Killing Off the Small Farm: Alex Jones Talks with Judith McGeary-no gardens or your charged
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Gold Breaks Psychological Barrier Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com September 23, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyL1EL0MTTU&feature=player_embedded
Gold has continued its astronomical ascent, reaching a new record-breaking high of $1,300 an ounce today. This is the fourth day of record high gold prices.Earlier in the week, the precious metal surged after Federal Reserve boss Bernanke said the banksters will provide extra monetary stimulus to boost the collapsing economy.The Fed announced it will manipulate the money supply — i.e., it will crank up the printing machines, known in polite circles as quantitative easing — in a concerted effort to create inflation. The Fed says it is artifically creating inflation in response an unemployment rate that is beginning to rival that of the Great Depression.Skyrocketing gold prices are happening for a reason, writes James Turk, co-author of The Collapse of the Dollar and publisher of the Free Gold Money Report. The precious metals are sensitive to changes in inflation, both actual as well as future expectations.Investors have moved into gold as an alternative to fiat currencies as the global economy continues its engineered collapse. In the second quarter of 2010, all economic indicators were down and gold demand was up 36%.
As Bob Chapman of the International Forecaster notes, over the last 18 months there has been an exodus of funds from the stock market to bonds, gold and silver and commodities. Why do you think since 1988 our government and those who control our government have suppressed gold and silver prices? Gold is the barometer of fear, the only real currency that owes no one anything. Gold and silver are the antithesis of fiat money. They are the only way to restore order out of chaos,he writes.Silver has also reached a new 30-year high. It traded at $21.40 US an ounce, the highest level since the Hunt Brothers attempted to corner the market in the 1980s. Silver has surged 20 per cent in the past month. Silver has advanced 27 percent this year, outperforming gold, global equities, Treasuries and most industrial metals,reports Bloomberg.David Levenstein, a leading expert on investing in precious metals, predicts silver will hit stellar levels over the next year.The long awaited break above the former key resistance level of $18.50 gave an extremely positive sign to silver bulls. It gave a clear signal that the price of silver was set to go higher. However, the momentum of the move we have seen in the last few weeks has been more than what I anticipated. The price blew through $19.50 and then $20. It now challenges the $21 level, last seen some 30 months ago. A break through this level would be extremely bullish and I believe we could see prices move towards $30 by the end of 2011,Levenstein wrote yesterday, before silver reached $21.40 an ounce.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS FRI SEPT 24,2010
09:30 AM +1.88
10:00 AM +177.93
10:30 AM +185.99
11:00 AM +177.32
11:30 AM +179.52
12:00 PM +178.38
12:30 PM +176.34
01:00 PM +188.98
01:30 PM +189.06
02:00 PM +183.83
02:30 PM +176.11
03:00 PM +197.12
03:30 PM +186.94
04:00 PM +197.84 10,860.26
S&P 500 1148.67 +23.84
NASDAQ 2381.22 +54.14
GOLD 1,297.60 +1.30
OIL 76.46 +1.28
TSE 300 12,204.90 +103.10
CDNX 1699.55 +11.52
S&P/TSX/60 706.85 +6.11
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +98 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -0.08 points at low today.
Dow +192 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,300.40.OIL opens at $75.67 today.(GOLD ALLTIME HIGH TODAY)
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -0.08 points at low today so far.
Dow +197 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -0.08 points at low today.
Dow +197 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,300.40 (NOT AT CLOSE)
EU must embrace up-and-coming Turkey, German FM says-Westerwelle. The German foreign minister also made headlines this week by marrying his partner Michael Mronz (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)ANDREW RETTMAN 23.09.2010 @ 09:24 CET
German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle has reiterated his support for Turkey's entry into the EU and said the Muslim-majority country is moving to the centre of the world stage.Speaking in an interview with the Wall Street Journal out on Thursday (23 September), the leader of Germany's liberal Free Democratic Party said: Nobody should rashly snub Turkey by slamming the door in its face after all its efforts.He warned that EU-Turkey talks could unravel unless further progress is made quickly: Now we must act wisely and early enough so that we don't arrive at a dead end by the end of this year.The EU in June opened talks with Turkey on common food safety and veterinary health standards. The move brought to 13 out of 35 the number of accession chapters opened by the EU in the five and a half years since Turkey became an EU candidate.Eight chapters are frozen due to its territorial dispute with Cyprus. Meanwhile, the FDP's own coalition partner, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right CDU party, as well as Austria and France, continue to say it should become a privileged partner instead of a fully-fledged EU member.It sometimes amazes me how self-assuredly countries that are influential today assume that things will always be that way ... It's only a question of time before these young, dynamic societies [such as Turkey] are also among the political, cultural and intellectual centers of the world,Mr Westerwelle said.The German minister's remarks were echoed by Turkish deputy prime minister Ali Babacan.
The weight of the European economy in the world has shrunk and will continue to shrink and only with enlargement the EU will be able to protect its power and influence,Mr Babacan said at the Foreign Policy Association's World Leadership Forum in New York on Wednesday, according to AFP.When Turkey becomes a member of the EU, Turkey is not going to be in a secondary position and that's one of the reasons why countries like Germany and France are quite nervous about our membership,he added.
Voting power in the EU Council is calculated on the basis of population. With 77 million people already and with birth rates far higher than those in Western Europe, Turkey would be on a path to become the most powerful single EU country shortly after 2020.The Turkish mission to the EU in Brussels is planning by the end of the year to leave its joint premises with the Turkish embassy and consulate to Belgium and to open up shop in a separate building near the US embassy.You can take this as a sign of our faith in the enlargement process, the Turkish ambassador to the EU, Selim Kuneralp, told this website. Mr Westerwelle in the Wall Street Journal and the European Commission earlier welcomed the 12 September referendum result in Turkey, which allowed civilian courts for the first time to try military personnel for crimes against the state.Some EU diplomats are not sure the move is a step in the right direction, however. You cannot say it openly and it is a paradox. But while the EU is bound to publicly support the reduction of military influence on the political scene in any third country, in the case of Turkey the army is a guardian of secularism and normal democratic development,an EU diplomatic contact said.
Bill Clinton Causes Anger with Slam of Russian Israelis
by Maayana Miskin SEPT 23,10
Former United States President Bill Clinton upset many Israelis this week by putting much of the blame for failed negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority on Russian Israelis. According to Clinton, Israelis who immigrated from the former Soviet Union and their families are more likely to oppose peace.Many current Israeli MKs are immigrants from the FSU, as is Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) party released a statement condemning Clinton's remarks as crude generalizations.Russian immigrants, as the other citizens of Israeli, yearn for true peace based on recognition of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people, the statement read. Clinton should remember that it was then-PA Chairman Yasser Arafat, and not Israeli leaders, who rejected his peace proposal ten years ago, it continued.Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu rejected Clinton's statements as well, saying, As an old friend of Israel, Clinton surely knows that the immigrations have made a huge contribution to the strengthening and development of Israel and the IDF.MK Lia Shem Tov, head of the Knesset committee on aliyah (immigration) and absorption, said her committee would meet after the holidays to discuss Clinton's statements. She pointed out that Israel is currently engaged in negotiations with PA, and that it is the PA that has repeatedly threatened to end talks.Immigrants from the former Soviet Union are Zionists who love their country, and like other citizens, want to live their lives in peace and security. The argument that immigrations oppose peace is completely baseless and stems from a total lack of understanding of this community,she said.
Clinton was involved in Middle East peace negotiations several years ago. His wife Hillary Clinton is the current U.S. Secretary of State and is deeply involved in ongoing Israel-PA talks.His comments were made in a discussion with reporters in New York. An increasing number of the young people in the IDF are the children of Russians and settlers, the hardest-core people against a division of the land. This presents a staggering problem,Clinton claimed.It's a different Israel. 16 percent of Israelis speak Russian,he added.Clinton claimed that Russians are less likely to support territorial concessions to the PA, They just got there, it's their country, they've made a commitment to the future there. They can't imagine any historical or other claims that would justify dividing it.He ranked other Israelis by their perceived willingness to make peace, putting Israelis whose families have been in the land for hundreds of years in first place, followed by Israelis with roots in Europe, and then Moroccans.He recounted an alleged conversation at the Camp David summit with former MK Natan Sharansky, a former Soviet dissident who now heads the Jewish Agency. Clinton said he had asked Sharansky about his opposition to peace with the PA, and was told, I can't vote for this, I'm Russian... I came from one of the biggest countries in the world to one of the smallest. You want me to cut it in half. No, thank you.Clinton said he replied that even without Judea and Samaria, Israeli would be a lot bigger than your jail cell, a reference to Sharansky's stay in a Soviet prison.Sharansky later said that the alleged conversation had not taken place. I appreciate President Clinton's commitment to peace... However, as to the basic facts, I was never at Camp David and never had the opportunity to discuss the negotiations there with President Clinton,he said.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Jewish Children Targeted in Hevron
by Maayana Miskin SEPT 23,10
Young Arab men have targeted Jewish children twice this week in the city of Hevron. One attacker repeatedly exposed himself to young Jewish girls. He was arrested on Thursday.Earlier in the week, an eight-year-old Jewish boy was attacked by a gang of Arab men as he made his way to school. His attackers ran off and hid in a nearby Arab school.Instead of turning the attackers out, teachers at the school gave them shelter and prevented IDF soldiers or police from entering the building to search for them. The principal also barred security forces from entering.Israeli police surrounded the building, but did not enter. Jewish residents of Hevron began to gather outside the gates of the school and held a spontaneous rally calling on police to enforce the law on Palestinian Authority Arab attackers as well as Israelis.Police eventually brought about the attackers' surrender. The group walked out to a waiting police car, and were arrested and taken to a nearby station for questioning.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Obama Admin predicts small scale terror… in time for elections, again?
Aaron Dykes JonesReport.com September 23, 2010
Terrorism concerns necessarily hinge on fear, and it is now completely predictable that an otherwise unpopular Obama Administration would roll out the threat of terror to bolster support for the 2010 elections. The Washington Post reports that the Risk of small-scale attacks by al-Qaeda and its allies is rising, officials say.This alarming headline comes in concert with comments from President Obama about absorbing a terror attack, as well as hyperbolic warnings from Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano before Congress that al Qaeda is recruiting for homeland attacks. The Washington Post writes:Al-Qaeda and its allies are likely to attempt small-scale, less sophisticated terrorist attacks in the United States, senior Obama administration officials said Wednesday, noting that it’s extremely difficult to detect such threats in advance.Unlike large-scale, coordinated, catastrophic attacks, executing smaller-scale attacks requires less planning and fewer pre-operational steps,said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Accordingly, there are fewer opportunities to detect such an attack before it occurs.The main thrust of these timely warnings is to scare the public, not to share intelligence analysis or stop an attack. It is clear from the context that there is no basis for expecting an attack– the evidence cited by Napolitano & co. includes reference to the attempted underwear bombing on a flight to Detroit– proven to be a falsehood, as eyewitnesses on the plane contradict the official account. Homeland Security also cites the failed Times Square car bombing– an incident that didn’t include any real explosives or any connection to al Qaeda at all. Napolitano further links this terror threat with the alleged rise of domestic extremism, which has never been qualified or demonstrated, but only hyped via the MIAC and Homeland Security reports issued by DHS earlier in the Obama Administration. Those reports merely speculate that incidents will likely occur based on blanket-mass profiling– a mirror of the Administration’s current attempt to spark worry and fear.
These are the same tactics the Bush Administration admittedly used for political expediency post-9/11– threats without substance, but useful for enlarging a projected threat. Recall that so-called Bin Laden tapes would consistently emerge just prior to key elections or that the terror alert levels would be elevated to re-enforce the fear in the populace for purely political purposes. CIA officials have now admitted to faking Bin Laden videos.Is it any wonder Obama would now discuss absorbing a terror attack in the U.S. or that Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano would revive the script of homeland terror threats and the pre-programmed idea of small-scale al Qaeda attacks? Is it a coincidence that Obama advisor Robert Shapiro suggested this summer that only a large-scale terror attack could counter President Obama’s credibility crisis:He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.
9/11 was obviously a ace-card in the Bush Administration’s public relations deck; the Oklahoma City Bombing bolstered Bill Clinton’s image for a second term. Would the Obama Administration use an attack any differently? Who orchestrates these talking points and baseless forecasts of terror? Why is Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham simultaneously also cynically stating that another terror attack is imminent? Political expediency, not the omnipresence of al Qaeda, is the only logical answer. If the administration has verifiable intel, they should stop any such attempts, not scare up political points.
UN: Delegates Walk Out as Ahmadinejad Hints US Gov't Behind 9/11
by Gil Ronen SEPT 23,10
United States delegates to the United Nations walked out in the middle of a speech by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Thursday, as the Iranian leader floated a theory that elements within the US government orchestrated the September 11, 2001 attacks on America.A propaganda machine began to work after 9/11, he said. It was said that some 3,000 people were killed on 9/11, for which we were all very saddened, but in Afghanistan and Iraq hundreds of thousands have been killed since then, he accused.Ahmadinejad said that there were three viewpoints regarding who was behind the 9/11 attack: The first, he explained was that a very sophisticated terrorist group did it. The second was that some segments within the US government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining US economy and in order to save the Zionist regime.This view, Ahmadinejad said, was the one most widely held among the nations of the world. A third opinion was that the attack was carried out by a terrorist group, but that the American government took advantage of the situation.
When Ahmadinejad reached the second theory, US delegates walked out. Ahmedinejad went on to call for an independent UN investigation of the 9/11 massacre.Ahmadinejad attacked Israel several times in his speech, and said that the Zionists have committed the most horrible crimes against defenseless people in their wars against Lebanon and Gaza.Regarding women's rights, he said that the tendency of toughening the soul and behavior of women deprives them of their basic right to be loving mothers and devoted wives. It would result in a more violent society with irreversible defects.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Obama Slammed as Racist,Ignorant Over UN Speech
by Maayana Miskin SEPT 23,10
United States President Barack Obama was criticized Thursday after calling on Israel to continue to forbid Jews to build in Judea and Samaria, in a speech to the United Nations.Israel's settlement moratorium has made a difference on the ground, and improved the atmosphere for talks,he said. We believe that the moratorium should be extended. We also believe that talks should press on until completed.Regarding talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Obama said, We can say that this time it will be different, that this time, we will not let terror, or turbulence, or posturing, or petty politics stand in the way.If talks succeed, he said, we can have an agreement that will lead to a new member of the United Nations – an independent, sovereign state of Palestine, living in peace with Israel.Obama's call to continue the construction freeze led Samaria Regional Council head Gershon Mesika to term the U.S. president racist and ignorant.Hussein Obama is a racist, arrogant politician who really and truly believes, apparently due to ignorance, that Israel is a dictatorship like the rest of the countries in the Middle East, and that its leaders can pull tricks despite the will of the people,he said. Most Israelis oppose the construction freeze, Mesika said, describing the freeze as a racist step against Jews alone.
MK Danny Danon (Likud) dimissed Obama's pressure, saying, Obama is welcome to turn on CNN on Sunday and watch the tractors resume construction in the land of Israel. He expressed concern over the president's statements, saying that whoever believes that peace depends on a construction freeze is out of touch with reality, and should not play a part in peace talks.MKs Aryeh Eldad (National Union) and Zev Elkin (Likud) of the Knesset Lobby for the Land of Israel called on Obama to honor the democratic decision of Israel's citizens, who voted in favor of strengthening Jewish cities in Judea and Samaria, and against concessions and withdrawals.PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said he was pleased with Obama's speech. In his own speech, Abbas said that he is ready for peace.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
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.
Proposed Law Would Allow Justice Department to Shut Down Websites
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com September 23, 2010
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary will consider action today on a bill entitled Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, ostensibly designed to allow the Justice Department to combat copyright infringement. The legislation authorizes the Justice Department to file a court order against the domain name and seek an order from the court stating that the domain name is being used to access a website that is engaging in illegal activities,reports TechNewsDaily.Proposed legislation would allow the Justice Department to shut down websites and block servers in foreign countries. Photo: Jamison Judd.In addition, the bill contains provisions to block sites with domain names and TLDs (top-level domains) that are maintained by overseas companies, which are immune to US laws.The bipartisan legislation amounts to the Holy Grail of intellectual-property enforcement, writes David Kravets for Wired. Websites eligible for Justice Department targeting – if the measure is approved – must be dedicated to infringing activities, according to the text’s language. A site can be subject to civil forfeiture if it’s primarily designed as a pirate site with no demonstrable, commercially significant purpose or use other than to distribute pirated or counterfeited wares,according to Kravets.
Congress and the Obama administration, however, have demonstrated antipathy toward the idea of a free and open internet regardless of copyright infringement. Earlier this year, Senator Joe Lieberman pushed the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, legislation designed to give Obama dictatorial power to shut down the internet under the rubric of national security.Senators pushing the bill rejected the claim that the bill was a kill switch for the Internet, not by denying that Obama would be given the authority to shut down the Internet as part of this legislation, but by arguing that he already had the power to do so,Paul Joseph Watson reported on June 25, 2010.As Philip Giraldi notes, the government continues to invent excuses to intervene into the internet. All of these arguments for intervention are essentially themselves fraudulent and are in reality being exploited by those who favor big government and state control,writes Giraldi.The real reason for controlling the internet is to restrict access to information, something every government seeks to do.In July, a hosting company pulled the plug on Blogetery, a blog website, after the FBI told the hosting service that a blog on the site had posted bomb-making information. Sources close to the investigation say that included in those materials were the names of American citizens targeted for assassination by al-Qaeda. Messages from Osama bin Laden and other leaders of the terrorist organization, as well as bomb-making tips, were also allegedly found on the server,CNet News reported on July 19.The extreme response implies a possible presumed terrorist connection, but it is important to note that no one was charged with any actual offense, revealing that the government can close down sites based only on suspicion,writes Giraldi.On Wednesday, senior Obama administration officials argued that al-Qaeda inspiration… has become increasingly accessible through the Internet, and English-language Web sites are tailored to address the unique concerns of U.S.-based extremists,according to the Washington Post.
Is it possible, in the event the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act is enacted, the government will use the law to shut down disfavored websites, using the excuse of copyright infringement? In 2009, the great-grandson of John D. Rockefeller, nephew of banker David Rockefeller, and former Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller said the internet not only represents a threat to national security, but also said we would all be better off if the technology had never been invented.The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act is the latest effort by the government to control and eventually roll back the free and open internet under the guise of protecting copyright. In 2008, Alex Jones detailed government efforts to shut down the internet and kill off the most effective technology ever devised to spread truth and counter government and corporate media propaganda.
UN A NAZI MOVEMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDqRNLHSAMQ&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izibupjHQig&feature=player_embedded
The Globalists Plan for a Coming World Currency
Mark Matheny Sic Semper Tyrannis September 23, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds_qGXbxK-4&feature=player_embedded
What used to be talked about as conspiracy theory is now being discussed openly among the nations of the world. A global currency called the Bancor may soon be the global currency, and along with it a global central bank.Calls for a global currency began to come about after WWII, when John Maynard Keynes and the British government proposed the Bancor as a world reserve currency.Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes her laws.Those were the words of Mayer Amscel Rothschild of the Elite Rothschild Banking Family of Europe. And it is apparent that those in power hope to gain control of not only a single nation’s money, but of all nations’ monetary systems into a single Central Bank with a Global Currency. In that instance, whoever controls the monetary system of the world, will in effect control the policies and laws globally as well.One of the priliminary measures of incorporating a global currency, however, seems to be the destruction of currencies around the globe in order to justify its inception.Steps for bringing about this New World Order currency have been in the works for a long time, and the proponents are patient and deliberate. Calls for a global currency began to come about after WWII, when John Maynard Keynes and the British government proposed the Bancor as a world reserve currency.Although it has taken time and effort, it looks as though the current economic crisis has set the stage for the demise of the dollar as a world reserve currency to make way for the proposed Bancor.The Federal Reserve and our government are also in on the plan apparently, as the Fed continues to devalue the dollar through easing as they call it, or printing more and more of it. Our government then continues to grow and spend more and more as well, only to exasterbate the problem.Of course, Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner said back in 2009 that the U.S. would be open to a world currency as well!
In this video Geithner was at a Council on Foreign Relations conference, and was asked about a proposal from China’s Central Bank Governor to expand the role of the IMF’s use of SDRs (Special Drawing Rights), whereupon Geithner said ..We’re actually quite open to that suggestion.Geithner then went on further to say however, that ..But you should think of it as rather evolutionary building on the current architecture, rather than to moving us to a global monetary union. Geithner obviously knows that increasing the use of SDRs to the IMF will eventually make way for a global monetary union as he puts it.How do I know this? In a recent document by the International Monetary Fund, drafted on April 13, 2010 titled Reserve Accumulation and International Monetary Stability , the report shows that while there are benefits to the use of SDRs, there are also some limitations and drawbacks.
One of those drawbacks stated in the same document is the fact that the SDR is not a currency:From SDR to Bancor. A limitation of the SDR as discussed previously is that it is not a currency. Both the SDR and SDR-denominated instruments need to be converted eventually to a national currency for most payments or interventions in foreign exchange markets, which adds to cumbersome use in transactions. and though an SDR-based system would move away from a dominant currency, the SDR’r value remains heavily linked to conditions and performance of the major component countries.A more ambitious reform option would be to build on the previous ideas and develop, over time, a global currency. Pg 26. (emphasis mine)Also to be noticed is the latter portion of the video, where Geithner says these very pertinent words:It is very important just to underscore that… the future evolution of the dollar’s role in the system, depends really primarilly on how effective we are here in the United States, in getting not just recovery back on track, our financial system repaired, but we get our fiscal position back to the point where people will judge it as sustainable..If these are the parameters for avoiding a global currency, then we are in serious trouble. It looks as though we may see the bancor soon.In an article by James Turk on Kitco.com, he states clearly that the Fed is printing too much money and rapidly devaluating the dollar. He states in the article that commodity prices are rising not because of good economic activity, but because of what the Fed calls quantitative easing. He states two reasons for this:
1. Because too much money has been printed for years, not just over the past three months, which can be illustrated by comparing M3 to the total US population. In 2000 there were $26,977 in circulation, as measured by M3, for every man, woman and child in the United States. That amount has ballooned to $46,538, a 7.1% annual rate of growth, which is more than 7-times the 0.9% annual rate of population growth during this period.
2. Demand for money is usually ignored, but it is an important part of the equation. Unfortunately, demand cannot be measured, so we again need to rely on observations of market prices to determine the prevailing trend in the demand for dollars at any moment. So, for example, let’s look at the US Dollar Index, which measures the dollar’s rate of exchange against a basket of currencies. While commodities have been rising since June 4th, the Dollar Index has been falling. It is down 7.9% over this period, a 27.6% annualized rate of decline. Given that people are opting to hold other currencies in preference to the dollar, as evidenced by the dollar’s falling exchange rate, it is clear that the demand for the dollar is falling.In 2009 on CNBC, Stephen Gallo essentially spoke of the same reasons for the current crisis, and the possibility of a global currency and world bank as a result of it :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izibupjHQig&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds_qGXbxK-4&feature=player_embedded
Carrol Quigely stated a similar development of a world bank in collaboration with central banks around the world, but with far more sinister motives and not the rosy picture Mr. Stephen Gallo is painting:The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds central banks which were themselves private corporations. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups.Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World in Our Time (Macmillan Company, 1966,) Professor Carroll Quigley of Georgetown University.
The housing market collapse, auto industry government takover, Wall Street and Banker bailouts, as well as the reduction in manufacturing here in the United States among other things, are all contrived events by the Elites in order to systematically crush our economy and our currency, in order to make way for this ominous takeover of the world’s monetary systems and the completion of a New World Order Feudalistic Dictatorship.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Tropical storm Matthew forms in Caribbean
– Thu Sep 23, 5:01 pm ET
MIAMI – The National Hurricane Center says tropical storm Matthew has formed in the southwestern Caribbean.Forecasters at the Miami center said at 5 p.m. EDT Thursday that Matthew has maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and was moving westward at 16 mph. The center says Matthew was located 435 miles east of Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua.
A hurricane watch and a tropical storm warning have been issued for parts of Nicaragua and Honduras.The center says the governments of Nicaragua and Honduras issued the alerts for the stretch from Puerto Cabezas to Limon, Honduras, including offshore islands.Separately, Lisa has regained tropical storm strength with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph about 320 miles northwest of the Cape Verde Islands.
Typhoon Fanapi kills 54 in China: state media
– Thu Sep 23, 6:35 am ET
BEIJING (AFP) – Typhoon Fanapi, one of the strongest storms to hit China in years, has left 54 people dead and 42 missing in flooding and landslides in the south of the country, state media said on Thursday.Xinhua news agency said 79,000 people had been evacuated due to Fanapi, which hit China on Monday a day after raking Taiwan with heavy rains, killing two people and leaving more than 100 injured on the island.
All of China's deaths occurred in the southern province of Guangdong, which has been battered by its worst rains in a century, it said.Authorities in Guangdong had to use helicopters to air-drop relief supplies to victims in some areas, it added, quoting provincial flood control authorities.Of those missing, 25 people disappeared in a rain-triggered mudslide, state media reports had said.Typhoon-related disasters have destroyed more than 3,600 homes and caused economic losses in excess of two billion yuan (300 million dollars), Xinhua said.Fanapi made landfall in Fujian province in the southeast but no casualties have been reported there.The storm, which has weakened to a low-pressure system, has moved westward, bringing torrential rains in its wake and hitting Guangdong hardest.At its strongest point, when it hit Taiwan on Sunday, Fanapi was packing winds of up to 220 kilometres an hour and dumped up to 100 centimetres of rain in the south of the island.This summer, floods and related disasters triggered by torrential rains ravaged wide areas of China, killing more than 3,100 people and causing the evacuation of more than 15 million, according to government figures.
India floods kill 17 as millions flee rising water By BISWAJEET BANERJEE, Associated Press Writer – Thu Sep 23, 6:21 am ET
LUCKNOW, India – Raging floodwaters triggered by heavy rain in northern India have killed at least 17 people, washed away thousands of homes and forced some 2 million people to evacuate in a 24 hour period, officials said Thursday.A large swathe of Uttar Pradesh state has been covered by floodwaters spilling over the banks of several rivers that crisscross the region, state spokesman Diwakar Tripathi said. Soldiers and paramilitary troops were working to evacuate people from marooned villages and move them to relief camps in safer areas.At least 17 people have died overnight. More than a thousand houses have been washed away. Large areas are under water,Tripathi said.Northern India has experienced unprecedented rain since August, according to the India Meteorological Department. Most rivers are flowing above the danger mark, including the Yamuna and Ganges that run through Uttar Pradesh.
Temporary shelters and medical facilities were being set up Thursday at relief camps in the state, while army helicopters were dropping food and water packets for people stranded in remote villages, said K.K. Sinha, a relief official.One of the hardest-hit areas is the industrial town of Moradabad, where some 200,000 people had to be evacuated from the rising water, said Suresh Tomar, a district official.There was also extensive damage to farmland in the state, with crops worth around 35 billion rupees ($750 million) destroyed, Tripathi said.More rain was forecast for the coming days and a flood alert has been issued for 18 districts in Uttar Pradesh.In neighboring Pakistan, monsoon floods have killed more than 1,700 people and damaged or destroyed nearly 1.9 million homes in the past six weeks.
Obama asks Wen for more action on yuan By Paul Eckert And Steve Holland – Thu Sep 23, 6:49 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Barack Obama urged Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Thursday to take rapid steps to address a dispute over the value of China's currency and made clear the United States would protect its economic interests.A two-hour meeting between Obama and Wen on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly was dominated by a lengthy, candid discussion about an issue that has been a persistent irritant in U.S.-Chinese relations and now has the attention of U.S. lawmakers.The talks between Obama and Wen came as U.S. lawmakers appeared to move closer than ever to acting on long-standing threats to pass legislation that would penalize China for keeping its currency artificially weak.Critics inside and outside Congress say China deliberately undervalues its currency by as much as 25 percent to 40 percent to give Chinese companies an unfair trade advantage, hurting U.S. exports and employment.
Both Obama and Wen spoke in diplomatic niceties in their public remarks at a picture-taking session as their talks began. Obama stressed that both countries must work to achieve balance and sustained economic growth and Wen said, Our common interests far outweigh our differences.During their private talks, Obama said the currency issue was the most important issue of their meeting, said Jeffrey Bader, the senior National Security Council official for Asia. He said there was a far more intensive discussion of the topic than in their previous meetings.Bader said Obama made clear that we're expecting to see more action, more significant movement on China's yuan in the months ahead and noted that the Obama administration had authorized a couple of complaints about Chinese trade practices through the World Trade Organization.So the president made clear that, through that and in his meeting, that he's going to protect U.S. economic interests and that we look for the Chinese to take actions. If the Chinese don't take actions, we have other means of protecting U.S. interests, Bader said.Wen told Obama that China would press ahead with reforming exchange rate rules for the yuan, Bader said.Premier Wen did reiterate the Chinese intention to ... continue with reform of their exchange rate mechanism, he said.Wen's delegation did not speak to reporters after the meeting, but during the picture-taking session Wen told Obama he believed all differences between the United States and China could be resolved through dialogue and that he had a constructive attitude.
Wen and Obama also discussed tensions between China and Japan in the East China Sea.
It's not in our interest to see these countries in this kind of a dispute, said Bader, echoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's call for a peaceful resolution in her meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara.Obama stressed to Wen the U.S. interests of freedom of navigation in the South China Sea and the importance of peaceful resolution of maritime territorial disputes between China and its southern neighbors, said Bader, who added the issue would be discussed on Friday when Obama meets leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation countries.
China's central bank said in June it would loosen a peg against the dollar and let the yuan fluctuate more freely. It has since risen 1.8 percent against the dollar.
But the slow appreciation of the yuan makes it an easy target for U.S. politicians eager to address high unemployment in an election year.In a speech on Wednesday night, Wen rejected any link between the level of the yuan, also called the renminbi, and a U.S. trade deficit with China that annually exceeds $200 billion.The main reason for the U.S. trade deficit with China is not the renminbi exchange rate, but the structure of trade and investment between the two countries, he told U.S. executives and China experts in New York.
HOUSE COMMITTEE SETS CURRENCY VOTE FRIDAY
A U.S. House of Representatives committee has scheduled a vote for Friday on a China currency bill that would treat China's undervalued currency as an export subsidy, and allow the U.S. Commerce Department to impose countervailing duties on Chinese products to offset the undervaluation. Bader said the Obama administration did not take a position on the currency legislation, beyond wanting to ensure it was consistent with international obligations.The president made no commitment to Premier Wen about this legislation,he told reporters. Pushing back against the U.S. pressure, Wen said on Wednesday that China also had big job considerations and the 20 percent appreciation of the yuan demanded by U.S. lawmakers would cause many bankruptcies in the Chinese export sector, where firms operate on thin margins. A sharp appreciation of the yuan would not bring jobs back to the United States because American firms no longer make the labor-intensive products China exports, Wen added.Prospects for action in the Senate, which would also have to approve legislation, are uncertain. Key senators have said time may be too tight since lawmakers hope to leave Washington shortly to campaign for the November 2 elections.
Both Democrats and Republicans from industrial districts need a vote on this before they go home in November, and that's ... I think what's really driving this issue, said Lloyd Wood, spokesman for the Fair Currency Coalition, an alliance of manufacturing and labor groups that backs the currency bill.It's never been more clear to me that China responds to pressure than over the past week, said Scott Paul, executive director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing. It's the one currency in the world that's pegged to political pressure.But Stephen Orlins, president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, said that if the bill passes and creates a trade war, we will have shot ourselves in the foot.The U.S. Treasury Department said it would carefully examine any proposals put forward by Congress. A U.S. Trade Representative's office spokeswoman said it was reviewing whether the House bill was consistent with World Trade Organization rules. Obama invited Chinese President Hu Jintao to Washington for a state visit next January and Hu accepted, Bader said.(Additional reporting by Alister Bull at the United Nations and Doug Palmer in Washington; Editing by Peter Cooney)
Summary Box: Gold hits record highs By The Associated Press – Thu Sep 23, 3:45 pm ET
GOLD HITS RECORD: Gold prices hit a record high Wednesday, settling at $1,292.10 after a rally that started late Tuesday. That's up 80 percent from October 2008, just after the financial crisis.CRUCIAL BARRIER: If gold passes $1,300 an ounce, it will likely stay above that level for some time, said CPM Group analyst Carlos Sanchez.OTHER METALS UP: Silver December contracts gained 15.8 cents to settle at $21.213 an ounce and copper gained 2.55 cents to settle at $3.5905 a pound.
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Obama challenges the world: Time for Mideast peace By BEN FELLER, AP White House Correspondent - SEPT 23,10
UNITED NATIONS – Grasping for peace, President Barack Obama on Thursday challenged a pessimistic world to overcome decades of shattered promises and help Israelis and Palestinians close a historic deal within a year. This time will be different, he declared, offering a now-or-never choice between Mideast stability and perpetual bloodshed.To a hushed audience of global leaders, Obama made Mideast peace the dominant theme of his yearly address to the U.N. General Assembly, a sign of the fragile state of the latest talks and the importance he attaches to their success. Nearly every other topic of his international agenda was shoved to the margins, save for a vigorous call for support of human rights.In a message to allies and foes alike, Obama devoted the final passage of his speech to a need for people to live freely, and he warned that we will call out those who suppress ideas. While he spoke of tyranny by the Taliban and in North Korea, he did not single out allies that the U.S. has accused of repressing their people, such as Russia and China.With fresh Mideast peace talks seemingly on the brink of collapse, Obama took on skeptics directly. He challenged Israelis and Palestinians to make compromises, exhorted supporters on both sides to show real backing instead of empty talk and painted a grim picture of what will happen if the current effort is consigned to the long list of failed attempts.If an agreement is not reached, Palestinians will never know the pride and dignity that comes with their own state, Obama said. Israelis will never know the certainty and security that comes with sovereign and stable neighbors. ... More blood will be shed. This Holy Land will remain a symbol of our differences instead of our common humanity.
The speech came amid a wider burst of presidential diplomacy in New York. Obama met at length with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao over U.S. contentions that China's currency is undervalued, but he emerged with little evident progress.U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon set the tone for the meetings when he implored leaders to show more respect to each other and bring the world together. He warned of a politics of polarization — a term that on a different level also could fit the situation in the U.S.Twenty months in office, Obama no longer made a point of breaking away from George W. Bush and embracing the multilateral approach of the United Nations, as he did in his first address last year before this world gathering. The record of the White House is now his to defend. He did so repeatedly, particularly U.S. efforts to avoid a global economic catastrophe.The commander in chief for two wars, Obama made spare mention of either one. He reminded the world that he was winding down the divisive conflict in Iraq and accelerating the fight against extremists in Afghanistan. Yet there was not a major emphasis on terrorism or religious tolerance.
On the pressing security threat of Iran, Obama again extended a diplomatic hand. But he insisted the government there must prove to the world that its nuclear pursuits are for peaceful energy, not weaponry, or it will face further consequences.Iran recently has indicated interest in restarting talks with the West, and on Wednesday the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany offered another chance to enter negotiations. Iranian state TV quoted Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, who was in New York, as saying Iran was ready to resume the talks but the negotiations must be fair.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed an afternoon session of the assembly. At one point he said that some in the world have speculated that Americans were actually behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks and that they were staged in an attempt to assure Israel's survival. At that, the U.S. delegation walked out.The search for Mideast peace always tests the limits of U.S. presidential power, and this time is no different. There were no signs of a breakthrough in New York and, unlike last year, no meeting among Obama and the key players.Obama is serving as an invested broker in Mideast peace. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are working toward an ambitious deal that would settle decades of issues within a year. The goals include the creation of an independent Palestinian state and security for Israel.But direct talks between the leaders, which just resumed three weeks ago in Washington, have stalled over the impending end of an Israeli freeze on West Bank settlement construction.Obama challenged Israel to relent, calling for the moratorium to be extended, knowing that would help keep Abbas at the table.Talks should press on until completed, Obama said as his administration worked to hold them together.Separately, senior Palestinian officials said Thursday that their side would consider an expected U.S.-brokered compromise on Israeli settlement-building.
On a broader level, Obama summoned the world to show leadership, and he showed as much impatience over the familiar Mideast grievances and the latest obstacles as do skeptics of the process. He implored everyone to stop wasting time and drew a rare round of applause by saying there could be an agreement to secure a Palestinian state by next September's U.N. gathering. We can say that this time will be different — that this time we will not let terror, or turbulence, or posturing, or petty politics stand in the way, Obama said. Netanyahu did not attend, and Israel's seat in the grand U.N. hall sat empty because it was a Jewish holiday. Abbas was present, listening to the president through a translator's earphone. Obama did not mention the militant Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip and refuses to accept Israel's right to exist. In calling on the world to get more involved, Obama assigned responsibilities to nations beyond those at the negotiating table. He made a particular plea for friends of the Palestinians to support the creation of a new state providing political and financial support, and to stop trying to tear Israel down.An attentive audience packed the hall to hear Obama speak for just more than a half-hour, twice his allotted time. Some dignitaries took pictures with their cell phones. The speech was the centerpiece of a day in which Obama also met individually with Chinese and Japanese leaders and introduced first Lady Michelle Obama at a meeting of Bill Clinton's Global Initiative.Obama didn't publicly mention the heated diplomatic clash over Japan's arrest of a Chinese fishing boat captain near islands both Japan and China claim as their own. But he made clear that the U.S.-Japan alliance is crucial to stability in Asia and to both U.S. and Japanese security.
Obama's capping argument was for open civil societies across the globe: freedom of assembly, of the press, of the Internet. He said no government delivers more for people than democracy, echoing a frequent U.N. message of his predecessor.The ultimate success of democracy in the world won't come because the United States dictates it,Obama said. It will come because individual citizens demand a say in how they are governed.
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
Settlement freeze has barely slowed construction By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer – Thu Sep 23, 6:41 pm ET
ARIEL, West Bank – How much of a freeze has there actually been on West Bank Jewish settlement building by Israel? Very little, an Associated Press analysis of the numbers suggests.To settlers like Ron Nachman, the mayor of this West Bank community, the halt has been brutal. He fumes at the government and points angrily at a low hill covered with shrubs, where 100 homes for settlers were planned — then suspended.And the nearly 10-month-old freeze is important enough to the Palestinians that they have threatened to walk away from peace talks, just restarted amid much fanfare, if it ends as planned on Sunday.But the government's own figures — and the assessments of Israeli peace activists monitoring construction — show building has barely slowed down.In the third quarter of 2009, before the restrictions were imposed last November, there were 2,790 settlement homes in various stages of construction, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics. The number rose to 2,955 in the last quarter of 2009, reflecting a last-minute surge of housing starts in the days leading up to the freeze.In the first quarter of 2010, with the freeze in full effect, the number stood at 2,517.That means that even months into the halt, the number of homes under construction had declined by only about 10 percent.
There are no official figures for the months since. But Israeli peace activists, who use aerial photography and ground inspections to track settlement building, say there has been no appreciable decline, since most of the projects take longer than 10months to complete.The situation is largely the same, they say, in non-residential construction such as commercial buildings, small factories and schools.The numbers have hardly been dented because the halt ordered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu covered only new projects. Anything already under way when the measures went into effect could be completed.That is why the Palestinians — backed by the United States — want the freeze to continue. If it does, the logic goes, those ongoing projects would eventually be completed and the number of homes under construction would then begin to drop steeply.If the measures are lifted Sunday and new projects are launched, the four-decade-old march of settlement-building in the West Bank — which Israel occupied along with the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war — will hardly have registered a blip.The freeze is meaningful only if it is extended, said Hagit Ofran, who tracks settlements for Peace Now. If they are going to approve new buildings, all this will have meant is that a few projects were delayed.If the freeze continues, and if there is enforcement, then certainly we will see a change in the existing numbers, agreed Israeli peace activist Dror Etkes.Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said the terms of the halt were clear from the start. We were very up front, he said. We always said the freeze was about new construction, and in that case it has been full.Government statistics show a dramatic drop in new construction since the freeze began: There were zero housing starts in the first quarter of this year, compared to 342 in the same quarter last year. But those figures do not include illegal construction or mobile homes, both of which are common.
In reality, around 450 new housing units have begun construction since the slowdown went into effect, according to Peace Now. Still, those numbers reflect a drop of about 50 percent in the pace of new home construction. Any discussion of the issue quickly inflames passions and reveals the divergent narratives of the sides. To Palestinians, each instance of building is another provocation. The settlements eat up the territory of a future Palestinian state and make virtually impossible the two-state partition Israel's government says it wants.If Palestinians and the international community are not able to convince the Israelis to ... stop illegal settlement expansion, how do we expect to reach an agreement that would dismantle all illegal settlements and end occupation? said Husam Zomlot, a spokesman for the Palestinian negotiation team. Already, some 300,000 Israelis — out of a population approaching 8 million — live in the West Bank, among 2.5 million Palestinians. Another 200,000 Israelis live in east Jerusalem, where the Palestinians want to locate the capital of a future independent state. The building freeze does not apply in east Jerusalem, despite earlier Palestinian demands that it be extended there.
Despite the freeze, Nachman had to shout to be heard Tuesday over the sound of Palestinian workers drilling foundations for a new factory in Ariel that will produce iron bars — a project that was already under way when the restrictions went into effect.He said the freeze is demoralizing to the settlement's 20,000 residents, because beyond the practical inconvenience lies a deeper message: There is a question mark looming over the very future of this place.Every industrialist, every person who wants to invest money for a home or industry or anything, wants to know that it's OK — that it's certain,he said.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
THIS IRAN HOGWASH IS JUST A PUT ON.IRAN AND RUSSIA ARE TIGHT THE BIBLE SAYS.
Iran criticizes Russia over S-300 missile deal ban
– Thu Sep 23, 10:56 am ET
TEHRAN, Iran – The Iranian defense minister criticized Russia Thursday for banning all sales of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran.Gen. Ahmad Vahidi's comments came a day after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev issued a decree on the ban, which also prohibited exports of tanks, aircraft and sea vessels to Iran.
Vahidi said Russia was at risk of humiliating itself for caving to international pressure by banning the sales of the sophisticated systems that could boost Iran's ability to defend itself against airstrikes.We think Russia should show it has an independent stance in choosing its relations with other countries as well as on international issues, he said in an interview with Iranian state TV.Tehran is in a tense standoff with the U.S. and other nations over its disputed nuclear program. Russia also has recently shown increasing frustration over Iran's policies.Moscow signed a 2007 contract to sell the systems. Israel and the United States have objected to the deal, and no such missiles have been delivered yet.
Russia has said United Nations sanctions would prevent it from delivering the S-300s to Iran.The S-300 is capable of shooting down aircraft and missiles at ranges of over 90 miles (144 kilometers) and at altitudes of about 90,000 feet (27,432 meters).
Vahidi insisted the Russians were obliged to implement the 2007 contract.They have not done it so far, he said.He also played down the importance of the deal, saying it was not vital because Iran will build a similar system in the future.God willing we will have production of long range anti-aircraft missiles on our agenda.In June, Russia joined other members of the U.N Security Council in imposing a fourth set of sanctions on Iran after Tehran refused to halt its uranium enrichment activities.The U.S. and its allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons. Iran denies the charge, saying its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes like power generation.
Protesters denounce Ahmadinejad outside UN
– Thu Sep 23, 7:36 pm ET
NEW YORK (AFP) – About 800 people, including many of Iranian origin, rallied Thursday outside the United Nations, using street theater and speeches to protest President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's appearance at the UN General Assembly.They chanted Ahmadinejad is a terrorist and Viva Rajavi, a reference to Maryam Rajavi, head of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a coalition of exiled groups opposed to the Islamic regime in Tehran.The protest included a street performance depicting people stained with fake blood and scenes of hanging and stoning. Some people carried the tri-colored flags with a lion sun, used in Iran before the Islamic revolution.Also appearing was a man in a huge inflatable head designed to look like the Iranian president, and wearing prison garb. The street theater also included a man dressed as an ayatollah, whipping political prisoners.Rajavi, whose picture was carried by some of those in the crowd, addressed the gathering, denouncing the UN leaders who have allowed this murderous henchman to address the General Assembly... We ask them that after three decades of pursuing a conciliatory policy towards Tehran, what have you accomplished? She added, The only solution for the Iranian crisis is democratic change by the Iranian people and their organized resistance.
The Ahmadinejad visit took place with Western powers pressing Iran to end its nuclear energy program suspected of developing weapons.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her counterparts from Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia called for an early negotiated settlement to the Iranian nuclear issue.US officials confirmed that there had been signs from the Iranians that they might be ready for a meeting in the fall.A joint statement said the six powers were ready to engage with Iran in the context of implementing a deal agreed in Geneva in October last year under which Iran would give up enriched uranium in exchange for nuclear fuel.The protesters said it was futile to negotiate with the Tehran regime.It is time for the international community to stop dealing with Ahmadinejad and finally recognize and empower the opposition, so that the Iranian people can finally get the democratic change it deserves,said Ali Safavi, a member of the coalition.We want democracy, not barbaric theocracy, said Henry Anavian, an Iranian living in New York and affiliated with the Ma Hastim group aimed at raising awareness of human rights issues in Iran.
We just want the United Nations to stop dealing with Ahmadinejad. He doesn't represent the Iranian people, he said.Many of the demonstrators were affiliated with the the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, the main group in the NCRI. The PMOI is officially listed as a foreign terrorist organization in the United States, although a judge ruled in July that it should be removed from the blacklist.Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani also spoke, endorsing the protest.If the UN wants to reclaim its lofty goal of protecting human rights, then it must stand with you against the brutal regime in Iran, he told the crowd.
US, Iranian leaders push nuclear talks by Lachlan Carmichael – Thu Sep 23, 6:35 pm ET
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – The US and Iranian leaders on Thursday signaled a new desire to revive talks to end the standoff over Tehran's nuclear aims, despite a US-led protest against Iran's president at the United Nations.In separate speeches at the UN General Assembly, Presidents Barack Obama and Mahmud Ahmadinejad said their governments were prepared for such talks, four months after Washington obtained harsh new UN sanctions against Tehran.In an interview, Ahmadinejad said the talks would likely begin in October.Despite the positive tone on the nuclear front, however, Ahmadinejad infuriated the United States when he suggested the US government was involved in the September 11 attacks. The US delegation then led a Western walkout of the assembly.The Iranian president said there was a theory that ome segments within the US government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy and its grips on the Middle East in order also to save the Zionist regime.Speaking to the UN before Ahmadinejad, Obama sounded positive but cautious.Let me be clear once more: the United States and the international community seek a resolution to our differences with Iran, and the door remains open to diplomacy should Iran choose to walk through it, Obama said.
But the Iranian government must demonstrate a clear and credible commitment, and confirm to the world the peaceful intent of its nuclear program, Obama said in a wide-ranging foreign policy speech.Washington fears Iran's nuclear program masks a drive to build a nuclear weapon, while Iran insists it is for purely peaceful purposes.In his speech some five hours later, Ahmadinejad said Iran had long been ready for negotiations and dismissed any suggestion it is caving in to pressure.We have never submitted to illegally imposed pressures nor will we ever do so. It has been said that they want to pressure Iran into a dialogue, he said.Firstly, Iran has always been ready for a dialogue based on respect and justice. Secondly, methods based on disrespecting nations have long become ineffective, the Iranian leader said.
In Tehran, the ISNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying Iran is likely to hold talks with world powers over its nuclear program in October.Following a meeting here Wednesday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her counterparts from Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia called for an early negotiated solution to the Iranian nuclear issue.Two diplomats from the P5-plus-1 -- the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany -- said on condition of anonymity that a meeting with Iran could take place this fall in Vienna or in Geneva.A joint statement said the six powers were ready to engage with Iran in the context of implementing a deal agreed in Geneva in October last year under which Iran would give up enriched uranium in exchange for nuclear fuel.It added that they looked forward to an early meeting with Iran and were prepared to discuss a revised arrangement, apparently because Iran has enriched much more uranium since the earlier offer was made.Under the deal, Iran would ship most of its low-grade uranium to France and Russia so that it could be enriched further and returned to Iran to fuel a medical research reactor in Tehran. The deal had been designed to buy time and build confidence while the world community presses Iran to meet its demand to halt uranium enrichment.But the deal stalled as Iran sought to modify its terms in another agreement that was brokered by Brazil and Turkey, an agreement that Ahmadinejad told the UN assembly is still valid.In June, a month after the new deal, the UN Security Council then approved a fourth round of sanctions against the Islamic republic, which in turn said it would suspend talks until September. In Moscow, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday signed a decree banning supplies of S-300 missiles and other arms to Iran, in line with the tougher military and financial sanctions adopted in June.
Obama, whose administration spearheaded the drive for the sanctions, claims the sanctions are beginning to bite as Iran shows increasing signs it wants to return to the negotiating table. In an interview with CNN television, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Iranians asked the six powers to resume the talks.Ok, this is an offer we can accept,he quoted them as saying.
Syria, Saudi seek to calm tensions in Lebanon
by Rita Daou – Thu Sep 23, 12:01 pm ET
BEIRUT (AFP) – Syria and Saudi Arabia have stepped up efforts to ease a political crisis in Lebanon over a UN probe into the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, Information Minister Tareq Mitri said on Thursday.Saudi Arabia and Syria have reminded all the Lebanese political forces that they still see themselves as guarantors of stability and strongly encouraged them to put an end to their inflammatory rhetoric and to calm down, Information Minister Tareq Mitri told reporters.The Saudi and Syrian push came amid a face-off between Hezbollah and Prime Minister Saad Hariri's coalition that has raised fears of sectarian violence similar to the one that brought country close to civil war in May 2008.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a key supporter of Hezbollah along with Iran, contacted Prime Minister Saad Hariri on late Wednesday to discuss developments, Hariri's office said.
Meanwhile, the Saudi ambassador to Lebanon, whose country backs Hariri's camp, met the same evening with a Hezbollah delegation.Officials said the Saudi and Syrian efforts were clear signs that both countries were keen on calming tensions in Beirut over reports that the UN-backed tribunal probing the 2005 assassination of Rafiq Hariri -- Saad Hariri's father -- was set to implicate the powerful Hezbollah in the murder.There are fears that if the court indicts Hezbollah members, this could lead to a Sunni-Shiite conflict similar to the one that brought the country close to another civil war in May 2008.A Lebanese official said that while the mediation appears to have cooled tempers for now, it was not clear whether calm would prevail once the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) issues its indictments, possibly by year's end.It is still premature to know if Saudi-Syrian understanding can hold the situation after the indictment,said the official, who asked not to be named.We are talking about stability holding with the support of Syria and Saudi Arabia in the immediate future.Hariri's killing along with 22 others sparked an international outcry and forced Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon following a 29-year presence.
But in a stunning about-face earlier this month, Saad Hariri said he had been wrong to blame Damascus for his father's death.That was interpreted as a sign of his alliance's weakness in the face of Syria's bid to regain influence over its smaller neighbour.Hezbollah has made clear that it would not stand idle should any of its members be indicted by the STL and in recent weeks has upped its campaign to discredit the court.The Shiite movement's deputy chief, Sheikh Naim Qassem, said in an interview published on Thursday by the Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai that Hezbollah had not uttered its last word and was giving time for Saudi efforts to redress the wrongful course of the UN probe.He added that Hezbollah in coming weeks would take a definitive stand as concerns the tribunal, which it accuses of being part of an Israeli plot.We are in a test period and in light of the results of Saudi mediation we will take a clear-cut position on the tribunal, Qassem said.In late 2005, Lebanon asked the United Nations to establish a tribunal of international character to try those allegedly responsible for the February 14, 2005 attack that killed Hariri and the others. Pursuant to a Security Council resolution the following year, the STL was created following negotiations between the two parties.The tribunal, based in The Netherlands, formally began operation in 2009.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
WARS AND RUMURS OF WARS.
MATTHEW 24:6
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
MARK 13:7
7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).
MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Japan frets about economic fallout from China row By Stanley White and Chisa Fujioka - SEPT 23,10
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan warned on Friday that a deepening row with China could hurt both of Asia's two biggest economies and sought to draw a line between a feud over disputed islets in the East China Sea and the detainment of four of its nationals on suspicion of entering a Chinese military zone.A Japanese foreign ministry spokesman confirmed that four Japanese nationals employed by unlisted construction firm Fujita Corp had been detained in China on suspicion of violating Chinese law regarding the protection of military facilities.The two sides are already locked in an increasingly heated dispute triggered by Japan's detention of a Chinese fishing boat captain whose trawler collided earlier this month with a Japanese patrol boat in waters near islands both sides claim.Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda warned that worsening ties between the two countries would be bad for both economies.A cooling of relations between Japan and China over the Senkaku problem would be bad for Japan's economy, but it would also be a minus for China, he told a news conference.
It's desirable that both sides respond in a calm manner.Sino-Japanese ties had improved after a deep chill in 2001-2006, but the latest feud has underscored the fragility of relations long plagued by disputes over wartime history and rivalry over territory, resources and mutual military suspicions.I think this case presents the biggest obstacle for years in relations between China and Japan. Both sides were on track with efforts to improve relations, but now they have clearly deteriorated, said Liu Jiangyong, an expert on China-Japan relations at Tsinghua University in Beijing.Trade and economic ties could be damaged if Japan does not solve this problem, because mutual trust is at stake.
ROW OVER RESOURCES, SOVEREIGNTY
Japan's sluggish economy has become increasingly reliant on China's dynamism for growth. China has been Japan's biggest trading partner since 2009 and bilateral trade reached 12.6 trillion yen ($147 billion) in the January-June period, a jump of 34.5 percent over the same time last year, Japanese data show.The Japanese economy's future performance seems to depend on whether the problem is solved quickly, Japanese Economics Minister Banri Kaieda told a news conference.China has canceled diplomatic meetings and exchange visits by Japanese students to protest against the trawler captain's detention and concerns are simmering that Beijing is holding back shipments of rare earth minerals vital for electronics goods and auto parts.Trade Minister Akihiro Ohata told a separate news conference that Tokyo had confirmed there was no official export ban, but added that the ministry was still looking into the matter after hearing from traders that exports had been suspended.Analysts say the trawler dispute is largely a row over sovereignty in an area with rich natural gas resources. The islands are known as the Diaoyu islands in China and the Senkaku islands in Japan. The deadline for Japanese prosecutors to decide whether to charge the trawler captain is September 29.Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku, commenting on the affair, said it was important for the two countries to foster strategic, mutually beneficial relations -- a nod to the deep economic ties that would be at risk if the row worsens.Sengoku also said Japan saw no link between the islets row and the detention of the four Japanese nationals.We place great importance on strategic, mutually beneficial relations and authorities should make efforts to enhance that relationship, he said.
China's Xinhua news agency said on Thursday: The state security authorities in Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei, have taken measures against the four people according to law after receiving a report about their illegal activities.A spokeswoman for Fujita Corp said that five of its employees were missing in China -- four Japanese nationals and one Chinese national. But they had no firm information on their whereabouts. She said the employees were in China in connection with a project to dispose of chemical weapons abandoned in China by the Japanese military at the end of World War Two.Japan has been assisting in the disposal of chemical weapons left behind by its Imperial Army during World War Two as part of efforts to improve bilateral relations.(Additional reporting by Risa Maeda, Chikako Mogi and Yoko Kubota in Tokyo and Chris Buckley in Beijing; Writing by Linda Sieg; Editing by Alex Richardson)
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
WILL OBAMA DO A FALSE FLAG ATTACK
Will Obama Force America To Absorb A Terror Attack To Save His Presidency? Ominous words suggest desperate administration could turn to false flag in bid to crush resistance against big government Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Prison Planet.com Wednesday, September 22, 2010
http://www.prisonplanet.com/will-obama-force-america-to-absorb-a-terror-attack-to-save-his-presidency.html
President Obama’s ominous claim that America can absorb a terror attack will have many fearing that staging some kind of false flag event will be the only way the government can overturn the massive resistance to big government that has grown exponentially since Obama took office.During an interview with journalist Bob Woodward, the president said, We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger.However, the only thing that was made stronger by 9/11 was the federal government’s power to harass, shake down and spy on the American people, as was exemplified yet again recently when Pennsylvania’s Office of Homeland Security was caught conducting surveillance on peaceful protest groups with the aid of an Israeli security company who listed Second Amendment groups amongst others as terrorists.Given how both Bush and Clinton before him exploited terror attacks on U.S. soil to boost their flagging political agendas, we should be wary of Obama and his masters making good use of their own October surprise to counter record low approval figures for Congress on the eve of the midterm elections.Talk show hosts such as Michael Savage have long been warning of a Reichstag fire-like event would be concocted to reinvigorate support behind Obama and given that his advisors include such ruthless individuals as Rahm Emanuel, the knife wielding son of a former Israeli terrorist who was involved in bombing hotels, marketplaces as well as massacres, we would be naive to put anything past these people.
Indeed, it was only two months ago that former Clinton advisor Robert Shapiro wrote in the Financial Times that the only thing that could save Obama’s tenuous grip on power was a terror attack on the scale of Oklahoma City or 9/11.The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership, said Shapiro, adding, He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.Shapiro was clearly communicating the necessity for a terror attack to be launched in order to give Obama the opportunity to unite the country around his agenda in the name of fighting terrorists, just as President Bush did in the aftermath of 9/11 when his approval ratings shot up from around 50% to well above 80%.Similarly, Bill Clinton was able to extinguish an anti-incumbent rebellion which was brewing in the mid 1990’s by exploiting the OKC bombing to demonize his political enemies as right-wing extremists. As Jack Cashill points out, Clinton descended on Oklahoma City with an approval rating in the low 40s and left town with a rating well above 50 and the Republican revolution buried in the rubble.Only by exploiting a domestic terror attack which can be blamed on right-wing radicals, or by rallying the country round another war in the middle east, can Obama hope to reverse the tide of anti-incumbency candidates that threaten to drastically dilute the power monopoly of establishment candidates from both major political parties in Washington.Shapiro is by no means the first to point out that terror attacks on U.S. soil and indeed anywhere in the world serve only to benefit those in positions of power.
During the latter years of the Bush presidency, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld mused with Pentagon top brass that shrinking Capitol Hill support for expanding the war on terror could be corrected with the aid of another terror attack.Lt.-Col. Doug Delaney, chair of the war studies program at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, told the Toronto Star in July 2007 that The key to bolstering Western resolve is another terrorist attack like 9/11 or the London transit bombings of two years ago.The same sentiment was also explicitly expressed in a 2005 GOP memo, which yearned for new attacks that would validate the President’s war on terror and restore his image as a leader of the American people.In June 2007, the chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party Dennis Milligan said that there needed to be more attacks on American soil for President Bush to regain popular approval.The Obama administration has proven itself to be alarmingly adept at lying about every issue under the sun, so why should we believe any different when it comes to the terror threat to America? Using terror or the threat of terror as a political tool has been a routine ploy in recent years, and was acknowledged by former Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge when he admitted he was forced to issue fake terror alerts shortly before elections to influence the outcome.Threatening terror has also been a tactic of some of Obama’s biggest supporters in the Democratic party, people like former Senator Gary Hart, who in 2007 wrote a thinly veiled threat to Iranian leaders pointing out that the U.S. has been involved in numerous staged provocations over the years to achieve political agendas, mentioning specifically the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the sinking of the Maine.Given the documented history of staged false flag events being used to manipulate both domestic and geopolitical affairs, added to the numerous threats of such provocations from several highly respected political operatives, it would be foolish to rule out the notion that the Obama administration could turn to such desperate measures in a last gasp effort to salvage power and demonize its growing legions of political adversaries.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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04:00 PM -76.89 10,662.42
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OIL 74.86 +0.15
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GOLD opens at $1,292.50.OIL opens at $74.03 today.
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Europe seals deal on financial supervision-MEPs gave their final approval to the package on Wednesday after earlier reservations (Photo: EUobserver)
ANDREW WILLIS 22.09.2010 @ 16:20 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - MEPs have backed a package of EU legislative proposals on financial supervision, the final approval needed for the 27-member bloc to set up a new system of financial watchdogs, designed to guard against a repeat of the recent financial crisis. Sitting in plenary in Strasbourg on Wednesday (22 September), the euro deputies passed the new legislation by a large majority after months of political wrangling with member states, primarily the UK, which proved less keen on the new EU-level bodies due to fears they could impinge on national sovereignty.
This is a historic watershed moment, Belgian finance minister Didier Reynders said before the vote. As holders of the EU's rotating presidency, Belgian officials have been conducting difficult talks with representatives of the European Parliament over the past few months in a bid to narrow their differences. Following proposals from the European Commission, member states reached a political agreement last December, but MEPs were quick to voice their opposition, brandishing the deal as overly watered-down and riddled with vetoes.Wednesday's vote on a compromise text means three new European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) will start work in January next year, co-ordinating national supervisors in the areas of banking, pensions and financial markets. Part of their role will be to improve the flow of information between national regulators, after the financial crisis in 2008 exposed the vulnerability of national financial systems to the collapse of large cross-border firms.Europe will now have a supervisory model that is adapted to its needs. You have to remember that half the banks in Europe come from other states, said EU financial services commissioner Michel Barnier.A European Systemic Risk Board will monitor for the build-up of risks in the EU financial system as a whole, and will issue 'recommendations' whenever it detects a threat such as a housing or stock market bubble.Its will be headed by the European Central Bank chief for the first five years, after which arrangements will be reviewed.
Implications
Under the final deal, the ESAs will get powers to settle disputes among national financial supervisors if they fail to agree on a cross border issue, such as the Fortis bank collapse in 2008 which saw arguing between the Netherlands and Belgium delay the rescue operations.They will also be able to impose temporary bans on risky financial products and activities, as well as propose the setting up of new Europe-wide technical standards in the different areas. If national supervisors fail to act, then the new bodies in theory can also impose decisions directly on financial institutions in extreme cases, although it remains to be seen how this will work. The new regulators must be responsible, cautioned centre-left MEP Peter Skinner who championed strong powers for the pensions authority and steered the legislation through parliament.In general however, MEPs did not win the power for the authorities to directly supervise banks and other financial players, leaving that task to national regulators, although a review after three years could see the ESAs' powers grow. Parliament's call for all three authorities to be located in Frankfurt close to the European Central Bank was also shelved in the final compromise. Instead, the European Banking Authority (EBA) will be based in London, and a European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in Paris, with only the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) set up in Frankfurt.
Ashton justifies low intake from new EU countries
ANDREW RETTMAN 22.09.2010 @ 19:12 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - New EU countries did poorly in the recent intake of senior diplomats for the European External Action Service (EEAS) because their candidates frequently applied for the same posts, EEAS chief Catherine Ashton has said.One problem this time round is that newer Member States were competing against each other for few posts in [sic] neigbourhood region (nearly two thirds of applicants from newer member states concentrated on just 5 posts), the British baroness wrote in a letter to Polish centre-right deputy Jacek Saryusz-Wolski on Wednesday (22 September).She added that relatively few women applied because of: the requirement for unbroken professional experience (which does not reflect the often non-linear career patterns of female applicants).Out of 68 shortlisted candidates for the 29 jobs, 11 were from new EU countries and 14 were women. Four candidates from new countries and seven women got through. It is unclear how many candidates from either category were knocked out at the shortlisting stage.
Ms Ashton said her letter is designed to set out the facts - rather than the myths and noted that the appointments add up to a 40-percent-plus jump in the number of eastern Europeans and women in senior overseas jobs.The application process for a further 80 high-level EEAS postings closed on 10 September. Another 20-or-so senior administrative jobs in the service are also up for grabs. Former Communist and former Soviet EU countries believe that France, Germany, the UK and other older members of the EU club divide up the best posts between them in back room deals. The ex-Iron Curtain states are also keen to get people into post-Soviet-region postings because they believe they are better qualified to handle them. The current EU envoy to Russia, a Spaniard, and the ambassador to Ukraine, a Portuguese, speak little-or-no Russian or Ukrainian.Former colonial powers know better the situation in Latin America or in the Middle East. Eastern European diplomats know better the situation in the post-Soviet area. That's the reality, Mr Saryusz-Wolski, a rapporteur on the EEAS for the parliament's foreign affairs committee, said.He dismissed the Ashton percentages as a statistical trick.An increase on the basis of small numbers always looks very high. The division of the 29 posts does not correct the geographic or gender imbalance [in the EEAS],he said.The foreign affairs committee on Monday postponed until 29 September its formal opinion on how to amend the EU's staff regulations in order to include the EEAS. It aims to meet with MEPs from the legal affairs committee on 28 September in order to press them to include provisions on geographic and gender balance in the letter of the law on EEAS personnel.Parliament expects to finalise its views on EEAS staff and budget rules at its October plenary. The service is due to start work on 1 December.
EU citizens no longer see benefits of internal market, Barnier says
HONOR MAHONY 22.09.2010 @ 17:41 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The EU needs to revert to the principles of a social market economy as its citizens no longer feel served by the single market, EU internal market commissioner Michel Barnier has said.Speaking to a group of journalists on Monday (20 September), the centre-right French politician pleaded for finding the means for reconciliation between citizens and the European economic project. And to re-find the initial objective [of the European Community] which was very much a social market economy.Barnier:He indicated citizens no longer realise that the internal market, long considered among the EU's most cherished achievements, improves their lives.The current economic climate with member states on the defensive amid rising unemployment and citizen unrest has made his job more difficult. The internal market remains vulnerable to the increase in populistic and nationalistic tendencies,he said.The commissioner has two major initiatives in the pipeline to safeguard the heart of the European project – the relaunch of the Single Market next month, a major undertaking containing between 30 and 40 new proposals, as well as a proposal on making sanctions for market abuse heavier.A former foreign and farm minister, Mr Barnier is also being closely watched for how he deals with regulating financial services where the current laissez-faire culture is seen as having led to the global economic crisis.Having secured on Wednesday (22 September) what critics say is too weak an agreement on financial oversight in order to prevent such a crisis happening again, the commissioner has a raft of other proposals in the offing including on regulating short selling; improving transparency in the derivatives market; strengthening sanctions for violations of financial services laws and forcing banks to put aside more capital reserves.
He remains attached to the idea of a European ratings agency - ratings agencies analyse the risks facing companies and bonds issuers and were blamed for failing to anticipate the financial crisis - and says that the idea of the tax on financial transactions is one of the major questions ahead of him and his colleagues. Financial services, argues the commissioner, must be put back at the service of the real economy.The drive to regulate risks being undermined not only by national capitals, particularly London, home to the EU's most important financial centre, but also a creeping complacency about the crisis being over.The financial crisis is like the environmental crisis, people have very short memories. It is our responsibility as politicians to remind people and to fully learn the lessons of the crisis and not let people forget those lessons, the commissioner said. This includes banks who - though I stress not all of them - say to us that now it is business as usual.With the European Commission having come under fire in the past from both the European Parliament and some member states for reacting too slowly to the economic crisis, Mr Barnier says he believes the executive is now doing what is expected of [it].I believe very strongly in the commission's sole right to propose legislation [and] that we must use it in a proactive way and not in a defensive way. And that it is something I try to do in my own area.Comparing his current mandate to his time as regional commissioner in 1999-2004, Mr Barnier noted that one of the biggest differences is the increase in the number of member states, from 15 to 27, and the greater powers and diversity of the European Parliament. This makes getting agreement on issues a much more time-consuming affair, he said.
Van Rompuy defends economic taskforce against critics
VALENTINA POP 22.09.2010 @ 13:03 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – EU council president Herman Van Rompuy on Wednesday (22 September) defended the working speed of his taskforce set up to look at legal ways to strengthen economic co-ordination among member states in order to avoid another sovereign debt crisis.Although some have claimed that our work on this is slow, we have in fact covered an enormous amount of ground in a very short time, Mr Van Rompuy told MEPs during a hearing on the outcome of last week's summit.He added that in his view, progress on updating rules on economic governance was happening very quickly when compared to the negotiations establishing the 1997 Stability and Growth Pact, which laid down the ground rules for the eurozone. In the run-up to the summit, several EU diplomats cast doubts that Mr Van Rompuy's taskforce would make any headway in the coming months. Van Rompuy has probably already achieved what he expected to achieve in terms of the European semester,one source said, referring to the new six-month budget review period agreed by finance ministers two weeks ago. But the former Belgian prime minister insisted that his report, due on 27 September and likely to be adopted by EU leaders on 28-29 October, will draw the final right lessons of the crisis.He admitted however that there are divergences among member states over the scope of sanctions for deficit laggards – the sticking point over how to make economic governance work. As economic talks at last week's summit were completely overshadowed by the Roma row between France and the EU commission, Mr Van Rompuy stressed that such council gatherings should not be seen as summits, but as routine meetings of an EU institution.
Criticised by leftist and Green MEPs that he appears to be in a parallel galaxy for presenting the summit as a success, Mr Van Rompuy said he prefers to stick to facts rather than be seduced by perceptions.He defended his stance that EU leaders should meet as often as possible under his chairmanship, because it gives to the member states a sense of ownership and participation in the Union and reinforces their commitment to its success.That is why I am investing time and energy in maintaining regular contacts with the presidents of other institutions, not least the President of the European Commission, the rotating council presidency, the Central Bank, the Euro Group and of course yourself Mr President [of the European Parliament].With all his good intentions of making the EU work, last week's summit was however marred by fighting over the extent to which the commission should be allowed to defend EU law.
Speaking in the plenary, Socialist leader Martin Schulz highlighted the problem of applying EU policies only when it fits my policies back home - something he said that both centre-right and centre-left governments indulged in.This institutional danger puts Europe as a whole at risk. We need the community method and it is the task of the European Parliament to get this through,he said.
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Two States and Two Statements instead of Two Peoples
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu SEPT 22,10
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad stalked out of a meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon in New York Tuesday evening after refusing to add the words two peoples to the phrase two states. His refusal emphasized the PA's determination not to acknowledge that Israel is a Jewish State.The spat caused the cancellation of a scheduled press conference at the United Nations Ad Hoc Liaison Committee meeting. In a summary statement that was being prepared, Ayalon pointed out to Fayyad that the phrase two states, meaning Israel and the Palestinian Authority, was not followed by the usual term two peoples.Fayyad answered by simply walking out abruptly. The Palestinian Authority won’t even agree on words, let alone actions,Ayalon commented on Voice of Israel government radio Wednesday morning. Israel has done more to try to establish a Palestinian Authority state than they have done.
He said that the PA will be to blame if it walks out on the American-initiated talks because of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s plans to resume building Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria after the 10-month freeze expires next Monday.For nine and a half months, what did they say—it [the freeze] is not serious so we won’t talk, Ayalon added. Now they want to accept it, and this proves they are not serious in their intentions.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Abbas Backs Off Threat to Quit Talks over Building Issue
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu SEPT 22,10
Abbas told American Jewish leaders Tuesday night,I cannot say that I will leave the negotiations if Israel resumes building homes for Jews in Judea and Samaria.He added that it would be difficult for me to resume talks if the 10-month building freezes is not extended, but his softer language was the first time he has backed off from his threat to walk out if his demands are not met. Editor of the Hebrew newspaper Makor Rishon, Uri Elitzur, predicted this in an interview with INN news on Tuesday, but saw it as part of a master plan that would soon make the PA state a fait accompli.The United States and the European Union have put intense pressure on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to extend the moratorium. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested that it be extended for three months, by which time the Palestinian Authority and Israel would be required to draw up final borders.There are those who claim that this would allow Israel to continue to build in communities that are to remain part of the country in any agreement, but Prime Minister Netanyahu rejected that limiting idea. He explained that the freeze was imposed to meet Abbas' condition for talks and not for any other purpose, but that he then continued to refuse to sit down at the same table with Israel for months anyway.Abbas spoke with approximately 60 American Jewish leaders for the second time this year, despite criticism from many leaders after the first meeting that he was trying to use them to fortify his position at Israel’s expense. The meeting was sponsored by the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace.
The PA leader argued that he did not boycott talks for the past 10 months, during which time U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell tried arrange proximity talks that the United States was to mediate. They did not get off the ground until less than two months ago and lasted for only one or two meetings that were bogged down with the building freeze demand.Now, when we are starting real negotiations, now he [Netanyahu] refuses to give us two, three, four months, to give the opportunity for negotiations to tackle final status issues,Abbas said.Why? We cannot miss this opportunity.Abbas also indicated the possibility he would soften his position against agreeing to call Israel a Jewish State. One Jewish leader asked him what he would do if Israel changed its official name to The Jewish State of Israel,Abbas answered, Of course, we have to accept it.There was no report on any reference to the status of Jerusalem, the most contentious final status issue, but Abbas hinted that he would not insist on the Arab world’s demand that Israel allow the immigration of several million foreign Arabs who claim Israel as their home through ancestry.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Russia Shelves Plan to Sell S-300 Missiles to Iran
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu SEPT 22,10
Russia announced another about-face in its plans to sell Iran S-300 missiles but left the door open for a change in policy, depending on how Iran responds to international demands for United Nations inspection of its nuclear facilities.A decision has been made not to supply S-300s to Iran. They are definitely subject to the sanctions, [and] time will show. It will depend on Iran's behavior, Russian Chief of General Staff Nikolai Makarov told reporters Wednesday.Russia issued a similar announcement last June but then agreed to go through with delivery of the missile system.There has been an instruction from the leadership to stop the shipment, and we are obeying it, he said.The contract for the sale of the missiles to the Islamic Republic was signed more than two years ago. The S-300 anti-aircraft missiles system can down airplanes and missiles from a range of up to 90 miles (150 kilometers).The United States and Israel have opposed the sale. However, Russia's change in policy, due to the United Nations sanctions, does not affect its agreement to follow through with the sale of the Yakhont anti-ship missile to Syria, which Israel and the United States fear will fall into the hands of the Hizbullah terrorist army in Lebanon.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Israel Hurtles Headlong into Sukkot
by David Lev SEPT 20,10
With Yom Kippur behind us, the Jewish world is hurtling headfirst into the joyous holiday of Sukkot – and this week, Jews in Israel and the diaspora are working overtime to build their sukkot and purchase their arba minim (four species) set - the etrog (citron), lulav (palm branch) hadas (myrtle), and arava (willow) that are used throughout the holiday.Fortunately, they aren't alone; there's a whole tribe of Sukkot support staff out there, working hard to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to celebrate the holiday properly. Arba minim sets are available in every community, either home-delivered or at special arba minim markets around the country, the biggest being outside the Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem.The sukkot themselves, the thatch-roofed structures made out of wood or special cloth wrapped around a metal frame, are available in hardware stores, shopping centers and outside nearly every supermarket in the country. And, of course, decorations to hang on the walls or from the roof of your sukkah – pictures of famous rabbis or holy places, strings of light in every color of the rainbow, or even objets d'art – are available nearly everywhere.Noam Kampler, who has been in the arba minim business for six years, said that this year, as opposed to most others, most Israelis will be using better-quality Israeli-grown lulavim in the synagogue – instead of the lower-quality palm branches usually imported from Egypt.For whatever reason, lulavim from Egypt are expensive this year, and the Israeli growers were prepared, making sure they cut the palm branches early this year, according to Kempler. As a result, he says, some 80-90 percent of lulavim available are made in Israel,as opposed to the 20 percent or so that constituted the market's home-grown palm branches in previous years.
In another piece of good news, Kampler says that this summer's hot weather did not affect supplies of sensitive hadassim or etrogim. There were rumors of shortages among the wholesalers, like there are every year, but they turned out to be false, he says, adding that there is plenty of stock available, with prices remaining the same as they were last year – NIS 60 to 100 ($16-$$27), depending on quality.Far from being restricted to religiously observant Israelis, Sukkot is enthusiastically celebrated by secular Jews as well. Rabbi Yitzchak Cohen, who heads the Chabad House in the Samaria community of Karnei Shomron, says that about half his customers are definitely not what you would call religious. But that doesn't stop them from celebrating Sukkot, which is a beautiful holiday here. The kids learn about it in school and ask the parents to put one up, and the parents are happy to comply.And putting a sukkah up is easier than ever, Rabbi Cohen says. Over the past few years, sukkah structures sold in Israel have been completely retooled, and today anyone can put one up with a minimum of fuss.Light, easily assembled poles, art-deco fabrics, easy to attach schach (the sukkah's bamboo roof) and attractive, lightweight decorations put an ultra-modern twist on an ancient commandment, Rabbi Cohen says.
And many organizations make sure those on the road and in city centers are covered, too. We have roving sukkot that we bring to IDF soldiers stationed at posts around the country, giving them the opportunity to fulfill the mitzvah as well,says Rabbi Cohen And Chabad isn't alone – a multitude of organizations in Israel put up sukkot for the public in city centers. The Municipality of Jerusalem puts up what is probably the largest sukkah in the world outside City Hall, and even shopping malls make sure to set up a sukkah for patrons – on the roof, of course.And this year, Bnei Akiva is doing its best to export the joyous Sukkot spirit from Israel to 30 countries around the world. Almost every Bnei Akiva branch in the world will sponsor a sukkah for use by anyone in the community, and will sponsor activities throughout the week of the holiday. Among the places where Bnei Akiva will set up sukkot are Brookline, Massachusetts, where students at the Maimonides Jewish day school will have the opportunity to visit with the traditional Ushpizin, the Biblical Sukkot guests – with the addition of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. The children will learn about Gilad, pray for him and write letters to the Shalit family.Bnei Akiva has set up a mega-Sukkah in San Francisco that will host hundreds, and in Oslo, Norway, a kosher cafe with sukkah attached will be set up in the Jewish community center, hosting residents and Jewish students in the area.All the Bnei Akiva activities and events will emphasize the importance of the State if Israel, said Ze'ev Schwartz, World Bnei Akiva emissary.I have asked Bnei Akiva's 150 branches around the world to remember Gilat Shalit, who is still a captive in Gaza and to add him as one of the traditional Ushpizin,he added.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
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President Obama’s ominous claim that America can absorb a terror attack will have many fearing that staging some kind of false flag event will be the only way the government can overturn the massive resistance to big government that has grown exponentially since Obama took office.During an interview with journalist Bob Woodward, the president said, We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger.However, the only thing that was made stronger by 9/11 was the federal government’s power to harass, shake down and spy on the American people, as was exemplified yet again recently when Pennsylvania’s Office of Homeland Security was caught conducting surveillance on peaceful protest groups with the aid of an Israeli security company who listed Second Amendment groups amongst others as terrorists.Given how both Bush and Clinton before him exploited terror attacks on U.S. soil to boost their flagging political agendas, we should be wary of Obama and his masters making good use of their own October surprise to counter record low approval figures for Congress on the eve of the midterm elections.Talk show hosts such as Michael Savage have long been warning of a Reichstag fire-like event would be concocted to reinvigorate support behind Obama and given that his advisors include such ruthless individuals as Rahm Emanuel, the knife wielding son of a former Israeli terrorist who was involved in bombing hotels, marketplaces as well as massacres, we would be naive to put anything past these people.
Indeed, it was only two months ago that former Clinton advisor Robert Shapiro wrote in the Financial Times that the only thing that could save Obama’s tenuous grip on power was a terror attack on the scale of Oklahoma City or 9/11.The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership, said Shapiro, adding, He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.Shapiro was clearly communicating the necessity for a terror attack to be launched in order to give Obama the opportunity to unite the country around his agenda in the name of fighting terrorists, just as President Bush did in the aftermath of 9/11 when his approval ratings shot up from around 50% to well above 80%.Similarly, Bill Clinton was able to extinguish an anti-incumbent rebellion which was brewing in the mid 1990’s by exploiting the OKC bombing to demonize his political enemies as right-wing extremists. As Jack Cashill points out, Clinton descended on Oklahoma City with an approval rating in the low 40s and left town with a rating well above 50 and the Republican revolution buried in the rubble.Only by exploiting a domestic terror attack which can be blamed on right-wing radicals, or by rallying the country round another war in the middle east, can Obama hope to reverse the tide of anti-incumbency candidates that threaten to drastically dilute the power monopoly of establishment candidates from both major political parties in Washington.Shapiro is by no means the first to point out that terror attacks on U.S. soil and indeed anywhere in the world serve only to benefit those in positions of power.
During the latter years of the Bush presidency, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld mused with Pentagon top brass that shrinking Capitol Hill support for expanding the war on terror could be corrected with the aid of another terror attack.Lt.-Col. Doug Delaney, chair of the war studies program at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, told the Toronto Star in July 2007 that The key to bolstering Western resolve is another terrorist attack like 9/11 or the London transit bombings of two years ago.The same sentiment was also explicitly expressed in a 2005 GOP memo, which yearned for new attacks that would validate the President’s war on terror and restore his image as a leader of the American people.In June 2007, the chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party Dennis Milligan said that there needed to be more attacks on American soil for President Bush to regain popular approval.The Obama administration has proven itself to be alarmingly adept at lying about every issue under the sun, so why should we believe any different when it comes to the terror threat to America? Using terror or the threat of terror as a political tool has been a routine ploy in recent years, and was acknowledged by former Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge when he admitted he was forced to issue fake terror alerts shortly before elections to influence the outcome.Threatening terror has also been a tactic of some of Obama’s biggest supporters in the Democratic party, people like former Senator Gary Hart, who in 2007 wrote a thinly veiled threat to Iranian leaders pointing out that the U.S. has been involved in numerous staged provocations over the years to achieve political agendas, mentioning specifically the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the sinking of the Maine.Given the documented history of staged false flag events being used to manipulate both domestic and geopolitical affairs, added to the numerous threats of such provocations from several highly respected political operatives, it would be foolish to rule out the notion that the Obama administration could turn to such desperate measures in a last gasp effort to salvage power and demonize its growing legions of political adversaries.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
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Europe seals deal on financial supervision-MEPs gave their final approval to the package on Wednesday after earlier reservations (Photo: EUobserver)
ANDREW WILLIS 22.09.2010 @ 16:20 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - MEPs have backed a package of EU legislative proposals on financial supervision, the final approval needed for the 27-member bloc to set up a new system of financial watchdogs, designed to guard against a repeat of the recent financial crisis. Sitting in plenary in Strasbourg on Wednesday (22 September), the euro deputies passed the new legislation by a large majority after months of political wrangling with member states, primarily the UK, which proved less keen on the new EU-level bodies due to fears they could impinge on national sovereignty.
This is a historic watershed moment, Belgian finance minister Didier Reynders said before the vote. As holders of the EU's rotating presidency, Belgian officials have been conducting difficult talks with representatives of the European Parliament over the past few months in a bid to narrow their differences. Following proposals from the European Commission, member states reached a political agreement last December, but MEPs were quick to voice their opposition, brandishing the deal as overly watered-down and riddled with vetoes.Wednesday's vote on a compromise text means three new European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) will start work in January next year, co-ordinating national supervisors in the areas of banking, pensions and financial markets. Part of their role will be to improve the flow of information between national regulators, after the financial crisis in 2008 exposed the vulnerability of national financial systems to the collapse of large cross-border firms.Europe will now have a supervisory model that is adapted to its needs. You have to remember that half the banks in Europe come from other states, said EU financial services commissioner Michel Barnier.A European Systemic Risk Board will monitor for the build-up of risks in the EU financial system as a whole, and will issue 'recommendations' whenever it detects a threat such as a housing or stock market bubble.Its will be headed by the European Central Bank chief for the first five years, after which arrangements will be reviewed.
Implications
Under the final deal, the ESAs will get powers to settle disputes among national financial supervisors if they fail to agree on a cross border issue, such as the Fortis bank collapse in 2008 which saw arguing between the Netherlands and Belgium delay the rescue operations.They will also be able to impose temporary bans on risky financial products and activities, as well as propose the setting up of new Europe-wide technical standards in the different areas. If national supervisors fail to act, then the new bodies in theory can also impose decisions directly on financial institutions in extreme cases, although it remains to be seen how this will work. The new regulators must be responsible, cautioned centre-left MEP Peter Skinner who championed strong powers for the pensions authority and steered the legislation through parliament.In general however, MEPs did not win the power for the authorities to directly supervise banks and other financial players, leaving that task to national regulators, although a review after three years could see the ESAs' powers grow. Parliament's call for all three authorities to be located in Frankfurt close to the European Central Bank was also shelved in the final compromise. Instead, the European Banking Authority (EBA) will be based in London, and a European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in Paris, with only the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) set up in Frankfurt.
Ashton justifies low intake from new EU countries
ANDREW RETTMAN 22.09.2010 @ 19:12 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - New EU countries did poorly in the recent intake of senior diplomats for the European External Action Service (EEAS) because their candidates frequently applied for the same posts, EEAS chief Catherine Ashton has said.One problem this time round is that newer Member States were competing against each other for few posts in [sic] neigbourhood region (nearly two thirds of applicants from newer member states concentrated on just 5 posts), the British baroness wrote in a letter to Polish centre-right deputy Jacek Saryusz-Wolski on Wednesday (22 September).She added that relatively few women applied because of: the requirement for unbroken professional experience (which does not reflect the often non-linear career patterns of female applicants).Out of 68 shortlisted candidates for the 29 jobs, 11 were from new EU countries and 14 were women. Four candidates from new countries and seven women got through. It is unclear how many candidates from either category were knocked out at the shortlisting stage.
Ms Ashton said her letter is designed to set out the facts - rather than the myths and noted that the appointments add up to a 40-percent-plus jump in the number of eastern Europeans and women in senior overseas jobs.The application process for a further 80 high-level EEAS postings closed on 10 September. Another 20-or-so senior administrative jobs in the service are also up for grabs. Former Communist and former Soviet EU countries believe that France, Germany, the UK and other older members of the EU club divide up the best posts between them in back room deals. The ex-Iron Curtain states are also keen to get people into post-Soviet-region postings because they believe they are better qualified to handle them. The current EU envoy to Russia, a Spaniard, and the ambassador to Ukraine, a Portuguese, speak little-or-no Russian or Ukrainian.Former colonial powers know better the situation in Latin America or in the Middle East. Eastern European diplomats know better the situation in the post-Soviet area. That's the reality, Mr Saryusz-Wolski, a rapporteur on the EEAS for the parliament's foreign affairs committee, said.He dismissed the Ashton percentages as a statistical trick.An increase on the basis of small numbers always looks very high. The division of the 29 posts does not correct the geographic or gender imbalance [in the EEAS],he said.The foreign affairs committee on Monday postponed until 29 September its formal opinion on how to amend the EU's staff regulations in order to include the EEAS. It aims to meet with MEPs from the legal affairs committee on 28 September in order to press them to include provisions on geographic and gender balance in the letter of the law on EEAS personnel.Parliament expects to finalise its views on EEAS staff and budget rules at its October plenary. The service is due to start work on 1 December.
EU citizens no longer see benefits of internal market, Barnier says
HONOR MAHONY 22.09.2010 @ 17:41 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The EU needs to revert to the principles of a social market economy as its citizens no longer feel served by the single market, EU internal market commissioner Michel Barnier has said.Speaking to a group of journalists on Monday (20 September), the centre-right French politician pleaded for finding the means for reconciliation between citizens and the European economic project. And to re-find the initial objective [of the European Community] which was very much a social market economy.Barnier:He indicated citizens no longer realise that the internal market, long considered among the EU's most cherished achievements, improves their lives.The current economic climate with member states on the defensive amid rising unemployment and citizen unrest has made his job more difficult. The internal market remains vulnerable to the increase in populistic and nationalistic tendencies,he said.The commissioner has two major initiatives in the pipeline to safeguard the heart of the European project – the relaunch of the Single Market next month, a major undertaking containing between 30 and 40 new proposals, as well as a proposal on making sanctions for market abuse heavier.A former foreign and farm minister, Mr Barnier is also being closely watched for how he deals with regulating financial services where the current laissez-faire culture is seen as having led to the global economic crisis.Having secured on Wednesday (22 September) what critics say is too weak an agreement on financial oversight in order to prevent such a crisis happening again, the commissioner has a raft of other proposals in the offing including on regulating short selling; improving transparency in the derivatives market; strengthening sanctions for violations of financial services laws and forcing banks to put aside more capital reserves.
He remains attached to the idea of a European ratings agency - ratings agencies analyse the risks facing companies and bonds issuers and were blamed for failing to anticipate the financial crisis - and says that the idea of the tax on financial transactions is one of the major questions ahead of him and his colleagues. Financial services, argues the commissioner, must be put back at the service of the real economy.The drive to regulate risks being undermined not only by national capitals, particularly London, home to the EU's most important financial centre, but also a creeping complacency about the crisis being over.The financial crisis is like the environmental crisis, people have very short memories. It is our responsibility as politicians to remind people and to fully learn the lessons of the crisis and not let people forget those lessons, the commissioner said. This includes banks who - though I stress not all of them - say to us that now it is business as usual.With the European Commission having come under fire in the past from both the European Parliament and some member states for reacting too slowly to the economic crisis, Mr Barnier says he believes the executive is now doing what is expected of [it].I believe very strongly in the commission's sole right to propose legislation [and] that we must use it in a proactive way and not in a defensive way. And that it is something I try to do in my own area.Comparing his current mandate to his time as regional commissioner in 1999-2004, Mr Barnier noted that one of the biggest differences is the increase in the number of member states, from 15 to 27, and the greater powers and diversity of the European Parliament. This makes getting agreement on issues a much more time-consuming affair, he said.
Van Rompuy defends economic taskforce against critics
VALENTINA POP 22.09.2010 @ 13:03 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – EU council president Herman Van Rompuy on Wednesday (22 September) defended the working speed of his taskforce set up to look at legal ways to strengthen economic co-ordination among member states in order to avoid another sovereign debt crisis.Although some have claimed that our work on this is slow, we have in fact covered an enormous amount of ground in a very short time, Mr Van Rompuy told MEPs during a hearing on the outcome of last week's summit.He added that in his view, progress on updating rules on economic governance was happening very quickly when compared to the negotiations establishing the 1997 Stability and Growth Pact, which laid down the ground rules for the eurozone. In the run-up to the summit, several EU diplomats cast doubts that Mr Van Rompuy's taskforce would make any headway in the coming months. Van Rompuy has probably already achieved what he expected to achieve in terms of the European semester,one source said, referring to the new six-month budget review period agreed by finance ministers two weeks ago. But the former Belgian prime minister insisted that his report, due on 27 September and likely to be adopted by EU leaders on 28-29 October, will draw the final right lessons of the crisis.He admitted however that there are divergences among member states over the scope of sanctions for deficit laggards – the sticking point over how to make economic governance work. As economic talks at last week's summit were completely overshadowed by the Roma row between France and the EU commission, Mr Van Rompuy stressed that such council gatherings should not be seen as summits, but as routine meetings of an EU institution.
Criticised by leftist and Green MEPs that he appears to be in a parallel galaxy for presenting the summit as a success, Mr Van Rompuy said he prefers to stick to facts rather than be seduced by perceptions.He defended his stance that EU leaders should meet as often as possible under his chairmanship, because it gives to the member states a sense of ownership and participation in the Union and reinforces their commitment to its success.That is why I am investing time and energy in maintaining regular contacts with the presidents of other institutions, not least the President of the European Commission, the rotating council presidency, the Central Bank, the Euro Group and of course yourself Mr President [of the European Parliament].With all his good intentions of making the EU work, last week's summit was however marred by fighting over the extent to which the commission should be allowed to defend EU law.
Speaking in the plenary, Socialist leader Martin Schulz highlighted the problem of applying EU policies only when it fits my policies back home - something he said that both centre-right and centre-left governments indulged in.This institutional danger puts Europe as a whole at risk. We need the community method and it is the task of the European Parliament to get this through,he said.
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Two States and Two Statements instead of Two Peoples
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu SEPT 22,10
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad stalked out of a meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon in New York Tuesday evening after refusing to add the words two peoples to the phrase two states. His refusal emphasized the PA's determination not to acknowledge that Israel is a Jewish State.The spat caused the cancellation of a scheduled press conference at the United Nations Ad Hoc Liaison Committee meeting. In a summary statement that was being prepared, Ayalon pointed out to Fayyad that the phrase two states, meaning Israel and the Palestinian Authority, was not followed by the usual term two peoples.Fayyad answered by simply walking out abruptly. The Palestinian Authority won’t even agree on words, let alone actions,Ayalon commented on Voice of Israel government radio Wednesday morning. Israel has done more to try to establish a Palestinian Authority state than they have done.
He said that the PA will be to blame if it walks out on the American-initiated talks because of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s plans to resume building Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria after the 10-month freeze expires next Monday.For nine and a half months, what did they say—it [the freeze] is not serious so we won’t talk, Ayalon added. Now they want to accept it, and this proves they are not serious in their intentions.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Abbas Backs Off Threat to Quit Talks over Building Issue
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu SEPT 22,10
Abbas told American Jewish leaders Tuesday night,I cannot say that I will leave the negotiations if Israel resumes building homes for Jews in Judea and Samaria.He added that it would be difficult for me to resume talks if the 10-month building freezes is not extended, but his softer language was the first time he has backed off from his threat to walk out if his demands are not met. Editor of the Hebrew newspaper Makor Rishon, Uri Elitzur, predicted this in an interview with INN news on Tuesday, but saw it as part of a master plan that would soon make the PA state a fait accompli.The United States and the European Union have put intense pressure on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to extend the moratorium. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested that it be extended for three months, by which time the Palestinian Authority and Israel would be required to draw up final borders.There are those who claim that this would allow Israel to continue to build in communities that are to remain part of the country in any agreement, but Prime Minister Netanyahu rejected that limiting idea. He explained that the freeze was imposed to meet Abbas' condition for talks and not for any other purpose, but that he then continued to refuse to sit down at the same table with Israel for months anyway.Abbas spoke with approximately 60 American Jewish leaders for the second time this year, despite criticism from many leaders after the first meeting that he was trying to use them to fortify his position at Israel’s expense. The meeting was sponsored by the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace.
The PA leader argued that he did not boycott talks for the past 10 months, during which time U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell tried arrange proximity talks that the United States was to mediate. They did not get off the ground until less than two months ago and lasted for only one or two meetings that were bogged down with the building freeze demand.Now, when we are starting real negotiations, now he [Netanyahu] refuses to give us two, three, four months, to give the opportunity for negotiations to tackle final status issues,Abbas said.Why? We cannot miss this opportunity.Abbas also indicated the possibility he would soften his position against agreeing to call Israel a Jewish State. One Jewish leader asked him what he would do if Israel changed its official name to The Jewish State of Israel,Abbas answered, Of course, we have to accept it.There was no report on any reference to the status of Jerusalem, the most contentious final status issue, but Abbas hinted that he would not insist on the Arab world’s demand that Israel allow the immigration of several million foreign Arabs who claim Israel as their home through ancestry.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Russia Shelves Plan to Sell S-300 Missiles to Iran
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu SEPT 22,10
Russia announced another about-face in its plans to sell Iran S-300 missiles but left the door open for a change in policy, depending on how Iran responds to international demands for United Nations inspection of its nuclear facilities.A decision has been made not to supply S-300s to Iran. They are definitely subject to the sanctions, [and] time will show. It will depend on Iran's behavior, Russian Chief of General Staff Nikolai Makarov told reporters Wednesday.Russia issued a similar announcement last June but then agreed to go through with delivery of the missile system.There has been an instruction from the leadership to stop the shipment, and we are obeying it, he said.The contract for the sale of the missiles to the Islamic Republic was signed more than two years ago. The S-300 anti-aircraft missiles system can down airplanes and missiles from a range of up to 90 miles (150 kilometers).The United States and Israel have opposed the sale. However, Russia's change in policy, due to the United Nations sanctions, does not affect its agreement to follow through with the sale of the Yakhont anti-ship missile to Syria, which Israel and the United States fear will fall into the hands of the Hizbullah terrorist army in Lebanon.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Israel Hurtles Headlong into Sukkot
by David Lev SEPT 20,10
With Yom Kippur behind us, the Jewish world is hurtling headfirst into the joyous holiday of Sukkot – and this week, Jews in Israel and the diaspora are working overtime to build their sukkot and purchase their arba minim (four species) set - the etrog (citron), lulav (palm branch) hadas (myrtle), and arava (willow) that are used throughout the holiday.Fortunately, they aren't alone; there's a whole tribe of Sukkot support staff out there, working hard to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to celebrate the holiday properly. Arba minim sets are available in every community, either home-delivered or at special arba minim markets around the country, the biggest being outside the Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem.The sukkot themselves, the thatch-roofed structures made out of wood or special cloth wrapped around a metal frame, are available in hardware stores, shopping centers and outside nearly every supermarket in the country. And, of course, decorations to hang on the walls or from the roof of your sukkah – pictures of famous rabbis or holy places, strings of light in every color of the rainbow, or even objets d'art – are available nearly everywhere.Noam Kampler, who has been in the arba minim business for six years, said that this year, as opposed to most others, most Israelis will be using better-quality Israeli-grown lulavim in the synagogue – instead of the lower-quality palm branches usually imported from Egypt.For whatever reason, lulavim from Egypt are expensive this year, and the Israeli growers were prepared, making sure they cut the palm branches early this year, according to Kempler. As a result, he says, some 80-90 percent of lulavim available are made in Israel,as opposed to the 20 percent or so that constituted the market's home-grown palm branches in previous years.
In another piece of good news, Kampler says that this summer's hot weather did not affect supplies of sensitive hadassim or etrogim. There were rumors of shortages among the wholesalers, like there are every year, but they turned out to be false, he says, adding that there is plenty of stock available, with prices remaining the same as they were last year – NIS 60 to 100 ($16-$$27), depending on quality.Far from being restricted to religiously observant Israelis, Sukkot is enthusiastically celebrated by secular Jews as well. Rabbi Yitzchak Cohen, who heads the Chabad House in the Samaria community of Karnei Shomron, says that about half his customers are definitely not what you would call religious. But that doesn't stop them from celebrating Sukkot, which is a beautiful holiday here. The kids learn about it in school and ask the parents to put one up, and the parents are happy to comply.And putting a sukkah up is easier than ever, Rabbi Cohen says. Over the past few years, sukkah structures sold in Israel have been completely retooled, and today anyone can put one up with a minimum of fuss.Light, easily assembled poles, art-deco fabrics, easy to attach schach (the sukkah's bamboo roof) and attractive, lightweight decorations put an ultra-modern twist on an ancient commandment, Rabbi Cohen says.
And many organizations make sure those on the road and in city centers are covered, too. We have roving sukkot that we bring to IDF soldiers stationed at posts around the country, giving them the opportunity to fulfill the mitzvah as well,says Rabbi Cohen And Chabad isn't alone – a multitude of organizations in Israel put up sukkot for the public in city centers. The Municipality of Jerusalem puts up what is probably the largest sukkah in the world outside City Hall, and even shopping malls make sure to set up a sukkah for patrons – on the roof, of course.And this year, Bnei Akiva is doing its best to export the joyous Sukkot spirit from Israel to 30 countries around the world. Almost every Bnei Akiva branch in the world will sponsor a sukkah for use by anyone in the community, and will sponsor activities throughout the week of the holiday. Among the places where Bnei Akiva will set up sukkot are Brookline, Massachusetts, where students at the Maimonides Jewish day school will have the opportunity to visit with the traditional Ushpizin, the Biblical Sukkot guests – with the addition of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. The children will learn about Gilad, pray for him and write letters to the Shalit family.Bnei Akiva has set up a mega-Sukkah in San Francisco that will host hundreds, and in Oslo, Norway, a kosher cafe with sukkah attached will be set up in the Jewish community center, hosting residents and Jewish students in the area.All the Bnei Akiva activities and events will emphasize the importance of the State if Israel, said Ze'ev Schwartz, World Bnei Akiva emissary.I have asked Bnei Akiva's 150 branches around the world to remember Gilat Shalit, who is still a captive in Gaza and to add him as one of the traditional Ushpizin,he added.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
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