WORLD GOVERNMENT
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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.
Markets must be allowed to drive currencies: Geithner By Glenn Somerville and David Lawder – Wed Oct 6, 12:00 pm ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Failure by global institutions to make a coordinated push to persuade countries such as China to let their currencies' value rise would endanger the global economy, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday.
Geithner, laying out the U.S. position ahead of this weekend's semi-annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, made clear he sees the risk of a round of destructive competitive currency devaluations.This is a problem because when large economies with undervalued exchange rates act to keep the currency from appreciating, that encourages other countries to do the same, he said at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.He told a questioner the Obama administration has ample backing for its efforts to get Beijing to move toward market-oriented exchange rates, which would make its exports more costly, but cautioned against expecting quick results.China will be less likely to move to allow its currency to rise more rapidly if it is not confident other countries will move with it,Geithner said, in a clear reference to risks that others are becoming more willing to keep their currencies' value down as a policy to boost exports.
FOCUS ON EMERGING MARKETS
Geithner's remarks were pointed, essentially saying that the United States was set to do its part to help rebalance global growth but that many others were not and that big emerging economies were specially reluctant.As America saves more, countries overly reliant on exports to us for their own growth will need to change their policies, or else global growth will slow and all of us will be worse off, he warned.Countries that chronically run large surpluses need to undertake policies that will boost their domestic demand, he added. China has run persistently big surpluses on its U.S. trade for years, prompting angry U.S. lawmakers to pass a legislative proposal threatening tariffs against its imports unless the yuan's value is allowed to rise.Geithner sounded a note of frustration that so many countries were apparently willing to use currencies as a policy tool.The main problem today is you have a set of emerging economies that both remain undervalued and are leaning heavily against appreciation, he said. That's not a viable strategy for them, it's not a sustainable strategy for their trading partners, for the countries they compete with, and it's not good for the system as a whole.Currencies have become a point of contention in recent weeks as the U.S. dollar, to which China links the yuan's value, has steadily fallen in anticipation of a further easing in U.S. monetary policy. This has sent investors into emerging markets in search of higher yields, driving those countries' currencies higher.Geithner said it will require coordinated action among trading partners to settle how to let markets determine currency values and warned the United States can't make the case alone.
EXISTENTIAL PROBLEM
Don't look for a near-term quick fix on this, he said. This is the central existential challenge of cooperation internationally and it will take a long period of time.Geithner refused to respond when asked directly whether some type of coordinated intervention was needed in currency markets, saying he would only answer the question if it was useful for him to do so.He also said the United States is going to have to move cautiously in removing economic stimulus because growth is still relatively soft, signaling it will be reluctant to take major steps quickly to cut its debts or raise interest rates.We believe the United States in particular needs to continue providing well-targeted support for the recovery in the near term even as we put in place plans to help ensure fiscal sustainability over the longer term, he said. Geithner said that the problem of undervalued currencies was inherently a multilateral problem that would take a cooperative effort to solve in the form of an effective multilateral mechanism to push countries with big current account surpluses to abandon export-oriented policies. He suggested the IMF needed to be more forceful in surveillance of global currency practices and to push for a cooperative rebalancing of policy that would help sustain growth.We'd like to see the IMF have more leverage, more capacity to make a difference in these things, Geithner said.(Additional reporting by Mark Felsenthal and Doug Palmer; Editing by James Dalgleish)
IMF warns global recovery might not be sustained
by Andrew Beatty - Wed Oct 6, 4:57 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Rich and emerging economies must dramatically change the way they trade with each other or risk throttling the global economic recovery, the International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday.In its latest economic outlook, the IMF said growth would slow more than previously expected in 2011, as the United States, Europe and Japan continue to struggle and China remains overly dependent on exports.The recovery is neither strong nor balanced and runs the risk of not being sustained, warned Olivier Blanchard, the IMF's chief economist.Painting a picture of a faltering developed world -- where business is still struggling to pick up where government crisis spending left off -- the IMF predicted global growth would be pared back to 4.2 percent next year.That is less than the 4.8 percent growth expected this year and 0.2 point below the IMF's July forecast for 2011.While restocking had helped short-term growth in the United States, Japan and some parts of Europe, the IMF said advanced economies were still reliant on dwindling government spending.For the past year or so, inventory accumulation and fiscal stimulus were driving the recovery. The first is coming to an end. The second is slowly being phased out, the IMF said in its twice-yearly World Economic Outlook.
The IMF slashed its US growth forecast for 2011, to 2.3 percent, lopping 0.6 points off its July forecasts.The growth forecast was also trimmed for this year, down 0.7 points to 2.2 percent, with warnings of a weak recovery in coming quarters.The IMF recommended that some central banks, like the US Federal Reserve, continue their ultra-loose monetary policies, but warned the impact of such policies would now be limited.Not much more can be done, and one should not expect too much from further quantitative or credit easing.Increased exports must take up the slack, it added.
Many advanced economies, most notably the United States, which relied excessively on domestic demand, must now rely more on net exports.Meanwhile the IMF said that rich countries, many of which are heavily in debt, would have to trim spending and balance their books in the medium term.Fiscal stimulus has to eventually give way to fiscal consolidation, and private demand must be strong enough to take the lead and sustain growth.There was a particular warning for Europe, with severe external financing constraints forecast for debt-laden Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain.
The picture could not be more different for emerging markets like India and China, where growth continues, but is limited by an over-dependence on exports to Europe, Japan and the United States that must be addressed.Emerging market economies with large current account surpluses must accelerate rebalancing. This is not only in the world economy's interest, but also in their own.Wading into sensitive political waters, the IMF said China must allow its currency to strengthen to boost domestic demand and reduce its reliance on exports. To the extent that a stronger Chinese currency eases this process, other surplus countries in the region could follow suit, which would facilitate the needed shift towards domestic sources of growth, the IMF said.Emerging markets are expected to expand at a rate of 7.1 percent this year and 6.4 percent in 2011.Advanced economies are expected to grow more slowly, at 2.7 percent in 2010 and 2.2 percent next year.The WEO report came ahead of Friday's opening of a two-day annual meeting of the IMF, where its 187 member nations are set to focus on a looming currency war and the dangers of protectionist trading policies.
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 THU OCT 07,2010
09:30 AM +1.11
10:00 AM -0.83
10:30 AM -2.23
11:00 AM -9.23
11:30 AM -21.49
12:00 PM -29.92
12:30 PM -61.61
01:00 PM -53.39
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Dow +29 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -37 points at low today.
Dow +29 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,355.90.OIL opens at $84.02 today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH 1,362.90 TODAY
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -76 points at low today so far.
Dow +30 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -76 points at low today.
Dow +30 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,362.90 (NOT AT CLOSE)
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
National interests creating tension in EU commission-Despite their mandate to serve Europe as a whole, commissioners are known for their frequent defence of national interests (Photo: Pierre Metivier)ANDREW WILLIS 06.10.2010 @ 17:05 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – A group of EU commissioners from smaller member states is growing increasingly angry with a number of their larger-state colleagues, perceiving their actions as being driven by national interests rather than the greater European good. We have sworn in front of the European Court not to work for our national governments back home and I am taking it seriously, a frustrated commissioner from a smaller EU country said in an off-the-record conversation last week.Of course it is much easier when you come from a small member state where national leaders don't really attempt to influence the course of EU history, the commissioner added.The implication that EU legislation is subject to the whims of powerful national capitals such as Berlin, Paris or Rome is nothing new. But the financial crisis and an enlarged union with greater powers for the Brussels-based institutions are all contributing to growing pressure, say seasoned observers. The bigger the EU becomes the more it becomes intergovernmental and the more the commission is regarded as an executive secretariat for the council,says Belgian MEP Derk Jan Eppink, a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists group in parliament.Author of Life of a European Mandarin – Inside the Commission, Mr Eppink previously worked in the cabinets of former commissioner Frits Bolkestein and subsequently that of Siim Kallas.Commissioners from larger member states frequently feel they have to produce the goods for their governments back home, while those from smaller countries realise they don't have the capacity to do this, he said, pointing to former commissioner Gunter Verheugen's willingness to stand up for German industry.Another official identified issues of public procurement, state aid and EU infringement cases as areas where national lobbying is frequently intense.
Senior Italian officials within the commission are known for arguing their national case overtly,the contact said. The source added that the practice of defending a member state view is not necessarily anti-European, as it can prevent blockages further down the EU legislative pipeline.
Targeting Barroso
Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso's presidential style of running the EU executive - compared to the more prime ministerial approach adopted by his predecessor Romano Prodi – has reportedly led to greater lobbying efforts to gain his attention. Mr Barroso can stop a piece of legislation or push it through, so big member states will try to catch his ear, said Mr Eppink.When it doesn't happen they let him know about it,he added, pointing to the recent Roma squabble, in which Mr Barroso is seen as having backed down after French President Nicolas Sarkozy voiced his anger over the commission's approach to France at a recent EU summit.A number of commissioners are also known to be furious with Mr Barroso's recent attempts – under intense pressure from Germany - to stall an EU initiative to phase out subsidies to loss-making coal mines by 2014.
Special chefs
While clashes during the weekly college meetings are not unknown, the real shouting matches frequently take place at gatherings of the commission special chefs - officials in each of the 27 cabinets in charge of a certain area.These highly political meetings take place roughly one week before the college adopts a given proposal, with participants keen to secure all-important last minute changes according to their masters' wills.Based in Brussels, member state permanent representations to the EU are known to play a key role in national lobbying efforts, frequently preparing notes for the cabinet of their commissioner, outlining which position officials should take on a particular issue.Not all capitals get their way however, with a change of government back home frequently leaving the new administration with a commissioner from a different political family who may be less inclined to adopt the national line.As such, commission vice president Catherine Ashton – a Labour politician - could be less likely to listen to the new Tory-Liberal administration in London. Sources say Dutch commissioner Neelie Kroes is among those who rarely take direct orders from back home.
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.
US terror alert nothing new, EU commissioner says
VALENTINA POP 06.10.2010 @ 09:37 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The US terrorism alert on Europe is not based on any new security developments and should not lead to changes in the way EU governments handle the terrorist threat, justice and fundamental rights commissioner Viviane Reding has said.On the terror alert in the US, some European ministers have given the answer already - they have said there is nothing new and that threats have been on the table for several years,Ms Reding said at a roundtable discussion organised in Brussels on Tuesday (6 October) by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, a German think-tank.So, of course if there is nothing new, we don't have to do anything new, we can continue in the way we have proceeded until now - a very serious analysis of possible threats and reactions in order to avoid that those threats become terror attacks.The commissioner was referring to earlier comments made by German interior minister Thomas de Maiziere, who warned against being alarmist over the US alert issued on Sunday, which reportedly concerned tourist attractions in Berlin.Asked if she feared the US alert may lead to requests from the US side for EU governments to share even more data on their citizens, Ms Reding pointed to the overarching agreement on data transfer with Washington on which negotiations are due to start shortly.I know where I want to go, but in order to arrive there I need partners. The American government is a real partner, they are going to accompany us. Congress will take up new rules on protection of data, so things are going in the right direction, she said. Ms Reding's cool attitude towards the US alert is not shared by all.
Sweden and the UK have in recent days issued similar warnings to their citizens travelling to Germany and France. Japan and Australia have also joined the move. In the US itself, the alert has seen the number of US citizens overseas registering their whereabouts with consulates as a precautionary measure jump up from 2,000 per day to 8,000.EU interior ministers gathering in Luxembourg on Thursday will meet with the deputy secretary of US homeland security, Jane Holl Lute, who is to give more details about the terror warning.Meanwhile, US efforts to disrupt the alleged plot on European targets has been linked to an increase in drone missile attacks in Pakistan.European, Pakistani and American intelligence services are working together to foil these plots,Pakistan's ambassador to the US, Hussein Haqqani, told the BBC.
The strikes, targeting the border region with Afghanistan, include one on Monday which killed eight militants, among them five German nationals, he added.A British man killed in a strike last month was to head an al-Qaeda faction in the UK, BBC's Newsnight reported. EU citizens who were trained in terrorist camps in Pakistan are suspected of being part of the plots, according to EU sources quoted by AFP.
U.S. Offers Tax Breaks for Terror Funding
by Maayana Miskin OCT 6,10
The United States government has been allowing citizens to take a tax deduction for donations to Viva Palestina, a group that aids the anti-Israel and anti-America terrorist group Hamas. Now a U.S. Congressman is trying to put a stop to it, as reported by the International Business Times.Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) told the paper that he has written to the State Department, the Department of Justice, and the IRS, informing them that Viva Palestina funds terrorism and is soliciting donations in America. The Patriot Act and other counter-terror laws prohibit soliciting funds for a recognized terrorist organization.His letters were sent several months ago, but nothing has been done. Sherman said the State Department forwarded his complaint to the Department of Justice, which has yet to respond. The IRS said they would look into the matter, he added. The congressman said he plans to keep pushing the matter until something is done.Viva Palestina is run by former British MP George Galloway, who openly supports Hamas and has made direct donations to the group. In 2009 Galloway gave Hamas leaders cash and vehicles, and taunted his government, saying, If you want to take me to court, I promise you there is no jury in all of Britain who will convict me.
Sherman said he has faced difficulty due to the fact that Viva Palestina's branch in the U.S. is partnered with the charity group Interreligious Foundation for Community Organizations (IFCO) and receives money through them.In addition, Viva Palestina USA claims that it does not give to Hamas. However, Sherman disputes that claim, pointing out that the group openly supports Galloway's aid convoys to Gaza. An expert on terrorism, Stephen Landman, was quoted by IBT as saying that Viva Palestina USA openly used its resources to prop up Hamas' government in the Gaza Strip.Landman recently addressed the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. He told committee members that there is overwhelming evidence that Viva Palestina supports terrorism, and that the group has raised at least $200,000 in America.Galloway and Viva Palestina are currently planning a flotilla to sail for Gaza, in an attempt to break Israel's naval blockade of Hamas. A previous attempt to break the blockade ended with nine deaths and several injuries after armed passengers attacked IDF soldiers who attempted to redirect their boats, and soldiers opened fire in response.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
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.
Fatah Pushes Boycott of OECD Meeting in Western Jerusalem
by Maayana Miskin OCT 6,10
The Fatah faction led by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is pushing a boycott of an event to be held in western Jerusalem, in a part of the capital that has been in Israeli hands since the creation of the state. Turkey may join in.The event in question is the OECD's biannual tourism conference, scheduled for October 20-22. The conference will be the first OECD event held in Israel since the Jewish State joined the organization.Abbas' Fatah released a statement accusing Israel of blocking tourism to PA-controlled areas. The statement claimed that Minister of Tourism Stas Misezhnikov's party, Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) is a racist party that calls for a mass expulsion of Palestinians.Yisrael Beiteinu head Avigdor Lieberman has stated that Israel should strip citizenship from those who are not loyal to the state, regardless of their ethnic or religious background.
Misezhnikov said that the participation in the Summit ratifies that Jerusalem is the recognized capital of Israel. Are the rest of the OECD countries going to legitimize that? Fatah asked.Britain and Spain do not plan to attend the conference, in what was originally thought to be a protest of the decision to hold the event in Jerusalem. Misezhnikov indicated that Britain would not attend due to PA pressure.
However, British officials later clarified that their country's absence was not due to a boycott, but rather, due to the fact that the relevant officials were busy. Foreign Office spokespersons said British representatives plan to attend future Jerusalem events.Misezhnikov also said that OECD officials asked that delegates at the conference not travel to parts of Jerusalem that were under Jordanian control between 1948 and 1967.The PA claims those parts of the city, including many neighborhoods that are historically Jewish, as the capital of its hoped-for future Arab country.The OECD even suggested that the conference be moved to Tel Aviv, Misezhnikov said. Many countries maintain their embassies in the coastal city, despite the fact that Jerusalem is the nation's capital and is the location of most Israeli government offices.More than 14 countries have said they plan to send representatives to the conference, among them France, Germany, South Africa, Switzerland, Austria and Denmark.Turkish officials originally said they planned to attend the conference, but backtracked one day later, saying they planned to evaluate our options before making a final decision.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
September a Record Month for Missiles from Gaza
by Gil Ronen OCT 6,10
September 2010 saw more missile and mortar attacks against Israel by Gaza terrorists than any other month since the period immediately following IDF Operation Cast Lead in early 2009. The motivation for the attacks appears to be Hamas's intent to disrupt negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The IDF Website reported that a total of 30 missiles and shells were fired in September 2010. These included 14 short-range Kassam rockets, 15 mortar shells and one Grad medium range missile. This was more than double the 13 launches that were recorded in the preceding month of August.To date, there have been 163 launches of projectiles against Israel in 2010. Of these, 106 were Kassams, 50 mortar shells and seven were Grads.Despite the September peak, the total numbers for 2010 are – for now – lower than those of any other year since routine Gazan rocket attacks on Israel began in 2002. All in all, terrorists have fired 11,293 rockets at Israel in almost nine years.These attacks increased in 2003 and in 2004 – a year in which there were over 1,500 launches – and then decreased sharply in 2005, the year in which Israel carried out its Disengagement from Gaza.In 2006 the rocket attacks began to climb sharply again, surpassing 3,000 in 2008. In late 2008, the IDF launched counter-terrorist Operation Cast Lead. Following the military operation, missile attacks fell sharply. The statistics appear on the IDF blog.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Terrorists Resume Kassam Attacks
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu OCT 6,10
Terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza resumed rocket attacks on Israeli civilians Wednesday afternoon, firing two missiles. One of them struck the separation-security barrier and the second one landed in an open agricultural field. No injuries were reported.Israeli armed forces usually carry out a retaliatory attack shortly after terrorist attacks, which have continued despite a ceasefire in January 2009 following Israel’s three-week Operation Cast Lead counterterrorist campaign.More than 150 rockets and mortars have been fired at Israeli civilians since the beginning of 2010, and more than 440 rockets were fired at Israel since the end of Operation Cast Lead.Two weeks ago, the Air Force targeted and identified hitting a number of terrorists preparing to fire rockets from the central Gaza region.
Terrorists also have struck in Judea and Samaria, where rock-throwing Arabs try to break windshields and cause Jewish drivers to overturn in a fatal crash. Earlier this week, a car was damaged by rocks on the road that leads from Jewish communities in Samaria to Kfar Saba, part of metropolitan Tel Aviv. Several days earlier, a Molotov cocktail was hurled at a car on the same highway.Two weeks ago, several terrorist groups claimed responsibility for shooting a pregnant woman and her husband in a suburban Be’er Sheva community in the southern Hevron Hills. The woman was wounded, but she was able to deliver a baby boy through a Caesarean section, who was circumcised several days ago.The military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Imad Mughniyeh Squad of Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack. Fatah is the faction headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
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.
Subtropical Storm Otto forms in Atlantic
– Wed Oct 6, 5:10 pm ET
MIAMI – The National Hurricane Center says Subtropical Storm Otto has formed east of the Turks and Caicos Islands and is heading farther into the Atlantic.The storm had maximum sustained winds Wednesday near 60 mph (95 kph). Its center was located about 215 miles (345 kilometers) northeast of Grand Turk Island and it was moving north near 5 mph (7 kph).Forecasters say the storm could strengthen in the next two days as it turns eastward and heads farther out to sea. Heavy rainfall is possible in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and northern Leeward Islands.Subtropical storms share the characteristics of tropical storms, which get their power from the warm ocean, and extratropical storms that form when warm and cold fronts collide.
Sludge-hit Hungarian villagers demand compensation By PABLO GORONDI and GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writers – Wed Oct 6, 6:26 pm ET
KOLONTAR, Hungary – There was no stopping the avalanche of toxic red sludge: It smashed through the door of Kati Holczer's house, trapping the mother and her toddler in a sea of caustic waste.She saved her 3-year-old son, Bence, by placing him on a sofa that was floating in the muck. Then she called her husband Balazs, who was working in Austria, to say goodbye.We're going to die, she told him, chest-deep in the acrid mud.After the terror came the pain: Holczer and her two rescuers were among dozens of villagers suffering from deep chemical burns following Monday's spill.Their fox terrier Mazli — his name means Luck in Hungarian — lay dead in the yard Wednesday, still chained to a stake. Luca, their Labrador, was swept away by the 9-foot-high wave of toxic waste that poured from a breached reservoir at a nearby alumina factory.The ecological catastrophe that is threatening the Danube River — one of Europe's main waterways — has left a trail of shattered lives.On Wednesday, furious villagers, their shoes splattered with the caustic red mud, crowded around an official of the company blamed for the disaster and demanded compensation for destroyed homes, fields and livelihoods. Authorities have ordered a criminal inquiry into the accident, which killed at least four people, injured 120 and left three people missing.
After bursting from the reservoir and flooding three villages Monday, the sludge — a waste product of aluminum production that can contain heavy metals — ended up in the Marcal River, part of the tributary system feeding the Danube, some 45 miles to the north. Hundreds of people were evacuated.Local streams were swollen Wednesday and tinted ochre by the sludge, and residents said they were empty of fish.Imre Szakacs, head of the county crisis management committee, told the state-run MTI news agency the lye-like slurry was expected to reach the Danube by the weekend or early next week. Chemical analyses of the sludge were ongoing Wednesday.However, Kolontar Mayor Karoly Tili told The Associated Press the material was not radioactive as feared. We can say for sure that according to the measurements there is no radioactivity, he said.Still, concerns grew about damage to marine life in the region and beyond. South of Hungary, the 1,775-mile Danube flows through Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Moldova before emptying into the Black Sea.Hungary's National Rescue Service said engineers considered diverting the Marcal River into nearby fields but decided not to, fearing the damage would be too great.Workers were extracting sludge from the river and using plaster and acid to try to neutralize it. Initial measurements showed the sludge was extremely alkaline, with a pH value of 13, the agency said.The European Union said it feared the toxic flood could turn into an ecological disaster and urged Hungarian authorities to focus on keeping the sludge from reaching the Danube.It is important that we do .... everything possible that it would not endanger the Danube, EU Environment Commissioner Janez Potocnik told the AP in Brussels. We have to do this very moment everything possible ... (to) limit the extent of the damage.This is a serious environmental problem, EU spokesman Joe Hennon said. We are concerned, not just for the environment in Hungary, but this could potentially cross borders.
Greenpeace was more even emphatic.
The sludge spill is one of the top three environmental disasters in Europe in the last 20 or 30 years, said Herwit Schuster, a spokesman for Greenpeace International.
Angry villagers gathered outside the mayor's office in Kolontar late Wednesday had more immediate concerns, as they berated a senior official of MAL Rt., the Hungarian Aluminum Production and Trade Company that owns the Ajkai Timfoldgyar plant, demanding compensation. Local officials said 34 homes in the village were unlivable. However, furious residents said the disaster had destroyed the whole community by making their real estate valueless.The whole settlement should be bulldozed into the ground,bellowed Janos Potza, straining to be heard above his neighbors. There's no point for anyone to go back home.Those who can, will move out of Kolontar. From now on, this is a dead town, fumed Beata Gasko Monek. Visibly shaken, Jozsef Deak, the company's operations manager, said it would not shy away from taking responsibility if found guilty. He spoke from the passenger seat of a police cruiser, using its speaker system as villagers crowded around.Two days after the red torrent disgorged an estimated 35 million cubic feet (1 million cubic meters) of toxic waste, it was not known why part of the reservoir collapsed.National Police Chief Jozsef Hatala was heading the investigation into the spill because of its importance and complexity, police spokeswoman Monika Benyi said. Investigators would look into whether on-the-job carelessness was a factor, she said.The huge reservoir, more than 1,000 feet (300 meters) long and 1,500 feet (450 meters) wide, was no longer leaking Wednesday and a triple-tiered protective wall was being built around its damaged section. Interior Minister Sandor Pinter said guards have been posted at the site to give an early warning in case of any new emergency.Greenpeace workers took sludge samples on Tuesday and were having them tested to determine whether they contain heavy metals.Red sludge is a byproduct of the refining of bauxite into alumina, the basic material for manufacturing aluminum. Treated sludge is often stored in ponds where the water eventually evaporates, leaving behind a dried red clay-like soil.
Hungarian company officials have insisted the sludge is not considered hazardous waste according to EU standards. The company has also rejected criticism that it should have taken more precautions at the reservoir.
In Hungary's hardest-hit towns, emergency workers and construction crews in respirators and other hazmat gear worked Wednesday to clear roads and homes coated by thick red sludge and caustic muddy water.In Kolontar, a military construction crew assembled a pontoon bridge across a toxic stream so residents could briefly return to their homes and retrieve some belongings.In sharp contrast to the emergency workers, villagers salvaged possessions with little more than rubber gloves for protection. Women with pants coated in red mud cleared the muck away from their homes with snow shovels.The International Commission for the Protection of the Danube, which manages the river and its tributaries, said that sludge spill could trigger long-term damaging effects for both wildlife and humans.It is a very serious accident and has potential implications for other countries, Philip Weller, the group's executive secretary, said from Brussels.Weller said the commission's early warning alarm system was triggered by the spill, which means factories and towns along the Danube may have to shut down their water intake systems.He said large fish in the Danube could ingest any heavy metals carried downstream, potentially endangering people who eat them.Alumina plants are scattered around the world, with the 12 largest concentrated in Australia, Brazil and China. The plant in Hungary ranks 53rd in the world in production, according to industry statistics.The United States has three facilities similar to the one in Hungary. However, regulation and waste storage practices make it unlikely that a similar spill could occur, industry officials and regulators said.The three U.S. facilities are in Texas and Louisiana, along the Gulf Coast, allowing the plants to take advantage of the hot weather in treating the waste, said Charles Johnson, of the Aluminum Association, a Washington-based lobbying group.Associated Press writers Greg Katz in London, Alison Mutler in Vienna, and Ramit Plushnick-Masti in Houston contributed to this report.
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.
Israeli premier weighing new settlement curbs By DAN PERRY and JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press Writers - OCT 6,10
RAMALLAH, West Bank – Israel's prime minister has been sounding out key Cabinet members on extending a freeze on new construction in West Bank settlements in hopes of keeping peace talks with the Palestinians alive, but he is encountering stiff resistance, Israeli officials said Wednesday.In Ramallah, key members of the Palestinian leadership — in an increasingly tense waiting mode — expressed optimism that an extension nonetheless was imminent.The future of President Barack Obama's ambitious Mideast peace effort remained uncertain Wednesday as the U.S. pressed ahead with efforts to broker a compromise over the settlement issue, which has threatened to derail negotiations just a month after they were launched at the White House.Israel's normally talkative leadership has been almost completely silent in recent days as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrestled with what appeared to be significant U.S. pressure to agree to some sort of extension of the construction slowdown — which was in effect 10 months and expired on Sept. 26, just weeks after the resumption of peace talks.The Palestinians have threatened to walk out of the talks if Israel refuses to reinstate it — and another deadline of sorts has emerged with Friday's planned summit of the 22-nation Arab League, where the Palestinians expect support for whatever they decide.Obama's Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, has been shuttling between the sides in an effort to find a magic formula — sparking a variety of contradictory media reports about sweeteners the United States is prepared to offer Netanyahu if he reverses his promises to hard-line backers that the slowdown would not be renewed.There are ongoing efforts to ensure the continuation of the direct peace talks, said an Israeli official.
Another Israeli official, also speaking on condition of anonymity because Netanyahu has ordered a media blackout, said the premier was sounding out colleagues on a proposal to extend the slowdown for two months. Four of the seven ministers were opposed, the official said. Netanyahu's own position was not clear.The Israelis are seeking various assurances in return for the extension.Officials said the Israeli wish list included additional American military support, U.S. guarantees to veto anti-Israeli resolutions at the United Nations and guarantees that Washington would not impose an accord on Israel or force a full withdrawal from the West Bank and east Jerusalem. The Palestinians seek both areas as part of a future state.Israeli officials also said Netanyahu has sent indirect messages to the Arab League asking for a postponement of its vote this weekend to give him more time to work out a deal.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters in New York that in recent days he had spoken to Netanyahu, Mitchell and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.All told me that they were committed to finding solutions to the problems immediately before us, Ban said.All want to keep the peace process going.The U.N. chief, who met Wednesday with Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni, urged Israel to restore settlement restraint and urged Arab leaders meeting in Sirte, Libya, this week to keep doors open and support president Abbas.In Ramallah, several senior Palestinian officials, all also speaking privately for fear of harming the diplomatic efforts, said they expected a resolution before Friday's Arab League meeting.The Palestinian officials said if the settlement slowdown is extended for two months and talks resume, the period would be used to try to hammer out an agreement on a border between Israel and a future Palestinian state.About 300,000 Israelis live in the roughly 100 West Bank settlements, interspersed among 2.5 million Palestinians. An additional 180,000 Israelis live in Jewish neighborhoods Israel has built in east Jerusalem.Middle East specialist Aaron David Miller, a former official at the U.S. State Department, said guarantees offered by Obama included vast military hardware, support at the U.N., an extended Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley and regionwide security assurances from Arab states. However, several of the Palestinian officials said they had been told by the Americans that the Jordan Valley pledge was not included in the package.Miller said U.S. officials expected a deal with Netanyahu shortly and hope to use the 60-day window to work out the borders between Israel and a future Palestine. Miller refused to say where he got his information, though he remains in contact with key policymakers.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has pointed out several times that once a border is drawn, the settlement issue becomes irrelevant, because it would be clear to both sides that there would be no Israeli settlements in a Palestinian state.
One Palestinian official familiar with the talks said the United States was agreeing to block any anti-Israel resolutions at the U.N. Security Council — something Washington has frequently done in the past.American diplomats say only that ideas have been floated in talks, but no formal proposals have been made.This is a difficult moment. It's one that we anticipated, said State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley Wednesday.If we can successfully work through this, then the negotiations will continue.Last month Obama presided over the renewal of negotiations after nearly two years with no direct peace talks. But the Palestinians said all along they would not keep talking if Israel did not renew its 10-month settlement construction slowdown, which expired Sept. 26.The measure banned most housing starts but allowed completion of apartments already under construction, as well as public buildings and roads. Also, it did not apply to Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem, claimed by the Palestinians as the capital of their future state, though Israel imposed a similar, albeit undeclared, slowdown in east Jerusalem as well.
Israel refused to extend the slowdown, saying it was a one-time gesture, but the U.S. has been pressing publicly and privately for its reinstatement to ensure continuation of the talks. Obama has set a goal of an agreement within a year. Edith M. Lederer contributed to this report from the United Nations.
IMF: Mideast recovering well from global slump
Ap Business Writer – Wed Oct 6, 8:41 am ET
CAIRO – The International Monetary Fund says the Middle East and North Africa region is recovering strongly following the global financial meltdown, with sizable stimulus packages and continued strength in oil prices supporting the rebound.The IMF said in its World Economic Outlook released Wednesday that the MENA region's GDP growth is projected to be 4.1 percent this year and 5.1 percent in 2011. GDP growth for the region was 2 percent in 2009.The sustained rebound in oil prices since 2009 has benefited Mideast oil exporters, as well as oil importers that sell about 25 percent of their products to those nations. But the IMF said uncertainties remain, linked to the volatility in the overall global economic recovery.
US: Ahmadinejad trip to Lebanon is not a good idea
– Wed Oct 6, 2:16 am ET
BEIRUT – The U.S. has raised concerns about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Lebanon next week.U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters in Washington on Tuesday that Iran is undermining Lebanon's sovereignty through its association with groups like Hezbollah.He said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has raised the issue with the Lebanese president.But Crowley said it's up to the Lebanese government if Ahmadinejad makes the trip.Iran is a key supporter of Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah, believed to funnel it weapons and millions of dollars in funding, though Tehran denies arming the Shiite group. Hezbollah, also closely allied to Syria, boasts a heavy arsenal of rockets capable of reaching deep inside Israel.
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.
South Korea: NKorea's nuclear threat dangerous By SANGWON YOON, Associated Press Writer – Wed Oct 6, 3:02 pm ET
SEOUL, South Korea – The threat posed by North Korea's nuclear program has reached an extremely dangerous level, an adviser to South Korea's president said in comments published Wednesday.It was not clear whether the comments by Kim Tae-hyo, President Lee Myung-bak's deputy national security adviser, were based on new intelligence.
They followed a report last week by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security that satellite images from Sept. 29 showed new construction activity in the area surrounding North Korea's nuclear reactor.Kim's comments were reported Wednesday in the JoongAng Ilbo newspaper. Kim confirmed to The Associated Press that he made the comments Tuesday at a forum on Northeast Asia, but declined to elaborate.The North Korean nuclear threat has, in reality, been accelerating and has now reached an extremely dangerous level, Kim said.North Korea, which has active nuclear and missile programs, conducted underground atomic tests in 2006 and 2009, drawing tough international sanctions in response.South Korea, along with the United States, China, Japan and Russia, have been negotiating with the impoverished country since 2003 to get it to dismantle its nuclear facilities, which they consider a threat to regional security.North Korea, however, pulled out of the talks last year amid an international row over its firing of a suspected long-range missile that the North said was a satellite launch.Should North Korea reduce the size of nuclear warheads and use them in actual battle, regardless of their accuracy, they will cause an unbelievable amount of damage, Kim said.
Most security experts think North Korea remains unable to deliver a nuclear warhead on a missile, but it is believed to be trying to develop this capability and some observers think it may have come close already.Although the North Koreans carried out two nuclear tests, analysts in the West doubt that they have successfully loaded warheads onto missiles, said Kim Tae-woo, a senior research fellow at the state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analysis in Seoul. But I can say with certainty that they are extremely close. They might have done so already.Presidential adviser Kim said that the North is operating not only its plutonium-producing Yongbyon nuclear facility, but also highly enriched uranium activities elsewhere in the country.He also suggested that there is potential danger in the emergence of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son, Kim Jong Un, as his heir apparent. The younger Kim made his public debut last week after being promoted to four-star general and vice chairman of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea's Central Military Commission.
He said Kim was 26 years old and was born on Jan. 8, 1984.Kim is young and lacks experience, so there is a chance that he might develop an appetite for yet another risk or be tempted to engage in provocation to prove himself to the outside world, the presidential adviser said.Little is known about Kim Jong Un. For the first time, state media reported Tuesday on him observing military exercises with his father. The Korean Central News Agency also said in a report released early Thursday that he attended a concert with Kim Jong Il and other top party, state and military officials.Under a 2007 deal, North Korea agreed to disable its main nuclear complex in Yongbyon north of Pyongyang in return for 1 million tons of fuel oil and other concessions and in June 2008 blew up the cooling tower. But the disablement came to halt as the North wrangled with Washington over how to verify its past atomic activities.The Institute for Science and International Security said the satellite images showed heavy construction and excavation equipment and trucks at the Yongbyon site and construction of two small buildings near the site of the destroyed cooling tower.It is unclear if the activity seen in this image represents preparation for construction of a new cooling tower or preparation for construction of other buildings or structures for some other purpose, ISIS said.North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Pak Kil Yon vowed at the United Nations last week that the North would strengthen its nuclear capability in response to what he described as hostile moves by the United States.North Korea is believed to have enough weaponized plutonium for at least a half dozen atomic bombs.The North's plutonium was extracted over a number of years from spent fuel rods from its Yongbyon reactor.In Tokyo, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell called for clear signs from the North Koreans that they are prepared to take the steps that they've committed themselves to in the past regarding denuclearization. He spoke to reporters in Tokyo before leaving for South Korea, where he was to meet officials Thursday.Associated Press writers Kelly Olsen in Seoul and Malcolm Foster in Tokyo contributed to this report.
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Video: 9/11 Firefighters Reveal Huge Explosions Before Towers Collapsed
Secondary explosions caused lobby of World Trade Center to implode
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, October 6, 2010
http://www.prisonplanet.com/video-911-firefighters-reveal-huge-explosions-before-towers-collapsed.html (VIDEOS)
Newly obtained video that was reluctantly released by NIST after a lawsuit by the International Center for 9/11 Studies shows two firefighters on 9/11 discussing how secondary explosions occurred immediately before the collapse of the twin towers, providing damning new evidence that explosive devices were used to bring down the buildings.Debunkers have repeatedly claimed that low-temperature burning jet fuel could weaken steel support columns enough to cause the pancake-style collapse of the twin towers, ignoring the plethora of eyewitness testimony to incendiary devices having caused the implosion of the World Trade Center structure.The new tape is as clear cut as it comes – the firefighters, who were inside the lobby of one of the towers, unequivocally state that secondary explosions which occurred after the planes hit were responsible for causing the towers to collapse.There was an explosion….the third explosion the whole lobby collapsed on us, states the firefighter. Asked was that a secondary explosion, he responds, yes it was ….definitely secondary explosion.Another firefighter then confirms that there were at least three explosions which caused the lobby to collapse.The only way to explain what firefighters described as molten steel, like you’re in a foundary, like lava being witnessed following the collapse of the towers was if powerful additional incendiary devices were used to take down the buildings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCdRA09pztM&feature=player_embedded
The firefighters’ testimony compliments that of William Rodriguez, eyewitness to sub-level explosions that occurred before the impact of the first plane in the north tower and representative for many 9/11 victim’s families.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQk3XXBot9c&feature=player_embedded
Rodriguez’ testimony is also confirmed by Anthony Saltalamacchia, a morning supervisor who managed over a hundred workers in the twin towers. Saltalamacchia was in sub-basement B1 of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane’s impact point at floors 93 to 98.The explosion….at first we believe it came from the mechanical room and then we heard a series of other explosions that sounded up on the above levels of the building, said Saltalamacchia.Saltalamacchia then discusses how a man ran into the office with his skin hanging off. William Rodriguez had previously described the same scenario following basement level explosions and it was also seconded by another eyewitness, Kenneth Johannemann, an employee of ABM janitorial services.As we’re standing there, more explosions were happening, said Saltalamacchia, before he urged Rodriguez and the other workers to leave the building. The group left and initially headed towards the lobby before they realized it too had been partially destroyed, conforming with the eyewitness testimony of the firefighters.Despite Saltalamacchia’s plea to stay out of harm’s way, Rodriguez ran back into the burning building in an attempt to save his colleagues.The amount of explosions I heard from 8:46 to the time we got out was so many – at least ten – it was just like multiple explosions to where I felt there was different grenades, that’s what it sounded like, like different grenades being set off in the building, said Saltalamacchia.It was one major explosion and then there was different explosions throughout that period of time until we got out, he added.Numerous other WTC basement workers, including Felipe David and Salvatore Giambanco, have also gone public with eyewitness testimony concerning massive sub-level explosions that took place before Flight 11 hit the north tower.WTC construction worker Phillip Morelli was headed for level B-4 in Tower One [north tower], four stories below ground, when he was thrown to the floor by a violent explosion that coincided with the plane hitting 100 floors above.15-year WTC worker Marlene Cruz told Peter Jennings in an interview with ABC News that she was also rocked by an explosion in the basement level of the north tower.The 9/11 Commission completely ignored the hundreds of survivors, professionals, first responders, firefighters and police who reported numerous secondary explosions at all levels of the twin towers.
After filing a lawsuit that prompted NIST to release more than 3 terabytes of photographs and videos from their investigation into the collapse of the twin towers and WTC 7 on 9/11, the International Center for 9/11 Studies obtained evidence, in addition to the firefighter tapes, that suggests NIST edited several videos of the collapse of Building 7 in order to hide evidence of a controlled implosion. Building 7 was not hit by a plane and yet it collapsed demolition style late in the afternoon of September 11.The Center filed a FOIA Request with NIST on January 26, 2009, seeking production of all of the photographs and videos collected, reviewed, cited or in any other way used by NIST during its investigation of the World Trade Center building collapses. Following several unsuccessful attempts to get NIST to even acknowledge receipt of the Request, the Center was forced to file a lawsuit on May 28, 2009. Shortly after the lawsuit was filed, the Request was assigned a reference number, and NIST began periodically releasing batches of responsive records.The Center has now begun posting some of those images and videos online, the first batch of which is from an external hard disk drive NIST WTC Investigation Cumulus Video Clips.In one of the clips, the video of which has been in the public domain for years, a loud, low-frequency boom can be heard just before the east penthouse of WTC 7 falls. Once the support columns that held up the penthouse are taken out, the rest of the building falls almost within its own footprint.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrnmbUDeHus&feature=player_embedded
However, in subsequent clips released by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), where the camera is located nearer to the building, the collapse of the penthouse is clearly edited out of the footage.Several clips from the Cumulus database show signs of editing. In the two video clips below, the collapse of the penthouse of World Trade Center 7 is cut out of the video. These videos happen to have been filmed from close to WTC 7, and have a high quality soundtrack that would have picked up explosion sounds from the charges that severed the columns supporting the penthouse, especially the explosion heard in the last video clip presented, comments the International Center for 9/11 Studies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH_Lv_sevwY&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyhMTOdRnRo&feature=player_embedded
In another clip, the entire collapse of the building is edited out, the audio is removed and only restored after the building has fully collapsed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT3ea4AC2K8&feature=player_embedded
The Center also obtained videos of the collapse of the twin towers that had obviously been edited, with sections deliberately removed. “There are many video clips in the Cumulus database that do not show collapse initiation – the only event even purportedly explained in the final report from NIST on the Twin Towers,” states the Center.
Another new video shows Michael Hess yelling for help from the 8th floor window of WTC 7. The clip reinforces the fact that the building had not sustained any substantial damage before its free fall collapse within 7 seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZduP7HTM3cg&feature=player_embedded
As we documented for several years, the collapse of WTC 7 is the smoking gun confirming that the official story behind 9/11 is bogus. The collapse of Building 7 was reported before it happened by several news stations, including BBC and CNN. The International Center for 9/11 Studies is still in the process of reviewing over 300 DVDs along with several external hard disk drives that contain a plethora of unseen photographs and video footage from ground zero. Judging by the small amount of damning footage already released, it’s highly probable that this data will provide a myriad of new contradictions both to the official 9/11 story as well as NIST’s own investigation into the collapse of the three buildings.
Fed Hints It Will Print and Inflate Dollars as Gold Hits New Record
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com October 6, 2010
Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans says the Fed will probably overshoot its informal two percent inflation target in a desperate effort to jump-start the economy and get credit moving again.The Fed will create money ex nihilo — out of nothing — and further devalue the dollar.In the last several months I’ve stared at our unemployment forecast and come to the conclusion that it’s just not coming down nearly as quickly as it should, Evans told the Wall Street Journal. This is a far grimmer forecast than we ought to have,he said, so Evans favors much more accommodation than we’ve put in place.In other words, the Fed will continue its destructive policy of quantitative easing.It will create money ex nihilo — out of nothing — and further devalue the dollar. The Fed will use funny money created out of thin air to purchase government bonds, mortgage-backed securities and corporate bonds. Zombie banks will feed this funny money into the stock market casino.The Fed knows that they can use the stock indices as a ruse to dupe the dopes into thinking all is well while promulgating the belief that the Fed is here to help, writes Barry M. Ferguson. In real terms, the US dollar has lost more than 50% of its value since 2001 while the Dow has remained at the same level of ten years ago.For those not fooled by the Fed and the corporate financial media, the only safe haven is in gold and silver. So long as the Fed continues to destroy the dollar, gold and silver will follow an inverse trend reaction to dollar devaluation, as Ferguson notes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJOlWNKi8k&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIzx14AsK2s&feature=player_embedded
Europe steps up pressure over renminbi-Beijing said in June that it would end the renminbi's effective peg with the dollar and allow a gradual appreciation, but the renminbi's rise since that date has been fractional (Photo: EUobserver)
ANDREW WILLIS 05.10.2010 @ 12:44 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Senior European officials have urged China to allow the value of its renminbi currency to appreciate, warning that a weakened European economy will negatively impact on Chinese growth. Eurogroup president Jean-Claude Juncker described talks on Tuesday morning (5 October) with Chinese economic officials including Premier Wen Jiabao as frank and friendly, but added that Beijing must do more to boost domestic consumption.We agreed that China's recent growth performance has been an important factor in overcoming the global financial and economic crisis, said Mr Juncker, whose double-hatted role combines chairing the monthly meetings of euro area finance ministers with his job as prime minister of Luxembourg.We nevertheless want China to rebalance its growth model in order to increase the contribution of domestic consumption to GDP growth,he added.We still think that China's real effective exchange rate remains undervalued.The issue of China's currency has vexed policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic for years, with US lawmakers recently passing a bill that could punish Chinese exporters if fully implemented.Debate over global trade imbalances has also come to the fore since the 2008 financial crisis. Many economists argue that the mix of large national surpluses and deficits was a principle factor behind the global meltdown.
Reacting to this pressure, Beijing announced on 19 June that it would end the renminbi's effective peg with the dollar and allow a gradual appreciation, but the renminbi's rise since that date has been fractional.The potential of the decision has not been fully exploited, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said after Tuesday's talks in which he participated.He welcomed the news however, confirmed by Mr Wen on Tuesday, that China would look to buy Greek sovereign bonds when Athens next turned to the market.Against a backdrop of Chinese domestic opposition from many of its businesses, European policymakers have sought to stress the win-win nature of a rise in the renminbi.A stronger European economy is in the interests of China since the EU is the largest export market of China, European economy commissioner Olli Rehn told journalists after the meeting.If the euro continues to bear a disproportionate burden in the adjustment of global exchange rates the recovery of the euro area's economy might be weakened,he continued. Despite the renewed push from Europe's most influential economic policymakers, a rapid rise in China's currency appears unlikely, with premier Wen indicating as much during his opening speech on Monday at the start of a two-day meeting of European and Asian leaders.We should intensify macroeconomic policy coordination, manage with caution the timing and pace of an exit strategy from economic stimulus and keep the exchange rates of major reserve currencies relatively stable,he said.
EU-China tug-of-war hampers global recovery drive
by Roddy Thomson - OCT 5,10
BRUSSELS (AFP) – Fears of a global currency war land centre-stage Wednesday as Europe and China warm up for crunch IMF talks with a head-to-head summit focused on the yuan which the West says is undervalued.The issue already overshadowed a meeting of 46 European and Asian leaders in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday, but now the European Union finally locks horns with Beijing over its role in shaping the value of China's currency.Orderly, significant and broad-based appreciation of the renminbi (yuan) would promote more balanced growth, said leading eurozone finance minister Jean-Claude Juncker after talks with Chinese premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday, stressing that the yuan remains undervalued.The currency issue was deliberately kicked into Wednesday's tighter agenda as Europe -- like the United States -- seeks to pressure China into relaxing policies deemed protectionist and responsible for skewing global economic recovery, without upsetting the world's post-recession economic superpower. The commercial weight offered by a barrier-free market of half a billion relatively rich consumers gives Europe some clout, even if debt burdens in Greece or Ireland weaken its position in negotiations.Brussels may be helped by the symbolic signature also on Wednesday of a deal to drop barriers to South Korea's auto and other exports -- in a deal sold to Asia as the first in a new generation of trade freeways.Either way, bound up with headaches including how to re-configure the International Monetary Fund, or joined-up policy-making through the Group of 20 leading modern economies, these talks could prove pivotal for relations between the traditional and emerging proprietors of global might.
On the global scale, externally, we need to focus our efforts on the reform of International Monetary Fund and financial regulation, said EU president Herman Van Rompuy late on Tuesday.After two years of profound (economic) crisis the main road has been found, but a lot of critical points still need to be tackled, the Belgian figurehead underlined.A bid to ensure a level playing-field in financial market regulation remains our number one priority, he stressed.The sticking point, with recovery so dependent on who can sell the most to those who have to buy, remains a currency market as reliable as Wild West property speculation.The euro hit fresh eight-month highs on Tuesday, well above 1.38 dollars, undercutting export competitiveness and ensuring tough talking when the annual IMF assembly begins formally in Washington on Friday. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who takes the G20 chair next month, set the tone, calling for a new world monetary order to keep at bay a beggar-thy-neighbour race to the abyss, reminiscent of the 1930s Great Depression.Everyone does as they want, everyone, each to their own, tries to preserve their own sovereignty (and) we are living in the 21st century without a monetary order, he said.Brussels is doing its best, as the free-trade pact with Seoul shows -- it is only being signed after partners persuaded Italy to ditch objections over fears for its iconic auto industry.But faced with decade-long deadlock in world trade negotiations, Europe and the United States must pursue bilateral avenues.Brussels is also negotiating a pact with India, while another deal is in the works with Mercosur, a South American trade bloc that includes Brazil and Argentina.
The EU has also kicked off talks with Malaysia, but it is how it handles China that may define the pace of its recovery -- and its positioning in Sarkozy's fabled new order. More than two years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the IMF says the financial system is still the Achilles' heel of recovery.The richest regions -- Europe, Japan and the United States -- have the most to lose, a report out Tuesday concluded, while emerging markets remain very resilient.The battle has only just begun.
IMF chief warns against using currency as a weapon
-OCT 5,10
WASHINGTON (AFP) – IMF Director General Dominique Strauss-Kahn has urged governments in a newly published interview not to use their currency's exchange rate as a weapon amid tough economic times.There is clearly the idea beginning to circulate that currencies can be used as a policy weapon, Strauss-Kahn told the Financial Times.
Translated into action, such an idea would represent a very serious risk to the global recovery . . . Any such approach would have a negative and very damaging longer-run impact, he warned.Following remarks by Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega about the potential for a currency war, the IMF chief said we have seen reports that some emerging countries whose economies face big capital inflows are saying that maybe it is time to use their currencies to try to gain an advantage, particularly on the trade side.I don?t think that is a good solution.Strauss-Kahn's remarks came ahead of annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington at the weekend.
Chinese leader urges EU to give up more IMF power
ANDREW WILLIS 05.10.2010 @ 09:29 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has hinted that Europe may need to sweeten its offer on reforming the International Monetary Fund before a deal can be agreed next month. The issue was one of several topics to be addressed by Asian and EU leaders (ASEM) meeting in Brussels on Monday (4 October) as part of a two-day session of talks, with an ongoing territorial row between China and Japan adding spice to the atmosphere.The EU last week offered to reduce its number of seats on the board of the IMF. Developing nations have criticised the slow pace of reform at the international lending organisation, whose structure has changed little since its set-up in 1945.European countries currently hold eight of the board's 24 seats, with another chair revolving between European and non-European directors. This has led to a gross over-representation of the region in recent times, even as developing countries increase their share of global GDP.EU finance ministers agreed last Friday to share two of the continent's eight executive-director seats on a rotating basis with emerging nations, but the offer does not appear to have met with China's approval.We need to improve the decision-making process and mechanisms of the international financial institutions,Mr Wen told his Asian and European counterparts in Brussels. The Chinese leader added that there was a need to "increase the representation and voice of developing countries, encourage wider participation and fully accommodate each other's interests and concerns.A South Korean official, whose country is set to host the next G20 leaders' meeting in November where the matter is set to be finalised, welcomed the European offer as an improvement however.I think the fact that Europeans show flexibility and willingness to negotiate is an important advancement, Changyong Rhee, head of the committee preparing the G20 meeting, told journalists.
China-Japan dispute comes to Brussels
With no bilateral meeting currently scheduled between Mr Wen and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, all eyes attentively followed the two individuals to see if they would talk in the margins of the event.But the game of diplomatic tip-toeing did not prevent Mr Kan from holding a short bi-lateral with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, during which he secured the Belgian politician's signature on his recently published book of haiku poetry, a style of Japanese verse famous for its brevity.Different colours,/tongues, towers and gods./I search my way, one of the verses, about Brussels, says.Elsewhere in the sidelines of the summit, Japanese officials were discretely explaining their side of the dispute with China, which centers on a group of islands located to the north-east of Taiwan.Japan says its ownership of the islands dates back to the late 19th century, while Chinese interest dates to the 1970s when exploitation of oil deposits on the East China Sea's continental shelf started.Another thorny issue, the value of China's renminbi currency, is set to be discussed by EU and Chinese officials on Tuesday morning.
Bernanke Tells the Truth: The United States is on the Brink of Financial Disaster EconomicPolicyJournal October 5, 2010
Yesterday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered a speech before the the Annual Meeting of the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council in Providence, Rhode Island. In the speech, he warned about the current state of the government finances. His conclusion, the situation is dire and unsustainable.It is remarkable that mainstream media has given this speech no coverage. I repeat, the central banker of the United States says in his own words:Let me return to the issue of longer-term fiscal sustainability. As I have discussed, projections by the CBO and others show future budget deficits and debts rising indefinitely, and at increasing rates. To be sure, projections are to some degree only hypothetical exercises. Almost by definition, unsustainable trajectories of deficits and debts will never actually transpire, because creditors would never be willing to lend to a country in which the fiscal debt relative to the national income is rising without limit. Herbert Stein, a wise economist, once said, If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.9 One way or the other, fiscal adjustments sufficient to stabilize the federal budget will certainly occur at some point. The only real question is whether these adjustments will take place through a careful and deliberative process that weighs priorities and gives people plenty of time to adjust to changes in government programs or tax policies, or whether the needed fiscal adjustments will be a rapid and painful response to a looming or actual fiscal crisis.This is as close as you are ever going to see a central banker admit that his country’s financial situation is so dire that it could breakup at any time.
Here’s more from Bernanke’s remarkable speech:The recent deep recession and the subsequent slow recovery have created severe budgetary pressures not only for many households and businesses, but for governments as well. Indeed, in the United States, governments at all levels are grappling not only with the near-term effects of economic weakness, but also with the longer-run pressures that will be generated by the need to provide health care and retirement security to an aging population. There is no way around it–meeting these challenges will require policymakers and the public to make some very difficult decisions and to accept some sacrifices. But history makes clear that countries that continually spend beyond their means suffer slower growth in incomes and living standards and are prone to greater economic and financial instability.Now, get this, he warns that it is not only the Federal government that has financial problems, but also states and local governments:
Although state and local governments face significant fiscal challenges, my primary focus today will be the federal budget situation and its economic implications.Does Bernanke see the tsunami hitting or what? Then, he put things in historical perspective:The budgetary position of the federal government has deteriorated substantially during the past two fiscal years, with the budget deficit averaging 9-1/2 percent of national income during that time. For comparison, the deficit averaged 2 percent of national income for the fiscal years 2005 to 2007, prior to the onset of the recession and financial crisis. The recent deterioration was largely the result of a sharp decline in tax revenues brought about by the recession and the subsequent slow recovery, as well as by increases in federal spending needed to alleviate the recession and stabilize the financial system. As a result of these deficits, the accumulated federal debt measured relative to national income has increased to a level not seen since the aftermath of World War II.Then, he explains the deterioration and the problems it will create for the entire economy:For now, the budget deficit has stabilized and, so long as the economy and financial markets continue to recover, it should narrow relative to national income over the next few years. Economic conditions provide little scope for reducing deficits significantly further over the next year or two; indeed, premature fiscal tightening could put the recovery at risk. Over the medium- and long-term, however, the story is quite different. If current policy settings are maintained, and under reasonable assumptions about economic growth, the federal budget will be on an unsustainable path in coming years, with the ratio of federal debt held by the public to national income rising at an increasing pace.2 Moreover, as the national debt grows, so will the associated interest payments, which in turn will lead to further increases in projected deficits. Expectations of large and increasing deficits in the future could inhibit current household and business spending–for example, by reducing confidence in the longer-term prospects for the economy or by increasing uncertainty about future tax burdens and government spending–and thus restrain the recovery. Concerns about the government’s long-run fiscal position may also constrain the flexibility of fiscal policy to respond to current economic conditions.
Then, he tells us how powerful the negative trends are and how the aging population and Obamacare are going to make things worse:Our fiscal challenges are especially daunting because they are mostly the product of powerful underlying trends, not short-term or temporary factors. Two of the most important driving forces are the aging of the U.S. population, the pace of which will intensify over the next couple of decades as the baby-boom generation retires, and rapidly rising health-care costs. As the health-care needs of the aging population increase, federal health-care programs are on track to be by far the biggest single source of fiscal imbalances over the longer term. Indeed, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the ratio of federal spending for health-care programs (principally Medicare and Medicaid) to national income will double over the next 25 years, and continue to rise significantly further after that…he aging of the U.S. population will also strain Social Security, as the number of workers paying taxes into the system rises more slowly than the number of people receiving benefits. This year, there are about five individuals between the ages of 20 and 64 for each person aged 65 and older. By 2030, when most of the baby boomers will have retired, this ratio is projected to decline to around 3, and it may subsequently fall yet further as life expectancies continue to increase. Overall, the projected fiscal pressures associated with Social Security are considerably smaller than the pressures associated with federal health programs, but they still present a significant challenge to policymakers.Then he goes back to warn that the financial mess also exists at the state and local level:The same underlying trends affecting federal finances will also put substantial pressures on state and local budgets, as organizations like yours have helped to highlight. In Rhode Island, as in other states, the retirement of state employees, together with continuing increases in health-care costs, will cause public pension and retiree health-care obligations to become increasingly difficult to meet. Estimates of unfunded pension liabilities for the states as whole span a wide range, but some researchers put the figure as high as $2 trillion at the end of 2009.5 Estimates of states’ liabilities for retiree health benefits are even more uncertain because of the difficulty of projecting medical costs decades into the future. However, one recent estimate suggests that state governments have a collective liability of almost $600 billion for retiree health benefits. These health benefits have usually been handled on a pay-as-you-go basis and therefore could impose a substantial fiscal burden in coming years as large numbers of state workers retire.
Bernanke then breaks the news that the problem is global:It may be scant comfort, but the United States is not alone in facing fiscal challenges. The global recession has dealt a blow to the fiscal positions of most other advanced economies, and, as in the United States, their expenditures for public health care and pensions are expected to rise substantially in the coming decades as their populations age. Indeed, the population of the United States overall is younger than those of a number of European countries as well as Japan.Bernanke then re-emphasises, the damage this will do to the overall economy:Failing to address our unsustainable fiscal situation exposes our country to serious economic costs and risks. In the short run, as I have noted, concerns and uncertainty about exploding future deficits could make households, businesses, and investors more cautious about spending, capital investment, and hiring. In the longer term, a rising level of government debt relative to national income is likely to put upward pressure on interest rates and thus inhibit capital formation, productivity, and economic growth. Larger government deficits increase our reliance on foreign lenders, all else being equal, implying that the share of U.S. national income devoted to paying interest to foreign investors will increase over time. Income paid to foreign investors is not available for domestic consumption or investment. And an increasingly large cost of servicing a growing national debt means that the adjustments, when they come, could be sharp and disruptive. For example, large tax increases that might be imposed to cover the rising interest on the debt would slow potential growth by reducing incentives to work, save, hire, and invest.He then states that we do not know how much time is left before all hell breaks loose:It would be difficult to identify a specific threshold at which federal debt begins to pose more substantial costs and risks to the nation’s economy. Perhaps no bright line exists; the costs and risks may grow more or less continuously as the federal debt rises. What we do know, however, is that the threat to our economy is real and growing, which should be sufficient reason for fiscal policymakers to put in place a credible plan for bringing deficits down to sustainable levels over the medium term.From there,Bernanke goes into a bit of wishful thinking by identifying ways Congress can rein in spending and make the tax system more efficient. Good luck with all of that.
The real important part of Bernanke’s speech is the first half where he warns of the financial crisis just ahead.
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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US call for Nato cyber-strike capacity causes division
VALENTINA POP 05.10.2010 @ 15:46 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Developing a Nato cyber-war capability and French opposition to joint nuclear planning are emerging as the main bones of contention in the debate on a new Nato Strategic Concept, to be adopted next month.The new document is to replace a 10-year-old strategy paper written before the Internet age and before France joined the transatlantic alliance's command structure. The office of Nato secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen drafted the new Strategic Concept and distributed it to the 28 member countries last week. It is to be adopted by consensus at the Nato summit in Lisbon on 19 and 20 November.The Pentagon's push for a Nato active cyberdefence is the most divisive issue so far, EUobserver has learned.
Active cyberdefence is a very sensitive topic. Many experts have brought it up, that in order to have defence, you need some offence as well. I would be very surprised if Nato at 28 will find consensus to include it, a diplomat from one of the Baltic states said.Broader wording outlining cyber-attacks as a growing threat and the need for Nato to be adaptable and flexible in its capacity to react is a likely compromise.Following attacks in 2008 on its classified military network the Pentagon established a new cyber-command, making active cyberdefence one of its policy pillars, US deputy secretary of defence William J. Lynn said on 15 September in Brussels at an event hosted by the Security and Defence Agenda think-tank.The US cyber-command goes beyond the passive Maginot Line mentality of the past, he explained. Passive defence systems are sufficient to meet 80 percent of attacks. But the other 20 percent need active systems, such as sensors that operate at network speed to detect and block intrusions.At the heart of the Pentagon's new cyber policy lies the recognition that military networks cannot be safe unless other critical infrastructures, such as power grids and financial networks, are protected. The US is itself suspected of having created Stuxnet, a computer worm that cane be introduced via USB sticks into industrial plants and used to sabotage operations, including in nuclear facilities. Over 60 percent of reported Stuxnet cases are in Iran.Against this background, Mr Lynn in September called for collective defence - the core principle of the alliance - to be applied to computer networks.The Cold War concepts of shared warning apply in the 21st century to cyber security. Just as our air defences, our missile defences have been linked so too do our cyber defences need to be linked as well,he said.European allies are keen to protect themselves against Estonia-type cyber strikes (which saw bank and government websites paralysed in 2007). But they are showing little appetite for US-model pre-emptive cyber-strikes on hostile countries or organisations.A group of experts chaired by former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright tasked by Mr Rasmussen to do a report on the new Nato strategy was cautious on the subject. Over time, Nato should plan to mount a fully adequate array of cyber defence capabilities, including passive and active elements,the report, published in May, said. It underlined the need for Nato to co-operate better with the EU, as this could be helpful in addressing unconventional threats such as terrorism, cyber-attacks, and energy vulnerabilities.
In a bolder move the report suggested giving Mr Rasmussen or Nato generals pre-delegated authority to respond in emergencies such as a missile or cyber attack. But the idea is unlikely to fly, diplomatic sources said.
French nukes
Another contentious area is that of common nuclear planning - balancing the Washington-led drive for nuclear disarmament while keeping nuclear warheads in Europe as a deterrent to hostile countries.France, which re-joined Nato's military structures in 2009 after staying out for over 40 years, is legally bound by its constitution have exclusive sovereign power over its nuclear arsenal. It has opted out of a Rasmussen-chaired nuclear planning group in the alliance which is looking at drawing down Nato's reliance on atomic weapons.Anything on nuclear policy will have to be agreed with France. There is no consensus over this at the moment, one Nato source told this website.Nato-Russia relations, normally a hot topic between the alliance's older and newer members, have meanwhile slipped into the background of the Strategic Concept discussions. Nato froze relations with Moscow for half a year after the Georgia war in 2008 only to restart them again, even though Russian troops are still stationed in Georgia's separatist regions in violation of a ceasefire agreement. Tbilisi has filed for Nato membership, but the prospect, although confirmed at a Nato summit in 2008, remains distant.There is a sense that nothing will move in the foreseeable future on Georgia,the Nato source 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.
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Iran Extends Ties with Lebanon and Egypt
by Elad Benari OCT 6,10
The Islamic Republic of Iran is strengthening its ties with its area neighbors, particularly Lebanon and Egypt.According to a report on Monday in Iranian media, Lebanon’s and Iran’s energy ministers have reached an agreement over oil and gas exploration efforts in Lebanese economic waters, according to which Iran will be involved in the search for gas and oil close to the border with Israel.The two countries will set up a joint project to look for oil and gas in Lebanese economic waters, using Iran’s engineering experience.The cooperation between the two countries was announced after Israel discovered two sources of natural gas on its territory. In January of 2009, Houston-based Noble Energy company announced the discovery of a huge deposit of natural gas under the Mediterranean Sea near Haifa. At the time, it was estimated that the Tamar drilling site held enough gas to allow Israel to be self-sufficient in energy for two decades, but in June it was published that there is likely even more gas on the site than originally thought.A second giant field near the Haifa coast, the Leviathan, was reported in August to have a potential of 4 billion barrels of black gold.Though Lebanon has claimed that both the Leviathan and Tamar fields belong to it, reports from Iran now indicate that Lebanon intends to look for gas in its own waters in the hope of finding reserves, rather than take action over its claims.
Through this project, Iran could deepen its involvement in the region and strengthen Lebanon's dependence on Tehran. Iranian oil minister Masoud Mirkazemi confirmed the reports to the Islamic Republic of Iran News Network and added that a meeting would take place soon among Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon to discuss the possibility of purchasing gas from the Islamic Republic.Meanwhile, it appears as though ties are also warming up between Iran and Egypt. The two countries announced that direct flights between Cairo and Tehran would resume for the first time since 1980. 28 weekly flights would resume between the two capitals, though it is currently not known when this will begin.Iranian media said that the move could be a prelude to the resumption of formal ties between Iran and Egypt.The two countries have been at odds since 1979’s Islamic Revolution in Iran, when Egypt gave asylum to the deposed Shah of Iran.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Livni in Harvard: Conflict with Iran Unsolvable
by Gil Ronen OCT 5,10
Opposition Head MK Tzipi Livni (Kadima) said Tuesday that Iran believes in a religious ideology that makes the conflict with it unresolvable. The latest pronouncements by [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad and the heads of the regime prove that the world must increase the pressure of sanctions on Iran and supplement them with political sanctions against the regime.she went on to say, in a speech at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.The world must stop giving the Iranian leaders pulpits from which to spew their venom, be it in the United Nations or anywhere else,Livni added. As long as Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust and talks about destroying Israel, the world cannot be tolerant and listen to him, and it must cease giving him ammunition for spreading his creed.Livni accused the Israel government of wasting two years in which it did not continue the negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. Now [the Israeli government] must reach the decisions that will save what is left of the negotiations, she said.The Prime Minister knows that Kadima will support him if he makes these decisions and it would be better if he makes them quickly, she warned.The clear Israeli interest is to end the conflict with the Palestinians,she explained. This is not a favor to the president of the United States... This is the time to reach decisions in this matter and time does not work in Israel's favor. Avoiding the decisions hurts Israel's interests and the [resent status quo is dangerous.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Border Police Company, Special Police Stationed in Lod
by Gil Ronen OCT 5,10
After two murders on two consecutive days, a company of Border Police and Yassam special police units have been stationed in the city of Lod.The city suffers greatly from Arab criminal gangs, and 12 people have been murdered there in the past two years. The vast majority of the murders have not been solved by the police, who admit they have poor intelligence within the Arab crime gangs and cannot get anyone to testify against the murderers, even though they know who they are.Lod's mayor, Ilan Harari, sent an urgent letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Monday, in which he demanded that police activity in the city be greatly intensified. He asked that three Border Police companies be stationed there.The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) is to assist the police in collecting the illegal weapons in the city, especially in the Arab sector.Mayor Harari said that police have simply got to solve the problem, and that if the situation continues, we will simply close down the city.
The Minister of Public Security, Yitzchak Aharonovich, said that collection of illegal weapons is a top priority. There are places in Israel where, if you placed a magnet above the community, the entire community would rise and float in the air, he said, paraphrasing a sentence attributed to former IDF Chief of Staff Refael Eitan regarding a certain Arab village.Infiltration of Israel political system, media, courts and police by radical leftist elements in recent years has created a situation in which Arab crime is on the rise. Within the criminal world, too, Arab crime families are reportedly becoming stronger than Jewish crime families.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Ahmadinejad Calls for US Leaders to Be Buried
by Gil Ronen OCT 5,10
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has taken his anti-American rhetoric further than it has gone before, cursing the US leadership Sunday with a call for it to be buried.May the undertaker bury you, your table and your body, which has soiled the world, he said. The Associated Press explained that in Iran, this phrase is reserved for hated enemies.The crass insult was reportedly issued in response to statements from Washington that the military option against Iran is still on the table.Ahmadinejad's audience consisted of military men and clerics in the town of Hashtgerd, near Teheran. They reportedly chuckled at the slur and applauded. The speech was broadcast on both state television and the official English-language Press TV, but AP said that the latter did not include the insult in its simultaneous translation.
Ahmadinejad also questioned who was behind the September 11, 2001 attacks, as he did in his recent United Nations General Assembly speech. He said the attacks gave Washington a pretext for seeking to dominate the Middle East and plunder its oil wealth.Ahmadinejad's curse is reminiscent of the famous phrase We will bury you uttered by the President of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khruschev, at a reception for Western Ambassadors in Moscow on November 18, 1956.The stepped-up rhetoric by Ahmadinejad could be a reflection of Iranian frustration following the Stuxnet virus attack on its nuclear facilities(IsraelNationalNews.com)
IDF Worried by Possible Peace Talk Terror Spike
by Gil Ronen OCT 5,10
Dictionaries define peace as the absence of war or other hostilities, but a senior IDF officer fears that further progress in the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will mean more, not less, attacks against Jews.A senior officer in the Judea and Samaria Brigade told Arutz Sheva Tuesday that if the talks progress there will be problems and a spike in the number of terror attacks can be expected, because of Hamas's desire to derail the talks.Asked if another full-scale terror war (dubbed Intifadah by the Arabs) like the one that was launched in 2000 could occur, the officer replied in the negative.The Palestinians do not have the ability to carry out a serious Intifadah because of the fact that all of the terror groups [in Judea and Samaria] are unarmed, the [Fatah subgroup] Tanzim does not exist and the other organizations do not have the weapons for terror attacks. However, it is clear that progress in the talks will entail problems, and we can expect a rise in the number of lone attacks like the one we experienced in the past month.The senior officer said that the security fence within Judea and Samaria is doing the job it was built to do in a very good way. He said the PA Arabs have developed what he termed a fence awareness and understand that the fence cannot be breached. He said that whereas Arabs freely crossed illegally into smaller Israel before the fence's construction, the number of such infiltrators is now down to three or four a week.This, he said, makes it difficult for the terrorists to export terror into smaller Israel.
Asked about the delays in traffic that often occur at the IDF checkpoints, he explained that these are inevitable because the soldiers have to check vehicles to make sure they are not ferrying anyone illegally.In response to a question about the way the IDF sees the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria, the senior officer said that we see the settlers as a body that has to be protected in any case and by any means.The officer singled out the Arab village of Azun between Kalkilya and Shechem as one of the most problematic in Judea and Samaria. While the level of terrorism there has decreased, the villagers still commit two to three terror attacks every week, he said – mostly rock attacks on motorists.The officer said it was likely that US pressure would eventually force the IDF to stop entering PA cities to chase down terrorists. However, At this point this is not the picture and not the reality, he said.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Germany Welcomes Islam
by Chana Ya'ar OCT 5,10
Germany has welcomed Islam as part of its multi-cultural mosaic in a televised speech delivered Sunday by President Christian Wulff, marking twenty years of reunification after half a century of being divided following the Nazis' defeat by the Allied Forces in World War II.Although Wulff’s position is primarily ceremonial, his words were nevertheless seen as pivotal in soothing increasingly troubled waters.
Christianity doubtless belongs in Germany. Judaism belongs doubtless in Germany. That is our Judeo-Christian history, he told an audience in the northern city of Bremen. But by now, Islam also belongs in Germany.Chancellor Angela Merkel has acknowledged the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in the country, who currently number some four million. Merkel told her Conservative party members last month that new immigrants need to do more to integrate into German society, including learning the language and obeying every single law. The chancellor, whose popularity has plunged since her re-election a year ago, appeared to be reaching out to the more right-wing faction of her Christian Democrats (CDU) party, which has complained about her moving the group towards the political center in recent years.Clearly faced with trying to walk a political tightrope, Merkel pointed out following racist remarks by the board member of a bank last summer that mosques will be a somewhat larger part of our cityscape than before. She added, however, that police should be able to enter Muslim neighborhoods without fear.Thilo Sarrazin, a board member of the Bundesbank, the country’s central bank, was forced to resign after writing a best-selling book saying the nation’s Muslim immigrants were taking advantage of the welfare system, refusing to integrate and lowering Germany’s intelligence.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
IHH Plans New Int'l Flotilla to Break Gaza Blockade
by Chana Ya'ar OCT 5,10
The Turkish-based IHH group that sent terror activists on a flotilla ship in May to clash with IDF soldiers, hoping to break Israel's blockade of Gaza, now plans to launch a second attempt to coincide with the anniversary of the Cast Lead counter-terrorism war.According to a statement by the group posted on the Internet earlier this week, The convoy will set off in New Delhi, capital of India, on December 2 … [and] aims to reach Gaza on December 27, the anniversary of the Gaza war.The group added that some 500 activists from 17 Asian countries are launching a new movement for an end to Israeli seiege (sic) on occupied land. The slogan for the flotilla will be the peoples of Asia are side by side with the Palestinian people.Activists from India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, the Palestinian Authority, Jordan and Lebanon are expected to participate, according to the statement.Trucks and school buses allegedly bearing aid will pass through India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan before sailing – but will travel to Syria by land before attempting to ship out to Gaza.The IHH organization said it plans to host the flotilla group at a large public gathering when it arrives in Turkey.
IHH Links to Terror; Turkish Leader Linked to IHH?
The IHH-sponsored terror activists who clashed on a flotilla vessel with Israeli Navy commandos overnight May 30-31 were warmly received upon their return by Turkish government officials, according to a report published in July in The New York Times. Nine of the terrorists were killed in the clash when they attacked IDF soldiers who boarded the vessel to redirect it to Ashdod port, leading to international calls for a United Nations investigation of the incident.The mission to Gaza served both the IHH and the government by making [them] both heroes at home and in the Arab world, the Times report quoted Ercan Citilioglu, a terrorism expert at Bahcesehir University in Istanbul. Moreover, despite IHH denials, journalist Tyler Hicks found that 21 people on the group’s board of the directors currently have or had in the past close links with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Justice & Development party.Germany, meanwhile, has outlawed the IHH group, noting its ties to the Hamas terrorist organization. Six Italian Members of Parliament have submitted a proposal to ban the group as well. The MPs pointed out that IHH is a member of the Union of Good,a Saudi Arabia-based umbrella group for Islamic organizations affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. The Union of Good funnels money to Hamas and has been banned by Israel and is listed in the United States as a supporter of terrorism.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
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.
Massive floods kill 26 in Vietnam; 9 missing
OCT 6,10
HANOI, Vietnam – Helicopters dropped food aid Wednesday to people in villages cut off by high water as the death toll from flooding this week in central Vietnam rose to 26, with nine people missing, disaster officials said.In the worst-hit province of Quang Binh, 11 people were dead while authorities searched for five sailors from a sunken barge, disaster official Nguyen Ngoc Giai said.Giai said two helicopters dropped food and water to several villages still cut off by floodwaters while rescuers rushed food aid to other villages over land.In other central provinces, seven people were reported dead and one missing in Ha Tinh province, five dead and three missing in Nghe An and three dead in Quang Tri, disaster officials there said.
Light rains were reported in the region Wednesday and floodwaters began receding slowly, officials said. Forecasters said a tropical depression was expected to bring rains to the region in the coming days, but they were unlikely to cause major floods.
Rail service in Quang Binh province has been disrupted since Tuesday and many parts of the track remain under water, the Vietnam Railway Corp. said.
Storms swamp Reno and Phoenix, drop snow on Sierra
– Tue Oct 5, 8:08 pm ET
RENO, Nev. – An early winter storm that chased record heat out of northern Nevada has swamped Reno with record-setting rain and dropped enough snow at the top of the Sierra to close a mountain highway pass near Lake Tahoe.A series of thunderstorms also rumbled through Arizona, bringing high winds and heavy rains that downed power lines and damaged homes in the Phoenix area. The storms also flooded freeways and underpasses and disrupted air travel at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.In Nevada, the National Weather Service extended a winter weather advisory through late Tuesday afternoon for Reno, Tahoe and Carson City. Temperatures were in the upper 40s in Reno at midday Tuesday after setting record highs in the mid-90s a week ago.
More than an inch of rain (1.09) fell at Reno-Tahoe International Airport on Monday, breaking the old record of 0.23 set in 1994. Snow forced the closure of California Highway 89 at Monitor Pass south of Tahoe Tuesday.In the Phoenix area, a microburst downed 19 power poles, at least three of which landed on homes, Mesa fire Capt. Forrest Smith said. In all, 38 homes were damaged by the storm, 12 severely, and about 100 people were displaced, Smith said.Officials at Sky Harbor said incoming and departing flights were halted for nearly an hour. More than a dozen flights were diverted to other airports, and some had yet to make it into Phoenix several hours after the storm rolled through.By the time the airport was reopened for takeoffs, an estimated 50 jetliners were lined up on taxiways waiting to leave.The storms also flooded roads and dropped half-inch-size hail in parts of Phoenix. The Arizona Department of Transportation said flooding caused major backups on Interstate 10 and U.S. 60.A severe weather watch remains in effect until 7 p.m. for central Arizona.
Concerns about rough weather delayed the America's Challenge gas balloon race in Albuquerque, N.M., which initially was scheduled for Tuesday. The race is now slated to lift off Thursday night.
Flash floods in eastern Indonesia kill at least 56 By LAODE MURSIDIN, Associated Press Writer – Tue Oct 5, 9:13 am ET
TELUK WONDAMA, Indonesia – Heavy rain unleashed flash floods and mudslides, killing at least 56 people in a remote corner of Indonesia that rescuers were struggling to reach, officials and witnesses said Tuesday.With dozens still missing, residents in West Papua province's hillside village of Wasior were combing the mud in search of survivors, some with their bare hands. Hundreds of houses were destroyed — at least 30 of them completely flattened.I heard a roar and suddenly the river broke its banks, said Ira Wanoni, describing the scariest deluge, which occurred early Monday. Water mixed with rocks, mud and logs gushed out. ... Many people didn't have time to save themselves.With roads underwater and several bridges destroyed, rescue workers were having a hard time reaching the area, which has also been hit by power blackouts and downed telephone lines.Navy ships carrying soldiers and police were on the way, as were several airplanes loaded down with tents, medical supplies and food.
Syamsul Maarif, who heads the National Disaster Management Agency, said the death toll had reached 56 by late Tuesday.Some of the more than 60 people injured — most with broken bones — had to be evacuated to by helicopter.With so many houses damaged, together with two schools, two hospitals and a hotel, hundreds of people were fleeing the area.Landslides and flooding kill dozens of people every year in the vast tropical archipelago of Indonesia, which has more than 17,000 islands.
Associated Press Writer Niniek Karmini contributed to this report from Jakarta.
Heavy rains, winds, across Caribbean
– Tue Oct 5, 3:12 pm ET
ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands – Schools and government offices in the British Virgin Islands are closed due to heavy rains from a cluster of thunderstorms that threaten to form a tropical depression.A government statement warns of possible flash floods. The system is traveling northwest and could also bring flooding to the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.A separate system in the eastern Caribbean toppled power lines, destroyed shacks and flooded businesses Monday.High winds stripped roofs from several homes in Trinidad and in Barbados, where authorities said a police station was flooded and five patrol cars were damaged.Trinidad police said Tuesday that the storm uprooted a massive silk cotton tree estimated to be 200 years old.
Hungary sludge flood called ecological disaster By BELA SZANDELSZKY and PABLO GORONDI, Associated Press Writers – Tue Oct 5, 6:10 pm ET
KOLONTAR, Hungary – A lethal torrent of toxic red sludge from a metal refinery engulfed towns in Hungary, burning villagers through their clothes and threatening an ecological disaster Tuesday as it swept toward the Danube River.The flood of caustic red mud triggered a state of emergency declaration by Hungarian officials. At least four people were killed, six were missing and 120 injured, many with burns.
Hundreds were evacuated in the aftermath of the disaster Monday, when a gigantic sludge reservoir burst its banks at an alumina plant in Ajka, a town 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Budapest, the capital. The torrent of sludge inundated homes, swept cars off roads and damaged bridges.Named for its bright red color, the material is a waste product in aluminum production that contains heavy metals and is toxic if ingested.In Kolontar, the town closest to the plant, Erzsebet Veingartner was in her kitchen when the 12-foot-high wave of red slurry hit, sweeping away everything in its path.I looked outside and all I saw was the stream swelling like a huge wave, the 61-year-old widow said Tuesday as she surveyed her backyard, still under 6 feet of noxious muck.I lost all my chickens, my ducks, my Rottweiler, and my potato patch. My late husband's tools and machinery were in the shed and it's all gone, sobbed the woman, who gets by on a $350 monthly pension. I have a winter's worth of firewood in the basement and it's all useless now.Emergency workers wearing masks and chemical protection gear rushed to pour 1,000 tons of plaster into the Marcal River in an attempt to bind the sludge and keep it from flowing on to the Danube some 45 miles away. Nearby, desperate villagers waded through the toxic mud trying to salvage possessions with little more than rubber gloves as protection.
The 1,775-mile-long Danube passes through some of the continent's most pristine vistas from its origins as a Black Forest spring in Germany to its end point as a majestic stretch of water emptying into the Black Sea.Now a murky green — not blue as immortalized in the Strauss waltz — the river flows through four former communist nations. One of the continent's greatest treasuries of wildlife, it has been the focus of a multibillion dollar post-communist cleanup. Cormorants, swans and other birds are now common sights on the river.Still, high-risk industries such as Hungary's Ajkai Timfoldgyar alumina plant are still producing waste near some of its tributaries, posing a threat to the waterway.By Tuesday, about 35.3 million cubic feet of sludge had poured from the reservoir, flooding a 16 square mile area, Environmental Affairs State Secretary Zoltan Illes told the state news wire MTI. He called the spill an ecological catastrophe.Dozens of villagers were burned when the caustic material seeped through their clothing. Two women, a young man and a 3-year-old child were killed, and health officials said two of the injured were in critical condition.Because chemical burns can take days to emerge, seemingly superficial injuries can turn deadly as they penetrate deeper tissue, Dr. Peter Jakabos of Gyor Hospital told state TV.In nearby Devecser, the sea of muck in Tunde Erdelyi's house was 5 feet high Tuesday and rescue workers had to use an ax to cut through her living room door to let it flow out. Her car had been swept into the garden and her husband's van straddled a fence.
When I heard the rumble of the flood, all the time I had was to jump out the window and run to higher ground, she said tearfully, adding that she was grateful the family's pet rabbit and cat were safe.Her husband, Robert Kis, said his uncle was flown by helicopter to Budapest after the sludge burned him to the bone.Firefighters and soldiers wearing masks, rubber boots and other protective gear waded through the stricken area Tuesday, flushing away the sludge with hoses, aided by dozens of bulldozers, their loaders scraping the polluted ground. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban acknowledged that authorities were caught off guard by the disaster, telling reporters the alumina plant and reservoir had been inspected two weeks earlier and no irregularities had been found. Red sludge is a byproduct of the refining of bauxite into alumina, the basic material for manufacturing aluminum. Representatives from industry organizations in the U.S. and London could not explain why the Hungarian victims were burned by the material, saying if it is properly treated it is not hazardous.It is common to store treated sludge in ponds where the water eventually evaporates, leaving behind a dried red clay-like soil, the officials said.However, Hungarian environmentalist Gergely Simon said the sludge involved in the disaster had been accumulating in the reservoir for decades and was extremely alkaline, with a pH value of about 13 — nearly equivalent to lye — and that is what caused the burns.MAL Rt., the Hungarian Aluminum Production and Trade Company that owns the Ajka plant, said that according to European Union standards, red sludge is not considered hazardous waste.The company also denied that it should have taken more precautions to shore up the reservoir, a huge structure more than 1,000 feet long and 500 yards wide, and high enough to dwarf trees that survived the torrent.Clearly angered by the company's suggestions that the substance was not hazardous, Interior Minister Sandor Pinter, snapped: They should take a swim in it and then they'll see.This week's spill threatened to eclipse the environmental damage caused 10 years ago, when huge amounts of cyanide poured from a gold mine reservoir in a Romanian town near the Hungarian border into the Danube and four smaller rivers, destroying plant and animal life. Romania, what was then Yugoslavia and Ukraine also were affected.Gorondi reported from Budapest. Associated Press Writer George Jahn in Vienna and Business Writer Jon Fahey contributed to this report.(This version CORRECTS New approach. Corrects spelling of Kolontar. AP Video.)
Wall Street soars to near 5-month high on stimulus hopes By Leah Schnurr – Tue Oct 5, 4:54 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Stocks rallied to nearly a five-month high on Tuesday on growing conviction that central banks will do even more to bolster struggling economies worldwide.The Bank of Japan lit the fuse overnight when it unexpectedly cut rates closer to zero and said it would pour money into the markets through asset purchases. This move came as markets increasingly believe the U.S. Federal Reserve will stimulate the world's largest economy in a similar fashion.The thinking today is that the printing of money is going to take place, said Bucky Hellwig, senior vice president at BB&T Wealth Management in Birmingham, Alabama.The short-term impact of that is to drive asset prices higher. We've seen it almost across the board in commodities.The likelihood of quantitative easing in the United States hit the greenback and lifted commodity prices, while resource stocks drove the S&P 500 through the 1,150 resistance level.Crude oil hit a five-month peak near $83 a barrel and gold hit another record high at $1,341.20 an ounce. The materials sector (.GSPM) led the S&P 500, gaining 2.8 percent, with mining company Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX.N) jumping 4.6 percent to $91.21.Growing expectations of another round of quantitative easing from the Fed have fueled enthusiasm for equities of late. A top Fed official said in an interview published on Tuesday that the central bank should do much more monetary easing to spur a sluggish economic recovery.If the 1,150 level holds, the next resistance level for the S&P 500 is seen around 1,170 to 1,175.It started off being a round number and now it becomes more significant, said Frank Cappelleri, technical market analyst and trader at Instinet in New York.Over the past few months, the market has seemed to respect support and resistance more than before. So when one of those levels is taken out, it seems to hold more significance than it has in the past.The Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) gained 193.45 points, or 1.80 percent, to 10,944.72. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (.SPX) rose 23.72 points, or 2.09 percent, to 1,160.75. The Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC) jumped 55.31 points, or 2.36 percent, to 2,399.83.
FOLLOW THE RISING SUN
The Bank of Japan set the positive tone early on after it cut its overnight rate target to virtually zero and pledged to buy 5 trillion yen ($60 billion) worth of assets in a fresh dose of economic stimulus.Additionally, Australia's central bank left interest rates steady for a fifth month, thwarting expectations of a hike.Wall Street added to gains after the Institute for Supply Management's index showed the pace of growth in the U.S. services sector accelerated more quickly than forecast in September, while hiring also picked up.Industrial shares also ranked among the day's winners, with Dow components Boeing Co (BA.N) up 3.4 percent at $68.60, and Caterpillar Inc (CAT.N) climbing 2.8 percent to $79.40.Elsewhere, Walgreen Co (WAG.N) gained 2.6 percent to $33.98 after the drugstore chain posted an unexpected increase in September same-store sales.About 8.77 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq, off from last year's estimated daily average of 9.65 billion. Advancing stocks outnumbered declining ones on both the NYSE and the Nasdaq by a ratio of slightly more than 4 to 1.(Reporting by Leah Schnurr; Editing by Jan Paschal)
Soros blames Germany for Europe deflation spiral By Walter Brandimarte – Tue Oct 5, 3:33 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Billionaire investor George Soros blamed Germany for leading the implementation of austerity measures that will throw the euro zone into a deflation spiral.Additional fiscal stimulus --and not fiscal discipline-- is the way out of the crisis for both Europe and the United States, Soros said in a speech at Columbia University on Tuesday.Deficit reduction by a creditor country such as Germany is in direct contradiction of the lessons learnt from the Great Depression of the 1930s. It is liable to push Europe into a period of prolonged stagnation or worse,Soros said.Germany is unlikely to change its ways, however, because its economy is doing well and because the difficulties of other countries can be blamed on structural rigidities, Soros said.German Chancellor Angela Merkel also gained the upper hand in a recent G20 meeting where she joined forces with Canada and newly elected Conservative British Prime Minister David Cameron to put pressure on other countries to adopt austerity measures, Soros noted.As a result, President Barack Obama yielded to the majority and agreed to cut the U.S. budget deficit by half by 2013.This may be the right policy but it comes at the wrong time, Soros said.Soros doesn't think Obama should extend the tax cuts pushed by his predecessor George W. Bush. Instead, he says, the government should direct the extra money coming from higher taxes into fiscal measures to stimulate investment, not consumption.(Editing by Kenneth Barry)
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
Euro terror alert spotlights voiceprint technology By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Writer – Tue Oct 5, 6:47 pm ET
LONDON – Did their voices betray them? The discovery of an alleged terror plot against Europe owes at least some of its success to voiceprint technology that allows law enforcement to electronically match a voice to its owner.The technique — which some compare to fingerprinting — can be a powerful anti-terror tool, officials increasingly believe. Law enforcement agencies are already considering how a voice database could help thwart future plots.The reported plot against European cities, in which suspects allegedly spoke of a Mumbai-style shooting spree, has triggered travel warnings and refocused attention on al-Qaida activities on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, where several of the voices were recorded.The British eavesdropping agency GCHQ deployed voice identification software to help uncover the plot that officials say has targeted Germany, Britain and France — with famed sites such as Notre Dame Cathedral and the Eiffel Tower under close surveillance.Advances in these types of technology have been key in thwarting plots and catching suspects, a British government official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of his work.Despite progress made in quashing the plot, officials still speak of an ongoing threat.Police in southern France on Tuesday arrested 12 suspects in sweeps against suspected Islamic militant networks, including three men linked to a network recruiting fighters for Afghanistan.In one of the cases, nine suspected Islamic militants were detained in southeastern Marseille and its suburbs, and authorities turned up at least one automatic rifle and a pump gun, the officials said.In Tuesday's other roundup, two men were arrested in Marseille and another in southwestern Bordeaux on suspected ties to a Frenchman arrested in Naples, Italy, last month accused of links to an Afghan recruiting ring.
Officials in Germany were tightlipped Tuesday on details of a U.S. missile strike in Pakistan's rugged mountain border area where Pakistani officials said eight German militants were killed.U.S. officials believe a cell of Germans and Britons was at the heart of the Europe terror plot. Germany's ARD public television cited unidentified sources Tuesday as saying four of the Germans killed in the missile attack were of Turkish descent.Developers of voice biometric technology say it can be more useful than traditional fingerprint analysis in fighting terror.You have potential for there to be a larger database for criminals' voices than their fingerprints. What are the chances that you'll get a foreign terrorist's fingerprint versus a foreign terror suspect's voiceprint? said Germano Di Mambro, who runs Wellesley, Massachusetts-based Porticus Technology Inc.Supporters point to several other high-profile successes in voiceprinting. Colombian drug kingpin Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia, who used plastic surgery and multiple aliases to dodge authorities, was arrested in 2007 after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency matched his voice to a tape recording previously made by Colombian authorities.
But academics in the field of speech processing have offered caution.
In a 2003 paper presented to a conference in Geneva, several experts warned that there was no scientific way of identifying a person's voice with absolute certainty.
Frederic Bimbot, one of the paper's authors, said the term voiceprinting was a misnomer because it suggested that the technique was as reliable as fingerprinting.
This is absolutely not the case, his paper said, noting that, unlike a persons' prints, voices are highly variable — changing according to age, health, and emotional state. When contacted through e-mail late Monday, he said his opinion had not changed. Voices can also be altered voluntarily, he said, adding that, at present the technology was simply not mature enough to enable definite conclusions of any kind.Whatever its reliability, voice biometrics have drawn considerable interest from governments around the world.Only a month after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, the Pentagon identified voiceprints as one of the dozens of priority areas in research and development, and it has been used in the field since the invasion of Iraq, according to former U.S. officials, who spoke condition of anonymity to describe classified technology.Interpol is also interested in voice biometrics, the head of its fingerprint unit told the AP.Mark Branchflower, head of Interpol's fingerprint unit, said voice samples could be stored and shared with Interpol's 188 member countries via its secure global communications network. The private sector has already embraced the technology, with U.S. probation officers using it to monitor offenders, and Canadian call centers using it to identify customers. Israel's largest bank, Bank Leumi, says it has been using voice biometrics for the past decade to deter fraud and boost customer safety.The technology has strong potential for streamlining intelligence operations, experts say.U.S. and British intelligence run an international eavesdropping program that gathers huge amounts of information. So big is the overload that the National Security Agency is building a massive storage center in Utah to handle the mountains of data.Almog Aley-Raz, whose Israel-based company PerSay Ltd. supplies governments and businesses around the world, said that using voice biometrics could allow officials to scan a large number of phone conversations for a several suspects' voices, greatly streamlining intelligence work.An entry-level server enables you to run 100 streams of audio against maybe 100 voiceprints, he said, noting that in some cases dozens or even hundreds of servers could be run back-to-back to comb through intercepted calls. Aley-Raz accepted that the technology had its flaws — it is vulnerable to background noise and poor audio quality, for example, and can become confused when people start talking over one another. It's just another tool, he said — but one that can point terror-hunters in the right direction. Associated Press Writers Paisley Dodds in London, Frank Bajak in Bogota, Colombia, Tia Goldenberg in Jerusalem and Melissa Eddy in Berlin contributed to this report.
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.
Israel PM convenes inner forum ahead of key Arab summit
by Steve Weizman – Tue Oct 5, 1:20 pm ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday convened ministers in his inner circle but his office denied widespread press reports that they debated extending the West Bank settlement freeze.Israeli media said the meeting was to focus on the issue of a 60-day extension of the settlement freeze in exchange for a US deal offering security and other guarantees, details of which were leaked by a US analyst last week.Army radio had said Netanyahu was to discuss the reported US proposal in a bid to win over hardline opponents within the group of seven ministers, which includes leaders of the parties in his largely right-wing coalition.
Netanyahu is looking for a way out, the radio's political commentator said. On one hand, he is against a renewal of the freeze because he doesn't want to give in to Palestinian demands, but on the other hand, he also wants to avoid a direct confrontation with the US administration.Asked for details about Tuesday's talks, Netanyahu's office issued a statement saying ministers had discussed global hostility toward Israel after its troops stormed a Gaza-bound aid boat that was trying to run the Israeli blockade in May, killing nine Turkish activists.Contrary to various media reports ... the Forum of Seven did not hold a debate on the issue of efforts to allow the continuation of peace talks, it said.It said ministers heard reports on the work of a United Nations inquiry into the maritime incident and Israel's measures to respond to what the statement called a campaign of delegitimisation aimed at preventing the state of Israel from defending itself.
Netanyahu was on Wednesday to convene his 15-member security cabinet, a government official said, but he refused to disclose the agenda.The Yediot Aharonot daily published a poll of ministers on Monday suggesting that four of the seven members of Netanyahu's inner circle oppose a reimposition of the freeze, as do eight of the 15 security cabinet ministers.Netanyahu had been expected to use both forums to try to achieve some kind of compromise over the settlements ahead of a key Arab summit in Libya later this week at which the Palestinians were expected to formalise a decision to bolt the peace talks.Netanyahu will try to persuade the ministers to accept the guarantees the American administration has offered Israel in exchange for extending the construction freeze, Haaretz newspaper said.The prime minister is interested in passing a decision on the matter before an Arab League committee meets in Libya on Friday to deliver its verdict on whether peace negotiations should continue, it added.Direct peace talks with the Palestinians, begun just a month ago, face collapse over Israel's refusal to renew the freeze, which expired on September 26.Renewing the ban on building new settler homes in the occupied West Bank appears to be key to salvaging peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, who say they will walk out if construction continues.Fearing that Netanyahu and his ministers could waver, settler leaders on Tuesday appealed to them to stand firm.I hope and pray that the government will not capitulate and the ministers honour their promises that the freeze will come to an end after 10 months, Moshe Rosenbaum, head of the Beit El settlement council, told the Ynet news site.The Palestinian leadership has urged president Mahmud Abbas to turn his back on the negotiations if Israel does not renew the freeze. Abbas will look for backing from Arab foreign ministers for such a move when he meets them in Libya on Friday.
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
Lead poisoning kills 400 children in Nigeria: MSF by Aminu Abubakar – Tue Oct 5, 12:05 pm ET
KANO, Nigeria (AFP) – Lead poisoning has killed more than 400 children under the age of five as a result of contamination from illegal gold extraction in northern Nigeria, an international aid agency said on Tuesday.The children died over the last six months in several villages in Zamfara state, where lead-rich run-off from illegal gold mining has entered the soil and water supply, said Medecines Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders - MSF).Based on the record of fatalities from lead poisoning, more than 400 children have died in the last six months, said El-Shafii Muhammad Ahmad, MSF project director in Zamfara.But we in MSF believe the figure is much more than that, he told AFP by telephone.Preliminary findings by UN experts on the contamination in Zamfara state, which were released on Tuesday, said that growing amounts of children are dying from lead poisoning.Elisabeth Byrs, a spokeswoman for the UN office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told AFP in Geneva that more than 3,000 children lived in seven affected villages in an area of high-intensity wildcat gold mining.Byrs said many parents were afraid to come forward when their children fell ill, or mistook symptoms including convulsions with malaria.The pollution is far from over in these areas, we have looked at five villages, Byrs told journalists following the release of a joint OCHA-United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) report into the poisoning.Women and children often participated in the makeshift processing of lead-rich ore to extract the gold, and crushed rock often ended up being taken into homes, MSF said. Residue was discarded haphazardly in the open, exposing children to inhalation or ingestion of contaminants.
The lead pollution and intoxication crisis in Zamfara State is far from over. In fact, we have only seen the tip of iceberg, the UN report said.However, the Nigerian government's chief epidemiologist disputed the MSF figures.The MSF figure on the death toll is not true, said Henry Akpan, who declined to provide a government toll, adding that there had not been any new deaths in the past weeks.We now have good treatment for children, pregnant women and those affected, he said.But MSF's Ahmad said even the 400 deaths is an under-estimation because many lead-related deaths are never reported and in many cases, these communities attribute them to other factors or deny them altogether.Local communities mainly concealed or denied the fatalities and illnesses from lead poisoning for fear that authorities will ban their mining activities, he added.Illicit gold mining is more lucrative than agriculture for the impoverished farming communities.The UN report, which follows a fact-finding visit to the region, said lead poisoning was spreading in mining communities in northwestern Zamfara.The list of polluted villages continues to grow, it said, adding that there were signs of resumed mining activities in Dareta, one of two villages decontaminated by a US-based environmental firm. The study focused on ground water pollution in the affected areas of the state and found highly fluctuating concentrations of lead in samples after a survey of five of the villages. Contamination levels of up to 10 times above maximum standards were recorded in water wells in two villages.The concentrations of lead in ponds and rivers are often not meeting the drinking water standards for lead, the report added.Symptoms of lead poisoning normally build up over long periods as the heavy metal accumulates in the human body, producing abdominal pain, nervous disorders affecting growth and ultimately leading to kidney failure.Children, especially fast growing under five year-olds, are most at risk.
Video: 9/11 Firefighters Reveal Huge Explosions Before Towers Collapsed
Secondary explosions caused lobby of World Trade Center to implode
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, October 6, 2010
http://www.prisonplanet.com/video-911-firefighters-reveal-huge-explosions-before-towers-collapsed.html (VIDEOS)
Newly obtained video that was reluctantly released by NIST after a lawsuit by the International Center for 9/11 Studies shows two firefighters on 9/11 discussing how secondary explosions occurred immediately before the collapse of the twin towers, providing damning new evidence that explosive devices were used to bring down the buildings.Debunkers have repeatedly claimed that low-temperature burning jet fuel could weaken steel support columns enough to cause the pancake-style collapse of the twin towers, ignoring the plethora of eyewitness testimony to incendiary devices having caused the implosion of the World Trade Center structure.The new tape is as clear cut as it comes – the firefighters, who were inside the lobby of one of the towers, unequivocally state that secondary explosions which occurred after the planes hit were responsible for causing the towers to collapse.There was an explosion….the third explosion the whole lobby collapsed on us, states the firefighter. Asked was that a secondary explosion, he responds, yes it was ….definitely secondary explosion.Another firefighter then confirms that there were at least three explosions which caused the lobby to collapse.The only way to explain what firefighters described as molten steel, like you’re in a foundary, like lava being witnessed following the collapse of the towers was if powerful additional incendiary devices were used to take down the buildings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCdRA09pztM&feature=player_embedded
The firefighters’ testimony compliments that of William Rodriguez, eyewitness to sub-level explosions that occurred before the impact of the first plane in the north tower and representative for many 9/11 victim’s families.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQk3XXBot9c&feature=player_embedded
Rodriguez’ testimony is also confirmed by Anthony Saltalamacchia, a morning supervisor who managed over a hundred workers in the twin towers. Saltalamacchia was in sub-basement B1 of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane’s impact point at floors 93 to 98.The explosion….at first we believe it came from the mechanical room and then we heard a series of other explosions that sounded up on the above levels of the building, said Saltalamacchia.Saltalamacchia then discusses how a man ran into the office with his skin hanging off. William Rodriguez had previously described the same scenario following basement level explosions and it was also seconded by another eyewitness, Kenneth Johannemann, an employee of ABM janitorial services.As we’re standing there, more explosions were happening, said Saltalamacchia, before he urged Rodriguez and the other workers to leave the building. The group left and initially headed towards the lobby before they realized it too had been partially destroyed, conforming with the eyewitness testimony of the firefighters.Despite Saltalamacchia’s plea to stay out of harm’s way, Rodriguez ran back into the burning building in an attempt to save his colleagues.The amount of explosions I heard from 8:46 to the time we got out was so many – at least ten – it was just like multiple explosions to where I felt there was different grenades, that’s what it sounded like, like different grenades being set off in the building, said Saltalamacchia.It was one major explosion and then there was different explosions throughout that period of time until we got out, he added.Numerous other WTC basement workers, including Felipe David and Salvatore Giambanco, have also gone public with eyewitness testimony concerning massive sub-level explosions that took place before Flight 11 hit the north tower.WTC construction worker Phillip Morelli was headed for level B-4 in Tower One [north tower], four stories below ground, when he was thrown to the floor by a violent explosion that coincided with the plane hitting 100 floors above.15-year WTC worker Marlene Cruz told Peter Jennings in an interview with ABC News that she was also rocked by an explosion in the basement level of the north tower.The 9/11 Commission completely ignored the hundreds of survivors, professionals, first responders, firefighters and police who reported numerous secondary explosions at all levels of the twin towers.
After filing a lawsuit that prompted NIST to release more than 3 terabytes of photographs and videos from their investigation into the collapse of the twin towers and WTC 7 on 9/11, the International Center for 9/11 Studies obtained evidence, in addition to the firefighter tapes, that suggests NIST edited several videos of the collapse of Building 7 in order to hide evidence of a controlled implosion. Building 7 was not hit by a plane and yet it collapsed demolition style late in the afternoon of September 11.The Center filed a FOIA Request with NIST on January 26, 2009, seeking production of all of the photographs and videos collected, reviewed, cited or in any other way used by NIST during its investigation of the World Trade Center building collapses. Following several unsuccessful attempts to get NIST to even acknowledge receipt of the Request, the Center was forced to file a lawsuit on May 28, 2009. Shortly after the lawsuit was filed, the Request was assigned a reference number, and NIST began periodically releasing batches of responsive records.The Center has now begun posting some of those images and videos online, the first batch of which is from an external hard disk drive NIST WTC Investigation Cumulus Video Clips.In one of the clips, the video of which has been in the public domain for years, a loud, low-frequency boom can be heard just before the east penthouse of WTC 7 falls. Once the support columns that held up the penthouse are taken out, the rest of the building falls almost within its own footprint.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrnmbUDeHus&feature=player_embedded
However, in subsequent clips released by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), where the camera is located nearer to the building, the collapse of the penthouse is clearly edited out of the footage.Several clips from the Cumulus database show signs of editing. In the two video clips below, the collapse of the penthouse of World Trade Center 7 is cut out of the video. These videos happen to have been filmed from close to WTC 7, and have a high quality soundtrack that would have picked up explosion sounds from the charges that severed the columns supporting the penthouse, especially the explosion heard in the last video clip presented, comments the International Center for 9/11 Studies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH_Lv_sevwY&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyhMTOdRnRo&feature=player_embedded
In another clip, the entire collapse of the building is edited out, the audio is removed and only restored after the building has fully collapsed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT3ea4AC2K8&feature=player_embedded
The Center also obtained videos of the collapse of the twin towers that had obviously been edited, with sections deliberately removed. “There are many video clips in the Cumulus database that do not show collapse initiation – the only event even purportedly explained in the final report from NIST on the Twin Towers,” states the Center.
Another new video shows Michael Hess yelling for help from the 8th floor window of WTC 7. The clip reinforces the fact that the building had not sustained any substantial damage before its free fall collapse within 7 seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZduP7HTM3cg&feature=player_embedded
As we documented for several years, the collapse of WTC 7 is the smoking gun confirming that the official story behind 9/11 is bogus. The collapse of Building 7 was reported before it happened by several news stations, including BBC and CNN. The International Center for 9/11 Studies is still in the process of reviewing over 300 DVDs along with several external hard disk drives that contain a plethora of unseen photographs and video footage from ground zero. Judging by the small amount of damning footage already released, it’s highly probable that this data will provide a myriad of new contradictions both to the official 9/11 story as well as NIST’s own investigation into the collapse of the three buildings.
Fed Hints It Will Print and Inflate Dollars as Gold Hits New Record
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com October 6, 2010
Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans says the Fed will probably overshoot its informal two percent inflation target in a desperate effort to jump-start the economy and get credit moving again.The Fed will create money ex nihilo — out of nothing — and further devalue the dollar.In the last several months I’ve stared at our unemployment forecast and come to the conclusion that it’s just not coming down nearly as quickly as it should, Evans told the Wall Street Journal. This is a far grimmer forecast than we ought to have,he said, so Evans favors much more accommodation than we’ve put in place.In other words, the Fed will continue its destructive policy of quantitative easing.It will create money ex nihilo — out of nothing — and further devalue the dollar. The Fed will use funny money created out of thin air to purchase government bonds, mortgage-backed securities and corporate bonds. Zombie banks will feed this funny money into the stock market casino.The Fed knows that they can use the stock indices as a ruse to dupe the dopes into thinking all is well while promulgating the belief that the Fed is here to help, writes Barry M. Ferguson. In real terms, the US dollar has lost more than 50% of its value since 2001 while the Dow has remained at the same level of ten years ago.For those not fooled by the Fed and the corporate financial media, the only safe haven is in gold and silver. So long as the Fed continues to destroy the dollar, gold and silver will follow an inverse trend reaction to dollar devaluation, as Ferguson notes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJOlWNKi8k&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIzx14AsK2s&feature=player_embedded
Europe steps up pressure over renminbi-Beijing said in June that it would end the renminbi's effective peg with the dollar and allow a gradual appreciation, but the renminbi's rise since that date has been fractional (Photo: EUobserver)
ANDREW WILLIS 05.10.2010 @ 12:44 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Senior European officials have urged China to allow the value of its renminbi currency to appreciate, warning that a weakened European economy will negatively impact on Chinese growth. Eurogroup president Jean-Claude Juncker described talks on Tuesday morning (5 October) with Chinese economic officials including Premier Wen Jiabao as frank and friendly, but added that Beijing must do more to boost domestic consumption.We agreed that China's recent growth performance has been an important factor in overcoming the global financial and economic crisis, said Mr Juncker, whose double-hatted role combines chairing the monthly meetings of euro area finance ministers with his job as prime minister of Luxembourg.We nevertheless want China to rebalance its growth model in order to increase the contribution of domestic consumption to GDP growth,he added.We still think that China's real effective exchange rate remains undervalued.The issue of China's currency has vexed policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic for years, with US lawmakers recently passing a bill that could punish Chinese exporters if fully implemented.Debate over global trade imbalances has also come to the fore since the 2008 financial crisis. Many economists argue that the mix of large national surpluses and deficits was a principle factor behind the global meltdown.
Reacting to this pressure, Beijing announced on 19 June that it would end the renminbi's effective peg with the dollar and allow a gradual appreciation, but the renminbi's rise since that date has been fractional.The potential of the decision has not been fully exploited, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said after Tuesday's talks in which he participated.He welcomed the news however, confirmed by Mr Wen on Tuesday, that China would look to buy Greek sovereign bonds when Athens next turned to the market.Against a backdrop of Chinese domestic opposition from many of its businesses, European policymakers have sought to stress the win-win nature of a rise in the renminbi.A stronger European economy is in the interests of China since the EU is the largest export market of China, European economy commissioner Olli Rehn told journalists after the meeting.If the euro continues to bear a disproportionate burden in the adjustment of global exchange rates the recovery of the euro area's economy might be weakened,he continued. Despite the renewed push from Europe's most influential economic policymakers, a rapid rise in China's currency appears unlikely, with premier Wen indicating as much during his opening speech on Monday at the start of a two-day meeting of European and Asian leaders.We should intensify macroeconomic policy coordination, manage with caution the timing and pace of an exit strategy from economic stimulus and keep the exchange rates of major reserve currencies relatively stable,he said.
EU-China tug-of-war hampers global recovery drive
by Roddy Thomson - OCT 5,10
BRUSSELS (AFP) – Fears of a global currency war land centre-stage Wednesday as Europe and China warm up for crunch IMF talks with a head-to-head summit focused on the yuan which the West says is undervalued.The issue already overshadowed a meeting of 46 European and Asian leaders in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday, but now the European Union finally locks horns with Beijing over its role in shaping the value of China's currency.Orderly, significant and broad-based appreciation of the renminbi (yuan) would promote more balanced growth, said leading eurozone finance minister Jean-Claude Juncker after talks with Chinese premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday, stressing that the yuan remains undervalued.The currency issue was deliberately kicked into Wednesday's tighter agenda as Europe -- like the United States -- seeks to pressure China into relaxing policies deemed protectionist and responsible for skewing global economic recovery, without upsetting the world's post-recession economic superpower. The commercial weight offered by a barrier-free market of half a billion relatively rich consumers gives Europe some clout, even if debt burdens in Greece or Ireland weaken its position in negotiations.Brussels may be helped by the symbolic signature also on Wednesday of a deal to drop barriers to South Korea's auto and other exports -- in a deal sold to Asia as the first in a new generation of trade freeways.Either way, bound up with headaches including how to re-configure the International Monetary Fund, or joined-up policy-making through the Group of 20 leading modern economies, these talks could prove pivotal for relations between the traditional and emerging proprietors of global might.
On the global scale, externally, we need to focus our efforts on the reform of International Monetary Fund and financial regulation, said EU president Herman Van Rompuy late on Tuesday.After two years of profound (economic) crisis the main road has been found, but a lot of critical points still need to be tackled, the Belgian figurehead underlined.A bid to ensure a level playing-field in financial market regulation remains our number one priority, he stressed.The sticking point, with recovery so dependent on who can sell the most to those who have to buy, remains a currency market as reliable as Wild West property speculation.The euro hit fresh eight-month highs on Tuesday, well above 1.38 dollars, undercutting export competitiveness and ensuring tough talking when the annual IMF assembly begins formally in Washington on Friday. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who takes the G20 chair next month, set the tone, calling for a new world monetary order to keep at bay a beggar-thy-neighbour race to the abyss, reminiscent of the 1930s Great Depression.Everyone does as they want, everyone, each to their own, tries to preserve their own sovereignty (and) we are living in the 21st century without a monetary order, he said.Brussels is doing its best, as the free-trade pact with Seoul shows -- it is only being signed after partners persuaded Italy to ditch objections over fears for its iconic auto industry.But faced with decade-long deadlock in world trade negotiations, Europe and the United States must pursue bilateral avenues.Brussels is also negotiating a pact with India, while another deal is in the works with Mercosur, a South American trade bloc that includes Brazil and Argentina.
The EU has also kicked off talks with Malaysia, but it is how it handles China that may define the pace of its recovery -- and its positioning in Sarkozy's fabled new order. More than two years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the IMF says the financial system is still the Achilles' heel of recovery.The richest regions -- Europe, Japan and the United States -- have the most to lose, a report out Tuesday concluded, while emerging markets remain very resilient.The battle has only just begun.
IMF chief warns against using currency as a weapon
-OCT 5,10
WASHINGTON (AFP) – IMF Director General Dominique Strauss-Kahn has urged governments in a newly published interview not to use their currency's exchange rate as a weapon amid tough economic times.There is clearly the idea beginning to circulate that currencies can be used as a policy weapon, Strauss-Kahn told the Financial Times.
Translated into action, such an idea would represent a very serious risk to the global recovery . . . Any such approach would have a negative and very damaging longer-run impact, he warned.Following remarks by Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega about the potential for a currency war, the IMF chief said we have seen reports that some emerging countries whose economies face big capital inflows are saying that maybe it is time to use their currencies to try to gain an advantage, particularly on the trade side.I don?t think that is a good solution.Strauss-Kahn's remarks came ahead of annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington at the weekend.
Chinese leader urges EU to give up more IMF power
ANDREW WILLIS 05.10.2010 @ 09:29 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has hinted that Europe may need to sweeten its offer on reforming the International Monetary Fund before a deal can be agreed next month. The issue was one of several topics to be addressed by Asian and EU leaders (ASEM) meeting in Brussels on Monday (4 October) as part of a two-day session of talks, with an ongoing territorial row between China and Japan adding spice to the atmosphere.The EU last week offered to reduce its number of seats on the board of the IMF. Developing nations have criticised the slow pace of reform at the international lending organisation, whose structure has changed little since its set-up in 1945.European countries currently hold eight of the board's 24 seats, with another chair revolving between European and non-European directors. This has led to a gross over-representation of the region in recent times, even as developing countries increase their share of global GDP.EU finance ministers agreed last Friday to share two of the continent's eight executive-director seats on a rotating basis with emerging nations, but the offer does not appear to have met with China's approval.We need to improve the decision-making process and mechanisms of the international financial institutions,Mr Wen told his Asian and European counterparts in Brussels. The Chinese leader added that there was a need to "increase the representation and voice of developing countries, encourage wider participation and fully accommodate each other's interests and concerns.A South Korean official, whose country is set to host the next G20 leaders' meeting in November where the matter is set to be finalised, welcomed the European offer as an improvement however.I think the fact that Europeans show flexibility and willingness to negotiate is an important advancement, Changyong Rhee, head of the committee preparing the G20 meeting, told journalists.
China-Japan dispute comes to Brussels
With no bilateral meeting currently scheduled between Mr Wen and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, all eyes attentively followed the two individuals to see if they would talk in the margins of the event.But the game of diplomatic tip-toeing did not prevent Mr Kan from holding a short bi-lateral with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, during which he secured the Belgian politician's signature on his recently published book of haiku poetry, a style of Japanese verse famous for its brevity.Different colours,/tongues, towers and gods./I search my way, one of the verses, about Brussels, says.Elsewhere in the sidelines of the summit, Japanese officials were discretely explaining their side of the dispute with China, which centers on a group of islands located to the north-east of Taiwan.Japan says its ownership of the islands dates back to the late 19th century, while Chinese interest dates to the 1970s when exploitation of oil deposits on the East China Sea's continental shelf started.Another thorny issue, the value of China's renminbi currency, is set to be discussed by EU and Chinese officials on Tuesday morning.
Bernanke Tells the Truth: The United States is on the Brink of Financial Disaster EconomicPolicyJournal October 5, 2010
Yesterday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered a speech before the the Annual Meeting of the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council in Providence, Rhode Island. In the speech, he warned about the current state of the government finances. His conclusion, the situation is dire and unsustainable.It is remarkable that mainstream media has given this speech no coverage. I repeat, the central banker of the United States says in his own words:Let me return to the issue of longer-term fiscal sustainability. As I have discussed, projections by the CBO and others show future budget deficits and debts rising indefinitely, and at increasing rates. To be sure, projections are to some degree only hypothetical exercises. Almost by definition, unsustainable trajectories of deficits and debts will never actually transpire, because creditors would never be willing to lend to a country in which the fiscal debt relative to the national income is rising without limit. Herbert Stein, a wise economist, once said, If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.9 One way or the other, fiscal adjustments sufficient to stabilize the federal budget will certainly occur at some point. The only real question is whether these adjustments will take place through a careful and deliberative process that weighs priorities and gives people plenty of time to adjust to changes in government programs or tax policies, or whether the needed fiscal adjustments will be a rapid and painful response to a looming or actual fiscal crisis.This is as close as you are ever going to see a central banker admit that his country’s financial situation is so dire that it could breakup at any time.
Here’s more from Bernanke’s remarkable speech:The recent deep recession and the subsequent slow recovery have created severe budgetary pressures not only for many households and businesses, but for governments as well. Indeed, in the United States, governments at all levels are grappling not only with the near-term effects of economic weakness, but also with the longer-run pressures that will be generated by the need to provide health care and retirement security to an aging population. There is no way around it–meeting these challenges will require policymakers and the public to make some very difficult decisions and to accept some sacrifices. But history makes clear that countries that continually spend beyond their means suffer slower growth in incomes and living standards and are prone to greater economic and financial instability.Now, get this, he warns that it is not only the Federal government that has financial problems, but also states and local governments:
Although state and local governments face significant fiscal challenges, my primary focus today will be the federal budget situation and its economic implications.Does Bernanke see the tsunami hitting or what? Then, he put things in historical perspective:The budgetary position of the federal government has deteriorated substantially during the past two fiscal years, with the budget deficit averaging 9-1/2 percent of national income during that time. For comparison, the deficit averaged 2 percent of national income for the fiscal years 2005 to 2007, prior to the onset of the recession and financial crisis. The recent deterioration was largely the result of a sharp decline in tax revenues brought about by the recession and the subsequent slow recovery, as well as by increases in federal spending needed to alleviate the recession and stabilize the financial system. As a result of these deficits, the accumulated federal debt measured relative to national income has increased to a level not seen since the aftermath of World War II.Then, he explains the deterioration and the problems it will create for the entire economy:For now, the budget deficit has stabilized and, so long as the economy and financial markets continue to recover, it should narrow relative to national income over the next few years. Economic conditions provide little scope for reducing deficits significantly further over the next year or two; indeed, premature fiscal tightening could put the recovery at risk. Over the medium- and long-term, however, the story is quite different. If current policy settings are maintained, and under reasonable assumptions about economic growth, the federal budget will be on an unsustainable path in coming years, with the ratio of federal debt held by the public to national income rising at an increasing pace.2 Moreover, as the national debt grows, so will the associated interest payments, which in turn will lead to further increases in projected deficits. Expectations of large and increasing deficits in the future could inhibit current household and business spending–for example, by reducing confidence in the longer-term prospects for the economy or by increasing uncertainty about future tax burdens and government spending–and thus restrain the recovery. Concerns about the government’s long-run fiscal position may also constrain the flexibility of fiscal policy to respond to current economic conditions.
Then, he tells us how powerful the negative trends are and how the aging population and Obamacare are going to make things worse:Our fiscal challenges are especially daunting because they are mostly the product of powerful underlying trends, not short-term or temporary factors. Two of the most important driving forces are the aging of the U.S. population, the pace of which will intensify over the next couple of decades as the baby-boom generation retires, and rapidly rising health-care costs. As the health-care needs of the aging population increase, federal health-care programs are on track to be by far the biggest single source of fiscal imbalances over the longer term. Indeed, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the ratio of federal spending for health-care programs (principally Medicare and Medicaid) to national income will double over the next 25 years, and continue to rise significantly further after that…he aging of the U.S. population will also strain Social Security, as the number of workers paying taxes into the system rises more slowly than the number of people receiving benefits. This year, there are about five individuals between the ages of 20 and 64 for each person aged 65 and older. By 2030, when most of the baby boomers will have retired, this ratio is projected to decline to around 3, and it may subsequently fall yet further as life expectancies continue to increase. Overall, the projected fiscal pressures associated with Social Security are considerably smaller than the pressures associated with federal health programs, but they still present a significant challenge to policymakers.Then he goes back to warn that the financial mess also exists at the state and local level:The same underlying trends affecting federal finances will also put substantial pressures on state and local budgets, as organizations like yours have helped to highlight. In Rhode Island, as in other states, the retirement of state employees, together with continuing increases in health-care costs, will cause public pension and retiree health-care obligations to become increasingly difficult to meet. Estimates of unfunded pension liabilities for the states as whole span a wide range, but some researchers put the figure as high as $2 trillion at the end of 2009.5 Estimates of states’ liabilities for retiree health benefits are even more uncertain because of the difficulty of projecting medical costs decades into the future. However, one recent estimate suggests that state governments have a collective liability of almost $600 billion for retiree health benefits. These health benefits have usually been handled on a pay-as-you-go basis and therefore could impose a substantial fiscal burden in coming years as large numbers of state workers retire.
Bernanke then breaks the news that the problem is global:It may be scant comfort, but the United States is not alone in facing fiscal challenges. The global recession has dealt a blow to the fiscal positions of most other advanced economies, and, as in the United States, their expenditures for public health care and pensions are expected to rise substantially in the coming decades as their populations age. Indeed, the population of the United States overall is younger than those of a number of European countries as well as Japan.Bernanke then re-emphasises, the damage this will do to the overall economy:Failing to address our unsustainable fiscal situation exposes our country to serious economic costs and risks. In the short run, as I have noted, concerns and uncertainty about exploding future deficits could make households, businesses, and investors more cautious about spending, capital investment, and hiring. In the longer term, a rising level of government debt relative to national income is likely to put upward pressure on interest rates and thus inhibit capital formation, productivity, and economic growth. Larger government deficits increase our reliance on foreign lenders, all else being equal, implying that the share of U.S. national income devoted to paying interest to foreign investors will increase over time. Income paid to foreign investors is not available for domestic consumption or investment. And an increasingly large cost of servicing a growing national debt means that the adjustments, when they come, could be sharp and disruptive. For example, large tax increases that might be imposed to cover the rising interest on the debt would slow potential growth by reducing incentives to work, save, hire, and invest.He then states that we do not know how much time is left before all hell breaks loose:It would be difficult to identify a specific threshold at which federal debt begins to pose more substantial costs and risks to the nation’s economy. Perhaps no bright line exists; the costs and risks may grow more or less continuously as the federal debt rises. What we do know, however, is that the threat to our economy is real and growing, which should be sufficient reason for fiscal policymakers to put in place a credible plan for bringing deficits down to sustainable levels over the medium term.From there,Bernanke goes into a bit of wishful thinking by identifying ways Congress can rein in spending and make the tax system more efficient. Good luck with all of that.
The real important part of Bernanke’s speech is the first half where he warns of the financial crisis just ahead.
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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US call for Nato cyber-strike capacity causes division
VALENTINA POP 05.10.2010 @ 15:46 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Developing a Nato cyber-war capability and French opposition to joint nuclear planning are emerging as the main bones of contention in the debate on a new Nato Strategic Concept, to be adopted next month.The new document is to replace a 10-year-old strategy paper written before the Internet age and before France joined the transatlantic alliance's command structure. The office of Nato secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen drafted the new Strategic Concept and distributed it to the 28 member countries last week. It is to be adopted by consensus at the Nato summit in Lisbon on 19 and 20 November.The Pentagon's push for a Nato active cyberdefence is the most divisive issue so far, EUobserver has learned.
Active cyberdefence is a very sensitive topic. Many experts have brought it up, that in order to have defence, you need some offence as well. I would be very surprised if Nato at 28 will find consensus to include it, a diplomat from one of the Baltic states said.Broader wording outlining cyber-attacks as a growing threat and the need for Nato to be adaptable and flexible in its capacity to react is a likely compromise.Following attacks in 2008 on its classified military network the Pentagon established a new cyber-command, making active cyberdefence one of its policy pillars, US deputy secretary of defence William J. Lynn said on 15 September in Brussels at an event hosted by the Security and Defence Agenda think-tank.The US cyber-command goes beyond the passive Maginot Line mentality of the past, he explained. Passive defence systems are sufficient to meet 80 percent of attacks. But the other 20 percent need active systems, such as sensors that operate at network speed to detect and block intrusions.At the heart of the Pentagon's new cyber policy lies the recognition that military networks cannot be safe unless other critical infrastructures, such as power grids and financial networks, are protected. The US is itself suspected of having created Stuxnet, a computer worm that cane be introduced via USB sticks into industrial plants and used to sabotage operations, including in nuclear facilities. Over 60 percent of reported Stuxnet cases are in Iran.Against this background, Mr Lynn in September called for collective defence - the core principle of the alliance - to be applied to computer networks.The Cold War concepts of shared warning apply in the 21st century to cyber security. Just as our air defences, our missile defences have been linked so too do our cyber defences need to be linked as well,he said.European allies are keen to protect themselves against Estonia-type cyber strikes (which saw bank and government websites paralysed in 2007). But they are showing little appetite for US-model pre-emptive cyber-strikes on hostile countries or organisations.A group of experts chaired by former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright tasked by Mr Rasmussen to do a report on the new Nato strategy was cautious on the subject. Over time, Nato should plan to mount a fully adequate array of cyber defence capabilities, including passive and active elements,the report, published in May, said. It underlined the need for Nato to co-operate better with the EU, as this could be helpful in addressing unconventional threats such as terrorism, cyber-attacks, and energy vulnerabilities.
In a bolder move the report suggested giving Mr Rasmussen or Nato generals pre-delegated authority to respond in emergencies such as a missile or cyber attack. But the idea is unlikely to fly, diplomatic sources said.
French nukes
Another contentious area is that of common nuclear planning - balancing the Washington-led drive for nuclear disarmament while keeping nuclear warheads in Europe as a deterrent to hostile countries.France, which re-joined Nato's military structures in 2009 after staying out for over 40 years, is legally bound by its constitution have exclusive sovereign power over its nuclear arsenal. It has opted out of a Rasmussen-chaired nuclear planning group in the alliance which is looking at drawing down Nato's reliance on atomic weapons.Anything on nuclear policy will have to be agreed with France. There is no consensus over this at the moment, one Nato source told this website.Nato-Russia relations, normally a hot topic between the alliance's older and newer members, have meanwhile slipped into the background of the Strategic Concept discussions. Nato froze relations with Moscow for half a year after the Georgia war in 2008 only to restart them again, even though Russian troops are still stationed in Georgia's separatist regions in violation of a ceasefire agreement. Tbilisi has filed for Nato membership, but the prospect, although confirmed at a Nato summit in 2008, remains distant.There is a sense that nothing will move in the foreseeable future on Georgia,the Nato source 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.
STOP BUILDING POLLUTING
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Iran Extends Ties with Lebanon and Egypt
by Elad Benari OCT 6,10
The Islamic Republic of Iran is strengthening its ties with its area neighbors, particularly Lebanon and Egypt.According to a report on Monday in Iranian media, Lebanon’s and Iran’s energy ministers have reached an agreement over oil and gas exploration efforts in Lebanese economic waters, according to which Iran will be involved in the search for gas and oil close to the border with Israel.The two countries will set up a joint project to look for oil and gas in Lebanese economic waters, using Iran’s engineering experience.The cooperation between the two countries was announced after Israel discovered two sources of natural gas on its territory. In January of 2009, Houston-based Noble Energy company announced the discovery of a huge deposit of natural gas under the Mediterranean Sea near Haifa. At the time, it was estimated that the Tamar drilling site held enough gas to allow Israel to be self-sufficient in energy for two decades, but in June it was published that there is likely even more gas on the site than originally thought.A second giant field near the Haifa coast, the Leviathan, was reported in August to have a potential of 4 billion barrels of black gold.Though Lebanon has claimed that both the Leviathan and Tamar fields belong to it, reports from Iran now indicate that Lebanon intends to look for gas in its own waters in the hope of finding reserves, rather than take action over its claims.
Through this project, Iran could deepen its involvement in the region and strengthen Lebanon's dependence on Tehran. Iranian oil minister Masoud Mirkazemi confirmed the reports to the Islamic Republic of Iran News Network and added that a meeting would take place soon among Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon to discuss the possibility of purchasing gas from the Islamic Republic.Meanwhile, it appears as though ties are also warming up between Iran and Egypt. The two countries announced that direct flights between Cairo and Tehran would resume for the first time since 1980. 28 weekly flights would resume between the two capitals, though it is currently not known when this will begin.Iranian media said that the move could be a prelude to the resumption of formal ties between Iran and Egypt.The two countries have been at odds since 1979’s Islamic Revolution in Iran, when Egypt gave asylum to the deposed Shah of Iran.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Livni in Harvard: Conflict with Iran Unsolvable
by Gil Ronen OCT 5,10
Opposition Head MK Tzipi Livni (Kadima) said Tuesday that Iran believes in a religious ideology that makes the conflict with it unresolvable. The latest pronouncements by [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad and the heads of the regime prove that the world must increase the pressure of sanctions on Iran and supplement them with political sanctions against the regime.she went on to say, in a speech at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.The world must stop giving the Iranian leaders pulpits from which to spew their venom, be it in the United Nations or anywhere else,Livni added. As long as Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust and talks about destroying Israel, the world cannot be tolerant and listen to him, and it must cease giving him ammunition for spreading his creed.Livni accused the Israel government of wasting two years in which it did not continue the negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. Now [the Israeli government] must reach the decisions that will save what is left of the negotiations, she said.The Prime Minister knows that Kadima will support him if he makes these decisions and it would be better if he makes them quickly, she warned.The clear Israeli interest is to end the conflict with the Palestinians,she explained. This is not a favor to the president of the United States... This is the time to reach decisions in this matter and time does not work in Israel's favor. Avoiding the decisions hurts Israel's interests and the [resent status quo is dangerous.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Border Police Company, Special Police Stationed in Lod
by Gil Ronen OCT 5,10
After two murders on two consecutive days, a company of Border Police and Yassam special police units have been stationed in the city of Lod.The city suffers greatly from Arab criminal gangs, and 12 people have been murdered there in the past two years. The vast majority of the murders have not been solved by the police, who admit they have poor intelligence within the Arab crime gangs and cannot get anyone to testify against the murderers, even though they know who they are.Lod's mayor, Ilan Harari, sent an urgent letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Monday, in which he demanded that police activity in the city be greatly intensified. He asked that three Border Police companies be stationed there.The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) is to assist the police in collecting the illegal weapons in the city, especially in the Arab sector.Mayor Harari said that police have simply got to solve the problem, and that if the situation continues, we will simply close down the city.
The Minister of Public Security, Yitzchak Aharonovich, said that collection of illegal weapons is a top priority. There are places in Israel where, if you placed a magnet above the community, the entire community would rise and float in the air, he said, paraphrasing a sentence attributed to former IDF Chief of Staff Refael Eitan regarding a certain Arab village.Infiltration of Israel political system, media, courts and police by radical leftist elements in recent years has created a situation in which Arab crime is on the rise. Within the criminal world, too, Arab crime families are reportedly becoming stronger than Jewish crime families.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Ahmadinejad Calls for US Leaders to Be Buried
by Gil Ronen OCT 5,10
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has taken his anti-American rhetoric further than it has gone before, cursing the US leadership Sunday with a call for it to be buried.May the undertaker bury you, your table and your body, which has soiled the world, he said. The Associated Press explained that in Iran, this phrase is reserved for hated enemies.The crass insult was reportedly issued in response to statements from Washington that the military option against Iran is still on the table.Ahmadinejad's audience consisted of military men and clerics in the town of Hashtgerd, near Teheran. They reportedly chuckled at the slur and applauded. The speech was broadcast on both state television and the official English-language Press TV, but AP said that the latter did not include the insult in its simultaneous translation.
Ahmadinejad also questioned who was behind the September 11, 2001 attacks, as he did in his recent United Nations General Assembly speech. He said the attacks gave Washington a pretext for seeking to dominate the Middle East and plunder its oil wealth.Ahmadinejad's curse is reminiscent of the famous phrase We will bury you uttered by the President of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khruschev, at a reception for Western Ambassadors in Moscow on November 18, 1956.The stepped-up rhetoric by Ahmadinejad could be a reflection of Iranian frustration following the Stuxnet virus attack on its nuclear facilities(IsraelNationalNews.com)
IDF Worried by Possible Peace Talk Terror Spike
by Gil Ronen OCT 5,10
Dictionaries define peace as the absence of war or other hostilities, but a senior IDF officer fears that further progress in the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will mean more, not less, attacks against Jews.A senior officer in the Judea and Samaria Brigade told Arutz Sheva Tuesday that if the talks progress there will be problems and a spike in the number of terror attacks can be expected, because of Hamas's desire to derail the talks.Asked if another full-scale terror war (dubbed Intifadah by the Arabs) like the one that was launched in 2000 could occur, the officer replied in the negative.The Palestinians do not have the ability to carry out a serious Intifadah because of the fact that all of the terror groups [in Judea and Samaria] are unarmed, the [Fatah subgroup] Tanzim does not exist and the other organizations do not have the weapons for terror attacks. However, it is clear that progress in the talks will entail problems, and we can expect a rise in the number of lone attacks like the one we experienced in the past month.The senior officer said that the security fence within Judea and Samaria is doing the job it was built to do in a very good way. He said the PA Arabs have developed what he termed a fence awareness and understand that the fence cannot be breached. He said that whereas Arabs freely crossed illegally into smaller Israel before the fence's construction, the number of such infiltrators is now down to three or four a week.This, he said, makes it difficult for the terrorists to export terror into smaller Israel.
Asked about the delays in traffic that often occur at the IDF checkpoints, he explained that these are inevitable because the soldiers have to check vehicles to make sure they are not ferrying anyone illegally.In response to a question about the way the IDF sees the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria, the senior officer said that we see the settlers as a body that has to be protected in any case and by any means.The officer singled out the Arab village of Azun between Kalkilya and Shechem as one of the most problematic in Judea and Samaria. While the level of terrorism there has decreased, the villagers still commit two to three terror attacks every week, he said – mostly rock attacks on motorists.The officer said it was likely that US pressure would eventually force the IDF to stop entering PA cities to chase down terrorists. However, At this point this is not the picture and not the reality, he said.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Germany Welcomes Islam
by Chana Ya'ar OCT 5,10
Germany has welcomed Islam as part of its multi-cultural mosaic in a televised speech delivered Sunday by President Christian Wulff, marking twenty years of reunification after half a century of being divided following the Nazis' defeat by the Allied Forces in World War II.Although Wulff’s position is primarily ceremonial, his words were nevertheless seen as pivotal in soothing increasingly troubled waters.
Christianity doubtless belongs in Germany. Judaism belongs doubtless in Germany. That is our Judeo-Christian history, he told an audience in the northern city of Bremen. But by now, Islam also belongs in Germany.Chancellor Angela Merkel has acknowledged the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in the country, who currently number some four million. Merkel told her Conservative party members last month that new immigrants need to do more to integrate into German society, including learning the language and obeying every single law. The chancellor, whose popularity has plunged since her re-election a year ago, appeared to be reaching out to the more right-wing faction of her Christian Democrats (CDU) party, which has complained about her moving the group towards the political center in recent years.Clearly faced with trying to walk a political tightrope, Merkel pointed out following racist remarks by the board member of a bank last summer that mosques will be a somewhat larger part of our cityscape than before. She added, however, that police should be able to enter Muslim neighborhoods without fear.Thilo Sarrazin, a board member of the Bundesbank, the country’s central bank, was forced to resign after writing a best-selling book saying the nation’s Muslim immigrants were taking advantage of the welfare system, refusing to integrate and lowering Germany’s intelligence.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
IHH Plans New Int'l Flotilla to Break Gaza Blockade
by Chana Ya'ar OCT 5,10
The Turkish-based IHH group that sent terror activists on a flotilla ship in May to clash with IDF soldiers, hoping to break Israel's blockade of Gaza, now plans to launch a second attempt to coincide with the anniversary of the Cast Lead counter-terrorism war.According to a statement by the group posted on the Internet earlier this week, The convoy will set off in New Delhi, capital of India, on December 2 … [and] aims to reach Gaza on December 27, the anniversary of the Gaza war.The group added that some 500 activists from 17 Asian countries are launching a new movement for an end to Israeli seiege (sic) on occupied land. The slogan for the flotilla will be the peoples of Asia are side by side with the Palestinian people.Activists from India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, the Palestinian Authority, Jordan and Lebanon are expected to participate, according to the statement.Trucks and school buses allegedly bearing aid will pass through India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan before sailing – but will travel to Syria by land before attempting to ship out to Gaza.The IHH organization said it plans to host the flotilla group at a large public gathering when it arrives in Turkey.
IHH Links to Terror; Turkish Leader Linked to IHH?
The IHH-sponsored terror activists who clashed on a flotilla vessel with Israeli Navy commandos overnight May 30-31 were warmly received upon their return by Turkish government officials, according to a report published in July in The New York Times. Nine of the terrorists were killed in the clash when they attacked IDF soldiers who boarded the vessel to redirect it to Ashdod port, leading to international calls for a United Nations investigation of the incident.The mission to Gaza served both the IHH and the government by making [them] both heroes at home and in the Arab world, the Times report quoted Ercan Citilioglu, a terrorism expert at Bahcesehir University in Istanbul. Moreover, despite IHH denials, journalist Tyler Hicks found that 21 people on the group’s board of the directors currently have or had in the past close links with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Justice & Development party.Germany, meanwhile, has outlawed the IHH group, noting its ties to the Hamas terrorist organization. Six Italian Members of Parliament have submitted a proposal to ban the group as well. The MPs pointed out that IHH is a member of the Union of Good,a Saudi Arabia-based umbrella group for Islamic organizations affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. The Union of Good funnels money to Hamas and has been banned by Israel and is listed in the United States as a supporter of terrorism.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
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.
Massive floods kill 26 in Vietnam; 9 missing
OCT 6,10
HANOI, Vietnam – Helicopters dropped food aid Wednesday to people in villages cut off by high water as the death toll from flooding this week in central Vietnam rose to 26, with nine people missing, disaster officials said.In the worst-hit province of Quang Binh, 11 people were dead while authorities searched for five sailors from a sunken barge, disaster official Nguyen Ngoc Giai said.Giai said two helicopters dropped food and water to several villages still cut off by floodwaters while rescuers rushed food aid to other villages over land.In other central provinces, seven people were reported dead and one missing in Ha Tinh province, five dead and three missing in Nghe An and three dead in Quang Tri, disaster officials there said.
Light rains were reported in the region Wednesday and floodwaters began receding slowly, officials said. Forecasters said a tropical depression was expected to bring rains to the region in the coming days, but they were unlikely to cause major floods.
Rail service in Quang Binh province has been disrupted since Tuesday and many parts of the track remain under water, the Vietnam Railway Corp. said.
Storms swamp Reno and Phoenix, drop snow on Sierra
– Tue Oct 5, 8:08 pm ET
RENO, Nev. – An early winter storm that chased record heat out of northern Nevada has swamped Reno with record-setting rain and dropped enough snow at the top of the Sierra to close a mountain highway pass near Lake Tahoe.A series of thunderstorms also rumbled through Arizona, bringing high winds and heavy rains that downed power lines and damaged homes in the Phoenix area. The storms also flooded freeways and underpasses and disrupted air travel at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.In Nevada, the National Weather Service extended a winter weather advisory through late Tuesday afternoon for Reno, Tahoe and Carson City. Temperatures were in the upper 40s in Reno at midday Tuesday after setting record highs in the mid-90s a week ago.
More than an inch of rain (1.09) fell at Reno-Tahoe International Airport on Monday, breaking the old record of 0.23 set in 1994. Snow forced the closure of California Highway 89 at Monitor Pass south of Tahoe Tuesday.In the Phoenix area, a microburst downed 19 power poles, at least three of which landed on homes, Mesa fire Capt. Forrest Smith said. In all, 38 homes were damaged by the storm, 12 severely, and about 100 people were displaced, Smith said.Officials at Sky Harbor said incoming and departing flights were halted for nearly an hour. More than a dozen flights were diverted to other airports, and some had yet to make it into Phoenix several hours after the storm rolled through.By the time the airport was reopened for takeoffs, an estimated 50 jetliners were lined up on taxiways waiting to leave.The storms also flooded roads and dropped half-inch-size hail in parts of Phoenix. The Arizona Department of Transportation said flooding caused major backups on Interstate 10 and U.S. 60.A severe weather watch remains in effect until 7 p.m. for central Arizona.
Concerns about rough weather delayed the America's Challenge gas balloon race in Albuquerque, N.M., which initially was scheduled for Tuesday. The race is now slated to lift off Thursday night.
Flash floods in eastern Indonesia kill at least 56 By LAODE MURSIDIN, Associated Press Writer – Tue Oct 5, 9:13 am ET
TELUK WONDAMA, Indonesia – Heavy rain unleashed flash floods and mudslides, killing at least 56 people in a remote corner of Indonesia that rescuers were struggling to reach, officials and witnesses said Tuesday.With dozens still missing, residents in West Papua province's hillside village of Wasior were combing the mud in search of survivors, some with their bare hands. Hundreds of houses were destroyed — at least 30 of them completely flattened.I heard a roar and suddenly the river broke its banks, said Ira Wanoni, describing the scariest deluge, which occurred early Monday. Water mixed with rocks, mud and logs gushed out. ... Many people didn't have time to save themselves.With roads underwater and several bridges destroyed, rescue workers were having a hard time reaching the area, which has also been hit by power blackouts and downed telephone lines.Navy ships carrying soldiers and police were on the way, as were several airplanes loaded down with tents, medical supplies and food.
Syamsul Maarif, who heads the National Disaster Management Agency, said the death toll had reached 56 by late Tuesday.Some of the more than 60 people injured — most with broken bones — had to be evacuated to by helicopter.With so many houses damaged, together with two schools, two hospitals and a hotel, hundreds of people were fleeing the area.Landslides and flooding kill dozens of people every year in the vast tropical archipelago of Indonesia, which has more than 17,000 islands.
Associated Press Writer Niniek Karmini contributed to this report from Jakarta.
Heavy rains, winds, across Caribbean
– Tue Oct 5, 3:12 pm ET
ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands – Schools and government offices in the British Virgin Islands are closed due to heavy rains from a cluster of thunderstorms that threaten to form a tropical depression.A government statement warns of possible flash floods. The system is traveling northwest and could also bring flooding to the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.A separate system in the eastern Caribbean toppled power lines, destroyed shacks and flooded businesses Monday.High winds stripped roofs from several homes in Trinidad and in Barbados, where authorities said a police station was flooded and five patrol cars were damaged.Trinidad police said Tuesday that the storm uprooted a massive silk cotton tree estimated to be 200 years old.
Hungary sludge flood called ecological disaster By BELA SZANDELSZKY and PABLO GORONDI, Associated Press Writers – Tue Oct 5, 6:10 pm ET
KOLONTAR, Hungary – A lethal torrent of toxic red sludge from a metal refinery engulfed towns in Hungary, burning villagers through their clothes and threatening an ecological disaster Tuesday as it swept toward the Danube River.The flood of caustic red mud triggered a state of emergency declaration by Hungarian officials. At least four people were killed, six were missing and 120 injured, many with burns.
Hundreds were evacuated in the aftermath of the disaster Monday, when a gigantic sludge reservoir burst its banks at an alumina plant in Ajka, a town 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Budapest, the capital. The torrent of sludge inundated homes, swept cars off roads and damaged bridges.Named for its bright red color, the material is a waste product in aluminum production that contains heavy metals and is toxic if ingested.In Kolontar, the town closest to the plant, Erzsebet Veingartner was in her kitchen when the 12-foot-high wave of red slurry hit, sweeping away everything in its path.I looked outside and all I saw was the stream swelling like a huge wave, the 61-year-old widow said Tuesday as she surveyed her backyard, still under 6 feet of noxious muck.I lost all my chickens, my ducks, my Rottweiler, and my potato patch. My late husband's tools and machinery were in the shed and it's all gone, sobbed the woman, who gets by on a $350 monthly pension. I have a winter's worth of firewood in the basement and it's all useless now.Emergency workers wearing masks and chemical protection gear rushed to pour 1,000 tons of plaster into the Marcal River in an attempt to bind the sludge and keep it from flowing on to the Danube some 45 miles away. Nearby, desperate villagers waded through the toxic mud trying to salvage possessions with little more than rubber gloves as protection.
The 1,775-mile-long Danube passes through some of the continent's most pristine vistas from its origins as a Black Forest spring in Germany to its end point as a majestic stretch of water emptying into the Black Sea.Now a murky green — not blue as immortalized in the Strauss waltz — the river flows through four former communist nations. One of the continent's greatest treasuries of wildlife, it has been the focus of a multibillion dollar post-communist cleanup. Cormorants, swans and other birds are now common sights on the river.Still, high-risk industries such as Hungary's Ajkai Timfoldgyar alumina plant are still producing waste near some of its tributaries, posing a threat to the waterway.By Tuesday, about 35.3 million cubic feet of sludge had poured from the reservoir, flooding a 16 square mile area, Environmental Affairs State Secretary Zoltan Illes told the state news wire MTI. He called the spill an ecological catastrophe.Dozens of villagers were burned when the caustic material seeped through their clothing. Two women, a young man and a 3-year-old child were killed, and health officials said two of the injured were in critical condition.Because chemical burns can take days to emerge, seemingly superficial injuries can turn deadly as they penetrate deeper tissue, Dr. Peter Jakabos of Gyor Hospital told state TV.In nearby Devecser, the sea of muck in Tunde Erdelyi's house was 5 feet high Tuesday and rescue workers had to use an ax to cut through her living room door to let it flow out. Her car had been swept into the garden and her husband's van straddled a fence.
When I heard the rumble of the flood, all the time I had was to jump out the window and run to higher ground, she said tearfully, adding that she was grateful the family's pet rabbit and cat were safe.Her husband, Robert Kis, said his uncle was flown by helicopter to Budapest after the sludge burned him to the bone.Firefighters and soldiers wearing masks, rubber boots and other protective gear waded through the stricken area Tuesday, flushing away the sludge with hoses, aided by dozens of bulldozers, their loaders scraping the polluted ground. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban acknowledged that authorities were caught off guard by the disaster, telling reporters the alumina plant and reservoir had been inspected two weeks earlier and no irregularities had been found. Red sludge is a byproduct of the refining of bauxite into alumina, the basic material for manufacturing aluminum. Representatives from industry organizations in the U.S. and London could not explain why the Hungarian victims were burned by the material, saying if it is properly treated it is not hazardous.It is common to store treated sludge in ponds where the water eventually evaporates, leaving behind a dried red clay-like soil, the officials said.However, Hungarian environmentalist Gergely Simon said the sludge involved in the disaster had been accumulating in the reservoir for decades and was extremely alkaline, with a pH value of about 13 — nearly equivalent to lye — and that is what caused the burns.MAL Rt., the Hungarian Aluminum Production and Trade Company that owns the Ajka plant, said that according to European Union standards, red sludge is not considered hazardous waste.The company also denied that it should have taken more precautions to shore up the reservoir, a huge structure more than 1,000 feet long and 500 yards wide, and high enough to dwarf trees that survived the torrent.Clearly angered by the company's suggestions that the substance was not hazardous, Interior Minister Sandor Pinter, snapped: They should take a swim in it and then they'll see.This week's spill threatened to eclipse the environmental damage caused 10 years ago, when huge amounts of cyanide poured from a gold mine reservoir in a Romanian town near the Hungarian border into the Danube and four smaller rivers, destroying plant and animal life. Romania, what was then Yugoslavia and Ukraine also were affected.Gorondi reported from Budapest. Associated Press Writer George Jahn in Vienna and Business Writer Jon Fahey contributed to this report.(This version CORRECTS New approach. Corrects spelling of Kolontar. AP Video.)
Wall Street soars to near 5-month high on stimulus hopes By Leah Schnurr – Tue Oct 5, 4:54 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Stocks rallied to nearly a five-month high on Tuesday on growing conviction that central banks will do even more to bolster struggling economies worldwide.The Bank of Japan lit the fuse overnight when it unexpectedly cut rates closer to zero and said it would pour money into the markets through asset purchases. This move came as markets increasingly believe the U.S. Federal Reserve will stimulate the world's largest economy in a similar fashion.The thinking today is that the printing of money is going to take place, said Bucky Hellwig, senior vice president at BB&T Wealth Management in Birmingham, Alabama.The short-term impact of that is to drive asset prices higher. We've seen it almost across the board in commodities.The likelihood of quantitative easing in the United States hit the greenback and lifted commodity prices, while resource stocks drove the S&P 500 through the 1,150 resistance level.Crude oil hit a five-month peak near $83 a barrel and gold hit another record high at $1,341.20 an ounce. The materials sector (.GSPM) led the S&P 500, gaining 2.8 percent, with mining company Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX.N) jumping 4.6 percent to $91.21.Growing expectations of another round of quantitative easing from the Fed have fueled enthusiasm for equities of late. A top Fed official said in an interview published on Tuesday that the central bank should do much more monetary easing to spur a sluggish economic recovery.If the 1,150 level holds, the next resistance level for the S&P 500 is seen around 1,170 to 1,175.It started off being a round number and now it becomes more significant, said Frank Cappelleri, technical market analyst and trader at Instinet in New York.Over the past few months, the market has seemed to respect support and resistance more than before. So when one of those levels is taken out, it seems to hold more significance than it has in the past.The Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) gained 193.45 points, or 1.80 percent, to 10,944.72. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (.SPX) rose 23.72 points, or 2.09 percent, to 1,160.75. The Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC) jumped 55.31 points, or 2.36 percent, to 2,399.83.
FOLLOW THE RISING SUN
The Bank of Japan set the positive tone early on after it cut its overnight rate target to virtually zero and pledged to buy 5 trillion yen ($60 billion) worth of assets in a fresh dose of economic stimulus.Additionally, Australia's central bank left interest rates steady for a fifth month, thwarting expectations of a hike.Wall Street added to gains after the Institute for Supply Management's index showed the pace of growth in the U.S. services sector accelerated more quickly than forecast in September, while hiring also picked up.Industrial shares also ranked among the day's winners, with Dow components Boeing Co (BA.N) up 3.4 percent at $68.60, and Caterpillar Inc (CAT.N) climbing 2.8 percent to $79.40.Elsewhere, Walgreen Co (WAG.N) gained 2.6 percent to $33.98 after the drugstore chain posted an unexpected increase in September same-store sales.About 8.77 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq, off from last year's estimated daily average of 9.65 billion. Advancing stocks outnumbered declining ones on both the NYSE and the Nasdaq by a ratio of slightly more than 4 to 1.(Reporting by Leah Schnurr; Editing by Jan Paschal)
Soros blames Germany for Europe deflation spiral By Walter Brandimarte – Tue Oct 5, 3:33 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Billionaire investor George Soros blamed Germany for leading the implementation of austerity measures that will throw the euro zone into a deflation spiral.Additional fiscal stimulus --and not fiscal discipline-- is the way out of the crisis for both Europe and the United States, Soros said in a speech at Columbia University on Tuesday.Deficit reduction by a creditor country such as Germany is in direct contradiction of the lessons learnt from the Great Depression of the 1930s. It is liable to push Europe into a period of prolonged stagnation or worse,Soros said.Germany is unlikely to change its ways, however, because its economy is doing well and because the difficulties of other countries can be blamed on structural rigidities, Soros said.German Chancellor Angela Merkel also gained the upper hand in a recent G20 meeting where she joined forces with Canada and newly elected Conservative British Prime Minister David Cameron to put pressure on other countries to adopt austerity measures, Soros noted.As a result, President Barack Obama yielded to the majority and agreed to cut the U.S. budget deficit by half by 2013.This may be the right policy but it comes at the wrong time, Soros said.Soros doesn't think Obama should extend the tax cuts pushed by his predecessor George W. Bush. Instead, he says, the government should direct the extra money coming from higher taxes into fiscal measures to stimulate investment, not consumption.(Editing by Kenneth Barry)
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
Euro terror alert spotlights voiceprint technology By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Writer – Tue Oct 5, 6:47 pm ET
LONDON – Did their voices betray them? The discovery of an alleged terror plot against Europe owes at least some of its success to voiceprint technology that allows law enforcement to electronically match a voice to its owner.The technique — which some compare to fingerprinting — can be a powerful anti-terror tool, officials increasingly believe. Law enforcement agencies are already considering how a voice database could help thwart future plots.The reported plot against European cities, in which suspects allegedly spoke of a Mumbai-style shooting spree, has triggered travel warnings and refocused attention on al-Qaida activities on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, where several of the voices were recorded.The British eavesdropping agency GCHQ deployed voice identification software to help uncover the plot that officials say has targeted Germany, Britain and France — with famed sites such as Notre Dame Cathedral and the Eiffel Tower under close surveillance.Advances in these types of technology have been key in thwarting plots and catching suspects, a British government official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of his work.Despite progress made in quashing the plot, officials still speak of an ongoing threat.Police in southern France on Tuesday arrested 12 suspects in sweeps against suspected Islamic militant networks, including three men linked to a network recruiting fighters for Afghanistan.In one of the cases, nine suspected Islamic militants were detained in southeastern Marseille and its suburbs, and authorities turned up at least one automatic rifle and a pump gun, the officials said.In Tuesday's other roundup, two men were arrested in Marseille and another in southwestern Bordeaux on suspected ties to a Frenchman arrested in Naples, Italy, last month accused of links to an Afghan recruiting ring.
Officials in Germany were tightlipped Tuesday on details of a U.S. missile strike in Pakistan's rugged mountain border area where Pakistani officials said eight German militants were killed.U.S. officials believe a cell of Germans and Britons was at the heart of the Europe terror plot. Germany's ARD public television cited unidentified sources Tuesday as saying four of the Germans killed in the missile attack were of Turkish descent.Developers of voice biometric technology say it can be more useful than traditional fingerprint analysis in fighting terror.You have potential for there to be a larger database for criminals' voices than their fingerprints. What are the chances that you'll get a foreign terrorist's fingerprint versus a foreign terror suspect's voiceprint? said Germano Di Mambro, who runs Wellesley, Massachusetts-based Porticus Technology Inc.Supporters point to several other high-profile successes in voiceprinting. Colombian drug kingpin Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia, who used plastic surgery and multiple aliases to dodge authorities, was arrested in 2007 after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency matched his voice to a tape recording previously made by Colombian authorities.
But academics in the field of speech processing have offered caution.
In a 2003 paper presented to a conference in Geneva, several experts warned that there was no scientific way of identifying a person's voice with absolute certainty.
Frederic Bimbot, one of the paper's authors, said the term voiceprinting was a misnomer because it suggested that the technique was as reliable as fingerprinting.
This is absolutely not the case, his paper said, noting that, unlike a persons' prints, voices are highly variable — changing according to age, health, and emotional state. When contacted through e-mail late Monday, he said his opinion had not changed. Voices can also be altered voluntarily, he said, adding that, at present the technology was simply not mature enough to enable definite conclusions of any kind.Whatever its reliability, voice biometrics have drawn considerable interest from governments around the world.Only a month after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, the Pentagon identified voiceprints as one of the dozens of priority areas in research and development, and it has been used in the field since the invasion of Iraq, according to former U.S. officials, who spoke condition of anonymity to describe classified technology.Interpol is also interested in voice biometrics, the head of its fingerprint unit told the AP.Mark Branchflower, head of Interpol's fingerprint unit, said voice samples could be stored and shared with Interpol's 188 member countries via its secure global communications network. The private sector has already embraced the technology, with U.S. probation officers using it to monitor offenders, and Canadian call centers using it to identify customers. Israel's largest bank, Bank Leumi, says it has been using voice biometrics for the past decade to deter fraud and boost customer safety.The technology has strong potential for streamlining intelligence operations, experts say.U.S. and British intelligence run an international eavesdropping program that gathers huge amounts of information. So big is the overload that the National Security Agency is building a massive storage center in Utah to handle the mountains of data.Almog Aley-Raz, whose Israel-based company PerSay Ltd. supplies governments and businesses around the world, said that using voice biometrics could allow officials to scan a large number of phone conversations for a several suspects' voices, greatly streamlining intelligence work.An entry-level server enables you to run 100 streams of audio against maybe 100 voiceprints, he said, noting that in some cases dozens or even hundreds of servers could be run back-to-back to comb through intercepted calls. Aley-Raz accepted that the technology had its flaws — it is vulnerable to background noise and poor audio quality, for example, and can become confused when people start talking over one another. It's just another tool, he said — but one that can point terror-hunters in the right direction. Associated Press Writers Paisley Dodds in London, Frank Bajak in Bogota, Colombia, Tia Goldenberg in Jerusalem and Melissa Eddy in Berlin contributed to this report.
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.
Israel PM convenes inner forum ahead of key Arab summit
by Steve Weizman – Tue Oct 5, 1:20 pm ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday convened ministers in his inner circle but his office denied widespread press reports that they debated extending the West Bank settlement freeze.Israeli media said the meeting was to focus on the issue of a 60-day extension of the settlement freeze in exchange for a US deal offering security and other guarantees, details of which were leaked by a US analyst last week.Army radio had said Netanyahu was to discuss the reported US proposal in a bid to win over hardline opponents within the group of seven ministers, which includes leaders of the parties in his largely right-wing coalition.
Netanyahu is looking for a way out, the radio's political commentator said. On one hand, he is against a renewal of the freeze because he doesn't want to give in to Palestinian demands, but on the other hand, he also wants to avoid a direct confrontation with the US administration.Asked for details about Tuesday's talks, Netanyahu's office issued a statement saying ministers had discussed global hostility toward Israel after its troops stormed a Gaza-bound aid boat that was trying to run the Israeli blockade in May, killing nine Turkish activists.Contrary to various media reports ... the Forum of Seven did not hold a debate on the issue of efforts to allow the continuation of peace talks, it said.It said ministers heard reports on the work of a United Nations inquiry into the maritime incident and Israel's measures to respond to what the statement called a campaign of delegitimisation aimed at preventing the state of Israel from defending itself.
Netanyahu was on Wednesday to convene his 15-member security cabinet, a government official said, but he refused to disclose the agenda.The Yediot Aharonot daily published a poll of ministers on Monday suggesting that four of the seven members of Netanyahu's inner circle oppose a reimposition of the freeze, as do eight of the 15 security cabinet ministers.Netanyahu had been expected to use both forums to try to achieve some kind of compromise over the settlements ahead of a key Arab summit in Libya later this week at which the Palestinians were expected to formalise a decision to bolt the peace talks.Netanyahu will try to persuade the ministers to accept the guarantees the American administration has offered Israel in exchange for extending the construction freeze, Haaretz newspaper said.The prime minister is interested in passing a decision on the matter before an Arab League committee meets in Libya on Friday to deliver its verdict on whether peace negotiations should continue, it added.Direct peace talks with the Palestinians, begun just a month ago, face collapse over Israel's refusal to renew the freeze, which expired on September 26.Renewing the ban on building new settler homes in the occupied West Bank appears to be key to salvaging peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, who say they will walk out if construction continues.Fearing that Netanyahu and his ministers could waver, settler leaders on Tuesday appealed to them to stand firm.I hope and pray that the government will not capitulate and the ministers honour their promises that the freeze will come to an end after 10 months, Moshe Rosenbaum, head of the Beit El settlement council, told the Ynet news site.The Palestinian leadership has urged president Mahmud Abbas to turn his back on the negotiations if Israel does not renew the freeze. Abbas will look for backing from Arab foreign ministers for such a move when he meets them in Libya on Friday.
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
Lead poisoning kills 400 children in Nigeria: MSF by Aminu Abubakar – Tue Oct 5, 12:05 pm ET
KANO, Nigeria (AFP) – Lead poisoning has killed more than 400 children under the age of five as a result of contamination from illegal gold extraction in northern Nigeria, an international aid agency said on Tuesday.The children died over the last six months in several villages in Zamfara state, where lead-rich run-off from illegal gold mining has entered the soil and water supply, said Medecines Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders - MSF).Based on the record of fatalities from lead poisoning, more than 400 children have died in the last six months, said El-Shafii Muhammad Ahmad, MSF project director in Zamfara.But we in MSF believe the figure is much more than that, he told AFP by telephone.Preliminary findings by UN experts on the contamination in Zamfara state, which were released on Tuesday, said that growing amounts of children are dying from lead poisoning.Elisabeth Byrs, a spokeswoman for the UN office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told AFP in Geneva that more than 3,000 children lived in seven affected villages in an area of high-intensity wildcat gold mining.Byrs said many parents were afraid to come forward when their children fell ill, or mistook symptoms including convulsions with malaria.The pollution is far from over in these areas, we have looked at five villages, Byrs told journalists following the release of a joint OCHA-United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) report into the poisoning.Women and children often participated in the makeshift processing of lead-rich ore to extract the gold, and crushed rock often ended up being taken into homes, MSF said. Residue was discarded haphazardly in the open, exposing children to inhalation or ingestion of contaminants.
The lead pollution and intoxication crisis in Zamfara State is far from over. In fact, we have only seen the tip of iceberg, the UN report said.However, the Nigerian government's chief epidemiologist disputed the MSF figures.The MSF figure on the death toll is not true, said Henry Akpan, who declined to provide a government toll, adding that there had not been any new deaths in the past weeks.We now have good treatment for children, pregnant women and those affected, he said.But MSF's Ahmad said even the 400 deaths is an under-estimation because many lead-related deaths are never reported and in many cases, these communities attribute them to other factors or deny them altogether.Local communities mainly concealed or denied the fatalities and illnesses from lead poisoning for fear that authorities will ban their mining activities, he added.Illicit gold mining is more lucrative than agriculture for the impoverished farming communities.The UN report, which follows a fact-finding visit to the region, said lead poisoning was spreading in mining communities in northwestern Zamfara.The list of polluted villages continues to grow, it said, adding that there were signs of resumed mining activities in Dareta, one of two villages decontaminated by a US-based environmental firm. The study focused on ground water pollution in the affected areas of the state and found highly fluctuating concentrations of lead in samples after a survey of five of the villages. Contamination levels of up to 10 times above maximum standards were recorded in water wells in two villages.The concentrations of lead in ponds and rivers are often not meeting the drinking water standards for lead, the report added.Symptoms of lead poisoning normally build up over long periods as the heavy metal accumulates in the human body, producing abdominal pain, nervous disorders affecting growth and ultimately leading to kidney failure.Children, especially fast growing under five year-olds, are most at risk.
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