ABORTION CAN SAVE PLANET-HOLDEN DEMOCRAT

HERE WE GO THE JAPANESE WANT A REGIONAL TRADE BLOC LIKE THE EU,PROPHECY COMING TO PASS BIGTIME EVERY SECOND OF EVERY DAY NOW.

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

Japanese PM proposes East Asian community to China by Shingo Ito – SEPT 22,09

NEW YORK (AFP) – Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama made his global debut Monday with a message of reconciliation to China, asking President Hu Jintao to work together for an EU-style East Asian community.Less than a week in office, Japan's new center-left leader flew to New York for the UN General Assembly. He plans to meet world leaders here and at the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh.Hatoyama, who advocates an easing of Japan's long prickly ties with its giant neighbor, told Hu that he intends to push a vision of an East Asian community to unify the region, possibly under a single currency.I told (Hu) that I would like to form an East Asian community by overcoming differences,including a dispute over exploitation rights for gas fields lying near islands the two countries claim in the East China Sea, Hatoyama told reporters.Hu stopped short of agreeing to the proposal but said he wants to make it a peaceful and friendly sea by tackling sticking points, a Japanese government official said.Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan ended more than half a century of almost unbroken conservative rule in a sweeping election victory last month.While few expect East Asia to immediately overcome wartime memories and create an Asian Union, his tone marked an unmistakable sign from Japan's new leader that he wants to work with, rather than against, a rising China.

Hatoyama also said he would follow a landmark statement of apology for Japan's wartime aggression issued in 1995 by then-prime minister Tomiichi Murayama -- one of the few other left-leaning leaders in modern Japan.I highly praise your stance of sticking to the Murayama statement over the recognition of past history,Hu told Hatoyama, according to the Japanese official.Hatoyama recently proposed building a new state memorial to serve as an alternative focus to the controversial Yasukuni shrine, which honors war dead but also 14 convicted war criminals and is often seen as a symbol of Japan's past militarism.Hatoyama plans to meet South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak in New York on Wednesday ahead of a planned three-way summit of Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo next month.At the meeting with Hu, the Chinese president welcomed Hatoyama's pledge to dramatically step up Japan's commitment to fighting climate change by pledging to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent from 1990 levels by 2020.Hatoyama is expected at a special UN climate summit on Tuesday to also offer help to poor countries to combat climate change.Chinese officials have indicated that they expect a strong statement from Hu to break a diplomatic logjam in climate negotiations.The Japanese official said Hu told Hatoyama that China will also make an effort to achieve success at a December meeting in Copenhagen meant to seal a post-Kyoto treaty.

In Beijing, the foreign ministry said it welcomed Hatoyama's East Asian community proposal.Strengthening regional cooperation is the trend of the times, ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters in response to a question on the issue.Relations between Japan and China plunged to modern lows during the 2001-2006 premiership of Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, who annually visited the Yasukuni shrine and sought a greater global role for Japan. But some analysts predict that hiccups in relations will remain under Hatoyama, who has called for Japan to be more outspoken on human rights including Tibet, where China sent troops in 1950 and last year clamped down on protests.The Japanese official said Hu told Hatoyama,I would like you to understand the Tibet issue.Hatoyama replied: Basically, we regard it as a domestic issue, but I hope this will be resolved through dialogue.

U.S. to push for new economic world order at G20
Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:19pm EDT

By Alister Bull-WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will urge world leaders this week to launch a new push in November to rebalance the world economy, but there are doubts national governments will bow to external advice.A document outlining the U.S. position ahead of the September 24-25 Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh said exporters, which include China, Germany and Japan, should consume more, while debtors like the United States ought to boost savings.The world will face anemic growth if adjustments in one part of the global economy are not matched by offsetting adjustments in other parts,said the document, which was obtained by Reuters on Monday.The framework drafted by U.S. policy makers foresaw analysis of G20members' economic policies by the International Monetary Fund to figure out if they were consistent with better balanced growth.We call on our finance ministers to launch the new framework by November,the document said, signaling a determined effort to maintain momentum for change created by last year's global financial crisis.The United States envisages the IMF playing a central role in a process of mutual assessment by making policy recommendations to the G20 every six months.

Finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 countries are due to meet November 7-8 in Scotland.European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said persuading Europe, the United States and China to accept IMF advice on economic policy may be difficult. In the past, many countries have ignored suggestions the IMF dished out in regular reviews.Trichet told French newspaper Le Monde the G20 had made progress on reforms to make the financial system more stable after the crisis.

The most difficult question is still open: Europe, America, China, are they ready to modify their macroeconomic policies in the future -- by following the advice of the IMF and under pressure from their peers, for the common good, and world economic stability? he said in the piece on Monday.G7 sources told Reuters there was a renewed determination to cooperate because the crisis had driven home the interconnected nature of the global system. That said, governments would not allow themselves to be told what to do.We can't get to a situation where any country is giving up its own decision-making,said one source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.Germany, a major exporter to the United States, was singled out on Sunday by U.S. President Barack Obama as a country that, like China, exports a lot but does not buy much back.But a top European Union official said that the euro zone, where 16countries share a common currency, had to act as a collective.It is difficult to think about one country without taking into consideration what is the impact in the euro area,European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told reporters in New York.Taxpayer money to the tune of $5 trillion has been pumped into the world economy to keep it from seizing up since the beginning of the crisis last September.
G20 leaders will maintain that pace of stimulus while acknowledging that at some point it will have to be wound down, the document said.But, mindful of how a disorderly rush to raise interest rates could roil world markets again, they will also ask finance ministers to thrash out a transparent and credible exit strategy.

There were no details of how to achieve this in practice, but the document echoed the caution of G20 finance ministers at their meeting in London earlier this month acknowledging the pace of change would vary by country.Simon Johnson, a former chief economist at the IMF, warned there was a risk the Pittsburgh summit would be an empty public relations exercise.The point of the meetings is to try to reassure themselves and everyone else that they're broadly on track and have a round of applause and some back patting,he said.But John Bruton, the EU ambassador to Washington, said it was important not to ignore the summit's symbolic power.I think we're seeing the beginning of a conversation between world leaders,he told Reuters in an interview.(Additional reporting by Anna Willard in Paris, Sumeet Desai in London, Leslie Wroughton and Emily Kaiser in Washington, Caren Bohan in Troy, Walter Brandimarte in New York and Darren Ennis in Brussels; Editing by Andrew Hay)

It Is Going To Be A Rocky Road Chuck Baldwin September 22, 2009

Let’s face it: most Americans live in a world of false security. This is somewhat understandable, given the fact that the majority of the U.S. population was born after 1945. Few remember the dangers and hardships of World War II; fewer still remember the Great Depression. Few Americans know what it’s like to not have some sort of supercenter nearby with shelves stocked with every kind of food imaginable, twenty-four hours a day. Few know what life was like before there were restaurants of all sizes and types on virtually every street corner in America. And only a handful remembers when most roads were unpaved, or when sports were truly a pastime and not a megabuck obsession.The paranoia regarding the Swine Flu being demonstrated by both government and media spokesmen begs a giant push for some type of government solution.Modern living within the world’s only superpower has created a giant unsuspecting, soft, lackadaisical, and lethargic society. We expect the government to keep our streets safe, our roads paved, our stores stocked, our jobs secure, and our enemies at bay. However, in the desire to make government the panacea for all our problems, we have sold not only our independence, but also our virtue.Where the federal government was contracted (via the U.S. Constitution) to accept limited power for the overall good of both states and people, it has become a monster of gargantuan proportions, claiming authority over virtually every liberty and right known to man. And in the process, it decided it didn’t need God, either.

It is no hyperbole to say that the U.S. federal government has been on a “Ban God” bandwagon for the past 50 years. Whether it kicks prayer and Bible reading out of school, bars military chaplains from praying in Jesus’ name, burns Bibles in Iraq, removes state supreme court chief justices from their positions for posting the Ten Commandments, or threatens high school principals with jail for asking the blessing, the federal government has invoked the judgment of Heaven upon our country as surely as did Old Testament Israel.Although the comfortable, sports-crazed, TV addicts probably aren’t paying attention, this country is on the verge of an implosion like you cannot believe. For anyone who cares to notice, the signs are everywhere.First of all, Israel and Iran are on the verge of war. And right now, I’m not concentrating on the why or who’s right or wrong of the equation. I’m simply telling you, war between Israel and Iran could break out at any time. And when it does, the chances that it will not become nuclear and not become global are miniscule. Yes, I am saying it: the prospects for nuclear war have never been greater. The CBS-canceled TV show, JERICHO, could become a reality in these United States in the very near future. (I strongly urge readers to purchase both seasons of JERICHO and watch them, because this could be our future.)Secondly, America is on the verge of total financial collapse. By the end of this year, America’s budget deficit will stand at around $2 trillion. The debt gap is many trillions more than that. But the nail in the coffin for America’s fiscal health will be the decision by China to dump the U.S. dollar. Ladies and gentlemen, this will be the death knell for our financial stability (and a painful lesson in sowing and reaping).It is estimated that China owns around one-third of all U.S. debt. If and when China dumps the U.S. dollar, there would be nothing left to stabilize it, and Weimar Republic/Zimbabwe-style inflation will ensue. America will be thrust into financial chaos. (If one doubts that China is planning to dump the dollar, consider that China is currently purchasing and stockpiling gold at an unprecedented level. This is why gold has suddenly surged to over $1,000 per ounce and why it will continue to rise.)Third, the paranoia regarding the Swine Flu being demonstrated by both government and media spokesmen begs a giant push for some type of government solution.If they keep hyping this pandemic,mass hysteria and fear (created by the government and its lackeys in the media) will result. This would, no doubt, necessitate some form of forced vaccination, quarantine (maybe this is what all those internment camps will be used for), and martial law.

Exactly how and when all of the above will actually materialize is yet to be seen. There is no doubt in my mind, however, that within the next few months, the world that we know today is going to vanish. And most Americans are totally unprepared for what’s coming.If you are able to get out of debt, do it. If you need to scale down your lifestyle in order to be better prepared for difficult days, do it. If you don’t have guns and ammo, buy them. If you have not prepared some sort of preserved food pantry, do it. If you don’t have some kind of survival plan in place for you and your family, get one. If you are not physically fit, get in shape. If you are able to move to a more secure, out-of-harm’s-way location, do it. (During any kind of financial or societal meltdown, urban areas will quickly turn into war zones. Can anyone say,New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina?) In other words, get your nose out of the boob tube, get your bottom off the easy chair, and get busy.Am I worried or discouraged? Absolutely not! (But I am preparing.) The potential good that may result from all of the above is that perhaps God will protect and raise up a remnant of people who would be willing to rebuild a place where Natural Law is respected, constitutional government is revered, and where a ubiquitous, loathsome, overbearing federal government is far, far away. You know, like America’s Founding Fathers did 233 years ago.In the meantime, get ready. It’s going to be a rocky road.

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.

Southeast floods block highways; at least 6 dead By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writer – SEPT 22,09

ATLANTA – Washed-out roads and flooded interstate highways around Atlanta added to the misery Tuesday after days of torrential rain in the Southeast that claimed at least six lives and left several people missing in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee.

The victims included a toddler swept away from his family when a swollen creek ripped apart their trailer home in west Georgia on Monday. Many others were drivers whose vehicles were pushed off roads by rapidly rising waters. One man in Chattanooga, Tenn., was missing two days after betting onlookers he could swim across a flooded ditch next to his house.Authorities urged people who don't need to drive to stay home, a day after Gov. Sonny Purdue declared a state of emergency in 17counties.It's going to be a long morning. We're asking people to be patient, DOT spokeswoman Crystal Paulk-Buchanan said.The good news was that the rain was tapering off in many areas. The National Weather Service said there was more rain to come, but the likelihood and severity will decline in the coming days.Days of downpours and thunderstorms saturated the ground from Alabama through Georgia into eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, just months after an epic two-year drought in the region ended after winter rains.As Tuesday rush-hour began in the Atlanta area, Interstate 20 west of the city was closed in two spots by water spilling over the major artery for commuter traffic from the sprawling western suburbs. Portions of at least two other interstates in the metro area were also closed, as was I-75 in Houston County in central Georgia.Hundreds of roads and bridges were under water or washed out in the Atlanta area and other parts of the state, including 17 bridges on state and interstate highways.As much as a foot of rain fell over parts of the Atlanta area Monday. The town of Dallas northwest of Atlanta had 16 inches in a 48-hour period, the Georgia Emergency Management Agency said.

Aerial shots showed schools, football fields, used car lots and even entire neighborhoods submerged by the deluge, sending some unlucky residents scurrying for higher ground.It's a mess all over,said Lisa Janak of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency.As the storm front rumbled through west Georgia, it turned a normally sleepy creek into a surging headwater that tore apart 2-year-old Preston Slade Crawford's mobile home around 2 a.m. Monday. The body of the drowned boy nicknamed Scooter wasn't found until hours later. His parents had been rescued from the raging waters as another son, Cooper, age 1, clung to his mother's arms in Carroll County, west of Atlanta.Pat Crawford, the boy's grandmother, watched helplessly as the family's mobile home was whisked away.Y'all gotta help us! Y'all gotta save us! Crawford remembers Bridgett Lawrence and Craig Crawford shouting above the roaring water. She said she was on higher ground, but couldn't get to them because the current was so bad.At least two people were missing, including a Tennessee man who went swimming in an overflowing ditch and a 15-year-old Georgia teen who never returned from a swim in the surging Chattooga River. About 12,000 Georgia Power customers were without power late Monday.Crews in the tiny Georgia town of Trion worked to shore up a levee breached by the Chattooga River and in danger of failing. The town evacuated more than 1,500 residents, and Red Cross workers set up an emergency shelter.Emergency officials were often forced to improvise to rescue dozens of people stranded in their homes and cars.We're using everything we can get our hands on,Douglas County spokesman Wes Tallon said. Everything from boats to Jet Skis to ropes to ladders.

Other southeastern states were hit less severely.In Kentucky, rescue crews went on more than a dozen runs to help stranded people after 4 inches of rain fell on parts of Louisville on Sunday, said city fire department spokesman Sgt. Salvador Melendez.
Water rose as high as window-level on some houses in North Carolina's Polk County, forcing emergency officials to evacuate homes along a seven-mile stretch of road. Flooding in more than 20 counties in western North Carolina closed roads, delayed school and forced evacuations.Associated Press writers Bill Poovey in Chattanooga, Tenn., Kate Brumback in Carrollton, Ga., Johnny C. Clark in Trion, Ga., Errin Haines in Atlanta and Randall Dickerson in Nashville contributed to this report.

1st day of fall brings snow, cold to Colorado SEPT 22,09

VAIL, Colo. – The first day of fall feels more like the first day of winter for some of the mountain West, with light snow and chilly temperatures across Colorado and freeze warnings for higher elevations in New Mexico, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah and Arizona.A winter storm watch has been issued Tuesday for Boulder, Colo., and surrounding areas in the Rocky Mountain foothills.Light snow was reported Monday in Vail and other mountain towns, and more was expected Tuesday. At least 3 inches of snow fell in parts of the foothills west of Denver.Temperatures in Denver dipped into to the upper 30s overnight, and low 30s in Flagstaff, Ariz.The cold weather and snow have prompted Colorado's Loveland ski area to turn on its snowmaking machines earlier than planned.Information from: KUSA-TV, http://www.9news.com

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

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

EARTHQUAKES

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

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

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

Rescuers search for survivors in Bhutan quake By WASBIR HUSSAIN, Associated Press Writer – Tue Sep 22, 6:23 am ET

GAUHATI, India – Rescue workers fanned out across eastern Bhutan on Tuesday, one day after an earthquake shook the tiny, isolated Himalayan nation and killed at least 12 people, officials and a state-run daily said.The 6.3-magnitude afternoon earthquake damaged nearly 200 homes, monuments, monasteries, government offices and schools in a little populated eastern region of the country, state-run Kuensel newspaper reported. At least 15 people also were injured. The quake also cracked buildings and terrified residents in Gauhati, the capital of India's neighboring Assam state.

Thousands of Bhutanese spent the night out in the open and landslides created roadblocks in many parts of the worst-hit districts of Munggar and Trashigang, the newspaper said.The tremor made the surrounding hills look like they were throwing up dust,the daily quoted Sangay Tenzin, a resident, as saying.The road was suddenly filled with boulders and mud.

Seven aftershocks further terrified residents.

Scores of government officials set out in vehicles and on foot to reach the earthquake zone to assess the damage and organize help, Dorji Nurbo, Bhutan's top home ministry official, told The Associated Press.Just how many people are missing is still unclear, he said, though rescuers were digging through wreckage in many places in search of anyone who may have been buried when buildings collapsed around them.Much of Bhutan, a Himalayan nation sandwiched between India and China, is sparsely populated, reachable only by walking paths and without electricity or telephones.Most of the victims died when their houses collapsed, though four highway workers, all of them Indian, were killed in Bhutan's Samdrup Jhongkar district, near the border with India, when the road they were working on collapsed.The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake's magnitude as 6.3 and said it was centered about 80 miles (125 kilometers) north of Gauhati and 115 miles (180 kilometers) east of Thimphu, Bhutan's capital.The region has been hit by major earthquakes in the past, including in 1950 and 1897. Assam has been shaken by a series of small quakes in recent weeks.

Moderate earthquake rattles northwest Myanmar Tue Sep 22, 2:53 am ET

YANGON, Myanmar – A moderate 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook parts of northwestern Myanmar early Tuesday causing no casualties but damaging Buddhist temples believed to date to the 11th century, officials and residents said.The moderate earthquake occurred just after 2 a.m. with the epicenter about 260 miles (418 kilometers) northwest of the commercial capital, Yangon, said Thein Htay, an official from the national Meteorological Department.The quake was felt in several towns in the northwestern Magway Division, none of which are densely populated or have high-rise buildings, he said. There were no known casualties.Residents reported damage to two ancient Buddhist temples in Ohn Pwetaw village and a pagoda in Yay Nan Chaung, saying the structures were believed to have been built in the 11th century and were known for their colorful frescoes.The extent of the damage was not immediately known. The residents requested anonymity because of fears of speaking to reporters in the military-ruled country.

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.

HOROWITZ ON JONES YESTERDAY,TODAY
http://rss.nfowars.net/20090921_Mon_Alex.mp3 (SEPT 21,09)
http://rss.nfowars.net/20090922_Tue_Alex.mp3 (SEPT 22,09)

NAVY.MIL
http://www.navy.mil/swf/index.asp

HOME HEALTHCARE WORKERS MUST GET SHOTS
http://www.infowars.com/home-health-care-workers-in-new-york-required-to-get-vaccinated/

Daycare Worker Told She’ll Be Fired For Refusing Mandatory Flu Shot
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 22, 2009

A daycare worker employed by Northeast Health in Albany New York was shocked to be told by her boss that she would be fired if she refused to take a seasonal swine flu shot on the spot. Similar stories have been pouring in to us from all over the country as fears that the upcoming H1N1 shot will also be mandatory continue to grow.

The case emphasizes why President Obama’s claim that the swine flu shot will be voluntary is completely deceptive and misleading. Americans across the country, even those not directly connected with health care work, are being ordered to take the mandated seasonal and swine flu shots or lose their jobs.The story of what happened to the daycare worker, who would like to go by the pseudonym Clare, was sent to us by her sister who also provided Clare’s real name and the full name of the facility she is employed with.Clare works in a daycare center which is affiliated with the local hospital but in a completely separate building. It was reported earlier this month that all hospital workers in the entire region would be forced to take the seasonal flu shot or lose their jobs and that the vaccine would become a condition of employment.On the Tuesday morning following the Labor Day weekend (Sept 8th), the director of the daycare of Northeast Health announced to employees on the spot (without a meeting, memo or discussion) that everyone had to go get a flu shot immediately and staff would be rotated so that everyone would be inoculated by the end of the day,writes Clare’s sister.Clare said I don’t get flu shots and was told well then you’ll be fired.The director told Clare that the H1N1 shot would also be mandated in the same way when it becomes available. When Clare warned the director that the swine flu shot contained mercury, squalene and other dangerous additives, the director told her that regardless of her objections, if she refused to be vaccinated she would be suspended from November 13th and then formally fired on November 30th.

Clare asked how she can be fired for something that was not a condition of her employment when she was hired? She was told it was not Northeast Health’s policy, it was the director of the New York State Department of Health who made the shot mandatory,writes her sister.However, according to the NYSDOH decree for mandatory vaccinations, exemptions exist for personnel who have a medical contraindication and for workers, such as those offsite, who would have no contact with patients and only incidental contact with direct-care staff.Clare clearly falls into this category as she works in a separate building from the hospital and has no direct regular contact with hospital workers.Clare demanded answers to the following questions, none of which have been addressed by the daycare director.

1. The regular seasonal flu hasn’t even hit so how will this first mandated shot provide any immunity when it is clearly the vaccine from last year?
2. When the H1N1 is mandated – as I believe it will be – and if I did get the shot to save my job and should I have one of the adverse reactions that the CDC has predicted, will I be covered under Workers Comp since the action that caused the injury was job related? (The cost of which will fall on the employer NOT the State of New York.)
3. Should I refuse the shot will I be eligible for Unemployment Compensation since I did nothing to warrant being terminated?
4. Malpractice insurance providers in Australia are refusing to extend coverage to their clients who give the shot; will this be the case in New York?
5. Are insurance companies going to cover subscribers who fall ill as a result of the H1N1 inoculations that were mandated by the NYS Department of Health?

After concerned parents started to ask Clare why she was leaving, it some became apparent that the director had immediately produced a letter and circulated it around the daycare, claiming that Clare was leaving for personal reasons,without mentioning the real reason, that she refused to take the vaccine.Clare took the letter to the head of human resources but was told that,the New York State Labor Department would probably be instructed to side with the Department of Health and determine that you were fired for not following an order from your employer and not approve Unemployment Compensation. The meeting ended with him stating that it was the NYS Department of Health’s call and not Northeast Health and there was no way around it.Not only have my sister’s rights as an employee been violated but her employer’s justification for terminating her is based on a falsehood on top of which she may be prevented from receiving Unemployment Insurance for this wrongful termination,writes Clare’s sister.As an addendum, Clare’s sister informs us that one of the daycare teachers who did take the seasonal flu shot on September 8th suffered a reaction less than a week later. Clare’s sister takes up the story;It began with symptoms similar to Pink Eye on her left side and then her eye swelled; the swelling then spread further down her check and then into her neck where a mass formed. This 30 year old mother of three has been unable to work since the symptoms in her eye surfaced, around the 14th. My sister Clare asked school officials if her ill coworker would be covered by Workers Comp and was told they believe she would be. The co-worker has been on antibiotics that don’t seem to be working. Her doctor told her if the RX doesn’t clear it up the infection(?)soon they’ll have to take more drastic action. My sister was told by her ill co worker:Clare you were right to say no to the shot, the job isn’t worth it, I should never have gotten the shot.

Clare is now facing unemployment as a result of refusing to take the seasonal flu vaccine, not to mention the H1N1 shot. Thousands of other health workers are now in a similar position whereby they will be forced to take the dangerous swine flu shot or be fired over the course of the next few weeks. Polls indicate that at least a third of nurses and health workers will refuse to take the vaccine and another third are still unsure. If even as little as a quarter of health care professionals stand up in unison and refuse to be intimidated into taking the shot, authorities will probably have to back off and make the shot voluntary.However, Clare’s deeper concern is that another primary target of the first round of swine flu vaccinations, young children, will be even more vulnerable to having the shot forced upon them with no warning or notice whatsoever.My sister has three children in public school and is extremely concerned that the head of the New York State Department of Health, Dr. Richard Daines, will next decree the shots are mandatory for all school children,writes Clare’s sister.She is prepared to home school them but is scared to death that in the mean time an UNANNOUNCED flu shot clinic will be sprung on school districts some morning to get around parental objections to having their children vaccinated. She has told her children in no uncertain terms are they to accept the shot(s) but realizes the Hobson’s choice they too may soon face and that they are so much less prepared than she to fight this unconstitutional authority.

Joseph Moshe (MOSSAD Microbiologist): Swine flu vaccine is bioweapon
VacTruth Monday, September 21, 2009

Today, the MSM are not talking about this case any more. Yesterday, they wanted us to believe that Joseph Moshe was a nutcase and a terrorist, arrested for threatening to bomb the White House. Interesting detail about his arrest (the Westwood standoff) was that he seemed to be immune to the 5 cans of tear gas and 5 gallons of law-enforcement grade pepper spray they pumped into his face. He very calmly remained in his car, as the video footage of his arrest shows.Professor Moshe had called into a live radio show by Dr. A. True Ott, broadcast on Republic Broadcasting claiming to be a microbiologist who wanted to supply evidence to a States Attorney regarding tainted H1N1 Swine flu vaccines being produced by Baxter BioPharma Solutions. He said that Baxter’s Ukrainian lab was in fact producing a bioweapon disguised as a vaccine. He claimed that the vaccine contained an adjuvant (additive) designed to weaken the immune system, and replicated RNA from the virus responsible for the 1918 pandemic Spanish flu, causing global sickness and mass death.Sources tell us that Bar-Joseph Moshe made no threat against the President or the White House. He did not mention any bomb or attack. He then proceeded to inform the White House he intended to go public with this information. When he noticed men in suits in front of his house and feared that the FBI was about to detain him, he packed some belongings into his car and, him being a dual Israeli citizen, tried to reach the Israeli consulate located in close proximity to the federal building where the standoff took place. The FBI and the bomb squad prevented him from reaching it. Who is this man? His profile on biomedexperts.com says he is a plant disease expert with many publications on his name involving the genetic manipulation of virii. Photographic evidence that Moshe is who he says he is can be found here.

Joseph Moshe was soon after his arrest sent or let go to Israel. Nothing has been heard from him since. The Secret Service was not the agency involved in the surveillance of Moshe at his home in California. This was done by the FBI, who had orders to detain or arrest him. Mounted on top of a large black vehicle used in his arrest was a microwave weapon that possibly damaged the electronics in Moshe’s car as well as any communication devices he had which might have been used to contact the media or others who could help him.Moshe did not suffer the same effects of the gas and pepper spray that others would have because he had built up an immunity to such weapons as a by-product of his Mossad training. Moshe was not handcuffed because he was not placed under arrest.Does this sound like an insane conspiracy theory? Sure it does. Due to the scarcity and anonimity of the sources we would dismiss it as exactly that, if it weren’t for some uncomfortable facts: Baxter Pharmaceutical has been caught, red-handed, in spreading a live, genetically engineered H5N1 Bird flu vaccine as a lethal biological weapon all over the world, destined to be used for human vaccinations. This happened just a few months ago. And only luck prevented a global catastrophe of epic proportions.Baxter International Inc. had mixed live, genetically engineered avian flue viruses in vaccine material shipped to 18 countries. Only by sheer luck, a Czech laboratory decided to test the vaccine on a dozen ferrets, which all died in days. The World Health Organization was notified and catastrophe was averted. This was clearly a deliberate act on Baxter’s part, because they adhere to BS3, bio-safety level three. Baxter admitted a mistake. Such monumental screwups are totally impossible at that level. Many safety systems would have needed to be sabotaged, many key personell would have needed to be bribed. It simply can’t be done without direction from the inside. They did not send out the wrong vial – they produced dozens of gallons of biological-weapon agent (genetically engineered live H5N1 / Bird flu virus), then sent it out as a vaccine.

Baxter knew full well that their vaccine was lethal, because the year before they had tested it on a few hundred homeless Polish people – dozens died as a result.
Where’s the meat? Well – Baxter is now being sued for the deliberate, repeated contamination of vaccines with biological weapons designed – by them – to mass-murder people. Here is the complaint (PDF). By some kook nutcase? Not likely – Jane Burgermeister is an experienced, respected journalist. She is not the only one suing Baxter for planning and executing a plan for global genocide: Other are filing complaints as well. Read a well-researched complaint here (PDF).Motive? The latter complaint alludes to it. Have you heard of the Georgia Guidestones? An enormous monument loaded with Masonic symbolism costing millions of dollars, it has been erected by unknown, powerful elites (multimillionaires with the clout to erect monuments wherever they please, obviously) around 30 years ago. It gives an alternative ten commandments, of which the first is the extermination of six and a half billion people from the face of the Earth. Half a billion will remain. This is the number of people the planet can sustain indefinitely, so that the descendents of the Rothschilds and Rockefellers can live in peace and affluence indefinitely. Slaves are needed to produce that luxury, but 500 million will do just fine. But how does one go about killing off most of the world? Vaccinating the planet with a bioweapon with near-100% mortality would do the trick. Baxter would provide both the bioweapon as well as the vaccine against it to civilized Western peoples. Result: We can plunder Africa, we have no more competition from SE Asia, the oil is for our taking and only Western and perhaps Chinese sheeple remain.Rockefeller said this in 1994 at a U.N. dinner: We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis, and the nations will accept the New World Order.PNAC said something similar right before 9/11.

UPDATE 1-VeriChip shares jump after H1N1 patent license win
Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:11pm EDT

Sept 21 (Reuters) - Shares of VeriChip Corp (CHIP.O)tripled after the company said it had been granted an exclusive license to two patents, which will help it to develop implantable virus detection systems in humans. The patents, held by VeriChip partner Receptors LLC, relate to biosensors that can detect the H1N1 and other viruses, and biological threats such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus, VeriChip said in a statement. The technology will combine with VeriChip's implantable radio frequency identification devices to develop virus triage
detection systems. The triage system will provide multiple levels of identification -- the first will identify the agent as virus or non-virus, the second level will classify the virus and alert the user to the presence of pandemic threat viruses and the third level will identify the precise pathogen, VeriChip said in a white paper published May 7, 2009. Shares of VeriChip were up 186 percent at $3.28 Monday late
afternoon trade on Nasdaq. They had touched a year high of $3.43 earlier in the session.(Reporting by Mansi Dutta in Bangalore; Editing by Mike Miller and Anil D'Silva)

WORKING Can employers require flu shots? By L.M. SIXEL Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle Sept. 17, 2009, 7:02AM

With some hospitals requiring their workers to have seasonal flu shots and even more considering it, a big question looms: Can employers do that? Like many cutting-edge —and complicated — workplace trends, the answer isn't a simple yes or no. With so much in life, it all depends on details like whether the shots are job-related and are indeed a business necessity. I think they can,said Andrew Golub, an employment lawyer who represents mostly individuals with Dow Golub Remels & Beverly in Houston, referring to health care providers who are telling their employees to roll up their sleeves.In Houston, The Methodist Hospital and the Hospital Corporation of America have imposed new mandatory requirements for employee flu shots. However, both allow exemptions for those with medical or religious restrictions. While both Methodist and HCA said they considered the legal ramifications before rolling out their programs, there's not much in the way of legal guidance for companies hoping to keep the flu at bay.The only case Golub could find involves a hospital that required its union-represented employees to have flu shots. In that case, the court ruled the injections should be part of the collective bargaining process and that the hospital couldn't just impose them on employees. But that's a union setting, said Golub, which isn't as common in Texas as it is in other parts of the nation. Health care employers can also argue they have an overriding public health interest — coupled with a legitimate business interest — to require the shots, said Sean M. Becker, an employment lawyer who represents management at Vinson & Elkins. However, he pointed out, hospitals would need to consider exceptions for employees who can't have the shots.

Public policy is already moving in that direction, he said, pointing to a new rule by New York's State Department of Health requiring most health care workers to get flu shots. And California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health recently issued regulations requiring employers to protect workers from airborne diseases like the flu such as providing respirators and flu shots.And, Becker noted, the shots don't seem to violate the federal Americans with Disabilities Act. Employers aren't asking for protected medical information or requiring medical tests like a blood draw, he said.

It's a preventive measure, he said. It's not a medical exam.

But to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the answer isn't so definitive. Especially if the employee isn't involved with direct patient contact, said EEOC regional attorney Jim Sacher, who argues it would be harder for an employer to argue it's a matter of public safety for billing clerks to get the shot.A company would also have to prove that an employee's refusal to wear a mask or take a shot poses a direct threat, he said. It's a high standard, and typically isn't hypothetical but serious, very likely to occur and have serious consequences.Then there's the question of whether a flu shot is truly voluntary, he said. A company would be hard-pressed to prove it's voluntary if the employee who refuses the shot faces disciplinary action.But at this point it's hard to say how the agency or judges will view mandatory shots because it's so new, said Sacher, adding that he isn't aware of any complaints to the EEOC.That brings up another issue: What if employers that aren't in health care — say, a department store chain — decide to require flu shots, figuring that it's cheaper than paying sick employees to stay home? It's reasonable, said Mary Jean Geroulo, a lawyer who represents hospitals, physicians and other health care providers with Stewart Stimmel in Dallas.

But would it survive a legal challenge? I don't know, said Geroulo, a former hospital administrator. Employers have a right to create policies like dress codes, but they wouldn't have as powerful a justification for mandatory flu shots as a hospital.lm.sixel@chron.com

Panamax 2009: A U.S. Military Exercise to Train Soldiers to Impose Pandemic Martial Law - Mass Communication Specialist David P. Coleman Navy.mil Monday, September 21, 2009

Editor’s note: Military exercise designed to train soldiers to stop people from going to work and school,according to the U.S. Navy.Representatives from 10 U.S. government agencies are holding a two-day table-top exercise in cooperation with the government of Panama to assist in responding to any future influenza pandemic Sept. 16.The agency representatives are in Panama in conjunction with Fuerzas Aliadas PANAMAX 2009, a 12-day military security training exercise involving 20 countries.
The representatives discussed how the United States and the Panamanian government can manage an influenza outbreak by utilizing their agencies’ assets to combat a pandemic.Our goal is to work as close as possible with the Panamanians in case there is a real threat, such as a pandemic influenza,said U.S. Navy Capt. Miguel A. Cubano, a medical doctor and command surgeon for the U.S. Southern Command.We want to help them set up a plan so a pandemic outbreak does not have a great impact on their economy, stop people from going to work and school and stop the operations of the Panama Canal.The agencies present included the Department of State, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Agency for International Development, Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Army, U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy.Since the severity of flu outbreaks is difficult to predict, the U.S. agencies are sharing tools and information to help Panama combat any level of influenza outbreak.

Influenza usually starts suddenly, with symptoms that include fever, headache, tiredness, coughing, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, diarrhea and vomiting. Many different illnesses, including the common cold, can have similar symptoms, so diagnosis and communication are key to anticipating an unusually severe flu outbreak.The U.S. Navy is working with the Panamanian government and other U.S. agencies to build a preventive plan to fight all diseases, not just the flu.
According to U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Joselito S. Ignacio, head of the Coast Guard’s Environment Health Division, Navy and Coast Guard vessels could play an important role in combating future epidemics.The Coast Guard will work diligently to provide maritime support in our role to help the people of Panama defeat a pandemic outbreak,Ignacio said.The pandemic exercise is not directly part of the FA PANAMAX 2009 maritime exercise, but is occurring concurrently.FA PANAMAX 2009 is one of the largest multinational training exercises in the world, and is taking place in the waters off the coasts of Panama from Sept. 11-22 with the participation of civil and military forces.More than 20 vessels and a dozen aircraft are involved in the exercises. Participants are focusing on a variety of responses to any request from the Government of Panama to protect and guarantee safe passage of traffic through the Panama Canal, ensure its neutrality, and respect national sovereignty. Simulated ground forces are also participating at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas.

Will Americans Obey Government Orders During a Swine Flu Pandemic? Survey seeks to discover if citizens will trust authorities enough to take the H1N1 shot
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, September 21, 2009

Local authorities are keen to know whether American citizens will obey the government in the event of an H1N1 pandemic and take the swine flu vaccine, amidst growing fears of quarantines and forced injections that have been circulating in recent weeks.Every sign points to the fact that health authorities are preparing mass vaccination programs and quarantines that could be instituted should the H1N1 virus make a deadlier comeback, which has been all but guaranteed by U.S. health authorities as well as the WHO.Part of those preparations include gauging the potential reaction of Americans to unpopular orders dictated by an increasingly distrusted government. How many citizens will follow orders to stay indoors, evacuate or take a shot? Some of those questions form part of a survey being conducted by the University of Virginia’s health department targeting everyone except federal government agencies and their employees, who are not qualified respondents for the survey target population,according to an advisory sent with the survey.The survey was forwarded to us by a reader who is part of a CEO-only networking group called MindShare in the Washington DC.I was sent the survey below that is probing folks in VA, MD, and Washington DC on what they would do in a pandemic or anthrax situation,writes Etienne De La Boetie.They appear to be trying to determine if folks will comply with government directives in either a flu pandemic or anthrax attack.The survey, entitled Community Shielding Shared Spectrum, was issued by the Critical Incident Analysis Group at the University of Virginia and can be read here.The CIAG lists its role as understanding how, Critical incidents have the potential for creating social trauma and undermining social trust in government,according to its website, and comprises of a network of experts from academe, media, government, military, law enforcement, industry, and the behavioral sciences.

The survey contains a raft of questions about disaster preparedness and attempts to clarify whether people will trust the government enough to follow orders and accept vaccines during a pandemic or a biological attack. Some of the survey questions are listed as follows;For an anthrax attack that occurred during the work day, local authorities are likely to require people to shelter in place where they are. For many this would be at work or school. Assuming that there were adequate food, water , medications and sanitation supplies, how long would you be able to stay before family or personal circumstances would force you to leave? The multiple choice answers range from, I would not stay at all beyond normal working hours, to More than 14 days.The follow-up questions asks how long people would stay in their homes if ordered to do so by the government.If a vaccine for swine flu (H1N1) is offered this year, and consists of a series of two shots in addition to the normal seasonal flu vaccine, for a total of three shots, will you….The choices range from not taking any shot to taking both shots for swine flu and the seasonal flu shot. The next question asks if the individual would take medication delivered to them by authorities in the event of an anthrax attack or a swine flu pandemic. It does not state whether such medication would be ‘delivered’ at gunpoint as many currently fear.If you live in an affected area and are instructed by government officials to evacuate, would you….The respondent is then given two choices, stay at home or comply with the instructions and evacuate. The next question asks their reason for not obeying the order to evacuate.From question 46 onwards, respondents are grilled about which authorities they trust in relation to a pandemic or a biological attack. Law enforcement, the CDC and State/District transportation department are all listed. Respondents are then asked how confident they are in the federal government to respond to a disaster.

Has the recent outbreak of swine flu (H1N1) made you more or less likely to follow guidance from the government or from public health agencies regarding health issues?, asks question 53.Question 54 onwards asks which sources of information are deemed most trustworthy by the respondent and which of these would be followed during a swine flu outbreak. Federal government websites, mainstream media outlets, religious organizations and Other, non-government Websites, social networking Websites, or Blogs are all listed.A plethora of questions about race, education, employment, household issues and other detailed queries accompany the questions highlighted, and the survey runs to no less than 81 questions in all.This survey is clearly part of a national effort on behalf of authorities to gauge how Americans will react to being ordered around by a federal government that citizens are increasingly suspicious of in light of increasing awareness about the dangers of the swine flu vaccine and an understanding of what happened during the government’s last attempt to enforce a mass vaccination program for swine flu during the 1976 debacle, when the vaccine killed more people than the actual virus.Unfortunately for the people tasked with carrying out any such forced vaccination program, 150 million American gun owners are not going to respond nicely to people who want to inject their children with mercury, squalene and other deadly additives that are admitted to be contained in the H1N1 shot now being rolled out. For their sake, and for the sake of preventing anarchy and widespread violence, we need health authorities to come out publicly and state clearly and vehemently that no such mandatory vaccination effort will take place.Until that happens, fears about what the government is planning behind closed doors in relation to swine flu will only persist and become stronger.

60,000 pray in Times Square! But media fail to notice this most unusual event
September 21, 2009 9:37 pm Eastern 2009 WorldNetDaily

NEW YORK – You can see most anything at Times Square in Manhattan.But 60,000 people praying? That's an unusual site in the heart of Broadway.Yet, that's just what happened there yesterday for one hour – from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. in a Christian rally called Prayer in the Square.Event organizers from Time Square Church had expected some 15,000. But their expectations were far exceeded at the third event of its kind in the last three years.New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who helped the church cut through the red tape necessary to hold such an event, addressed the crowd.It's a little strange for me to be up here,he said.I'm a Jew. But I just celebrated Rosh Hoshana, our new year. So I guess it's appropriate for me to wish you all a happy new year.Despite the magnitude of the event, no major media covered it – even in the center of the media world on a slow news day.More than 200 churches joined with the Times Square Church in promoting the rally to pray for the city and the nation.

A 180-voice choir sang worship songs and the entire event was simulcast on the News Astrovision screen at One Times Square and on several radio stations. Carter Conlon, pastor of the Times Square Church, said preceding the event that this Prayer in the Square might be the last.The Lord called us to host, fund and organize this event for the last three years,he said.He told us that the first year would establish credibility with the city, and we have received positive feedback from various city agencies, including the office of the Mayor himself, commending us for honesty, order, and keeping our word. The second year confirmed to local churches that this was not the beginning of some new ministry but rather a gathering for the sole purpose of one hour of prayer, in humility, with all denominations represented and no personalities or ministry showcased. Those who have attended can attest to the fact that this has been so. Everything has unfolded exactly as the Lord impressed upon our hearts it would.

CZAR WARS Obama science chief: Abortion can save planet-John Holdren's textbook says forced sterilization may become necessary September 21, 2009 10:27 pm Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi 2009 WorldNetDaily

John Holdren

Despite the claims of some media watchdogs, President Obama's science czar contended in a textbook he co-authored that involuntary birth-control measures, including forced sterilization, may be necessary and morally acceptable under certain conditions, such as widespread famine brought about by climate change.John Holdren argued in the 1970s college textbook obtained by WND, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment,that,Compulsory control of family size is an unpalatable idea, but the alternatives may be much more horrifying.The book, last revised in a 1977 edition, was co-authored with Malthusian population alarmist Paul R. Ehrlich and Ehrlich's wife, Anne.The authors also advocated abortion as an acceptable form of population control and proposed that the best survival strategy for a pregnant woman is to abort her baby.When performed today under appropriate medical circumstances by a qualified physician … abortion is much safer than a full-term pregnancy,Holdren and the Ehrlichs wrote.To support the argument, the authors noted the death rate in the U.S. for legal abortion in the first trimester was then less than two in 100,000, increasing to 12 per 100,000 in the second-trimester, still only half the maternal death rate for childbirth.Ecoscience,the once popular college textbook, now has become rare, with the only copy currently available on Amazon.com offered for $649.

The scarcity of the politically explosive text is reminiscent of the controversial anti-war book John Kerry co-authored in 1971 with the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, a volume that reached price heights during the Democratic senator's 2004 presidential run and is even today selling on Amazon.com in the rare hardcover edition for $199.Instead of publishing a new edition now that Holdren has risen to the position of White House science czar, Holdren and his White House supporters have tried to distance him from the views expressed in the book, arguing it is now more than three decades old.Moreover, a statement released by the White House argued that while the textbook discussed compulsory methods of population control, including forced abortion and sterilization, the Ehrlichs and Holdren never advocated involuntary birth control but preferred milder, voluntary population control measures.In a Sept. 9 item by Media Matters asserting Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity falsely claimed Holdren advocated compulsory population control, the left-leaning media watchdog insisted Holdren merely discusses compulsory control of family size including abortion and sterilization as a possible consequence for countries whose expanding birth rates are not curbed by milder methods.Media Matters refers to the St. Petersburg Times' fact-check website, Politifact.com, which addressed similar claims in July by Fox News host Glenn Beck, who said Holdren's textbook proposed forced abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population.

We think a thorough reading shows that these ideas were presented as approaches that had been discussed,Politifact.com wrote.They were posed as suggestions or proposals. In fact, the authors make clear that they did not support coercive means of population control. Clearly, nowhere in the book do the authors advocate forced abortions.A close reading of Ecoscience,however, shows the authors clearly stated their acceptance of abortion as an effective population-control technique. An abortion is clearly preferable to adding one more child to an overburdened family or an overburdened society, where the chances that it will realize its potential are slight,Holdren and the Erhlichs argued on page 760 of the 1977 edition of Ecoscience.
There is little question that legalized abortion can contribute to a reduction in birth rates,the authors wrote on page 761.Liberalization of abortion policies in those countries where it is still largely or entirely illegal is therefore justifiable both on humanitarian and health grounds and as an aid to population control.Moreover, Holdren and the Ehrlichs indicate that should population growth continue uncontrolled, the consequences of global warming,including widespread famine, may make compulsory population control measures necessary.Holdren and the Ehrlichs concede compulsory population control measures if implemented to prevent disasters resulting from uncontrolled population growth will be distasteful to those with moral objections.

Arguing that voluntary measures of family planning and birth control might not be enough, Holdren and the Ehrlichs wrote on page 783 that compulsory birth control methods would need to be implemented when massive famines, political unrest, or ecological disasters make their initiation imperative.In further defining this disaster exception in which compulsory methods, including forced abortions and sterilization, might become acceptable, if not necessary, Holdren and the Ehrlichs wrote on the same page: In such emergencies, whatever measures are economically and technologically expedient will be likeliest to be imposed, regardless of their political or social acceptability.And again, continuing on the same page, the authors wrote of compulsory population control measures:Policies that may seem totally unacceptable today to the majority of people at large or to their national leaders may be seen as very much the lesser of evils only a few years from now.On page 784, the authors conclude the section by commenting: Given the family-size aspirations of people, additional measures beyond family planning will unquestionably be required in order to halt the population explosion – quite possible in many DCs [developed countries] as well as LDCs [less developed countries].In a section of the textbook on pages 786-789 devoted to considering involuntary fertility control,Holdren and the Ehrlichs discuss a variety of methodologies, including: an effort in the 1960s to vasectomize all fathers of three or more children in India; an effort in China to sterilize mothers after their third child; the development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired; the government issuance of a license entitling a woman to a given number of children; and adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods.While in the next sentence, the authors are careful to say a far better choice would be to control population by the milder methods of influencing family size,they also insist in the same sentence that efforts should be redoubled to ensure that the means of birth control, including abortion and sterilization, are accessible to every human being on Earth within the shortest possible time.

In the last sentence of the section on involuntary fertility control,the authors make clear even the most radical methods discussed in the section are morally acceptable to them under the right conditions of population emergency.If effective action is taken against population growth,the authors note,perhaps the need for the more extreme involuntary or repressive measures can be averted in most countries.
Compulsory control of family size is an unpalatable idea, but the alternatives may be much more horrifying,the authors concluded.As those alternatives become clearer to an increasing number of people in the 1980s, they may begin demanding such control.Among the crises resulting from overpopulation that Holdren and the Ehrlichs saw as justifying government-imposed involuntary fertility control measures were ecological collapses of various kinds, large-scale crop failures due to ecological stress or changes in climate and leading to mass famine; severe resource shortages, which could lead either to crop failures or to problems or both; epidemic diseases; wars over diminishing resources; perhaps even thermo-nuclear war.The list of possibilities is long, and over-population enhances the probability that any one of them will occur,Holdren and the Erhlichs wrote on page 796.Population control may be no panacea, but without it there is no way to win.Holdren's office argues his current views do not reflect his past views, citing a recent paper in Science magazine in January 2008 entitled Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being, Fox News reported.Among factors jeopardizing sustainable development,Holdren included, Continuing population growth, which, while not the sole cause of the shortfalls listed, makes the remedy of all of them more difficult.To support this point, Holdren footnoted Ehrlich's 1968 book The Population Bomb,reinforcing the conclusion that Holdren's population thinking was still rooted in the Malthusian concerns that led him to co-author the 1970s textbook with Ehrlich and Ehrlich's wife.

AARON KLEIN IS ISRAEL ATTACK IMMENENT
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US ships arrive in Israel ahead of joint drill Monday, 21 September 2009 05:39 News from Jerusalem .Aegis missile ships

US Navy missile ships started arriving in Israel on Sunday ahead of next month's joint missile defense exercise between the IDF and the American military's European Command.Called Juniper Cobra, the exercise will include the Arrow missile defense system as well as three American systems - the THAAD, Aegis and PAC3 - that will all be deployed in Israel for the duration of the exercise.Defense officials said the exercise would not begin for a few weeks, but that the ships were already arriving to begin preparing the infrastructure for the joint drill, the largest since Israel and the US began holding the biennial Juniper Cobra drill in 2001.The arrival of the ships began a day before Defense Minister Ehud Barak was scheduled to fly to Washington for talks with his American counterpart, Robert Gates. Defense officials said that their talks would focus on the Iranian threat, Israeli-US defense cooperation as well as the role Israel will play in the new American missile defense shield announced last week.Expectations in Israel are that the US will deploy several Aegis ballistic missile ships - that are capable of intercepting ballistic missiles - in the Mediterranean and Red seas. Israel is already home to the advanced X-Band radar that the Bush administration gave as a farewell gift last October.

Officials said it was possible that the US would decide to leave some systems in Israel following the drill to bolster Israeli defenses in face of the Iranian threat. One possibility under discussion is that Aegis ships, that carry SM3 missile interceptors, will be deployed in the Mediterranean and Red seas.On Sunday, Gates wrote an op-ed in The New York Times in which he contended that the new European defense plan - which won't include a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, as per the US announcement last week - was a reworking of the previous proposal, and provided more protection in light of the current threat assessments.

Gates said that while the previous plan would not have provided any protection before at least 2017 - and likely later - the new program will begin providing some level of protection by 2011, will receive a significant boost in capability by 2015, and will be built over time to create an increasingly greater zone of protection.The new approach to European missile defense actually provides us with greater flexibility to adapt as new threats develop and old ones recede,Gates wrote.He challenged critics who have slammed the new plan as a concession to Russia, which had vehemently opposed placing a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe.Russia's attitude and possible reaction played no part in my recommendation to the president on this issue,Gates said.If Russia's leaders embrace this plan, then that will be an unexpected, and welcome, change of policy on their part. But in any case the facts are clear: American missile defense on the continent will continue, and not just in Central Europe.This proposal is, simply put, a better way forward,Gates summed up his position. It is a very real manifestation of our continued commitment to our NATO allies in Europe.jpost.

IDF bombs Gaza smuggling tunnels Monday, 21 September 2009 05:57 News from Jerusalem .IAF strikes weapons smuggling tunnels

Army says bombing of tunnels retaliation for rocket fire towards Israel Saturday night.Air Force jets attacked three smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip late Sunday night, and hits were identified.The IDF Spokesperson's Office stated that the bombing was retaliation for the Qassam rocket fire from Gaza towards southern Israel Saturday night.The bombing was a conclusion to 24 hours of tension at the Gazan border. On Sunday afternoon two Palestinians were killed and four injured from IDF fire near the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya.The army said a number of men approached the security fence separating Israel and the Hamas-run coastal enclave with the aim of planting an explosive device.Mortars were launched toward the gunmen after they ignored calls to stop, the IDF said, adding that forces identified a hit.The two gunmen who were killed were identified as 21-year-old Abd al-Silwai of the Popular Resistance Committees and Mahmoud Nasir, 20, of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.The army said the two had been active in the planting of bombs along the border and in the firing of mortars and rockets toward Israel, including the August 24 mortar attack in which an IDF soldier was lightly hurt.ynet.

Officials: Israel to boycott Ahmadinejad UN speech SEPT 22,09

JERUSALEM – Israeli officials say Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will boycott the upcoming speech by the Iranian president at the U.N. General Assembly and encourage other leaders to do the same.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly denied the Holocaust and called for Israel's destruction.Israel's U.N. ambassador, Gabriella Shalev, says Israel is explaining to other countries how dangerous this man is, how dangerous his country is, how dangerous the process of nuclear development is.Shalev spoke to Army Radio on Tuesday. Netanyahu's aides confirmed he would boycott the speech.The U.S. and other countries believe Iran seeks to build nuclear weapons. Iran denies the charge.Shalev said Netanyahu's own speech to the U.N. on Thursday will focus on Iran.

Swedish-Israeli relations continue to deteriorate
ANDREW RETTMAN Today SEPT 22,09 @ 09:11 CET

Relations between Sweden, the EU presidency-in-office, and Israel have gone from bad to worse after Israel accused Sweden of breaking an EU ban on contact with Hamas.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the allegations at a meeting with Spanish foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos 10 days ago, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz.Sweden on Monday (21 September) reportedly summoned Israel's ambassador in Stockholm, Benny Dagan, to clarify Mr Netanyahu's remarks and issued a robust denial.The government of Sweden has no political contact with Hamas. We are acting in accord with all EU policies in this area and allegations about such contacts have no substance,it said in a statement. Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad on 14 September told EUobserver that high-ranking officials from EU countries, including people very close to EU leaders and foreign ministers, meet with the militant group on a weekly basis.He mentioned visits from France, Spain, Germany, Italy, the UK and Luxembourg, but not Sweden.The EU in 2006 formally suspended high-level talks with Hamas, which it calls a terrorist entity.Swedish-Israeli relations already suffered in August, when Sweden declined Israeli demands to censure a Swedish newspaper article accusing Israeli soldiers of selling the bodily organs of dead Palestinians.

Sweden's chancellor of justice, Goran Lambertz, on Monday (21 September), quashed an enquiry into whether the organ-harvesting article incited racial hatred.The Nordic country has also criticised Israeli settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories and supported an EU freeze on plans to upgrade diplomatic ties with the Jewish state.Spain, which takes over the rotating EU presidency in January, has in recent times been more Israel-friendly than Sweden.Spanish Prime Minister Jorge Luis Zapatero is to visit Jerusalem on 14 October. And foreign minister Moratinos has good contacts with the Israeli administration following his work as the EU envoy for the Middle East peace process from 1996 to 2003.

I THINK CARTER SHOULD LIVE IN GAZA WITH HIS BELOVED ARABS AND SEE IF HE WOULD ALWAYS STICK UP FOR THEM INSTEAD OF ISRAEL.IT WOULD BE A REAL HEAD-CHOPPER SITUATION FOR CARTER.

Carter says Israel must stop building settlements By SUE LINDSEY, Associated Press Writer – Mon Sep 21, 9:44 pm ET

HARRISONBURG, Va. – Israel must stop building settlements in Palestine if peace is ever to be achieved in the Middle East, former President Jimmy Carter said Monday night as he received an award at a Virginia university for his humanitarian efforts.

As President Barack Obama has made clear, the key factor that prevents peace is the continuing building of Israeli settlements in Palestine, driven by a determined minority of Israelis who desire to occupy and colonize east Jerusalem and the West Bank,Carter said.Carter, a Nobel Peace laureate, spoke to a crowd of 6,500 as he and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter received an award from James Madison University's Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence.Carter, 84, who helped bring peace between Egypt and Israel with the Camp David Accords when he was president, has maintained a strong interest in the Middle East. He said he has visited the region three times within the past year.Carter said he's convinced that withdrawal of Israeli occupying forces from Palestine and neighboring countries will dramatically reduce any threats to Israel.All 22 Arab countries have offered diplomatic recognition and full trade and commerce if Israel will withdraw from occupied territories,he said.

And withdrawal is necessary, Carter said.

The alternative to two states is one nation in the same area, within which Arabs will soon comprise a clear majority,he said.This will mean the end of a Jewish state or else an apartheid system within which Palestinians are dominated and deprived of equal rights.Carter and fellow Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu were among a delegation of veteran statesmen who visited Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip last month to support Israelis and Palestinians seeking peace.In June, he went to Gaza and met with leaders of Hamas, which the United States, European Union and Israel have refused to deal with directly because they consider it a terror group.Tutu was the first recipient of the James Madison center's nonviolence award in 2007, and the Carters are the second. It was presented on the United Nations' International Day of Peace.Sushil Mittal, director of the Gandhi Center, said the award recognizes the Carters' commitment to humanitarian efforts.They understand and exemplify the importance of tolerance and compassion for other nations and people from different backgrounds,he said in a statement.After leaving the White House in 1981, the Carters established a nonprofit center in Atlanta dedicated to resolving conflicts and promoting health worldwide.

NO CHANCE OF PEACE
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Aide: Netanyahu won't bend on settlements By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer – Mon Sep 21, 12:25 pm ET

JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won't bend on his opposition to a settlement freeze when he meets the American and Palestinian leaders in New York, a top aide said Monday.The tough Israeli line could signal trouble for Tuesday's summit, where President Barack Obama is bringing together Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in hopes of relaunching peace talks.Israeli and Palestinian officials, feuding over the ongoing settlement construction in West Bank, have warned that no breakthroughs are expected.Abbas has refused to resume negotiations without an Israeli commitment to freeze construction in the West Bank, a call echoed by the U.S. administration. The Palestinians say the meeting does not constitute negotiations.Netanyahu's media adviser, Nir Hefetz, said the prime minister would hold firm to his opposition to a settlement freeze.You have never heard the prime minister say that he will freeze settlements. The opposite is true, Hefetz Army Radio ahead of Netanyahu's departure on Monday.He sees the Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria as a Zionist enterprise and he sees the settlers ... as his brothers, our brothers, and acts accordingly,Hefetz said, using the Hebrew terms for the West Bank.Though some Israeli leaders may see halting settlement as a constructive step, Hefetz said,the prime minister is not one of those people.Nearly 500,000 Israelis live in settlements built in the West Bank and east Jerusalem — territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians and the international community see the settlements as obstacles to peace because they are built on land the Palestinians want for a future state.

A settlement freeze was a key requirement of the U.S.-backed road map, a 2003 peace plan accepted by Israel and the Palestinians.Trying to please both the U.S. administration and his hardline coalition allies, Netanyahu has offered to slow settlement construction for a limited period of time, to about 3,000 apartments over several months. But he has refused to accept restrictions on building in east Jerusalem, which Israel sees as part of its capital.A top Palestinian negotiator said Monday that he hoped the New York meeting would prod Netanyahu toward halting construction.Palestinians welcome the personal intervention of President Obama particularly in light of Israel's continuing rejection of a comprehensive settlement freeze and a resumption of permanent status negotiations on all core issues without exception,Saeb Erekat said.In a statement from Damascus Monday, the militant Hamas group, which rules Gaza, joined other radical Palestinian movements in condemning the meeting, calling it a glaring cover for the (Israeli) enemy government's aggressive attitudes and its denial of the rights of our people.By agreeing to meet Netanyahu, Abbas has submitted to the Zionist-American will,the statement said.Hamas control of Gaza is considered an impediment to peace efforts. Hamas does not accept a Jewish state as part of an Islamic Middle East, though some Hamas leaders have indicated they could come to an agreement with Israel as a temporary measure.

IDF Chief of Staff: All Options Open on Iran by Hana Levi Julian
SEPT 21,09

(IsraelNN.com) IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi politely warned Iran Monday that Israel is prepared to defend itself from any attack the Islamic Republic might consider launching against the Jewish State.During an interview with IDF Army Radio, Ashkenazi pointed out that the possibility of Iran becoming a nuclear power is a threat not only to the State of Israel, but for the Middle East and the entire free world.The chief of staff added, We all understand that the best way of coping is through international sanctions... I hope that Iran will understand this.Ashkenazi made it clear, however, that if the Islamic Republic continued with its current drive toward what appears to be the development of nuclear weapons, Israel would find a way to stop it.Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon expressed a similar view in an interview Monday with the Reuters news agency.Rejecting comments attributed to President Shimon Peres last week, Ayalon also said that the option of taking military action against Iran remained on the table.

Contradicting a claim made Sunday on CNN by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that Peres had said Israel would not launch an attack on Iran, Ayalon said, It is certainly not a guarantee. I don't think that, with all due respect, the Russian president is authorized to speak for Israel and certainly we have not taken any option off the table.Medvedev told the interviewer,When he visited me in Sochi, Israeli President Peres said something important for us all: Israel does not plan to launch any strikes on Iran, we are a peaceful country and we will not do this.The Russian president described the possibility of such an attack as the worst thing that can be imagined.Another international personality deeply invested in making sure that Israel does not attack Iran is Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former national security advisor to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.Brzezinski, who served the White House from 1977 to 1981, called on U.S. President Barack Obama this week to shoot down Israeli planes if they attack Iran. In an interview with the Daily Beast, Brzezinski was quoted as saying, They have to fly over our air space in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch? Currently a professor of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Maryland, the former White House official added,We have to be serious about denying them that right. If they fly over, you go up and confront them. They have the choice of turning back, or not.

Lt.-Gen. Ashkenazi maintained, however, that Israel will do whatever is necessary to defend itself when the time comes.Israel has the right to defend itself, and all options are open,said the IDF Chief of Staff.The IDF's working premise is that we have to be prepared for that possibility, and that is exactly what we are doing.With regard to the cooperation between the IDF and the U.S. Armed Forces that would be essential should military intervention become necessary, Ashkenazi said that professional and productive cooperation exists between the two forces. We have a special relationship with the United States,IDF Chief of Staff said, adding that he also has a strong personal relationship with Admiral Michael Mullen, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The Mosquito: Israel's Unique Micro-Unmanned Aircraft by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
SEPT 22,09

(IsraelNN.com) Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) revealed a unique hand-launched unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at an aeronautics conference earlier this month. The ultra-light UAV, called the Mosquito, was developed in conjunction with the Ministry of Defense for use by combat units in gathering field intelligence. Weighing only 500 grams, the Mosquito is almost half as light as the micro-class UAVs developed thus far. It has a range of two kilometers and can run autonomously for 40 minutes at a time, even in winds of up to 25 knots. Equipped with a miniature camera, the micro-UAV can be maneuvered from the launch site by troops monitoring it in flight. The advantage of the Mosquito is not limited only to its size and weight. IAI researchers developed a unique, hand-held launching system adapted from the design of a fishing harpoon. The harpoon design, according to IAI officials, is reliable, compact and especially useful for rapid deployment from within armored vehicles, through narrow windows or from moving vehicles. Two Mosquito micro-UAVs, the command and control device, and a communications pack can fit in a single briefcase. The system was designed for use by a lone non-specialist soldier operating in most environmental conditions. Guided to a predetermined landing point, which it reaches by parachute, the Mosquito can then be easily packed up for its next mission. The Mosquito was first unveiled during the design stage in 2005, but it has been slowly developed ever since, culminating in its public demonstration flight at the September 2009 Latrun Conference. As of last month, the IAI had not publicized any client orders for the new design, but recent news of its improved operating success is expected to generate international interest.IAI's UAV division boasts an unsurpassed track record of over 450,000 operational flight hours for over 42 customers on four, continents... offering the widest range of combat-proven systems.

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON JUNE 15,2009

09:30 AM +1.51
10:00 AM +25.01
10:30 AM +27.89
11:00 AM +14.74
11:30 AM +31.14
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S&P 500 1071.66 +7.00

NASDAQ 2146.30 +8.26

GOLD 1016.30 +11.30

OIL 71.55 +1.84

TSE 300 11,585.73 +161.12

CDNX 1281.63 +16.63

S&P/TSX/60 695.58 +9.99

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +11.42%
S&P +17.87%
Nasdaq +35.57%
TSX Advances 641,declines 891,unchanged 228,Volume 472,619,908.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 349,Declines 517,Unchanged 321,Volume 228,919,474.

Dow +45 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -8 points at low today.
Dow +64 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,018.20.OIL opens at $71.47 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -8 points at low today so far.
Dow +64 points at high today so far.

DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 2,499,declines 1,124,unchanged 90,New Highs 198,New Lows 39.
Volume 2,585,787,562.
NASDAQ Advances 1,496,declines 1,080,unchanged 117,New highs 130,New Lows 02.
Volume 1,081,753,981.
TSX Advances 898,declines 422,unchanged 222,Volume 218,884,770.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 376,Declines 287,Unchanged 295,Volume 123,065,434.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -8 points at low today.
Dow +64 points at high today.
Dow +0.52% today Volume 194,622,198.
Nasdaq +0.39% today Volume 2,423,868,919.
S&P 500 +0.66% today Volume N/A

RECOVERY VS COMMAND,CONTROL
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GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES
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G-20 EXPECTATIONS
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FED MEETING IN FOCUS
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CLINTONS CAUCAUS OF CHANGE
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UN MEETING ON CLIMATE CHANGE
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ASIA LEADERS MEET
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NEW EU WEBSITE
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TSX follows energy shares to higher open SEPT 22,09

TORONTO (Reuters) – Toronto's main stock index opened higher on Tuesday as a rise in oil prices back above $70 a barrel helped light a fire under energy shares.The S&P/TSX composite index was up 106.47 points, or 0.93 percent, at 11,531.08 at the open.(Reporting by Frank Pingue; editing by Peter Galloway)

Weak banks could stifle EU growth, warns OECD
ANDREW WILLIS Today SEPT 22,09 @ 09:18 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - More work needs to be carried out on European banks if the region is to avoid years of stifled growth, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has warned in a new report out Monday (21 September).Toxic assets held on bank balance sheets and insufficient capital levels are issues that must be dealt with to remove uncertainty, says the Paris-based body made up of members from 30 rich nations. Concerns persist that banks may be insufficiently capitalised to deal with a further deterioration in economic conditions,the report explains.Estimates by the International Monetary Fund this year put potential writedowns for continental European banks at €750 billion, while the European Central Bank estimates put the figure at €440 billion for euro area banks. The OECD report says transparent stress tests would help clear up doubts in this area.Since May, an EU committee of banking supervisors (CEBS) has been gathering information on 22 of the region's largest banks, representing over 60 percent of the banking assets held within the area. Finance ministers are set to discuss the results at an informal meeting in Gothenburg early next month, but no plans have been made to release the data publicly.The US took a different approach in spring however, where published results showed 19 of the largest US banks needed an additional $75 billion (€50bn), sending them scrambling to increase capital levels before the publication date.

Speed up reforms

On top of the banking issue, Monday's report says the EU must speed up reform in other sectors if it is to secure long-term growth prospects.Strengthening innovation, deepening the single market and moving to a low carbon economy are among the areas where reform needs to be accelerated.Raising the level of innovation over the long-term remains a major challenge for the EU says the OECD, highlighting the need to introduce a European Community patent and a Unified Patent Litigation System.Despite numerous policy initiatives, Europe still lags behind the United States and Japan in research and innovation.Growth would also be boosted by enhancing competitive pressures in the single market, says the report, including the implementation of the Services Directive in a timely and effective manner.
Competition in financial services, energy markets and network industries can all be raised further, it adds.

Brussels to propose new powers for financial supervisors
ANDREW WILLIS 21.09.2009 @ 17:39 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Three new supervisory authorities in the areas of banking, insurance and securities look set to gain important powers under proposed legislation to be published by the European Commission this Wednesday (23 September).

Current drafts of the legislation bestow the three authorities, whose job will be to supervise individual financial institutions, with a co-ordinating role in emergency cases such as the shutting down of stock markets or calling a halt to short selling following a terrorist strike. Final negotiations on the format of Wednesday's publications have yet to be finalised, with commission cabinet heads meeting this evening before commissioners give their final seal of approval on the texts. As the legislation currently stands, the authorities will also be mandated to rule on disputes between home and host national supervisors, for instance on the need to recapitalise a cross-border bank.Voting by board member of the three authorities - made up of national supervisors - on such enforcement and implementation measures will be on a one-state, one-vote basis,with a simple majority needed to rule in a particular direction.But member states concerned that such a ruling could force them to use millions of taxpayers money to bail out a financial institution against their government's will, look set to gain recourse to a safeguard clause.Under the clause, an apparent nod to UK concerns voiced in the area before the summer, a member state could ask the decision to be passed on to the council of ministers for a decision by qualified majority voting, although final details in this area have yet to be decided.

Other decisions by the authorities may also be open to appeal.

Once set up, the three authorities will draw up a list of technical standards in their respective areas applicable to all financial institutions in the single market, before passing the list to the commission for final approval.The aim of this single European rulebook is to remove national differences that have caused compliance difficulties for cross-border companies.A separate regulation will aim to set up a European Systemic Risk Board, intended to detect risks to the financial system as a whole and to issue early risk warnings when needed.The board will also be able to issue recommendations and warnings to member states, which must explain any decision not to follow the recommendations.

Barroso seizes control of Better Regulation Monday 21 September 2009

Brussels' bid to slash red tape by 25% is to be controlled by the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, as part of a shakeup of commissioners' portfolios.Responsibility for implementing the Better Regulation initiative currently rests with the enterprise commissioner, but Barroso said he wanted to raise the profile of cutting the administrative burden for businesses.I have decided that in the new Commission the better regulation services, notably those in charge of reducing administrative burdens, will act under my direct authority, together with impact assessment and ex-post evaluation. And I will make sure that all our new initiatives are inspired by these principles of smart regulation,he said.The news comes as the High Level Group (HLG) on Administrative Burdens presents its second report to the Commission, detailing regulations which should be cut in areas such as public procurement, company accounts and financial services.Proposals which could save businesses €40 billion per year have already been tabled by the EU executive and a further €30 billion could be freed up by additional reforms, according to Barroso.He urged the European Parliament and EU member states to quickly adopt all such proposals in order to help boost ailing companies, especially SMEs, which waste money trying to keep up with regulatory requirements.

I expect them to show the same commitment as the Commission is showing,he said.The report by the HLG says reducing and preventing new administrative burdens is a permanent task and the European institutions should look at the organisational setup to ensure the issue does not lose momentum after the HLG's mandate expires.The group will continue its work for another two years and Edmund Stoiber has agreed to stay on as chairperson for that period.

Positions:
Edmund Stoiber, chair of the HLG on administrative burdens, praised President Barrosso for making this his personal project. Stoiber said the European institutions, which were previously the target of criticism over bureaucratic burdens, are now leading the way. He appealed to the European Parliament and member states to follow the EU executive's example by implementing its proposals as quickly as possible.If the same sum of €40 billion can be cut in all member states, that would be a real achievement,he said.Stoiber confirmed that he was prepared to extend his mandate, which expires in August 2010, to participate in the integrated efforts of the committee and the Commission.Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, whose term as enterprise commissioner is coming to an end, said he was pleased President Barroso had decided to make better regulation a priority. He expressed confidence that member states would play their part in cutting red tape at national level, but he acknowledged there had been resistance from some countries.Commission President José Manuel Barroso said Europe must set aside ideological approaches to regulation and adopt smart regulation during the next executive's term of office. We have been ambitious and serious. In less than three years, the Commission has put forward ambitious proposals that – once adopted – will reduce red tape stemming from EU legislation by 25%. We have lived up to our commitment. We will continue to have a very close look at the recommendations, since our ambitious project of getting rid of all unnecessary administrative burdens in the EU is not yet completed,he said.

EU threatens Canada with visa war
VALENTINA POP Today SEPT 22,09 @ 09:16 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU commissioner for justice and home affairs, Jacques Barrot, has warned Canada it could face retaliatory measures if it does not scrap the visa obligation imposed on Czech citizens by the end of the year.Ottawa abolished visas for Czechs in 2007, but re-introduced them in July after hundreds of Roma from the central-European country applied for asylum in Canada, citing discrimination in their home country. The measure was unacceptable, not just for the Czech Republic but for the European Union as a whole,Mr Barrot said at a press conference on Monday (21 September) after a meeting of EU justice and home affairs ministers.He suggested that the EU may impose a visa obligation for Canadian diplomats as a first tit-for-tat measure. An initial sign of good will would be for Canada to open a consulate in Prague, enabling Czech citizens to apply for a visa in their own country, instead of having to travel to Vienna as they do now, he said.If the Canadians don't do anything by the end of the year, then we will be required to ask member states whether it will be agreeable to have some form of retaliatory measure,Mr Barrot warned.Initial discussions on this matter received broad support among member states, as a sign of solidarity with the Czech Republic, the Swedish EU presidency said.Sweden wants to avoid a visa war with Ottawa, the Swedish minister for immigration, Tobias Billstrom, said at the press briefing.That would be very unfortunate for all stakeholders.But there are no signs from Canada that the policy may be reversed. A spokesman for the Ministry of Immigration on Monday defended the policy as a great succes.[The policy] is stopping bogus asylum claims, saving taxpayers money, and allowing us to redirect our resources to focus on genuine refugees,Alykhan Velshi, director of communications with the responsible ministry, told the Canwest News Service.According to Canadian statistics, 3,000 Czech nationals made refugee claims since visas were lifted in October 2007. Fewer than five refugee claims were filed in 2006.

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has criticised Canada over the move, drawing attention to attacks and discrimination against Roma people in the Czech Republic and stressing their right to claim asylum.Last year there was a big pogrom against Roma in the north of the Czech Republic in Janov. And the whole incident has still not completely been resolved and there are no conclusions yet,Dasa van der Horst, the head of the Amnesty International branch in Prague, told Czech Radio. She spoke about state-imposed barriers and evidence that Roma children are automatically sent to special schools, which only re-inforces the discrimination circle.This is not the problem of the Canadian government, but Canada has a system which works for all countries. And it is very strange to put repressive and actually preventative methods in place and not allow our citizens in but allow other countries citizens in,Ms van der Horst said.

Mediterranean countries block tuna fishing ban Bluefin tuna is severely overfished (Photo: Jim Barter)LEIGH PHILLIPS Today SEPT 22,09 @ 09:13 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Union has abandoned its plans to push for a temporary ban on fishing for bluefin tuna, loved by sushi fans but severely overfished, after strong opposition from Mediterranean countries.National experts from EU member states met on Monday (21 September) to consider a proposal from the European Commission to back a pause in the fishing of the species, but France, Spain, Italy, Malta, Greece, and Cyprus baulked at the suggestion, even though France had earlier said it would back the plan.As a result of the obstruction, led by Spain and Malta, the officials were unable to reach the necessary majority to adopt the commission's recommendation.The EU executive on 9 September had proposed that the bloc co-sponsor alongside non-EU country Monaco a temporary suspension on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).The ban through a CITES listing would give the fish a chance to recover, the commission argued.The proposal to list the tuna as an endangered species was originally tabled by Monaco in July at the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), the inter-governmental body responsible for the conservation of tuna.At the time, French President Nicolas Sarkozy backed Monaco's suggestion alongside a number of other EU states, including the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Austria.Monday's move postpones a decision on whether to place bluefin tuna on an endangered species list. EU environment ministers are now expected to reach a final position by the end of the year.

Conservationists were frustrated by the reversal.

The blinkered attitude of Mediterranean governments would drive bluefin tuna to extinction and leave fishermen with nothing to fish in just a few years,said Saskia Richartz, a campaigner with Greenpeace in Brussels.But countries like Malta and Spain are increasingly isolated and there is a growing will among EU environment ministers to save this beautiful animal,she added.EU environment commissioner Stavros Dimas issued a statement in which he said he regrets the decision.The commission has expressed its grave concerns about the state of stocks of the fish, which are rapidly declining after decades of overfishing,the statement continued.

Obama seeks G-20 support to repair global economy By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer – SEPT 22,09

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says he is determined to go after the reckless risk-taking that pushed the global economy into the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, and he is also pushing for countries to promote more balanced growth going forward.He is getting support for his efforts from other leaders, although significant differences remain as Obama prepares to serve as host for a Group of 20 meeting of the world's leading economies on Thursday and Friday in Pittsburgh.In addition to pushing the U.S. agenda, Obama is certain to face tough questions from other G-20 countries over whether his administration can develop a credible plan to curb a soaring U.S. budget deficit that the White House projects will hit an eye-popping $1.548 trillion this year and total $9 trillion over the next decade.As part of an effort to convince the world that he is serious about getting the deficit under control, Obama is pushing a plan that would require the United States and other countries to make sweeping changes in how they manage their deficits.The goal is to prevent the destabilizing imbalances represented by America's high budget and trade deficits, and huge trade surpluses in countries such as China.Obama's initiative would require chronic trade-deficit nations like the United States to boost their savings rates to consume fewer imports, and for trade-surplus countries like China to get their consumers to spend more and rely less on export-led growth.

We can't go back to an era where the Chinese or the Germans or other countries just are selling everything to us, we're taking out a bunch of credit card debt or home equity loans, but we're not selling them anything,Obama said during a CNN interview broadcast Sunday.Americans' personal savings rate has been rising during the current hard times as households cut back on spending and try to repair their cracked nest eggs. But the problem is that the U.S. budget deficit, a barometer of overall national savings, has been soaring, raising alarm bells in countries such as China, the largest foreign holder of U.S. government debt.The U.S. deficit has been driven to stratospheric heights by the billions of dollars being spent to stabilize the U.S. banking system and jump-start the economy. The administration says the economic outlook would be far bleaker if that money had not been spent, but the soaring U.S. deficits are making Obama's G-20 colleagues nervous.China, the largest foreign owner of U.S. Treasury securities, has not been shy about voicing worries that the U.S. deficits will undermine the value of its $800 billion in Treasury bonds.The Chinese worry that the dollar, which has been sliding to its weakest levels in a year, will weaken further, making their holdings worth less. They also worry that all the U.S. debt could trigger inflation in the United States that would further undermine their investments.While a U.S. commitment to get budget deficits under control would address Chinese concerns, Chinese officials are worried that the rebalancing pledge could be used as a club by other countries to attack their trade surplus policies. The United States has sought a Chinese commitment to the plan by pushing to obtain a greater role for China and other emerging economies in global financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund.But Obama's push for the G-20 countries to commit to a framework for sustainable and balanced growth is getting support from many leaders, including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.It's a compact for growth and jobs. It's a global compact and it's the first one that you would ever have and I believe there is substantial support for moving in this direction,Brown told reporters at a briefing Monday.

One area that needs to be resolved is how a country's commitments would be enforced.

In his weekly radio address, Obama also said the Pittsburgh meeting would put forward serious reforms to make sure that the types of activities that contributed to the financial crisis were not repeated.We cannot allow the thirst for reckless schemes that produce quick profits and fat executive bonuses to override the security of our entire financial system and leave taxpayers on the hook for cleaning up the mess,Obama said.But it's not at all clear how bold the G-20 will be, given the disagreements among the major nations over such issues as executive bonuses and how much of a capital cushion banks should carry to guard against losses. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have both put forward tougher rules on bonuses than the U.S. favors, while Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is pushing for more sweeping regulations in the area of banks' capital reserves.

UN climate summit puts China, India in spotlight By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer – SEPT 22,09

UNITED NATIONS – In the highest-level conference yet on climate change, 100 world leaders come to the United Nations on Tuesday to decide how to start an energy revolution.While attention turns to U.S. President Barack Obama's first U.N. speech, the most substantial changes may come from what the presidents of China, India and other major economies spell out for billions of people and their households, businesses and farms in the decades ahead.Those leaders are expected to make more ambitious commitments than the U.S. leader, whose hands are still tied by Congress.

We are asking developing countries to do as we say, not as we did,said Ed Miliband, Britain's climate secretary, whose nation has pledged to cut carbon emissions by more than a third from 1990 levels by 2020, and said 40 percent of the UK's electricity by then would come from renewable sources.Tuesday's U.N. summit and the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh at the end of this week are intended to add pressure on the United States and other rich nations to commit to cuts and provide the billions of dollars needed to help developing nations stop cutting down their forests or burning coal.China and the U.S. each account for about 20 percent of all the world's greenhouse gas pollution created when coal, natural gas or oil are burned. The European Union is next, generating 14 percent, followed by Russia and India, which each account for 5 percent.Chinese President Hu Jintao is expected to lay out new plans for extending China's energy-saving programs and targets for reducing the intensity of its carbon pollution — carbon dioxide emission increases as related to economic growth.China has been cutting energy intensity for the past four years and could the new carbon intensity goal in a five-year plan for development until 2015. China already has said it is seeking to use 15 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020.India, too, may draw away some of the spotlight for laying out plans for the fifth-biggest contributor of global warming gases to bump up fuel efficiency, burn coal more cleanly, preserve forests and grow more organic crops.

The United States, under former President George W. Bush's administration, long cited inaction by China and India as the reason for rejecting mandatory cuts in greenhouse gases.Tuesday's meeting is intended to rally momentum for crafting a new global climate pact at Copenhagen, Denmark, in December. Bush rejected the 1997 Kyoto Protocol for cutting global emissions of warming gases, which expires at the end of 2012, based on its impact on the U.S. economy and exclusion of major developing nations like China and India, both major polluters.But neither China nor India say they will agree to binding greenhouse-gas cuts like those envisioned in a new climate pact to start in 2013. They question why they should, when not even the U.S. will agree to join rich nations in scaling back their pollution.The crisis today on climate change is the inability of the United States to put on the table credible emissions reduction targets for 2020,said Jairam Ramesh, India's environment minister.The EU is urging other rich countries to match its pledge to cut emissions by 20 percent from 1990 levels by 2020, and has said it would cut up to 30 percent if other rich countries follow suit.Japan's incoming prime minister, whose nation generates more than 4 percent of the world's greenhouse gases, has announced a new goal of a 25 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2020.Obama has announced a target of returning to 1990 levels of greenhouse emissions by 2020. Todd Stern, the top U.S. climate envoy, said the Obama administration is moving full speed ahead toward helping craft a global climate deal.

But with Congress moving slowly on a measure to curb emissions, the United States could soon find itself with little influence when 120 countries convene in Copenhagen.The U.S. House of Representatives passed a climate bill this summer that would set the first mandatory limits on greenhouse gases. But action in the Senate has been delayed as lawmakers wrestle with overhauling the health care system.

China's ambition to grow quickly but cleanly soon may vault it to front-runner status — far ahead of the United States — in taking on global warming, the U.N. climate chief said Monday. China and India have announced very ambitious national climate change plans. In the case of China, so ambitious that it could well become the front-runner in the fight to address climate change,U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer told The Associated Press. The big question mark is the U.S.

UK's Brown says summit to discuss rebalancing By Pan Pylas, Ap Business Writer – Mon Sep 21, 7:07 pm ET

LONDON – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said leaders of 20 rich and developing countries must start to sketch out the outlines of a new global economic order when they meet in Pittsburgh later this week, as well as making sure that the fledgling recovery sustains itself.In a briefing Monday ahead of Thursday's Group of 20 meeting, Brown said it was important that longer-term issues, such as preventing huge financial imbalances in trade, savings and consumption, are tackled as the global economy recovers from its worst recession since World War II. Countries running surpluses, such as Germany, have suffered as badly as those with deficits during the recession as demand for their exports collapsed.We are looking at how we can put in place for the future the mechanism or path that can lead us to either making decisions about better ways of creating growth that is sustainable in the future, a better early warning system for the world economy about potential crises, a better way of resolving difficulties or imbalances around the world,Brown said.

Many of the world's leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama and IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, have spoken of the need for rebalancing the world economy. In essence, that means that the U.S. will have to consume less while it builds up its savings rate to bring its financial books into balance, while surplus countries, including dollar-rich China, start spending more to take up the slack left from lower U.S. spending.It's a compact for growth and jobs; it's a global compact and it's the first one that you would ever have and I believe there is substantial support for moving in this direction,Brown said.This new framework is the key to resolving issues where different continents can better work together to achieve the growth levels we need,Brown said.In the nearer-term, Brown said more still needs to be done to make sure that the recovery in the world economy is firmly established.

He said the commitments unveiled in London in April at the last G-20 meeting have gone a long way to underpinning a global economic recovery in the last few months. Countries like Germany, France and Japan actually started growing again during the second quarter, albeit at anemic levels to the output shed in the preceding months.

And despite growing talk of the need for exit strategies from super-loose policies, Brown said the world economy is set for a bigger stimulus over the coming months than it has already had as previously approved spending begins to take effect.The stimulus that we have still got to give the world economy is greater than the stimulus we have already had, so I would say that over the next 15 months you will see America's stimulus higher than it was in the last few months because that is how it is projected to develop,he said.Germany's stimulus next year is higher than this year so I think you have got to remember that what we want to do is safeguard a recovery from a recession we feared would develop into a depression,he added.

Oil back above $70 on dollar, weak demand weighs By Ikuko Kurahone – SEPT 22,09

LONDON (Reuters) – Oil rose above $70 a barrel on Tuesday, supported by a weaker dollar and recovering from a sharp fall the previous day, but bulging inventories and slow demand limited gains.U.S. crude futures rose 99 cents to $70.70 a barrel by 1201 GMT, trimming the previous day's $2.33 drop.London Brent crude gained 95 cents to $69.64.This is a small rebound on the back of the dollar. Gold and all commodities are tracking the pull-back of the dollar,said Andrey Kryuchenkov, commodities analyst at VTB Capital in London.There is still a demand concern capping oil prices.The dollar fell against other currencies on Tuesday and hit a one-year low against the euro.Its weakness makes dollar-denominated commodities cheaper for investors holding currencies other than the dollar.For much of this year, oil has been negatively correlated to the dollar and has moved in tandem with stock markets, which have recovered strongly from multi-year lows touched in March.World stocks, measured by MSCI's global index, rose by 0.8 percent on Tuesday. The index has risen by 26 percent so far this year.But many analysts are wary any economic recovery will be much slower and more difficult than the equities markets are implying and that fuel demand will continue to be depressed.On the other hand, the oil minister of top exporter Saudi Arabia said demand for Saudi crude was increasing and the OPEC would not cut output next year.The world economy seems to be recovering. I hope it will recover fast and therefore it will impact demand,Ali al-Naimi told Reuters in an interview.If demand rises of course supply has to match it... Demand for our oil is rising, and so we are -- at least I am -- convinced that economic growth is started and will continue.

RANGE-BOUND

Oil prices have more than doubled from their December low of just above $32 a barrel and struck a 2009 high of $75 a barrel in August, but since the start of September they have been trapped in a narrow range between about $68 and $72.Global investors will watch for clues on the health of the global economy from a two-day U.S. Federal Reserve meeting starting late on Tuesday and a summit of G20 nations later this week.

Oil traders will also look at two sets of weekly oil data from the United States, the world's top energy consumer, for guidance on fundamentals of supply and demand.
Analysts in a Reuters poll forecast the data would show increases in U.S. domestic oil product inventories, including gasoline, diesel and heating oil, because of slack demand. The figures were also expected to show a drop in crude oil inventories following lower imports.Industry group American Petroleum Institute will release its weekly oil data at 2030 GMT on Tuesday and the U.S. Energy Information Administration, a government unit, will publish its report on Wednesday.Customs data from China, the second biggest energy consumer, showed its gasoline exports jumped in August to their highest since early 2007 and diesel exports remained steady.
Chinese domestic oil product demand has not kept up with record high refinery operation rates, prompting oil companies to exports fuels in large volumes(Additional reporting by Fayen Wong in Perth; editing by Keiron Henderson)

Aussie oil spill set to continue leaking: company Tue Sep 22, 4:45 am ET

SYDNEY (AFP) – The company at the centre of a massive oil spill off Australia's northwest said Tuesday it was still about two weeks away from plugging the leak, which has already been gushing for more than a month.An estimated 400 barrels of oil has spilled daily into the Timor Sea since the West Atlas drilling rig began leaking on August 21, forcing the evacuation of 69 workers, according to Bangkok-headquartered PTTEP Australasia.PTTEP said it began drilling a relief well to divert the leaking oil and gas on Monday, after a mobile rig arrived from Indonesia. It needs to bore 2.6 kilometres (1.6 miles) under the seabed, which will take about a week.This will be followed some 24 hours later by a specialist crew boarding the West Atlas rig and well head platform to further secure the situation by plugging the well bore,the company said in a statement.This operation is expected to take about another week.Heavy mud would be used to plug the leaking bore, it said, adding that more than 300 people were involved in the relief effort about 250 kilometres off the Australian coast.Tonnes of dispersant chemicals have been dumped on the spill, reportedly Australia's worst since offshore drilling began more than 40 years ago, and ecologists fear the toxic cocktail could threaten marine and coastal species.

EU steps up Georgia patrols ahead of war report
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EUOBSERVER/BRUSSELS - The European monitoring mission in Georgia will step up patrols ahead of the publication of a probe into the origins of the 2008 war as a prophylactic measure against the risk of fresh conflict. We will reinforce our patrols ahead of the publication of the report and maintain maximum visibility, German diplomat Hansjorg Haber, the head of EU's monitoring mission in Georgia (EUMM), told journalists in Brussels on Monday (21 September). The 220-strong mission was deployed a year ago in the aftermath of the Russian-Georgian war and is made up of unarmed security experts, who patrol the administrative boundaries of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.The re-inforcements would be purely prophylactic, Mr Haber said, linking the move to the risk of fresh tensions around the publication of an EU-sponsored report into last year's war.The study, drawn up by an independent commission headed by Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini, is due to out sometime next week.The report was originally due at the end of July, a few days before the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of the war on 7 August. But it was delayed after Ms Tagliavini said fresh material came to light at a late stage.According to diplomatic sources quoted by Spiegel Online, the Swiss diplomat intends to brief UN chief Ban Ki Moon in New York this week and then release the study to Georgian, Russian and EU diplomats simultaneously.

The report could prove explosive.

If it points the finger solely at Moscow it could undermine the new thaw in US and EU relations with Russia.If it primarily blames Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, it could worsen instability in the Caucasus republic, where months-long opposition rallies in spring had already called for the president to step down.
Preliminary documents leaked to Der Spiegel in June made Mr Saakashvili look bad, saying that there was no evidence that Russian tanks invaded Georgia before he opened fire. But in a statement released after the publication of the article, Ms Tagliavini said she would have the final word on the conclusions of the probe.
According to EU diplomats quoted by Spiegel Online on Monday, the final report is likely to blame both sides - Mr Saakashvili for mounting the attack and Moscow for escalating the conflict through its massive deployment of troops.

Toned down rhetoric

Asked about the prospects of a renewed conflict, Mr Haber said that both sides have toned down their rhetoric a great deal compared to last year. Now it's just a remote residual possibility of conflict, against which Georgia of course wants to be insured, and Russia to some extent too,he said, adding that Russia is even contemplating halving its 3,600-man strong military presence in Georgia as tensions subside.Mr Haber said there were no prospects of Russia allowing EU monitors into South Ossetia or Abkhazia despite the improved climate, however. The EUMM is also incapable of monitoring the maritime disputes between Georgia and Abkhazia, as it has no ships at its disposal.But we are following the events and we asked the two sides to discuss the matter within the conflict resolution mechanism,the mission chief added.Russia's coastguard authority said on Monday it had begun patrolling waters off Abkhazia, after Georgia seized cargo ships heading to and from the region, raising fears of a naval skirmish in the Black Sea.

Russia asks West to recognise its sphere of influence Monday 21 September 2009

Russia has welcomed a new beginning in relations between NATO and Russia after the announcement by President Barack Obama last week that the US would rethink a missile defence system imagined by his predecessor. Moscow is now asking for recognition of its own regional sphere of influence.It is time for the West and Russia to start discussing mutual recognition of their military alliances, Russian Ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin told journalists on Friday (18 September).Moscow asked the transatlantic alliance to establish ties with its own military union – the Organisation of the Treaty of Collective Security (OTCS ) – saying that it wants its sphere of influence recognised.

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Welcoming the fact that in his words, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen had recognised the existence of Russian interests in a landmark speech (see Background), Rogozin said Russia was saying 'thank you' but wanted words to be followed by deeds.Speaking in Russian, Rogozin said it was time for NATO and the Organisation of the Treaty of Collective Security (OTCS), which regroups seven countries - Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan - to establish formal relations. Such formal ties would amount to recognition by the West that Russia too has a sphere of influence.We fail to understand why the USA can have a global sphere of influence, but Russia is denied even a regional sphere,Rogozin said.NATO means the USA, because the Alliance is not the sphere of influence of Bulgaria or Romania, but of Washington, he added.

Worries about Afghanistan

Asked by EurActiv to develop his views on possible NATO-OTCS cooperation, Rogozin indicated that Russia and NATO had similar interests in Afghanistan, and OTCS was well-equipped to curb drug smuggling from that country to the region and throughout the world.But he made it clear that Russia would not help NATO in Afghanistan by sending troops there.We've already been in Afghanistan and we didn't like it, Rogozin said.The Russian diplomat said Moscow was worried about calls for an exit strategy from Afghanistan, where NATO has a force named ISAF under a UN mandate.We hear hysterical statements [from European NATO members] about an exit strategy. But we didn't agree anything like this with NATO. They have a United Nations mandate in Afghanistan, let them implement it,Rogozin said.If NATO fails in Afghanistan, we will be faced with a catastrophic fundamentalist expansion in all countries in the region,he warned.The top US commander in Afghanistan says in a confidential assessment of the war that without additional forces, the mission will likely result in failure,the Washington Post reported on 21 September.

Starting over

Asked to comment on Rasmussen's speech, Rogozin said it marked the willingness of the new NATO chief to change the behaviours in NATO and maybe at world level in the last 20 years. However, he added that as an experienced diplomat, he could not sign a blank cheque.We have been starting anew already five or six times,he said, adding that a lot depended on the people, and complimented Rasmussen for being a political heavyweight compared to his predecessor Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, a former Dutch foreign minister.In his words, the fact that Rasmussen had been prime minister of a serious country like Denmark and had good personal contacts with the Obama administration was making a difference.I have a serious assumption that Washington was aware [of the messages delivered by Rasmussen] and has given its agreement, Rogozin said. Without naming Poland and the Czech Republic, who are feeling sidelined after the US changed its plans for a missile shield and no longer needs their involvement, he said the resistance by those who want to keep a virtual Berlin Wall be overcome.We find ourselves on the threshold of important events,the Russian envoy concluded.

Iran's Ahmadinejad proud of Holocaust denial By NASSER KARIMI and LEE KEATH, Associated Press Writers – SEPT 21,09

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's president said Monday he is proud to stoke international outrage with his latest remarks denying the Holocaust as he heads for the United Nations this week — showing he is as defiant as ever while his country comes under greater pressure to curtail its nuclear program.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad takes the world stage with a speech Wednesday to the U.N. General Assembly. He appears intent on showing he has not been weakened by three months of turmoil at home, where the pro-reform opposition has staged dramatic protests claiming Ahmadinejad's victory in June presidential elections was fraudulent.Ahmadinejad has a reason to try to present his government as strong: On Oct. 1, Iran is to enter key negotiations with the United States and other powers seeking concessions on Iran's nuclear program.

The U.S. and its allies suspect Iran is secretly pursuing a nuclear weapon, warning that Tehran already has enough enriched uranium to build a bomb. Iran denies the accusations, saying it only aims to generate electricity.Heading into the talks, Iran has firmly rejected demands it give up uranium enrichment, a process that can produce either fuel for a nuclear reactor or a warhead. And it doesn't want the talks to focus on the nuclear issue at all. But American and European officials warn that if no progress is made in the meetings, they will push for tougher U.N. sanctions against Iran.In New York, Ahmadinejad is likely to come under heavy pressure over the nuclear issue. And his every step will be dogged by Iranian exiles, who plan protests over his government's postelection crackdown against the opposition. Already, exiles have been lobbying New York hotels to reject events where the Iranian president is to appear.Human Rights Watch and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran on Monday called on the U.N. General Assembly to appoint a special envoy to investigate and document human rights violations committed during the postelection turmoil.But Ahmadinejad appears to relish the controversy. This will be his fifth appearance at the annual General Assembly since his first election in 2005. In past years, he has used his U.N. visits to bolster his credentials as a figure of resistance to Israel and American domination — an image that he believes plays well among his conservative supporters in Iran.

He stoked the fires ahead of the visit with new comments casting doubt on the Holocaust. Asked about widespread condemnation of such remarks, Ahmadinejad said Monday: The anger of the world's professional killers is (a source of) pride for us, according to state news agency IRNA.During a speech Friday, he questioned whether the Holocaust was a real event and called it a pretext used by Jews to trick the West into backing the creation of Israel. He said the Jewish state was created out of a lie and a mythical claim.The United States branded the speech hateful.Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Monday that Ahmadinejad yet again shames the great tradition of the noble Iranian people and has chosen the violent repression of Iranians over a policy of friendship and cooperation that would have promoted their welfare and their honor.Israel often touts Ahmadinejad's comments on the Holocaust — and his predictions of the Jewish state's demise — as proof of the threat from Iran if it obtains nuclear weapons.Israeli military chief, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, said Monday that all options remain on the table in dealing with Iran's nuclear program, indicating that the country has not abandoned the possibility of a military strike.Along with his anti-Israel and anti-U.S. rhetoric, Ahmadinejad often portrays himself as the champion of a new world order ending Western domination and providing justice for developing nations.The president's message during his U.N. visit will be peace and friendship for all nations, fighting suppression and interaction with all nations in the framework of justice and mutual respect,said a spokesman for Ahmadinejad's office, Mohammad Jafar Mohammadzadeh, according to IRNA.

Ahmadinejad has courted controversy in previous visits. In 2007, during a speech and question-and-answer session at New York's Columbia University, he sat through a scathing criticism by the elite university's president. He was jeered at the same gathering for defending Holocaust revisionists and claiming there are no homosexuals in Iran.Alireza Nader, an Iran analyst as the Washington-based RAND Corp., said Ahmadinejad is playing to an audience at home, trying to distract from the controversy over his election. But I think that his credibility and legitimacy have been so damaged that this isn't going to help him in Iran,Nader said.In fact, courting controversy could hurt him even with fellow conservatives in Iran, some of whom feel the president needlessly turns European countries against Iran, he said. It makes engagement with Iran more difficult for Western countries,Nader said.It calls into question his seriousness in engaging the West.In the Oct. 1 talks, Iran's nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili is to meet with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, as well as U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns and representatives from Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany. Ultimate say on Iran's nuclear program lies with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who stands at the top of the country's clerical leadership. On Sunday, Khamenei took a tough line, saying accusations Iran was seeking a bomb are a lie and a trick against the Islamic Republic.The American government must change its policy,Khamenei said. The Iranian people are watchful against this animosity and will stand up against it.
Lee Keath reported from Cairo.