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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.

Flooding causes millions in damage in Iowa
Sun Jul 25, 5:24 pm ET

MONTICELLO, Iowa – Flooding from the Maquoketa River after the Lake Delhi dam failed has damaged dozens of homes and businesses, causing millions of dollars in damage in Monticello, officials said Sunday.The Lake Delhi dam in eastern Iowa failed Saturday as rising floodwater from the Maquoketa River ate a 30-foot-wide hole in it. Areas below the dam, including in Hopkinton and Monticello were evacuated.It is simply unbelievable. This is unprecedented. We've had floods before and we've always been able to contain the situation and minimize the damage, but with Mother Nature's fury ... there was no way to do anything about it, said Mike Willey, president of the board of directors at the Lake Delhi Recreation Association.There was simply too much water.The river crested upstream of the dam at Manchester early Saturday afternoon at 24.53 feet — more than 10 feet above flood stage and well above its 2004record of 21.66 feet — before it began to slowly recede.About 50 homes and 20 businesses had major flood damage and the city's sewer plant had been flooded and shut down about 7 p.m. Saturday, said Monticello Public Works Director Dana Edwards.

Most of the city's 3,700 residents could flush their toilets, but the waste was pouring into the river. Still, environmental damage shouldn't be great because the waste was being diluted by the flood water, Edwards said.The city's drinking water system was working, but we are asking people to use as little water as possible, Edwards said.Damage to private property would likely be in the millions of dollars, Edwards said. The cost of repairing the sewer plant wouldn't be known until workers could get inside to assess the damage.Pumps from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the city were being put into the city's main sewer lines to try to keep water out of residents' basements.The hydroelectric dam on the Maquoketa River that created Lake Delhi in the 1920s is no longer used for power but maintains the lake for recreational purposes.Information from: The Des Moines Register, http://www.desmoinesregister.com

Floods close Chicago interstate, damage Iowa dam
Sun Jul 25, 6:50 am ET

CHICAGO – Standing water on Chicago-area expressways turned what should have been an easy Saturday morning drive into a soggy, snarled mess after heavy rains across the Midwest closed roads, stranded residents and punched a hole through an Iowa dam.In Chicago, officials say more than 7 inches of rain fell early Saturday, inundating the sewer system and overwhelming waterways. Water covered portions of several Chicago interstates and the commuter train tracks that run along them, leading crews to divert traffic and call in bus shuttles. Portions of Interstate 290 west of downtown were closed for several hours.Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and other officials urged residents to call for help if they need it.Our goal is to get the city back to normal as quickly as possible, Daley said at a news conference Saturday.

West of Chicago in suburban Westchester, crews in boats were searching for people who were stranded in their flooded homes or trapped in cars under viaducts.In eastern Iowa, the Lake Delhi dam failed as rising floodwater from the Maquoketa River ate a 30-foot-wide hole in the earthen dam, causing water to drop 45 feet to the river below and threatening the small town of Hopkinton.Lake Delhi was created in the 1920s by damming the Maquoketa River. The resort area now has about 700 cabins and homes.Areas below and above the dam had been evacuated after heavy rain has pushed the river to 23.92 feet — more than 2 feet above its previous record of 21.66 feet in 2004.Jack Klaus, a spokesman with the Delaware County emergency management office, said warning sirens sounded in Hopkinton as water began to surround homes Saturday afternoon.There's going to be significant losses of property there,Klaus said.Donna Dubberke, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Davenport, said areas below the dam will see an initial crest in the river caused by the dam's failure followed by a secondary crest as the high water above the dam made its way downstream.There will be initial wave from the sudden shot of water and a secondary shot behind it from the rainfall,she said.Heavy rains have also wreaked havoc in the Milwaukee area in the past few days, and Gov. Jim Doyle planned to tour affected areas Saturday, including the intersection where a sink hole swallowed an SUV.County Executive Scott Walker estimated Thursday's torrential rains caused more than $10 million in damage to public property and another $18 million to private property. Doyle has already declared a state of emergency in the county.

Floods and landslide in Indonesia kill 21: official
Sun Jul 25, 4:54 am ET

JAKARTA (AFP) – At least 21 people have been killed in floods and a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Indonesia, an official said Sunday.The landslide on Buru island in eastern Maluku province took place on Friday after heavy rains in a hilly area, Disaster Management Agency spokesman Priyadi Kardono told AFP.We've pulled out 18 bodies from the landslide and rescued seven others who were injured, he said.

Elsewhere, three people drowned and three went missing after days of continuous rain in South Kalimantan province caused a river there to overflow, he added.More than 3,000 families were affected by the floods, local media reported.Floods and landslides are common in Indonesia, which is densely populated and prone to frequent heavy rains.

Floods and landslides kill 10 in Vietnam: govt
Sun Jul 25, 12:18 am ET

HANOI (AFP) – Flooding and landslides caused by heavy rain have killed at least 10 people in Vietnam's northern mountainous provinces near China, the government said Sunday.The biggest death toll of five came in Ha Giang province, where people were buried in their homes or swept away in floods, the Hanoi-based national flood and storm control department said in an online statement.Of the victims, four were children aged between two and 15 years old, the agency said.Hundreds of houses in five northern provinces have been inundated while roads and crops were severely damaged in up to 300 millimetres (12 inches) of rain, which began falling on Thursday, it said.At least 10 communes in Bac Giang province have been cut off.
Weather forecasters in Vietnam said the country had been influenced by the effects of Typhoon Chanthu, which lashed southern China late last week.

OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN

ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

Eastern US cooks in summer heat, temps reach 100s By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI, Associated Press Writer – Sun Jul 25, 6:51 am ET

TOMS RIVER, N.J. – Another wave of oppressive heat clamped down on a broad swath of Eastern states on Saturday, with temperatures in the high 90s and 100s and residents scrambling for shade or just staying indoors.In the Mid-Atlantic, already the locus for brutal temperatures several times in July, weather experts warned of the dangerous conditions and residents resigned themselves to coping with the discomfort.

Oh, it's disgusting. It's already really hot, meteorologist Heather Sheffield of the National Weather Service said of morning temperatures in Washington, D.C.One possible weather-related death was reported in Maryland, where paramedics said the high temperatures and humidity likely played a role in the death of a 20-year-old man who was biking, went into cardiac arrest and hit his head on a tree as he fell.

With the heat and humidity combining for a possible heat index of over 110 degrees, the weather service issued an excessive heat warning for the first time this year for an area stretching from south of Washington to north of Baltimore, along the Interstate 95 corridor. By midday Saturday, a wide band from lower New England to the Deep South was under a heat advisory.The thermometer hit 100 degrees in Washington and Baltimore by mid-afternoon, where the heat index was 109. In Norfolk, Va., it was 104 degrees and 108 degrees with the heat index. Elsewhere, record highs for July 24 of 97 degrees in New York and Philadelphia and 99 degrees in Newark, N.J., were reported.As temperatures soared toward 100 degrees in New Jersey, Harry Oliver was trying to make sense of it all as he waited to get sandwiches inside a Toms River convenience store.When I complain about the heat and humidity, my wife reminds me that I was begging for this type of weather when I was shoveling all that snow this past winter, the 47-year-old Lakehurst resident said. Now I'm looking forward to the snow again.Oliver said he and his wife didn't want to cook.It's hot enough in the house already, even with my air conditioning running 24/7,he said.In New York City, the heat brought out the inner entrepreneur in one resident.A.J. Ousmane, 27, a native of the West African nation of Mali, sold ice-cold water bottles for $1 from a cooler on a Harlem sidewalk. He planned to stay out all afternoon, and hoped to make about $55 for the day, after expenses.I keep moving with the shade, he said, as he positioned himself in the creeping shadow of a coin-operated laundry.Poolside, 20-year-old Meredith Watkins slathered herself with SPF 15 and filled her water bottle before working a shift as a lifeguard in suburban Columbus, Ohio. Watkins scouted the swimming pool for an excuse to jump in — something she says she does at least once an hour on hot days.

You still gotta do your job when it's this hot,she said, twirling a whistle on a red lanyard.Especially with the humidity, it makes it awful. You just sit there and sweat and sweat.Kristin Kline, a weather service meteorologist at Mount Holly, N.J., said this summer hasn't been record-setting hot in most places. The off-and-on scorching heat that's been felt in the Mid-Atlantic can be blamed on a Bermuda high between Bermuda and North Carolina that is pushing hot, humid air into the region, Kline said.In Pennsylvania, Louie Correa, 55, of Louie's Appliances was out trundling a fan and a kitchen table into a South Philadelphia home. He said that earlier in the day, he had been by the homes of some older residents to make sure they were all right.Sometimes they see me knocking on the door, and the neighbors say What you want there? Like this morning, I said Oh, just making sure Miss Regina is all right,Just making sure Frank is all right, Correa said.While temperatures climbed, Jason Wish dabbed a sweaty T-shirt on his brow as he loaded crates of tomatoes and bushels of peppers into a truck at a farmer's market in suburban Columbus, Ohio. He and dozens of other farmhands hurried to pack up their produce and escape to air-conditioned vans and pickups. It makes me wanna jump in the pond and go swimming,Wish said.Many hit the beach for relief, though not all were there to soak up the sun.Jeff Clarkson, 47, and his 12-year-old son Chuck planned to hit the arcades along the Point Pleasant area boardwalk in New Jersey.I don't want him out there too long cause it could be dangerous,said the elder Clarkson, whose family was visiting from suburban Philadelphia.But in here, we can spend time together and stay kind of cool, though it's likely to cost me a lot of money by the time we're through.Not much relief was in the forecast Sunday. Sunday's highs were expected to reach into the low- to mid-90s, but heat indices should be slightly lower — in the high 90s, possibly as high as 101 in cities. Associated Press writers Jessica Gresko and Kathleen Miller in Washington, D.C., Verena Dobnik in New York City, Ron Todt in Philadelphia, and Jeannie Nuss in Columbus, Ohio., contributed to this story.

POISONED WATERS

REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)

REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

BP chief likely to resign in wake of US oil spill
JULY 25,10

LONDON (AFP) – The chief executive of British oil giant BP, Tony Hayward, was likely to resign within the next 24 hours in the aftermath of the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the BBC reported.Citing a senior BP source, the BBC said that an announcement was due shortly on Hayward, whose future has been in doubt for several weeks over his handling of the worst environmental disaster in US history.There is a strong likelihood that he would be replaced by Bob Dudley, who took over management of BP's response to the spill from Hayward last month, the public broadcaster added.

Earlier, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported that Hayward was poised to resign before London-based BP announces its half-year results on Tuesday. The BP board is expected to meet on Monday ahead of the announcement.Last Monday BP put the cost of its response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill at 3.95 billion dollars (3.05 billion euros).Reports have suggested for days that Hayward would resign at some point in the coming weeks as BP battles to recover its reputation.The Sunday Telegraph said that there could be wrangling over Hayward's severance package, under which he is likely to be paid a minimum figure of just over one million pounds (1.5 million dollars, 1.2 million euros).Asked about the BBC report, a BP spokesman told AFP he would not comment on speculation. He added: Tony Hayward is our chief executive. He has the full support of the board and management.In the Gulf itself, engineers moved ahead Sunday with preparations for a well kill operation that officials hope will permanently plug the oil leak that erupted April 20 when an offshore oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers.A drill rig vessel charged with sinking a relief well that should finally stop the deep-sea oil leak arrived back at the site of the spill on Saturday after briefly moving away due to a tropical storm.US Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said the first chance to seal the well for good could come soon. That is a very rough estimate, three to five days from now, he said.

The returning drill rig, Development Driller 3, was among about 10 ships that fled the area ahead of Tropical Storm Bonnie. A cap has been lowered over the wellhead, but it has been leaking since July 15.Local residents are desperate to permanently resolve the disaster, more than three months after the April 20 explosion on the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil platform.The International Energy Agency estimates that between 2.3 million and 4.5 million barrels of crude have gushed into the sea.A BP spokesman, Bryan Ferguson, said it would take around 21 hours to reconnect the Development Driller 3 to drilling operations some 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) below the sea surface.The rig is drilling the first of two relief wells that will be used to definitively plug the devastating spill.BP and US officials currently plan two operations to kill the well.The first, a static kill, involves pumping heavy drilling fluid known as mud through a blowout preventer valve system that sits on top of the well, and then injecting cement to seal it. The process is similar to a top kill attempt that failed in May, but officials say the cap now in place over the leak will make the operation easier and more likely to succeed. However, BP and US officials have said the ultimate solution to the leak will be the relief wells, which will intersect the original well.Using the same process as the static kill, drilling fluid, which is denser than oil, will be pumped via the relief well until the flow of crude is overcome, allowing the damaged well to be sealed with cement.

Before either can begin, the last section of the relief well must be secured with a 3,000-foot piece of steel pipe called a casing run, which will be cemented in place.

You're probably into three to five days from now when they might be able to be in a position to have the casing pipe in place and we could probably start the static kill at that point, Allen said. The spill has now washed up oil along the shorelines of all five US states on the Gulf Coast, but some experts said high waves kicked up by Tropical Storm Bonnie might actually help dissolve some of the oil faster.Other experts argued that surface currents bolstered by high winds would likely shift the near-surface oil closer to the Gulf Coast and spread it over a larger area, and that a hurrican-like storm could send fouled water far up into the bayous, contaminating spawning grounds for fish and shrimp.

Federal Government Working to Remove Sovereignty of States
Activist Post July 25, 2010

It has been reported that 46 states are on the verge of bankruptcy. Since states are Constitutionally mandated to balance their budgets, and do not possess the ability to print money, they’re finding themselves in a critically weakened position to challenge the Federal Government.The Federal government is overstepping their authority and infringing on the sovereignty of states. In our republic, states have sovereignty to create and enforce their own laws as long as they don’t violate the U.S. Constitution. The Tenth Amendment gives states the freedom from Federal laws and regulations if they deem them to be unconstitutional.The Tenth Amendment: which makes explicit the idea that the Federal government is limited only to the powers granted in the Constitution, is generally recognized to be a truism. States and local governments have occasionally attempted to assert exemption from various federal regulations, especially in the areas of labor and environmental controls, using the Tenth Amendment as a basis for their claim.

An oft-repeated quote, from United States v. Darby, 312 U.S. 100, 124 (1941), reads as follows:The amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. There is nothing in the history of its adoption to suggest that it was more than declaratory of the relationship between the national and state governments as it had been established by the Constitution before the amendment or that its purpose was other than to allay fears that the new national government might seek to exercise powers not granted, and that the states might not be able to exercise fully their reserved powers…(Source)Recently, it seems the Federal government is overstepping their authority and infringing on the sovereignty of states. Furthermore, given that many broke states will most certainly require a Federal bailout to maintain their basic social structures, we can assume that the Feds will use that to impose even stronger controls.The Federal government has clearly violated California state law regarding medical marijuana by raiding state-approved legal dispensaries and grow-ops. And now, Obama and company are suing Arizona to overturn their new anti-illegal immigration law, which is essentially a reiteration of the Federal law, just with plans to actually prosecute it.Additionally, we have seen the steady erosion of the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for local law enforcement. Stories of active military and the National Guard helping local law enforcement on operations as routine as random traffic checkpoints and local crimes such as illegal gun and drug searches are becoming everyday news — again a clear violation of the Tenth Amendment.It is clear that the goal of Federal government is to centralize and consolidate control as much as possible. Liberty advocates have a growing concern that states teetering on the verge of bankruptcy will require Federal bailouts that will come with sovereignty-smashing strings attached. Based on the clear violations already exhibited by the Federal government, we can only assume that more centralized oppression is on the way.

Former CIA Boss: Iran Attack Inexorable Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com
July 25, 2010

According to Michael Hayden, a CIA boss under George W. Bush, Iran’s not having a nuke is just as dangerous as it having one.Killing Iranians now seems inexorable and may not be the worst of all possible outcomes,according to Hayden.Hayden predicted Iran plans to get itself to that step right below a nuclear weapon, that permanent breakout stage, so the needle isn’t quite in the red for the international community.Hayden said that reaching even that level would be as destabilizing to the region as actually having a weapon and it will result in an attack by the U.S., Israel, or both.Killing Iranians now seems inexorable and may not be the worst of all possible outcomes,according to Hayden.Meanwhile, Iran’s leadership remains steeped in denial. Iran’s ISNA news agency quoted an aide to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday saying that Israel and the United States would never strike Iran, saying that both the U.S. and Zionist regime face internal problems and they know that we make many troubles for them if they attack Iranian territory.

Despite the rhetoric, Iran appears ready to respond in the event of an attack

Yahya Rahim Safav told Iran’s ISNA news agency that Iran’s armed forces were fully prepared and enemies are aware of that, they do not have the power to take a political decision on the issue, because they know they can start the war but are not able to finish it.Mohammad-Ali Ja’fari, commander of the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guards, said the United States would not dare to attack Iran as it is fully aware of Iran’s defense power and its nation’s determination, according to Haaretz in Israel.Ja’fari said that he considered his forces’ preparedness as being at their highest level,adding that recent sanctions imposed on Iran would have no impact on Iran’s ability to respond to an attack.In addition, a former naval chief in the Revolutionary Guard said Iran has set aside 100 military vessels to confront each U.S. warship that poses a threat. The Revolutionary Guard is in charge of defending the country’s territorial waters in the Persian Gulf. General Morteza Saffari said Saturday that troops aboard U.S. warships are morsels for Iran to target in the event of any American threat against Iran.Over recent days, warnings about imminent war and direct calls for war have been proliferating in the world media,Webster G. Tarpley wrote last week, citing warnings issued by former communist leader Fidel Castro and Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Tarpley also cited an editorial penned by former Senator Chuck Robb and former NATO deputy commander General Charles Wald calling for the U.S. to begin preparing an attack. We cannot afford to wait indefinitely to determine the effectiveness of diplomacy and sanctions. Sanctions can be effective only if coupled with open preparation for the military option as a last resort,Robb and Wald wrote.

Obama signs a bill that lets banks have US over a barrel once more - Last week, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform bill – hailed as the most sweeping overhaul of US financial regulation since the 1930s. By Liam Halligan Published: 9:26PM BST 24 Jul 2010

Because of this law, the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street's mistakes,Obama boomed at the schmaltzy signing ceremony, amid bursts of applause.Obama makes right moves on regulating Wall Street but misses chance of a full rebuild These reforms will put a stop to a lot of the bad loans that fuelled this debt-based bubble,the President gushed to America and the rest of the world.This bill also empowers consumerse_SLpsdelivering the strongest consumer financial protections in history.It would be reassuring if we could agree with Obama, concluding that Dodd-Frank will help to prevent the next systemic crisis and associated bail-out of too-big-to-fail banks. Reassuring, but wrong. For despite some marginal regulatory improvements, this is no Rooseveltian legislative milestone. Amid the hype and back-slapping of last week's launch, the sad reality is that Dodd-Frank fails to address the fundamental problems that resulted in the sub-prime fiasco and the related damage to not just America, but the entire global economy.The inherent feebleness of this door-stopping bundle of statute and its lack of desperately needed substance, was brilliantly captured by Laurence Kotlikoff, a highly-respected professor of economics at Boston University. This law is like being invited to dinner and served pictures of food,Kotlikoff remarked.

It would be tempting to smile at such a wry observation if the situation it described wasn't so depressing. For what the US political establishment's non-response to the credit crunch illustrates is this: such is the lobbying power of the big Wall Street institutions that they not only caused a global economic crisis and then forced the US government to pay for a massive bail-out, but then used a slice of that bail-out cash to bribe politicians with campaign donations in order to block rule changes that might prevent a repeat performance.That leaves the politicians and high-flying bankers happy, of course, while regular citizens – and their children and grandchildren – foot the multi-billion dollar bill.The principal function of a financial services industry is to link savers with investors and creditors with borrowers, so facilitating broader commercial activity. Such intermediary functions are crucial to economic progress and can be the basis of a profitable and socially useful business.What we've created, instead, is a group of institutions that between them comprise nothing less than a financial oligarchy. These guys have Western taxpayers over a barrel. And what's alarming is that there is almost nothing in this bill that will stop yet more too-big-to-fail calamities. Mr President, you have missed a historic opportunity and, for that, history's judgment will be severe. In 1933, in the aftermath of the Wall Street crash, America introduced the Glass-Steagall divide – a firewall separating high-risk investment banks from regular commercial banks. The idea was to draw a regulatory line in the sand, preventing Wall Street from playing fast and loose with the deposits of ordinary firms and households, deposits rightly covered by a state guarantee.

For more than 60 years that divide stood firm. But during the late 1980s and 1990s, increasingly powerful vested interests, first in the City and then Wall Street, pushed for the co-mingling of banking activities. The resulting universal banks eventually bestrode the Western world, particularly after Bill Clinton succumbed to the lobbyists' dime and formally repealed Glass-Steagall in 1999.It is an indisputable fact that since that repeal, the Western world has lurched from crisis to crisis. Little wonder, given that the end of Glass-Steagall allowed investment banks to borrow heavily against their taxpayer-backed deposits, then place vastly leveraged heads-I-win-tails-the-government-loses bets on risky investments such as internet stocksor sliced-and-diced sub-prime mortgages. Yes, bank failures happened under Glass-Steagall, but they were less frequent and far smaller.Obama didn't consider re-instating Glass-Steagall. On the contrary, he packed his administration with the same people who helped Clinton remove it.During his first year in office, the President dithered over financial reform but then, in the aftermath of an electoral mauling in Massachusetts, he placated those calling for root-and-branch banking reform by calling in former Federal Reserve Chairman, Paul Volcker.The so-called Volcker Rule is the centrepiece of Dodd-Frank and as such, is indicative of the entire package. It's designed to restrict the ability of universal banks to speculate with taxpayer-backed money, rather than making sure by keeping deposit takers and investment banks separate. Volcker places limits on so-called prop trading without defining what it is, so allowing banks to exploit what they claim is the grey area between market-making and speculation.Wall Street firms will also still be able to lever up punters' money and deal in credit-default swaps – the main culprits in the AIG bankruptcy, which cost US taxpayers $182bn and counting – while also destroying Bear Stearns and Lehman. The only stipulation is that ratings agencies should classify such derivates as investment grade. Such agencies are unreformed and were at the heart of the last debacle – so that's hardly reassuring.

Last-minute changes mean that banks can, anyway, use 3pc of their tier-one capital for out-and-out speculation, circumventing Volcker. That doesn't sound much, but once levered up 50-times – and such a figure isn't unusual – this huge loophole in Volcker is more than enough to allow investment banks to keep destroying themselves in full knowledge the state will pay. Adding insult to injury, Wall Street then secured delays to the introduction of Volcker – or what's left of it – that in some cases will last for more than 10 years.The closer you look at Dodd-Frank, the more apparent becomes Wall Street's influence. Limits on leverage – rejected. Limits on bank size – rejected. Restrictions on derivatives – well, some trading will go through a central exchange, allowing more scrutiny, but it's entirely unclear how much. At every turn, this bill avoids decisions, delegating them instead to an army of regulators who will turn generalities into actual rules. If the banks were able to skew Dodd-Frank their way , think of the influence they'll have when the details are hammered out behind closed doors. Obama put the spotlight on the creation of a consumer protection bureau – an attempt, before November's mid-term elections, to make arcane legislation meaningful to the public. Are there limits on credit card interest, ensnaring adjustable rate mortgages or predatory pay-day loans? Nope. Some other omissions in the bill are breath-taking. There is no mention of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac – the government-sponsored mortgage-providers that have already cost $145bn in bail-out cash, rising to almost $400bn by 2019. No mention, either, of capital requirements – which means the global banking system must rely, once again, on the ridiculous Basel process for resolving this crucial issue. Once again, Obama missed a chance to give a lead when it comes to financial reform.Based on sound-thinking courageous judgment, the Glass-Steagall legislation was only 17 pages long. Packed with wheezes and loop-holes, Dodd-Frank runs to 2,319 pages. Enough said.

Goldman Sachs Names European Banks It Paid Amid AIG's U.S.-Funded Bailout
By Christine Harper and Jesse Westbrook - Jul 23, 2010

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said it made payments to banks including Germany’s DZ Bank AG and Banco Santander SA of Spain for mortgage-related losses as it received U.S. taxpayer funds through the American International Group Inc. bailout in 2008. The list of 32 counterparties to Goldman Sachs on collateralized debt obligations was released today by U.S. Senator Charles Grassley. The largest payments were to European lenders that also included the London branch of Rabobank Nederland NV, Zuercher Kantonalbank and Dexia Bank SA.The majority of these beneficiaries appear to be foreign entities, Grassley wrote in a set of questions directed at Elizabeth Warren, chairman of the Congressional Oversight Panel, and published on his website. Can you please explain how ensuring that these institutions were paid in full, rather than required to suffer the consequences of the risks that they took, benefited the U.S. taxpayer? Goldman Sachs turned over the list to the Congressional Oversight Panel and Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which are reviewing the use of taxpayer funds in financial bailouts. Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, had suggested Goldman Sachs could be subpoenaed if the New York-based bank didn’t provide the information.Goldman Sachs executives including Chief Operating Officer Gary Cohn and Chief Financial Officer David Viniar had defended the firm’s collection of $8.1 billion after AIG’s bailout, tied to swaps contracts. The money helped Goldman Sachs pay out offsetting contracts with other parties, they said, without naming the companies until now. In addition, Goldman Sachs received $4.8 billion after the bailout for securities lending contracts.

Buyers and Sellers

We had transactions on the other side, Cohn, 49, told members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission at a hearing earlier this month.In AIG, we sat in the middle of buyers and sellers.The documents released by Grassley’s office show that Goldman Sachs’s counterparties received a total of about $14 billion in payments for the bonds that ended up going into the Maiden Lane III special purpose vehicle established by the Federal Reserve for AIG’s bailout.Other names on the list include the Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan and a GSAM Credit CDO Ltd., a collateralized debt obligation managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs, are securities backed by pools of financial instruments such as mortgage bonds or loans.To contact the reporters on this story: Christine Harper in New York at charper@bloomberg.net; Jesse Westbrook in Washington at jwestbrook1@bloomberg.net.

EU bank stress tests face their own test in markets
By Paul Taylor – Sun Jul 25, 8:34 pm ET

PARIS (Reuters) – EU tests of banks' ability to withstand financial shocks, criticized as too easy after only 7 out of 91 failed, face their own stress test in the markets on Monday with early signs pointing to a more positive response.European Union policymakers and regulators voiced relief at Friday's results but some market analysts and many media commentators derided an exercise in which all listed banks passed as lacking in credibility.I see nothing stressful about this test. It's like sending the banks away for a weekend of R&R, said Stephen Pope, chief global equity strategist at brokers Cantor Fitzgerald.There was skepticism about EU regulators' conclusion that banks need only a total of 3.5 billion euros ($4.5 billion) in extra capital. Market expectations had ranged from 30 to 100 billion euros, although many European banks have already raised capital during the financial crisis.Only five small Spanish banks, Germany's state-rescued Hypo Real Estate and Greece's Atebank failed outright. More than a dozen others scraped through with just over the required 6 percent of Tier 1 capital in the most stressful scenario and are likely to come under market scrutiny.However, the wealth of data disclosed by banks representing 65 percent of assets, and the commitment of banks, regulators and governments to follow-up action may well outweigh doubts about the stringency of the tests.In a first market reaction in New York late on Friday, the cost of insuring the debt of large European banks fell further and the euro rose against the dollar despite worries about the tests' credibility.Better-than-expected economic data and business confidence surveys suggesting the euro zone will avoid a double-dip recession despite fiscal austerity measures are also helping revive investor confidence in Europe.

HAGGLING

Given the haggling among EU governments and regulators about the stress tests right up to the last moment, the degree of transparency was greater than had been expected a few weeks ago.Sources familiar with the discussions said Germany fought hard behind closed doors to limit the extent of disclosure.In the end, most banks -- except Deutsche -- issued a detailed breakdown of their exposure to the sovereign debt of EU countries, enabling investors to run their own risk simulations to gauge a counterparty's solidity.We have all the sovereign exposure data, and we can go ahead and do our own tests,said Nial O'Connor, a banking analyst at Credit Suisse.

That should help reopen the interbank lending market, which partially froze at the height of the euro zone debt crisis in May and has remained tight due to fears that banks have been hiding big exposures.It also responds to one of the major criticisms of the exercise -- that the scenario assumed a haircut on sovereign debt of countries such as Greece held in banks' trading books, but not on a longer-term basis in their banking books.The EU authorities were chastised for refusing to test the impact of a default by Greece.But European Central Bank governing council member Christian Noyer said euro zone states have put several hundreds of billions of euros on the table with the support of the IMF to make this hypothesis completely excluded.

TRANSPARENCY

Spain, which spearheaded the drive for transparency, tested a larger part of its banking system and disclosed more data than any other country, hoping to clear away lingering market suspicion of its smaller banks' solvency. However economist Nicolas Veron of the Bruegel think-tank said Madrid had underplayed the recapitalization needs of the cajas, regional savings banks, although its bank resolution fund (FROBE) is well on the way to meeting those needs. The Spanish wanted to be seen as the most transparent and deserve praise for the catalyst role they played, but in the end they clearly understated what the cajas need,he said in a telephone interview. Veron said follow-up actions by governments and regulators should include pressing weaker banks to recapitalize, if necessary with state help and facilitating cross-border takeovers of weaker banks. Even before the results were published, National Bank of Greece, Slovenia's NLB and Civica in Spain announced plans to raise capital.Italy said it would reopen an offer of government-backed bonds to support its banks, although none failed. Monte dei Paschi di Siena squeaked through with 6.2 percent of Tier 1 capital under the most stressful scenario, and UBI Banca with 6.8 percent.Veron said the success of the exercise would depend partly on whether European regulators adopt a more cooperative approach after the stress tests than they did before them.If this is the start of a beautiful friendship among EU supervisors, then that's not the same as if the united front crumbles next week and they start criticizing each other again,he said.(Editing by Andrew Roche)

US holds drills off Korea as Pyongyang talks war By ERIC TALMADGE, Associated Press Writer – Sun Jul 25, 12:15 pm ET

ABOARD USS GEORGE WASHINGTON – Fighter jets buzzed the skies and submarines cruised underwater Sunday as a flotilla of U.S. and South Korean warships led by a nuclear-powered U.S. supercarrier began exercises that have enraged North Korea.U.S. officials denied North Korea's claims the maneuvers off Korea's east coast were a provocation, but said they were meant to send a strong message over the sinking of a South Korean warship in March that left 46 sailors dead.The drills, set to run through Wednesday, involve about 8,000 U.S. and South Korean troops, 20 ships and submarines and 200 aircraft. The USS George Washington, with several thousand sailors and dozens of fighter jets aboard, was deployed from Japan.We are showing our resolve, said Capt. David Lausman, the carrier's commanding officer.The exercises will be the first in a series of U.S.-South Korean maneuvers conducted in the East Sea off Korea and in the Yellow Sea closer to China's shores in international waters.The exercises also are the first to employ the F-22 stealth fighter — which can evade North Korean air defenses — in South Korea.North Korea has called the drills an unpardonable provocation and threatened to retaliate with nuclear deterrence and sacred war.The North routinely threatens attacks whenever South Korea and the U.S. hold joint military drills, which Pyongyang sees as a rehearsal for an invasion. The U.S. keeps 28,500 troops in South Korea and another 50,000 in Japan, but says it has no intention of invading the North.Still, the North's latest rhetoric carries extra weight following the sinking of the Cheonan warship in late March.Rear Adm. Daniel Cloyd, the top U.S. official in the exercise, said he was confident the United States could respond to any threat. He said no significant action by the North's military had been observed.We are monitoring the region all the time and we are very confident we can respond to any situation,he said.

Washington and Seoul blame Pyongyang for the sinking of the 1,200-ton Cheonan warship near the Koreas' maritime border. A five-nation team of investigators concluded a North Korean torpedo sank the Cheonan, considered the worst military attack on the South since the 1950-53 Korean War.North Korea, which denies any involvement in the sinking, has warned the United States against attempting to punish it.Our military and people will squarely respond to the nuclear war preparation by the American imperialists and the South Korean puppet regime with our powerful nuclear deterrent,the North's government-run Minju Joson newspaper said in a commentary headlined, We also have nuclear weapons.The commentary was carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.The North's powerful National Defense Commission issued a similar threat Saturday, saying the country will start a retaliatory sacred war.Pyongyang's rhetoric was seen by most as bluster, but its angry response to the maneuvers underscores the rising tension in the region.Capt. Ross Myers, the commander of the George Washington's air wing, said the exercises were not intended to raise tensions. But the George Washington, one of the biggest ships in the U.S. Navy, is a potent symbol of American military power, with about 5,000 sailors and aviators and the capacity to carry up to 70 planes. North Korea may contend that it is a provocation, but I would say the opposite, Myers said.It is a provocation to those who don't want peace and stability. North Korea doesn't want this. They know that one of South Korea's strengths is its alliance with the United States.Myers said North Korea's threats to retaliate are being taken seriously, however.There is a lot they can do, he said. They have ships, they have subs, they have airplanes. They are a credible threat.The maneuvers underscore a diplomatic blitz by the United States aimed at further tightening the screws on North Korea. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced Wednesday, after visiting the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas, that the U.S. would slap new sanctions on the North to stifle its nuclear ambitions and punish it for the Cheonan sinking. The European Union is also considering new sanctions on North Korea. The deployment of the supercarrier to the area off Korea was also raising eyebrows in China — which was believed to have been concerned about having the carrier operate too close to its own shores.In what has been seen as a bow to Chinese sensitivities, the George Washington will not be joining the maneuvers later this summer in the Yellow Sea.But Cloyd, the top U.S. official in the exercise, said the carrier may be back.We reserve the right to exercise in international waters anywhere in the world, he said.

The Nimitz-class carrier had been expected to join in exercises — code-named Invincible Spirit — off South Korea sooner, but the Navy delayed those plans as the United Nations Security Council met to deliberate what action it should take over the Cheonan sinking. The council eventually condemned the incident, but stopped short of naming North Korea as the perpetrator. In Seoul, meanwhile, about 150 anti-war activists rallied Sunday near the U.S. Embassy, chanting slogans such as We are opposing the drills! and Scrap the South Korean-U.S. alliance! The activists said the training would only deepen tension in the region. The rally was peaceful and there was no reports of clashes with riot police.Associated Press writer Hyung-jin Kim and AP photographer Young-joon Ahn in Seoul contributed to this report.

Japan to OK exports of missile interceptors: report
JULY 25,10

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan is set to allow exports of missile interceptors it is developing jointly with the United States, Kyodo news agency said, relaxing its ban on arms exports.Europe is considered a likely destination for the ship-based Standard Missile-3 Block IIA, Kyodo said on Sunday, citing unnamed sources close to Japan-U.S. relations.The advanced missile defense system is key to U.S. plans to be able to defend all of NATO's European territory from a perceived Iranian ballistic-missile threat.Separately, the Yomiuri newspaper said on Monday an advisory panel to Prime Minister Naoto Kan will call for relaxation of Japan's weapons export ban in a report next month.Japan has banned arms sales since 1967 to countries with communist governments or that are involved in international conflicts or subject to United Nations sanctions.The rules have meant virtually a blanket ban on arms exports and the development or production of weapons with countries other than the United States, hurting the competitiveness of defense contractors such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.Nippon Keidanren, Japan's largest business lobby, has called for an easing of the restriction, which has prohibited the country's defense industry from joining multinational projects such as Lockheed Martin-led F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Michael Watson)

Iran says it has 100 vessels for each US warship By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer - Sat Jul 24, 11:34 am ET

TEHRAN, Iran – The former naval chief for Iran's Revolutionary Guard said the country has set aside 100 military vessels to confront each warship from the U.S. or any other foreign power that might pose a threat, an Iranian newspaper reported Saturday.Such a military confrontation in the vital oil lanes of the Persian Gulf would be of major global concern. The warning builds on earlier threats by Iran to seal off the Gulf's strategic Strait of Hormuz — through which 40 percent of the world's oil passes — in response to any military attack.We have set aside 100 military vessels for each (U.S.) warship to attack at the time of necessity, Gen. Morteza Saffari was quoted as saying by the conservative weekly Panjereh.The U.S. and Israel have said military force could be used if diplomacy fails to stop what they suspect is an Iranian nuclear weapons program. Iran denies any aim to develop such weapons and says its nuclear work is for peaceful purposes like power generation.The U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet headquarters is based just across the Gulf from Iran in Bahrain.Saffari said more than 100 foreign warships were currently in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman, adding that their sailors were morsels for Iran's military to target, the newspaper reported.Any moment the exalted supreme leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei) orders — or should the enemy carry out the smallest threat against (Iran's ruling) Islamic system — the Guard ... is ready for quick reaction, he was quoted as saying.

By putting the number of foreign warships at 100, the general appeared to suggest Iran has 10,000 military vessels at the ready. Iran is known to have many speed boats used by the Guard, but there is no public information about how many larger military vessels it has.In January 2008, five small high-speed vessels believed to be from Iran's Revolutionary Guard briefly swarmed three U.S. Navy ships passing near Iranian waters in the Gulf and delivered a radio threat to blow them up.The war of words has intensified between Iran and the West since the U.N. Security Council imposed tougher sanctions last month in response to Iran's refusal to halt uranium enrichment, a technology that can be used to produce nuclear fuel or material for an atomic bomb.Iran put its most powerful military force, the Revolutionary Guard, in charge of defending the country's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf in 2008.We believe the enemy, through extensive psychological warfare, wants to coerce us, but Iran ... is ready,said Saffari, who was the Guard's navy chief until early May.The enemy won't dare attack Iran.

Abbas says entire world wants direct Mideast talks By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH, Associated Press Writer - Sun Jul 25, 7:04 am ET

RAMALLAH, West Bank – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that despite intense international pressure from the entire world, he is still not willing to start direct negotiations with Israel.Abbas told the Voice of Palestine radio that talks would be doomed without a clear framework.The Palestinians are wary of entering open-ended negotiations with Israel's hardline prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. They want Israel to first accept the principle of a Palestinian state in the lands it captured in the 1967 Mideast War, with some alterations.Netanyahu has endorsed the creation of a Palestinian state but refuses to be pinned down on the details before direct talks begin. Since May, U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell has shuttling between Abbas and Netanyahu to try to narrow the gaps, so far in vain.Abbas aides said he has received phone calls in recent days from the leaders of Germany, Britain and Italy, among others, urging him to go to direct talks.The entire world is asking us to go for direct negotiations, but going to negotiations without a clear reference might make them collapse from the first moment,Abbas told the radio from Uganda, where he was visiting.We are not against meetings, whether in Ramallah or Tel Aviv, Abbas added.The issue is to set the ... reference for negotiations. After that, we are ready to go anywhere.

Direct talks between Abbas and Netanyahu's predecessor, Ehud Olmert, broke down in late 2008. Abbas wants talks to pick up where they left off. Netanyahu has refused to do so.On Thursday, Arab League foreign ministers are to meet in Cairo to decide whether to back the move to direct negotiations.Abbas aide Saeb Erekat said the Palestinians would ask the Arab world to recommend continuing with indirect talks until they are slated to end Sept. 8, at which point the Palestinians will decide how to proceed. However, President Barack Obama is pushing for direct talks to start as quickly as possible, and it's unclear how much longer Abbas can withstand the mounting pressure.In other developments Sunday, a prominent Muslim cleric in Israel began serving a jail term for spitting at a police officer and leading a demonstration near Jerusalem's Old City in 2007. He is slated to serve five months after an Israeli court shortened his original nine-month sentence.At the time, Raed Salah was protesting Israeli renovation work near the compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and Muslims as the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Salah heads a small, hardline Muslim group whose members come from Israel's one-fifth Arab minority. He has had repeated run-ins with Israeli authorities.In 2003 Salah was jailed for two years on charges that his organization funneled money to the Palestinian militant group Hamas, responsible for dozens of suicide bombings targeting Israelis.

Israeli warplanes strike Gaza tunnels
JULY 25,10

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – Israeli planes fired missiles at two smuggling tunnels near the Gaza Strip border with Egypt early Monday, causing damage but no casualties, officials from the Hamas-run security forces said.The Israeli army had no immediate comment. Israel has frequently targeted the tunnels in retaliation for rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave.The impoverished territory of 1.5 million people has largely relied on the vast network of tunnels on the border since Israel and Egypt sealed Gaza off to all but vital aid in 2006 after militants captured an Israeli soldier.The Israeli blockade was tightened after the Islamist movement Hamas seized power in June 2007.Most of the tunnels are used to bring in basic goods like food, household appliances and livestock but Hamas and other militant groups reportedly use their own tunnels to bring in arms and money.

Gaza-based militants fired four rockets into southern Israel over the weekend, a military spokesman said on Sunday.In December 2008, Israel launched a devastating assault on Gaza in a bid to halt near daily rocket fire from the besieged Palestinian territory.Some 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed in the 22-day war.After a year of quiet following the assault, Gaza militants have recently stepped up the cross-border rocket fire.

EU to hammer Iran with oil sanctions by Laurent Thomet – Sun Jul 25, 3:23 pm ET

BRUSSELS (AFP) – The European Union will hit Iran with tough sanctions against its vital oil and gas industry on Monday in a bid to lure Tehran back to the negotiating table over its disputed nuclear programme.This (package of sanctions) is about applying pressure, but applying pressure in order to bring the Iranians to the table to talk, a European diplomat said.EU foreign ministers will formally approve the sanctions following Iran's repeated refusals to halt sensitive nuclear activities, which the West fears are aimed at building a bomb.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned the EU against imposing unilateral sanctions, in remarks directed at the EU, which were translated into English by the Press TV channel.We do not welcome any tension or a new resolution. We seek logic and friendship, Ahmadinejad said.I should tell you that anyone who adopts a measure against the Iranian nation, such as inspection of our ships and planes, should know that Iran will react swiftly, he added.Although the UN Security Council imposed a fourth set of sanctions on Tehran in early June, EU leaders and the United States decided shortly after to impose their own penalties against the Iranian energy sector.The sanctions are part of a twin-track approach, with EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton seeking to revive moribund talks between Iran and six world powers -- Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States.Western powers have demanded that Iran suspend its uranium enrichment programme, fearing that Tehran would use the material to build a nuclear bomb. Tehran says its atomic programme is a peaceful drive to produce energy.The new EU sanctions include a ban on the sale of equipment, technology and services to Iran's energy sector, hitting activities in refining, liquefied natural gas, exploration and production, diplomats said.The EU will ban dual-use goods that can be used for conventional weapons. It will also step up vigilance of the activities of Iranian-connected banks operating in the EU and bar them from setting up branches.

A number of (EU) member states have had to overcome considerable problems with their economic interests in order to adopt this package,the European diplomat said.It will be in some way the most substantive and far-reaching autonomous sanctions package which the EU has adopted against Iran or any other country,he added.Iran is the world's fourth largest producer of crude oil, but imports 40 percent of its fuel needs because it lacks enough refining capabilities to meet demand.The unilateral US and EU sanctions were expected to have a material impact on the country's energy industry,the International Energy Agency said last week.It was significant that China and Russia had agreed to back the UN sanctions, but that those did not include specific measures aimed at Iran's energy sector, the IAEA noted.The US and EU sanctions were harder, and longer term, development of the country's oil and gas industry will clearly be adversely impacted, the IEA said.These sanctions are surprisingly strong, said Mark Fitzpatrick, director of the nonproliferation programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. They go much further than the UN sanctions.As tough as they were however, they could persuade Iran back to talks, he added. In the past, Iran has always moved once it was under pressure of the international community.The last high-level talks between Iran and the six world powers were held in Geneva in October 2009 when the two sides agreed a nuclear fuel swap that has since stalled.

EU foreign ministers meeting Monday will urge Iran to set a date for new talks, according to draft conclusions. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, during a visit to Istanbul Sunday, said Iran was ready to start talks immediately with Western powers over a nuclear fuel swap deal, brokered by Turkey and Brazil in May.
Under the deal, Iran agreed to send 1,200 kilogrammes of its low-enriched uranium (LEU) to Turkey to be supplied at a later date with high-enriched uranium by Russia and France.But this deal has already been dismissed by world powers, who backed the renewed UN sanctions in June.

TORAH PORTION FROM JULY 25 - 31,2010

SINCE WHAT ISRAEL READS WILL BE FULFILLED IN THAT WEEK I WILL BE PUTTING THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTION ON FOR ALL OF US TO KEEP TRACK OF ISRAEL HAPPENINGS.

TORAH PORTION FROM JULY 25 2010 6PM - JULY 31 6PM 2010

DEUTERONOMY 7:12 - 11:25
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
22 And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

DEUTERONOMY 8:1-20
1 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.

DEUTERONOMY 9:1-29
1 Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.
20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.

DEUTERONOMY 10:1-22
1 At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
3 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.
4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
6 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.
7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.
10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

DEUTERONOMY 11:1-25
1 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
2 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;
4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;
6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;
9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
17 And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.

PROPHETS PORTION

ISAIAH 49:14-51:3
14 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.
19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
22 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
25 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

ISAIAH 50:1-11
1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
7 For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
8 He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

ISAIAH 51:1-3
1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

NEW TESTAMENT PORTION

MATTHEW 4:1-11
1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

LUKE 4:1-13
1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:
10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:
11 And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
13 And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.

JAMES 5:7-11
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

WASHINGTON LAW SUIT AGAINST GOVERNOR

NOTICE THE LINKS ARE ON THE BOTTOM THAT MEANS THEIR NOT IMPRESSED WITH REVEALING A TRUTH IN MY STORIES ON THIS DAY.ITS EITHER THE WASHINGTON STORY OR THE MOSQUE STORY I KNOW FOR SURE.BECAUSE WHEN I WAS DOING THOSE STORIES THEY DOWNLOADED WHATEVER TO MY COMPUTER TO PUT THE LINKS ON THE BOTTOM.LIKE USUAL WHEN I PUT CONTROVERCIAL BUT TRUE STORIES ON MY SITE.SPREAD THESE 2 STORIES OVER ALL THE NET.GET THE TRUTH OUT.

Hillary Clinton ADMITS that the US and Pakistan created the Mujahaddin (aka Al CIA DUH) dailypaul.com July 23, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Cc3LfhQ-o&feature=player_embedded

I happened to be flipping through the channels last night, when I stumbled onto this interview.I chose to watch, as I was curious as to what the justification for the recent decision to give Pakistan billions of dollars, was going to be.Needless to say, my jaw dropped when Hillary admitted with a straight face, that the US and Pakistan created the supposed enemies we now face.This is obviously something that most of us knew, but to watch them admit it, and use it as a reason to stay there and or expand, is beyond insanity.The hits just keep on comin’Note: She admits it @ 3minutes, but the whole interview is quite telling, if you can stomach it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Cc3LfhQ-o&feature=player_embedded

WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnq5cQMiAB8&feature=related
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links
DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.

EPHESIANS 6:10-13
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,(DEMONIC ANGELS IN HIGH PLACES) against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.(SPIRTIUAL DEMONIC PERSONS)
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

LUKE 4:5-7(BECAUSE SATAN OFFERS WORLD POWER, WORLD ORDERERS HAVE ACCEPTED SATANS GIFT)
5 And the devil, taking him (JESUS) up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he 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.

DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
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.

REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

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

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

BABYLON (FALSE CHURCH DESTROYED) VATICAN IN ROME

REVELATION 17:1-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS

JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME

PSALMS 14:1
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.

JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?

PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).

WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

WASHINGTON STATE WAS LEGISLATING A CLIMATE BILL FROM HER OFFICE THROUGH DICTATORIAL CONTROL SO PEOPLE ARE CHARGING A LAW SUIT AGAINST THE GOVERNOR.HOUR 1 OF DOUG HAGMANN FILLING IN FOR LAURIE ROTH ON HOLIDAYS THIS DAY.JEROME CORSI ON WORLD GOVERNMENT AND NEWS HOUR 2 AND HOUR 3 NEWS EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE.

AND ANOTHER IMPORTANT 2 STORIES DOUG HAGMANN REVEALED IN HOUR 3.1-A PLO FLAG WILL WILL BE FLOWN IN WASHINGTON.

CORDOBA INTIATIVE
http://www.cordobainitiative.org/who_we_are.html
SITE
http://www.cordobainitiative.org/
CHRISTIAN SUPPORT OF CORDOBA
http://cordobainitiative.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/supporting-article-in-sojourners/
JEWISH SUPPORT OF CORDOBA
http://cordobainitiative.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/op-ed-in-support-of-cordoba-house-in-washington-post/
WALID SHOEBAT ON NAME CHANGE TO PARK 51 FROM CORDOBA HOUSE
http://shoebat.com/videos/walidCBN.php

AND THE TRUTH BEHIND THE NEW YORK CITY MOSQUE.THE GLOBALISTS FROM THE CORDOBA INITIATIVE STRATEGY-JOHN BENNETT,BILL CLINTON,MADELINE ALBRIGHT,DALI-LAMA,CONN,GEORGE SOROS,WHO ARE ALL MEMBER OF THIS GROUP ARE BEHIND THE BUILDING OF THIS MOSQUE-INTERFAITH CENTER.GLOBALISTS ARE BEHIND THE NY MOSQUE BUILDING AS WELL AS SAUDI-ARABIA AND QUATAR GIVING 4.8 MILLION TO BUILD IT.THIS MOSQUE IS A COVERUP FOR A GLOBAL INTERFAITH CENTER MANAGED BY THE UNITED NATIONS.THIS WILL BE THE HEADQUARTERS FOR THE ONE WORLD RELIGION IN THE FUTURE FOR A WHILE ANYWAY.OVIOUSLY THE VATICAN WILL BE PLAYING A BIG ROLE IN THIS MOSQUE-INTERFAITH CENTER BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS THE WORLD RELIGION WILL BE COMING FROM THE VATICAN IN ROME.THE WORLD RELIGION WILL MOVE FROM THIS MOSQUE BUILDING TO THE VATICAN AT SOMETIME.AND SINCE THE BIBLE SAYS BEHEADINGS WILL BE COMMON PLACE DOUG IS RIGHT ON THE CONNECTION TO ISLAM AND THE VATICAN AND THE WORLD RELIGION IS RIGHT HERE.THIS MAKES PERFECT SENSE BY WHAT BIBLE PROPHECY SAYS ABOUT THE ONE WORLD RELIGION THE VATICAN LEADING IT AND ISLAM INVOLVED AS BEHEADING OF CHRISTIANS WILL BE HAPPENING IN THIS WORLD RELIGION SOCIETY.

LIKE DOUG SAID ON THE SHOW EVERY ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THE STINK OF THE MOSQUE SO CLOSE TO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER SITE BUT ARE NOT TALKING BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE TRUTH THAT THIS WILL BE AN INTER-FAITH(ONE WORLD RELIGION)CENTER MANAGED BY THE UNITED NATIONS.WAKE UP WORLD-CHRISTIANS.

Ground Zero monument to jihad
Posted By EZRA LAVANT JULY 27,10

I 've got this great idea: Let's open a shooting range next to the L'Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. What, too soon after the Montreal Massacre? Well how about a museum, overlooking Pearl Harbor, dedicated to the military accomplishments of Japanese Emperor Hirohito? Too tasteless? OK. How about a 13-story, $100-million mosque at Ground Zero in New York City, on the rubble of a building that was damaged on 9/11?

And let's have it run by a Muslim radical who believes America had it coming. And let's give the mosque a jihadist name: Cordoba House, named after the capital of the Muslim conquest of Spain centuries ago. And let's make it a headquarters for Dawah, the Arabic word for promoting sharia law. Alas, this is no joke. And the mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, couldn't be happier.Then again, Bloomberg has trouble separating wishful liberal thinking from reality.When a car bomb was discovered in Times Square this spring, Bloomberg announced his suspicions on national TV: Somebody with a political agenda, that doesn't like the health-care bill or something.Actually, it was a Pakistani-trained terrorist named Faisal Shahzad. The driving force of the mosque is a radical imam named Feisal Abdul Rauf. Just weeks after 9/11 he told 60 Minutesthat America had it coming -- U.S. policies were to blame, and Americans were an accessory to the crime.That's like telling a rape victim it's her fault for wearing a skirt. Rauf helped organize the recent terrorist flotilla that set sail for Gaza.He also refuses to acknowledge that Hamas is a terrorist organization.But he has no trouble condemning Christians in World War II for bombing civilians in Hiroshima. Rauf won't even admit that Islamic terrorists were responsible for 9/11 itself. He told a New York radio station that's just the general perception.Rauf has been working on his plans for Ground Zero for a while. He published a book calledA Call to Prayer from the World Trade Center Rubble: Islamic Da'wah in the Heart of America Post-9/11.It's about expropriating the symbol of the crumbling U.S. -- that can't even build a memorial to 9/11 after nine years, let alone rebuild the towers -- and contrasting it with a gleaming new tower of Saudi-style propaganda.But even America-hating radicals have the right to build mosques in America, even at Ground Zero. That's what makes America different from Saudi Arabia, where non-Muslims aren't allowed to set foot in Mecca, let alone build a church.

But does the Saudi government have the right to build at Ground Zero? According to theWashington Times,the Cordoba Initiative has assets of just $20,000 and total revenues since 2004 have been $100,000.How do you get from there to $100 million? Rauf won't say, but hints at outside funding.Saudi Arabia has a religious foreign ministry, called the Muslim World League. It gave $7 million to build Toronto's Islamic Centre, and more to mosques in Calgary and Montreal. Are they the source?

There are 100 mosques in New York City. But the Ground Zero mosque isn't really a mosque. It's a jihadist headquarters. And if the secret $100 million is from Saudi Arabia, it's not even a mosque at all -- it's a clandestine embassy for the country from which 15 out of 19 9/11 terrorists came. ezra.levant@sunmedia.ca
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MUSLIM LEADER OF TOMORROW
http://www.asmasociety.org/mlt2006/contact.html

John S. Bennett – Co-founder and Executive Director of the Cordoba Initiative. He was previously founding Executive Director of the Garrison Institute, whose mission is to apply the wisdom of the world’s great contemplative traditions to issues of civil society. He also serves as vice chair of the board of trustees of Naropa University, America’s premiere institution of contemplative education.

In 2001, Bennett retired from his position as vice president of the Aspen Institute. While in that position, he helped rebuild the relationship between the Institute and the Aspen community and greatly increased the Institute’s activities and programs in its Aspen home. In doing so, Bennett pioneered new ways to bring the Institute’s tradition of enlightened civil dialogue to bear on significant issues facing individual lives.He brought to Aspen a variety of new community programs, including seminars on Shakespeare, wilderness, the crosscurrents between music and philosophy, and an acclaimed education program, the High School Great Ideas Seminar: The Good Life and the Good Society; and most of these remain active and successful today. He also conceived the idea and acted as the organizing point person for the Aspen Institute’s 50th Anniversary Symposium, an event which convened a diverse group of Nobel prize winners, heads of state, and other world leaders from the fields of business, religion, art and academia to explore globalization and its effects on humanity.

In 1999, Bennett completed his fourth term as Mayor of Aspen, Colorado. During his four terms in office, he focused on critical issues of building & preserving community – the challenge of maintaining the character, values & livability of a small city under enormous economic pressure to grow and change.

Bennett, a graduate of Andover and Yale University, worked to control suburban sprawl, build affordable housing, preserve the environment, support the arts & humanities, and create an innovative transportation system offering alternatives to the single occupant automobile. Collectively, all of his efforts were aimed at improving the quality of life of Aspen valley residents. As mayor, Bennett presided over a $40 million budget, which produced a surplus each year he was in office. Aspen Magazine wrote of Mayor Bennett, He has brought civility to city government and championed long-term regional planning, gathering the valley’s mayors for the first time… His mark lies heavily upon Aspen, and his vision will guide her into the next century.

I JUST SEEN A SHOW ON CNBC AND THERE WAS A MAN CALLED JOHN BENNETT WHO SCAMMED NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.I WONDER IF THIS IS THE SAME BENNETT INVOLVED N THIS MOSQUE.HE GOT 12 YEARS FOR A PONZI SCHEME IN 1995 OR 96 IF IT IS THE SAME BENNETT.IT WOULD MAKE SENSE HIM BEING INVOLVED IN A INTER-FAITH CENTER.ITS JULY 24,12:30PM.IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THIS IS THE SAME JOHN BENNETT.IT ISN'T HIM.

Gullible individuals are not the only victims of Ponzi schemes. In the early 1990s, John G. Bennett, Jr., and his Foundation for New Era Philanthropy lured many U.S. universities and nonprofit groups into investing millions of dollars in the foundation. Bennett promised these organizations that they would double their money in six months with the help of anonymous philanthropists. In May 1995 Prudential Securities, Inc., where most of the funds were deposited, discovered that New Era was under federal investigation and froze its accounts.

The action triggered New Era's bankruptcy. Bennett was later charged with eighty-two counts of fraud, MONEY LAUNDERING, and income TAX EVASION. As with the original Ponzi scheme, defrauded investors agreed to be reimbursed for up to 65 percent of their losses, with the money coming from groups that had deposited money with New Era early in the scheme and made a profit.

Internationally, the nation of Albania was plunged into civil unrest in 1997 when a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme collapsed. Many Albanians had invested large amounts of their savings in the scheme, which allegedly had the backing of Albanian government officials. Faced with economic ruin, citizens rioted against the government.

World Faith Board Member’s Op-Ed in Washington Post 9 June , 2010
Filed under: News,Press — frankiefreds @ 11:09 am

World Faith Board Member Joshua Stanton, founder of the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue, recently co-published an Op-Ed with Zeeshan Suhail from the Muslim Consultative Network in the Washington Post. Please read! A Symbol of Progress in Lower Manhattan.(DOUG IS RIGHT ON WITH THIS)

DOUG HAGMANN CLIMATE CHANGE SCAM-LAWSUIT HR 1
JEROME CORSI HOUR 2 BOTH FRI JULY 23,2010 + HR 3 NEWS
http://therothshow.com/show-archives/july-2010/
EFFWA.ORG
http://www.effwa.org/main/page.php
DOUG HAGMANN
http://douglashagmann.com/
http://homelandsecurityus.com/
AMERICAS WALL IS FALLING KEGAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovlrsFmrGiI&feature=player_embedded
EXECUTIVE ORDER 09-05
http://www.effwa.org/files/pdf/eo_09-05.pdf
COMPLAINT
http://www.effwa.org//files/pdf/complaint_10-2-01613-6.pdf

CASE BACKROUND

Six taxpayers represented by the Evergreen Freedom Foundation have sued Gov. Chris Gregoire and several state agencies to invalidate an executive order addressing climate change issued by the governor. During the 2009 legislative session, the Washington Legislature considered a bill from Gov. Gregoire that addressed climate change issues. Despite vocal support from the governor, SB 5735 did not pass out of the legislature.Rather than waiting for a new legislative session, on May 21, 2009, Gov. Gregoire issued Executive Order 09-05, entitled Washington’s Leadership on Climate Change,ordering the Departments of Ecology and Transportation to take action to reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions and increase transportation and fuel-conservation options. The governor and her staff on several occasions confirmed the executive order was intended to replace her failed legislation.

We believe Gov. Gregoire exceeded her constitutional authority by issuing this order. A governor cannot violate the doctrine of separation of powers by snatching a failed bill out of the legislative process and issuing it in the form of an executive order. Thus, this case is about restraining an abuse of power and ensuring that the governor can’t usurp the proper role of the legislature. The individual taxpayers suing the governor are Matt Erickson of Wenatchee, Dr. Sterling A. Hill of Kent, Cindy Marshall of Otis Orchards, Pat and Sandy Tarzwell of Shelton, and Jim Wolfe of Pasco.Erickson, et al. v. Gregoire, et al.The complaint was filed in
Thurston County Superior Court on July 21, 2010. Executive Order 09-05

http://www.wasupremecourtblog.com/
AmSpecBlog Washington State's Climate Exec Order Challenged
By Paul Chesser on 7.21.10 @ 2:05PM
http://spectator.org/blog/2010/07/21/washington-states-endangerment (VIDEO)

Today the Evergreen Freedom Foundation's Constitutional Law Center announced they would, on behalf of Washington State taxpayers, sue Democrat Gov. Christine Gregoire because last year she issued an executive order implementing climate change measures that the Democrat-run state legislature had rejected. We believe Gov. Gregoire’s climate change executive order is an unconstitutional order, said Michael Reitz, director of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation’s Constitutional Law Center, who represents the taxpayers in this case. Gov. Gregoire violated the doctrine of separation of powers by snatching a failed bill out of the legislative process and issuing it in the form of an executive order. If the governor wants to pass laws, she’s in the wrong branch of government.Indeed, Gregoire is such an Unconstitutionalist (as a former attorney general, she should know better) that she admitted openly last year she wanted to circumvent Washingtonians' elected representatives, telling the Los Angeles Times, I wanted cap-and-trade. I didn't get it.

Used to using threats to get what she wants, she instead used the hissy fit measure at her disposal and forced the state Department of Ecology to redirect hundreds of thousands -- if not millions -- of dollars from budget-authorized air quality programs to her global warming agenda. Among her directives were to join the wasteful Western Climate Initiative, force private business to report their emissions, and develop a low-carbon fuel standard. Kind of like her own, self-created EPA endangerment finding.She's about as far out in left field as she can get, as the Washington Policy Center environmental director Todd Myers explained. Her party controls both chambers, ... and they still wouldn’t pass it, he said. When you’re pushing policy over the wishes of people in your own party, I think that’s very dangerous.Even more so when you consider her approval ratings, although this is not an election year for her.

2010 PRESS RELEASES July 21, 2010 Taxpayers Sue Gov. Gregoire to Invalidate Climate Change Executive Order.
http://www.effwa.org/main/article.php?article_id=3194 (VIDEO)

OLYMPIA—Today a group of six taxpayers filed a lawsuit to invalidate an executive order issued by Gov. Chris Gregoire. We believe Gov. Gregoire’s climate change executive order is an unconstitutional order, said Michael Reitz, director of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation’s Constitutional Law Center, who represents the taxpayers in this case. Gov. Gregoire violated the doctrine of separation of powers by snatching a failed bill out of the legislative process and issuing it in the form of an executive order. If the governor wants to pass laws, she’s in the wrong branch of government.During the 2009 legislative session, the Washington State Legislature considered a bill from Gov. Gregoire that addressed climate change issues. Despite vocal support from the governor, SB 5735 did not pass out of the Legislature.

Undeterred, on May 21, 2009, Gov. Gregoire issued Executive Order 09-05, entitled Washington’s Leadership on Climate Change,ordering the Departments of Ecology and Transportation to take action to reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions and increase transportation and fuel-conservation options. In a press release the governor claimed the executive order would produce environmental and economic benefits: It will protect our natural resources, while creating thousands of green-collar jobs and strengthening our state’s competitiveness in the global race for a clean energy economy.Gov. Gregoire stressed that Executive Order 09-05 was intended to replace her failed legislation. At her press conference, Gregoire said, What we’ve done in the executive order is everything that was in that final bill—plus. Plus. There’s more in the executive order than what was in the final bill that did not pass the Legislature.The Evergreen Freedom Foundation and its clients argue Gov. Gregoire lacks authority to take the actions described in the order. Governors are free to issue executive orders, but the order is enforceable only if the governor is expressly empowered by the constitution or by statute,Reitz said.For example, state law permits the governor to declare a state of emergency after a natural disaster. All other executive orders are mere policy statements or voluntary directives to state agencies and are considered unenforceable.Reitz continued: We have democratic process for a reason. The people of this state expect their lawmakers and elected officials to follow the law just like anyone else. The governor shouldn’t bypass the Legislature, regardless of her objectives.The individual taxpayers suing the governor are Dr. Sterling A. Hill of Kent, Pat and Sandy Tarzwell of Shelton, Cindy Marshall of Otis Orchards, Matt Erickson of Wenatchee and Jim Wolfe of Pasco.The complaint was filed in Thurston County Superior Court.

ClimateGate Plus EIGHT CANADA FREE PRESS
By Joseph A Olson, PE Thursday, July 22, 2010

Yes, it’s hard to believe that is been over eight months….and at least five whitewashes….and a dozen, IPCC admitted non-peer reviewed research retractions….and finally expert Dr Roy Spencer is going to stick his toe into the tepid water of denial. Here’s what this brave climate scientist had to say:Adding more [CO2] should cause warming, with the magnitude of that warming being the real question. But I’m open to the possibility that a major error has been has been made on this fundamental point.

Scientific Fraud, IPCC Fraud, Main Stream Media
Yeah, like violation of Laws of Thermodynamics, ignoring numerous past cycles of heating AND cooling that were independent of carbon dioxide and that there has been a decade of cooling in spite of a continuous increase of carbon dioxide. For just those reasons you should be beyond open to possibility of error….you should be shouting THIS IS SCIENTIFIC FRAUD. You should be behaving like the rest of the informed and ethical scientists on this planet.Dr Roy Spencer has a PhD in Meteorology, is past Senior Climate Study Director at Marshall Space Flight Center and——at University of Alabama since 2001. He is author of Climate Confusion and The Great Global Warming Blunder. Somebody buy this guy a clue. The ethical scientists of Earth have no confusion about this blunder. It has been a top down directed, intentional taxpayer rip-off from the get-go.But, here we are eight months, five whitewashes and a dozen IPCC frauds later and where is the MAIN STREAM MEDIA ? ? ? They are in the same place I wrote about the first week of December, 2009. Remember “hide the decline”? Well the MSM is ‘hiding’ the truth and ‘declining’ to provide debate. Here’s a flashback for the MSM, of my gauntlet toss back then:

High Noon on Main Street
Here we are, more than two weeks into the worst scandal in the history of science and not a peep from our omnipotent protectors of freedom, the stonewalling, Main Stream Media. These great proponents of the ‘fairness doctrine’ seem very selective in their self imposed enforcement. What is becoming apparent is the blatant hypocrisy that defines this information backwater. The longer they linger, the lamer they look.

Soon the camera will be turned and all will see the MSM for the putty faced, over coiffed, thesaurus tortured teleprompter text reading sock puppets that they are. Their duplicity in this dreadful fraud will be regarded as despicable as long as there is one free human on the planet. Two decades of relentless global warming propaganda has come to its end. There are plenty of highly qualified spokesmen for the rational explanations of ‘climate change’ waiting to explain reality. We have had enough.

Its high noon….We’re standing on Main Street….We’re callin’ you out….

Media silence is the scandal within a scandal brought to you by the scoundrels who promoted the scoundrels. This will not stand in the new post-Hadley world. Science is now free and FREEDOM is highly contagious.

Veritas Vos Liberabit ! ! !
Yes, here we are eight months into the post-Hadley world and almost the entire cast of Clima-Clownologists have remained silent, or continued to advocate for this greatest fraud in the history of the world. The MSM has refused review or debate. The Senate is pushing Kerry-Leiberman, in a dead heat race with the EPA, to see who can place humanity into carbon tax shackles and chains the fastest. If YOU have had enough, please call your Senator today.


BBC Censors News of Fund Cut to Discredited Climategate University
By John O'Sullivan Friday, July 23, 2010 CANADA FREE PRESS

BBC kills story that British Climategate scientists had American funding dramatically cut. Corporation’s £8 billion green pension fund cited asnkey to news bias.The story relates to recent developments from the US Department of Energy (DoE) which has not yet decided whether to reinstate the long-standing funding after the so-called Climategate scandal centered at the discredited British Climatic Research Unit (CRU) the institution at the heart of the Climategate scandal, housed at the University of East Anglia (UEA). The story has been reported by popular climate blog, WattsUpWithThat.BBC Mired in More Accusations of Broadcasting Bias
Rather than run the revelations on its national news network, the BBC instead chose to subsume the story within its regional website content directed for the county of Essex (hat tip: Barry Wood).The UEA confirmed the DoE has held off funding despite the unit being cleared. The University of East Anglia is in a region of the country unconnected to home counties, Essex. Disgraced CRU professor narrowly avoided criminal prosecution. Key culprit,Phil Jones was also allowed by one of the inquiries to help pick the evidence it reviewed.

By contrast the BBC ran prominent national news broadcasts covering the three British official inquiries that cleared UEA staff of any wrongdoing. Climate scientists at UEA have research grants of $200,000 (£131,000) suspended by the US government in a row over e-mails leaked onto the Internet in November 2009. The total U.S. funding of UK climate research is believed to run into many millions.The contents of the e-mails raised grave questions about data fraud by researchers collating global temperatures. Some analysts are adamant the e-mails prove that records showing temperature rises at the end of the 20th century were fudged to suggest potentially catastrophic man-made global warming.

Knock-on Effect Snares International Green Energy Targets
International governments working via the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had hoped to use CRU data as justification to push through global green energy taxes at last December’s Copenhagen Climate summit. The summit failed in its targets in no small part due to the adverse publicity from the scandal.The UK’s conservative Sunday Times first ran the U.S. story for its British subscribers last weekend behind an online paywall under the heading, ‘Climate study funding at Norfolk university suspended,’Left-leaning British press have ostensibly downplayed the matter.

BBC Pension Fund Linked to UN Green Investments
Essex is a much-maligned home counties urban sprawl adjacent to London once summed up by a television satirical show, Spitting Image as a boil on the bum of the nation and where page 3 girls buy their mum a bungalow -an unkind take on British popular culture.Skeptics say the BBC purposely skews its agenda to favor environmentalism while censoring contrary viewpoints on climate change. Britain’s national broadcaster invests its entire ¬£8.2bn corporation pension fund in schemes linked with other international investments funds closely linked to the United Nation’s green investments scheme. The total assets of this consortium is around €4 trillion (Euros), that in turn are invested in a larger consortium known as ‘UNEP FI’ worth about $15 trillion (US).Despite accusations of bias and for poor value for money, the BBC levies a compulsory license fee on every UK household that has a television. Subscriptions are on average UK £145.50 (US $225) per year.

Hell has many rooms with the Obama administration…so little time By Laurie Roth JULY 22,10

The Obama regime is not only constitutional and political hell for America and the Democrat party, it is a sick combo of the movie’s Ground Hog Day, where chaos and misused power point and click again and again and Hitchcock’s classic, The Birds where we wait in horror for the next round of flesh eating Birds to destroy all in site.We saw this week the President sign another 2300 page, draconian, Bill, this time hiding behind the terms Financial Reform.The sound bites to this horror show Bill are all about Obama reigning in Banks, derivatives, controlling from on high, business assets and procedures. After all, he just wants to protect us doesn’t he? The signing of this huge bill just flew past most media with a passing mention. I knew it was way more and once again a betrayal of America.I interviewed on air the day of the signing, Eric Singer, Manager of the fund Advisor Congressional Effect Management. He manages investment money and does it very well, unlike much of Wall Street these days. I asked Singer what he thought of this Bill? Like myself he thought it was dangerous and a complete sham. One major problem that he pointed out on my show with this reform bill is it doesn’t reform. It just asserts more Government control and regulation! If Obama and this congress really wanted to reform anything in the financial world, why did they completely ignore Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae? They do 80% of the mortgages and were directly responsible for most the problems in the mortgage industry, yet, magically they are completely unaffected by this Bill. Makes ya wonder doesn’t it? Who paid off who?

Singer also pointed out that this Bill talks about helping 1 Billion in Mortgages, which sounds to the basic American great except that is really like focusing on a hang nail when your whole body is in flames. There are 8 trillion in known Mortgages. Gee, lets see now, Obama will help 1 billion but I guess hopes no one knows there are 8 trillion in Mortgages. Naturally, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae who give 80% of these loans would completely avoid anymore regulation and accountability. It is so much better apparently to control and shred small and medium banks and corporations even more. This Horror show is hitting us from all sides now. We are starting to feel the forced Obama care bill and see the growing sea of law suits from Attorney Generals about this. I broke on my show just this week the sneaky push by congress to combine and munch together the amnesty issue for illegal aliens and Gay marriage. This is to gain total support from Hispanics and the Gay community in votes. Obama and congress would also shred states rights and sovereignty, trumping their laws on gay marriage already on the books, reflecting the will and vote of the people. This Bill has not been talked about but I have a reliable source who says it is happening behind closed doors. Watch for this soon.

Along with the Health Care nightmare, Financial reform misrepresentation Bill and Security blunders, we have another nightmare on the horizon. Obama must be thrilled out of his smoke invested mind that Bush’s broad based tax cuts are coming to an end Dec 31st this year.We are already moving at a Tsunami pace with tax increases, revealing many of the lies of this President, that he wouldn’t raise taxes. It will be pretty in January with the Death tax coming back for starters. This will be at a rate of 55% for estates $1 million or more.There is more tax hell. The lowest tax bracket will go up 50%. The next lowest bracket will go from 25 – 28%. The highest bracket of 33% goes to 39.5%.We will also experience the glowing and romantic marriage penalty again. There are dozens of unfair and ridiculous taxes that Obama will let return. I have just mentioned a few.Hopefully it isn’t a mystery anymore to any race, persuasion, or background. Obama wants and plans to transform this country into a cradle to grave, European style, socialist/communist regime that he and his cronies control. In order to do this, as Hitler did, he must control business, opportunities, schools, health, media and the military. He is moving boldly forward in all these areas. WE MUST AND WE WILL STOP HIM AND THIS CONGRESS FROM SHREDDING OUR CONSTITUTION, LAWS AND FREEDOMS.

Obama counts and plans on the created chaos so he can assert more emergency and Government controls. Continue focusing on getting behind REAL conservatives in the races all across the country. With the help of Tea Party minded Americans, we will score big in the Mid Terms, then clean house at year 4. The question is, will the Democrats who are letting this happen to their party ever recover?

U.S. Cyber Command protects America from a massive Internet attack
By Online Friday, July 23, 2010 - Dave Pearson CANADA FREE PRESS

In July 2009, thousands of zombie computers awoke at once and launched a massive attack against multiple U.S. targets, including the network-heart of the U.S. Department of Defense. The goal of the attack was to overwhelm the target networks with excess internet traffic, thus forcing a total shut down. Several sites did cease to work.The attack raced through the Internet, hitting the National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, the White House, the New York Stock Exchange, the Treasury Department, the Federal Trade commission, the Secret Service, and the Department of Transportation. Although some reports indicated North Korea was the source of the cyberattack, this remains unsubstantiated. Each hour, the Pentagon’s computer networks are probed over a quarter million times by unauthorized users. In fact, if a deep weakness was found, the ensuing digital battle could be lost within seconds.To protect the Pentagon and the Defense Department’s seven million computers and 15,000 networks worldwide, the U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) was established and became operational, May 21, 2010. But USCYBERCOM – the sub-unified command (composed of cyber defense elements from the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps) subordinate to the U.S. Strategic Command (the successor to the U.S. Air Force’s Strategic Air Command) – will not be fully operational until October.

The stereotypical geeky, teenage hacker, such as the one depicted in the 1983 cyber-thriller War Games is not the enemy feared by the U.S. military today. The threat is instead posed by digital gangs, criminals for hire, terrorists, and nation-states which have formed highly-efficient cyber-attack units. The attacker’s identity is often disguised. The physical source of the attacker is more than likely a zombie computer covertly seized months before the attack, unbeknownst to the owner of the targeted computer. These secretly hijacked computers or zombies can number in the hundreds of thousands forming a network commonly referred to as a botnet. These stealth botnet attacks against U.S. systems originate from all over the world, including Russia, China, North Korea, and even inside the U.S.Moreover, the resources needed to initiate a devastating attack on the U.S. information infrastructure are no longer out of reach of terrorists. Cyberspace is the ideal realm for cyberterrorism, including terrorist networks and organizations like Al Qaeda and Hezbollah. And the Internet is the ideal tool by which to attack the U.S. on a massive scale, both militarily, as well as the entire U.S. civilian infrastructure, including the U.S. financial centers, electrical grid, telecommunications, air traffic control, and multi-national corporations.

USCYBERCOM is a 1,000–plus organization headquartered at Fort Meade, Maryland. In May, U.S. Army Gen. Keith Alexander – who also directs the NSA – became the first commander of USCYBERCOM.The U.S. is not alone in the establishment of a new a cyber-warfare capability. This past year, the UK established a Cyber Security Operations Centre, while North and South Korea already have cyber warfare units. Reflecting its unique role, USCYBERCOM’s emblem has an embedded secret code, 9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a.Although not intended to be unbreakable according to a CYBERCOM spokesperson, the code represents the MD5 hash, a popular encryptor, of the organization’s mission statement. In brief, USCYBERCOM mission is to protect DoD networks, essentially the dot-mil domain.– Dave Pearson – a practicing E.R. physician in Charlotte, N.C. – is a member of the U.S. Counterterrorism Advisory Team. He is the author of the just-released cyber-thriller STORM. Visit him at www.stormnovel.com.

Financial Reform: What Does It Mean for Little People?
By John Lillpop Friday, July 23, 2010 CANADA FREE PRESS

After congratulating himself for yet another devastating assault on free market capitalism, President Obama, flanked by the likes of Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, declared victory for enactment of the so-called financial reform bill.However, the vital question ignored by the president and his subjects in the mainstream media is: Victory over what, and for whom?

For example:

-Will mortgage giants Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FMAC) be held accountable for their roles in the housing/mortgage crash?
-Will taxpayer bailouts of FNMA and FMAC be halted?
-Will my home regain some of the loss in value inflicted since Obama saved the economy?
-Will foreclosures be cut off before one million home owners are booted out of their castles in 2010?
-Will tax cuts for middle class Americans be delivered as promised by Obama?
-Will personal bankruptcies be replaced with good tidings of prosperity for all?
-Will my meager 401(k) retirement nest egg be protected from the ravages of Wall Street fraud and, even more ominous, Obama fraud?
-Will unemployment drop below 8 percent as Obama promised when he misused one trillion dollars of taxpayer money on his stimulus fiasco?
-Will federal spending and the deficit be curtailed before Washington, D.C. becomes another Athens?
-Will the interest rates on my credit card accounts plummet and become post-usury?
-Will the epidemic of bank failures throughout the land be reversed and cured?
-Will Recovery Summer become more of a reality rather than simply a mindless slogan?
Of course, these questions are strictly rhetorical.Everyone knows that Obama is incapable of providing the leadership needed to solve the thorny issues facing the little people.

CNN Funny Business? CANADA FREE PRESS
By Bob Parks Thursday, July 22, 2010

I just received the following email…FYI – CNN is working on a story that says some African American GOPers saying you and the NAACP video somehow reflects badly on the GOP. I told them I didn’t know what they were talking about it.All of a sudden, the same CNN that reminds us there aren’t many black folk at Tea Parties has miraculously found some African American GOPers? Sounds like typical cable news speak.I could come up with any scenario that some say is happening.I wonder if some of the people at CNN working on this recently conversed with some at JournoList…?

NKorea vows nuclear response to US-SKorea drills By KWANG-TAE KIM, Associated Press Writer - JULY 24,10

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea vowed Saturday to respond with powerful nuclear deterrence to joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises poised to begin this weekend, saying the drills amount to a provocation that would prompt retaliatory sacred war.North Korea routinely threatens war when South Korea and the U.S. hold joint military drills, which Pyongyang sees as a rehearsal for an attack on the communist North. The latest threat comes amid increased tensions on the divided peninsula over the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship that Seoul and Washington blame on Pyongyang.The allies' defense chiefs announced earlier in the week they would stage the drills to send a clear message to North Korea to stop its aggressive behavior. Forty-six South Korean sailors were killed in the March sinking of the Cheonan, considered the worst military attack on the South since the 1950-53 Korean War.North Korea vehemently denies any involvement and says any punishment would trigger war.On Saturday, North Korea's powerful National Defense Commission — headed by leader Kim Jong Il — backed that threat up by promising a retaliatory sacred war against South Korea and the U.S. for what it called a second unpardonable provocation after wrongly accusing the North in the Cheonan incident.The army and people of the (North) will legitimately counter with their powerful nuclear deterrence the largest-ever nuclear war exercises, the commission said in a statement carried by the country's official Korean Central News Agency.

A day earlier in Hanoi, a North Korean spokesman for the delegation attending a regional security conference warned the drills would draw a physical response from Pyongyang.South Korea's Defense Ministry said no unusual North Korean military movements were detected.The nuclear-powered USS George Washington supercarrier is already docked in the southern port of Busan for the military games set to begin Sunday. In addition, the U.S. keeps 28,500 troops in South Korea to deter against aggression, a presence that Pyongyang cites as a key reason behind its drive to build nuclear weapons.The more desperately the U.S. imperialists brandish their nukes and the more zealously their lackeys follow them, the more rapidly the (North's) nuclear deterrence will be bolstered up along the orbit of self-defense and the more remote the prospect for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula will be become, the commission statement said.The U.S.-South Korean military drills are to set to run through Wednesday, with about 8,000 U.S. and South Korean troops on some 20 ships and submarines carrying out exercises in the East Sea.The drills also involve some 200 aircraft, headlined by four U.S. Air Force's F-22 Raptor stealth fighters.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced Wednesday, after visiting the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas, that the U.S. would slap new sanctions on the North to stifle its nuclear ambitions and punish it for the Cheonan sinking.On Friday, the European Union said it, too, would consider new sanctions on North Korea.The North's Foreign Ministry also said Saturday that Pyongyang will further strengthen its nuclear deterrent and again mentioned powerful physical measures in response to the U.S. military provocations and sanctions.North Korea is prepared for both dialogue and war. It will remain unfazed by military threat and sanctions,KCNA quoted an unidentified Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying.

In Hanoi, South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan called Saturday on the international community to take strong measures against North Korea's provocations, Yonhap news agency reported.Clinton and a North Korean official traded barbs Friday over the sinking, the military drills and the imposition of the new U.S. sanctions. North Korean spokesman Ri Tong Il said the tensions showed the need to negotiate a peace treaty to replace the armistice signed at the end of the Korean War. Clinton said the U.S. is willing to meet and negotiate with the North, but this type of threat only heightens tensions. She added progress in the short term seems unlikely. It is distressing when North Korea continues its threats and causes so much anxiety among its neighbors and the larger region, she told reporters. But we will demonstrate once again with our military exercises ... that the United States stands in firm support of the defense of South Korea and we will continue to do so.Associated Press writers Matthew Lee and Jim Gomez in Hanoi, Vietnam, and Jean H. Lee in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.

Iran studies building nuclear fusion reactor By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer - JULY 24,10

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's nuclear agency began studies Saturday to build an experimental nuclear fusion reactor, something that has yet to be achieved by any nation.Iran is not known to have carried out anything but basic fusion research, but it does have a nuclear fission program that the U.S. and its allies believe is a front to build weapons — a charge Tehran denies.Nuclear fusion, the process powering the sun and stars, has so far only been mastered as a weapon, producing the thermonuclear explosions of hydrogen bombs. It has never been harnessed for power generation.Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi, who also heads the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, told a conference on the new research program that his agency has set an initial budget of $8 million to conduct serious research in the area of nuclear fusion.

Asghar Sediqzadeh, the head of the new fusion research center said Iran will take two years to complete these studies and then another decade to design and build a reactor.The scientific phase of the project effectively began today. We have already hired 50 experts for this purpose, he told state TV.The United States, the European Union, China, India, Russia, Japan and South Korea signed an accord in 2006 to build a $12.8 billion experimental fusion reactor at Cadarache, southern France, aimed at revolutionizing global energy use for future generations.The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER, members have said no single country can afford the immense investment needed to move the science forward.Salehi, Iran's nuclear chief, said Iran was willing to join any international grouping to offer its expertise to promote the project. However, he said Iran will go its own way should the world not welcome it.We are ready to enter into cooperation with any international group or country, he told the semiofficial ISNA news agency.Salehi said it would take 20 to 30 years before nuclear fusion energy can be commercialized but that Iran seeks to make use of all the capacity inside Iran to speed up its research.The U.N. Security Council has already passed four sets of sanctions over Iran's nuclear program on suspicions it is being used to produce weapons. Iran denies the accusations, saying its program is geared merely toward generating electricity.

Methane blast at Russian mine kills 1 By David Nowak, Associated Press Writer – JULY 24,10

MOSCOW – A methane explosion at a coal mine in western Siberia early Saturday killed one miner and left two hospitalized with burns, officials said.A sudden buildup of the gas at the Krasnogorskaya mine ignited as 66 miners were at work, and 65 were evacuated, said Valery Korchagin, an Emergencies Ministry spokesman. The extent of the burns injuries was unclear.State television reported the Krasnogorskaya mine is one of the region's oldest, built in the 1940s, but that new safety equipment had recently been installed.In Saturday's blast the methane accumulated so quickly it wasn't picked up by detectors in time, the Rossiya-24 news channel reported.The mine is one of dozens in and around Kemerovo, an industrial city atop one of the world's largest coal basins. Fatal accidents are common there, with workers often ignoring — or forced to ignore — dangerous levels of volatile gases to raise production figures.

In May, two blasts at the Raspadskaya coal mine in a Kemerovo region town killed at least 67 miners. Two dozen more are still listed as missing, presumed dead. A breach of safety rules was blamed.Reports said that more than 1,000 safety violations had been flagged at Raspadskaya, Russia's largest coal mine, since the beginning of 2009. The head of the mine, Igor Volkov, stepped down and faces up to seven years in prison if convicted on charges of violating safety rules with fatal consequences.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in the wake of the disaster that Russia's mining industry suffers on average around 100 deaths a year, but last year the figure spiked to 217. To reverse the trend, he called for higher wages to discourage excessive overtime, more stringent safety checks, and drugs and alcohol to be banned from the mines.

Obama slams GOP plan, GOP warns of tax hikes By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press Writer - JULY 24,10

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says an economic plan by the House Republican leader just repeats job-killing policies of the past and would take the country backward at a time when we need to keep America moving forward.In turn, House GOP leader John Boehner said the president had stooped to partisan attacks because he can't sell his own plan at a time when millions of people want to know what happened to the jobs Obama promised to create.Days after imposing new regulations on the financial industry, Obama said Saturday that the new law is a key pillar of his overall economic plan to reverse the recession that began on Wall Street and build a stronger economy overall.It took nearly a decade of failed economic policies to create this mess, and it will take years to fully repair the damage, Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address. But I am confident that we are finally headed in the right direction. We are moving forward. And what we can't afford right now is to go back to the same ideas that created this mess in the first place.Previewing one of the arguments he'll be making as he campaigns for congressional Democrats heading into the November midterm elections, Obama acknowledged that the economic growth on his watch isn't nearly enough to replace the millions of lost jobs.

But he said essentially that the Republican alternative — repealing the health care law, continuing tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals and rejecting investments in clean energy — would be much worse.They are the same policies that led us into this recession, Obama said.They will not create jobs, they will kill them.Boehner countered that Republicans have better solutions and will stop Democratic tax hikes and spending sprees.The fact is that Washington Democrats' policies have created uncertainty that has undermined our economy, shaken the confidence of the nation and cost millions of American jobs, the Ohio Republican said.Our nation needs leadership, not excuses.In the Republican's weekly address, Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., promised a fight against a tax increase that he said is coming next year.Tax cuts enacted under Republican George W. Bush's presidency are scheduled to expire in January and — partly out of voter concern over the rising federal budget deficit — Democrats are undecided over whether to extend them as Republicans advocate.The American people know we can't tax and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy,Pence said.House Republicans opposed the Democrats' failed stimulus bill, their national energy tax, their government takeover of health care and House Republicans will oppose this tax increase with everything we've got.Online:
Obama address: http://www.whitehouse.gov
GOP address: http://www.youtube.com/republicanconference