Caryl Matrisciana and Jan look into The Daniel Plan being kicked off by Saddleback Church and Rick Warren.
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_01_22A.mp3
Jim Tetlow returns to talk science and the foreknowledge of God. Scientific research continues to unfold the wonders and mysteries of our universe.
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_01_22B.mp3
ERIC BARGER IN HOURS 1&2 JAN 15,11 DECERNMENT & DECEPTION
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_01_15A.mp3
http://olivetreeradio.com/OTM2011_01_15B_.mp3
Hundreds of South Dakota dead birds poisoned by USDA By Mary Wisniewski, Editing by Greg McCune | Reuters – Thu, 20 Jan 7:34 PM EST
Mass bird deaths in northern Italian town, bad sunflower seed diet suspected
Sat, 8 Jan 11:14 AM EST
More than 80 dead birds found in small Quebec town prompts investigation
Fri, 7 Jan 7:04 PM EST
Hundreds more birds found dead in US state, tests find no diseases or poisons
Wed, 5 Jan 4:45 PM EST
4 and 20 blackbirds, and 3,000 more, dead in the sky: Fireworks may have sparked bird frenzy
Tue, 4 Jan 3:27 AM EST
Birds in Romania died of alcohol intake and not because of avian flu
Wed, 12 Jan 9:12 AM EST
THEY SURE ARE COMING UP WITH SOME DOOZY IDEAS WHY THE ANIMAL DEATHS.THE GOVERNMENT POISONINGS (OR EVIL INVENTIONS) ARE THE ONE I BELIEVE TO BE TRUTH.
Bird Die-Off Mystery Solved When Government …
Daily Intelligencer - … - Fri, 21 Jan 9:05 AM EST
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The deaths of 200 starlings in Yankton, South Dakota this week is no mystery -- they died as the result of poison set out by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, an official said on Thursday.USDA wildlife biologist Ricky Woods explained that a large group of starlings was causing problems in a north Nebraska cattle feedlot, eating the feed and leaving waste on both the feed and equipment. So the USDA put out DRC 1339 poison for the birds, Woods said.Lethal means are always a last resort, said Woods. In this situation it's what we had to do.Woods said most of the birds died near the site of the feed lot, but about 200 were strong enough to fly about 10 miles north to Yankton, where they died, puzzling some local residents. He could not say how many birds died altogether.Woods said putting out poison for birds is not common, but sometimes is necessary. It depends on the situation, he said. He said the poison would not harm another animal which ate one of the birds, such as a cat or a hawk.Large-scale bird deaths have recently been reported in the south, including 5,000 red-winged blackbirds which fell from the sky in Beebe, Ark. Wildlife experts determined that those birds died as a result of being startled by New Year's Eve fireworks, and then flying into buildings and trees.(Writing by Mary Wisniewski, Editing by Greg McCune)
MORE READINGS ON THE BIRD DEATHS.
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2011/01/investigative-death-of-birds-and-fish.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2011/01/polar-shift-could-this-have-killed.html
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
Abbas: I Agreed to a United Jerusalem
by Gil Ronen JAN 23,11
Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas told Arab television network Al-Jazeera Saturday that he had reached agreements with Ehud Olmert - when Olmert was prime minister - that Jerusalem would not be divided. The two leaders agreed, he said, that Jerusalem would remain open to all religions and would have two municipalities operating side by side, one Jewish and one Arab.Abbas used the Al Jazeera interview to call upon Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to agree to make these understandings the basis for renewing negotiations between the PA and Israel.Abbas also said that the understanding reached with U.S. President George W. Bush was that Israel would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of an independent Palestinian state that would be established along the 1949 Israel-Jordan border.
He accused Israel of torpedoing the understandings.At this stage there is no option to declare a Palestinian state without Israel's collaboration, Abbas said in the interview. A Palestinian state will be established only with agreement from Israel.
The so-called 1967 borders are the borders established by a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Jordan in 1949, after the failed attempt by numerous Arab armies to annihilate the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, three years after the Holocaust. A second genocidal plot against Israel in 1967, and another Israeli victory, brought about the liberation of Israel's timeless capital, Jerusalem, and the Biblical national heartland of Judea and Samaria.It is not known what caused Abbas to make an apparent about-face in his normally intransigent rhetoric and choose a conciliatory tone. One cause might be a perception that there is less support from the United States administration for a confrontation with Israel, and that Binyamin Netanyahu's government is more stable than Abbas had hoped.(Israel ationalNews.com)
Some in Israel weigh idea of provisional PalestineBy KARIN LAUB and DAN PERRY, Associated Press – Sun Jan 23, 2:39 pm ET
JERUSALEM – The idea of Israel recognizing Palestinian independence in some occupied areas now and promising to negotiate over the rest later is getting new attention in Israel as a way of blunting international pressure and dealing with the impasse in peace talks.The Palestinians dismiss it as a non-starter, fearing a temporary arrangement will quickly become permanent. They say it's time for a final and comprehensive deal after nearly 20 years of on-and-off negotiations.Palestinian suspicions are also stoked by the man behind the latest version of provisional statehood — ultranationalist Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, an outspoken critic of U.S. efforts to forge an Israeli-Palestinian deal by September.
Under Lieberman's emerging proposal, Israel would turn over between 45 and 50 percent of the West Bank to the provisional state, an Israeli government official said Sunday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the plan has not been fully formed.That's a public relations stunt — to throw the ball in our (side), chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said of Lieberman's plan, which, according to the Israeli daily Haaretz, has been given to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.The plan's proponents say the Palestinians would be hard-put to reject a smaller-than-wanted state if they are asked for little in return, and that even minor progress is better than the current deadlock.The Obama administration briefly managed to get Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to talk face-to-face in September, but talks quickly foundered over continued Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, the territories Israel occupied in 1967 which — along with Gaza — Palestinians want for their state.The U.S. seems to have given up on initial efforts to get Israel to halt settlement activity and it's not clear what the Obama administration plans to do next. The Quartet of Mideast mediators — the U.S., the European Union, the United Nations and Russia — meets in early February, but no new ideas have emerged.
Despite their rejection of the interim state idea, few Palestinian officials seem remotely optimistic about reaching a comprehensive deal with Israel — certainly under Netanyahu. While a border deal seems possible, agreement on partitioning Jerusalem and resettling Palestinian refugees appears remote.As a reflection of that impasse, perhaps, the Palestinians are forging ahead with their campaign to seek recognition of Palestinian statehood along the pre-1967 borders — theoretically incorporating areas where a half million Israelis have settled — from as many countries as possible. Their tentative plan is to seek the world's recognition in the fall, a move that may not give them a state on the ground, but might isolate Israel.One possible Israeli countermove is to recognize Palestinian statehood in parts of the West Bank, including those urban areas, or roughly 40 percent of the West Bank, where Abbas' Palestinian Authority already has some control.Netanyahu needs a countermeasure that will get Abbas off his back, depict Israel as an avid supporter of peace and, if possible, also paint the Palestinians as having yet again missed an opportunity to reach an agreement, wrote columnist Aluf Benn in Haaretz.
Another analyst, Yossi Alpher, said he believed the international community would not be willing to support another interim step and called it pathetic wishful thinking by Israeli hard-liners.The provisional state idea is not entirely new. It was included in the Quartet's road map peace plan of 2003, which envisioned three stages leading up to a final Israeli-Palestinian deal; the state in temporary borders was to come in the second phase. The road map never got off the ground and Abbas didn't like provisional statehood from the start.It's not clear what Netanyahu thinks of Lieberman's proposal, and Netanyahu's aides declined to comment. However, the plan would not involve dismantling any Israeli settlements at this stage, an element that should appeal to Netanyahu's pro-settler coalition.Einat Wilf, a lawmaker from the Independence faction, a recent breakaway from the center-left Labor Party, said the idea of an interim deal has its merits, though she said the government remains focused on a full agreement.A provisional state could be an intermediate way that gives the Palestinians the sovereignty they desire, gives to them in a fairly short period of time, and allows both Israel and the Palestinians to negotiate the questions of borders for example, as two sovereign states, she said.
The Reut Institute, an Israeli think tank, argues that the U.S. administration's package deal approach to peacemaking has not worked. If talks get stuck on one issue, there's no agreement. Calev Ben-Dor, a senior analyst at the institute, said a provisional state could work if it is contiguous — not a collection of isolated cantons separated by Israeli-controlled area. The international community would also have to guarantee that negotiations over the remaining issues would be held in the future with a clear vision for a final deal. This could address Palestinian fears about ending up with a mini-state.A Washington think tank with close ties to Israel, meanwhile, unveiled three options for an Israeli-Palestinian border deal to show that partition is still doable.The scenarios are based on Israel annexing between 3.7 percent and 4.7 percent of the West Bank in order to bring anywhere from 68 percent to 80 percent of Israeli settlers there under Israel rule. Palestinians would be compensated with an equal amount of Israeli land.Most settlers live near Israel's pre-1967 boundary, and the vast majority of them reside in areas that constitute a small percentage of the West Bank, wrote the study's author, David Makovksy, an analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Accordingly, a border agreement may be more plausible than it is generally believed to be.
Leaked Documents: PA Gave Israel Most of Jerusalem
by Elad Benari JAN 24,11
Secret Palestinian Authority documents that were leaked to Al-Jazeera television and were published on Sunday, say that PA negotiators apparently told Israel that it could keep most of east Jerusalem.The leaked documents, which some media outlets have termed The Palestine Papers, are in fact minutes of a 2008 meeting between PA, U.S. and Israeli officials. According to the documents, the Palestinian Authority suggested that Israel annex all the Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem with the exception of Har Homa.The motion was apparently presented by PA negotiator Abu Ala (Ahmed Qureia) in a meeting that was held in the presence of Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, and the PA’s chief negotiator Saeb Erekat.Abu Ala was quoted in the document as saying: This is the first time in history that we make such a proposition, and added that the PA had refused to make such a concession during negotiations led by former President Yasser Arafat in 2000.Al-Jazeera reported that the Jerusalem areas offered were areas where Jewish communities have been established, including French Hill, Ramat Alon and Gilo, as well as the Jewish Quarter and a part of the Armenian Quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City.
The network also made sure to claim that Israel had offered nothing in return for what it called this historic concession.Al-Jazeera said that it had other documents that it would publish shortly. It claimed that the additional documents show the Arabs were also ready to make other massive concessions on the issue of the right of return: They apparently offered to accept the return to Israeli territories of only 100,000 of those Arabs who fled at the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 and their descendants, who now number almost five million.The documents leaked on Sunday are part of some 1,600 documents related to the Middle East peace process which Al-Jazeera said it had obtained in recent months from a variety of sources. The Guardian newspaper in Britain has apparently also had access to the documents and said it had verified most of them.Erekat dismissed the documents shortly after they were released, and told Al-Jazeera that they are a bunch of lies. The Associated Press reported that the Palestinian Authority denied that the documents were authentic and in fact claimed that some of them were fabricated.Livni, now the opposition leader and then Foreign Minister, issued a statement on Sunday in which she said that she will continue to maintain discretion on the negotiations so that they may resume in the future.In any case, we do not intend to acknowledge any internal PA documents or interpretations, whether they are correct or not, including those reports, Livni's office said in the statement and added: Livni believes that an agreement which ends the dispute is a clear Israeli interest which can be reached through continued negotiations. She will continue to prove that through proper conduct, Israel’s interests can be kept in negotiations.
The office of then Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in response to the leaking of the documents that the documents have many inaccuracies. Because of the sensitivity of the matter we will not respond beyond that right now.Meanwhile, Hamas said that the documents revealed the Palestinian Authority's role in attempting to liquidate the Palestinian cause, Reuters quoted the organization as saying.The leaked documents come on the heels of an interview given by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to Al-Jazeera on Saturday. In the interview, Abbas claimed that he had reached agreements with Olmert that Jerusalem would not be divided. The two leaders agreed, he said, that Jerusalem would remain open to all religions and would have two municipalities operating side by side, one Jewish and one Arab.Abbas used the interview to call upon Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to agree to make these understandings the basis for renewing negotiations between the PA and Israel.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
US Think Tank: The Impossible is Achievable in Negotiations
by Maayana Miskin JAN 23,11
A United States think tank is continuing to push ideas for an agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, despite a freeze on negotiations. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy has released a set of maps suggesting possible territorial compromise in Judea and Samaria, stating, The impossible is indeed achievable.A series of interactive maps created by David Makovsky, Sheli Chabon and Jennifer Logan shows suggested land swaps, and the names and populations of Jewish and Arab communities. The territorial compromise approaches total capitulation by Israel. One proposal would see Israel keep just five percent of the land in Judea and Samaria, a suggested compromise between what the Olmert administration is believed to have offered PA Chairman Abbas in 2008, without Israeli voter or knesset approvial, and Abbas' demand for control over at least 98% of the region.
Makovsky explained that he aimed to keep PA territory contiguous, and to provide the PA with territory equal in size to all the land east of the 1949 armistice line, while including as many Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria as possible in Israel.The proposed land swap would see Israel give up Hevron, the biblical city that is home to the Tomb of the Patriarchs, Judaism's second most holy site.In addition, approximately 60,000 Israelis living in Judea and Samaria would lose their homes. Israel has yet to resettle many of the 9,000 Israelis forcibly removed from their homes in the 2005 Disengagement, let alone find them employment.The proposal relates only to the subject of territory in Judea and Samaria, and does not address other major sticking points in negotiations, such as the PA's demand that Israel allow millions of descendants of Arabs who fled during the War of Independence to return to Israel. Makovsky said his goal is to stimulate thinking, not to provide a complete solution.Analysts suggested that the proposal could aid U.S. President Barack Obama by opening the door to U.S. proposals for the borders of a PA state, even without negotiations.Israel and the PA resumed negotiations in 2010 after months, but the PA left the table shortly afterward, after Israel refused its demand to forbid Jewish home-building east of the 1949 armistice line.
Former MK Benny Elon has suggested another plan for ending the conflict, called the Israel Initiative. According to the plan, Jordanian citizenship would be granted to Palestinian Authority Arabs who would remain in their villages in Judea and Samaria. Jewish Israeli citizens would also remain in their communities in the area, which would be under Israeli sovereignty. The so-called PA Arab refugee camps would be dismantled as well. Israel and Jordan would work together to administer local affairs. The majority of Jordan's population consists of Palestinian Arabs, although the rulership is Bedouin.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
EARTH WORSHIP
DEUTERONOMY 17:3-4
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
2 KINGS 23:5
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
States ban certain offset credits from EU's emission trading system
ANDREW WILLIS 21.01.2011 @ 17:23 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU member states have elected to ban the use of certain emission offset credits from the bloc's emissions trading system (ETS), currently embroiled in a separate controversy over cyber-theft. The vote on Friday (21 January) means that companies will be prevented from using the emission offsets - generated through projects that destroy certain powerful greenhouse gases linked to the refrigeration industry - from 1 May 2013.EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard, who proposed the ban last November, welcomed the decision by the EU Climate Change Committee of relevant member state experts.These projects raise concerns relating to their environmental integrity, value-for-money and geographical distribution, Ms Hedegaard said in a statement. Not only are some of these credits of doubtful value, continuing to use them is also not in the EU's interest as doing so could discourage host countries from supporting cheaper and more direct action to cut these emissions, added the Danish politician. The ban will apply to projects which destroy two industrial gases: trifluoromethane (HFC-23) produced as a by-product of chlorodifluoromethane (HCFC-22) production, and nitrous oxide (N2O) from adipic acid production.
EU officials say just 23 such industrial gas projects account for roughly two-thirds of all the credits generated through the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), with most of the projects carried out in China and other advanced developing countries.Climate campaigners hailed the European ban as a significant step forwards.The scandal surrounding HFC-23 credits severely damaged the credibility of the carbon market,said Natasha Hurley, EU Policy Advisor at CDM Watch.Today's vote marks an historic victory for environmental integrity over financial interests and puts the EU ETS back on the right track.But the group criticised the decision by member state experts to enforce the ban four months later than the commission's original proposal, saying this reflected pressure from a small group of investors who lobbied hard to extract as many concessions as possible. MEPs now has three months to comment on the proposal, after which the commission will formally adopt it.Friday's decision comes after a series of recent cyber-thefts forced trading exchanges dealing in ETS carbon allowances to grind to a halt on Wednesday. The closure is expected to last at least a week as the national exchanges seek to step up their security systems.The commission estimates roughly €30 million in carbon allowances have been stolen in the recent string of attacks which saw hackers gain access to computer systems and transfer the credits to separate accounts.
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).
Human rights court deals blow to EU asylum system
VALENTINA POP 21.01.2011 @ 17:35 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU's asylum system known as the Dublin regulation was dealt a blow on Friday (21 January), as the European Court of Human Rights ruled that an Afghan translator should not have been sent back from Belgium to Greece, where he faced degrading and inhuman treatment.The Strasbourg-based judges found that both the Greek and the Belgian governments violated the European Convention on Human Rights when applying the EU law on asylum seekers and were given fines to the tune of some €6,000 and €30,000, respectively.The case was brought forward by an Afghan translator who first arrived in Greece in 2008 and later applied for asylum in Belgium. Under the Dublin regulation, member states are allowed to send back refugees to the first EU country where they arrived. Belgium did so, despite the plaintiff's warnings that he would be subjected to degrading treatment and put in prison-like facilities. The Belgian system also did not provide for a proper appeal from the asylum seeker.
On 15 June 2009, the Afghan was sent back to Greece and, upon arrival at Athens airport, he was immediately placed in detention, locked up in a small space with 20 other detainees where they were given little food, some dirty mattresses to sleep on and no access to the toilets or fresh air. Three days later, he was issued an asylum seeker's card and released, being forced to live on the streets, as he had no means of subsistence. His asylum applicant card was renewed in December 2009, but no housing was ever offered to him.In reaction to the Friday ruling, Belgian immigration minister Melchior Wathelet said his country had already suspended in October all transfers to Greece - a similar decision being taken earlier this week by Germany. The UK, Sweden, the Netherlands, Iceland and Norway also have halted expulsions to the Mediterranean peninsula.Greece effectively endangers the trust needed among member states to create a common asylum system, Mr Wathelet said in a statement, while urging Athens to shape up its asylum system as soon as possible.
Another 960 cases related to the Dublin regulation are pending in the Strasbourg court, most of which concern Greece, whose conditions for migrants were slammed by the UN, the Council of Europe, Human Rights Watch and other organisations.But human rights groups said that the ruling is also highlighting the fundamental flaw of EU's asylum rules and the need to bring it more in line with the reality on the ground.It's a blow to the Dublin system, because it shows how false its premise is - that protection of asylum seekers is granted all over Europe and their rights respected, Maria Hennessy from the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) told this website.An umbrella organisation for NGOs working on immigration issues, ECRE has been pushing for a long time for a revision of the Dublin regulation, but finds the proposals put on the table by the European Commission not bold enough.
There is some humanitarian reform in those proposals, but they don't address the underlying flaw of equal treatment. Also, they have to take into account the choice of the asylum seekers themselves, Ms Hennessy stressed.The Dublin rules were initially put in place in a convention among 12 member states in 1990, at a time when refugees in orbit were unsuccessfully trying to apply for asylum in several European countries - in a bid to establish some kind of responsibility to the country that first receives them.But this has led to more pressure on a handful of countries and goes against the responsibility and solidarity principles in the EU, the ECRE expert argues.Meanwhile, the European Commission reacted in line with the mood among member states - who see the development more as proof of Greece's incapacity to manage its borders than the need to scrap or change the Dublin regulation.I invite Greece to continue working to enhance the humanitarian situation of migrants, EU home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said in a statement. She also called on member states and the European Parliament to work for a balanced compromise on the amendments to the Dublin regulation. Among the envisaged changes, Ms Malmstrom exemplified an emergency mechanism allowing to suspend transfers in cases of particular pressure on the asylum system.
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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Google Seeks to Weaken Search Engine Ranking of Content Farming Websites
Eric Blair Infowars.com January 23, 2011
Google has announced that it is fixing flaws in its algorithm that allows search results to be spammed, while also planning to weaken the search-ability of websites referred to as content farms. Matt Cutts, head of Google’s anti-spam team, writes:As pure webspam has decreased over time, attention has shifted instead to content farms, which are sites with shallow or low-quality content. In 2010, we launched two major algorithmic changes focused on low-quality sites. Nonetheless, we hear the feedback from the web loud and clear: people are asking for even stronger action on content farms and sites that consist primarily of spammy or low-quality content. (my emphasis)The only clear reference from Google about problems occurring from content farms in regards to spamming search results is from China: Last year Google faced a rash of webspam on Chinese domains in our index. Some spammers were purchasing large amounts of cheap .cn domains and stuffing them with misspellings and porn phrases. They claim this scheme led to irrelevant search results.Yet, their goal seems to be to weaken what has been referred to as news aggregating websites as one change that primarily affects sites that copy others’ content and sites with low levels of original content. This clearly describes many sites that present alternative news. However, plenty of alternative news sites and blogs have original material which they freely share, in part or in full, purely to support one another in disseminating the truth. This is of key importance to spread information in the absence of government or foundation funding, as enjoyed by much of the mainstream media. It is also a counter to censorship, so that a free market of ideas can flourish where people can investigate facts for themselves, rather than have opinions dictated from a limited number of sources.
According to a recent cheerleading article by TechCrunch, content farms indeed include websites that post any duplicate content word-for-word, Now, finally, it sounds like they’re going to do more to take on sites that just repurpose content from other sites (hopefully including the countless sites that repost TechCrunch articles verbatim).What’s odd is that everyone knows that original content already carries far more weight with Google algorithms than re-posted content. Additionally, backlinks from well-ranked relevant sites is also a huge factor in building a strong Google page rank, besides driving traffic to the source. Therefore, it would stand to reason that websites like TechCrunch should be overjoyed when other relevant sites post their content, as long as it is sourced with a hyperlink. Alexa ranks TechCrunch at 305 on the entire Internet, no doubt due to their 36,374 links that Alexa recognizes. Without allowing the sharing of their original content, this level of achievement would be impossible under the current Google algorithm.For those who understand this concept, if they punish sites that re-post content such as news aggregators that link back to them, the source will surely lose traffic and overall ranking despite being heavy in original content. Which begs the question, what people have been asking for stronger action against content farms? Because gauging the rise in popularity of alternative media (i.e. news aggregators), it seems that Internet users themselves aren’t the ones complaining.It is obviously the entrenched dinosaur media that despises having to play on a level field, especially as it pertains to truthful reporting and analysis. Former executive editor of the Washington Post, Leonard Downie Jr., addressed old media vs. new media in a September lecture where he excoriated so-called content farms as parasites living off journalism produced by others.He even claims re-posting of material, even if sourced, is stealing as reported by Politico:
The aggregators fill their websites with news, opinion, features, photographs and video that they continuously collect – some would say steal – from other national and local news sites, along with mostly unpaid postings by bloggers who settle for exposure in lieu of money,Downie said.Though they purport to be a new form of journalism, these aggregators are primarily parasites living off journalism produced by others. They attract audiences by aggregating journalism about special interests and opinions reflecting a predictable point of view on the left or right of the political spectrum, along with titillating gossip and sex. Revealing photos of and stories about entertainment and celebrities account for much of the highly touted web traffic to the Huffington Post site, for example.Downie rightly states that these sites attract an audience seeking a certain point of view, but ignores the fact that mainstream outlets do the same. Some would argue that the real strength behind news aggregators is the ability to expose the establishment’s gross injustices and other inconvenient truths without all the titillating distractions. As the masses become more aware of establishment lies, they are flocking to alternative sites who cut through the BS and present a clear path to the truth.
Google’s algorithm changes seem to be yet another tool being used to direct the flow of information away from the alternative media to selected mainstream news sources. It compounds actions already taken by Google in their involvement in upending net neutrality in favor of mega-media machines; the attempt by Congress to crack down on copyright infringement by blacklisting domain names; and copyright extortionist lawyers suing over wording in links.It’s obvious that the establishment will find a way to punish truth sites, either through technical penalization for re-posting material, reducing access speed, blogging taxes, lawsuits for copyright infringement, or by arbitrarily blacklisting the domain altogether.At it’s core, this new Google algorithm seems to punish information sharing in favor of protectionist conglomerates with large writing staffs. We in the alternative media would do well to recognize that these actions being taken by the elite of the media world are just another sign of their weakened state. Now is the time for the alternative media to seek more writers and more cooperation.
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.
Cold hits much of nation, Northeast faces storm
By Wendell Marsh – Sun Jan 23, 5:30 pm ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Temperatures in most of the country hovered near or below freezing on Sunday, with dangerous sub-zero wind chills threatening the Northeast and the Midwest into Monday, according to forecasters.The severely cold weather will set the stage for a potent winter storm early this week, forecasters for the Weather Channel said.AccuWeather.com's Alex Sosnowski predicted the Northeast is in for a storm rivaling last month's Christmas blizzard.More and more signs are pointing toward a major storm along much of the Atlantic Seaboard ... meaning a wind-whipped snow for some areas and wind-driven rain for others, he said on AccuWeather's website.The snowy shellacking isn't expected to arrive until Monday night after the Southeast gets its own cold soak, the Weather Channel said.
After a dry day region-wide on Monday, snow will begin to move in from the Midwest Monday night into Tuesday, with a stronger and messier system moving up the coast on Wednesday, Weather Channel meteorologist Mark Avery said.Upstate New York and New England were forecast to dip into the single digits.Meteorologist Daniel Brown of Springfield, Massachusetts, news channel abc40 said temperatures there could sink to a new record low of minus 20 degrees on Monday morning, beating the current record nadir of 12 below zero set in 1961.The bitter blast will loosen its grip by Tuesday afternoon, Brown said.
MUNICIPALITIES COPE WITH COLD
Springfield's police and homeless shelter officials will be working in the downtown streets, urging homeless people to seek shelter indoors, reported Springfield daily The Republican.Harsh weather so far this season has been especially hard on Southeastern states unaccustomed to ice and snow.Tennessee, which has had four major snowstorms so far this season, has depleted its stockpile of road salt, and schools have already overdrawn their bank of snow days.Tennessee Department of Transportation chief engineer Paul Degges wrote on the agency's website that TDOT is working to replenish its salt supplies. In the meantime, the state will increase its use of snow plows, and step up the use of salt brine and calcium chloride to stretch its de-icing capacity.Snow had already begun to coat Midwest and Plains areas on Sunday.Omaha, Nebraska woke up to as much as 8 inches of snow with temperatures falling as low as minus five degrees, prompting many churches to cancel Sunday services.But harsh weather that brought sub-zero wind chill and one to three inches of snow to the Chicago region moderated by mid-morning Sunday and will give way to temperatures to the mid-teens and partly cloudy skies, according to the National Weather Service.Scattered snow flurries are expected Sunday night after midnight with a chance of snow Monday. A heavy dose of rain and snow also was forecast for the northern tier of the West on Sunday night.
Temperatures have warmed to four degrees below zero in International Falls, Minnesota, up from 46 below zero on January 21, the coldest day in over 100 years, officials said Sunday.There were no deaths or injuries related to the weather in the border town of about 6,000 people and weather is expected to slowly improve to 25 degrees Fahrenheit by Wednesday.A storm front sweeping the Rockies was expected to bring gale-force winds and hurricane-strength gusts to the region, the National Weather Service reported in Great Falls, Montana.High-wind warnings and travel advisories were posted for the Montana capital of Helena and the central part of the state, with hazardous conditions stretching from the Canadian border to the Wyoming line.The storm was expected to push across Montana and into North Dakota by early Monday.(Additional reporting by Zach Howard in Massachusetts, Tim Ghianni in Tennessee, David Hendee in Nebraska, Eric Johnson in Illinois, and Laura Zuckerman in Idaho; Editing by Jerry Norton)
Brazil's landslide death toll reaches 806
– Sun Jan 23, 12:50 pm ET
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The death toll from floods and landslides that devastated a mountainous region near Rio de Janeiro has reached 806, state authorities said on Sunday, as rescue teams scoured the mud for the hundreds still missing.More than 20,000 people have also been forced from where they live or made homeless in the area, according to the statement posted on the state government's website.The disaster now ranks as the second-worst recorded in Brazil's history, according to United Nations data published in the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper on Saturday, eclipsed only by a meningitis outbreak that killed 1,500 people in 1974.Entire hillsides collapsed last week in the Serrana region, about 60 miles north of Rio, after the equivalent of a month's rain fell in 24 hours.Avalanches of mud and water ripped through mainly poor communities, tossing cars atop buildings and burying some families alive.At least 207 people were recorded missing earlier this week, suggesting the final death toll could be close to 1,000.
Local officials estimated at least 300 were missing.
Fears are now growing about disease. Alexandre Padilha, the health minister, visited the worst-affected town of Nova Friburgo on Saturday, and state health authorities have warned against coming into contact with contaminated river water.Landslides and flash floods are common in much of Brazil at this time of year, but the scale of the disaster has prompted renewed concerns that authorities failed to plan or take action to prevent the disaster.Earlier this week, the Brazilian government vowed to set up a national early warning system that could alert communities to approaching natural dangers.(Reporting by Samantha Pearson; Editing by Todd Eastham)
Southern Africa on alert for flash floods
– Fri Jan 21, 9:51 am ET
GENEVA (AFP) – Virtually every country in southern Africa is on alert for potentially disastrous flooding, the United Nations said on Friday, as exceptionally heavy rainfall was forecast to continue into March.We fear flash floods. It's rather common in the region and this time we are seeing heavier rainfall than in previous years, said Elisabeth Byrs, a spokeswoman for the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.Five countries are on alert for flooding -- Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia, -- and South Africa will now declare a disaster.All neighbouring countries including Madagascar are on alert, she told journalists.In South Africa flooding and storms have left 40 dead and forced 6,000 people to flee their homes so far, according to the UN, with reports of damage or casualties in Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, Malawi, Angola and Swaziland.Two of the biggest rivers in the region, the Zambezi and Okavango, are at about twice their normal levels early in the rainy season.
We could have an extremely major disaster if prevention measures are not stepped up over the next six weeks, Byrs said.The UN warned of the risk of increased cholera -- which is endemic in some countries -- and malaria in any major flood, as well as the danger of widespread destruction of crops in southern Africa's bread basket.Regional forecasts have predicted normal to above normal rainfall across the area in January to March.Relief workers fear a repeat of the kind of disaster that struck Mozambique in 2000, when devastating downpours caused massive floods that killed 800 people.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Magnitude quake 6.1 hits Tajikistan: USGS
JAN 23,11
LONDON (Reuters) – A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck the central Asian republic of Tajikistan on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.It said the quake occurred at a depth of 55.6 miles, 66 miles southwest of Karakul at 9:45 p.m. EST.A Reuters witness said the quake was felt in the Tajik capital Dushanbe but the tremors were not very strong.
CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
China's new stealth fighter may use US technology lobodan Lekic And Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press – Sun Jan 23, 12:15 pm ET
BRUSSELS – Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority — and some of its technology, it turns out, may well have come from the U.S. itself.Balkan military officials and other experts have told The Associated Press that in all probability the Chinese gleaned some of their technological know-how from an American F-117 Nighthawk that was shot down over Serbia in 1999.Nighthawks were the world's first stealth fighters, planes that were very hard for radar to detect. But on March 27, 1999, during NATO's aerial bombing of Serbia in the Kosovo war, a Serbian anti-aircraft missile shot one of the Nighthawks down. The pilot ejected and was rescued.
It was the first time one of the much-touted invisible fighters had ever been hit. The Pentagon believed a combination of clever tactics and sheer luck had allowed a Soviet-built SA-3 missile to bring down the jet.The wreckage was strewn over a wide area of flat farmlands, and civilians collected the parts — some the size of small cars — as souvenirs.At the time, our intelligence reports told of Chinese agents crisscrossing the region where the F-117 disintegrated, buying up parts of the plane from local farmers, says Adm. Davor Domazet-Loso, Croatia's military chief of staff during the Kosovo war.We believe the Chinese used those materials to gain an insight into secret stealth technologies ... and to reverse-engineer them, Domazet-Loso said in a telephone interview.A senior Serbian military official confirmed that pieces of the wreckage were removed by souvenir collectors, and that some ended up in the hands of foreign military attaches.In Washington, an Air Force official said the service was unaware of any connection between the downed F-117 plane and development of Chinese stealth technology for the J-20. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the subject involves classified information.
Efforts to get comment from China's defense ministry were unsuccessful.China's multi-role stealth fighter — known as the Chengdu J-20 — made its inaugural flight Jan. 11, revealing dramatic progress in the country's efforts to develop cutting-edge military technologies.Although the twin-engine J-20 is at least eight or nine years from entering air force inventory, it could become a rival to America's top-of-the-line F-22 Raptor, the successor to the Nighthawk and the only stealth fighter currently in service.China rolled out the J-20 just days before a visit to Beijing by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, leading some analysts to speculate that the timing was intended to demonstrate the growing might of China's armed forces.
Despite Chinese President Hu Jintao's high-profile visit to the United States this week, many in Washington see China as an economic threat to the U.S. and worry as well about Beijing's military might.Parts of the downed F-117 wreckage — such as the left wing with US Air Force insignia, the cockpit canopy, ejection seat, pilot's helmet and radio — are exhibited at Belgrade's aviation museum.I don't know what happened to the rest of the plane, said Zoran Milicevic, deputy director of the museum. A lot of delegations visited us in the past, including the Chinese, Russians and Americans ... but no one showed any interest in taking any part of the jet.Zoran Kusovac, a Rome-based military consultant, said the regime of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic routinely shared captured Western equipment with its Chinese and Russian allies.The destroyed F-117 topped that wish-list for both the Russians and Chinese, Kusovac said. Russia's Sukhoi T-50 prototype stealth fighter made its maiden flight last year and is due to enter service in about four years. It is likely that the Russians also gleaned knowledge of stealth technology from the downed Nighthawk.
The F-117, developed in great secrecy in the 1970s, began service in 1983.While not completely invisible to radar, its shape and radar-absorbent coating made detection extremely difficult. The radar cross-section was further reduced because the wings' leading and trailing edges were composed of nonmetallic honeycomb structures that do not reflect radar rays.Kusovac said insight into this critical technology, and particularly the plane's secret radiation-absorbent exterior coating, would have significantly enhanced China's stealth know-how.Alexander Huang of Taipei's Tamkang University said the J-20 represented a major step forward for China. He described Domazet-Loso's claim as a logical assessment.There is no other stronger source for the origin of the J-20's stealthy technology, said Huang, an expert on China's air force. The argument the Croatian chief-of-staff makes is legitimate and cannot be ruled out.The Chinese are well-known perpetrators of industrial espionage in Western Europe and the United States, where the administration has also been increasingly aggressive in prosecuting cases of Chinese espionage. Western diplomats have said China maintained an intelligence post in its Belgrade embassy during the Kosovo war. The building was mistakenly struck by U.S. bombers that May, killing three people inside.What that means is that the Serbs and Chinese would have been sharing their intelligence,said Alexander Neill, head of the Asia security program at the Royal United Services Institute, a defense think tank in London. It's very likely that they shared the technology they recovered from the F-117, and it's very plausible that elements of the F-117 got to China.Stojanovic reported from Belgrade. Snjezana Vukic in Zagreb, Robert Burns in Washington and Peter Enav in Taipei contributed to this report.
ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded
DEUTERONOMY 7:7-8
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people;(ISRAEL) for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you,(ISRAEL) and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
ZECHARIAH 2:8
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
JEREMIAH 3:14
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you:(ISRAEL) and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
ISAIAH 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,(ISRAEL) in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
ISAIAH 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
ISAIAH 65:9,22
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
ISAIAH 56:5
5 Even unto them (ISRAELIS) will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name,(ISRAEL) that shall not be cut off.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
Israel probe okays flotilla raid, Turkey stunned
by Sara Hussein – Sun Jan 23, 7:31 pm ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) – An Israeli probe ruled on Sunday that a May 2010 raid on Gaza-bound aid ships that killed nine Turks was in keeping with international law, a finding which stunned and dismayed Ankara.In its preliminary findings released the same day, a Turkish investigation said Israeli troops had used disproportionate force in boarding the flotilla of ships to prevent them from reaching Israeli-blockaded Gaza.The assault earned the Jewish state international censure, prompting Israeli MPs to appoint a commission to examine both the military operation's legality and Israel's blockade.In its report, Israel's six-member commission concluded that both the raid and the blockade of the impoverished Palestinian territory complied with international law.The naval blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip ... was legal pursuant to the rules of international law, the panel said.The actions carried out by Israel on May 31, 2010 to enforce the naval blockade had the regrettable consequences of the loss of human life and physical injuries, the report said.Nonetheless ... the actions taken were found to be legal pursuant to the rules of international law.The commission said Israeli troops encountered extreme violence when they boarded the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara, a ferry carrying around 600 people that led the six-ship flotilla.A group of activists from the Turkish Islamist IHH organisation on board the ship used firearms against the soldiers during the hostilities, the report said, repeating an allegation denied by the activists.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embraced the findings.I hope that those who hurried to judge Israel, who hurried to judge the soldiers and condemn them, I hope they will read this report and learn the truth about the incidents, Netanyahu said.The truth is simple. The soldiers defended their country and they defended themselves and that is not only their right, but their duty, Netanyahu said.The state of Israel stands behind them and thanks them for their courage.But Turkey reacted angrily, with Netanyahu's counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan charging that the Israeli report lacked any credibility, quoted by Turkey's Anatolia news agency.How can a report ordered and prepared in the same country have any value? the Turkish premier told journalists in Ankara. This report has no credibility.And a separate probe by Turkish investigators concluded that Israeli troops had used excessive force.The force used to intercept the Mavi Marmara exceeded the limits of what was appropriate and necessary, said Turkey's commission, which interviewed Turkish and foreign activists on the flotilla.
It called on Israel to pay compensation to families of the victims.The Turkish commission, in a separate statement, said it was stunned and dismayed by the conclusions of the report of the Israeli commission, which included two international observers.The attack carried out by Israel was a violation of rights, in times of peace or of war, and was also against all international principles, rules and norms, the commission said. Israeli rights groups also reacted with dismay. Israel's Physicians for Human Rights accused the commission of moral and legal blindness.In Gaza, the ruling Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas dismissed the Israeli report as a desperate attempt ... to improve the image (of Israel) by covering up the crime.The Mavi Marmara was the biggest of the vessels that in the group attempting to break Israel's blockade on the Gaza Strip, imposed in June 2006 after Gaza militants kidnapped an Israeli soldier.The Israeli commission heard testimony from high-ranking Israeli officials, including Netanyahu, Defence Minister Ehud Barak and army chief General Gabi Ashkenazi.None of the soldiers who actually participated in the raid were authorised to testify.
Two other panels are examining the incident.The United Nations Human Rights Council quickly formed its own inquiry panel, with which Israel refused to cooperate on the grounds that it was biased against the Jewish state.And in August 2010, UN chief Ban Ki-moon named his own panel to investigate, chaired by New Zealand former premier Geoffrey Palmer, and with representatives from both Israel and Turkey.UN spokesman Martin Nesirky, in an email sent to AFP, said on Sunday that the panel would review material provided by both sides, Israel and Turkey.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
AUSTRALIA FLOODING CONTINUES TO GET WORSE
1ST ANGEL OF CONTINENTS OF THE LORD TO DR DOCTORIAN
The first angel said: I have a message for all of Asia. When he said that, in a split few seconds, I could see all of China, India, the Asian countries like Vietnam, Laos - I've never been to those countries. I saw the Philippines, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. And then the angel showed me all of Papua New Guinea, Irian Jaya and down to Australia and New Zealand.I am the angel of Asia, he said. And in his hand I saw a tremendous trumpet that he is going to blow all over Asia. Whatever the angel said, it's going to happen with the trumpet of the Lord all over Asia. Millions are going to hear the mighty voice of the Lord. Then the angel said, There shall be disaster, starvation - many will die from hunger. Strong winds will be looked like has never happened before. A great part shall be shaken and destroyed.
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.
PICTURES OF AUSTRALIA FLOODING
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Australia-Flooding/ss/events/wl/122910australiaflood
Australia mulls cost of epic floods
– Sun Jan 23, 3:05 am ET
SYDNEY (AFP) – Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan on Sunday warned that epic flooding that has hit 3.1 million people across the nation would require difficult decisions, as the wall of water threatened more towns.Swan said strong population growth and development meant the deluge had wrought unprecedented damage, hitting many more homes and businesses than major floods and cyclones in the 1970s or the 2009 wildfires, which killed 173 people.The exact impacts of this epic disaster on our budget will be accounted for in time, but there?s no doubting the final tally will be very significant, said Swan in his first weekly economic note for 2011.There is no doubt the recent floods will rank as one of the most costly natural disasters in our history.The muddy waters continued their march through southern Victoria state Sunday, surrounding the town of Swan Hill and nearby villages.Emergency officials delivered 120,000 sandbags to residents there but a spokesman told AFP the levee was expected to hold when the Loddon River peaked in coming days, before meeting with the Murray, Australia's largest river.
The floods have already swamped an area larger than France and Germany combined in northeastern Queensland state, where two sets of what appeared to be human remains were found in the Lockyer Valley and nearby Lowood.At least 20 people were killed in the furious Lockyer Valley floods, described by witnesses as an inland tsunami and another nine are still missing. Mining and farming centre Queensland contributes 19 percent to national output, and its extensive swamping meant enormous damage for the economy, especially the key coal export industry.Queensland produces around 80 percent of coking (steelmaking) coal in Australia, said Swan.Coking coal itself contributes around 10 percent to Australia's exports, and coking coal exports contribute around two percent to GDP.Crops and tourism had also taken a hit, said Swan, while the record inundation of Brisbane, Australia's third-largest city, had shaken the retail and manufacturing sectors.Swan said 3.1 million people had been hit by the floods nationwide and disaster relief payments had already topped Aus$227 million ($224 million), with a massive task ahead rebuilding roads, railways and bridges.
A public appeal has raised more than Aus$135 million dollars and mining giant BHP Billiton on Sunday donated another $10 million, vowing to take a leading role in the recovery efforts.BHP has eight major steelmaking coal mines in Queensland and says the floods slashed production by 30 percent, squeezing prices for Asian steelmakers.
Swan said the enormous recovery effort ahead would require difficult spending cuts in our budget, and we?re working through all the options -- including a temporary levy.Levies were used in the past to fund a gun buyback after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in which 35 people died, to protect staff entitlements after flagship airline Ansett collapsed in 2001, and to support the dairy and sugar industries, Swan said.We are determined to do all that we responsibly can to throw our support behind the Queensland people through this devastating time, but at the same time we have to do the right thing by the nation?s economy,he said.
Southeast Australia set for another week of floods By ROHAN SULLIVAN, Associated Press – Sat Jan 22, 11:52 pm ET
MELBOURNE, Australia – Rural Australian towns braced for another week of flooding Sunday as a vast lake continued to spread across the country's southeast and a potential tropical storm threatened the northeast.The flooding began more than a month ago in Australia's northeast Queensland state, where 30 people have died, more than 30,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed and at least 3 billion Australian dollars ($3 billion) in crops and coal exports have been lost.Record rains have shifted the flood emergency focus to southeast Victoria state, which is usually parched during the southern summer.Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan said in a statement Sunday that the floods will rank as one of the most costly natural disasters in Australian history and its impact on the economy will be felt for years.
The government will announce its first cost estimates on Friday, he said.The State Emergency Service has warned that a lake about 55 miles (90 kilometers) long northwest of the Victorian capital of Melbourne will continue coursing inland for the next week until it spills into the Murray River.Emergency services were focusing their efforts 210 miles (340 kilometers) northwest of Melbourne at Swan Hill, a town of 10,000 where the Murray meets the swollen Lodden River and flood waters are expected to peak mid week, SES spokesman Sam Bishop said Sunday.SES said 75 towns in the state have been affected by flooding and another five to 10 towns are still in the floodwaters' northern path across flat wheat-growing country.Almost 2,000 homes and businesses were flooded or isolated and close to 5,000 people have been evacuated, SES said.Meanwhile, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology warned Sunday that a low pressure system off the north Queensland coast could develop into a cyclone over the next few days.The bureau rated the chances of a cyclone — which could lash the coast with gale-force winds and torrential rains — at between 20 percent and 50 percent.
Australian inland sea flood threatens towns
– Sat Jan 22, 3:09 am ET
MELBOURNE (AFP) – Australia's flood crisis deepened Saturday with a giant inland sea threatening more communities in the southeast, as officials continued the grim search for bodies in worst-hit Queensland.Sandbagging was underway in some villages in Victoria, where weeks of floods have affected as much as one-third of the state, with swollen rivers overflowing in 75 towns and flooding some 1,770 properties.We know that this is the most significant flooding in the north west of Victoria since records began... about 130 years ago, a spokeswoman for the State Emergency Service told AFP.We are still on alert for towns in the north of the state.Floodwaters which national broadcaster ABC described as a moving inland sea covering an area 90 kilometres (56 miles) long and 40 kilometres wide, were threatening towns around Swan Hill, some 300 kilometres northwest of Melbourne.In the actual Swan Hill township itself, we are very confident that the levee system around the town is built to a very high grade and will protect the township, Mayor Greg Cruickshank told ABC radio.
But rural and outlying areas will have significant amount of inundation through them, he said.While thousands of people around the state have been urged to evacuate, emergency services warned that those people who choose to remain on their properties in the rural areas could be stranded by the floods.A number of these communities will be isolated for days as this huge amount of floodwater comes through, SES spokesman Kevin Monk said.Eastern Australia has been lashed by torrential rains triggered by La Nina, a weather system associated with cyclones, which caused massive floods that devastated Queensland and spread south to New South Wales.After surging torrents of dirty brown water flooded an area the size of France and Germany combined in Queensland -- killing more than 30 people and leaving a massive trail of destruction -- more floods developed in Victoria.As the recovery and clean-up continues in Queensland, hundreds continued the search for the missing from violent flash floods which swept houses and cars into churning waters in the Lockyer Valley west of Brisbane.
Nine people are still missing after the floods which tore through towns such as Toowoomba and Grantham on January 10.About 400 police were involved in search and clean-up efforts on Saturday and Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale said the strain of the extended crisis was telling.I think people are tired now, they're fragile and there's a lot of issues in regards money and support, he told ABC.The floods which shut down Brisbane, the country's third largest city, also dumped tonnes of debris -- including cars, parts of buildings, and boats -- into the Brisbane River which the navy was Saturday working to clear.As the waters recede in many areas of Queensland, the 75,000-strong city of Rockhampton, which was almost entirely isolated by floods earlier this month, is expected to soon have its air link back.Some three weeks after Rockhampton airport's runway disappeared under water, daytime flights will resume on Monday after all major repairs and fencing work has been completed, officials said. But the floodwaters are expected to remain in much of Victoria for days.We are still experiencing river peaks so that's going to obviously increase the amount of time, the SES spokeswoman said. But in low-lying areas where there is flood waters, they can hang around for weeks.
POISONED WATERS
REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
24 pilot whales die in New Zealand stranding
– Fri Jan 21, 12:24 am ET
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – New Zealand conservation officials on Friday euthanized 10 pilot whales, the only survivors of a 24-strong pod that became stranded in a mangrove swamp.The whales had been found earlier in the day trapped in the shallow water and mud in Parengarenga Harbor on North Island, with 14 already dead.The mammals had been there for some time and the 10 survivors were in poor shape, said Department of Conservation area manager Jonathan Maxwell.With worsening weather and a high tide more than eight hours away, the chance of successfully refloating the whales was virtually nil, Maxwell said.Sadly, the current conditions were against these animals. The kindest thing was to end their suffering, he said. If we felt there was a real chance we could have successfully rescued them, we would have.Pilot whales travel in pods of family groups and when one becomes stranded, others follow to try to help and also become stuck.
Pilot whales are the most common whale species in New Zealand waters, and are normally between 13-19 feet (4-6 meters) in length.Last week, volunteers and conservation workers successfully refloated one young Gray's Beaked whale after it stranded. Four other adult mammals died on the beach.New Zealand has several whale strandings around its coastline each summer, with mass strandings of as many as 450 of the mammals.Whale experts have been unable to explain why the mammals apparently swim into dangerously shallow waters.
The first angel said: I have a message for all of Asia. When he said that, in a split few seconds, I could see all of China, India, the Asian countries like Vietnam, Laos - I've never been to those countries. I saw the Philippines, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. And then the angel showed me all of Papua New Guinea, Irian Jaya and down to Australia and New Zealand.I am the angel of Asia, he said. And in his hand I saw a tremendous trumpet that he is going to blow all over Asia. Whatever the angel said, it's going to happen with the trumpet of the Lord all over Asia. Millions are going to hear the mighty voice of the Lord. Then the angel said, There shall be disaster, starvation - many will die from hunger. Strong winds will be looked like has never happened before. A great part shall be shaken and destroyed.
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.
PICTURES OF AUSTRALIA FLOODING
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Australia-Flooding/ss/events/wl/122910australiaflood
Australia mulls cost of epic floods
– Sun Jan 23, 3:05 am ET
SYDNEY (AFP) – Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan on Sunday warned that epic flooding that has hit 3.1 million people across the nation would require difficult decisions, as the wall of water threatened more towns.Swan said strong population growth and development meant the deluge had wrought unprecedented damage, hitting many more homes and businesses than major floods and cyclones in the 1970s or the 2009 wildfires, which killed 173 people.The exact impacts of this epic disaster on our budget will be accounted for in time, but there?s no doubting the final tally will be very significant, said Swan in his first weekly economic note for 2011.There is no doubt the recent floods will rank as one of the most costly natural disasters in our history.The muddy waters continued their march through southern Victoria state Sunday, surrounding the town of Swan Hill and nearby villages.Emergency officials delivered 120,000 sandbags to residents there but a spokesman told AFP the levee was expected to hold when the Loddon River peaked in coming days, before meeting with the Murray, Australia's largest river.
The floods have already swamped an area larger than France and Germany combined in northeastern Queensland state, where two sets of what appeared to be human remains were found in the Lockyer Valley and nearby Lowood.At least 20 people were killed in the furious Lockyer Valley floods, described by witnesses as an inland tsunami and another nine are still missing. Mining and farming centre Queensland contributes 19 percent to national output, and its extensive swamping meant enormous damage for the economy, especially the key coal export industry.Queensland produces around 80 percent of coking (steelmaking) coal in Australia, said Swan.Coking coal itself contributes around 10 percent to Australia's exports, and coking coal exports contribute around two percent to GDP.Crops and tourism had also taken a hit, said Swan, while the record inundation of Brisbane, Australia's third-largest city, had shaken the retail and manufacturing sectors.Swan said 3.1 million people had been hit by the floods nationwide and disaster relief payments had already topped Aus$227 million ($224 million), with a massive task ahead rebuilding roads, railways and bridges.
A public appeal has raised more than Aus$135 million dollars and mining giant BHP Billiton on Sunday donated another $10 million, vowing to take a leading role in the recovery efforts.BHP has eight major steelmaking coal mines in Queensland and says the floods slashed production by 30 percent, squeezing prices for Asian steelmakers.
Swan said the enormous recovery effort ahead would require difficult spending cuts in our budget, and we?re working through all the options -- including a temporary levy.Levies were used in the past to fund a gun buyback after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in which 35 people died, to protect staff entitlements after flagship airline Ansett collapsed in 2001, and to support the dairy and sugar industries, Swan said.We are determined to do all that we responsibly can to throw our support behind the Queensland people through this devastating time, but at the same time we have to do the right thing by the nation?s economy,he said.
Southeast Australia set for another week of floods By ROHAN SULLIVAN, Associated Press – Sat Jan 22, 11:52 pm ET
MELBOURNE, Australia – Rural Australian towns braced for another week of flooding Sunday as a vast lake continued to spread across the country's southeast and a potential tropical storm threatened the northeast.The flooding began more than a month ago in Australia's northeast Queensland state, where 30 people have died, more than 30,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed and at least 3 billion Australian dollars ($3 billion) in crops and coal exports have been lost.Record rains have shifted the flood emergency focus to southeast Victoria state, which is usually parched during the southern summer.Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan said in a statement Sunday that the floods will rank as one of the most costly natural disasters in Australian history and its impact on the economy will be felt for years.
The government will announce its first cost estimates on Friday, he said.The State Emergency Service has warned that a lake about 55 miles (90 kilometers) long northwest of the Victorian capital of Melbourne will continue coursing inland for the next week until it spills into the Murray River.Emergency services were focusing their efforts 210 miles (340 kilometers) northwest of Melbourne at Swan Hill, a town of 10,000 where the Murray meets the swollen Lodden River and flood waters are expected to peak mid week, SES spokesman Sam Bishop said Sunday.SES said 75 towns in the state have been affected by flooding and another five to 10 towns are still in the floodwaters' northern path across flat wheat-growing country.Almost 2,000 homes and businesses were flooded or isolated and close to 5,000 people have been evacuated, SES said.Meanwhile, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology warned Sunday that a low pressure system off the north Queensland coast could develop into a cyclone over the next few days.The bureau rated the chances of a cyclone — which could lash the coast with gale-force winds and torrential rains — at between 20 percent and 50 percent.
Australian inland sea flood threatens towns
– Sat Jan 22, 3:09 am ET
MELBOURNE (AFP) – Australia's flood crisis deepened Saturday with a giant inland sea threatening more communities in the southeast, as officials continued the grim search for bodies in worst-hit Queensland.Sandbagging was underway in some villages in Victoria, where weeks of floods have affected as much as one-third of the state, with swollen rivers overflowing in 75 towns and flooding some 1,770 properties.We know that this is the most significant flooding in the north west of Victoria since records began... about 130 years ago, a spokeswoman for the State Emergency Service told AFP.We are still on alert for towns in the north of the state.Floodwaters which national broadcaster ABC described as a moving inland sea covering an area 90 kilometres (56 miles) long and 40 kilometres wide, were threatening towns around Swan Hill, some 300 kilometres northwest of Melbourne.In the actual Swan Hill township itself, we are very confident that the levee system around the town is built to a very high grade and will protect the township, Mayor Greg Cruickshank told ABC radio.
But rural and outlying areas will have significant amount of inundation through them, he said.While thousands of people around the state have been urged to evacuate, emergency services warned that those people who choose to remain on their properties in the rural areas could be stranded by the floods.A number of these communities will be isolated for days as this huge amount of floodwater comes through, SES spokesman Kevin Monk said.Eastern Australia has been lashed by torrential rains triggered by La Nina, a weather system associated with cyclones, which caused massive floods that devastated Queensland and spread south to New South Wales.After surging torrents of dirty brown water flooded an area the size of France and Germany combined in Queensland -- killing more than 30 people and leaving a massive trail of destruction -- more floods developed in Victoria.As the recovery and clean-up continues in Queensland, hundreds continued the search for the missing from violent flash floods which swept houses and cars into churning waters in the Lockyer Valley west of Brisbane.
Nine people are still missing after the floods which tore through towns such as Toowoomba and Grantham on January 10.About 400 police were involved in search and clean-up efforts on Saturday and Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale said the strain of the extended crisis was telling.I think people are tired now, they're fragile and there's a lot of issues in regards money and support, he told ABC.The floods which shut down Brisbane, the country's third largest city, also dumped tonnes of debris -- including cars, parts of buildings, and boats -- into the Brisbane River which the navy was Saturday working to clear.As the waters recede in many areas of Queensland, the 75,000-strong city of Rockhampton, which was almost entirely isolated by floods earlier this month, is expected to soon have its air link back.Some three weeks after Rockhampton airport's runway disappeared under water, daytime flights will resume on Monday after all major repairs and fencing work has been completed, officials said. But the floodwaters are expected to remain in much of Victoria for days.We are still experiencing river peaks so that's going to obviously increase the amount of time, the SES spokeswoman said. But in low-lying areas where there is flood waters, they can hang around for weeks.
POISONED WATERS
REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
24 pilot whales die in New Zealand stranding
– Fri Jan 21, 12:24 am ET
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – New Zealand conservation officials on Friday euthanized 10 pilot whales, the only survivors of a 24-strong pod that became stranded in a mangrove swamp.The whales had been found earlier in the day trapped in the shallow water and mud in Parengarenga Harbor on North Island, with 14 already dead.The mammals had been there for some time and the 10 survivors were in poor shape, said Department of Conservation area manager Jonathan Maxwell.With worsening weather and a high tide more than eight hours away, the chance of successfully refloating the whales was virtually nil, Maxwell said.Sadly, the current conditions were against these animals. The kindest thing was to end their suffering, he said. If we felt there was a real chance we could have successfully rescued them, we would have.Pilot whales travel in pods of family groups and when one becomes stranded, others follow to try to help and also become stuck.
Pilot whales are the most common whale species in New Zealand waters, and are normally between 13-19 feet (4-6 meters) in length.Last week, volunteers and conservation workers successfully refloated one young Gray's Beaked whale after it stranded. Four other adult mammals died on the beach.New Zealand has several whale strandings around its coastline each summer, with mass strandings of as many as 450 of the mammals.Whale experts have been unable to explain why the mammals apparently swim into dangerously shallow waters.
Parshah Mishpatim - Exodus 21:1-24:18
SINCE WHAT ISRAEL READS WILL BE FULFILLED IN THAT WEEK I WILL BE PUTTING THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTION ON FOR ALL OF US TO KEEP TRACK OF ISRAEL HAPPENINGS.
TORAH PORTION FROM JAN 23 2011 6PM - JAN 29 6PM 2011
EXODUS 21:1 - 24:18
1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
32 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.
36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.
EXODUS 22:1-31
1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.
8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.
9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:
11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.
13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.
14 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.
15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.
31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
EXODUS 23:1-33
1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
13 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
EXODUS 24:1-18
1 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.
2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.
4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.
6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:
10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.
15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
PROPHETS PORTION
JEREMIAH 33:25-26
25 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
JEREMIAH 34:8-22
8 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.
11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
13 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
14 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
16 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, which are gone up from you.
22 Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
NEW TESTAMENT PORTION
MATTHEW 5:38-42
38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.
41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
MATTHEW 15:1-20
1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,
2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?
13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
15 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.
16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
MARK 7:1-23
1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
ACTS 23:1-11
1 And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
2 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
3 Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
4 And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God’s high priest?
5 Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.
6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
7 And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.
8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
9 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees’ part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.
10 And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
11 And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.
HEBREWS 9:15-22
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
HEBREWS 10:28-39
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
TORAH PORTION FROM JAN 23 2011 6PM - JAN 29 6PM 2011
EXODUS 21:1 - 24:18
1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
32 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.
36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.
EXODUS 22:1-31
1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.
8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.
9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:
11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.
13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.
14 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.
15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.
31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
EXODUS 23:1-33
1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
13 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
EXODUS 24:1-18
1 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.
2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.
4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.
6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:
10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.
15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
PROPHETS PORTION
JEREMIAH 33:25-26
25 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
JEREMIAH 34:8-22
8 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.
11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
13 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
14 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
16 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, which are gone up from you.
22 Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
NEW TESTAMENT PORTION
MATTHEW 5:38-42
38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.
41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
MATTHEW 15:1-20
1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,
2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?
13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
15 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.
16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
MARK 7:1-23
1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
ACTS 23:1-11
1 And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
2 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
3 Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
4 And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God’s high priest?
5 Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.
6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
7 And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.
8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
9 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees’ part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.
10 And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
11 And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.
HEBREWS 9:15-22
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
HEBREWS 10:28-39
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
OLBERMANN GETS THE BOOT
WE SEE EVEN THE LEFTIST MSNBC DOES NOT WANT OLBERMANN ANY MORE BECAUSE HES TO MUCH OF A RIGHT WING HATING NUTCASE.OLBERMANN NOW-THEN HOPEFULLY MR RACHAEL MADDOW IS THE NEXT LEFTIST TO GET FIRED AT MSNBC.ANOTHER RIGHT WING HATER AS WELL AS CIA AGENT AND OBAMA SUCK UP CHRIS MATTHEWS.
Olbermann Announces Departure from MSNBC
Published January 21, 2011| Associated Press
Keith Olbermann is leaving MSNBC and has announced that Friday's Countdown show will be his last (FINALLY THE ARAB SYMPATHIZER IS GONE)
NEW YORK – MSNBC host Keith Olbermann announced Friday that he is leaving the network and has taped his last Countdown show.MSNBC issued a statement that it had ended its contract with the controversial host, with no further explanation. Olbermann hosted the network's most popular show, but his combative liberal opinions often made him a target of critics.
Olbermann did not explain why he was leaving.
MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in MSNBC's success and we wish him well in his future endeavors, the network said.A spokesman said Phil Griffin, MSNBC's president, would not comment on Olbermann's exit.
Olbermann was suspended without pay from the network for two days in November for donating to three Democratic candidates, which violated NBC News' policy on political donations.Olbermann complained that he was being punished for mistakenly violating an inconsistently applied rule that he had known nothing about.The host apologized to fans -- but not to the network.Olbermann, before leaving the show with a final signature toss of his script toward the camera, thanked his audience for sticking with him and read a James Thurber poem.This may be the only television program where the host was much more in awe of the audience than vice versa, he said.
He thanked a series of people, including the late Tim Russert, but pointedly not Griffin or NBC News President Steve Capus.Olbermann's prime-time show is the network's top-rated. His evolution from a humorous look at the day's headlines into a pointedly liberal show in the last half of George W. Bush's administration led MSNBC to largely shift the tone of the network in his direction, with the hirings or Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell in primetime.But Olbermann was known for a mercurial personality behind the scenes and he was almost fired last year for the political donations. He quit a prime-time show on MSNBC in the late 1990s, complaining that management was making him report too much on President Bill Clinton's impeachment scandal.He was particularly critical of Fox News Channel and his direct competitor, Bill O'Reilly, frequently naming him his Worst Person in the World in a segment popular with his fans. Bosses at NBC had discussed trying to keep the tone of the vitriol down.MSNBC announced that O'Donnell, who had frequently filled in for Olbermann before starting his own 10 p.m. show, will take over Olbermann's time slot starting Monday. The Ed Show, with Ed Schultz, would move to 10 p.m. Cenk Uygur of the Web show The Young Turks, will fill Schultz's vacated 6 p.m. time slot.Olbermann had signed a new four-year contract with MSNBC two years ago. It's unclear what his plans are now.He could give a boost to struggling CNN's prime-time lineup, but Olbermann would mean CNN would make an abrupt shift in its nonpartisan policy. It was not immediately known how quickly Olbermann could switch to another job if he wanted to.
Olbermann Announces Departure from MSNBC
Published January 21, 2011| Associated Press
Keith Olbermann is leaving MSNBC and has announced that Friday's Countdown show will be his last (FINALLY THE ARAB SYMPATHIZER IS GONE)
NEW YORK – MSNBC host Keith Olbermann announced Friday that he is leaving the network and has taped his last Countdown show.MSNBC issued a statement that it had ended its contract with the controversial host, with no further explanation. Olbermann hosted the network's most popular show, but his combative liberal opinions often made him a target of critics.
Olbermann did not explain why he was leaving.
MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in MSNBC's success and we wish him well in his future endeavors, the network said.A spokesman said Phil Griffin, MSNBC's president, would not comment on Olbermann's exit.
Olbermann was suspended without pay from the network for two days in November for donating to three Democratic candidates, which violated NBC News' policy on political donations.Olbermann complained that he was being punished for mistakenly violating an inconsistently applied rule that he had known nothing about.The host apologized to fans -- but not to the network.Olbermann, before leaving the show with a final signature toss of his script toward the camera, thanked his audience for sticking with him and read a James Thurber poem.This may be the only television program where the host was much more in awe of the audience than vice versa, he said.
He thanked a series of people, including the late Tim Russert, but pointedly not Griffin or NBC News President Steve Capus.Olbermann's prime-time show is the network's top-rated. His evolution from a humorous look at the day's headlines into a pointedly liberal show in the last half of George W. Bush's administration led MSNBC to largely shift the tone of the network in his direction, with the hirings or Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell in primetime.But Olbermann was known for a mercurial personality behind the scenes and he was almost fired last year for the political donations. He quit a prime-time show on MSNBC in the late 1990s, complaining that management was making him report too much on President Bill Clinton's impeachment scandal.He was particularly critical of Fox News Channel and his direct competitor, Bill O'Reilly, frequently naming him his Worst Person in the World in a segment popular with his fans. Bosses at NBC had discussed trying to keep the tone of the vitriol down.MSNBC announced that O'Donnell, who had frequently filled in for Olbermann before starting his own 10 p.m. show, will take over Olbermann's time slot starting Monday. The Ed Show, with Ed Schultz, would move to 10 p.m. Cenk Uygur of the Web show The Young Turks, will fill Schultz's vacated 6 p.m. time slot.Olbermann had signed a new four-year contract with MSNBC two years ago. It's unclear what his plans are now.He could give a boost to struggling CNN's prime-time lineup, but Olbermann would mean CNN would make an abrupt shift in its nonpartisan policy. It was not immediately known how quickly Olbermann could switch to another job if he wanted to.
Friday, January 21, 2011
46% INCREASE IN HYDRO RATES IN 5 YRS
HYDRO ONE TO LEARN ABOUT SMART(CONTROL FREAK)METERS HOW THEY CONTROL OUR HYDRO ETC.
http://www.hydroone.com/Pages/Default.aspx
SMART METERS HYDRO ONE TIME - PEAK HOURS
http://www.ieso.ca/house/hydroone/
http://www.hydroone.com/MyHome/MyAccount/MyMeter/Pages/SmartMeters.aspx
http://www.hydroone.com/MyHome/MyAccount/MyMeter/Documents/Smart_Meters_Answer_book_ENG.pdf
http://www.hydroone.com/MyHome/MyAccount/MyMeter/Documents/Smart_Meters_Report_on_RFE.pdf
WE DEFINATELY WILL NEED 10% REBATES EVERY MONTH STARTING JAN 2011 ONTARIANS,CANADIANS SINCE OUR HYDRO BILLS WILL BE SKYROCKETING UP 50% IN 5 YEARS.JUST REDICULAS.PEOPLE LIKE ME ON FIXED INCOMES WILL BE BROKE FOR SURE.
The Ontario Clean Energy Benefit
The Ontario government has announced the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit will provide eligible customers a 10 per cent rebate on the total cost of electricity charges related to electricity consumption on their bills including HST, effective with electricity consumed January 1, 2011. This rebate will be in effect for five years until December 31, 2015.
The government estimates Ontarians will be faced with a 46 per cent increase in home electricity costs over the next five years to pay for much needed electricity system upgrades. The Ontario Clean Energy Benefit will help customers manage the rising cost of electricity.
Who is Eligible?
Residential and seasonal customers are eligible for the rebate, as well as farm and small business customers (general service energy-billed with less than 50 kW demand) as long as they do not use more than 250,000 kWh annually. Customers eligible for the Regulated Price Plan (RPP) two-tiered prices and Time-of-Use (TOU) prices are eligible for this rebate, including retailer enrolled customers and customers on spot as long as they would otherwise be RPP eligible.
For more information, go to www.ontario.ca/energyplan or call 1-888-668-4636.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit?
The Ontario Clean Energy Benefit will help residential customers and small businesses manage rising electricity bills as we transition to a cleaner, modern electricity system. The government has announced this benefit will result in a 10 per cent reduction on the total electricity bill, including HST. The benefit will be in effect for five years beginning January 1, 2011.
When will I see the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit on my bill?
Eligible customers will see the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit on their first bill issued after January 19, 2011. Your first bill issued with the rebate will be prorated as the rebate only applies to your electricity use as of January 1, 2011. The pro-ration is based on the number of eligible days in the billing period.
What charges are included in the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit?
The Ontario Clean Energy Benefit applies a 10 per cent rebate to the following charges: Electricity, Delivery, Regulatory Charges, the Debt Retirement Charge, Global Adjustment (if applicable) and HST.
What charges are not included in the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit?
The Ontario Clean Energy Benefit does not apply to late payment charges, security deposits, new account set-up charge, past due charges, and rental charges (e.g. sentinel light rental, pole rental, etc.).
How much will I save with the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit?
The Ontario Clean Energy Benefit is a 10 per cent reduction on your total electricity charges, including HST. An average Residential - Medium Density customer using 1,000 kWh will see a reduction of about $17 a month.
Where will the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit appear on my bill?
It will appear as a separate line item on your bill. The new line item is Ontario Clean Energy Benefit (-10%) and it will appear below the Total of your electricity charges line item. In addition, there will be a New total of your electricity charges line item showing the net charges after applying the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit.
How will you determine the portion of my electricity charges that is consumed starting on January 1, 2011? The consumption for the entire billing period will be pro-rated based on the number of days before and after January 1, 2011.
http://www.hydroone.com/MyHome/MyAccount/MyMeter/Documents/Smart_Meters_Answer_book_ENG.pdf
What is a smart meter?
Smart meters look similar to conventional meters but the display is digital and there are no dials. Unlike conventional electricity meters that can only measure the total amount of electricity used over a billing period, smart meters record how much and when electricity is used, typically hourly, and transmit this information automatically. Your smart meter will record your total electricity consumption hour by hour and send that information to Hydro One through a wireless or another form of technology. As the communication network is installed in your community customers will receive bills produced with an automated meter reading. Automated meter reading will roll out across the province starting in 2009 through 2010. You will be notified that you have been migrated to automated meter reading with a message on your first bill.
Why do we need Smart Meters?
Between now and 2025, Ontario must build almost a whole new electricity system. This includes replacing about 80 per cent of our current generating facilities as they retire over time, and expanding the system to meet future growth. Building new supply is vital. So is conservation. That's why the Government of Ontario is introducing new tools like smart meters that will encourage all of us to think more about how and when we use electricity. Smart Meters when teamed with Time-of-Use prices are new energy management tools to help customers manage their electricity use and costs, reduce the need for additional power generation during peak periods and create real supply and environmental benefits.
When will I get my smart meter?
Hydro One has installed more than one million smart meters and is on track to meet the provincial government’s target of having a smart meter in every home and small business by the end of 2010.
Smart Things Your Smart Meter Will Do:
•Measure how much energy you use and when you use it
•Send your meter readings, automatically via wireless technology
•Eliminate the need for you to submit your meter readings (if you do so today)
•Eliminate the inconvenience of providing access to meters located indoors, behind locked gates etc.
Frequently Asked Questions - My Meter
Why do we need smart meters?
It's estimated that over the next twenty years, Ontario will need to refurbish, rebuild, replace, or conserve 25,000 megawatts (MW) worth of generating capacity — more than 80% of Ontario's current electricity generating capacity — at an estimated cost of $70 billion. Producing more electricity is only part of the answer. Conservation and demand management will help us make the best use of our existing electricity resources and slow our growth in demand. There are tremendous opportunities to reduce the supply-demand gap through the wise use of electricity — and smart meters together with Time-of-Use prices will help encourage us all to think about how and when we use electricity.
Why is Hydro One installing smart meters?
Together with all local electricity distribution companies across Ontario, Hydro One is installing smart meters in support of the Government of Ontario’s program to build a culture of energy conservation in Ontario.
What is a smart meter and what does it look like?
A smart meter looks like the meter you have now, except the display is digital and there are no dials. However, a smart meter is much more technologically advanced compared to your current, old-style meter. It can record how much electricity you use and when you use it (typically hourly), and communicates this information automatically via wireless and other technologies. In contrast, conventional electricity meters measure the total amount of electricity consumed over an entire billing period (typically one or two months) and must be read manually.
When will I get my smart meter?
The Ontario government's target is to have smart meters installed in all Ontario homes and small businesses by 2010. Hydro One has over one million meters to install province-wide. You should receive one by the end of 2010. Installers will leave a letter at your door when your meter has been replaced.
Can I volunteer to get a smart meter now?
We are very encouraged by the level of interest and enthusiasm of our customers to adopt the smart meter technology. However, in order to maximize the efficiency of the smart meter deployment across the province, customers will not be able to select when they receive a smart meter.
I don't want to have a smart meter installed. Can I refuse?
No. The Electricity Act (Section 40) and Hydro One’s Conditions of Service permit us to maintain and replace our meter at your premises.
How long will the meter installation take?
The installation generally takes only a few minutes to complete.
What are the hours for installation?
The hours for installation are from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday to Friday.
Will you be booking appointments for installation?
No, unfortunately we will not be booking appointments, as we do not normally need to enter your home or business to replace the meter. If we need to enter your home or business to install the meter, and if you are not at home, we will contact you in the future when we are back in your community. This makes the process more efficient and helps to minimize costs to all customers.
Is it possible to have an installation after hours or on weekends?
Unfortunately, no, but the installation really is a short procedure that will be done with little or no inconvenience to you.
Do I have to be there for the smart meter installation?
No, you don't have to be there for the installation to proceed and it takes only a few minutes to complete.
Will my power be interrupted during the installation of my smart meter?
Yes. The installation of your smart meter will require a very short power interruption (usually less than a minute). We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and you will need to reset digital clocks.
How will I know if my meter's been replaced with a smart meter?
We will leave a card at your door letting you know that we have completed the installation. Also, the meter will look a little different as it has a digital display and no dials.
Will my first bill after the meter replacement look any different?
Yes, it will be a longer bill as it will display two sets of electricity usages — first for the meter that was replaced, and second for the new smart meter. This will appear on the first bill after the installation of your smart meter only; after that your bill will look the same.
How much am I paying for my smart meter now?
All Hydro One customers are currently paying $2.32 per month to recover smart meter-related costs. These costs have been reviewed and approved by the Ontario Energy Board and are a part of the delivery line item of your Hydro One bill.
Will I see a separate smart meter charge on my bill?
No. The cost of smart metering is included in the delivery line item of your bill. Smart metering costs are recovered through electricity rates in the same way as costs are recovered for other equipment that serve our customers including distribution wires, poles and transformers.
How much is the smart meter going to cost in the future?
The Ontario Energy Board has estimated that the incremental monthly cost for a typical residential or small business customer may be between $3 and $4 per month once full implementation is complete in 2010 but this is just an estimate.
Will my electricity bill automatically go down once I have a smart meter?
No. Your smart meter is a tool that measures and records how much electricity you use at different times of the day. When teamed with Time-of-Use prices, it provides you the opportunity to better manage your electricity use (and costs), reduce strain on the electricity system, and help the environment.
How do I know that my smart meter is accurate?
All meters are approved by Measurement Canada and Hydro One regularly tests a sample of meters for accuracy before they are deployed.
What are the cost savings and environmental benefits of smart meters?
When we're all using a lot of electricity at the same time, we create peak demand periods. Supplying electricity at those times has a range of impacts. Higher demand often means higher prices because having generating plants that stand ready to meet peak demand and only operate infrequently is expensive and these plants are usually the less attractive forms of generation that are harder on the environment. By smoothing out the peaks in demand, we can reduce the amount Ontario needs to invest in additional power generating plants, transmission lines, and distribution facilities.
Since my usage data will be sent automatically, will it remain secure and confidential?
Yes, Ontario's electricity distributors are required by law to ensure that smart meters and associated communication networks are equipped with security features to prevent unauthorized access. We must also comply with federal laws regarding the privacy, protection and disclosure of personal information. In addition, the only information communicated is your meter number and your electricity usage (the same information that was displayed on the old conventional meter at your premises).
Can Hydro One access my property to change the meter?
Yes, Hydro One may enter a customer's property at any time to replace the meter. This authority is granted under the Electricity Act (section 40) and also in our Conditions of Service (section 1.7.A Hydro One's Distributor Rights - Space and Access).
Can you explain what I am seeing on the display of my new smart meter?
There are 3 types of smart meters currently being deployed (and the names of the meter are on the meter faceplate):
•If you have a Landis + Gyr Focus meter, the display alternates between the display check (which displays 88888) and the kWh consumption reading. There is approximately 5 seconds between the two displays.
•If you have an Itron Sentinel meter, the display stays on the normal kWh consumption display at all times.
•The GE i 210+ meter display will indicate kWh consumption for about 5 seconds and all eights (88888) for about 2 seconds. You might also notice that the LCD display flashes ADI (Automated Distribution Infrastructure).
I now have my smart meter installed but understand that I cannot manage my bill by adjusting my consumption until I am coverted to TOU pricing?
While it's true you are not being billed at TOU prices at the present time, you can start reducing your electricity consumption right now by following some or all of the examples below. A more extensive list is available at www.PowerSaver.ca.
•Replace your incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs which use 75% less power and last much longer.
•Always use the economy cycle on your dishwasher and also use the air dry setting.
•Install an energy-saving showerhead which can reduce your hot water use by up to 30%.
•Install faucet aerators on your sink faucets to lower water flow. Aerators mix air into the water flow and reduce water consumption by 25-50% per tap.
•Caulk, weather-strip, and insulate your home. Seal the leaks and cracks in your house, and you'll raise the humidity levels and have a more comfortable indoor environment. You'll be able to turn the furnace down which means a lower heating bill.
I understand that smart meters use radiofrequency communication. Is this safe?
Yes. Hydro One's smart metering system makes use of low power radiofrequency (RF) transmitters to communicate meter readings and weak RF fields in the range of 2.4 GHz are produced during the system's normal operation. These fields comply with Health Canada guidelines by a very wide margin ranging from hundreds to thousands times less than Health Canada limits.
How do smart meter RF emissions compare to other RF sources in my home?
Because of the very weak fields produced by Hydro One's smart metering system, it is likely that RF exposure of most individuals will be predominated by other RF sources in the home such as cordless phones, wireless routers, and microwave ovens.
How can I find out more about Health Canada RF emission guidelines?
To find out more about Health Canada guidelines, visit the Health Canada website, contact them at 613-954-6699, or email ccrpb-pcrpcc@hc-sc.gc.ca.
How can I find out more about RF emissions from Hydro One's smart metering system?
To find out more about RF emissions from Hydro One's smart metering system, download Hydro One's report An Analysis of Radiofrequency Fields Associated with Operation of the Hydro One Smart Meter System (PDF 335 KB).
http://www.hydroone.com/MyHome/MyAccount/MyMeter/Documents/Smart_Meters_Report_on_RFE.pdf
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WE DEFINATELY WILL NEED 10% REBATES EVERY MONTH STARTING JAN 2011 ONTARIANS,CANADIANS SINCE OUR HYDRO BILLS WILL BE SKYROCKETING UP 50% IN 5 YEARS.JUST REDICULAS.PEOPLE LIKE ME ON FIXED INCOMES WILL BE BROKE FOR SURE.
The Ontario Clean Energy Benefit
The Ontario government has announced the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit will provide eligible customers a 10 per cent rebate on the total cost of electricity charges related to electricity consumption on their bills including HST, effective with electricity consumed January 1, 2011. This rebate will be in effect for five years until December 31, 2015.
The government estimates Ontarians will be faced with a 46 per cent increase in home electricity costs over the next five years to pay for much needed electricity system upgrades. The Ontario Clean Energy Benefit will help customers manage the rising cost of electricity.
Who is Eligible?
Residential and seasonal customers are eligible for the rebate, as well as farm and small business customers (general service energy-billed with less than 50 kW demand) as long as they do not use more than 250,000 kWh annually. Customers eligible for the Regulated Price Plan (RPP) two-tiered prices and Time-of-Use (TOU) prices are eligible for this rebate, including retailer enrolled customers and customers on spot as long as they would otherwise be RPP eligible.
For more information, go to www.ontario.ca/energyplan or call 1-888-668-4636.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit?
The Ontario Clean Energy Benefit will help residential customers and small businesses manage rising electricity bills as we transition to a cleaner, modern electricity system. The government has announced this benefit will result in a 10 per cent reduction on the total electricity bill, including HST. The benefit will be in effect for five years beginning January 1, 2011.
When will I see the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit on my bill?
Eligible customers will see the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit on their first bill issued after January 19, 2011. Your first bill issued with the rebate will be prorated as the rebate only applies to your electricity use as of January 1, 2011. The pro-ration is based on the number of eligible days in the billing period.
What charges are included in the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit?
The Ontario Clean Energy Benefit applies a 10 per cent rebate to the following charges: Electricity, Delivery, Regulatory Charges, the Debt Retirement Charge, Global Adjustment (if applicable) and HST.
What charges are not included in the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit?
The Ontario Clean Energy Benefit does not apply to late payment charges, security deposits, new account set-up charge, past due charges, and rental charges (e.g. sentinel light rental, pole rental, etc.).
How much will I save with the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit?
The Ontario Clean Energy Benefit is a 10 per cent reduction on your total electricity charges, including HST. An average Residential - Medium Density customer using 1,000 kWh will see a reduction of about $17 a month.
Where will the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit appear on my bill?
It will appear as a separate line item on your bill. The new line item is Ontario Clean Energy Benefit (-10%) and it will appear below the Total of your electricity charges line item. In addition, there will be a New total of your electricity charges line item showing the net charges after applying the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit.
How will you determine the portion of my electricity charges that is consumed starting on January 1, 2011? The consumption for the entire billing period will be pro-rated based on the number of days before and after January 1, 2011.
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What is a smart meter?
Smart meters look similar to conventional meters but the display is digital and there are no dials. Unlike conventional electricity meters that can only measure the total amount of electricity used over a billing period, smart meters record how much and when electricity is used, typically hourly, and transmit this information automatically. Your smart meter will record your total electricity consumption hour by hour and send that information to Hydro One through a wireless or another form of technology. As the communication network is installed in your community customers will receive bills produced with an automated meter reading. Automated meter reading will roll out across the province starting in 2009 through 2010. You will be notified that you have been migrated to automated meter reading with a message on your first bill.
Why do we need Smart Meters?
Between now and 2025, Ontario must build almost a whole new electricity system. This includes replacing about 80 per cent of our current generating facilities as they retire over time, and expanding the system to meet future growth. Building new supply is vital. So is conservation. That's why the Government of Ontario is introducing new tools like smart meters that will encourage all of us to think more about how and when we use electricity. Smart Meters when teamed with Time-of-Use prices are new energy management tools to help customers manage their electricity use and costs, reduce the need for additional power generation during peak periods and create real supply and environmental benefits.
When will I get my smart meter?
Hydro One has installed more than one million smart meters and is on track to meet the provincial government’s target of having a smart meter in every home and small business by the end of 2010.
Smart Things Your Smart Meter Will Do:
•Measure how much energy you use and when you use it
•Send your meter readings, automatically via wireless technology
•Eliminate the need for you to submit your meter readings (if you do so today)
•Eliminate the inconvenience of providing access to meters located indoors, behind locked gates etc.
Frequently Asked Questions - My Meter
Why do we need smart meters?
It's estimated that over the next twenty years, Ontario will need to refurbish, rebuild, replace, or conserve 25,000 megawatts (MW) worth of generating capacity — more than 80% of Ontario's current electricity generating capacity — at an estimated cost of $70 billion. Producing more electricity is only part of the answer. Conservation and demand management will help us make the best use of our existing electricity resources and slow our growth in demand. There are tremendous opportunities to reduce the supply-demand gap through the wise use of electricity — and smart meters together with Time-of-Use prices will help encourage us all to think about how and when we use electricity.
Why is Hydro One installing smart meters?
Together with all local electricity distribution companies across Ontario, Hydro One is installing smart meters in support of the Government of Ontario’s program to build a culture of energy conservation in Ontario.
What is a smart meter and what does it look like?
A smart meter looks like the meter you have now, except the display is digital and there are no dials. However, a smart meter is much more technologically advanced compared to your current, old-style meter. It can record how much electricity you use and when you use it (typically hourly), and communicates this information automatically via wireless and other technologies. In contrast, conventional electricity meters measure the total amount of electricity consumed over an entire billing period (typically one or two months) and must be read manually.
When will I get my smart meter?
The Ontario government's target is to have smart meters installed in all Ontario homes and small businesses by 2010. Hydro One has over one million meters to install province-wide. You should receive one by the end of 2010. Installers will leave a letter at your door when your meter has been replaced.
Can I volunteer to get a smart meter now?
We are very encouraged by the level of interest and enthusiasm of our customers to adopt the smart meter technology. However, in order to maximize the efficiency of the smart meter deployment across the province, customers will not be able to select when they receive a smart meter.
I don't want to have a smart meter installed. Can I refuse?
No. The Electricity Act (Section 40) and Hydro One’s Conditions of Service permit us to maintain and replace our meter at your premises.
How long will the meter installation take?
The installation generally takes only a few minutes to complete.
What are the hours for installation?
The hours for installation are from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday to Friday.
Will you be booking appointments for installation?
No, unfortunately we will not be booking appointments, as we do not normally need to enter your home or business to replace the meter. If we need to enter your home or business to install the meter, and if you are not at home, we will contact you in the future when we are back in your community. This makes the process more efficient and helps to minimize costs to all customers.
Is it possible to have an installation after hours or on weekends?
Unfortunately, no, but the installation really is a short procedure that will be done with little or no inconvenience to you.
Do I have to be there for the smart meter installation?
No, you don't have to be there for the installation to proceed and it takes only a few minutes to complete.
Will my power be interrupted during the installation of my smart meter?
Yes. The installation of your smart meter will require a very short power interruption (usually less than a minute). We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and you will need to reset digital clocks.
How will I know if my meter's been replaced with a smart meter?
We will leave a card at your door letting you know that we have completed the installation. Also, the meter will look a little different as it has a digital display and no dials.
Will my first bill after the meter replacement look any different?
Yes, it will be a longer bill as it will display two sets of electricity usages — first for the meter that was replaced, and second for the new smart meter. This will appear on the first bill after the installation of your smart meter only; after that your bill will look the same.
How much am I paying for my smart meter now?
All Hydro One customers are currently paying $2.32 per month to recover smart meter-related costs. These costs have been reviewed and approved by the Ontario Energy Board and are a part of the delivery line item of your Hydro One bill.
Will I see a separate smart meter charge on my bill?
No. The cost of smart metering is included in the delivery line item of your bill. Smart metering costs are recovered through electricity rates in the same way as costs are recovered for other equipment that serve our customers including distribution wires, poles and transformers.
How much is the smart meter going to cost in the future?
The Ontario Energy Board has estimated that the incremental monthly cost for a typical residential or small business customer may be between $3 and $4 per month once full implementation is complete in 2010 but this is just an estimate.
Will my electricity bill automatically go down once I have a smart meter?
No. Your smart meter is a tool that measures and records how much electricity you use at different times of the day. When teamed with Time-of-Use prices, it provides you the opportunity to better manage your electricity use (and costs), reduce strain on the electricity system, and help the environment.
How do I know that my smart meter is accurate?
All meters are approved by Measurement Canada and Hydro One regularly tests a sample of meters for accuracy before they are deployed.
What are the cost savings and environmental benefits of smart meters?
When we're all using a lot of electricity at the same time, we create peak demand periods. Supplying electricity at those times has a range of impacts. Higher demand often means higher prices because having generating plants that stand ready to meet peak demand and only operate infrequently is expensive and these plants are usually the less attractive forms of generation that are harder on the environment. By smoothing out the peaks in demand, we can reduce the amount Ontario needs to invest in additional power generating plants, transmission lines, and distribution facilities.
Since my usage data will be sent automatically, will it remain secure and confidential?
Yes, Ontario's electricity distributors are required by law to ensure that smart meters and associated communication networks are equipped with security features to prevent unauthorized access. We must also comply with federal laws regarding the privacy, protection and disclosure of personal information. In addition, the only information communicated is your meter number and your electricity usage (the same information that was displayed on the old conventional meter at your premises).
Can Hydro One access my property to change the meter?
Yes, Hydro One may enter a customer's property at any time to replace the meter. This authority is granted under the Electricity Act (section 40) and also in our Conditions of Service (section 1.7.A Hydro One's Distributor Rights - Space and Access).
Can you explain what I am seeing on the display of my new smart meter?
There are 3 types of smart meters currently being deployed (and the names of the meter are on the meter faceplate):
•If you have a Landis + Gyr Focus meter, the display alternates between the display check (which displays 88888) and the kWh consumption reading. There is approximately 5 seconds between the two displays.
•If you have an Itron Sentinel meter, the display stays on the normal kWh consumption display at all times.
•The GE i 210+ meter display will indicate kWh consumption for about 5 seconds and all eights (88888) for about 2 seconds. You might also notice that the LCD display flashes ADI (Automated Distribution Infrastructure).
I now have my smart meter installed but understand that I cannot manage my bill by adjusting my consumption until I am coverted to TOU pricing?
While it's true you are not being billed at TOU prices at the present time, you can start reducing your electricity consumption right now by following some or all of the examples below. A more extensive list is available at www.PowerSaver.ca.
•Replace your incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs which use 75% less power and last much longer.
•Always use the economy cycle on your dishwasher and also use the air dry setting.
•Install an energy-saving showerhead which can reduce your hot water use by up to 30%.
•Install faucet aerators on your sink faucets to lower water flow. Aerators mix air into the water flow and reduce water consumption by 25-50% per tap.
•Caulk, weather-strip, and insulate your home. Seal the leaks and cracks in your house, and you'll raise the humidity levels and have a more comfortable indoor environment. You'll be able to turn the furnace down which means a lower heating bill.
I understand that smart meters use radiofrequency communication. Is this safe?
Yes. Hydro One's smart metering system makes use of low power radiofrequency (RF) transmitters to communicate meter readings and weak RF fields in the range of 2.4 GHz are produced during the system's normal operation. These fields comply with Health Canada guidelines by a very wide margin ranging from hundreds to thousands times less than Health Canada limits.
How do smart meter RF emissions compare to other RF sources in my home?
Because of the very weak fields produced by Hydro One's smart metering system, it is likely that RF exposure of most individuals will be predominated by other RF sources in the home such as cordless phones, wireless routers, and microwave ovens.
How can I find out more about Health Canada RF emission guidelines?
To find out more about Health Canada guidelines, visit the Health Canada website, contact them at 613-954-6699, or email ccrpb-pcrpcc@hc-sc.gc.ca.
How can I find out more about RF emissions from Hydro One's smart metering system?
To find out more about RF emissions from Hydro One's smart metering system, download Hydro One's report An Analysis of Radiofrequency Fields Associated with Operation of the Hydro One Smart Meter System (PDF 335 KB).
http://www.hydroone.com/MyHome/MyAccount/MyMeter/Documents/Smart_Meters_Report_on_RFE.pdf
VICTORY FOR TRUTH WORLDWIDE AGAINST THE NWO
THE PEACEFUL RESISTANCE HAS BEGUN
INFO WARS.COM http://www.infowars.com/
You Are The Resistance Against The DHS Occupation Of America
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Infowars.com January 21, 2011
Resistance V’s appeared all over the country….The V campaign meant ordinary people could feel they were doing something, however symbolic, to protest against the Occupation.The British radio has called on people to write V for victory everywhere, and they are all over the place, even on shop fronts. They are also written on blackboards, on tables – everywhere. Even better, there’s a new badge: a V made with two crossed pins and worn on the lapel. Yvette and I counted seventy-five in five minutes!…On the Rue d’Astorg, I scribbled a V on a German car. I heard the sound of boots behind me, and moved off quickly.
The Resistance, by Matthew Cobb.
America is in peril, the United States is being occupied as Homeland Security launches a total takeover of society and attempts to indoctrinate an army of citizen spies as the country accelerates its slide into banana republic despotism. Americans who can see what is unfolding feel helpless, powerless and overawed by the clear evisceration of their freedoms. The time has come for a massive campaign of powerful, symbolic, peaceful resistance.The Department of Homeland Security has released a trio of chilling PSA video clips in which ordinary everyday activities are characterized as signs of potential terrorism, with the public being indoctrinated to assume the role of domestic spies reporting on their friends and neighbors as America sinks deeper into a decaying police state.
DHS will no longer be limited to the airport in the form of the TSA, but will become a ubiquitous entity policing everyone through a network of citizen spies and infrastructure security technology. The agency will also assume the mantle of regulating Americans’ every behavior and activity.In wartime France, the victims of the Nazi occupation could see who their oppressors were, in 21st century America we’re not yet being policed 24/7 by black boot wearing stormtroopers, but perhaps something even more insidious – each other. Homeland Security is training Americans to spy on their friends, neighbors and colleagues by making us obsessed with the fear of terror – using the very tactic of terrorists to chill the 1st Amendment, tear up the bill of rights, and intimidate Americans into accepting constant harassment, bag searches, body scans, interrogations, and suffocating security-theatre everywhere they go.
So why the V campaign? What is it and what will it achieve? It’s all about fighting back against the psychological warfare we are now being subjected to by our new would-be slavemasters. They like to remind us that they’re our bosses with their signs – report suspicious activity posters and video messages at Wal-Mart checkouts - terrorism tip line billboards – Homeland Security posters telling Americans where they can and can’t park their car – using symbols, slogans and messages to herd the sheep and elicit their obedience is obviously a very important component of any authoritarian regime – so why not fight back with our own symbols, slogans and messages? The Obama Joker poster campaign attracted massive attention and was a huge success in creating an underground buzz of resistance. The V for Victory campaign is based on the same basic idea.We need to tell them who we are and that we’re not their slaves. This in turn will encourage others to feel secure in the knowledge that there are Americans who are working to protect freedom of speech and the right to criticize government without being treated as a terrorist, and that Homeland Security’s constant hyped fearmongering about non-existent terror threats is nothing more than an act of psychological warfare to make Americans shut up, mute their dissent, and follow orders like good little children.From VIPR teams that now patrol Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor and Los Angeles rail lines; ferries in Washington state; bus stations in Houston; and mass transit systems in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore, to invasive pat downs at bus and train terminals and on street corners across the country, to radiation-emitting naked body scanners that roam the highways scanning vehicles and homes, to interrogation checkpoints at sporting and other public events, Big Sis is engaged in a total takeover of society, turning America into a giant prison grid where everyone is guilty until proven innocent and treated as a potential terrorist.
Show me a case in history where the government recruiting the citizens to spy on each other led to a more secure, happy, free and prosperous society and I’ll show you a chicken with teeth. The best possible outcome, as in East Germany, was a despotic society in which free speech was silenced and political dissidents were imprisoned. The usual outcome, as in Stalinist Russia or Nazi Germany – was outright tyranny and death camps. Neither have any place in America.Homeland Security is now trying to mimic the way of all oppressive regimes, by turning the American people against each other. Their agenda is public – DHS’ own documents clearly state that they consider libertarians, Ron Paul supporters, constitutionalists, gun owners and virtually any political activism as extremism and possible terrorism. As we have seen from a myriad of reports put out by the DHS and threat fusion centers across the country – the primary targets of Homeland Security in their campaign to have everyone treated with suspicion are people who know their rights and people who dare to exercise their freedoms.This has nothing to do with any genuine terror threat. Americans are being coerced into living in constant fear of terror, when in reality they are more likely to die from peanut allergies, lightning strikes, or accident-causing deer than terrorist attacks.We need to invoke the spirit of the French who were occupied by the Nazis in World War Two. The V for victory campaign in Paris and elsewhere helped the occupied to understand that the resistance against tyranny was legion. It gave the victims hope that they were not isolated and that their community was bonded in freedom, reducing fear that they would be reported to the authorities by collaborators as a subversive or terrorist for expressing dissent against their occupiers.
To encourage more people to participate in this outreach, we are incorporating it into our, The Answer to 1984 is 1776 campaign, and offering $7,000 dollars for the winner who posts the best video on You Tube. Second place will win $2,000, 3rd place wins $1,000. Use the V for Victory flyers we have provided to let Big Sis know that we are not her slaves. Use them on banner hangs or as stand alone flyers, post them on message boards or any places where announcements are made in your local community. Anywhere that’s legal and lawful, we want to see the V for victory proudly displayed as a symbolic message of resistance and defiance.Click here to download all the V for Victory posters in PDF format. Pick your favorite and print them off to use as flyers, or alternatively you are free to adapt the design to your own tastes. This is a campaign that everyone who wants to put on record their opposition to this tyranny can become involved with – the added incentive of cash prizes adds the element of competition and also increases media coverage.
Remember – you are the resistance!
Never has France been engaged in a more noble or beautiful war than in the one that is fought in cellars where her free newspapers are printed, in the nocturnal terrains and secret rocky coves where she receives her free friends and from where her free children swarm out, in the torture chambers where despite the pliers, the needles reddened by fire and the broken bones, the French die as free men.Joseph Kessel, French Resistance Leader.
LET THE VVVVVVVVVV ICTORY OF PEACE BEGIN
Bilderberg Owned Publication The Economist: Yes, Powerful Globocrat Elites Are Running Things, It’s Not A Conspiracy - Agenda for global centralized control system is public and out in the open Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com Friday, Jan 21st, 2011
We have referred many times to the push for a centralized world government control system as the open conspiracy. Groups such as Bilderberg, The Trilateral Commission and The Council on Foreign Relations are kingpins of this agenda, shaping the policies of the politicians and power brokers that they have effectively bought.A rather bizarre article in The Economist today addresses this power structure and far from dismissing it as a conspiracy theory, simply reaffirms the fact that the cosmopolitan elite do indeed flock together at such gatherings and elusive clubs to shape the world that the superclass wishes to inhabit.Of course, The Economist is a perfect avenue for the open conspiracy to be flaunted, given that its editor is a regular attendee at the annual Bilderberg conference, an admission the piece proudly discloses in its opening paragraphs.Tongue firmly in cheek, the piece describes Bilderberg as an evil conspiracy bent on world domination, and then goes on to affirm that actually yes, the group really does dominate world events.
It was responsible for the single European currency, it plays host to the world’s most influential aristocrats and business people, as well as a small cadre of journalists, representing the biggest global media corporations, who are sworn to comply with Chatham House rules, meaning they cannot disclose any of the big ideas that are hatched at Bilderberg.The world is a complicated place, with oceans of new information sloshing around. the piece continues, To run a multinational organisation, it helps if you have a rough idea of what is going on. It also helps to be on first-name terms with other globocrats. So the cosmopolitan elite—international financiers, bureaucrats, charity bosses and thinkers—constantly meet and talk. They flock to elite gatherings… They form clubs.The most influential of those clubs, according to the article, are Bilderberg, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission, The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and The Group of Thirty. They are now shedding their secretive natures and revealing themselves to the world. The globocratic shindigs are opening up, the piece acknowledges.The article goes on to give some examples of major international events that have been shaped over the years at elite gatherings, including diplomatic agreements and even decisions on major wars.
Such meetings are an important part of the story of the superclass, The Economist quotes former Kissinger luminary and international elitist David Rothkopf, the author of the book The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making.What they offer is access to some of the world’s most sequestered and elusive leaders. As such, they are one of the informal mechanisms of [global] power, Rothkopf adds.Don’t blame the international globocrat elite for the financial crisis though, the piece urges, claiming that the superclass were caught napping. And while the piece admits that some international bankers are responsible for looting the system wholesale, it attempts to convince readers that ultimately the presence of an inter-connected international elite actually saved the world from complete financial meltdown – so you can sleep easy at night.Of course, anyone who closely follows the activity of such elite groups will tell you that they absolutely were not caught off guard and were fully aware that the crisis was being carefully massaged back in 2006. Reports from the Bilderberg meetings in Canada in ’06 and in Turkey in ’07 predicted a global housing crash and forecast a prolonged financial meltdown as a result. The group has since been debating exactly how it should move to shape the economic situation in order to further its own global influence and that of the (honestly, we’re not evil at all) superclass.A decade ago anyone who even spoke of the existence of Bilderberg, let alone suggested it was a major manipulator of world events, was roundly categorized as a crazy tin foil hat wearing kook. Today the very same assertions make up the stuff of editorials in the world’s global press.
A special report on global leaders Jan 20th 2011 | from PRINT EDITION THE ECONOMIST
Not everyone loves Davos.YOU can do nothing against a conspiracy theory, sighs Etienne Davignon. He sits in a lofty office with a stupendous view over Brussels, puffing his pipe. He is an aristocrat, a former vice-president of the European Commission and a man who has sat on several corporate boards, but that is not why some people consider him too powerful. He presides over the Bilderberg group, an evil conspiracy bent on world domination. At least, that is what numerous websites allege; also that it has ties to al-Qaeda, is hiding the cure for cancer and wishes to merge the United States with Mexico. In reality, Bilderberg is an annual conference for a few dozen of the world’s most influential people. Last year Bill Gates and Larry Summers hobnobbed with the chairman of Deutsche Bank, the boss of Shell, the head of the World Food Programme and the prime minister of Spain. One or two journalists are invited each year, on condition that they abstain from writing about it. (Full disclosure: the editor of The Economist sometimes attends.)
Because the meetings are off the record, they are catnip to conspiracy theorists. But the attraction for participants is obvious. They can speak candidly, says Mr Davignon, without worrying how their words might play in tomorrow’s headlines. So they find out what other influential people really think. Big ideas are debated frankly. Mr Davignon credits the meetings for helping to lay the groundwork for creating the euro. He recalls strong disagreement over Iraq: some participants favoured the invasion in 2003, some opposed it and some wanted it done differently. Last year the debate was about Europe’s fiscal problems, and whether the euro would survive.The world is a complicated place, with oceans of new information sloshing around. To run a multinational organisation, it helps if you have a rough idea of what is going on. It also helps to be on first-name terms with other globocrats. So the cosmopolitan elite—international financiers, bureaucrats, charity bosses and thinkers—constantly meet and talk. They flock to elite gatherings such as the World Economic Forum at Davos, the Trilateral Commission and the Boao meeting in China. They form clubs. Ethnic Indian entrepreneurs around the world join TiE (The Indus Enterprise). Movers and shakers in New York and Washington join the Council on Foreign Relations, where they can listen to the president of Turkey one week and the chief executive of Intel the next. The world’s richest man, Carlos Slim, a Mexican telecoms tycoon, hosts an annual gathering of Latin American billionaires who cultivate each other while ostensibly discussing regional poverty.
Davos is perhaps the glitziest of these globocratic gatherings. Hundreds of big wheels descend on the Swiss ski resort each year. The lectures are interesting, but the big draw is the chance to talk to other powerful people in the corridors. Such chats sometimes yield results. In 1988 the prime ministers of Turkey and Greece met at Davos and signed a declaration that may have averted a war. In 1994 Shimon Peres, then Israel’s foreign minister, and Yasser Arafat struck a deal over Gaza and Jericho. In 2003 Jack Straw, Britain’s foreign secretary, had an informal meeting in his hotel suite with the president of Iran, a country with which Britain had no diplomatic ties. But Davos is hardly a secretive institution: it is crawling with journalists. The other globocratic shindigs are opening up, too. Even Bilderberg has recently started publishing lists of participants on its website.Some American organisations, such as foreign-policy think-tanks, are also well placed to exert global influence. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, for example, has established itself as one of the most globally trusted talking-shops, with offices in Beijing, Beirut, Brussels and Moscow, as well as Washington—though it has yet to fulfil the vision of its founder, Andrew Carnegie, who wanted it to abolish war. The key to wielding influence, says Jessica Mathews, Carnegie’s president, is very simple. You hire the best people.In countries where think-tanks are subservient to the state, such as China and Russia, foreign outfits such as Carnegie enjoy a reputation for independence. If they can back this up with useful knowledge, they can sway policy. For example, Carnegie scholars advised the authors of Russia’s post-Soviet constitution. And when relations between American and Russia grew frosty under President George W. Bush, Carnegie’s Moscow office helped keep a line of communication open between the two governments. Such meetings are an important part of the story of the superclass, says Mr Rothkopf, the author of the eponymous book. What they offer is access to some of the world’s most sequestered and elusive leaders. As such, they are one of the informal mechanisms of [global] power.
Some globocrats think the importance of forums like Davos is overstated. Howard Stringer, the boss of Sony, is the kind of person you would expect to relish such gatherings. Welsh by birth, American by citizenship, he took over Japan’s most admired company in 2005, when it was in serious trouble, and turned it around in the face of immense cultural obstacles. He says he has enjoyed trips to Davos in the past but will not attend this year. He can learn more, he says, by listening to his 167,000 employees. On the face of it there seems much to be said for the world’s shakers and movers meeting and talking frequently. Yet for all their tireless information-swapping, globocrats were caught napping by the financial crisis. Their networks of contacts did throw up a few warnings, but not enough to prompt timely action.
The limits of jaw-jaw
Jim Chanos, a hedge-fund manager who made his first fortune betting that Enron was overvalued, warned the G8 finance ministers in April 2007 that banks and insurance firms were heading for trouble. He made another fortune when bank shares crashed, but is still furious that his warnings were politely ignored. He thinks it an outrage that several senior regulators from that period are still in positions of power. And he accuses some bankers of a wholesale looting of the system by paying themselves bonuses based on what they must have known were phantom profits. He thinks they should be prosecuted.Globocrats failed to avert the crisis, but they rallied once it struck. Rich-country governments acted in concert to prop up banks with taxpayers’ money. In America the response was led by a well-connected trio: Hank Paulson, George Bush junior’s treasury secretary and a former boss of Goldman Sachs; Tim Geithner, Barack Obama’s treasury secretary and a former boss of the New York Federal Reserve, as well as a veteran of the IMF, the Council on Foreign Relations and Kissinger Associates; and Ben Bernanke, of Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Princeton and the Bush White House, who is now chairman of the Federal Reserve. The bail-outs were unpopular everywhere, but may have prevented the world’s banking system from imploding. Governments are now trying to craft rules to prevent a recurrence. Lots of people have offered advice. Among the weightier contributions was a report from the Group of Thirty (G30), an informal collection of past and present central-bank governors. The Volcker Report, advocating a central clearing mechanism for derivatives trading and curbs on proprietary trading by banks, helped shape America’s Dodd-Frank financial-reform bill. The G30 is influential because it consists of people with experience of putting policies into practice, says Stuart Mackintosh, its director. So when it makes recommendations, they can be turned into action, he adds.
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