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REVELATION 18:1-24 (USA DESTROYED) (TRIBULATION CONTINUES)
1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
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 were all nations deceived.
24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

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1. You are legally a debtor and chattel (property) owned by a hidden creditor.
2. There is a hidden lien on everything transacted for by or with a Federal Reserve Note.
3. Your entire alleged wealth is/has been liened, you don’t own anything! You merely have possession by privilege. This privilege may be yanked at any time if you don’t obey the real owner.
4. The Federal Reserve Note is a foreign product owned by a foreign corporation, and not by you or the U.S. government.
5. The States and the United States courts are bankruptcy courts representing the interests and property of the foreign creditor.
6. Without knowing it, you have been compelled into international commercial law, where you have none of your unalienable rights. Hence, you have been insulated from your birthright, the common Law from which your rights are immutable.
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8. You have been divested of the rights to, value of, and profits from your labor, which has been stolen.
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10. The real cause of draconian governmental regulation and your loss of rights is the toxic currency.
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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).

ON TONY BLAIR TO TAKE JOB AS EU 1ST PERMANANT PRESIDENT
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EU leaders aim to put treaty in place by 1 December
HONOR MAHONY Today OCT 30,09 @ 17:08 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU's new set of institutional rules may come into force in just over a month, ending a marathon stretch of treaty-making that took eight years, included four referendums and resulted in an ungainly text littered with footnotes, protocols and opt-outs.The Lisbon Treaty will enter into force doubtless as early as December 1,French President Nicolas Sarkozy said after a summit of EU leaders on Friday (30 October).The breakthrough came after member states managed to agree to a last-minute demand by Czech President Vaclav Klaus.The deal - exempting Prague from a rights charter in the treaty - paves the way for Mr Klaus to sign the pact, a move that will allow it to go into force across the 27 member states of the European Union.The Czech president can only sign after 3 November, the day when the Czech constitutional court is due to give its verdict on whether Lisbon is compatible with national law. The ruling is widely expected to come out in favour of the treaty, with a similar - though narrower - case also going the treaty's way last year.Once the treaty-opposing Czech president puts pen to paper - and EU leaders remain wary of his unpredictability - the race to fill the posts created by the treaty will begin in earnest. The president of the European Council and the foreign minister - two new jobs - as well as the line up of the next European Commission are set to be decided at an extraordinary summit in November.

Shrugs and speculation

The new posts have been the subject of frenzied speculation in the media in the run-up to the October summit and in the corridors during the summit itself.Although there is an impatience to move ahead with nominations, EU leaders effectively agreed to gag themselves until the Czech situation is clear.But heavy hints, eloquent shrugs and pregnant silences by leaders over the last two days would appear to indicate that the post of foreign minister should go to a socialist and that British ex-prime minister Tony Blair, long talked about as the first possible EU president, will not get the job.For his part, Mr Sarkozy said he was in agreement with his German counterpart Angela Merkel that they would have the same vision and support the same candidate for the presidency post.The two countries acting together are likely to determine whether the job will be largely administrative or carry real international clout.But even if the date line for the treaty appears to be clearer, things are less certain for the European Commission, whose current mandate runs out on 31 October. From 1 November onwards it will have caretaker status, only able to execute day-to-day affairs.The new commission is unlikely to be put into place before January next year, as each commissioner will be subject to a hearing in parliament to assess their suitability for the post. It is not out of the question that there will be controversy over one or other candidate, which could delay the process. Once this procedure is finished, the entire college needs to be approved by parliament in a plenary session.

Blair's chances of winning EU president role slip By John O'Donnell and Tim Castle – Thu Oct 29, 4:37 pm ET

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's chances of becoming president of the European Union receded on Thursday when he failed to win the blessing of European socialists, the allies of his governing Labour Party.Although British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged the socialists to back Blair at a meeting before an EU summit, some leaders distanced themselves from his candidacy and the party set up a three-man team to decide its position.Blair faces opposition because of his backing for U.S. President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq, but also because Britain is not among the 16 countries that use the euro currency and is seen as eurosceptic.My personal opinion is that the candidate ... should have an especially good relationship with (President Barack) Obama and not stand for a good working relationship with Bush,Austrian Chancellor Werner Fayman said.Fayman is one of the three leaders who will decide the socialists' position, and his views were echoed by Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg's deputy prime minister.I do not find that the candidacy of Tony Blair is good because of what he characterizes. He is connected with Bush and the war in Iraq,he said.The best candidates are the ones who have not been named as candidates.

BROWN SAYS GET REAL

Such remarks do not augur well for Blair's chances of becoming the 27-country bloc's first long-term president.The job is being created under a treaty that has yet to come into force and says little about what it entails and what powers should be attached to it.Some EU member states oppose having a political heavyweight in the job, fearful they could be sidelined. Others want a high-profile appointment who would have more credibility in meetings with the United States or China.Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker has challenged Blair and other candidates could include former Finnish Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen, former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende.Brown said Blair would be an excellent candidate, dismissing objections to his candidacy by Britain's opposition Conservative party. He said Blair becoming president would be in Britain's interests.A source close to Brown said he had delivered the socialists a tough message,telling them Blair was a unique opportunity to get a strong progressive politician to be the President.But Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero suggested the socialists might instead seek the post of high representative for foreign affairs.Such a decision would leave the presidency open to a center-right candidate and leave little chance for Blair, whose left-leaning Labour Party has been in power for more than a decade.The criteria put forward by the European socialist party to express a preference for the high representative job sounds very reasonable to me,Zapatero said.

EU presidency would be bully pulpit for Blair By John Hughes – Thu Oct 29, 5:00 am ET

Provo, Utah – A new force and factor may be about to emerge in international affairs.
It is the European Union, an economic and political grouping of 27 member states that hitherto has been mainly concerned with trade and regional matters. Two new developments may be about to trigger a more active international role for this coalition.One is Ireland's Oct. 2 ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, which empowers and legitimizes the EU in new ways.The second is the treaty's creation of a permanent presidency, the likely incumbent of which is said to be former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Although several other lesser-known candidates have been mentioned, Mr. Blair is the odds-on favorite. He was recently the special envoy to the Middle East of the quartet,the EU, the United Nations, the United States, and Russia.Also under the new system is the new office of a high foreign-policy representative. If Blair, who has star power on the international circuit, does become president he would probably seek to inject new presence and purpose for the EU on the global scene.

A Blair brand upon the EU would be significant.Blair is a proponent of intervention – military intervention if necessary – not only when a nation's interests are directly engaged, but in the case of a humanitarian crisis or gross oppression of a civilian population.He says that was the situation in Afghanistan under Taliban rule after 9/11, since the regime had allowed Al Qaeda to operate training camps, and also because of its cruelty, its suppression of women, its use of the drug trade. It is proving, Blair says,to be a battle needing to be rewaged,despite declining public support. NATO nations have been increasingly edgy about the current war in Afghanistan. They are reluctant to heed US appeals to send more NATO troops there. If Blair becomes president of the EU, would he choose to argue – let alone succeed in persuading – that some of its member states contribute greater economic or military effort in Afghanistan? Blair was a sturdy supporter of the US war in Iraq, and continued as such even in the face of strong opposition from segments of the British electorate. His stance cost him dearly.Yet, as he said in a speech at the time: I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honor. But sometimes it is the price of leadership and cost of conviction.He has become increasingly reflective and religious since leaving the British premiership, establishing a Tony Blair Faith Foundation, which works for understanding between the different faiths of the world.

In a little-publicized speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs last April, he said: I am older, better educated by the events that shaped my premiership, but I still believe that those who oppress and brutalize their citizens are better put out of power than kept in it. Should we now revert to a more traditional foreign policy, less bold, more cautious, less idealistic, more pragmatic, more willing to tolerate the intolerable because of fear of the unpredictable consequences that intervention can bring? He concedes the current contest against jihadist extremism will take longer and is therefore much tougher. But the principle is the same.Blair has maintained that the extremists feel that: Islam has lost its way, but the authentic basis of Islam, as laid down in the Koran, is progressive, humanitarian, sees knowledge and scientific advance as a duty, which is why for centuries Islam was the fount of such invention and innovation. Fundamental Islam is actually the opposite of what the extremists preach.He went on to say:Our job is to support and partner those Muslims who believe deeply in Islam but also who believe in peaceful coexistence, in taking on and defeating the extremists who don't.If Tony Blair does indeed become president of the EU, he will be given a pulpit to reach a significantly larger audience for his views on intervention against oppression. John Hughes, a former editor of the Monitor, writes a biweekly column for the print Weekly edition.

EU leaders clear major hurdle to reform treaty by Lorne Cook – Thu Oct 29, 6:44 pm ET

BRUSSELS (AFP) – European Union leaders on Thursday cleared a major obstacle holding up the massive Lisbon reform treaty, paving the way for a new-look EU with its first-ever president.At talks in Brussels, the leaders approved a proposal to satisfy a last-minute demand by the deeply eurosceptic Czech President Vaclav Klaus for his country to win an opt-out from the EU's charter of fundamental rights.I am happy to say that the European Council this evening has been able to take a decision and agree on what has been asked for by the Czech government and the Czech president, said Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.The road to ratification stands open, said Reinfeldt, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency, adding that the compromise will have no impact on the Czech Republic's neighbours.The Czech Republic is the only one of the 27 EU nations that has not ratified the treaty. Facts about the EU charter.We have moved the last political obstacle to ratification, said European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, after a summit working dinner.

Klaus angered his EU partners when he sought an opt-out from the treaty three weeks ago, after Prague's parliament had already ratified it, in what his critics took as a fresh attempt to delay its adoption.The move was to ensure the treaty will not allow ethnic Germans forced out of the former Czechoslovakia after World War II for Nazi collaboration to reclaim their property.According to a European diplomat, the opt-out follows the same form as that accorded to Britain and Poland, whereby a protocol will be tacked on to a future EU treaty, probably when a new country joins.

The last technical obstacle remains a court appeal against the treaty by a group of Czech parliamentarians, many from the party Klaus founded. The Czech Constitutional Court is set to rule on it on November 3. Main points of Lisbon treaty.Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer, who attended the summit, welcomed the agreement and said it paved the way for ratification in his country once the court has handed down its verdict.There will be nothing to prevent a fast completion of the ratification, he said.The Czech Republic will ratify the treaty so that it could take effect by the end of the year.A French diplomat, meanwhile, said the leaders would reaffirm their determination to the see the Lisbon Treaty take effect by the end of the year,in a post-summit statement.With the Czech problem out of the way, attention has also turned to candidates to become the first EU president, with former British premier Tony Blair a front-runner, along with Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker. Potential candidates for new EU posts.We Britain, are supporting Tony Blair,British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said.While no decisions on the new top job are expected, the leaders could reveal their level of ambition for the post if Blair, a charismatic and savvy orator, is dropped for a lesser light playing a more administrative role.Leaders from Belgium, Hungary, Luxembourg and Spain suggested they would not back Blair, whose country is neither in the euro currency group nor the Schengen no-borders zone.Other candidates include former Latvia president Vaira Vike-Freiberga, and ex-Irish premier John Bruton.In the end, Reinfeldt said there was no point discussing names until all 27 nations had ratified the treaty.Given the stalemate, he had insisted it was best to focus on the main topic of climate change, as the leaders seek agreement on how to share the costs of the battle against global warming. EU leaders urged to agree climate funding Here too consensus has proved difficult, with less wealthy central and eastern European nations reluctant to stump up at the same rate as France, Germany and Italy to help the developing world -- and that trio reluctant to commit to hard figures.

EU summit sees fresh discussion on top appointments
ANDREW RETTMAN AND VALENTINA POP Today OCT 30,09 @ 00:41 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - France, Germany, Spain and Austria stuck daggers into the Blair EU presidency bid in and around a summit in Brussels on Thursday (29 October), with Belgian, Dutch, Irish and Latvian names also on diplomats' lips.Senior sources from the entourage of French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the new EU president and the related post of EU foreign minister would have to strike a balance between the ambitions of Europe's centre-right and centre-left political families.Paris also called for a rare bird of an EU president who can both quietly build agreements in Brussels and act as the face and voice of Europe vis-a-vis foreign powers.The comments on political balance, when seen in the context of the centre-left's clear preference for the EU foreign minister post, would rule out Tony Blair, a former British socialist prime minister, from gaining acceptance. The avian remark stands in contrast to his glitzy, celebrity profile.Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero at a meeting of centre-left leaders in the EU capital earlier the same day made no bones about abandoning Mr Blair.The criteria put forward by the European socialist party to express a preference for the high representative [for foreign relations] job sounds very reasonable to me,he said, Reuters reports.Austrian Chancellor Werner Fayman was more brusque.I do not find that the candidacy of Tony Blair is good because of what he characterises. He is connected with Bush and the war in Iraq,he said, in reference to former US president George W. Bush. A centre-left shortlist of potential names for the EU foreign minister job mentioned British foreign minister David Miliband alongside five other rank outsiders, raising speculation that he is a shoe-in for the job.Senior German delegates at the EU summit added fuel to the fire, saying that Berlin would favour an EU president from a smaller member state while heaping praise on Mr Miliband's talents.

Belgian jumps out of the hat

Belgian caretaker Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, Dutch leader Jan Peter Balkenende, Irishman John Bruton (the EU's ambassador to the US) and Latvian former head of state Vaira Vike-Freiberga also came up for discussion as candidates for the EU president job.It's never bad for a leader to be mentioned in this context, so I suppose he is not denying it. But he still has quite a job to do as prime minister, one EU diplomat said on Belgium's Mr Van Rompuy, who has his hands full trying to keep the Flemish-Walloon hybrid state in one piece.Mr Balkenende is understood to have informally expressed an interest in the post, unlike Mr Bruton who wrote a quasi-formal letter of application to European ambassadors in Washington.A French diplomat made fun of the Irishman's chances, however.It's funny how from the long distance of Washington, he somehow sent through his application,the French source said. The Celtic Tiger economy which Mr Bruton helped build in his time as Irish leader had since somewhat faded,the source added.An aide to Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis told German press that Ms Vike-Freiberga's candidacy was floated publicly at the summit. The bid was given some extra weight by EU parliament president Jerzy Buzek in his summit speech, who called for the post to go to a woman for the sake of gender balance.The German press agency, DPA, also cited diplomatic sources as saying that the Swedish EU presidency will hold an extraordinary summit on 12 or 19 November to clinch a deal on the top appointments. But a Swedish diplomat denied that any extra meeting has already been tabled, saying the move would be premature before ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, which creates the two top jobs, is finally in the bag.

EU treaty closer to ratification after Czech deal agreed
HONOR MAHONY Today OCT 30,09 @ 00:39 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU came a step closer to full ratification of the Lisbon Treaty after it managed to agree to a sensitive demand by the Czech Republic on the new institutional rules without upsetting other member states.The European Council has been able to take a decision and agree on what has been asked for by the Czech Republic,said Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, currently heading the EU, at the end of the first day of a two-day summit in Brussels on Thursday (29 October).
The proposal was accepted by neighbouring countries,said Mr Reinfeldt who added, the road to ratification stands open.The institutional debate, which elbowed other issues such as climate change from the negotiating table, centred around a recent surprise move by Czech President Vaclav Klaus to make obtaining an opt-out from a rights charter a condition for his signature of the Lisbon Treaty.Mr Klaus said the Charter of Fundamental Rights, a part of the treaty, would expose the country to property claims by the 2.5 million ethnic Germans and their descendants who were expelled from the then Czechoslovakia after World War II under the so-called Benes Decrees.His mentioning of the emotive issue and linkage with the rights charter raised alarm bells in Hungary and Slovakia particularly. Ethnic Hungarians were also expelled while Slovakia feared an imbalance in legal protection between it and the Czech Republic. The two countries separated peacefully from one another in 1993 but Slovakia was also covered by the Benes Decrees at the time.After intense discussions between all of these countries, and plenty of back and forth diplomacy by the Swedes, the Czechs received an opt out similar to one already obtained by Poland and the UK, and no mention is to be made of the Benes Decrees or anything to do with the past.

The Slovaks got a declaration that simply confirmed that the Charter is addressed ...to the member states only when they are implementing Union law.The solution pleased both Bratislava and Budapest, who both sold it as a victory at home for different reasons. The opt-out will be ratified after the Lisbon Treaty has gone into place and probably as part of a future EU accession treaty.The Czech president, the instigator of the political headache, is apparently also happy with the deal.
Vaclav Klaus was content with the text. He has been informed about all modifications ...and does not have a problem with it,Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer said after the meeting.Mr Klaus, an ardent eurosceptic who dislikes the Lisbon Treaty, has been holding out against signing it, a move that would complete ratification and allow it to enter into force across the European Union. But his sheer unpredictability, typified by his 11th-hour charter demand, had made some in Brussels fear he would continue to dig in his heels anyway.His signature cannot take place before Tuesday when the Czech Constitutional Court is due to rule on the treaty's compatibility with national law. But the court is widely expected to approve the treaty.If Mr Klaus signs the treaty in November, it could come into force on 1 December.With the last hurdle to ratification apparently out of the way, the discussions on what implementing the treaty will mean can begin in earnest. The most prominent of these issues is the new posts it creates, including a president of the European Council and a new foreign minister.These very interesting discussions await,said Mr Reinfeldt.

EU leaders agree on Czech treaty demands By CONSTANT BRAND, Associated Press Writer – Thu Oct 29, 6:35 pm ET

BRUSSELS – The European Union's stalled reform treaty overcame a crucial hurdle Thursday after EU leaders agreed to last-minute demands from the Czech Republic in return for the country's ratification of the ambitious deal.The treaty would streamline decision-making and bolster the bloc's role on the world stage. It would also create the post of a fixed EU president, a job leading European figures are already jockeying for behind the scenes.European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the eight years of drafting and negotiating the treaty reminds me of a marathon, but a marathon with hurdles.Tonight we have removed the last political hurdle,he said.Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, who led the summit talks, said EU leaders here agreed to demands that clear the way for Czech President Vaclav Klaus to sign the treaty if the Czech constitutional court finds the pact does not violate national law. The court is expected to rule Tuesday.Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer said the deal was a step forward and assured his counterparts that if the court backs the treaty there is nothing preventing a rapid finalization of the ratification of the treaty in the Czech Republic before the end of the year.

Jiri Weigl, head of Klaus' office said the president considered the result very good,adding Klaus would not raise any more concerns over the treaty.Klaus, an ardent Euro-skeptic, had refused to sign the treaty until his country was an offered an opt-out from its Charter of Fundamental Rights. The Czech leader asked for the option over worries of property claims by ethnic Germans stripped of their land and expelled after World War II.Reinfeldt said neighboring countries — like Hungary and Slovakia, both of which also feared repercussions over Klaus' demands — agreed to a compromise text that allowed the opt-out.Klaus had used the demand for the opt-out to try to scuttle ratification of the treaty which he opposes. He fears the treaty would hand over too many national powers to EU institutions in Brussels.However, pressure on him to sign intensified after he became the lone holdout when Irish voters passed the treaty in a second referendum earlier this month.EU officials have said that the World War II laws Klaus is concerned about are in no way threatened by the new treaty's rights charter which only applies to EU laws.Associated Press writers Raf Casert and Aoife White contributed to this report.

Irish leader feeling the heat in EU liberal group
ANDREW WILLIS Today OCT 29,09 @ 17:58 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Just as he thought his European worries were over following the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen is starting to feel less comfortable in the European Liberal party.Having recently switched his Fianna Fail party from an anti-federalist and now defunct grouping within the European Parliament to the Liberal family, Mr Cowen is now finding it hard to toe the new party line, which he can no longer control.Emerging from a one hour meeting with his new Liberal colleagues ahead of Thursday's (29 October) summit of EU leaders in Brussels, Mr Cowen looked uneasy sitting on the top table, as he attempted to bat away awkward questions over his MEPs' voting behaviour.Three Fianna Fail MEPs recently abstained in a European parliament vote on press freedom in Italy. Their abstention meant that the Liberal-origin resolution was tied with 338 votes in favour and 338 votes against, infuriating Liberal group leader, Guy Verhofstadt.Mr Verhofstadt, a former Belgian prime minister, and his group received no prior warning from Dublin that the three MEPs had been told to abstain. We have agreed to inform each other of our positions earlier,said an uncomfortable looking Mr Cowen on Thursday as he sat beside the Liberal leader.The Fianna Fail trio have in their short stint in the group also caused friction by trying to scupper a previous Liberal initiative on gay rights.

Split allegiances

The other issue causing friction between him and his new liberal chums is the question of Europe's top jobs, with the Liberals adamant that one of the top four EU jobs should go to them. We were decisive on the election of the president of the European commission so we have a deal. Live up to the deal,said Belgian liberal MEP Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, on a prior agreement between her group and the centre-right EPP faction.But Mr Cowen finds his allegiances torn between two candidates for European council president, and neither is a Liberal.I've certainly the highest regard for Tony Blair and obviously we await and see if, in fact, he's a candidate, but you can take it that we'd be very supportive,Mr Cowen said earlier this month in support of the British centre-left former-prime minister.Mr Blair is credited with pushing the peace process along in Northern Ireland and was in power during the signing of the Belfast peace agreement in 1998.The recent decision by former Irish prime minister and current EU ambassador to the US, John Bruton, to throw his hat into the ring is also complicating the matter. Mr Bruton is from Ireland's conservative Fine Gael party, which sits with the EPP in the European Parliament.

Mr Cowen winced at the onslaught of questions from journalists over who he would support.I would of course respect the Liberal party position,he said turning to Mr Verhofstadt, but pointedly avoided to rule out his support for the other two candidates.Later, he told journalists he was happy that the current EU ambassador to the US had put himself forward, but added that it remained to be seen how much support there would be.

Extraordinary summit mooted

The European parliament is due to discuss the profile of the European Council president on 11 November, with speculation there could be a specially convened summit of EU leaders the next day to discuss candidates for the job.The Swedish presidency has insisted that discussion on candidate names will not be on the agenda at this week's summit, which will focus instead on the job description. Once full ratification is achieved, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt will embark on a round of bilateral discussions to seek agreement on a name.Liberal EU leaders favour a more chairman-like role, while others such as the UK say they want someone with sufficient presence on the world stage to engage with the likes of China and the US.
That's the way we interpret driving forward the agenda of the European Council,said one senior UK diplomat this week, referring to wording in the Lisbon Treaty.

Eastern states continue to play tough in climate talks-Eastern states could go to Copenhagen individually without a common EU position (Photo: Johannes Jansson/norden.org )LEIGH PHILLIPS Today OCT 30,09 @ 00:19 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Old and new EU member states at the European summit in Brussels on Thursday (29 October) battled fiercely over a final position to take to global climate talks in Copenhagen in November, but still almost no progress was made and eastern states warned that they may go to Copenhagen with their own proposals distinct from the rest of the EU.An eastern posse led by Poland insisted that before any offers of cash are put on the table at Copenhagen to be offered to developing nations to help them adapt to the effects of climate change and mitigate their emissions, the EU must internally come to an agreement on how each member state should contribute to the overall figure.Poland has gone so far as to warn that if no agreement is reached amongst EU member states, they and the other eastern countries are willing to go to Copenhagen with their own proposals for climate finance separate from the rest of the EU.There's no question of a Polish veto - we're in a coalition with eight other countries, so if we do have to go down that road, we're in good company,said Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski at the Brussels meeting.If there is no agreement here, then we have to go to Copenhagen as individual countries. It's a real risk. With the financial crisis, the climate here has changed - I mean the political climate in Brussels: It is much more realistic.

The division is over what criterion to use for sharing the financial burden, the wealth of a nation (GNI) or how much it pollutes.The eastern, poorer states favour basing the sums on how wealthy a country is, thus placing a lesser burden on them. Western states favour basing the sums on how much carbon they are pumping out. This advantages France, with its use of low-carbon nuclear energy and disadvantages Poland, with its continued dependence on coal for its power.But the main reason the western states want an EU-agreed schema based on emissions rather than a country's wealth is that if internally a schema is based on a country's wealth, the EU will then have to accept similar arguments at the global level from developing countries, undermining their position and that of the US that even developing countries must contribute to the global climate fund. One possible compromise suggested by the Swedish EU presidency and discussed today would ensure that if any key for paying into any global climate finance fund lead to a disproportionate burden on less prosperous [EU] member states, an adjustment should be made to take into account those member states' ability to pay.Despite this suggestion, there was no movement in the talks, and the Swedish presidency is to submit fresh compromise proposals on Friday morning.

No sums at all before Copenhagen, says Germany

Meanwhile, Germany is adamant that no firm figures be announced at all ahead of the Copenhagen summit, believing they can win more concessions from developing countries if they keep their cards close to their chest in negotiations. Italy too is of the same mind.Other states however worry that if no climate finance sums are put on the table from the EU soon, the bloc will inadvertently lose its climate leadership as the US and China end up deciding between themselves the outlines of a global agreement.A further stumbling block centres on the question of so-called unused Assigned Amount Units of carbon emissions - the allocations of CO2 that countries could emit under the Kyoto Protocol.Countries in the east underwent severe deindustrialisation over the course of the 1990s in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet bloc, producing a sharp drop in emissions without any real carbon mitigation efforts and leaving them with a massive surplus of unused AAUs.The eastern states believe that these unused AAUs - referred to colloquially in Brussels as hot air - should be bankable and carry over from the Kyoto regime to whatever replaces it. The western states for their part argue that the unused AAUs exist in such quantities that to release them into the market would collapse the price of carbon and feel that the unused AAUs should just expire when any post-Kyoto regime enters into force.

In a fudge suggested by the Swedish presidency that tries to take both sides into account, the European Council would take the firm view that unused AAUs should be handled under such constraints that the environmental integrity is not negative influenced.At a press conference following talks, Swedish Prime Minister and president-in-office of the EU Frederik Reinfeldt, sitting alongside European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, admitted that progress remained elusive.We're not ready yet. Both myself and President Barroso want an EU position.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (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.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: 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 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

Israel wants Italy to remain head of UNIFIL Thu Oct 29, 4:40 am ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel has asked Italy to try to remain at the head of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) rather than handing over to Spain as planned, a senior official said.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week called (Italian) Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and asked him to try to keep the current commander of UNIFIL Claudio Graziano in his post,the official said.Graziano's term is due to end in a few weeks, with Spain slated to take over.The Haaretz newspaper said Netanyahu's move turned into a serious diplomatic incident, with Spain likely to take up the issue during talks with visiting Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak this week.While the military wanted Netanyahu to press Italy to keep Graziano in his post for at least another six months, the foreign ministry feels Israel should not have become involved to avoid insulting any of the major European countries participating in UNIFIL -- France, Italy and Spain, the daily said.We have no preference regarding UNIFIL command. We will cooperate with any commander,a foreign ministry spokesman said.

UNIFIL has some 13,000 troops from various countries stationed in southern Lebanon.
The force, which was set up in 1978 to monitor the border between Israel and southern Lebanon, was considerably beefed up in the wake of the 2006 war between the militant group Hezbollah and Israel.

MUSLIM NATIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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

NO CHANCE IRAN STOPS MAKING BOMB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0VylJhG4YM&feature=player_embedded

No chance to talk Iran out of nuclear program – Bolton Thursday, 29 October 2009 05:13 News from Jerusalem

All negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program have failed and the option now is for Israel to launch a preemptive strike against the Islamic Republic, former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton told RT.On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated that his country will not give up its nuclear program no matter what.He lashed out at Israel, which is believed to have nuclear weapons.When an illegal regime possesses nuclear weapons, the other countries' rights for peaceful nuclear energy cannot be denied,he said.This week the Islamic Republic is expected to respond to a Western proposal to farm out its uranium to Russia and France for enrichment.Bolton, the US Ambassador to the UN in 2005-2006, says he doesn’t believe Iran will directly endorse the uranium export plan.I think it’s a very good deal for Iran – to get its uranium supply of low-enriched uranium enriched to a still higher level of the U-235 isotope,he said.That’s moving in the wrong direction from our point of view, but I think that’s why Iran should find it worthwhile.The most possible scenario, Bolton said, it that Tehran will do what it typically does: draw negotiations out, because time works on the side of the would-be proliferators.So from the Iranian prospective, he continued, the longer the deal takes, the better.The Obama administration is locked into a diplomatic approach, Bolton added.I think they would be very hesitant to admit that the negotiations have failed, although in fact they have,he said.According to Bolton, there is no chance that Iran will be talked out of its nuclear weapons program.From the US prospective, he said, Iran has a lot of time to play with. But, he added,It doesn’t mean that they have an unlimited amount of time from the Israeli perspective.Every day that goes by while the negotiations progress , Bolton said, Iran continues to enrich uranium and the most likely outcome is that the country will succeed in making a nuclear weapon.

At this point, Bolton believes, it’s really down now to a decision by Israel whether to use preemptive military force against the Iranian nuclear weapons program.The US under the Obama administration,he said, won’t play any role in a possible Israeli operation.As for Washington’s reaction if such a strike began, under the Bush administration there would be a much more favorable response to Israel.Under Obama, however,lots of things are possible, including a cut-off of military cooperation.And that’s one of the most difficult factors, he went on, that the Israeli government has to consider.The Israeli forces, according to Bolton, don’t need to use nuclear weapons to carry out a strike against Iran’s program,since they know where the Islamic nuclear facilities are.Nevertheless, the risk for the Israelis is that there might be other facilities – like the recently announced one in Qom – that the Iranians have been constructing that the Israelis are not yet aware of.I think in the Arab world, the destruction of Iran’s nuclear program would be greeted publicly with criticism of Israel but privately with great relief, Bolton said.Meanwhile, Israel is very concerned that Russia might ship the S-300 air defense system, which would probably rule out an Israeli air strike.So, the Israeli decision might come at any point, the former top diplomat believes.RT

US congressman: We must act, or Israel will Thursday, 29 October 2009 04:31 News from Jerusalem Bushehr Nuclear Plant

America must take action to resolve Iranian nuclear quagmire in order to avert risk of Israeli strike, US congressman warns; slow progress on Iran front raises prospect of Mideast war, he says.WASHINGTON – Israel may strike Iran should the United States fail to take prompt action to curb Tehran's nuclear program, Rep. Dan Burton said Wednesday.Speaking at a session of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Burton warned that Iran continues to enrich uranium, adding that Israel will not allow the process to continue. The slower America acts, the more it risks the prospect of seeing a military clash in the Middle East, he said.Similar sentiments were recently expressed by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who stressed the urgency of reaching an agreement with Iran over its nuclear program in order to lift the risk of a pre-emptive Israeli strike.They (the Israelis) will not tolerate an Iranian bomb, the French FM said In an interview with the British Daily Telegraph, published Monday.Also at the session, Rep. Brad Sherman said that the US will freeze anti-Iranian decisions only after Tehran suspends its nuclear plan.Meanwhile, Committee Chairman Howard Berman said that while he is not happy to enforce solely American sanctions and endorses President Obama's dialogue efforts, the diplomatic effort will have to show results soon.Berman added that should dialogue fail, the next option he would favor is tough sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council. The third option will be sanctions imposed outsides the framework of the Security Council, in case Russia or China will express objection in the UN. The least favorable option in his view is sanctions imposed by America only.ynet

Iran hands over response to UN-proposed nuclear deal Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:37 News from Jerusalem Iranian President Ahmadinejad (Photo AP)

Iran has presented its response on a United Nations-drafted nuclear fuel deal to the head of the International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei, Iran's state al Alam television reported on Thursday.Iran will seek major revisions to the proposed deal, including shipping abroad its low-enriched uranium (LEU) in stages rather than all at once, according to another pro-government newspaper.
Without giving a source, the newspaper Javan also said Iran wanted a simultaneous exchange, receiving higher-enriched uranium to run a Tehran research reactor at the same time as it ships LEU abroad for conversion into fuel for the same purpose.
Israel on Thursday blasted the uranium exchange deal with Iran as one that would only delay by one year Tehran's alleged progress toward a nuclear weapon.Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the downside of the agreement was that it granted international recognition to uranium enrichment by Iran.

He urged the international community to go further and demand a complete stop to enrichment on Iranian soil.If this agreement is implemented, it will take them back a year, but there is a fly in the ointment. It means that they [the U.S., Russia and France] recognize that Iran is enriching uranium and that helps them [Iran] with their argument that they are enriching uranium for peaceful purposes,Barak said.It is important to insist on an end to enrichment in Iran,he told Israel Radio.

Iran wants two amendments to nuclear draft-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said earlier Thursday that Iran would not retreat one iota on its nuclear rights, but it is ready to cooperate on issues regarding atomic fuel, power plants and nuclear technology.He said the provision of nuclear fuel for a Tehran research reactor was an opportunity for Iran to evaluate the honesty of world powers and the United Nations nuclear agency.We welcome the uranium exchange deal and are ready for cooperation, but the countries involved in the deal should also fulfil their commitments,Ahmadinejad said in a speech in Mashad in north-eastern Iran that was broadcast on television.According to Iranian media, Tehran has accepted the framework of the deal, but has demanded changes to it.Two such reported changes to the deal, according to the media sources, included the gradual shipment of its low-enriched uranium (LEU) abroad rather than sending it in one go, a pro-government newspaper reported on Thursday.It also said Tehran wanted a simultaneous exchange, under which it would receive fuel for a Tehran research reactor at the same time as it ships LEU out of the country, Javan newspaper reported, without giving a source.

Ahmadinejad on Thursday also called on the United States to drop its support for Israel to prove its claim of wanting change.You have to choose between your prestige in the world or support for the Zionist regime - Israel,Ahmadinejad said in a speech in Mashad in north-eastern Iran that was broadcast on television. You have to chose one of the two options.

IAEA return from visit to enrichment site-Earlier Thursday a team of UN nuclear inspectors returned from a visit to a previously secret Iranian uranium enrichment site, with their leader expressing satisfaction with the mission.What the inspectors saw - and how freely they were allowed to work - will be key in deciding whether six world powers engaging Iran in efforts to reduce fears that it seeks to make nuclear weapons seek a new round of talks with Tehran.The Fordo site is near the holy city of Qom. Iran revealed it was building it September 21 in a confidential letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Just days later, the leaders of the U.S., Britain and France condemned Tehran for having kept it secret.The West believes Iran revealed the site's existence only because it had learned that the U.S. and its allies were about to make it public. Iran denies that.Tehran says it wants to enrich only to make nuclear fuel. But the West worries that Iran wants to create fissile warhead material.We had a good trip,said Herman Nackaerts, who headed the International Atomic Energy Agency inspection team.Nackaerts said the nuclear agency planned to analyze the data from the visit, adding that IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei would then report in due time on the results.The team's findings will be presented as part of a report to the IAEA's 35-nation governing board. Beyond that, ElBaradei is expected to brief the six countries - the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany - attempting to persuade Iran to freeze enrichment.

The visit was the first independent look inside the enrichment plant, a former ammunition dump burrowed into the treeless hills south of Tehran. The inspectors were expected to have studied plant blueprints, interviewed workers and taken soil samples before wrapping up the mission.Iran's other enrichment plant - a sprawling underground facility at Natanz - is already under IAEA monitoring. But its general refusal to heed UN Security Council demands and freeze enrichment has resulted in three sets of Council sanctions.While the Islamic Republic insists it is enriching only to create fuel for a future nuclear reactor network, the international community is concerned because the material could be further enriched to weapons-grade uranium, used to arm nuclear warheads.Along with the IAEA briefing on Fordo, the six powers are also awaiting another development later in the day or Friday that will go into determining whether they follow up on talks with Tehran early this month. By Friday, the Islamic Republic has promised to reveal whether it accepts a plan that would have it ship out 70 percent of its enriched uranium to Russia for further enrichment.The West said that Iran agreed in principle to do so at the Oct. 1talks in Geneva, tentatively accepting a proposal that would see Russia enrich the exported material further for use in Tehran's research reactor.The plan would commit Iran to turn over more than 2,600 pounds (1,200 kilograms) of low-enriched uranium - more than the commonly accepted amount of low-enriched uranium needed to produce weapons-grade uranium.Sending such a large amount out would thus temporarily get rid of most of the material Tehran would need to make a bomb.

But if Tehran did accept the plan in Geneva, it has subsequently backtracked.

Ahead of announcing its formal decision it has indicated that may insist that it be allowed either to buy the fuel for the Tehran reactor from abroad - or to ship the material in small batches. That would not reduce fears about further enrichment to weapons-grade uranium because Iran would be able to quickly replace small amounts it sent out of the country with newly enriched material.haaretz

Why German media ignore Ashkenazi Thursday, 29 October 2009 04:19 News from Jerusalem IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi speaks in Berlin
German media's ignoring of IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi's visit to Germany is a sign of the internal contradictions of the so-called German-Israeli special relationship.

Dr. Alexander Brenner, a former head of the 12,000-member Berlin Jewish community and an ex-diplomat in Israel and the former Soviet Union, expressed disbelief on Tuesday about the feeble German coverage of Ashkenazi.Extremely strange is how Brenner termed the paltry coverage.That there was scant coverage in the German press on Tuesday after Ashkenazi's robust speech the previous day defending the IDF at the Holocaust memorial located on platform 17 of the Grunewald train station suggests a lack of reception for his core message: The IDF, the protector of the Jewish nation, is not a warmongering military, but a defensive military,he said.While Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeatedly stressed that Iran's calls to obliterate Israel are a dire threat to the existence of the Jewish state, many German media outlets write that Iran's statements are empty political rhetoric or the result of faulty translation.A Forsa Institute poll earlier this year showed that during the IDF's Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, roughly 50 percent of Germans considered Israel to be an aggressive state.A radical pacifist culture that developed after the defeat of Nazi Germany coupled with anti-Israeli sentiments because of contemporary anti-Semitism plays a role in the failure to understand Israel's security interests. The left-leaning Die Tageszeitung daily devoted a two-page interview in mid-October with a young Israeli who refused to serve in the IDF.Most of the large left-wing dailies show hardly any interest in examining the compelling need for Israel's military forces. That might help to explain the dearth of coverage regarding Ashkenazi. Jews who flex their military muscles and are prepared to defend themselves are not a terribly attractive topic for many Germans who harbor a post-WWII aversion against the military and stick to a distorted, prejudicial view of Jews as a bunch of bookworms.

According to Israeli diplomats, the most pressing worry is the pooh-poohing of the Iranian threat. A telling example: The high-circulation, left-wing Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper frequently publishes articles from Katajun Amirpur, a German-Iranian writer, who argued in the paper that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not say he plans to wipe Israel off the map.Critics of the Iranian regime in Germany such as Nasrin Amirsedghi say that Amirpur and the Böll Foundation Iran specialist Bahman Nirumand downplay the Iranian threat toward Israel and the West. Nirumand writes for Die Tageszeitung, and works for the German Green Party-affiliated Böll Foundation, which carries currency in shaping public opinion about Iran.While both Germany and Israel on the governmental level go to great lengths to stress their rock-solid military and political relationship, fault lines have repeatedly surfaced regarding Germany's failure to rein in its booming trade relationship with Iran. Last week, an Israeli diplomat in Berlin issued an indirect rebuke of Germany's refusal to follow Britain's lead and ban trade with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines. The Hamburg-based company Leonhardt & Blumberg chartered a ship to the shipping line that carried ammunition allegedly destined for Syria or Hizbullah.The German-Iranian trade relationship and its impact on Israel's security is relegated to a largely inferior status within German media coverage and the government. And the growing rift between German anti-Israeli public opinion and the Merkel's administration's commitment to the Germany-Israeli special relationship remains a thorny problem for bilateral relations. Dr. Julius Schoeps, a German Jewish historian who head the Moses Mendelssohn Center in Potsdam, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday that Israel is increasingly moving outside of Germany's interests.He cited the war in Iraq and Afghanistan as foreign policy priorities for the German press.jpost

Qaida-linked group claims rocket attack on Israel OCT 29,09

BEIRUT – A Lebanon-based al-Qaida-linked group claimed responsibility Thursday for a rocket attack against Israel this week, saying it was in retaliation for the Jewish state's crackdown on protesters at a Jerusalem shrine.The claim from a group calling itself the Battalions of Ziad Jarrah came two days after a rocket was fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, causing no casualties. Lebanese troops subsequently found and dismantled four rockets in the village of Houla near the border with Israel.The claim of responsibility, made on a Web site often used by Islamic militants, could not be independently verified.The group is named after a Lebanese militant who as among the 19 suicide attackers that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States. It has claimed responsibility for previous rocket-firings across the border into Israel.The group said its fighters set up five rockets in Houla on Tuesday night but one launched prematurely, leading the militants to flee the area leaving four rockets behind. It was the fifth such attack against Israel from Lebanon this year. Israel responded with artillery fire, but there were no reports of casualties.Earlier this month, Israel troops cracked down to disperse hundreds of stone-throwing Palestinian protesters in a fresh eruption of violence at the most volatile spot in the Holy Land. The site is known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.The Israeli crackdown drew condemnation from throughout the Muslim world.

Experts Warn: Peres Puppeteering J-Street
by Gil Ronen OCT 29,09

(IsraelNN.com) President Shimon Peres is the spirit behind the creation of J-Street, the liberal US Jewish lobby which is seen by many observers – including official Israeli representatives – as anti-Israeli. David Bedein, a journalist who heads the Israel Resource Review, is in Washington, DC, to give congressmen the heads-up about the Peres/J-Street connection.In an interview with Arutz Sheva, Bedein said that he and his team are in the US capital to talk to members of congress and expose the lies that J-Street has been spreading lately.This organization is a kind of umbrella group of all the leftist NGOs that decided they would like to breathe life into the Oslo process. The Peres Center for Peace is behind this whole network. The Peres Center for Peace moderated most of the discussions in the recent J-Street convention and their aim is to get as many congressmen as possible to support the continuation of the Oslo process.Bedein said that he is encountering congressmen who have a thirst for reliable information about Israel and that in meetings with them, he has been trying to refute various theories that J-Street is promulgating. They keep trying to peddle the illusion that the Fatah is still a partner for peace,he explained.Their vision is of a continuation of the Oslo process and the establishment of a Palestinian state regardless of whether or not there is peace.We are here in Washington to brief congressmen about the reality on the ground,Bedein said.We show them videos and books by the Palestinian Authority that prove that Fatah is not a moderate element but a militant one, that is constantly inciting against Israel.

No one is helping
The Israeli government and the nationalist camp are jarringly quiet about J-Street's activities, Bedein claims. The government and the right-wing organizations, including the Yesha Council, refuse my requests that they come out here for informational activities. I do this at my own expense and they are happy to hear me, so it is not clear to me why the Foreign Ministry and the Prime Minister's Office and the right-wing organizations do not send a representative from Israel to expose the hoax. They do not understand the damage that this organization is causing Israel on a daily basis.Bedein voiced hope that the public would assist private groups like his own so that they could carry out the informational work that the larger groups and governmental agencies do not.

Temple Activist Asks Court: Protect Me from Police
by GIl Ronen OCT 29,09

(IsraelNN.com) Yehudah Glick, Head of the Organization for Human Rights on the Temple Mount, filed a motion to the Supreme Court against the Israel Police Thursday, accusing them of contempt of court. He claimed that the police are seeking revenge against him because of his public and legal activity aimed at exposing their illegal conduct.Glick noted that after he filed a motion several months ago against the prevention of his ascent to the Temple Mount, the High Court determined, with police consent, that the police would formulate a document which Glick would sign. That document would commit him to behave according to the rules of behavior on the Temple Mount, while the police would agree in return to allow him into the holy site.

Two weeks passed
Glick said that he signed the document two weeks ago yet the police continue to block his way onto the Temple Mount. He added that he has no doubt that the police are behaving vindictively in this matter.The Organization for Human Rights on the Temple Mount petitioned the High Court earlier this year in a bid to stop the Israel Police's discrimination against religious Jews at the entrance to the Mount. Police denied the charges but the organization prepared a report showing that the police lied to the court, Glick said. This, and the recent conference in favor of Jewish ascent to the Temple Mount, which he helped organize, caused the police to seek revenge against him, he maintained.

Goldstone-Terms that Deceive
by Eli E. Hertz OCT 26,09

One way of rewriting history is the shameless use of deceptive, bogus terms as if they are backed by facts. Their repetition creates a narrative in which falsehood eventually can become accepted as truth.Justice Richard Goldstone and the United Nations Human Rights Council, sought to rewrite history by labeling Judea and Samaria (Known as the West Bank) Occupied Palestinian Territories [Paragraph 11], calling Israeli Arabs Palestinian citizens of Israel [Paragraph 111], referring to Israeli Arab villages as Palestinian Israeli communities [Paragraph 110] and calling Arab inhabitants of Gaza Palestinian People in the Gaza strip [Paragraph 1859]. Essentially Goldstone is endowing Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza with an aura of bogus peoplehood and statehood, as well as a false history as if title or ownership could.A stateless Palestinian People is a fabrication. The word Palestine is not even Arabic.be assigned out of thin air.

No legal binding authority has empowered Goldstone or any UN organ, including the International Court of Justice (ICJ) or the Human Rights Council to decide that the territories of the West Bank, known as Judea and Samaria, and Gaza could be transformed into Occupied Palestinian Territories or Palestine.Goldstone's use of these dishonest, loaded terms empowers terrorism and the Palestinians with the right to use all measures to expel Israel.

Palestine is a Geographical Area, Not a Nationality.

Arabs, the UN and its organs, and lately the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as well, have repeatedly claimed that the Palestinians are a native people - so much so that almost everyone takes it for granted. The problem is that a stateless Palestinian People is a fabrication. The word Palestine is not even Arabic.Palestine was never an independent state belonging to any people, nor did a Palestinian People distinct from other Arabs appear during 1,300 years of Muslim hegemony in Palestine under Arab and Ottoman rule. During that rule, local Arabs were actually considered part of, and subject to, the authority of Greater Syria (Suriyya al-Kubra). Historically, before the Arabs fabricated the concept of Palestinian peoplehood as an exclusively Arab phenomenon, no such group existed. This is substantiated in countless official British Mandate-vintage documents that speak of the Jews and the Arabs of Palestine - not Jews and Palestinians.In fact, before local Jews began calling themselves Israelis in 1948 (when the name -Today's Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in 1936 by German Jewish refugees, was originally called the Palestine Symphony Orchestra,composed of some 70 Palestinian Jews. Israel was chosen for the newly-established Jewish State), the term Palestine applied almost exclusively to Jews and the institutions founded by new Jewish immigrants in the first half of the 20th century, before the state's independence.

Some examples include:The Jerusalem Post, the Jewish newspaper founded in 1932, was called The Palestine Post until 1948.Bank Leumi L'Israel, incorporated in 1902, was called the Anglo-Palestine Company until 1948.The Jewish Agency - an arm of the Zionist movement engaged in Jewish settlement since 1929 - was initially called the Jewish Agency for Palestine.Today's Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in 1936 by German Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany, was originally called the Palestine Symphony Orchestra,composed of some 70 Palestinian Jews.The United Jewish Appeal (UJA) was established in 1939 as a merger of the United Palestine Appeal and the fundraising arm of the Joint Distribution Committee. There Has Never Been a Sovereign Arab State in Palestine.

The artificiality of a Palestinian identity is reflected in the attitudes and actions of neighboring Arabs who never established a Palestinian state or advocated one prior to the Six-Day War in 1967.Only twice in Jerusalem's history has it served as a national capital. The first time was as the capital of the two Jewish Commonwealths during the First and Second Temple periods, as described in the Bible, reinforced by archaeological evidence and numerous ancient documents. The second time is in modern times as the capital of the State of Israel. It has never served as an Arab capital for the simple reason that there has never been a Palestinian Arab state.The rhetoric by Arab leaders on behalf of the Palestinians rings hollow. Arabs never established a Palestinian state when the UN in 1947 recommended to partition Palestine, and to establish an Arab and a Jewish state(not a Palestinian state, it should be noted). Nor did the Arabs recognize or establish a Palestinian state during the two decades prior to the Six-Day War when the West Bank was under Jordanian control and the Gaza Strip was under Egyptian control; nor did the Palestinian Arabs clamor for autonomy or independence during those years under Jordanian and Egyptian rule.So much for facts and accuracy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clinton to hold talks in Mideast at weekend: official OCT 29,09

ISLAMABAD (AFP) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will hold weekend talks with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the Middle East to work through challenges in the quest for peace, an official said Thursday.Clinton will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas separately as the United States seeks to unblock stagnant peace efforts, before she meets Arab leaders in Morocco on Monday.The secretary this weekend will have meetings in the Middle East with Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Abbas,State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters travelling with Clinton in Pakistan.Her visit reflects the administration's commitment, and her personal commitment, to work through the challenges we face in pursuit of comprehensive Middle East peace,Crowley said, without providing further details.Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said Abbas would meet Clinton in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday.

The most important point on the agenda is halting Israeli settlement activity in the Palestinian territories and especially in Jerusalem, including natural growth, Erakat told AFP by telephone from Morocco.President Abbas will emphasise during the the meeting with Clinton the importance of there being clear guidelines for any future negotiations and a definite timetable for arriving at an agreement,he said.

Meanwhile US special envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell arrived in the Middle East on Thursday for preparatory meetings with Netanyahu, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian officials.Clinton last week offered President Barack Obama a downbeat report on his administration's so-far frustrated efforts to forge Middle East peace.Obama has made the issue a cornerstone of his foreign policy, and cajoled Netanyahu and Abbas into joining him at a summit last month in New York.The US president has been trying to get Netanyahu's hawkish government to agree to a complete freeze on settlement expansion on the occupied West Bank and to convince Arab states to make conciliatory gestures towards Israel.But despite the efforts of Obama, Clinton and Mitchell, the administration has had few breakthroughs in trying to resolve the decades-old conflict.The situation is complicated by divisions between Palestinians, namely Abbas's Fatah party, which controls the West Bank, and the militant group Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip.Arab states have also so far rebuffed Obama's call to make concessions -- such as the overflight of their territory by Israeli civilian aircraft -- to improve the atmosphere for peacemaking.

Clinton is due in Morocco on Monday and Tuesday for talks with Middle East and Group of Eight countries about promoting economic and political progress.The G8 is composed of the world's leading industrial countries -- the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia.

U.S. envoy back in Jerusalem to pursue peace talks OCT 29,09

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.S. Middle East Envoy George Mitchell returned to Jerusalem Thursday, in advance of a visit by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to try to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.Israeli and Palestinian officials have held out little chance of an imminent resumption of talks suspended since December.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas insists Israel freeze settlement activity under a 2003 road map for peace, a demand Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected.Mitchell began his 10th mission as envoy to Israel and the Palestinian territories by attending a state memorial for former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated 14 years ago by a right-wing Jew opposed to his peace efforts.He holds talks with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday and meets Netanyahu Friday. It was not immediately clear when he would see Palestinian officials.Clinton, currently visiting Pakistan, will travel to the Middle East and see Netanyahu and Abbas over the weekend, ramping up U.S. efforts to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace.These meetings will build on the intensive work the administration has engaged in with both sides since the trilateral meeting last month,State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in a statement, referring to talks U.S. President Barack Obama held with Netanyahu and Abbas in New York.As Secretary Clinton reported to the president last week, challenges remain as we continue to work with both sides. Her visit reflects the administration's commitment -- and her personal commitment -- to work through the challenges we face in pursuit of comprehensive Middle East peace.(Writing by Joseph Nasr; Editing by Louise Ireland)

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.

Big snowstorm wallops Colorado, Wyoming By Ivan Moreno, Associated Press Writer – OCT 29,09

DENVER – An early blast of winter walloped some western states with deep snow and slowly pushed into Nebraska and Kansas Thursday, bringing blizzard conditions to the eastern plains and causing treacherous roads, closed schools and hundreds of canceled flights.The fall storm spread 3 feet of snow and left much higher drifts across parts of northern Utah, Wyoming and Colorado, before its leading edge hit neighboring states just to the east.Wind-driven snow built to blizzard conditions over much of eastern Colorado. The weather service warned most area roads would be impassible Thursday night because of blowing snow and near-zero visibility.The heaviest October snowfall in the Denver area in a decade forced the closure of hundreds of schools and businesses. Roads across the region remained snowpacked and icy.Big storms like these, they seem to come around every 10 to 12 years,said Kyle Fredin, a National Weather Service meteorologist.Denver-based Frontier Airlines said it canceled 44 flights in and out of Denver International Airport. Other flights were delayed by up to four hours. United Airlines, the airport's dominant carrier with about 400 flights per day, canceled half its flights Thursday to prevent delays and cancelations from spilling over into Friday, spokesman Charlie Hobart said.

Airport spokesman Chuck Cannon said crews were using 174 pieces of snow-removal equipment to keep runways and taxiways clear as they dealt with severe wind gusts. Cannon said two departure and two arrival runways were open. The airport received at least 16 inches of snow with 5-foot snow drifts east of Denver, the weather service said.The Colorado Department of Transportation closed a 140-mile stretch of Interstate 70 from near Denver to Burlington and 55 miles of Interstate 76 from Lochbuie to Fort Morgan. Plows struggled to keep up with the blowing snow, said CDOT spokesman Bob Wilson.No serious accidents were reported, likely because shuttered businesses meant fewer cars on the road, Wilson said.In Wyoming, road closures included a 40-mile stretch of Interstate 80 from Cheyenne to Laramie; a 35-mile span of Interstate I-25 from Wellington to Cheyenne; and a 200-mile stretch of I-80 west of Big Springs to Laramie, Wyo. Snow drifts were running up to 4 feet in Cheyenne and up to 6 feet 30 miles north of the city.The Wyoming Department of Transportation said it was unlikely Interstate 80 across the southeast part of the state would reopen until Friday. More than 120 accidents were reported across Wyoming Wednesday and Thursday but there were no fatalities.A winter storm warning was in effect until Friday morning for portions of western and north-central Nebraska, with forecasters predicting gusts of up to 35 mph and five to nine inches of snow by Friday from Imperial in southwest Nebraska toward Valentine near the South Dakota border.

A foot of snow had fallen in Rushville in western Nebraska by Thursday afternoon. Three-foot drifts were reported elsewhere in western Nebraska.Northwestern Kansas was expected to get off easier but forecasters nevertheless posted blizzard warnings for some area where winds of 35 mph and up to 5 inches of snow were expected.The wintry weather also brushed South Dakota, where Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the far west was shut down.The storm began Tuesday and broke records for total October snowfall for Wyoming. It was the biggest October snowmaker in the Denver area since 1997, said Byron Louis, a weather service hydrologist in Boulder.Many schools in metro Denver stayed closed Thursday, but the University of Colorado in Boulder and Colorado State University in Fort Collins, where 17.5 inches fell, reopened a day after sending students home early.The snow and chilly weather didn't deter people from the prospect of free chicken. More than 100 people camped outside a new Chick-fil-A restaurant in Fort Collins overnight Thursday for a chance to win a year's worth of free weekly chicken meals. They huddled around propane heaters supplied by the store and were invited inside for hot chocolate and cookies just before bedding down in sleeping bags and tents.Denver's Friday forecast called for sunny skies with highs in the upper 30s.Associated Press Writers Colleen Slevin and Judith Kohler in Denver, Nelson Lampe in Omaha and Matt Joyce in Cheyenne contributed to this report.

Philippines sends relief teams in path of typhoon Thu Oct 29, 7:08 am ET

MANILA (Reuters) – Nearly 150 army trucks loaded with food, water and relief goods rolled out to areas in the northern Philippines already devastated by floods and landslides as another typhoon bore down on the country.Emergency and rescue teams were also sent to areas directly in the path of Typhoon Mirinae, including major rice-producing provinces north of Manila, said Lieutenant-Colonel Ernesto Torres, spokesman for the national disaster agency.Mirinae, a category 2 typhoon with maximum center winds of 150 kph (93 mph) and gusts of up to 185 kph, was expected to make landfall late on Friday.Landslides are expected in the northern mountain regions, where several villages were buried by mud early this month during Typhoon Parma.Two powerful typhoons, Ketsana and Parma, dumped record-high rain that submerged 80 percent of the capital and wide stretches of farmland in the northern provinces, killing more than 900 people and displacing hundreds of thousands.The typhoons damaged or destroyed nearly 38 billion pesos ($796 million) of crops and infrastructure.(Reporting by Manny Mogato; Editing by Rosemarie Francisco)

EARTHQUAKES

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

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

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

Quake hits Afghan, Pakistan; no casualty reports Thu Oct 29, 2:34 pm ET

ISLAMABAD – A strong earthquake hit Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains Thursday, shaking large areas of the country and neighboring Pakistan, officials said.There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the quake, which struck at 10:14 p.m. (1744 GMT) and was centered in a remote part of the Hindu Kush mountains, about 160 miles (250 kilometers) north of Kabul. Given the area's isolation it could take many hours for such reports to emerge.The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.0, though Pakistani officials said it was 6.1.

Tremors were felt in Kabul, in Pakistan's northwest and in its capital, Islamabad, causing some buildings to shake.Chaudhry Qamaruz Zaman, chief of Pakistan's meteorological office, said the temblor struck about 125 miles (200 kilometers) underground in the quake-prone region, so it was unlikely to have caused significant damage.

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.

CDC: Up to 6 million swine flu cases in few months By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer – OCT 29,09

ATLANTA – As many as 5.7 million Americans were infected with swine flu during the first few months of the pandemic, according to estimates from federal health officials.Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that between 1.8 million and 5.7 million Americans were infected from mid-April through July 23. The figures are the CDC's most specific calculation to date.They also estimated that between 9,000 and 21,000 hospitalizations occurred during that time. The estimates are in a CDC publication, Emerging Infectious Diseases, and were posted on the journal's Web site this week.To come up with the numbers, the scientists assumed that most people infected with swine flu had only mild illnesses and did not get medical care or get tested. For every confirmed case, they estimated that probably 80 others occurred. And for every confirmed hospitalization, there were probably three others.Rates of testing and hospitalization have dropped since the pandemic began, so the same calculation couldn't be done for cases since late July.For that reason, CDC officials are saying simply that many millions of Americans have been infected to date, the CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat said at a press conference Thursday in Atlanta.Schuchat also provided an update on a shortage of the children's version of the drug Tamiflu, a first-line treatment for swine flu. The shortage first emerged last month. Since then, the federal government has released 300,000 pediatric Tamiflu doses to the states from a national medicine stockpile.

The shortage occurred because the drug's manufacturer, Switzerland-based Roche Holdings, decided to focus production on adult-strength capsules as it dealt with increasing demand for the medication. The company increased the capsules' production as a way to ensure more medicine was made in the fastest way possible.Though there are scattered shortages of pediatric doses, adult-strength Tamiflu pills are in good supply and pharmacies can turn them into a Tamiflu syrup for children, said Schuchat, who heads the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.On the Net:CDC journal: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/
Tamiflu Q&A: http://www.flu.gov/news/blogs/tamiflu(underscore)children.html

Tracking how flu evolves — it has sticky tricks By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer - Thu Oct 29, 2:00 pm ET

WASHINGTON – Vaccinating more children might help slow the evolution of the constantly changing flu virus, government scientists reported Thursday.Influenza is a mighty mutator. Sometimes it makes big changes that result in never-before-seen strains, like this year's swine flu. But from season to season, it undergoes subtle shape-shifting, which is the reason people need a new winter flu vaccine every year.

This regular shift is what's called antigenic drift. Think of influenza as wearing a coat, a protein on the virus' surface — the H in the family flu names, for hemagglutinin — that is the major factor in triggering the immune system to mount an attack. Slight changes in the appearance of that coat can be enough to confuse your immune system and allow infection.But just how do those changes happen? National Institutes of Health researchers infected lots of mice — vaccinated and unvaccinated ones — to watch that evolution in action. They report in the journal Science that influenza responds to immune pressure, a discovery that supports today's vaccine policy urging more children to get their flu shots each fall.Even a vaccine that isn't a perfect match to the virus may provide some protection and limit the scope of changes in the virus.We're giving the virus more wiggle room, more evolutionary space, by having some naive individuals,explained lead researcher Dr. Jonathan Yewdell of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. To scientists, naive means the previously unexposed.Yewdell's team took an old strain of seasonal H1N1 flu that circulated decades ago and infected groups of mice. After each infection, they culled virus from mouse lungs and used that to infect more sets of mice. After nine such cycles, they checked the hemagglutinin gene for mutations. Unvaccinated mice had none. In vaccinated mice, the virus had mutated to become stickier — it changed the way it binds to cells to clamp on more tightly, which helps it evade an attack from immune cells called antibodies.But that's a big tradeoff: A stickier virus doesn't spread as easily, Yewdell said.Then the team took the new sticky mutant and infected more unvaccinated mice with it — and here's the surprise: The virus mutated back into a less sticky, easier-to-spread version.That's why there are implications for people, because children who haven't yet caught or been vaccinated against many flu strains would offer a similar opportunity for mutation to easier-to-spread versions.We want to box flu in as much as we can,Yewdell said.With more antibody pressure (from vaccinated people), it's got to bind tighter and the virus is not so happy.In a separate study published in Science, a team led by University of Georgia researchers examined ponies vaccinated against equine influenza to determine how much antigenic drift it takes to outwit a particular year's flu vaccine. It's a model that scientists might use to track a worsening outbreak. But the take-home message — if enough of a population is vaccinated, even an imperfect vaccine can provide some benefit — is potentially useful information the next time a worrisome new strain crops up.

State adjusts system to dole out swine flu vaccine to counties
By Julia Prodis Sulek jsulek@mercurynews.com 10/29/2009 07:23:09 PM PDT

Santa Clara County health officials were surprised to receive 26,000 doses of swine flu vaccine Thursday — triple the amount they expected — a day after the Mercury News highlighted how the Bay Area's largest county had received the smallest supply of the highly-sought vaccine.Spurred by outcry over the uneven distribution of vaccine, state health officials on Thursday promised to adjust the system to make it more fair.Mike Sicilia, spokesman for the California Department of Health Services, wouldn't explain how the system would be changed, but said with minor adjustments we believe the balancing will begin in the next couple of weeks.Dr. Marty Fenstersheib, Santa Clara County's public health officer, said, however, he still expects the process probably will get messier.State officials told the Mercury News on Thursday that while their original plan would have distributed the vaccine proportionate to county populations, they changed course over the past two weeks when vaccine manufacturing problems at the national level slowed supply to a trickle. Figuring county health departments would make the best decisions on how to redistribute vaccine, the state decided to first fill the orders of the public health departments.

The problem with that, however, was that some health departments ordered a lot of vaccine and others ordered a little, depending on their vaccination strategies. Santa Clara County, for instance,ordered a relatively small amount because it was counting on its health care providers across the county — including hospitals and doctors offices — to administer the majority of vaccine to county residents, just as they do with the seasonal flu vaccine. The county planned to use its small supply at public clinics to vaccinate the uninsured and fill in the gaps elsewhere. We ordered what we thought we needed to meet the need, not to order for the entire county, Fenstersheib said. That strategy could work if we knew about it ahead of time.Had he known that public health departments would get their doses first,we certainly would have upped our request and had more to distribute.While the 26,000 doses that Santa Clara County's health department received Thursday was more than expected, it's still well short of what the county should have received by now based on population. The state has only received 45 percent of what it expected by the end of October — 2.8 million doses instead of 6.25 million doses. If Santa Clara County had received 45 percent of its request, it would have 95,000 doses by now, Fenstersheib said.Now, since the county is sending out its vaccine supply to health providers, it doesn't have as much as it intended for a public health clinic scheduled at the county fairgrounds Nov. 7. Fenstersheib held back 4,400 doses for that purpose, but hopes to convince state officials for more.For reasons still unclear, Contra Costa County, for instance, already received 75,000 doses throughout the county, even though Santa Clara County has nearly double the population. San Francisco, which has fewer than a million people, had received 35,000 doses by this week. And Santa Cruz County, with about a quarter-million population, received 28,640 doses.Kaiser Permanente, meanwhile, with its network of hospitals and clinics serving a third of the Bay Area's population, has had its own supply line, receiving vaccine two weeks before most others. State officials explained Thursday that it was not a state decision to give Kaiser special treatment, but rather a decision by the California Conference of Health Officers, comprised of local health officials across the state, who agreed with Kaiser that it would be an efficient distributor of the vaccine to a large population.

The Kaiser deal is causing some resentments.

My neighbor across the street has a newborn and a 41/2 year old. They're Kaiser members. Kaiser had a clinic, they walked in, got it and went home,said Melanie Fawcett of Redwood City.I'm eight months pregnant, with a 4 1/2 year old. We're not Kaiser. I put in a call to my pediatrician's office and they said it could be December or January.Fenstersheib spent Thursday poring over a spreadsheet of health care providers, deciding how much vaccine each hospital and doctor's office should receive. His list includes Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Valley Medical Center, and other hospitals as well as pediatrician and OB/GYN offices. Each will get as few as 20 doses or as many as thousands. In a letter he composed Thursday, Fenstersheib urged them to administer it to their patients immediately.Contact Julia Prodis Sulek at 408-278-3409.

It's alive! End-of-life counseling in health bill By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press Writer – OCT 29,09

WASHINGTON – It's alive. The Medicare end-of-life planning provision that 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said was tantamount to death panels for seniors is staying in the latest Democratic health care bill unveiled Thursday.
The provision allows Medicare to pay for voluntary counseling to help beneficiaries deal with the complex and painful decisions families face when a loved one is approaching death.For years, federal laws and policies have encouraged Americans to think ahead about end-of-life decisions, and make their wishes known in advance through living wills and similar legal documents. But when House Democrats proposed this summer to pay doctors for end-of-life counseling, it touched off a wave of suspicion and anger.Prominent Republicans singled it out as a glaring example of government overreach.Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, at the time a lead negotiator on health care legislation, told constituents at a town hall meeting they had good reason to question the proposal.I don't have any problem with things like living wills, but they ought to be done within the family,he said.We should not have a government program that determines you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

Thursday, the sponsor of the provision said the barrage of criticism may have actually helped.There is nothing more basic than giving someone the option of speaking with their doctor about how they want to be treated in the case of an emergency,said Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore.I think the outrageous and vindictive attacks may have backfired to help raise awareness about this problem, which is why it's been kept in the bill.The legislation would allow Medicare to pay for a counseling session with a doctor or clinical professional once every five years. The bill calls for such sessions to be completely voluntary, and prohibits the encouragement or promotion of suicide or assisted suicide.The counseling provision is supported by doctors' groups and AARP, the seniors' lobby. It was not included in health care bills passed by two Senate committees.

SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS

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.

NASA: Booster rocket damaged in test flight By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer – Thu Oct 29, 7:30 pm ET

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The booster rocket used in a test flight was badly dented when it fell into the Atlantic because of a deflated parachute, NASA said Thursday.
The new Ares I-X — the precursor to NASA's planned moon rockets — completed a two-minute flight Wednesday. The launch itself went well, officials said, but one of the three parachutes on the booster failed to work properly.All three parachutes opened, but one ended up deflating for unknown reasons, said NASA spokesman Allard Beutel. That caused the booster to hit the ocean with extra force.The first-stage booster — similar to what's used for the space shuttles — was found to be dented near the bottom when it was recovered from the ocean. It was expected back on shore Friday.The Ares I-X is a prototype of what's supposed to replace the space shuttles and ultimately fly to the moon. The White House, though, may nix those plans.Shuttle managers, meanwhile, have chosen Nov. 16 for the launch of Atlantis on a space station delivery mission. That assumes an unmanned rocket flies Nov. 14 with a communication satellite; a one-day postponement for that launch would bump the Atlantis flight to the 17th.

NASA's space operations chief, Bill Gerstenmaier, said the Ares I-X parachute trouble will not impact the Atlantis launch. They are different parachute designs, he noted.The shuttle program has had its share of parachute trouble.During Discovery's launch in August, a parachute on one of the two boosters ripped slightly. The other parachute compensated, however, and the retrieved booster was not damaged. Engineers still do not know what caused the problem.On the Net:NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/aresIX

Conservatives keep strong lead in polls By Randall Palmer – Thu Oct 29, 1:25 pm ET

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada's governing Conservatives are maintaining a strong lead in public support following an ill-fated attempt by the opposition Liberals to force an early election, an Ekos poll issued on Thursday said.This is not a blip,Ekos President Frank Graves said in a statement, noting that it was the fourth straight week in which the Conservatives are showing a double-digit lead.The Tories streaked into their current lead when the Liberals started threatening an early election in (September),Graves said.However, they are now standing up despite negative news reports about the distribution of stimulus money and the confusion around the H1N1 vaccination program.The Conservative lead widened slightly to 11.6 points from 11.2 points in an Ekos poll a week earlier. But it was down from the 15.2 point edge they had two weeks ago.Graves said the data did not mean the Conservatives could not be knocked off their pedestal.However, it does mean the other parties have their work cut out for them.For most of the summer the Liberals had been roughly tied with the Conservatives but then fell sharply behind when Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff decided to try to bring the minority Conservative government down, just as an economic recovery was starting.On Tuesday, Ignatieff dismissed his friend Ian Davey as chief of staff after just two months in that post. He did not give a reason, but Davey was an election hawk.He has replaced Davey with affable Liberal communications guru Peter Donolo, who helped the Liberals under Jean Chretien win a majority government in 1993 and get re-elected in 1997.There was no word whether Donolo might be more cautious about pressing for an election from so far behind in the polls, but his attention will almost certainly be diverted for the next few weeks as he tries to rebuild Ignatieff's staff.

The Conservatives got an extra boost in early October when Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave a surprise vocal and piano performance of a Beatles song with renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma at a National Arts Center gala in Ottawa.But they have taken a hit in the past two weeks from accusations of playing partisan politics with government stimulus programs, with the Liberals and media critics saying the money has disproportionately gone to Conservative electoral districts.That has cut into their lead by a few points in Ekos surveys though two other polls this week showed the Conservatives with leads of 12 and 15 points.The Ekos poll put the Conservatives at 38.4 percent support, the Liberals at 26.8 percent, the left-leaning New Democrats at 16.7 percent, the Greens at 9.9 percent, and the separatist Bloc Quebecois at 8.2 percent.The Conservatives were re-elected a year ago with a strengthened minority of seats in the House of Commons, but they still require at least one opposition party's co-operation to stay in power.The current poll results would seem likely to translate into another minority Conservative government though a majority could be within reach.The automated telephone survey of 3,220 was conducted October 21-27 and carries a margin of error of 1.7 percentage points 19 times out of 20, Ekos said.
(Reporting by Randall Palmer; editing by Peter Galloway)

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

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09:30 AM -2.34
10:00 AM -78.82
10:30 AM -77.92
11:00 AM -69.23
11:30 AM -94.32
12:00 PM -156.06
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03:00 PM -231.71
03:30 PM -245.69
04:00 PM -249.85 9712.73

S&P 500 1036.18 -29.93

NASDAQ 2045.11 -52.44

GOLD 1,045.50 -1.60

OIL 76.96 -2.91

TSE 300 10,910.75 -164.47

CDNX 1291.41 -1901

S&P/TSX/60 647.72 -9.49

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YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +13.52%
S&P +18.03%
Nasdaq +33.01%
TSX Advances 1,092,declines 464,unchanged 223,Volume 452,682,803.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 576,Declines 367,Unchanged 301,Volume 191,748,906.

Dow -25 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -171 points at low today.
Dow +1 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,043.80.OIL opens at $79.29 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -171 points at low today so far.
Dow +1 points at high today so far.

DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 981,declines 2,513,unchanged 88,New Highs 45,New Lows 25.
Volume 1,890,692,007.
NASDAQ Advances 808,declines 1,719,unchanged 85,New highs 19,New Lows 21.
Volume 603,045,293.
TSX Advances 460,declines 744,unchanged 231,Volume 142,601,413.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 264,Declines 292,Unchanged 279,Volume 68,420,268.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -277 points at low today.
Dow +1 points at high today.
Dow -2.51% today Volume 327,980,165.
Nasdaq -2.50% today Volume 2,529,971,453.
S&P 500 -2.81% today Volume N/A

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S&P +14.72%
Nasdaq +29.68%
TSX Advances 523,declines 1034,unchanged 225,Volume 472,147,381.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 358,Declines 573,Unchanged 338,Volume 207,426,381.

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Financial overhaul bill gets wary reception By JIM KUHNHENN and ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writers – Thu Oct 29, 6:30 pm ET

WASHINGTON – An Obama administration plan to dissolve large, struggling financial firms rather than bail them out is encountering Republican resistance, Democratic doubts and only qualified support from regulators.At a House Financial Services hearing Thursday, lawmakers from both parties worried that the proposal would give regulators and the executive branch unprecedented power.I'm not a man that fears this administration or you,Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa., told Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.But I do fear the accumulation of power exercised by someone in the future that can be extraordinary.Others argue that by singling out financial firms important to the economy, the government could inevitably set itself up to bail them out, and that even dismantling rather than rescuing them would take taxpayer money.

Apparently, the too big to fail model is too hard to kill,quipped Republican Rep. Ed Royce of California.Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., called the bill TARP on steroids, referring to the government's $700 billion Wall Street rescue fund.You've got permanent, unlimited bailout authority,he told Geithner.

Geithner disagreed.

The only authority we would have would be to manage their failure,he told the committee.The debate comes as Congress works on legislation to respond to the financial crisis that clobbered Wall Street last year and fed the recession.For the committee's chairman, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who wrote the proposal in close coordination with Treasury, the broad skepticism illustrates the delicate work needed to tackle such a big task.The legislation would let federal regulators identify and monitor big financial firms and step in to wind them down before they collapse. If the government must use taxpayer money to dissolve a company, Treasury would recoup those costs by imposing a fee on firms with assets of at least $10 billion.When to create such a fund has become a significant point of contention.
Frank and the administration recommended that any taxpayer infusion be recovered after the fact from large institutions.But Sheila Bair, the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which would conduct such a wind down, said the industry should pay into an insurance-like fund ahead of time. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., and AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka pressed for a similar structure.Large financial firms, however, oppose an up-front payment. And Geithner said a prepaid fund would increase the temptation — or moral hazard — for companies to take excessive risks with the expectation that the government will step in to protect them.

We don't want to create that expectation,Geithner said.A key element of the proposal would assemble a council of regulators to identify large institutions whose businesses and transactions are so intertwined that their collapse would damage the economy.The legislation envisions keeping the list of those firms secret, though Geithner acknowledged that existing disclosure requirements would make it hard to hide their identities.The Federal Reserve would have additional powers to oversee those institutions and, if necessary, step in and regulate them.Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan said that additional power the legislation would give the Fed could result in less effective banking standards and undermine the role of other bank regulators.The FDIC, which currently oversees smaller insured depository institutions, could dissolve large failing institutions — an authority it now only holds over banks.Regulators were powerless last year when investment bank Lehman Brothers and insurance giant American International Group neared collapse.The government let Lehman Brothers fail, helping trigger the worst financial crisis in seven decades as nervous investors withdrew funds from money markets and credit lines froze. When it came to AIG, the Bush administration decided to swoop in with a hefty government bailout. Frank and Geithner said the latest proposal would prevent the government from having to decide between doing nothing and a costly rescue.

Without the ability for the government to step in, manage the failure of a large firm and contain the risk of a fire spreading, we are resigned to repeat the experience of last fall,Geithner said.Bank representatives told lawmakers they oppose putting the FDIC in charge of dismantling failing nonbank firms. Banks pay the FDIC to insure deposits, and they don't want their premiums to pay for the FDIC's new power.If our fund is strong and a major nonbank fails, there will be a strong temptation to unfairly raid the bank FDIC fund to pay for it,said Edward Yingling, president of the American Bankers Association, in written testimony. Frank on Thursday also clashed on another financial regulation front. The House Energy and Commerce Committee wants to change the governing structure for a consumer finance protection agency that Frank's committee had already approved.The Financial Services Committee wants a single director to run the agency. The energy committee on Thursday approved an amendment placing a five-member bipartisan commission in charge.Frank said the change will weaken the capacity of the agency to provide consumer protection.

Facing A Total Breakdown Of Financial Markets Bob Chapman The International Forecaster October 30, 2009

Early Friday morning, state and federal agents walked into the Bank of Elmwood and closed the failed 49-year-old independent bank after a year of struggling to improve a bleak financial situation, officials announced Friday.We have entered a phase where the Fed and the US Treasury recognize that they can no longer hold up the dollar.The Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions shut down the bank and turned it over to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The FDIC in turn sold it to an Oak Creek-based bank.The FDIC entered into an agreement with the Oak Creek-based Tri City National Bank to assume all of the Bank of Elmwood deposits and assets.As of Sept. 30, 2009, Bank of Elmwood had total assets of $327.4 million and total deposits of approximately $273.2 million.

No advance notice of the closing was given, according to FDIC officials.

Stock funds have had net outflows of capital out of the market for the past six weeks. Insiders at corporations are selling with glee. Thirty times more sell orders than buy orders. Even CALPERS, the world’s fourth largest pension fund has cut equity holdings to 49%, the lowest since 1993. British pensions have the lowest equity holdings in 35 years. This leads us to believe that, due to the character of pension plans, that long-term momentum has changed and will remain more conservative for some time to come. They could cut back much further and we may not see them on the long side in a big way until a bottom is reached and a decisive uptrend is in place. It is no wonder US Treasures are so strong. We know fiduciaries are perpetually wrong, but irrespective the trend for whatever reason is for less participation in the equity market. Maybe for once they are being smart and following the insiders who are selling 30 times more than they are buying. A recent example was the CEO of one of our short recommendations, Robert Toll, of Toll Brothers, a homebuilder, who last month sold 1.6 million shares of his company’s stock. Stock repurchases are off 65% as well.During September and October we still saw short covering. We also see that 73% of NYSE trading was of the black box variety, program trading. There are 16 firms front-running all market trades and the SEC refuses to do anything about it, so that Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan chase can further enrich themselves, illegally. The SEC calls it flash-trading not what it really is, stealing. And, yes, the SEC still refuses to stop naked shorting, which is also illegal – another trove of riches for the anointed insiders at Illuminati run brokerage firms. The remainder of the market strength comes from banks, brokerage firms and insurance companies who are leveraging funds received from the Treasury and the Fed, some $12.7 trillion. That is what this really is all about.

This is the first time ever that the S&P 500 has ever rallied 60% in six months. The Dow reached 10,000, when it should not have exceeded 8,500. That shows you the distortion and manipulation going on and points up the now blatant activities of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets,which, of course, operates in secret. As a tribute to this phony rally we have lost 2.5 million jobs over its tenure, when two million are normally created. Are there no professionals out there that get it? They cannot all be that dumb, and they are not that dumb. They are engaging in a conspiracy of silence. They want to be thought well by their peers at the club. They do not want to be ostracized in the Wall Street click. We know we were there for 28 years, of course, always on the outside looking in, permanently known as goldie. If you want to see where the US stock market is eventually going take a look at Japan from 1992 to today. 70% losses and still unable to get out of its own way with an economy still in depression. Incidentally, if the US market copies Japan, which we believe it will, we could easily fall to 3,800 to 4,200 on the Dow and we’ll be very lucky if it holds there. Others whose opinion we respect are looking for 2,800. Wall Street is pricing into the market earnings not only for 2010 but 2011 as well, which is very dangerous in such an environment. We are still in the worst credit crisis since the 1930s.Trailing P/E on operating earnings is 27 times. When the Dow was 14,168 in 2007, it was 18.8 times. Reported trailing earnings are 180 times, whereas in 10/07, it was 23.4 times. In 10/87, it was 20.3 times. That should give you something to think about if you are in the market. Normally P/E’s should be 14.5 times. Instead of chasing an overpriced goose you should be participating in the bull markets in gold, silver and commodities. That is where safety, preservation of capital and possible large gains are to be found, both short and long term. Why fiddle with an overextended bear market rally when you can gain in relative safety. Get rid of those bonds, stocks, CDs, cash value life insurance policies and annuities, which are really uninsured and in the stock market waiting to again fall 40% to 70% in value. The crisis is not over; it is still in the beginning.The Fed and Wall Street tell us the recession is over and soon policy actions will continue to a gradual resumption of sustainable economic growth. They see no inflation ahead, only the 1.2% presently. Needless to say, they are well aware that real inflation is 6.11%.

We mentioned CALPERS earlier on as a seller of equities. CALPERS is closely watched by other funds and they probably will influence other pension plans to follow. The plan is to become more conservative as the boomer retirement wave hits. Worldwide retirees will jump to 1.3 billion in 2040 from 500 million plus last year. That will be 14% of the total population. It is inevitable that the market will head lower soon. Funds are not dumb, they see the trend as well and they’ll also be sellers. Now the question is when? Most professionals, investors and the public still do not understand that we are facing a total breakdown of financial markets, which in turn will take down the economy as well, and will lead to a depression of five years or more. There are no solutions; the problem should have been attended to in 1990. After June of 2002, there was no turning back. The damage inflicted will take years to heal. Those who created the crisis, who are now supposedly trying to fix it, are playing for time. Many people are realizing what the bankers and Wall Street are up too, as bubbles deflate inflation is rising. Zero interest rates certainly do not induce people to save, although savings have risen to more than 4% of GDP, as debt is aggressively being reduced. As long as money and credit is being increased, monetization increases and no purge of the problem takes place, the economy will continue to deteriorate.The Illuminist’s plans to destroy America are coming unglued. Their puppet in the White House has monstrous problems. Plunging approval ratings, Cap & Trade legislation being held up in the Senate, medical reform that is going nowhere, massive deficits and a stimulus package that isn’t working.An issue the elitists did not think they would have to deal with is the question of whether Obama is a citizen or not. They thought they would be able to bamboozle the public. That question has become a cause celebre. Thus, if the President’s controllers want to dump him it will be easy. They will just make sure it is finally discovered he was born in Kenya. Then it is game over. The failure of Obama will further force the Illuminists to cut back on their plans for a new world order. They will try their best to extend the time frame. The dollar devaluation, rising unemployment that brings social problems, or a breakdown in society will be avoided at all costs. This means more and bigger injections of money and credit, more monetization, more stimulus and more subsidies. That means we definitely will have hyperinflation and a falling dollar. That means gold and silver will go higher. That could mean an abandonment of a green policy, and the failure of Cap & Trade, healthcare reform and Copenhagen. We will have to see how things develop.

From here on out the Fed isn’t going to get away with anything. Anyone who has been in the market for any length of time knows all of our current problems emanated straight from the fed. It is now obvious that the take down of the dollar is deliberate and there is little effort to save it; just an effort to bring it down slowly and incrementally. There is no question banks will continue to get cheap loans and either deposit the money with the Fed for a 3% gain to buy Treasuries or opportune the markets. An increase in interest rates is a year or more off. Higher rates mean a collapse not only in the economy, but in credit derivatives as well – some $600 billion worth. Besides who wants mortgage rates back up to 6-1/2% to 7%? That would send housing prices lower and unsold inventories higher and that would destroy bank balance sheets. That also means the phantom inventory would become much more visible. That would collapse many banks. We say no change in rates for a year or more. Next enters the dollar carry trade and once it ends the dollar will collapse and that should coincide with the official dollar devaluation, default and bank holiday. It is no wonder foreigners are issuing bonds in US dollars to capture the depreciation. Eventually this will lead to US tariffs on goods and services and trade war. It will also bring an end to the fraud and monetization. Either the US purges their financial system or no one will accept dollars. That is when monetization will finally end.Is it any wonder some nations are buying gold, particularly China. We now have a Chinese put on gold just as the US stock market once had a Greenspan put to keep it at ridiculously high levels. The Chinese are working with an element that has been suppressed since 1968. We now know that from documents released via the FOIA. We saw it in secret gold sales in 1987 via London. Then we were subject to the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets since 1988. The suppression of the gold price by the US and UK all those years has made gold extremely cheap. Thus the Chinese have the perfect vehicle to dump their dollars into. Every time the US Treasury knocks gold down China and others are there as buyers.Gold has entered phase 2, which we described in 2000. Phase 2 will carry to $2,500 to $3,000. That should be followed by phase 3 to $6,700. That will then allow gold to reflect real inflation since 1980. Needless to say, in 2000 we had no idea that China would be the propellant to move gold higher. As you know 96% of letter writers, analysts and economists have stated gold will fall below $1,000 again. They are wrong and as usual they will continue to be wrong. They cannot understand that this is psycho-political warfare and there are no rules. He who has the gold makes the rules. They all believe this is transitory and we will go back to business as usual. That is not the way it is going to be. The US is finished as an international imperial power. We wish it was otherwise, but those are the facts. The elitists who control our economies and financial system have deliberately destroyed it in order to bring about world government. Once these mallet heads understand what the game is they will realize where this is headed. Just stop and think, is it normal for a bank to leave lending at 8 to 10 to one of deposits to lend at 40 to one, as the Fed cheers them on? Of course not. Bankers know that is suicidal. So why did they do so? And, why are they still leveraged at those levels? It is because the big banks controlled by the Illuminists want the system to collapse in order to force Americans and Europeans to accept world government. If you can think of another reason let us know. These people are not stupid. They know exactly what they are doing. We wrote an article for Bull & Bear in August 1988, that described the new manipulation of the gold market, but no one was listening.

Finally ten years later others discovered what we had discovered long before. Finally today many understand what the elitists are really up too. Even they though don’t understand the end game. If they do they are not writing about it.We have entered a phase where the Fed and the US Treasury recognize that they can no longer hold up the dollar. They can only impede its downward progress. In that process US and British transnational conglomerates can make even more money by paying for goods in dollars and shorting the dollar simultaneously. This process began at the beginning of the year led by the Chinese and as a result Forex reserves of foreign central banks fell from 64.5% to 62.8% in dollar terms.Those events have been accompanied by a flight into other currencies and gold and the use of the dollar in the carry trade. Zero US interest rates will stay at that level indefinitely irrespective of the inflation that will rage in the US and be transported worldwide. Once the dollar falls to long-term support at 71.18 to 72 on the USDX, there will probably be a rally and a retest. Sometime in 2010, 71.18 will be broken to the downside and we will then find out where the real bottom on the dollar will be. It could be 40 to 55, we won’t know until we get there. That is when official devaluation and default will occur, not only in the US dollar but in many other currencies. That will cause financial chaos worldwide and you had better have gold and silver if you want to survive.

Banks cut emergency borrowing from Federal Reserve By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, AP Economics Writer – OCT 29,09

WASHINGTON – Banks trimmed their borrowing from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program over the past week, evidence that some credit problems are easing as the economy recovers.The Fed said Thursday that commercial banks averaged $22.6 billion in daily borrowing over the week that ended Wednesday. That's down from $23.8billion in the week ended Oct. 21, and much lower than $112 billion a year ago at the height of the financial crisis.The identities of the financial institutions are not released. They pay just 0.50 percent in interest for the emergency, overnight loans.The central bank's weekly balance sheet report also showed that the assets it took on last year when it bailed out investment bank Bear Stearns and insurer American International Group Inc. rose in value in the July-September quarter.The Fed said its holdings of assets from Bear Stearns were valued at $26.3 billion as of Sept. 30, an increase of about $400 million from the previous quarter. Still, that's below the $29 billion in loans the Fed provided to help finance JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s purchase of Bear.The central bank's holdings of residential mortgage-backed securities from AIG were valued at $16 billion, up from $15.1 billion at the end of June. And its holdings of AIG collateralized debt obligations, complex financial instruments that combine various slices of debt, rose in value to $23.2 billion from $21.1 billion.The Fed agreed to purchase the securities as part of the government's combined $182.5 billion bailout of AIG.

Banks also trimmed their use of other credit programs established to ease the financial crisis, including one aimed at boosting the availability of short-term financing crucial for paying salaries and supplies.The Fed's net holdings of commercial paper averaged $32.3 billion, a drop of $7.6 billion from the previous week. At its peak in late January, the Fed held almost $350 billion of commercial paper.And banks' use of short-term loans drawn from the Fed's term auction credit facility averaged $139.2 billion, down more than $16 billion from the previous week.

The reduced borrowing shows banks are having a slightly easier time getting short-term loans in private markets.But the improvement hasn't necessarily translated into easier terms for bank customers — both businesses and individuals. For them, the flow of credit is not back to normal. That's one reason Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and other economists believe the budding economy recovery will be lethargic.The report Thursday also showed that the central bank boosted its purchases of mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Those purchases were valued at $766 billion over the past week, an increase of $9.5 billion from the previous week.The Fed at its meeting last month decided to slow down its purchases of these securities. The central bank will wrap up its $1.25 trillion program by the end of March, rather than by the end of this year. The goal of the program is to drive down mortgage rates and prop up the housing market.The Fed's program has been credited with helping to force down mortgage rates.Rates on 30-year home loans averaged 5.03 percent this week, down from 6.46 percent last year, according to mortgage company Freddie Mac. The rate was 5 percent last week.

No boom time for Big Oil, but production up again By CHRIS KAHN, AP Energy Writer – Thu Oct 29, 4:19 pm ET

NEW YORK – Oil companies have begun to pump more petroleum and bring in more profits as they recover from an otherwise miserable year. None of the world's biggest producers, however, see a quick return to boom times of last year.America's thirst for fossil fuels dropped considerably during the recession and it hasn't come close to recovering fully. Throughout most of 2009, storage houses have been crammed with oil and gas.Exxon Mobil Corp. said Thursday that net income slumped 68 percent to $4.73 billion, or 98 cents per share, when compared with the same July-September period in 2008, the most lucrative ever for the oil industry.Last year, crude spiked to near $150 a barrel, helping Exxon break its own profit records.Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Europe's largest oil company, said that its profit was more than halved to $3.25billion and sales tumbled 43 percent. The bad year for major producers has led to thousands of job cuts from the Gulf of Mexico to Amsterdam.Shell said Thursday it would cut 5,000 jobs and that 15,000 employees must reapply for employment. Those cuts come on top of 500 layoffs among senior management earlier this year.
ConocoPhillips said Wednesday that it was selling off $10 billion in assets and becoming a smaller company.Even the rising energy prices which usually fatten profits at companies like Exxon have come with a price this year. The refining side of the business is getting hit hard because it must pay more for crude to make fuel, but demand for fuel has not rebounded strongly.

The current price of crude has bought oil companies time to pare down where they can, though the reason for higher prices is not because of a healthy rebound in demand.Rather it is the dollar, which is used to buy and sell crude, that has driven energy prices up. When the dollar falls, investors holding euros or other relatively strong currencies can buy more crude.It is not clear how long dollar-driven oil demand can last without a significant rebound in real demand.A number of independent refiners have already shut down operations because of low demand and high oil prices.

Exxon's refining business took an especially large hit from July to September, with profits dropping 89 percent.But the oil giant which pumps about 3 percent of the world's crude seems to have weathered the downturn better than others.It increased oil and gas production in the third quarter, even though crude prices had dropped by $50 a barrel when compared with 2008. Crude was starting to rally during the summer, however, and the boost in production added a layer of revenue that some oil companies missed.Exxon, based in Irving, Texas, said Thursday its fourth quarter dividend would be the same as the third quarter's 42 cents per share, and company officials said they expect to invest as much in capital expenditures as last year.

We're pleased with how we're sitting and don't see a whole lot of change in the near term,David Rosenthal, Exxon's investor relations chief, said in a conference call with analysts.I think it's important that we don't get too excited about short term changes, or people looking down the road a quarter or two.Those comments were echoed by almost every oil executive speaking this week. In Europe there are few if any signs of demand recovering,Shell Chief Financial Officer Simon Henry said. In the U.S., there might be some improvement in demand, but it's not firm enough to call a recovery,Henry said.Analysts noted that Shell appeared to be behind the curve in restructuring for the downturn compared to its main European rival, BP. BP said earlier in the week it had cut costs and boosted oil production, leading to a third-quarter profit of $5.3 billion.Until oil demand picks up, petroleum companies must find a way to cut costs while boosting production, said Jason Gammel, an analyst with Macquarie Research.Crude prices will likely remain well above the first quarter of this year, which will help oil companies post higher quarterly profits in 2010.

Elsewhere, ConocoPhillips said it would slim down its business before reporting Wednesday that third-quarter profits dropped 71 percent.The nation's third-largest oil company behind Exxon Mobil and Chevron Corp. said it would shed $10 billion in assets and slash capital expenditures next year by 12 percent. ConocoPhillips also may sell part of its exploration and production operations, pipelines and terminals in North America.Occidental Petroleum said it boosted production in the third quarter, though its profit dropped 59 percent to $927 million.Chevron will release its quarterly earnings report on Friday.

Geithner says economy on the mend By Anne Flaherty, Associated Press Writer – Thu Oct 29, 10:44 am ET

WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he sees positive signs that the economy is recovering, although the recession remains alive and acute for families dealing with unemployment and facing home foreclosure.In testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, Geithner said that Americans were saving much more and borrowing less from the rest of the world.The economy grew at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the third quarter of this year, the strongest rate of growth seen in two years.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he sees positive signs that the economy is recovering, although the recession remains alive and acute for families dealing with unemployment and facing home forceclosure.In testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, Geithner said that Americans were saving much more and borrowing less from the rest of the world.The economy grew at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the third quarter of this year, the strongest rate of growth seen in two years.

Obama's too big to fail plan blasted in Congress By Kevin Drawbaugh – OCT 29,09

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday scrambled to fight off attacks from all sides on a new Obama administration plan for tackling financial risk in the economy unveiled just two days ago.After weeks of negotiations, the administration and Democratic Representative Barney Frank released a sweeping proposal on Tuesday to give regulators new powers to regulate, and even shut down, big financial firms threatening economic stability.The financial services industry, not taxpayers, would bear the costs of government interventions to prevent the collapse of undercapitalized firms under the 253-page proposal, which tries to walk a middle line between bailouts and bankruptcy.Both Democrats and Republicans broadly criticized the strategy at a public hearing convened by the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee chaired by Frank.The bill we're considering today would merely institutionalize too big to fail, said Republican Representative Jeb Hensarling, referring to a perception that financial giants could count on government bailouts after the large-scale taxpayer help doled out in the last year.Democratic Representative Brad Sherman said the Obama plan would provide permanent, unlimited bailout authority.He said it would give unprecedented powers for the executive to decide spending and taxes, without congressional approval; and, depending on the desires of the executive branch from time to time, the greatest transfer of money from the Treasury to Wall Street in U.S. history.From a long table facing lawmakers, Geithner pleaded for more time to explain his case.Without the ability for the government to step in and manage the failure of a large firm and contain the risk of the fire spreading, we will be consigned to repeat the experience of last fall. It's a really stark, simple thing,he said.Geithner said the government would be able to prop up a failing firm only if the firm were in the process of unwound, sold or liquidated,and he said bankruptcy would be remain the dominant tool for handling non-bank financial firm failures.But as the collapse of Lehman Brothers showed, the bankruptcy code is not an effective tool for resolving the failure of a global financial services firm in times of severe economic stress, he said.

FDIC ALSO LEVELS COMPLAINT

Obama, Geithner and Democrats on Capitol Hill have been working for months on proposals to tighten bank and capital market oversight, seeking to prevent a repeat of last year's confused Bush administration handling of the financial crisis.
Billions of taxpayer dollars were committed last year to rescuing firms such as AIG and Citigroup, while Lehman Brothers was allowed to collapse, and other firms were merged in emergency government-engineered deals.Seeking a new way for government to deal with such crises, the bill unveiled on Tuesday would let the Federal Reserve limit credit exposures, block acquisitions, restrict pay and bonuses and, in extreme cases, order bankruptcy at financial holding companies that it finds are severely undercapitalized.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp -- already able to seize and dismantle failing banks -- could extend Treasury Department credit to solvent banks and non-bank financial firms alike to prevent financial instability, under the plan.

Losses from FDIC actions would be repaid later by other large financial companies under the plan. FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, in testimony prepared for delivery to Frank's panel, argued instead for an assessment on big firms to pre-fund a resolution kitty.Geithner would head a Financial Services Oversight Council, under the plan, in the latest iteration of a proposed systemic risk regulator that has been under development for months.(Additional reporting by Karey Wutkowski, Rachelle Younglai and David Lawder; Editing by Tim Ahmann)

GDP report drives stocks higher after 4-day slide By STEPHEN BERNARD and TIM PARADIS, AP Business Writers – OCT 29,09

NEW YORK – Investors heartened by news of a stronger-than-expected economy went back into the stock market Thursday after a four-day slide.Major stock indexes rose more than 1.5 percent in afternoon trading, including the Dow Jones industrials, which rose about 160 points, erasing much of this week's 210-point drop.The Commerce Department's report that gross domestic product rose at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the third quarter reinvigorated investors who had dumped stocks in recent days on signs of a weakness in the housing market and a disappointing report on consumer confidence.The strong GDP report weakened demand for safe-havens like Treasurys, and a drop in the dollar pushed commodity prices higher, helping to lift materials and energy stocks.The economic growth came in ahead of the 3.3 percent rise forecast by economists polled by Thomson Reuters. The expansion in GDP was the best in two years and broke four consecutive quarters of declines. Coming on the 80th anniversary of the stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression, it was the best indication yet that the longest recession since then has ended.

Many analysts believe it may be hard to keep GDP growing, however. The economy was bolstered during the third quarter by government stimulus programs including the popular Cash for Clunkers auto rebates and tax credits for first-time home buyers. Once the government's stimulus measures run their course, analysts are worried the economic rebound might not be sustainable considering problems such as high unemployment and weak consumer spending persist.The question is will it get back on its own sound footing or will it continue to hobble,said Wyatt Crumpler, vice president of asset management at American Beacon Advisor Inc. in Fort Worth, Texas. We're a bit pessimistic in the short-term.Crumpler predicts the economy will struggle as consumers try to pay down debt and as credit for small businesses remains tight.The Dow Jones industrial average rose 161.57, or 1.7 percent, to 9,924.26. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 19.34, or 1.9 percent, to 1,061.97, while the Nasdaq composite index rose 33.02, or 1.6 percent, to 2,092.63.Bond prices fell, pushing their yields higher. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 3.51 percent from 3.42 percent late Wednesday. Bonds extended their early losses after a lackluster auction of seven-year notes.The ICE Futures US dollar index, which measures the dollar against other major currencies, fell after five straight days of gains. The weaker dollar made commodities more attractive for foreign buyers. Gold rose about $14 to $1,044 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while crude oil rose $1.98 to $79.44 a barrel.

Mitch Schlesinger, a managing partner at FBB Capital Partners in Bethesda, Md., said that because of government support, fourth-quarter GDP should provide a better picture of how much the economy has recovered.Some of the artificial goosing of the numbers will come out and we'll get a better picture,Schlesinger said. He added that the economy is likely to grow in the fourth quarter, but probably not at as fast a pace as the third quarter.In the interim, however, investors will welcome the better-than-expected third quarter report, he said.Other economic news was mixed. The number of people claiming jobless benefits for the first time dropped less than expected last week. The Labor Department said workers filing first-time claims for unemployment dipped 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 530,000 last week. Economists expected a larger decline to 521,000.However, the number of people receiving unemployment benefits on an ongoing basis dropped sharply by 148,000 to 5.8 million, below economists' expectations.Investors were also watching testimony by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to the House Financial Services Committee. Geithner told lawmakers the government isn't looking to bail out struggling financial companies, and said legislation being considered by the committee would ensure that firms of any size could fail without risking a collapse of the financial markets.In earnings news, Procter & Gamble Co. reported better-than-expected first-quarter results and raised its outlook after a year of consumers curbing their spending and switching to cheaper brands. Shares of the Cincinnati-based company, which makes Tide and Pampers, jumped $2.22, or 3.9 percent, to $59.45. Motorola Inc. shares climbed more than 11 percent after the cell phone maker posted its second straight quarterly profit following months of heavy losses. The stock rose 89 cents to $8.85. Gold producer Newmont Mining Corp. said its profit more than doubled in the third quarter, benefiting from the sharp increase in gold prices this year. Its shares gained $1.69, or 4.1 percent, to $43.19.Exxon Mobil Corp. said its third-quarter profit dropped 68 percent from a year ago, when crude prices spiked above $147 a barrel. However, the results were the best of the year so far for the world's largest publicly traded oil company, which said oil production is bouncing back along with crude prices. Shares fell 20 cents to $73.64.

About five stocks rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 700.6 million shares compared with 890 million shares traded at the same point Wednesday.The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 11.56, or 2.0 percent, to 577.92.Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 1.8 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 1.1 percent, Germany's DAX index rose 1.4 percent and France's CAC-40 gained 1.3 percent.

Investors rush back into stocks as economy grows By SARA LEPRO and TIM PARADIS, AP Business Writers – OCT 29,09

NEW YORK – Stocks logged their best day in three months as investors rushed into the market on word the economy grew faster than expected during the summer.The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 200 points Thursday to recoup most of its losses for the week, while demand for safe-haven holdings like Treasurys wilted.The Commerce Department's report that gross domestic product rose at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the third quarter reinvigorated investors who had dumped stocks for much of the week on signs of a slowing housing market and a disappointing report on consumer confidence.The economic growth came in ahead of the 3.3 percent rise forecast by economists polled by Thomson Reuters. It was the strongest growth in two years and broke four straight quarters of declines. Coming on the 80th anniversary of the stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression, it was the best indication yet that the longest recession since then has ended.But many analysts caution that it will be hard to sustain the growth at the pace seen in the third quarter.Government stimulus programs including the popular Cash for Clunkers auto rebates and tax credits for first-time home buyers bolstered the economy. Once the government's stimulus measures run their course, the economy could run afoul of lingering problems such as high unemployment and weak consumer spending.I don't think that at this point in the rebound that the economy would be self-sustainable, said Jason D. Pride, director of research at Haverford Investments in Philadelphia. The only way to have effective sustained economic growth is to have job growth, but it tends to come later.Analysts say the recovery is likely to be bumpy as consumers try to pay down debt and credit for small businesses remains tight.

But such concerns were pushed aside Thursday.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 199.89, or 2.1 percent, to 9,962.58. It was the best day for the Dow since July 15.The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 23.48, or 2.3 percent, to 1,066.11, while the Nasdaq composite index rose 37.94, or 1.8 percent, to 2,097.55.Bond prices fell, pushing their yields higher. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 3.50 percent from 3.42 percent late Wednesday. Bonds extended their early losses after a lackluster auction of seven-year notes.The ICE Futures US dollar index, which measures the dollar against other major currencies, fell after five straight days of gains. The weaker dollar made commodities more attractive for foreign buyers. Gold rose $16.60 to $1,047.10 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while crude oil soared $2.41 to settle at $79.87 a barrel.Mitch Schlesinger, a managing partner at FBB Capital Partners in Bethesda, Md., said that because of government support, fourth-quarter GDP should provide a better picture of how much the economy has recovered.Some of the artificial goosing of the numbers will come out and we'll get a better picture, Schlesinger said. He added that the economy is likely to grow in the fourth quarter, but probably not at as fast a pace as the third quarter.In the interim, however, investors will welcome the better-than-expected third quarter report, he said.Other economic news was mixed. The number of people claiming jobless benefits for the first time dropped less than expected last week. The Labor Department said workers filing first-time claims for unemployment dipped 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 530,000 last week. Economists expected a larger decline to 521,000.However, the number of people receiving unemployment benefits on an ongoing basis dropped sharply by 148,000 to 5.8 million, below economists' expectations. Unemployment and consumer spending remain the economy's biggest hurdles. Analysts said the market's renewed confidence following Thursday's GDP report could easily be shaken by the government's monthly employment report or retail sales, especially as the crucial holiday shopping season approaches.In earnings news, Motorola Inc. shares climbed nearly 10 percent after the cell phone maker posted its second straight quarterly profit following months of heavy losses. The stock rose 78 cents to $8.74.Five stocks rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 5.7 billion shares compared with 6.7 billion Wednesday.The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 13.86, or 2.5 percent, to 580.22.Overseas, Britain's FTSE 100 rose 1.1 percent, Germany's DAX index rose 1.7 percent and France's CAC-40 gained 1.4 percent. Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 1.8 percent.

IMF urges Zimbabwe to cement economic reforms Thu Oct 29, 9:47 am ET

HARARE (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund on Thursday urged Zimbabwe's crisis-hit unity government to build policies to cement recent economic reforms and win donor aid to finance growth and reduce poverty.Access to IMF lending facilities would require a sustained track record of sound policies and donor support for the clearance of arrears to official creditors,the global lending body said after a 13-day review mission.The IMF team assessed the unity government's economic recovery programme tasked with reversing years of crisis, saying improved policies set the country on track for three percent growth this year.The key challenge going forward is to build the necessary support for policies that would ensure sustainability of the nascent economic recovery and improvements in living conditions for Zimbabweans, the IMF said in a statement.The IMF report comes two weeks after Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai cut ties with President Robert Mugabe's dishonest and unreliable camp and went on a tour to bring about regional diplomatic intervention to save the unity government.The boycott of government proceedings by Tsvangirai supporters has sparked the biggest threat to the fragile partnership since it formed eight months ago, after disputed elections that saw Mugabe handed the presidency.The IMF team advised Harare to bank 400 million dollars in IMF support, recently allocated through so-called Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), and seek sustained donor financing.

The SDR allocation provided an important one-off boost to Zimbabwe's depleted international reserves, and should be saved,the body said in a statement.Last week, the Zimbabwean government -- which owes the IMF 130 million dollars -- announced it had agreed on how to use the resources after months of feuding between the central bank governor and finance minister.The funds will be used for public works and allocated to productive sectors such as mining and manufacturing.The IMF said political consensus was needed to continue cash budgeting, restrain wages, focus spending on development and social programmes, and to resolve governance problems at the central bank.Enforcing property rights and maintaining the rule of law were also singled out.Since the start of the year, the government had achieved a significant budget revenue improvement, abandoned the local currency, and largely liberalised prices and the exchange system, the IMF said.

Pelosi: New health care bill is historic moment By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer – OCT 29,09

WASHINGTON – After months of struggle, House Democrats rolled out sweeping legislation Thursday to extend health care coverage to millions who lack it and create a new option of government-run insurance. A vote is likely next week on the plan largely tailored to President Barack Obama's liking.Speaking on the steps of the Capitol, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Congress was at a historic moment with lawmakers on the cusp of delivering on the promise of making affordable, quality health insurance available to every American.Officials said the measure, once fully phased-in over several years, would extend coverage to 96 percent of Americans. Its principal mechanism for universal coverage is creation of a new government-regulated insurance exchange where private companies would sell policies in competition with the government. Federal subsidies would be available to millions of lower-income individuals and families to help them afford the policies, and to small businesses as an incentive to offer coverage to their workers.Large firms would be required to cover workers, and most individuals would be required to carry insurance.The ceremony marked a pivotal moment in the Democrats' yearlong attempt to answer Obama's call for legislation to remake the nation's health care system by extending insurance, ending industry practices such as denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions, and slowing the growth of medical spending nationwide.

Across the Capitol, Senate Democrats, too, are hoping to pass legislation by year's end. Legislation outlined by Majority Leader Harry Reid earlier this week would include an option for a government-run plan, although states could drop out if they wished, a provision not in the House measure.Obama issued a statement saying House Democrats had reached a critical milestone on the road toward a health care overhaul, and singled out the proposed government insurance option. He also said the bill clearly meets two of the fundamental criteria I have set out: It is fully paid for and will reduce the deficit in the long term.

Republican reaction was swift and critical.Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., head of the Republican Study Committee, issued a statement saying Democrats had produced a government takeover that will limit choice, competition and innovation in health care while increasing costs and decreasing quality.He said the measure would kill jobs, raise taxes and inflict cuts on a program of private Medicare that provides benefits to millions of seniors.GOP leaders long ago decided to oppose the approach requested by Obama and taken by Democrats, and health care is expected to figure in next year's congressional election campaigns.Democrats issued a statement saying their 1,990-page measure lowers costs for every patient and would not add to federal deficits. They put the cost of coverage at under $900 billion over 10 years, a total that excludes several items designed to improve benefits for Medicare and Medicaid recipients and providers, as well as public health programs and more.With Republicans expected to oppose the measure unanimously, Pelosi and her lieutenants worked for weeks to resolve differences within the Democratic rank and file.The toughest of them covered the terms under which the government insurance option would function. Liberals generally wanted the government to dictate the rates to be paid to doctors, hospitals and other health care providers, with the fee levels linked to Medicare.Moderates, fearing the impact on their local hospitals, held out for negotiated rates between the government and private insurers — and won.Not all liberals were ready to sign on.My inclination is not to support it,said Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., a co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, but that represented a softening of his opposition.Grijalva acknowledged there was an argument for progressives to vote yes.The logic is to keep the ball rolling, Grijalva said Thursday.

Democrats control 256 seats in the House, are overwhelmingly favored to win one special election next week and are competitive for another. As a result, they can afford more than 30 defections on the legislation and still prevail.House Democrats' campaign arm wasted no time in using the bill release as a fundraising opportunity. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee e-mailed supporters asking them to help raise $50,000 by Thursday night so we have the resources to fight back against Republican attacks and prove that grassroots Democrats are standing strong behind health insurance reform with a strong public option.The legislation would be financed by a combination of cuts in planned Medicare spending and an income tax surcharge of 5.4 percent on individuals making at least $500,000 annually and couples making at least $1 million. The bill would require nearly everyone by 2013 to sign up for health coverage either through their employer, a government program or the new exchange.In the meantime, a temporary government program would help people turned down by private insurers because of medical problems, lawmakers said. After that, insurers no longer could refuse to provide coverage to the sick, nor could they charge more because of poor health of the insured.The plan also calls for a significant expansion of Medicaid, the federal-state health program for low-income people. And it would impose a requirement on employers to offer insurance to their workers or face penalties.Pelosi, D-Calif., and the leadership have yet to work out disputes over abortion services and health care for immigrants, issues that must be settled before the bill can come to a vote.Pelosi has also said the bill would strip the health insurance industry of a long-standing exemption from antitrust laws covering market allocation, price fixing and bid rigging. Democratic officials said the bill also would give the Federal Trade Commission authority to look into the health insurance industry at its own initiative. The officials spoke Wednesday on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to pre-empt a formal announcement.While precise figures were not immediately available, it appeared the legislation would target the drug industry for more than the $80 billion that pharmaceutical firms agreed to contribute toward health care in a deal earlier this year with the White House and key senators. But the industry managed to come away with a provision worth billions: 12 years of market protection for high-tech drugs to combat cancer, Parkinson's and other deadly diseases.Medical device makers also took a hit, with a 2.5 percent excise tax on sales of their products that is reported to cost the industry $20 billion over the next decade. A $40 billion fee on those businesses was included in a Senate Finance Committee-approved version of the legislation, but Reid is considering cutting it by as much as half. Associated Press writers Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Julie Hirschfeld Davis contributed to this report.

WORLD TERRORISM

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.

2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men

LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

Passports linked to 9/11 found along Afghan border By NAHAL TOOSI, Associated Press Writer – OCT 29,09

SHERWANGAI, Pakistan – Pakistani soldiers battling their way into a Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border have seized passports that may be linked to 9/11 suspects, as they confront an enemy skilled in operating in a mountainous terrain with endless ways to wage a guerrilla war.The military on Thursday took foreign and local journalists for a first look inside the largely lawless territory since it launched a ground offensive here in mid-October. The U.S.-backed operation is focused on a section of the tribal region where the Pakistani Taliban are based and are believed to shelter al-Qaida.Soldiers displayed passports seized in the operation, among them a German document belonging to a man named Said Bahaji. That matches the name of a man thought to have been a member of the Hamburg cell that conceived the 9/11 attacks. Bahaji is believed to have fled Germany shortly before the attacks in New York and Washington.The passport included a tourist visa for Pakistan and a stamp indicating he'd arrived in the southern city of Karachi on Sept. 4, 2001.Another passport, from Spain, bears the name of Raquel Burgos Garcia. Spanish media have reported that a woman with the same name is married to Amer Azizi, an alleged al-Qaida member from Morocco suspected in both the 9/11 attacks and the Madrid train bombings in 2004.Her family in Madrid has had no news of her since 2001, according to Spanish media. Her passport included visas to India and Iran, and the army displayed a Moroccan document with Burgos Garcia's photo and other information.

It was impossible to determine whether the passports are genuine, and German and Spanish officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, the army's chief spokesman, said he had not realized the passports matched any prominent names, and declined further comment other than to say European militants were sprinkled throughout the area.The U.S. has maintained for years that South Waziristan and other parts of the rugged frontier have sheltered Osama bin Laden and his senior lieutenants.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, visiting this country on Thursday, said Pakistan squandered opportunities over the years to kill or capture al-Qaida leaders responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks.I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn't get them if they really wanted to, Clinton said in an interview with Pakistani journalists in Lahore. Maybe that's the case. Maybe they're not gettable. I don't know.Although the military spent months using airstrikes to soften up targets in South Waziristan, nearly two weeks into the ground offensive it has captured only a few areas, none with significant strategic value. The army has seized weapons but is still trying to secure the main roads and regularly comes under rocket fire.It's a long-drawn haul, Abbas said.They are offering resistance, and we are also striking them hard.Pakistan's tribal belt, a semiautonomous stretch of land where the government has long had little influence, is usually off-limits to foreigners. In recent years, as the militants' influence has spread, even many Pakistanis dare not venture here.The tribal regions are some of the poorest, most underdeveloped areas in the world and have long been guided by traditional codes and councils. The Taliban have slaughtered hundreds of tribal elders in their rise to power.

In Sherwangai, a sparsely populated district along one of the offensive's three major fronts, army commanders said they had killed 82 insurgents and lost six soldiers in their attempt to secure the area, where the hills are covered in brush, rocks and dust and strong winds whip high ridges. Many battle-hardened Uzbek militants are believed to have taken shelter here.The military is slowly capturing isolated hamlets as it encircles the small town of Kaniguram, its next target in the push forward. But even where the army has taken control, much of the area remains dangerous, filled with land mines and roadside bombs.After an initial surge of resistance, many militants have been fleeing. Because the army has sealed off the main passes,they will not be able to go out in a major way,said Maj. Gen. Khalid Rabbani, a top battlefield commander. Yet, he added,If somebody chooses even to cross Mount Everest, he will be able to do it. So there are going to be a few, changing their disguise — taking care of their beards and long hair — they will be able to get out.In addition to the passports, the military displayed papers and dozens of weapons and large amounts of ammunition it said it had recovered from Sherwangai.Civilians were nowhere to be seen during Thursday's trip — some 155,000 have left the region in the past few months. South Waziristan normally has about 500,000 people.At one military outpost, in a large mud compound in Sherwangai, smoke could be seen rising in the distance from villages under army fire. Officials assured reporters the civilians had left those areas.The military previously estimated that the South Waziristan offensive would take at least two to three months, and officials were hesitant Thursday to give a deadline. They also declined to give a time frame for how long troops would have to stay to prevent militants from returning.It also is unclear whether Islamabad has any plans for how to govern the territory effectively and prevent the insurgency from again taking root.

The army has deployed three divisions — about 30,000 troops — to take on some 5,000 to 8,000 militants, Abbas said, lowering a previous estimate of 10,000 militants. His estimate included up to 1,500 foreign fighters, most of them Uzbeks. Afghan fighters are also reportedly filtering in from across the border.This is the fourth major offensive the Pakistani army has launched in South Waziristan since 2004, and this time the military has promised a fight to the finish. The previous operations ended in setbacks or peace deals that left the militant groups even stronger.

WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL

AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) 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)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

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

The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.

2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL

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)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

North Korea behind cyber attacks: South's spy chief Posted on - Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:54PM EDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's communications ministry was behind a series of cyber attacks against South Korean and U.S. websites in July, the South's spy chief was quoted Friday as saying.Dozens of major U.S. and South Korean government and business sites were slowed or disabled with traffic generated by malicious software planted on personal computers unknown to their users.South Korean officials said at the time that North Korea was a prime suspect.The attacks on Korean and U.S. Internet sites were traced back to circuits originating in China,the South's spy chief Won Sei-hoon was quoted as telling a closed-door parliamentary committee meeting by Yonhap news agency.North Korea's communications ministry has been confirmed as leasing the line,Won reportedly said.Some South Korean government websites, including the Defense Ministry and National Intelligence Service, were affected in the wave of attacks that lasted several days but did not lead to a breach of sensitive material or damage to online infrastructure, the agencies said.

Internet access is denied to almost everyone in impoverished North Korea. Intelligence sources say leader Kim Jong-il launched a cyber-warfare unit several years ago.South Korea's intelligence agency declined to comment on the Yonhap report.
(Reporting by Jack Kim; Editing by Alex Richardson)