2009
http://therothshow.com/show-archives/august-2009/

ANOTHER STORY ABOUT ARTIC SEA
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1916161,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-world-related

Was Russia's Arctic Sea Carrying Missiles to Iran? REUTERS/SOVFRACHT By SIMON SHUSTER / MOSCOW – Mon Aug 31, 5:00 pm ET

In July, the Russian-manned cargo ship the Arctic Sea disappeared on its way to take timber from Finland to Algeria, sparking reports of the first incident of piracy in European waters since the days of the buccaneers. Experts and observers weighed in with their theories: the ship had been snatched in a commercial dispute; it was being used to run drugs; it was carrying something more precious - or dangerous - than timber. Since then, the Russian navy has found the ship, and the alleged hijackers who boarded it on July 24 have been charged with kidnapping and piracy. The ship's captain, his crew and whatever cargo the ship was carrying have also been detained. An initial search of the hull turned up nothing suspicious, and now Russia's official explanation of what happened will probably become the final one - this was a hijacking thwarted by its navy without a shot being fired. But there are baffling details left unexplained, leading some experts to claim that the truth is much more sinister: the Arctic Sea, they say, was intercepted by Israel as it carried a secret cargo of weapons to the Middle East. (See pictures of dramatic pirate-hostage rescues.)The highest-ranking official to put forward this version of events is the European Union's rapporteur on piracy and a former commander of the Estonian armed forces, Admiral Tarmo Kouts. In an interview with TIME, he says only a shipment of missiles could account for Russia's bizarre behavior throughout the monthlong saga. There is the idea that there were missiles aboard, and one can't explain this situation in any other way,he says.As a sailor with years of experience, I can tell you that the official versions are not realistic.

Kouts says an Israeli interception of the cargo is the most likely explanation. But this theory, which some Russian analysts put forward in the days after the Arctic Sea was rescued and which Kouts agreed with in his interview with TIME, has been vehemently denied by Russia's envoy to NATO, Dmitri Rogozin, who says Kouts should stop running his mouth.The official explanation coming out of Moscow is simple enough: the Arctic Sea, manned by a Russian crew, set sail from Finland under a Maltese flag on July 22. It was destined for Algeria and carried less than $2 million worth of timber. Then a group of eight Russian and former Soviet hijackers boarded the ship on July 24. The ship's tracking device was disabled in the last days of July, as it passed through the English Channel into the Atlantic, and the ship disappeared. On Aug. 12, the Russian navy sent out a search party. A week later, Russia declared that the ship and its crew had been rescued.But as details of the hijacking emerged, the tale got murkier, and Moscow's explanation does little to clear things up. Why, with so many other ships carrying much more valuable cargo, would the hijackers target the Arctic Sea and its small load of timber? Why didn't the ship send out a distress signal? Why did Israeli President Shimon Peres pay a surprise visit to Russia a day after the ship was rescued? Why did Russia wait so long to send its navy to find the ship? And what did the brother of one of the alleged hijackers, Dmitri Bartenev, mean when he told Estonian TV on Aug. 24 that his brother and the other suspected pirates had been set up ... They went to find work and ended up in a political conflict. Now they are hostage to some kind of political game? Bartenev's lawyer tells TIME that his client was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

There are also questions surrounding the Arctic Sea's rescue. On orders from the Kremlin, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov sent a completely disproportionate force, including destroyers and submarines, to look for the vessel. It took five days for them to find it, the Defense Ministry said, even though the Foreign Ministry later announced that it was fully aware of the Arctic Sea's coordinates the entire time. To fly the alleged pirates and the crew back to Moscow - a group of only 19 men - Russia dispatched two enormous military-cargo planes. And then on their arrival, the ship's crew was detained along with the alleged hijackers for days of questioning, with no access to their families or the media.Even from the basic facts, without assumptions, it is clear that this was not just piracy,says Mikhail Voitenko, editor of the Russian maritime journal Sovfrakht, which has been tracking unusual incidents on the high seas for decades.I've never seen anything like this. These are some of the most heavily policed waters in the world. You cannot just hide a ship there for weeks without government involvement.According to Voitenko and other experts, a secret cargo could have been hidden on the ship during the two weeks it spent in Kaliningrad for repairs, just before it picked up its Finnish haul of timber. Not contiguous with the rest of Russia, Kaliningrad is the country's westernmost enclave on the coast of the Baltic Sea, and is known as a hub for Russian smugglers.Personally, I don't care about any missiles,Voitenko tells TIME.I care about what they're doing with those sailors.There are many governments, however, that would be more concerned about a possible missile shipment, especially if it were destined for the Middle East. Chief among them is Israel. In recent years, the Israeli government has consistently raised alarms about Russia's plans to sell MiG-31 fighter planes to Syria and its construction of a nuclear-power station in southwestern Iran. Negotiations with Moscow have been tough on these issues and relations often icy, as the Israeli President pointed out during his visit to Russia on Aug. 18, just as the mysteries behind the Arctic Sea's disappearance began to unfold.

The most likely explanation is that the Israelis intercepted this cargo, which had been meant for Syria or Iran,says Yulya Latynina, a prominent political commentator and radio host on Echo of Moscow, a station owned by state-controlled gas giant Gazprom. They will now use the incident as a bargaining chip with Russia over weapons sales in the region, while allowing Russia to save face by taking its empty ship back home.When contacted by TIME, both the Israeli Prime Minister's office and Mossad, Israel's secret service, declined to comment.But in an Aug. 18 statement, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said that Peres had discussed the sale of Russian weapons and military hardware to countries hostile to Israel with his Russian counterpart, Dmitri Medvedev, on that day during four hours of closed-door talks in the Russian city of Sochi. According to the statement, Peres stressed that Israel has concrete proof of Russian weapons being transferred to terrorist organizations by Iran and Syria, especially to Hamas and Hizballah.A spokeswoman for the Israeli President declined to elaborate on any connection with the Arctic Sea. In a parallel statement, the Kremlin did not mention weapons sales, saying after the meeting that we more clearly and precisely understand each other's positions.Russia's chief investigator, Alexander Bastrykin, told official state newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta that a band of new-age pirates, possibly in connivance with the crew, is all that lies behind the Arctic Sea mystery. But he did concede that there are questions that need answering.We don't rule out the possibility that [the ship] was carrying more than just timber,he said, without elaborating further.Speaking to TIME, NATO envoy Rogozin backed up the investigator's statement: The cargo has to be checked to see if there was something illegal, something being smuggled.But he declined to comment on the theory of Israeli interception.

This is no longer a question for diplomats or for the military,he said.It is now a question for the investigators, and they are carrying on with their work. We are also very curious to hear their findings.When asked by TIME about the possibility that the Arctic Sea was carrying a secret cargo, Vladimir Voronov, deputy head of Oy Solchart Management - the Helsinki-based, Russian-run company that operates the ship - replied, I don't know anything about a secret cargo. We're just a simple shipping firm, and from what we understand, our ship was hijacked.According to investigator Bastrykin, a full search of the vessel will be carried out when the ship arrives at a Russian port in the next few weeks. But observers don't expect any revelations.The versions we are getting from the Russian government do not fit into any logical parameters, and I don't think that will change,commentator Latynina says.When people lie, they tend to lie consistently.

POLICE STATE 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mAWslHmiok&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0POPVIX6sf0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgxR9hQ2cb0&feature=player_embedded
STOP SPP PROTESTERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow&feature=player_embedded

YOU CAN EXPECT THIS TO BE HAPPENING AT ALL PROTESTERS EVENTS SO THE POLICE CAN ARREST AND ACCUSE THE PROTESTERS OF TERRORISM ETC.AS TIMES GET WORSE AND PROTESTS GET WORSE,THESE POLICE SETUPS WILL GET WORSE AND WORSE.

Canadian Police Caught Attempting To Stage Riots-Authorities admit rock-wielding black bloc anarchists were really police infiltrators Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet Friday, August 24, 2007

Quebec provincial authorities have admitted that three rock-wielding mask-wearing anarchists were in fact police infiltrators used to gather information on protesters at this week's SPP summit, but authorities are still ludicrously denying the fact that the provocateurs were intent on causing a riot in order to justify a heavy-handed response. Yesterday, debunkers attempted to claim that identical yellow marks on the boots of the anarchists and the police were simply Canadian Safety Industry seals and dismissed allegations that the three anarchists were undercover cops. Those same trolls and apologists for the authorities have egg on their face today after the police were forced to admit their role in using disguised cops to infiltrate the protesters before staging their arrests when they were exposed as agent provocateurs.Police came under fire Tuesday, when a video surfaced on YouTube that appeared to show three plainclothes police officers at the protest with bandanas across their faces. One of the men was carrying a rock,reports CBC.In the video, protest organizers in suits order the men to put the rock down, call them police instigators and try unsuccessfully to unmask them.Quebec provincial police admitted Thursday that three of their officers disguised themselves as demonstrators during the protest at the North American leaders summit in Montebello, Que. However, the police force denied allegations its undercover officers were there on Monday to provoke the crowd and instigate violence.

Protest organizers confirmed that four arrests had been made in total during the summit, all of legitimate demonstrators, meaning that the arrests of the anarchists was a staged event purely for public and media consumption to create the myth that the police were responding to the fact that one of the anarchists was wielding a rock and attempting to break through a police line.Watching the video, it is clearly evident that as soon as the trio are exposed as police, they try to casually drift back into police ranks before cops are forced to stage their arrests.Firstly, why should we accept the notion that it's legitimate for police officers to engage in tactics more familiar to rogue intelligence agencies by disguising themselves as anarchists in order to spy on completely non-violent protesters who are merely exercising their right to peaceably assemble? Secondly, if the police had to go to the lengths of staging arrests to perpetuate the myth that the anarchists were real protesters then why should we believe for a second that they weren't intent on causing violence, since they had armed themselves with projectiles? The so-called black bloc anarchists are completely infiltrated and controlled by the security services and are routinely employed at major protest events to cause riots and demonize legitimate peaceful protesters. Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, confronts the undercover cops and attempts to remove their face masks before the cops try to skulk back behind the police line.In Seattle in 1999 at the World Trade Organization meeting, the authorities declared a state of emergency, imposed curfews and resorted to nothing short of police state tactics in response to a small minority of hostile black bloc hooligans. In his film Police State 2, Alex Jones covered the fact that the police allowed the black bloc to run riot in downtown Seattle while they concentrated on preventing the movement of peaceful protestors. The film presents clear evidence that the left-wing anarchist groups are actually controlled by the state and used to demonize peaceful protesters.

At the WTO protests in Genoa 2001 a protestor was killed after being shot in the head and run over twice by a police vehicle. The Italian Carabinere also later beat on peaceful protestors as they slept, and even tortured some, at the Diaz School. It later emerged that the police fabricated evidence against the protesters, claiming they were anarchist rioters, to justify their actions. Some Carabiniere officials have since come forward to say they knew of infiltration of the so called black bloc anarchists, and that fellow officers acted as agent provocateurs.At the Free Trade Area of Americas protests in Miami in late November 2003, more provocateuring was evident. The United Steelworkers of America calling for a congressional investigation, stated that the police intentionally caused violence and arrested and charged hundreds of peaceful protestors. The USWA suggested that billions of dollars supposedly slated for Iraq reconstruction funds are actually being used to subsidize homeland repression in America.

The leadership of the black bloc has been completely usurped by the authorities and anyone who still professes to be a member of the group is either supremely naive or completely stupid. To dress up like terrorists, all in black with ski masks and bandanas (like the police) immediately sends out a negative message to the watching public and demonizes legitimate protesters.The black bloc should be immediately disbanded and anyone that dresses in their garb and threatens to engage in violence at a protest should be exposed to the media for what they are - dirty cowboy cops who think their job is to spy on and abuse peaceful protesters, scum who prey on the weak and give good police a bad name while ensuring the right to protest is chilled.

Provocateurs At End The Fed Rally? Anarchists tried to get protesters to commit crimes Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 1, 2009

According to testimony given at a Missouri House of Representatives meeting yesterday, anarchists attempted to get other protesters to commit criminal acts during the End the Fed protests late last year, in what was a possible attempt to instigate chaos to justify a harsh crackdown on behalf of the authorities.In March it came to light that the End the Fed protests, which took place at banks and regional Federal Reserve branches across the country on November 22, were being monitored closely by the United States Army Reserve Command, who implied that those protesting against the Fed and the bankster bailout were essentially terrorists.On November 22, 2008, Alex Jones led a rally at the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas Texas. The Dallas protest is specifically mentioned in the official Army document. Ron Paul’s brother was also in attendance.During testimony given in response to the infamous Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) report, a document authored by Missouri Highway Patrol and distributed to fellow law enforcement agencies that characterizes Ron Paul supporters, libertarians, people who display political bumper stickers, people who own gold, or even people who fly a U.S. flag as potential domestic terrorists, one of the organizers who attended the protests said that anarchists attempted to recruit followers and encouraged them to commit illegal acts.

My group was at the End the Fed rally and there were a bunch of different groups there,Cisse Spragin told the Missouri House of Representatives on Monday. And there was this group of anarchists who started talking to us. And then they tried to recruit us or have us join their group. Then they started telling us what should we should write on our signs, and insisting on letting them re-write some of our signs. Later we overheard them saying they couldn’t even get us to jaywalk.Spragin’s testimony suggests that the anarchists were attempting to steer the nature of the protests in the opposite direction to guidelines published by End the Fed rally organizers before the protests which called for Cooperation and respect for local laws and authorities,and No blocking of pedestrian or vehicular traffic.This wouldn’t be the first time that anarchist groups have been used as a tool with which to stir chaos. As we have documented before, the black bloc anarchist groups are routinely infiltrated and steered by authorities who use them to provoke disorder as a pretext to crack down on legitimate demonstrators.During the April 2009 G20 summit in London, police stood back and watched anarchists attack banks and other buildings in an incident that had all the hallmarks of a staged event.Following the SPP protests in Canada in 2007, Quebec provincial authorities were forced to admit that three rock-wielding black mask-wearing anarchists were in fact police infiltrators used to gather information on protesters.Video shows two of the provocateurs pick up rocks and try to incite violence before they are outed as cops by legitimate demonstrators. The two thugs then tried to slip behind police lines before their fellow officers were forced to stage their arrest. Again, the fact that they were cops in disguise was later admitted by authorities.

Alex Jones’ film Police State 2: The Takeover exposed how the black bloc anarchists were completely infiltrated and provocateured by the authorities during the violent 1999 WTO protests in Seattle.The authorities declared a state of emergency, imposed curfews and resorted to nothing short of police state tactics in response to a small minority of hostile black bloc hooligans. Police allowed the black bloc to run riot in downtown Seattle while they concentrated on preventing the movement of peaceful protestors. The film presents clear evidence that the black bloc anarchist group was actually controlled by the state and used to demonize peaceful protesters.At the WTO protests in Genoa 2001 a protestor was killed after being shot in the head and run over twice by a police vehicle. The Italian Carabinere also later beat on peaceful protestors as they slept, and even tortured some, at the Diaz School.It later emerged that the police fabricated evidence against the protesters, claiming they were anarchist rioters, to justify their actions. Some Carabiniere officials have since come forward to say they knew of infiltration of the so called black bloc anarchists, and that fellow officers acted as agent provocateurs.At the Free Trade Area of Americas protests in Miami in late November 2003, more provocateuring was evident. The United Steelworkers of America calling for a congressional investigation, stated that the police intentionally caused violence and arrested and charged hundreds of peaceful protestors.

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

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

WILDFIRES DOUBLE IN SIZE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0zJ5okkNDs&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAnmTP6X0oI&feature=player_embedded
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/story?id=8460057

California Fire Tornadoes Spread Flames, Firefighters Fight With Controlled Burns ,Burned Homes Look Like War Zone,Thousands Dig in for Long Battle By LEE FERRAN
Sept. 1, 2009

California wildfires intensified last night as multiple fire tornadoes ripped through dry brush, spreading flames that reached as high as 100 feet. The fires have scorched more than 100,000 acres, destroyed at least 70 structures and taken two lives so far.Firefighters try to beat back the flames threatening thousands of homes.Nearly 6,000 firefighters are digging in for a sustained battle with more than eight fires still roaring in Southern California. But with the hot, dry weather expected to continue for days, U.S. Forest Service Capt. Mike Dietrich said he wished he could be more optimistic.The fire tornadoes, also known as fire whirls, are caused by hot, rising columns of air that pull the flames skyward. According to a study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, fire tornadoes are a rare but potentially catastrophic form of fire.In La Crescenta, Calif., where fires haven't burned in 60 years, firefighters started controlled burns -- organized fires sparked by the firefighters to clear land before the wildfires had a chance to move in. In Auburn, Calif., at least 60 structures have been destroyed by the fire, leaving hundreds of residents homeless.It feels like your heart's being pulled out, one woman said, looking over the devastation.I mean, those are your lives.I'm very thankful that ours is still standing, but I'm devastated for my neighbors,Meyers told Good Morning America.His wife, he said, is still in chaos and will not be moving back into the house that stands alone on his block.You can't live in an area that looks like a war zone,he said.

Dead Firefighters' Tale of Selflessness Emerges
The two firefighters killed in the state's biggest fire Sunday were trying to save an inmate fire-crew camp on Mount Gleason, the Associated Press reported.

Firefighters Capt. Ted Hall and Spc. Arnie Quinones were in a campsite with 55 inmates, several correctional officers and fire personnel when the flames tore into the camp. The firefighters moved everyone into the dining hall as the rest of the camp was flattened by the fire, the AP said.Knowing the building was only temporary shelter, Hall and Quinones braved the flames and got in their firetruck to find a way out. At some point in their frantic search, the truck slipped off the blacktop and rolled 800 feet down the mountainside, landing upside down. Soon, the spreading fire overtook the downed vehicle.It hits home,Los Angeles Fire Capt. Sam Padilla told the AP.This morning, my daughter hugged me a little tighter than usual.Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said,They were selfless. They put others' safety ahead of their own.A memorial service is scheduled for later this week at the firefighters' staging camp.The White House issued a statement Monday that said,The president and first lady send their deepest condolences to the friends and families of these two lost heroes.

Eighteen other firefighters have been injured, the governor's office reported Monday.

Mount Wilson Communications Center, Observatory Threatened
The same fire that Hall and Quinones were fighting, the Station Fire, is burning its way toward California's famed Mount Wilson Observatory and a cluster of television and radio antennae on the mountain. After tearing away brush to help protect the observatory and communications centers, firefighters have been evacuated from the area along with on-site staff, the AP reported.ABC News' local affiliate KABC is among those whose antennas are threatened.It's not a matter of, if it impacts Mount Wilson, it's a matter of when,L.A. County Fire Capt. Mike Savage told KABC Sunday. The Mount Wilson Observatory, a fixture in Southern California since its founding in 1904, is responsible for discovering the existence of countless galaxies,and is home to the world's largest publicly accessible telescope, the observatory's Web site said.

Sep 1, 2009 4:04 am US/Pacific Fire Bosses Say Weeks Before Southern California Wildfire Is Contained By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON, Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― A relentless Southern California wildfire stalking residents for six days rages untamed Tuesday with 53 homes up in smoke, thousands more threatened and new rounds of evacuations as towering flames crackle close to neighborhoods on the northern and southern flanks.More than 164 square miles — 105,296 acres — has burned, mostly in Angeles National Forest, as a triple-digit heat wave bakes the region.Up to 12,000 homes are threatened and 2,000 residents have been chased from homes with word from fire bosses it could take weeks before containment. Fire spokesman Paul Lowenthal said Tuesday that the blaze is expected to be fully surrounded Sept. 15.The swath of flame from the Station fire, the largest of several California wildfires, extends from Altadena, La Canada Flintridge, La Crescenta, Tujunga and Sunland foothill communities in the south to the high desert ranchlands of Acton in the north.

Wildfire makes menacing advance near Los Angeles By JOHN ANTCZAK, Associated Press Writer – AUG 31,09

LOS ANGELES – A deadly wildfire that has blackened a wide swath of tinder-dry forest around Los Angeles took another menacing turn Monday as five people became hopelessly trapped inside a smoky canyon and thousands of suburban homes and a vital mountaintop broadcasting complex grew dangerously close to being devoured by explosive, towering flames.The five trapped people refused to evacuate threatened areas and reported they were stranded at a ranch near Gold Creek, Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said. A sheriff's helicopter was unable to immediately reach them because of intense fire activity, but would try after the flames passed, he said.What this says is, Listen, listen, listen, Whitmore said. Those people were told to get out two days ago, and now we are putting our people in danger to get them out.Fire crews battling the blaze in the Angeles National Forest tried desperately to beat back the flames and prayed for weather conditions to ease. The fire was the largest of at least eight burning across California after days of triple-digit temperatures and low humidity.The fire scorched 164 square miles of brush and threatened more than 12,000 homes, but the lack of wind kept them from driving stormily into the hearts of the dense suburbs northeast of Los Angeles.

Columns of smoke billowed high into the air before dispersing into a gauzy white haze that burned eyes and prompted warnings of unhealthy air throughout the Los Angeles area. Smoke could be seen billowing around the fabled Hollywood sign.It's burning everywhere,U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Dianne Cahir said. When it gets into canyons that haven't burned in numerous years, it takes off. If you have any insight into the good Lord upstairs, put in a request.The exact number of people injured or threatened by the fire was still not clear. Over the weekend, three people who refused to evacuate were burned when they were overrun by flames, including a couple who had sought refuge in a hot tub, authorities said.Fire crews set backfires and sprayed fire retardant at Mount Wilson, home to at least 20 television transmission towers, radio and cell phone antennas, and the century-old Mount Wilson Observatory. The observatory also houses two giant telescopes and several multimillion-dollar university programs. It is both a landmark for its historic discoveries and a thriving modern center for astronomy.The fire about a half-mile away was expected to reach the mountaintop sometime Monday night, said Los Angeles County fire Capt. Mark Whaling. If the flames hit the mountain, cell phone service and TV and radio transmissions would be disrupted, but the extent was unclear.The blaze killed two firefighters, destroyed at least 21 homes and forced thousands of evacuations. The firefighters died when their truck drove off the side of a road with flames all around them.The victims were fire Capt. Tedmund Hall, 47, of San Bernardino County, and firefighter Specialist Arnaldo Arnie Quinones, 35, of Palmdale. Hall was a 26-year veteran, and Quinones had been a county firefighter for eight years.

Quinones' wife is expecting and due to give birth to their first child in the next few weeks.Hall and his wife have two boys, ages 20 and 21, and was described as a family-oriented man who loved riding motorcycles.They died fighting a fire that showed no signs of subsiding Monday. People who fled returned to find their homes gone.It's the worst roller coaster of my life, and I hate roller coasters,said Adi Ellad, who lost his home in Big Tujunga Canyon over the weekend. "One second I'm crying, one second I'm guilty, the next moment I'm angry, and then I just want to drink tequila and forget.Ellad left behind a family heirloom Persian rug and a photo album he put together after his father died.I'm going to have to figure out a new philosophy: how to live without loving stuff,he said.The blaze in the Los Angeles foothills is the biggest but not most destructive of California's wildfires. Northeast of Sacramento, a wind-driven fire destroyed 60 structures over the weekend, many of them homes in the town of Auburn. The 275-acre blaze was 50 percent contained Monday afternoon and full containment was expected Tuesday. It wiped out an entire cul-de-sac, leaving only smoldering ruins, a handful of chimneys and burned cars.Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger toured the Auburn area, where only charred remnants of homes remained on Monday. At some houses, the only things left on the foundation are metal cabinets and washers and dryers.It was embers traveling in the wind, landing on the roofs, landing on attics, getting into that home and burning the home on fire,said Daniel Berlant, spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Some mandatory evacuation orders were lifted, but most residents are still being told to stay away while crews work to restore electricity and hose down embers. East of Los Angeles, a 1,000-acre fire threatened 2,000 homes and forced the evacuation of a scenic community of apple orchards in an oak-studded area of San Bernardino County. Brush in the area had not burned for a century, fire officials said. Flames burning like huge candles erupted between rocky slopes of the San Bernardino Mountains and the neat farmhouses below.With highs topping 100 degrees in some areas and humidity remaining low, the National Weather Service extended a weekend warning of extreme fire conditions in the central and Southern California mountains.Winds were light, which prevented the flames from roaring at furious speed into towns. In 2003, a wind-whipped blaze tore through neighborhoods in San Diego County, killing 15people and destroying more than 2,400 homes. That fire burned 273,000 acres — or 427 square miles — the largest in state history.Overall, more than 2,500 firefighters were on the line. More than 20 helicopters and air tankers were preparing to dump water and retardant over the flames. Two Canadian Super Scoopers, giant craft that can pull thousands of gallons of water from lakes and reservoirs, were expected to join the fight later in the day.In La Crescenta, where the San Gabriel Mountains descend steeply into the bedroom suburb a dozen miles from downtown Los Angeles, 57-year-old Mary Wilson was experiencing her first wildfire after nine years of living in a canyon.

Her family was evacuated twice in the past five days, she said.

We saw the flames. My daughter got really scared,she said. But she was philosophical:You have to surrender to the natural forces when you choose to live up here. It's about nature doing its thing.Also in La Crescenta, dispatchers overnight activated a reverse 911 system that sent a recorded evacuation warning to people, but it turned out to be a mistake.Whaling, the L.A. County fire captain, says the message applied to only a small number of residents closest to the fire but instead a large number got the sleep-shattering calls. He said he does not know how many people were involved in the call.They pushed the wrong button,he said.Terry Crews, an actor promoting the new movie Gamer on KTLA-TV, talked about being forced to flee two days ago from his home in Altadena, in the foothills above Pasadena. He saw 40-foot flames, grabbed his dog and fled.I've never seen anything like it, he said. I'm from Michigan. I'm used to tornadoes ... but to see this thing, you feel helpless.

This is like The Ten Commandments,he said, referring to the movie. You go, holy God, the end of the world.An animal sanctuary called the Roar Foundation Shambala Preserve, six miles east of Acton, was in the mandatory evacuation zone, but fire officials decided removing the animals would be a logistical nightmare, said Chris Gallucci, vice president of operations. We have 64 big cats, leopards, lions, tigers, cougars. ... The animals are just walking around, not being affected by this at all,Gallucci said. But if we panic, they panic. But we are not in panic mode yet.
Associated Press Writers Samantha Young in Auburn, Tracie Cone in Fresno, and Raquel Maria Dillon and Solvej Schou in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

August 31, 2009 Los Angeles wildfires cut electricity and threaten 10,000 homes-Chris Ayres

A huge mushroom cloud rose above the landmarks of Los Angeles, covering cars in ash and leaving a bitter taste in the air, as a wildfire raged out of control in mountains above the city.Amid a late-summer heat wave, the fire tripled in size on Saturday, burning more than 20,000 acres of the Angeles National Forest and threatening 10,000 homes.More than 1,800 firefighters were battling the flames last night. They reported that the blaze was spreading in all directions and that it would take more than a week to bring under control.Damage from the fire cut electricity to parts of the city. Three civilians are understood to have suffered burns while defending their homes.The areas affected include foothill suburbs such as Big Tujunga Canyon, La Canada Flintridge, Glendale and Altadena. Another wildfire was also raging near Los Angeles in the San Bernardino National Forest.

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.

Mexico tries to evacuate thousands ahead of Jimena AccuWeather By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer – SEPT 1,09

LOS CABOS, Mexico – Tourists fled resorts at the tip of the Baja California Peninsula as Hurricane Jimena roared their way Tuesday, but many slum dwellers concerned about looting refused to leave their imperiled homes.Jimena, just short of Category 5 status with winds of near 155 mph (250 kph), could rake the region of harsh desert fringed with picturesque beaches and fishing villages as a major hurricane by Tuesday evening.Jimena may bring some relief to northwestern Mexico's drought and dump rain on southern Arizona and New Mexico, said Richard Pasch, senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami.The storm is less likely to douse southern California's wildfires, but that's still a possibility and we're keeping our fingers crossed,he said.Police, firefighters and navy personnel drove through shantytowns, trying to persuade some 10,000 people to evacuate shacks made of plastic sheeting, wood, reeds and even blankets.For the safety of you and your family, board a vehicle or head to the nearest shelter, firefighter Ricardo Villalobos bellowed over a loudspeaker as his fire truck wound its way through the sand streets of Colonia Obrera, a slum built along a stream bed that regularly springs to life when a hurricane hits.

Asked how many people were paying attention, he noted wryly, Not many.Many residents feared that their few possessions — a TV, radio or refrigerator — would be stolen if they left.Jose Miguel Leyva, a cab driver, nailed another plastic sheet to his rickety wood framed shack, vowing to stick it out as long as he could.We're putting all we can into the house,Leyva said. They told us to go to a shelter. If it gets bad maybe we will. We can go in my car.Roberto Hernandez, a community organizer, said he and other activists had formed a security brigade to ride out the storm and watch over their neighbors' possessions. A lot of times, people steal their furniture, or whatever they can find,Hernandez said.But Miguel Angel Juarez, an unemployed iron worker, packed clothing and his countertop gas grill into the trunk of his car before taking his family to a shelter.I'm not staying here,he said, eyeing the stream bed that runs a few feet from his front door.They say that when it rains here, this becomes a river.The government warned that those who refuse to evacuate would be forced to do so.Organizers of an international financial meeting scheduled for Cabo San Lucas this week decided to move their conference to Mexico City.Many tourists rushed to leave, leaving hotels with a 25 percent occupancy rate, according to the local hotel association. The group estimated 7,000 tourists were left in Los Cabos.But on Cabos' famous beaches, some tourists were doing just the opposite, jumping into the Pacific to play in the hurricane's big waves.

Early Tuesday, Jimena was a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds near 155 mph (250 kph) and was moving north-northwest near 12 mph (19 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami reported. It was centered about 155 miles (250 kilometers) south of Cabo San Lucas.Hurricane force winds extending as far as 45 miles (75 kilometers) and tropical storm force winds 140 miles (220 kilometers). Hurricanes reach Category 5 at 156 mph (250 kph).Farther out in the Pacific, Tropical Depression Kevin had top winds of 35 mph (55 kph) and was expected to weaken to a remnant low later in the day or Monday night. It was centered 830 miles (1,335 kilometers) west-southwest of the Baja peninsula's southern tip.Associated Press writers Martha Mendoza and Julie Watson in Mexico City contributed to this report.

Hurricane stronger, heads for Mexico's Los Cabos By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer – AUG 31,09

LOS CABOS, Mexico – Extremely dangerous Hurricane Jimena roared toward Mexico's resort-studded Baja California Peninsula on Monday, prompting emergency workers to set up makeshift shelters and chasing away an international finance conference.

Jimena is just short of Category 5 status — the top danger rating for a hurricane — and could rake the harsh desert region fringed with picturesque beaches and fishing villages as a major storm by Tuesday evening, forecasters said. Heavy bands of intermittent rain moved across the resort town of Los Cabos on Monday evening.

Workers at the Cabo San Lucas marina nailed sheets of plywood on storefront windows while fishermen secured their boats ahead of Jimena, which was packing winds near 155mph (250 kph). Hotels and restaurants gathered up umbrellas, tables, chairs, and anything else that might be blown away.At least 10,000 families were ordered to evacuate their homes in low-lying areas and shantytowns, said Apolinar Ledezma, the municipal public safety director.The government said it would send out 200 military personnel and dozens of police in trucks to help people reach dozens of shelters. Authorities warned that those who refuse to evacuate would be forced to do so.We are going to start by inviting people to leave ... the moment will come when we will have to make it obligatory,said Garibaldo Romero, interior secretary for the municipal government.After official hurricane warnings were broadcast, organizers of an international financial meeting scheduled for Cabo San Lucas this week decided to move their conference — including more than 170 representatives from 54 countries — to Mexico City.The meeting has been planned for two months and the meteorological conditions, by their very nature, are unpredictable,said Anthony Gooch, spokesman for the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information, sponsored by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Brenda Munoz, who lost her home to a 2001 hurricane, was taking no chances.

I remember when Hurricane Juliette hit with a lot of intensity. It flattened our home,Munoz said in the vacation town of Cabo San Lucas. This time, she said,We're already prepared with food and everything so it won't catch us off guard.As rain started falling Monday morning, Mitch Williams of Orange County, California, waited at the airport to fly home from his vacation.The hurricane can do a lot of damage if it hits at that strength,he said.Williams said poorer residents who live in shacks are not well prepared.It will wipe them out,he said. His advice for tourists was simple:Get out.But on Cabos' famous beaches, some tourists were doing just the opposite, jumping into the Pacific to play in the hurricane's big waves.The local hotel association estimated that 7,000 tourists were left in Los Cabos. Hotels had a 25 percent occupancy rate, according to the association.Although city officials shut down the port, lifeguard Roman Dominguez with the Cabo San Lucas Fire Department said there's no feasible way to close a beach.We struggle a lot with surfers, he said.They're looking for waves.Lifeguards perched in a tower looked on Monday as two women, one with her boogie board, another on a surf board, paddled into pounding surf under cloudy skies.Clay Hurst, 52, a fencing contractor from Malibu, California, and Ben Saltzman, 28, an emergency medical technician from Pacific Palisades, California, emerged from a swim in the 10-to-12-foot (3-to-4-meter) waves and pounding surf.We are waiting anxiously, wanting to be right in the middle of it, said Hurst, who said he has never seen a hurricane as powerful as Jimena.We were advised to leave, but we want to be here,he said.I've always wanted to be in one ... a real bad one.Saltzman echoed his friend's enthusiasm: It's an adrenaline rush,he said.

But Cabos San Lucas fishing boat captain Eleazar Unzon, a 30-year veteran of these waters, was more cautious.This is causing a lot of fear and concern,said Unzon, 58, as he and helpers pulled the 33-foot (10-meter) fishing boat Alejandra onto a trailer.We're getting the boat out of the water before it hits, so we can rest easy at home.Unzon acknowledged that big storms do have some benefits — he notes that they bring in the big fish coveted by sports fishermen such as marlin — but said, I'm not going to expose my livelihood.Tim Donnelly, 57, a boat captain originally from Washington, D.C., sat dockside after tying down the 105-foot (32-meter), two-masted wooden schooner Sunderland, saying he expected the 140-year-old wooden boat to ride out the storm.We've never been hit by a storm of this category,he said. I'll be shocked if we don't have any problems.Farther south, Jimena kicked up surf along Mexico's mainland western coast and generated strong winds that bent and uprooted trees in the resort town of Zihuatanejo. Authorities in other mainland towns were setting up shelters as a preventive measure.On Monday evening, Jimena was a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds near 155 mph (250 kph) and was moving northwest near 10 mph (17 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami reported. It was centered about 285 miles (460 kilometers) south of Cabo San Lucas.Hurricanes reach Category 5 at 156 mph (250 kph).Farther out in the Pacific, Tropical Storm Kevin weakened to a tropical depression with top winds of 35 mph (55 kph). It was centered 845 miles (1,355 kilometers) west-southwest of the Baja peninsula's southern tip.
(This version CORRECTS metric conversion of hurricane's speed)

Typhoon slams into Japan's east coast injuring 3 AccuWeather Mon Aug 31, 7:31 am ET

TOKYO – Japan's Meteorological Agency says Typhoon Krovanh has slammed into the country's east coast bringing heavy rain and strong winds.The agency says the typhoon dumped heavy rain in Tokyo and its environs Monday and is moving north.The typhoon disrupted train and flight schedules. Aviation officials say it grounded at least 59 flights at Tokyo's main international airport at Narita as well as the largely domestic Haneda airport.Japan's national broadcaster NHK television reports three minor injuries. No deaths have been reported.Krovanh is a Cambodian word for a kind of tree.

UN seeks better data on hurricanes, droughts By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer – Mon Aug 31, 11:01 am ET

GENEVA – The world needs more innovative projects - like putting weather stations on cellular phone towers across Africa - to help it better predict the increased hurricanes, tsunamis, droughts and floods that climate change will bring, Kofi Annan said Monday.The former U.N. chief was referring to a new system that brings more accurate weather information to farmers and fishermen in five African nations.We cannot hope to manage climate change unless we measure it accurately,Annan told 1,500officials, diplomats and scientists as a weeklong U.N. meeting opened on adapting to climate change.The World Climate Conference in Geneva is seeking to help developing countries generate better data on their own changing climates and share that information with other countries.This week's meeting will not discuss the controversial issue of cutting carbon emissions — those talks will come in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December.

In a keynote speech, Annan said wealthy countries must provide large amounts of money, knowledge and equipment to the developing world. He suggested a model should be the project announced in June by his Global Humanitarian Forum to install automated weather stations on mobile phone towers across Africa.Weather data will be fed into national — and global — networks and sent back to farmers, fishermen and others on Africa's rapidly expanding cell phone system, alerting them to storms which threaten crops, livestock and lives, Annan said.Annan's project began with the installation of 19 stations in East Africa's Lake Victoria region, taking advantage of the security, maintenance and electrical power already provided for the towers.

Phone towers in almost every part of Africa already greatly exceed the continent's traditional weather monitoring systems, Annan said.The project, which will cost $9 million for complete coverage of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda by 2012, has the backing of wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson and mobile company Zain. The long-range goal is to install 5,000 automatic weather stations on towers across Africa.Around the world, the costs for adapting to climate change will run to several tens of billions of U.S. dollars every year, with more than half of the expenditure being required in developing countries, said Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz.Merz said better weather forecasts and hazard maps could also prevent deaths and reduce the extent of the damage.What we need is a formal system that all people can trust to access vital information that can save their lives and protect property and economies,said Michel Jarraud, head of the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization.He noted that hydrological networks in Africa are totally insufficient and that many water basins are managed without any information about precipitation and runoff.A large U.S. delegation is attending the conference, eager to highlight the new Obama administration's commitment to combatting climate change.Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said decision-makers need reliable information about the current and projected impacts of climate change but many countries lack even basic weather information.The Geneva conference will set up a task force to determine what each country can do to create a global network that makes sure early warnings for tsunamis and hurricanes reach everyone.Governments across the globe are facing a December deadline for separate U.N. talks aimed at forging a new accord to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gases blamed for global warming and climate change.Organizers of the Dec. 7-18 U.N. meeting in Copenhagen hope to reach an agreement on limiting the warming of the Earth's temperature to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above levels 150 years ago.Associated Press writers Eliane Engeler and Bradley S. Klapper contributed to this report.

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.

PHARMACY TO PROSPER
http://www.infowars.com/scientist-tells-swedish-tv-who-pandemic-criteria-lowered-to-benefit-big-pharma/

Fuzzy Math: Why Swine Flu Vaccines Don’t Add Up
Mike Adams Natural News September 1, 2009

Here’s a seventh grade word problem for you: If swine flu has infected one million people and killed 500, how many people might be expected to die if it infects 150 million people (assuming no major changes in the virus)? The correct answer, of course, is 75,000 people, and that’s within the range of the number of swine flu deaths now being publicly predicted by the White House.But there’s another part to this word problem: How many vaccine shots and hand washings does it take to boost vitamin D levels in the average person.You have a 40 times greater chance of being struck by lightning at some point in your life than having your life saved by the swine flu vaccine.The question, of course, makes no sense. Vaccine shots don’t boost vitamin D levels any more than eating pork infects you with swine flu. So why is the official advice on swine flu protection essentially limited to wash your hands, get your vaccine shot and cough into your elbow?(Seriously. I’m not making this up.)

The Associated Press has distilled swine flu advice to 10 things you need to know. None of those ten things include boosting your nutrition, getting more vitamin D or taking anti-viral medicinal herbs. They do, however, include hilarious explanations like If you develop breathing problems, pain in your chest, constant vomiting or a fever that keeps rising, go to an emergency room.

Emergency room in a pandemic?

Whatever for? They don’t bother to mention that in a pandemic scenario that strikes you with constant vomiting, the entire emergency room is likely to be overrun with other people joining you in a hospital room vomit fest.Nor do they mention some other important math: The very limited number of anti-viral medication courses available in the U.S. The last time I checked, that was roughly 50 million courses. If the U.S. population is roughly 300 million people, and there are 50 million courses of anti-viral meds available, how many Americans will have no access to those meds? (Ahem… 250 million people…)Here’s an even more interesting brain buster for you: If each vaccine shot generates $25 in revenue for drug companies, and the U.S. government orders the production of 160 million vaccines, how much money is Big Pharma making off the pandemic? That answer is roughly $4 billion in net revenues.
But even that doesn’t count all the repeat business from the future victims who suffer neurological side effects from the vaccines and have to be institutionalized and subjected to high-dollar medical care for years on end. In all, a mass vaccination program could end up generating over ten billion dollars in revenues for drug companies.

These numbers just don’t add up

Now let’s look at some serious statistics: If one million people have already been infected with swine flu, and 500 have died, that’s a fatality rate of 1 out of 2000 people. Depending on which research you believe, vaccines might at most be credited with preventing 1% of flu deaths during any given flu season (and that’s being very generous to the vaccine). So here’s the question:How many people have to be vaccinated with the new swine flu vaccine to save ONE life from a swine flu fatality?
(Notice, carefully, this question has never been asked in the mainstream media. That’s because the answer isn’t exactly what most people want to hear…)This question is easy to answer, actually. If the vaccine were 100% effective (that is, they prevented every death that would have otherwise occurred), they could be credited with saving 1 life out of 2000, right? Because that’s the normal death rate for this particular virus (these figures are widely quoted by AP, Reuters and the White House, by the way).But no vaccine is 100% effective. As I mentioned above, seasonal flu vaccines might — at a stretch — be credited with preventing 1% of the deaths that might otherwise have occurred. With this 1% effectiveness factor calculated back into the formula for swine flu (assuming the same 1% effectiveness factor), it turns out that you would have to vaccinate 200,000 people to save ONE life from swine flu.That puts a whole new perspective on the vaccine push, doesn’t it? 200,000 vaccines costs taxpayers roughly $5,000,000, and it subjects 200,000 people to the potential side effects of these vaccines which have never been subjected to any long-term testing whatsoever.It all begs the question: Is it really worth it? Is it worth spending $5 million and exposing 200,000 people to potentially dangerous vaccine side effects in order to prevent ONE death from swine flu? And why isn’t anybody breaking down the numbers on this issue and providing a serious cost / benefit analysis as I’m doing here?

Let’s be generous to the vaccine…

Vaccine pushers might argue that the vaccine is far more than 1% effective at preventing swine flu deaths. In their wildest dreams, they might imagine a death reduction rate of, say, a wildly optimistic 10%. But even considering that, is it worth it? If the vaccine stops 10% of deaths that would have otherwise occurred, that still means you’d have to vaccinate 200,000 people to prevent the deaths of ten people.I’m going to throw out a wild guess here and suggest that far more than 10 people will be killed by the vaccine itself, completely nullifying any net reduction in total deaths. Mathematically, you see, mass swine flu vaccinations make absolutely no sense given the very low rate of fatalities being observed right now.

Just do something!

Of course, public health policy is never based on sense. It’s based on politics. And the politics demand that they DO something!That’s what the public wants: Do something! It doesn’t matter if doing something is worse than doing nothing… they just want to see some action.It’s the same story with breast cancer screenings (almost completely useless), prostate cancer screenings (now proven to be far more harmful than helpful) and of course ADHD screening tests (which are only designed to trick parents into drugging their kids). Much of western medicine, it turns out, is complete hokum. We would all be better off without the screenings and without the vaccinations altogether.There’s a highly credible book on this subject by authors Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea. It’s called What if Medicine Disappeared? ( http://www.amazon.com/What-Medicine…)This book argues quite persuasively (and with the citation of many convincing studies) that western medicine offers virtually no net gain in quality of life to the very people it claims to serve. Doctors, hospitals, vaccines and cancer clinics could all disappear tomorrow and most people would actually be far better off. Of course, no one disputes the value of having emergency rooms to handle acute trauma and accidents, but when it comes to preventive medicine and protecting quality of life, western medicine is a near-total failure.When it comes to swine flu vaccines, any honest look at the math reveals that 200,000 people will have to be vaccinated with a largely untested experimental vaccine in order to prevent the death of one person (or ten people, if you really believe in vaccines). Remembering that more than one person in 200,000 will almost certainly be killed by the vaccine itself, it really makes you wonder: What’s the point of all this?

The point, of course, is to sell vaccines. It’s the one math problem that everybody understands: To make money, you have to sell a product, and there’s no better way to sell vaccines to 160 million people than to scare them into begging for injections that are statistically opposed their own self interests. But I suppose anything is possible in a country where state governments can punitively tax the poor by convincing them to play the lottery. People who play the lottery are very likely to be the same people getting vaccine shots: It’s like a lottery on your health, except that your odds of winning are far worse than your odds of winning something in a state lotto.Let’s see: You have a 1 in 1 chance of being injected with foreign viral matter, and yet you only have a 1 in 200,000 chance of your life being saved by it.

Allow me to put this into perspective: You have a 40 times greater chance of being struck by lightning at some point in your life than having your life saved by the swine flu vaccine. (Source: National Weather Service statistics.)Mathematically speaking, getting a swine flu injection and hoping it will save your life is more foolish than buying a lotto ticket with your last dollar and hoping you’ll scratch off a multi-million dollar winning ticket.And buying a lotto ticket doesn’t risk the health of your nervous system, by the way. You can always earn back a buck, but restoring your nervous system after it’s attacked by a rogue vaccine can take years or decades. Some never recover. (Thousands died from the 1976 vaccines.)Pop quiz: What’s the actual cost of vaccinating 160 million Americans with an unproven, experimental swine flu vaccine? Answer: $1.6 billion plus countless victims with strange neurological disorders, comas and sudden death — all of which will be written off as coincidence by the vaccine pushers.

Free flu shots for the unemployed

As this article was about to go to press, I couldn’t help but notice a new announcement by CVS and Walgreens pharmacies. The powers that be are so desperate to get all Americans injected with this experimental vaccine that CVS and Walgreens are now offering free swine flu vaccine injections to anyone who doesn’t have a job!That’s right: Just show up, prove you’re unemployed, and you get jabbed at no charge. (Who said losing your job didn’t have some benefits, huh?) Conspiracy theorists might suggest this is a clever way to clear the streets of useless eaters. Just lure the jobless into some experimental vaccine program, inject them and send them on their way. Next, will retailers start handing out free Soylent Green too?

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.

LUKEWARM CHURCHES

REVELATION 3:15-19
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue (VOMIT) thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

GODLESS ISRAEL HATING CHURCHES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM1OOpB1uuI&feature=player_embedded

Ecumenical Ungodly Blast Against Israel Monday, 31 August 2009 15:00
The World Council Churches Sin Against God

The departing chief of the Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC) slammed Israel’s sin against God in his August 26 good-bye to the world’s largest ecumenical group.Occupation along with the concomitant humiliation of a whole people for over six decades constitutes not just economic and political crimes but, like anti-Semitism, it is a sin against God,declared Kenyan Methodist minister Samuel Kobia, during his farewell to the WCC’s governing central committee. The WCC was founded after World War II and, in the wake of the Holocaust, robustly denounced anti-Semitism as a sin against God.Evidently equating the Holocaust on some level with the Israeli presence in the West Bank, Kobia asked his international church audience:Are we ready to say that occupation is also a sin against God? On paper, the WCC is important, with 349 denominations as members, representing over 500 million Christians, or about 25 percent of global Christianity.But in truth, the WCC never fully recovered from its 1970’s alliances with Marxist liberation movements. Catholics and most evangelicals do not belong to the WCC, which friends and foes alike view primarily as the voice of declining Western left-wing Protestantism.

Kobia is departing the WCC partly because of his own failure to reverse the WCC’s declining organizational and financial fortunes.But the WCC has learned few lessons, and the Swiss-based group is little interested in Christian doctrine or evangelism. Instead, it prefers mainly to echo the bland bromides of European left-wing secularists.More authentic Global South Christian voices, which are overwhelmingly theologically conservative, are typically ignored, with preference instead given Third World activists largely educated in Western universities and protégés to liberal Western church groups. Many African Christians, especially in the north sub-Sahara where contact with radical Islam is troublesome, are very pro-Israel.But naturally, the WCC only recognizes anti-Israel zealots, like Kobia’s, as legitimate.In his speech, he condemned dehumanization of both the occupied and the occupiers in the West Bank, claiming: The concern is not only for the victims but also the perpetrators,with Israel naturally qualifying as perpetrator.

Kobia recalled, seemingly in agreement, that Palestinians regard Israel’s founding as a catastrophe and a form of ethnic cleansing that saw the largest forced migration in modern history.This claim about largest forced migration,is false of course.Shortly before Israel’s founding, millions of Germans were forced out of East Prussia back to redrawn boundaries for Germany in 1945.Millions of Pakistanis and Indians similarly relocated during the bloody division of formerly British imperial India in 1947.Two million Chinese escaped Mainline China for Taiwan after the communist conquest in 1949. One million North Vietnamese fled communism for the South in 1956, and nearly as many fled the South in 1975 and later after the communist victory there. And million Cubans have fled Cuba since its 1959 communist liberation.None of these forced migrations are commonly discussed as still morally consequential today, much less a crisis. These immigrants, and their descendants, whatever injustices they suffered long ago, are largely resettled and acclimated into their new homelands. Only the Palestinians are chronically cited as an ongoing victim group because Israel is the perpetrator of their relocation.It is estimated that no less than a million people were expelled from their homes at gunpoint, civilians were massacred, hundreds of Palestinian villages deliberately destroyed, mosques and churches profaned, and convents and schools vandalized,Kobia claimed, although there were not 1 million Palestinians living in pre-1947 Israel. Apparently not even the sanitized, official Arab version of history is sufficiently negative towards Israel for Kobia.The outgoing WCC chief continued with his pseudo-historical diatribe:What in 1948 was described by Palestinians leaders as racism and ghettoizing the Palestinians in Haifa has by the beginning of the 21st century in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza become a full-blown apartheid system complete with its brand of Bantustans.He went on to denounce the unyielding nature of Israel’s occupation and the endless creation of new obstacles to peace,including the multiplication and expansion of settlements on land taken from Palestinians. Since Kobia theoretically heads a Christian group, he felt obliged to mention that hundreds of church-owned properties are at risk by Israel’s occupation.

Revealingly, Kobia’s 14-page good-bye, so verbose about Israeli crimes, said nothing about the Christian villages recently destroyed in Pakistan, about the ongoing persecution of Christians across the Islamic world, or the vulnerability of Christians living in China, North Korea, Vietnam and Cuba.He did mention Iraqi Christians, but only because their plight could be faulted on the U.S.:Iraqi Christians who had been forced to leave their country simply because they were Christians and the occupation of their country was seen as a form of modern day Christian crusade.For the WCC, difficulties for Christians are only distressing if Israel and the U.S. are the villains.Most of Kobia’s farewell speech, which also obsessed over global warming and the collapse of turbo-capitalism,could very easily have been delivered by Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or any number of Third World tyrants who deflect from their own failures by demonizing Israel and the U.S. Thankfully, neither Kobia nor the WCC speak for most of global Christianity, which thrives, even where persecuted, no thanks to its purported representatives in Switzerland.frontpage.

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

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.

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

NOTICE IN EZEKIEL 38:5 LIBYA IS AGAINST ISRAEL TO.GADDAFI MOUTH PIECE BLAMES ISRAEL FOR AFRICA WARS.....HES A SICKO.

Gaddafi blames Israel for Africa wars Tuesday, 01 September 2009 05:52 News from Jerusalem - Libyan leader Gaddafi

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi says much of Africa's violence is due to foreign meddling and that Israel in particular is to blame for stoking conflicts there.
Gaddafi's comments came Monday during an extraordinary African Union summit scheduled to coincide with a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the coup that brought Gaddafi to power.The Libyan leader blamed much of Africa's violence on what he described as intervention by unnamed foreign powers, bent on plundering Africa's natural resources.While Gaddafi and other African leaders often blame foreign hands for stoking internal divisions, this was one of the most explicit and targeted Gaddafi outbursts in many years.Like most Arab countries, Libya does not recognize Israel.ynet.

Wall Street Journal: Israel may attack Iran Tuesday, 01 September 2009 04:52 News from Jerusalem - How much time?

American daily's editorial warns President Obama he must curb Iranian nuclear program or deal with consequences of an Israeli military strike.The United States must curb the Iranian nuclear program or deal with the consequences of an Israeli military strike, the Wall Street Journal warned US President Barack on Monday. According to the most important conservative newspaper in America, a military conflict with Iran would be inevitable, if the West failed to act quickly.In its editorial, the newspaper accused the Obama Administration of investing more diplomatic efforts during its first seven months diplomatic warning Israel not to strike than it has rallying the world to stop Iran.US and Israeli military officials we've spoken to are confident an Israeli strike could deal a significant blow to Iran's programs, even if some elements would survive,the newspaper said.The longer Israel waits, however, the more steps Iran can take to protect its installations.

The editorial's writes claim that Tehran is identifying the international institutions' weakness. The mullahs understand that the only real challenge to their nuclear ambitions is likely to come from Israel. They've long concluded that the UN is no threat, as IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei has in practice become an apologist for Iran's program.They can also see that the West lacks the will to do anything, as the Obama Administration continues to plead for Tehran to negotiate even as Iran holds show trials of opposition leaders and journalists for saying the recent reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was fraudulent. The irony is that the weaker the West and UN appear, the more probable an Israeli attack becomes.

Israeli attack dangerous to US
The editorial was published after former US Vice President Richard Cheney revealed that he had supported taking military action against Iran's nuclear program but was overruled by President George W. Bush.I thought that negotiations could not possibly succeed unless the Iranians really believed we were prepared to use military force, Cheney said in an interview aired on Fox News Sunday.The American daily claims that the consequences of an Israeli attack are impossible to predict, but there is no doubt they would implicate US interests throughout the Middle East. Short of an Islamist revolution in Pakistan, an Israeli strike on Iran would be the most dangerous foreign policy issue President Obama could face.The Wall Street Journal concludes, In recent days, the Administration has begun taking a harder line against Tehran… but unless Obama gets serious, and soon, about stopping Iran from getting a bomb, he'll be forced to deal with the consequences of Israel acting in its own defense.ynet.

Six nations may reveal data concealed by ELBaradei on Iran's nuclear progress Monday, 31 August 2009 11:20 News from Jerusalem Iran is up to weapon design stage

US, Israel and four other governments are urgently discussing the release of intelligence that Iran is running covert military nuclear projects parallel to its civilian program after Mohammed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, withheld this data from his last report, DEBKAfile's military and intelligence sources disclose.The four governments are Britain, France, Netherlands and Japan. All six had provided ElBaradei with new and detailed information on the advances made by Iran in its race to develop a nuclear bomb for inclusion in his last report on Aug. 28 before he retires next month. But ElBaradei, true to his usual custom of blurring Iran's breaches, omitted the new evidence.In Paragraphs 18 to 20 of his report, he admits to possessing substantial intelligence but regrets he is unable to use it to confront Iran without betraying his sources and so Iran was not able to fully answer IAEA queries.US and Israeli sources denounce this evasion as a diplomatic scandal verging on fraud.The material passed to him left no doubt that Iran was engaged in developing a nuclear weapon and revealed for the first time that it reached the final stages, weapon design, of the process. But ElBaradei decided to keep it hidden on the pretext of not exposing sources.One official told DEBKAfile that passing the new information to the IAEA director had compromised its sources anyway so there was no point in holding it back any longer.

The seven governments concerned will decide very soon which parts of this unpublished information to air. According to our sources, it will not be attributed directly to any government but to Iranian exiles who will present it as coming from inside Iran.This tactic was employed in 2004, when the opposition Mojaheddin al-Khalq leaders first broke the news of Iran's uranium enrichment plant in Natanz at press conferences in Washington and Paris.The Israeli foreign ministry denounced the ElBaradei report, released ahead of the nuclear watchdog's regular annual meeting in Vienna on Sept. 7, for omitting to detail Iran's efforts to obtain nuclear arms or its continued attempts to deceive and conceal those efforts. Neither did it mention Tehran's refusal to cooperate with the IAEA and the international community.Next month, when the UN General Assembly opens, a special high-level meeting of the UN Security Council will discuss nuclear proliferation.debka

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let's pretend we're making peace Tuesday, 01 September 2009 07:06 News from Jerusalem

Gordon Brown, right, bids farewell to Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo AP)Here is one of my favorite stories explaining how the Middle East works as told by the famed Egyptian journalist Muhammad Hussanein Heikal. Like all of Heikal's stories, it may or may not be true, which is also part of the lesson being taught.When Muammar Gaddafi first became Libya's ruler, Heikal was dispatched to meet and evaluate him by Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. After returning to Cairo, Heikal was quickly ushered into the president's office.Well,said Nasser,what do you think of Gaddafi?
He's a disaster! A catastrophe! Why,asked the president,is he against us? Oh no, far worse than that,Heikal claims to have replied,he's for us and he really believes all the stuff we are saying!

The point was that the Egyptian regime took the propaganda line out of self-interest that all Arabs should be united into one state under its leadership, all the Arab monarchies overthrown, Israel wiped off the map immediately and Western influence expelled, but it knew itself incapable of achieving these goals and to try to do so would bring disaster. Indeed, when Nasser had tried to implement part of this program in 1967, he provoked Israel into attacking and suffered his worst nightmare.

Come to think of it, Arab regimes are still playing this game of systematically purveying radicalism, hatred and unachievable goals to distract their populace, excuse their own failings, focus antagonism against foreign scapegoats and seek regional ambitions.

Western governments do this kind of thing a bit differently.

In this regard, recent statements by a number of leaders including US President Barack Obama, prime ministers Gordon Brown and Binyamin Netanyahu and others establish an important principle: Actually achieving Middle East peace is of no importance. The only thing that is important is saying that progress is being made and that peace will come soon.I don't mean that as a statement of cynicism, but as an accurate analysis of what goes on in international affairs at present. What's achieved by pretending there is progress and success is imminent? Some very real and - in their way - important things:

-World leaders are saying that they are doing a great job, doing the right things, remaining active and achieving success.

-By saying peace is near, the situation is defused. Why fight if you are about to make a deal?

-Israel (and anyone else from the region who joins in) shows that it is cooperating, so others should be patient and not apply pressure.

-Since the West is taking care of business, Arab states will supposedly feel comfortable working with it on other issues, like Iran for example.

I want to stress that this behavior is not as silly as it might seem. Often this is how politics actually work.THE FREEZE on settlement construction, as another example, is a scam. If Israel gives something on this issue, the Western governments declare victory and go home, so to speak. That doesn't mean there aren't reasons for not doing so, but the virtually open cynicism of the US and European strategy is striking.When the US president portrays the possibility of two tiny states, Oman and Qatar, letting one-man Israeli trade offices reopen as a major triumph in confidence-building, despite being his sole achievement after months of top-level diplomacy, what can one do but snicker? Finally, since Israeli-Palestinian peace is not within reach, pretending it is while knowing the truth is not such a bad alternative. It is certainly progress, since the Obama administration came into office and originally pursued a policy based on the idea that it could achieve peace in a matter of months.

What is the downside here?

There are three problems. The first is if Western leaders believe their own propaganda. Because if peace is within reach but isn't actually grasped, then someone must be blamed. That someone will, of course, be Israel.Why? Because if the West blames the Palestinians, leaders presume that Arabs and Muslims will be angry and not cooperate on other matters. There could be more terrorism and fewer profitable deals and investments. They gain nothing.But if they insist that everything is going well, there is no need to blame anyone. This is the phase we are now entering.The second problem, however, is that neither the Palestinians nor Arab regimes will join in the optimism. Their line is: The Palestinians are suffering! The situation is intolerable! Something must be done! And since we will make no concessions or compromises, the only solution is for the West to pressure Israel to give more and more while getting nothing in return.Since this is not going to happen if Israel resists, they fall back on their alternative approach: Okay, so since you aren't forcing Israel to give us what we want, you have to give us other things, like money, and you cannot demand we help you.

The best outcome is that certain Arab states, with other interests at stake, will downplay the conflict altogether and focus on more pragmatic needs. The radicals - principally Iran and Syria - will never do so and will claim that the situation shows how the West cannot be trusted and must be defeated.What's the third problem? Actions that might actually promote regional stability, or even Arab-Israeli peace, are not taken. These include two especially important tactics:

-More energetic efforts to overthrow the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip. As long as Hamas is running half the Palestinian territories and outflanking Fatah in militancy, there won't be peace. Keeping Hamas from taking over the West Bank, isolating it and maintaining sanctions against it is a good policy and can preserve the status quo. It is not, however, the best policy and the pressure on Hamas could erode over time.

-More pressure on the Palestinian Authority to moderate and compromise. The PA and its positions are the main barriers to peace. As the PA possibly becomes more radical, the likelihood of violence increases. Thus, while in the short-to-medium run the feel good and status quo policy may work, it also has risks and limits.
Still, it is the best that can be expected at present.jpost.

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 TUES SEPTEMBER 01,2009

09:30 AM -10.12
10:00 AM +40.13
10:30 AM +28.57
11:00 AM -7.10
11:30 AM -159.41
12:00 PM -150.47
12:30 PM -138.40
01:00 PM -163.39
01:30 PM -174.12
02:00 PM -152.88
02:30 PM -164.14
03:00 PM -171.78
03:30 PM -173.97
04:00 PM -185.68 9310.60

S&P 500 998.04 -22.58

NASDAQ 1968.89 -40.17

GOLD 957.00 +3.50

OIL 68.45 -1.45

TSE 300 10,689.78 -178.43

CDNX 1163.24 -12.00

S&P/TSX/60 642.21 -10.57

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +8.20%
S&P +12.99%
Nasdaq +27.40%
TSX Advances 526,declines 955,unchanged 261,Volume 395,542,934.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 315,Declines 519,Unchanged 336,Volume 98,201,583.

Dow -36 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -163 points at low today.
Dow +65 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $953.80.OIL opens at $70.00 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -163 points at low today so far.
Dow +65 points at high today so far.

DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 857,declines 2,757,unchanged 74,New Highs 70,New Lows 29.
Volume 3,598,831,865.
NASDAQ Advances 673,declines 1,904,unchanged 111,New highs 36,New Lows 06.
Volume 1,233,606,458.
TSX Advances 419,declines 811,unchanged 233,Volume 228,251,479.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 239,Declines 313,Unchanged 252,Volume 93,685,002.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -200 points at low today.
Dow +65 points at high today.
Dow -1.96% today Volume 267,680,468.
Nasdaq -2.00% today Volume 2,639,313,833.
S&P 500 -2.21% today Volume N/A

J.P MORGAN BLOWS COVER ON NEW WORLD ORDER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0V-XTadvQY&feature=player_embedded
SEPTEMBER MARKET STRATEGY
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1233684098&play=1
BANKING ON RISK
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1233879301&play=1
BOEING
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1233817135&play=1
INSIDE THE FEDS PROFITS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1233805718&play=1
CNN FAKE NEWSCAST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTWY14eyMFg&feature=player_embedded
http://www.infowars.com/the-jokes-on-you-cnn-gulf-war-propaganda/
10TH AMENDMENT SOVERGNTY WILL BE NEW WORLD ORDER
http://dprogram.net/2009/08/30/our-10th-amendment-sovereignty-resolve-will-defeat-the-new-world-order/

TOMORROW CNBC WILL BE TALKING ABOUT THE FED ALL DAY,SHOULD BE INTERESTING TALK.

Call for EU and G20 to get tough on bank bonuses
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today SEPT 1,09 @ 09:18 CET

France's Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany's Angela Merkel have jointly urged the world to limit bonuses paid to bankers following a mini-pow-wow between the two in Berlin on Monday (31 August) and have warned that despite the wreckage wrought by the crisis, some banks are already back up to the same old tricks.The president of France and the German chancellor also backed limiting the size of financial institutions and raising capital requirements for banks.The two leaders also urged the European Union to achieve a united position that could be taken to the upcoming G20 meeting in Pittsburgh, in the US at the end of September.Mr Sarkozy has made bank bonuses a key plank of his counter-crisis strategy, last week twisting the arm of domestic banks into reducing the monies paid out over a three-year period and turning a third of the pay-outs into shares in the institutions.If a bank does not go along with his request, the government will no longer work with them.Ms Merkel, a fellow conservative but equally whiplashed by the scale of the crisis, backs her French counterpart's prescription of restraint for bankers.

Bonus payments are the thing that quite rightly drives a lot of people up the wall, she told reporters after the meeting.The German leader is also keen that financial institutions not get so large that governments again are forced to spend trillions bailing them out.No bank may become so big that it could get into a position where it could blackmail governments,she said.The two also warned that now that the worst of the crisis seemed to be passing, banks must not return to their freewheeling ways from before the crash.We want to see things changed in Pittsburgh,said Mr Sarkozy. These excesses cannot be allowed to be repeated as if nothing ever happened.

Ms Merkel was even more reproachful.

To the surprise of many, we're noting in several financial centers of the world that the banks that got back on their feet again are behaving just like they did before the financial crisis. This mustn't repeat itself,she said.The two were also concerned that G20 leaders continue to move forward with commitments made at the last G20 meeting in London, and hope to see Europe take a lead in pushing other powers to do so at the Pittsburgh session.German and France also signalled that now was the time to begin crafting co-ordinated strategies for exiting the current period of looser fiscal and monetary policies. Ms Merkel in particular warned of the pitfalls of letting such policies continue indefinitely.We must take care that, on the one hand, we act correctly with regard to the recession and the economic crisis, but on the other hand, we mustn't make the same mistakes again that led to this crisis,she said.After 9/11, the loose monetary policy in America was not withdrawn and this bubble was able to arise.However, there is far from any consensus as to the latter position, with a number of economists, notably Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, warning that in the 1930s, policymakers turned away from a Keynesian approach once economic indicators began to turn around, only to see their economies extend the stagnation and decline.

From The Sunday Times August 30, 2009 NM Rothschild pitches motorway privatisation plan Robert Watts and Dominic O’Connell

The Department for Transport has also asked the Highways Agency to consider hard-shoulder running without any refuges.A radical plan to raise £100 billion by privatising the motorway network has been presented to the three main political parties by NM Rothschild, the influential investment bank.Rothschild, an architect of several privatisations, made its pitch in the weeks running up to the summer recess on July 21, Whitehall sources said. Bankers told leading politicians that the sale of the roads overseen by the Highways Agency — all motorways and most big trunk roads — could help revive battered public finances.Toll-road companies and infrastructure funds would compete to operate and maintain stretches of the network.

In one version of the scheme, the government would pay for upkeep through a system of shadow tolls. A more radical, and less politically palatable, option would be for companies to charge motorists directly through toll booths or electronic card readers. The RAC Foundation, a motorists’ group, advocated privatisation in a report last week.This is an attractive, positive idea which could release considerable resources to the public finances and may have real environmental merits, Cable said. The scale of it is vast — it makes rail privatisation look like small beer.Theresa Villiers, the shadow transport secretary, said the Conservatives had no plans to back Rothschild’s proposals: Rothschilds, like many other banks and consultancies, have approached me and my team on a range of ideas for our transport network, including their ideas for our road infrastructure, but we are not working on any proposals for privatisation of the strategic road network and have no plans to do so.
Motorway privatisation was considered by John Major’s Conservative administration, which sold British Rail, but was rejected. A spokesman at the Department for Transport said:It is not unusual for organisations to suggest ideas to government departments but ultimately all policy is decided by ministers and there are no plans to sell off a stake in the Highways Agency.Rothschild declined to comment.

The bank was behind many of the key privatisations of the 1980s and 1990s, including British Steel, British Gas and British Coal. It has close links to the Conservatives, having employed several senior Party figures including Lord Lamont, John Redwood and Lord Wakeham. Oliver Letwin, the former shadow chancellor, works there part-time.Politicians of all Parties are seeking ways to decrease the need for large tax rises or heavy cuts in public services. The bank bailouts and a recent collapse in tax revenues has seen public sector debt rise to more than £800 billion, 56.8% of GDP — up from 35.5% just two years ago.Road tolls are unpopular, however. When Labour mooted road pricing two years ago, more than 230,000 signed a petition on the Downing Street decrying the plan .

New browser red-flags disputed facts on the web James Keller The Canadian Press

VANCOUVER (Aug 29, 2009)Developers of new web browsing software that flags questionable claims or outright lies on the web hope it will become a valuable tool to deal with the misinformation that litters the Internet.But observers say Dispute Finder, an experimental browser extension developed by Intel, and the many websites that already aim to debunk online rumours and falsehoods face an enormous task. It isn't as easy as simply telling someone they're wrong.Once installed, Dispute Finder highlights in red what it determines are disputed claims on websites, then offers users links to alternative points of view and evidence to back them up.It's important to be aware when something you're reading is not the only opinion, when there is another point of view worth paying attention to,says California-based Intel researcher Rob Ennals.The real problem is, when you don't realize something is disputed, you don't realize there are other points of view and you might not be aware you've wandered into a dispute.

The current version of the software relies entirely on users to identify disputed claims, provide evidence and point the software to other instances of that claim on the web, so right now there's still not much content being highlighted.Eventually, Ennals says users who input claims will be able to train the software to seek out examples and continue to flag new content as it's posted. And, as the software becomes more popular, more claims will be catalogued.He says real people are in a better position to determine whether a claim is in dispute than any computer and he brushes aside suggestions that doing so might just provide another forum for bogus assertions.The good thing is that if something is disputed enough that people will care, the chances are that someone is going to care enough to mark it as disputed, says Ennals.I don't think we can really be the arbiters of truth, we can't tell you automatically what is true and what is false. All we can really hope to do is, if there's a credible source that gives a credible point of view, let you know.There already are a number of websites that attempt to poke holes in fiction masquerading as fact, such as Snopes.com and FactCheck.org. Media outlets have done so-called reality-check stories to assess claims in the news for years.However, Jonathan Fugelsang, an expert in cognitive psychology at the University of Waterloo, says it's incredibly difficult to change people's minds once they've decided a certain claim is a fact.Once you actually believe something, it takes quite a lot of data or evidence to overcome that belief and it takes a lot of attention to do that,says Fugelsang.With a lot of repeat exposures, it does change.

Spanish region pushes for intelligent water use
VALENTINA POP 31.08.2009 @ 17:34 CET

EUOBSERVER/VALENCIA – The Spanish region of Valencia is lobbying for the EU to develop a policy to promote the intelligent use of water using the renewable energy model, as world consumption of water will triple in the next ten years.In the marshes of Albufera, just a few kilometres south of the city of Valencia, it is hard to believe that the region is frequently hit by drought and has a long tradition of dealing with water scarcity. Separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a natural sand barrier, the 27 square kilometre fresh water lake is surrounded by swamps and rice fields. Paella has to come from somewhere,a guide tells visitors to the national park of Albufera.One steady source of irrigation for the rice crops is waste water from Valencia, a city of 800,000 inhabitants. A sewage water treatment plant worth €15 million was 80 percent financed by the EU's regional development fund and is expected to last until 2025.Intelligent irrigation systems and the re-use of rain and waste water are just some examples of what the local university and research centres are developing and implementing in the region.As global water consumption is expected to grow threefold in the next ten years and energy consumption to double in the same period, the EU needs to be more active in this field, says Juan Manuel Revuelta, Valencia's point-man in Brussels. We would like to see that in some years from now, the EU commission creates an initiative called intelligent water for Europe - that means a better management of water and better communication, similar to what it is doing with renewable energy,he told this website on the margins of a summer school called Water – engagement for our future organised by the Assembly of European Regions in Valencia on 24-28 August.

Mr Revuelta said he was pleased to see 15 concrete projects sealed between various European regions and aimed at tapping EU funds coming from the event.One project is on drafting legislation at regional and national level facilitating ecodesign constructions which enable people to collect rain water for a second use in irrigation or for the toilets, he said. Malta and Valencia are participating in the project, but some other non-EU members, such as Jordan, also expressed their interest.Valencia's 700 year old experience with the so-called Water Courts is used in another project for legislative and governance tools aimed at preventing and settling water-related conflicts in Israel and Palestine. The Valencian water tribunal consists of seven elected judges gathering every Thursday in a a public square and settling disputes between farmers. Its verdicts are binding, recognised by the Spanish constitution and cannot be challenged in another court.

Water on the EU agenda

Polish MEP Danuta Hubner, chairwoman of the regional development committee, says water will be a major priority of EU regional policy.There are regions that will require specific responses, which will be more affected than others by droughts, floods or water scarcity, she said. That is why, more than ever, the European regional policy 2007-2013 will be ambitious in its environmental initiatives at local and regional level.Ms Hubner mentioned the Baltic Sea strategy drawn up while she was commissioner for regional affairs, which is aimed at saving the sea from dying if the regions around it coordinate their environmental actions.Klaus Klipp, secretary general of the Assembly of European Regions, emphasized the need to create regional lobbies to stand up for common European issues, such as water scarcity and droughts. Choosing Spain as the location for this summer school was no accident as the southern country is EU's most threatened member by desertification and drought.

EU digital library scheme plodding along, complains Reding
LEIGH PHILLIPS 31.08.2009 @ 17:34 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Europe's construction of a 21st Century digital Library of Alexandria is plodding along in a rather too unhurried fashion, according to Brussels' information society commissioner Viviane Reding, responsible for all things electronic and virtual.With just 4.6 million books, maps, artworks and newspapers from Europe's assembly of national libraries, museums, and archives digitised for access on Europeana, the EU's multilingual digital library launched last November, the project is less than half the way to its early goal of building a collection of 10 million items by 2010 - just four months away.It seems only one member state, France, is in much of a bother about the ambitious project, which was dreamt up as a way to collect in one place and make available to all the great cultural patrimony of the nations of Europe. All the other countries seem to be at best - in comparison to Paris enthusiasm - a bit comme si, comme ça about the concept.The digitisation of books is a Herculean task but also opens up cultural content to millions of citizens in Europe and beyond, said Ms Reding on Friday in a statement,However, I find it alarming that only five percent of all digitised books in the EU are available on Europeana.A user today can nevertheless access 4.6 million documents on the site, which is hosted by National Library of the Netherlands in the Hague, up from 2 million just after it was launched.

I also note that almost half of Europeana's digitised works have come from one country alone, while all other member states continue to under-perform dramatically, she added, obliquely referring to France, which has uploaded a full 47 percent of the content within Europeana. The digitising member-state runners-up are not even nipping at the heels of France. Germany comes second, having contributed 15.4 percent of the content, followed by the Netherlands on eight percent, the UK on 7.9, and Sweden on 5.2.To some extent it is to be expected that the larger and more digitally penetrated countries would be ahead of the pack, yet slumming it near the bottom of the list are digital whizzes Ireland and Denmark, which both contributed less than 0.1 percent each. Norway, by comparison, which is not in the European Union, comes sixth overall, with 4.3 percent.The enthusiasm of France is not surprising, however. Since the advent of Google Books, the search giant's scheme to digitise the books of all the great libraries of the world, Paris has been concerned that Google being an American company is by nature too anglocentric to be overly concerned about promoting works beyond the English language.Indeed, the Europeana project is largely a France-inspired competitor to the private Google scheme, although the EU's version could really be better described as a compendium of cultural works than as a library, as it does not restrict itself to publications.In addition to the mild rebuke of laggard member states, Ms Reding also wondered whether the patchwork of European copyright laws was adding to the problem.

Currently, the project only includes digitised books that are in the public domain and so are no longer protected by copyright law. This means that neither out-of-print books nor orphan books (for which it is impossible to find the copyright holders) are being uploaded, even though they represent, respectively, some 90 percent of books in EU national libraries and 10-20 percent of in-copyright collections.Earlier this year, a French aggregator had to withdraw photographs from Europeana, since it only had the right to disseminate the material on French territory,noted the commission statement.As a result, Ms Reding announced the launch of a public consultation on the future of the project and the digitisation of books.

In particular, the commission is interested in whether there should be greater co-operation between Europeana and publishers regarding copyright material, whether there needs to be created a registry for orphan and out-of-print works and how Europeana should be financed in the long term.

Wallstrom: EU needs a commissioner for citizens
HONOR MAHONY Today SEPT 1,09 @ 07:37 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - In 2004 the European Union got its first ever communications commissioner. Despite its vague title, the new job created high expectations in Brussels.Margot Wallstrom, a down-to-earth Swede with an engaging manner, was expected to cure all ills at once - including making the EU more democratic, more transparent and bringing it closer to citizens.It was, and remains, a formidable task and one that is at times boring, frustrating and thankless. Given the nature of the job it is also difficult to measure success.Under her watch, the EU has experienced three referendums rejecting attempts at further integration, surveys continue to show that citizens remain confused by the nature of the Union while the June European elections produced the lowest turnout ever. In addition, the job is hampered by continual debate about where the line is between information and propaganda, a row that flared up once again over the summer.In Brussels itself, Mrs Wallstrom has had virtually no profile with the commission president having become the predominant face of the institution. The exceptions have been for the occasional snigger about the effectiveness of her Plan D for democracy, which consists of debating the EU with citizens, a spate of coverage some months back for slightly risque EU spots on YouTube or the odd controversial comment she makes on her blog.

Now packing to return to Sweden after ten years in the EU capital, Mrs Wallstrom told EUobserver about the difficulty of the job particularly after coming from the high-profile and Brussels-busy job as EU environment commissioner.As environment commissioner, every week I had two or three files on the commission agenda. I had a given constituency. To come and do communication meant I had absolutely nothing. I did not have a legal base ... I did not have a machinery that was up and running. I did not have the full commitment from everybody else.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't

There was also the problem of the fact that designating a commissioner for transparency and democracy does not mean that it then automatically transpires. This was particularly so of transparency where she says there is a still a north-south divide on the necessity of being open about documents and how decisions are taken, with Nordic countries traditionally more open.It has not been easy to move positions on openness and transparency she says noting that it is not evident that the EU should go beyond the current basic rules.In her opinion member states have taken a step back on the issue while the European Parliament who used to be our best allies on transparency are displaying hypocrisy by shouting very loudly at the commission while not reveal(ing) all their expenses.She also has to contend with charges of spreading propaganda about the EU. A recent report by a Swedish thinktank accused the EU of spending well above its allocated communication budget on promoting the Union and of extending the limits of what we normally regard as communication.You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't, says the commissioner by way of reply.At the same time they would like me to deliver everything and at the same time as soon as I do, some will shout propaganda.In addition to these fights, the commissioner says she does not have enough money to make all the necessary moves to let people know what the EU is doing. She has 200 million euro a year at her disposal - but says that after rent for commission delegations plus wages, it boils down to 100 million euro a year or 20c per EU citizen.

No more communications commissioners

Her advice for the next commission president, set to be appointed later this autumn, would be to scrap a purely communications portfolio and create a citizens commissioner.This would be a natural portfolio" says the commissioner saying it could include student exchange programmes currently overseen by the education commissioner. The person would have to have legislative powers, too, says the commissioner who speaks of the curse of not having such powers.It's very good if you can also have some legislative files in your portfolio" otherwise you dependent on everyone else doing the right things.The commissioner reckons a citizens commissioner will have their work cut out for them with the new direct democracy provisions in the Lisbon Treaty, currently awaiting full ratification in four member states.The Lisbon Treaty contains an article allowing for citizens initiatives under which 1 million signatures must be gathered for the commission to take the issue into consideration.This issue will be used immediately by citizens,predicts Mrs Wallstrom. I think it is excellent and the better if it causes some problems for the commissioner from the point of view that this puts us in contact with some or the atmosphere or the questions that are being debated.The commission is already preparing for the article by examining how to make sure signatures are real and from how many member states the 1 million citizens have to come as well as what to do if citizens ask for action from the commission in an area where it does not have any powers.

No regrets

After five years in the job, much of which was spent out in the field listening to what people have to say although there remains no concrete mechanism for channelling these comments and doing something with them, Mrs Wallstrom says she has no regrets.
I am proud of having done the sometime boring and sometimes frustrating work of reforming the way the commission works on (communication), chalking up improved internet communication, easier-to-read citizens summaries of proposed legislation and getting a deal between the EU institutions on communication priorities as little-noticed but important steps on the way to making the EU more open to its 500 million citizens.We lose sight of the things [that] we have changed very quickly,she says, referring to the fact that changes she has made have been slow to come about but are then quickly taken for granted.

Zapatero in Sweden to coordinate on EU issues
Today SEPT 1,09 @ 08:55 CET

Swedish PM Reinfeldt and Spanish PM Zapatero met in Stockholm on Monday for talks on the current climate negotiations and the upcoming G20 summit in Pittsburgh. They also discussed the EU's forthcoming institutional challenges. Spain follows Sweden as the EU presidency country.

Himalayan nations hold first climate talks Mon Aug 31, 10:25 am ET

KATHMANDU (AFP) – Nepal's prime minister opened the first climate change conference of Himalayan nations on Monday with a warning about the dangers of melting glaciers, floods and violent storms for the region.With 1.3 billion people dependent on the water that flows down from the melting Himalayan glaciers, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said cross-border cooperation was essential in tackling the impact of climate change.The threats and risks of climate change have manifested themselves in the melting of the Himalayan glaciers, rising sea levels and violent storm surges, he said as he opened the talks in Kathmandu.More frequent extreme weather events have affected agricultural production across the region.The potentially catastrophic impact on lives and livelihoods has assumed a huge importance in our international relations.South Asian environment officials have gathered in Kathmandu for the conference, aimed at highlighting the problems facing the region ahead of a key climate change summit in Copenhagen in December.Environmental campaigners refer to the Himalayas as the third pole and say the melting glaciers are the biggest potential contributors to rising sea levels after the north and south poles.

But this is the first time Himalayan governments have come together to lobby for ambitious emission reduction targets at the Copenhagen summit, which aims to seal a new international climate change accord.Nepalese lawmaker Lucky Sherpa told the conference mountain communities in the Himalayan nation were already feeling the effects of climate change, with cattle and sheep herders having to seek grazing at higher altitudes.Climate change poses the highest threat to those indigenous people who have contributed the least to carbon emissions,she said, calling for greater assistance for affected mountain communities.Glaciers in the Himalayas, a 2,400-kilometre (1,500-mile) range that sweeps through Pakistan, India, China, Nepal and Bhutan, provide headwaters for Asia's nine largest rivers, a lifeline for people who live downstream.Andreas Schild, director general of the Himalayan research institute the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), said the melting glaciers could no longer be seen as a local issue.Copenhagen is a unique chance to put the Himalayan-Hindu Kush region on the international agenda,he said.
The two-day meeting of South Asian nations ends Tuesday with a closing statement to be entitled A Vision on the Way Forward to Copenhagen.However, few nations have sent ministers to the talks, which will likely affect the impact of any statement that emerges. Regional power India is represented by environment secretary Vijai Sharma, a civil servant.Mohan Munasinghe, vice chairman of the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change, said South Asian governments must begin working together to tackle flooding and water management problems.The Himalayas are the source of the world's seven largest rivers and supply water to 40 percent of its population, he told delegates.We cannot afford to fail.