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Tuesday, March 01, 2011 The Counterfeit Economy
The U.S. has a deeply counterfeit economy.
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2011/03/counterfeit-economy.html

Counterfeit money exploits trust by presenting a facsimile of authenticity. A high-quality counterfeit bill (for example, the $100 bills exported by North Korea) are facsimiles of authentic paper notes which then gain the trust of users.A counterfeit gold bar is a piece of lead coated with a layer of authentic gold. The mechanism is the same: a veneer of integrity tricks the buyer into trusting the validity of the entire bar.

The U.S. has a deeply counterfeit economy.

The predatory mortgages of the subprime era were presented as legitimate mortgages similiar to time-honored 30-years fixed notes with a few minor differences. These were in effect counterfeit mortgages designed to fool the borrowers and buyers. They were mere simulacra of safe investments.Like the counterfeiter who plates the lead bar with a thin coating of gold, the ratings agencies coated the lead bar of toxic, high-risk mortgages with the gold veneer of a AAA rating.The buyers of the securitized mortgages were promised gold but they were actually buying lead--and the sellers knew it. The trust engendered by the AAA rating and the veneer of authenticity issued by Wall Street was exploited in a vast counterfeiting scheme of breathtaking depth and range.The budget of the U.S. government as presented by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is a counterfeit budget, inauthentic and riddled with blatantly false projections. As late as 2009, in the midst of the Great Recession, the OMB was projecting surpluses in the Federal budget by 2012.By 2009, the OMB had plenty of data on the recession and the opportunity to revise their previous estimates to more realistic levels.But instead, the OMB continued issuing pie-in-the-sky estimates which grossly underestimated future deficits:
2009 estimate: receipts: $2.7 trillion outlays: $3.1 trillion deficit: $–407 billion
2010 estimate: receipts: $2.93 trillion outlays: $3.09 trillion deficit: $–159.9 billion
2011 estimate: receipts: $ 3.07 trillion outlays: $3.17 trillion deficit: $–94 billion
2012 estimate: receipts: $ 3.26 trillion outlays: $3.22 trillion deficit: $+48 billion

The reality is that the 2012 deficit is expected to hit $1.6 trillion, a sum that equals 11% of the nation's gross domestic product (GDP).In other words, the OMB and the rest of the Federal machinery issues simulacra of authentic budgets--counterfeits designed to fool the people and win their trust via artifice and facsimiles of authenticity.As Bernie Madoff recently observed--and we can suppose he is an expert in manufacturing facsimiles, fraud, embezzlement and counterfeiting authenticity out of lies--the U.S. is a giant Ponzi scheme.The financial reforms are counterfeit reforms.The balancing the budget cuts are counterfeit.The projections of future growth are counterfeit.The unemployment numbers are counterfeit.The inflations statistics are counterfeit.And of course, the news which drives the stock market ever higher is also counterfeit.When everything is counterfeit, then what's left that's authentic and trustworthy? Essentially nothing.

BRIDGEWATERS DALIO ON CNBC-DEMISE OF THE DOLLAR
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=3000008442&play=1

Financial terrorism suspected in 2008 economic crash Pentagon study sees element By Bill Gertz The Washington Times 8:54 p.m., Monday, February 28, 2011
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49755779/Economic-Warfare-Risks-and-Responses-by-Kevin-D-Freeman

Evidence outlined in a Pentagon contractor report suggests that financial subversion carried out by unknown parties, such as terrorists or hostile nations, contributed to the 2008 economic crash by covertly using vulnerabilities in the U.S. financial system.The unclassified 2009 report Economic Warfare: Risks and Responses by financial analyst Kevin D. Freeman, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times, states that a three-phased attack was planned and is in the process against the United States economy.While economic analysts and a final report from the federal government's Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission blame the crash on such economic factors as high-risk mortgage lending practices and poor federal regulation and supervision, the Pentagon contractor adds a new element: outside forces, a factor the commission did not examine.There is sufficient justification to question whether outside forces triggered, capitalized upon or magnified the economic difficulties of 2008, the report says, explaining that those domestic economic factors would have caused a normal downturn but not the near collapse of the global economic system that took place.Suspects include financial enemies in Middle Eastern states, Islamic terrorists, hostile members of the Chinese military, or government and organized crime groups in Russia, Venezuela or Iran. Chinese military officials publicly have suggested using economic warfare against the U.S.In an interview with The Times, Mr. Freeman said his report provided enough theoretical evidence for an economic warfare attack that further forensic study was warranted.The new battle space is the economy, he said. We spend hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons systems each year. But a relatively small amount of money focused against our financial markets through leveraged derivatives or cyber efforts can result in trillions of dollars in losses. And, the perpetrators can remain undiscovered.This is the equivalent of box cutters on an airplane, Mr. Freeman said.

Paul Bracken, a Yale University professor who has studied economic warfare, said he saw no convincing evidence that 'outside forces' colluded to bring about the 2008 crisis.There were outside players in the market for unregulated credit default swaps, Mr. Bracken said in an e-mail. Foreign banks and hedge funds play the shorts all the time too. But suggestions of an organized targeted attack for strategic reasons don't seem to me to be plausible.Regardless of the report's findings, U.S. officials and outside analysts said the Pentagon, the Treasury Department and U.S. intelligence agencies are not aggressively studying the threats to the United States posed by economic warfare and financial terrorism.Nobody wants to go there, one official said.A copy of the report also was provided to the recently concluded Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, but the commission also declined to address the possibility of economic warfare in its final report.Officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said senior Pentagon policymakers, including Michael Vickers, an assistant defense secretary in charge of special operations, blocked further study, saying the Pentagon was not the appropriate agency to assess economic warfare and financial terrorism risks.Mr. Vickers declined to be interviewed but, through a spokesman, said he did not say economic warfare was not an area for the Pentagon to study, and that he did not block further study.Mr. Vickers is awaiting Senate confirmation on his promotion to be undersecretary of defense for intelligence.Despite his skepticism of the report, Mr. Bracken agreed that financial warfare needs to be studied, and he noted that the U.S. government is only starting to address the issue.

We are in an era like the 1950s where technological innovation is transforming the tools of coercion and war, he said. We tend not to see this, and look at information warfare, financial warfare, precision strike, [weapons of mass destruction], etc. as separate silos. It's their parallel co-evolution that leads to interesting options, like counter-elite targeting. And no one is really looking at this in an overall systems way. Diplomacy is way behind here.Mr. Freeman wrote the report for the Pentagon's Irregular Warfare Support Program, part of the Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office, which examines unconventional warfare scenarios.The preponderance of evidence that cannot be easily dismissed demands a thorough and immediate study be commenced, the report says. Ignoring the likelihood of this very real threat ensures a catastrophic event.The report concluded that the evidence of an attack is strong enough that financial terrorism may have cost the global economy as much as $50 trillion.Because of secrecy surrounding global banking and finance, finding the exact identities of the attackers will be difficult.But U.S. opponents in Russia who could wage economic warfare include elements of the former KGB intelligence and political police who regard the economy as a logical extension of the Cold War, the report says.

Asked by The Times who he thought to be the most likely behind the financial attacks, Mr. Freeman said: Unfortunately, the two major strategic threats, radical jihadists and the Chinese, are among the best positioned in the economic battle space.Also, the report lists as suspects advocates of Islamic law, who have publicly called for opposition to capitalism as a way to promote what they regard as the superiority of Islam.Further Pentagon Low Intensity Conflict office research into possible economic warfare or financial terrorism being behind the economic collapse by the Pentagon's Special Operations and was blocked, Mr. Freeman said.The Pentagon report states that the evidence of financial subversion revealed that the first two phases of an attack on the U.S. economy took place from 2007 to 2009 and based on recent global market activity, it appears that the predicted Phase III may be underway right now.The report states that federal authorities must further investigate two significant events in the months leading up to the financial crisis.

The first phase of the economic attack, the report said, was the escalation of oil prices by speculators from 2007 to mid-2008 that coincided with the housing finance crisis.In the second phase, the stock market collapsed by what the report called a bear raid from unidentified sources on Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and other Wall Street firms.This produced a complete collapse in credit availability and almost started a global depression, Mr. Freeman said.The third phase is what Mr. Freeman states in the report was the main source of the economic system's vulnerability. We have taken on massive public debt as the government was the only party who could access capital markets in late 2008 and early 2009,he said, placing the U.S. dollar's global reserve currency status at grave risk.This is the end game if the goal is to destroy America, Mr. Freeman said, noting that in his view China's military has been advocating the potential for an economic attack on the U.S. for 12 years or longer as evidenced by the publication of the book Unrestricted Warfare in 1999.Additional evidence provided by Mr. Freeman includes the statement in 2008 by Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. that the Russians had approached the Chinese with a plan to dump its holdings of bonds by the federally backed mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.Among the financial instruments that may have been used in the economic warfare scenario are credit default swaps, unregulated and untraceable contracts by which a buyer pays the seller a fee and in exchange is paid off in a bond or a loan. The report said credit default swaps are ideal bear-raid tools and have the power to determine the financial viability of companies.

Another economic warfare tool that was linked in the report to the 2008 crash is what is called naked short-selling of stock, defined as short-selling financial shares without borrowing them.The report said that 30 percent to 70 percent of the decline in stock share values for two companies that were attacked, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, were results of failed trades from naked short-selling.The collapse in September 2008 of Lehman Brothers, the fourth-largest U.S. investment bank, was the most significant event in the crash, causing an immediate credit freeze and stock market crash, the report says.In a section of who was behind the collapse, the report says determining the actors is difficult because of banking and financial trading secrecy.The reality of the situation today is that foreign-based hedge funds perpetrating bear raid strategies could do so virtually unmonitored and unregulated on behalf of enemies of the United States, the report says.Only recently have defense and intelligence agencies begun to consider this very real possibility of what amounts to financial terrorism and-or economic warfare.As for Chinese involvement in economic sabotage, the decline in the world economy may have hurt Beijing through a decline in purchases of Chinese goods.Treasury spokeswoman Marti Adams had no immediate comment on the report but said her department's views on the causes of the economic crash were well known.

Financial Terrorism Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/tvshow/2011/03/financial-terrorism/
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/pentagon-study-08-financial-crisis-may-have-been-the-work-of-finanical-terrorists/
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/glenn-beck/index.html
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/glenn-beck/index.html#/v/4564441/beck-textbook-plants-seeds-of-socialism/?playlist_id=86917

On TV, Glenn warned of a recent report from a Pentagon affiliate that warned of possible financial terrorism takeing place on the U.S. The report broke out three different phases:

•The first phase was a speculative run-up in oil prices that generated as much as $2 trillion of excess wealth for oil-producing nations, filling the coffers of Sovereign Wealth Funds, especially those that follow Shariah Compliant Finance.
•The second phase appears to have begun in 2008 with a series of bear raids targeting U.S. financial services firms that appeared to be systemically significant [such as Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers]. … This created a system-wide crisis, caused the collapse of the credit markets, and nearly collapsed the global financial system.
•The risk of a Phase Three has quickly emerged, suggesting a potential direct economic attack on the U.S. Treasury and U.S. dollar. Such an event has already been discussed by finance ministers in major emerging market nations such as China and Russia as well as Iran and the Arab states. A focused effort to collapse the dollar by dumping Treasury bonds has grave implications including the possibility of a downgrading of U.S. debt forcing rapidly rising interest rates and a collapse of the American economy. In short, a bear raid against the U.S.financial system remains possible and may even be likely. [Emphasis added]

These items add to a growing list of elements in a Perfect Storm including revolution, rising oil prices, protests, the border, domestic radicals and more that Glenn fears are rapidly building to a fundamental change in the western way of life. People who want to collapse our society are seeing an opportunity, and Glenn will talk more about this tomorrow.(MAR 3,11)

THE NWO NUTCASES THINK BY MANIPULATING THE STOCK MARKETS TO KEEP THEM HIGH.PEOPLE WILL NOT NOTICE THE DOLLAR IS DONE FOR AND THE ECONOMY IS DEAD AND ON THE VERGE OF A WORLD COLLAPSE.BUT LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS IN 1 HOUR ALL STOCK MARKETS WILL COME TO NAUGHT-COLLAPSE.BUT THE SHEEPLE WON'T LISTEN TO TRUTH AND GO WITH THE SECULAR MEDIA LIES INSTEAD.

MARCH 2, 2011.Why the Dollar's Reign Is Near an End WSJ
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703313304576132170181013248.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

For decades the dollar has served as the world's main reserve currency, but, argues Barry Eichengreen, it will soon have to share that role. Here's why—and what it will mean for international markets and companies.By BARRY EICHENGREEN

The single most astonishing fact about foreign exchange is not the high volume of transactions, as incredible as that growth has been. Nor is it the volatility of currency rates, as wild as the markets are these days.Instead, it's the extent to which the market remains dollar-centric.Consider this: When a South Korean wine wholesaler wants to import Chilean cabernet, the Korean importer buys U.S. dollars, not pesos, with which to pay the Chilean exporter. Indeed, the dollar is virtually the exclusive vehicle for foreign-exchange transactions between Chile and Korea, despite the fact that less than 20% of the merchandise trade of both countries is with the U.S.Chile and Korea are hardly an anomaly: Fully 85% of foreign-exchange transactions world-wide are trades of other currencies for dollars. What's more, what is true of foreign-exchange transactions is true of other international business. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries sets the price of oil in dollars. The dollar is the currency of denomination of half of all international debt securities. More than 60% of the foreign reserves of central banks and governments are in dollars.The greenback, in other words, is not just America's currency. It's the world's.But as astonishing as that is, what may be even more astonishing is this: The dollar's reign is coming to an end.I believe that over the next 10 years, we're going to see a profound shift toward a world in which several currencies compete for dominance.The impact of such a shift will be equally profound, with implications for, among other things, the stability of exchange rates, the stability of financial markets, the ease with which the U.S. will be able to finance budget and current-account deficits, and whether the Fed can follow a policy of benign neglect toward the dollar.

The Three Pillars
How could this be? How could the dollar's longtime most-favored-currency status be in jeopardy? See the share of global foreign-exchange transactions involving the dollar, and the dollar's share of official global foreign-exchange reserves.
.To understand the dollar's future, it's important to understand the dollar's past—why the dollar became so dominant in the first place. Let me offer three reasons.

First, its allure reflects the singular depth of markets in dollar-denominated debt securities. The sheer scale of those markets allows dealers to offer low bid-ask spreads. The availability of derivative instruments with which to hedge dollar exchange-rate risk is unsurpassed. This makes the dollar the most convenient currency in which to do business for corporations, central banks and governments alike.Second, there is the fact that the dollar is the world's safe haven. In crises, investors instinctively flock to it, as they did following the 2008 failure of Lehman Brothers. This tendency reflects the exceptional liquidity of markets in dollar instruments, liquidity being the most precious of all commodities in a crisis. It is a product of the fact that U.S. Treasury securities, the single most important asset bought and sold by international investors, have long had a reputation for stability.WSJ's David Wessel sits down with three senior experts in international finance - Edwin M. Truman, Joseph E. Gagnon and Eswar Prasad - for a discussion on the major issues facing currencies and the global economy.
.Finally, the dollar benefits from a dearth of alternatives. Other countries that have long enjoyed a reputation for stability, such as Switzerland, or that have recently acquired one, like Australia, are too small for their currencies to account for more than a tiny fraction of international financial transactions.

What's Changing
But just because this has been true in the past doesn't guarantee that it will be true in the future. In fact, all three pillars supporting the dollar's international dominance are eroding.First, changes in technology are undermining the dollar's monopoly. Not so long ago, there may have been room in the world for only one true international currency. Given the difficulty of comparing prices in different currencies, it made sense for exporters, importers and bond issuers all to quote their prices and invoice their transactions in dollars, if only to avoid confusing their customers.Now, however, nearly everyone carries hand-held devices that can be used to compare prices in different currencies in real time. Just as we have learned that in a world of open networks there is room for more than one operating system for personal computers, there is room in the global economic and financial system for more than one international currency.OECD Secretary-General Jose Angel Gurria sat down with Dow Jones FX Trader during the meeting of G20 finance officials in Paris to talk about global imbalances and the euro zone's debt crisis.Second, the dollar is about to have real rivals in the international sphere for the first time in 50 years. There will soon be two viable alternatives, in the form of the euro and China's yuan.Americans especially tend to discount the staying power of the euro, but it isn't going anywhere. Contrary to some predictions, European governments have not abandoned it. Nor will they. They will proceed with long-term deficit reduction, something about which they have shown more resolve than the U.S. And they will issue "e-bonds"—bonds backed by the full faith and credit of euro-area governments as a group—as a step in solving their crisis. This will lay the groundwork for the kind of integrated European bond market needed to create an alternative to U.S. Treasurys as a form in which to hold central-bank reserves.China, meanwhile, is moving rapidly to internationalize the yuan, also known as the renminbi. The last year has seen a quadrupling of the share of bank deposits in Hong Kong denominated in yuan. Seventy thousand Chinese companies are now doing their cross-border settlements in yuan. Dozens of foreign companies have issued yuan-denominated dim sum bonds in Hong Kong. In January the Bank of China began offering yuan-deposit accounts in New York insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Allowing Chinese companies to do cross-border settlements in yuan will free them from having to undertake costly foreign-exchange transactions. They will no longer have to bear the exchange-rate risk created by the fact that their revenues are in dollars but many of their costs are in yuan. Allowing Chinese banks, for their part, to do international transactions in yuan will allow them to grab a bigger slice of the global financial pie.Admittedly, China has a long way to go in building liquid markets and making its financial instruments attractive to international investors. But doing so is central to Beijing's economic strategy. Chinese officials have set 2020 as the deadline for transforming Shanghai into a first-class international financial center. We Westerners have underestimated China before. We should not make the same mistake again.Finally, there is the danger that the dollar's safe-haven status will be lost. Foreign investors—private and official alike—hold dollars not simply because they are liquid but because they are secure. The U.S. government has a history of honoring its obligations, and it has always had the fiscal capacity to do so.But now, mainly as a result of the financial crisis, federal debt is approaching 75% of U.S. gross domestic product. Trillion-dollar deficits stretch as far as the eye can see. And as the burden of debt service grows heavier, questions will be asked about whether the U.S. intends to maintain the value of its debts or might resort to inflating them away. Foreign investors will be reluctant to put all their eggs in the dollar basket. At a minimum, the dollar will have to share its safe-haven status with other currencies.

A World More Complicated
How much difference will all this make—to markets, to companies, to households, to governments? One obvious change will be to the foreign-exchange markets. There will no longer be an automatic jump up in the value of the dollar, and corresponding decline in the value of other major currencies, when financial volatility surges. With the dollar, euro and yuan all trading in liquid markets and all seen as safe havens, there will be movement into all three of them in periods of financial distress. No one currency will rise as strongly as did the dollar following the failure of Lehman Bros. There will be no reason for the rates between them to move sharply, something that would potentially upend investors.But the impact will extend well beyond the markets. Clearly, the change will make life more complicated for U.S. companies. Until now they have had the convenience of using the same currency—dollars—whether they are paying their workers, importing parts and components, or selling their products to foreign customers. They don't have to incur the cost of changing foreign-currency earnings into dollars. They don't have to purchase forward contracts and options to protect against financial losses due to changes in the exchange rate. This will all change in the brave new world that is coming. American companies will have to cope with some of the same exchange-rate risks and exposures as their foreign competitors.Conversely, life will become easier for European and Chinese banks and companies, which will be able to do more of their international business in their own currencies. The same will be true of companies in other countries that do most of their business with China or Europe. It will be a considerable convenience—and competitive advantage—for them to be able to do that business in yuan or euros rather than having to go through the dollar.

U.S. Impact
In this new monetary world, moreover, the U.S. government will not be able to finance its budget deficits so cheaply, since there will no longer be as big an appetite for U.S. Treasury securities on the part of foreign central banks.Nor will the U.S. be able to run such large trade and current-account deficits, since financing them will become more expensive. Narrowing the current-account deficit will require exporting more, which will mean making U.S. goods more competitive on foreign markets. That in turn means that the dollar will have to fall on foreign-exchange markets—helping U.S. exporters and hurting those companies that export to the U.S.My calculations suggest that the dollar will have to fall by roughly 20%. Because the prices of imported goods will rise in the U.S., living standards will be reduced by about 1.5% of GDP—$225 billion in today's dollars. That is the equivalent to a half-year of normal economic growth. While this is not an economic disaster, Americans will definitely feel it in the wallet.On the other hand, the next time the U.S. has a real-estate bubble, we won't have the Chinese helping us blow it.Dr. Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee professor of economics and political science at the University of California, Berkeley. His new book is Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System. He can be reached at reports@wsj.com. Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU MAR 03,2011

09:30 AM +2.52
10:00 AM +155.55
10:30 AM +156.55
11:00 AM +168.09
11:30 AM +167.22
12:00 PM +182.17
12:30 PM +177.06
01:00 PM +180.31
01:30 PM +188.88
02:00 PM +204.61
02:30 PM +202.87
03:00 PM +215.66
03:30 PM +201.62
04:00 PM +191.40 12,258.20

S&P 500 1330.97 +22.53

NASDAQ 2798.74 +50.67

GOLD 1,416.90 -21.10

OIL 101.83 -0.40

TSE 300 14,214.72 +70.70

CDNX 2410.82 +8.40

S&P/TSX/60 817.85 +4.86

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +115 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +176 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,423.60.OIL opens at $101.55 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +217 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +217 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,439.20 (NOT AT CLOSE)

Trade unions dare EU to hold referendum on economic pact
LEIGH PHILLIPS 02.03.2011 @ 17:43 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Angry at economic governance proposals by EU leaders that aim to push down wages, public sector unions have dared governments to hold referendums over a Competitiveness Pact currently being hashed out behind closed doors.Which of these EU government leaders dares to put the Competitiveness Pact, which goes so very far in asking for legal or constitutional changes to enforce budget deficit targets, to a referendum asking the people if they agree or not? Jan Willem Goudriaan, the head of the European Public Service Union, told EUobserver after reading a leak of the outlines of a radical eurozone reform plan.The blueprint, drafted by commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso and EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy and discussed on Monday (28 February) in Brussels by diplomats, is a shopping list of demands including: keeping down wages across the eurozone; reducing public services; constitutional changes limiting government borrowing; and moving away from labour-based taxation towards consumption-based taxation.One of the main elements in the four-page document, which was obtained and published by the FT, would require countries to align wages with productivity. The commission and Council would monitor wage and productivity developments, comparing unit labour costs across the EU for each major sector of the economy and against those in major trading partners - meaning those in, for example, the US and China.If wage increases in particular countries begin to cause an erosion of competitiveness the country will have to commit to address these challenges in a given timeframe.The document also says that collective bargaining - negotiations between workers and employers - must be decentralised. Centralised bargaining occurs when instead of one workforce negotiating with one employer, groups of employees in the same industry bargain with all the employers in that sector.

An earlier version of the pact had proposed an end to the indexation of wages to inflation, a phenomenon that occurs in a handful of member states in certain sectors. Under the Barroso-Van-Rompuy plan, this is changed to say that such systems must be improved, but still ensuring price competitiveness.The document explicitly demands wage restraint in the public sector to further open sheltered sectors and end the closed shop (where to be hired, one must be a member of a union).Member states would also be required to: introduce changes to their constitutions to limit national borrowing; harmonise their corporate tax base; and link retirement ages to life expectancy.Ensuring that member states stay in line, they would be monitored by the European Council on the basis of reports from the commission. The process would form part of the recently established European Semester, a centralised EU system of intervening in the drafting of national budgets. The authors appear to be aware that some of the suggestions go beyond what the EU itself is legally allowed to do. They argue that the move: requires a shift to a higher level of policy co-ordination, in particular in areas that fall under national competence.The add: [these changes] should involve a special effort going beyond what already exists and include concrete commitments and actions that are more urgent, more ambitious than those already agreed.

Although the document makes mention of respecting national traditions of social dialogue and industrial relations the proposals represent an unprecedented interference by the EU in the collective bargaining process.Mr Goudriaan said the proposals cover issues that are the domain of workers and employers and the EU institutions should keep their hands off them.The suggested proposals do nothing to get the many banks and their CEOs who engaged in speculation and short term greed, he said. He called the plan a power grab by conservatives, neo-liberals and above all corporate interests to bury social Europe for good.How does a wage freeze for a nurse that takes care of elderly people foster economic growth and address youth unemployment? he added.Yet somehow the exorbitant salary and scandalous bonuses of a banking, insurance or other company executive who cuts jobs and squandered away billions is supposed to assist Europe to grow out of our economic woes? There are no proposals in this pact to cut or tax these salaries.In some countries, there has long been a tradition of the state staying out the wage-setting process, known as autonomous collective bargaining. The unions fear the EU proposals will undermine these systems where they exist.An Austrian trade unionist, Oliver Roepke of the OVB, told this website: Since 1918, for example, in Germany, the only time the autonomous collective bargaining was abolished was under the Nazis.

MUSLIM NATIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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

Barroso to young Arabs: We are with you
ANDREW RETTMAN 02.03.2011 @ 13:59 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso has urged Moammar Gaddafi to step down and outlined ideas on a new EU north Africa policy ahead of an EU summit on Libya next week.It is time for him [Gaddafi] to go and give the country back to the people of Libya, he said in the EU capital on Wednesday (2 March).It is our duty to say to the Arab people that we are on their side. From Brussels I want to say this particularly to the young Arabs that are now fighting for freedom and democracy: We are on your side.Calling the series of revolutions in north Africa a rendezvous with history for the Union, he noted that the post-World-War-II and post-Cold-War EU itself is born from the fight against totalitarian regimes.Some are saying ... that Arabs are not fit for democracy. I believe that Arabs are fit for democracy and we are on their side, he went on. I think Europe would rather be guilty of holding on to dreams of democracy than to be accused of cynicism.The strong words come on day 16 of the violence in Libya which the EU estimates has cost up to 2,000 lives, created 140,000 refugees on the Tunisian and Egyptian borders and prompted the evacuation of around 9,000 EU citizens.

The commission chief was himself as a young man part of the underground in Portugal in the run-up to the overthrow of the authoritarian regime of Marcelo Caetano in what became known as the Carnation Revolution.Mr Barroso said he will step up emergency funding for food and shelter for refugees from €3 million to €10 million and send EU aid commissioner Kristalina Georgieva to the region later on Wednesday to oversee spending.He mentioned that another €25 million is available from different budget lines, in part to help Italy and Malta cope with people fleeing the fighting. The commission chief will urge EU leaders at a Libya summit next week to create a new foreign policy for the Maghreb and the Middle East: We must not just deal with the fallout of this crisis. We must help address the root of this crisis. We need a new political paradigm ... we need a partnership for democracy ad shared prosperity.The new Barroso model is based on three parts.The commission wants to spend the €4 billion left in the pot up until 2013 for its 16 neighbouring countries to reward those that make democratic reforms.It is keen to see a new stimulus package to combat poverty and youth unemployment in the south. The package is to focus on small businesses and is to be funded in part by European Investment Bank loans and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development assistance.It also wants EU countries to ease visa conditions for students, academics, NGOs and bona fide businessmen.In the context of deep mistrust of the West in the Arab world due to EU countries' colonial history and their more recent embrace of dictators for the sake of oil, arms and counter-terrorism deals, Mr Barroso added: They [the Arabic freedom fighters] will follow their own road ... It is not up to us to tell them what to do.

EU pledges support as Libyan border crisis deepens
ANDREW WILLIS 02.03.2011 @ 17:29 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission has upped an aid pledge from €3 million to €10 million and is working to co-ordinate EU member state offers of in-kind support such as tents and blankets, as tens of thousands of refugees continue to flee into Tunisia from strife-torn Libya. On Wednesday (2 March), the United Nations issued an international appeal for help, with latest EU estimates suggesting some 85,000 people have already fled to Tunisia since unrest began roughly two weeks ago. A further 40,000 more are waiting to cross the border, the UN said.EU humanitarian aid commissioner Kristalina Georgieva will spend Thursday in the border region assessing the needs of refugees. Clearly we have a unique moment in history ... there is a very serious humanitarian situation, she told journalists in Brussels before departing.Commission figures suggest roughly half those who have already entered Tunisia are of Egyptian origin, 3,000 are Tunisians returning home and around 1,600 are Libyans.Although their numbers are smaller, Black Africans from countries such as Chad and Eritrea are facing a particularly tough time, said Ms Georgieva.They are the least welcome in Tunisia ... [and] in Libya they feel they are being perceived as mercenaries [fighting for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi], she said.

The Bulgarian politician said food shortages were not yet the main concern, with provision of shelter, sanitary facilities, medical and onward transport options of greater importance. I would expect that we will see a flow of people towards Europe's borders, she said.The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is among agencies providing support in the area. People are crossing in a smooth way at the moment. For the past eleven days, we have had shelters here, Soumaya Beltifa, an ICRC spokeswoman, told EUobserver by telephone. Currently based on the Tunisia-Libyan border, Ms Beltifa is part of a small unit including surgeons and anesthetists preparing to journey to the Libyan capital of Tripoli as home-grown doctors join those fleeing the country, compounding pressure on Libyan health services.Roughly 1,000 are reported to have died in the conflict so far, with tens of thousands of refugees also fleeing to Egypt were the border situation is described as being less critical.Violence inside Libya continued on Wednesday, with reports saying forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi had regained control of a number of strategic towns in the east of the country, including an important oil installation near the town of Brega. Conflicting reports suggested revolutionaries had regained control of the installation however.A targeted air strike was also carried on a weapons store about 6km outside the eastern town of Ajdabiya, reported Al Jazeera.

The international community continued to debate the need for a no-fly zone above Libya in order to prevent similar air attacks adding to civilian causalities. Arab League foreign ministers on Wednesday afternoon were preparing to reject outside intervention however.In a televised address, Colonel Gaddafi said he would fight until the last man and woman, warning that thousands of Libyans would die if Western forces intervened.

The Fairy Tale Stops in Tripoli
by Amiel Ungar MAR 2,11

The fairy tale stopped in Tripoli. At first it appeared that Libya's Moammar Qaddafi would succumb in short order as did the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt. His support appeared to be unraveling as diplomats and high-ranking officers and even Cabinet members scurried to disassociate themselves from the regime that they had long served.It also seemed that given the enthusiasm for the insurgents, the international rules of the game were being changed. Articles to the tune of It's Time to Get over Iraq appeared in liberal-left journals claiming that military intervention in Libya would not be a bad thing and could save human lives. Even the United Nations belatedly be stirred itself to oust Libya from the Human Rights Council and passed a Security Council resolution subjecting the Qaddafi regime to sanctions with Russia and China agreeing. France, badly burned by its association with the ousted regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, dispatched planes to offer medical supplies to the liberation forces in Benghazi. British Prime Minister David Cameron was feverishly planning the establishment of a no-fly zone in Libya that would nullify Qaddafi's major military advantage.A different reality soon began setting in. Qaddafi counterattacked and consolidated his hold on the capital, prepared for a protracted civil war. The Russians made it clear via their ambassador to NATO, Dmitri Rogozin, and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, that the no-fly zone will not have the United Nations imprimatur.

Rogozin: If someone in Washington is seeking a blitzkrieg in Libya, it is a serious mistake, because any use of military force outside the NATO responsibility zone will be considered a violation of international law.Russia was still opposed to regime change A ban on the national air force or civil aviation to fly over their own territory is still a serious interference into the domestic affairs of another country. Besides, Lavrov claimed that the passing of a sanctions resolution had made no-fly superfluous.If there is no UN sanction and there won't be because Russia and China will veto such a measure in the Security Council, then France retreats to the position that it adopted prior to the invasion of Iraq. French foreign minister, Alain Juppe, said: Let me put it clearly here: No intervention will happen without a clear UN Security Council mandate.And the French foreign minister added an additional warning:I don't know what would be the reaction on the Arab street, if Arabs around the Mediterranean saw NATO forces landing on southern Mediterranean territory.Former British Conservative, Prime Minister Sir John Major, implored his country to secure a UN mandate. David Cameron's liberal democratic partners, who have long regarded the Iraq invasion as original sin, scoffed at David Cameron's proposal for military action.Given Turkey's membership in NATO, it will also prove impossible to use NATO as a vehicle for military action. Erdogan opposes sanctions, let alone intervention, saying that Any type of sanctions or intervention that would punish the Libyan people is unacceptable and would cause massive problems.

Sanctions take some time to have any effect. The problem in Libya is the here and now. Sanctions did not bring down Saddam Hussein.Libya's Qaddafi is also not going to weep about being barred from visiting Western Europe; he probably feels that the worst way to hold on to his regime is to exit the country, even for a shopping spree.
The freezing of ibyan assets abroad represents a problem, but one can be sure that the regime has sufficient stashes that cannot be touched. There are loopholes in the sanctions and plenty of African countries from which Qaddafi has recruited mercenaries or in which he has invested will be happy, for a certain consideration, to serve as conduits for evading the sanctions.South Africa is prepared to mediate between the sides. Taking into account its record of mediation in Zimbabwe and the Ivory Coast, where autocrats remain in power, Qaddafi can expect to be around for quite some time.The West, and particularly the United States, is leery of military intervention due to its costs and unpredictable results. However, the alternative is a bloody war of attrition with no guarantee of Qadaffi's ouster.(Israel National News.com)

Hamas, PA Two-Faced on Facebook Revolutions at Home
by Gavriel Queenann MAR 2,11

Mass demonstrations sweeping North Africa and the Middle East have inspired some disgruntled Arabs in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza to try to organize their own Facebook Revolution, the Associated Press reports. Populist movements have topped governments in Egypt and Tunisia, and threaten other regional governments, like those in Libya and Bahrain.But while the PA and Hamas have supported such movements abroad, they are cracking down on them as they begin to emerge at home.In recent weeks, using Facebook to organize, hundreds of protestors have appeared in Arab towns in Judea and Samaria waving Palestinian Authority flags and calling for reform. Smaller gatherings have occurred in Gaza, ruled by the PA's rival Hamas.Organizers hope for mass rallies in both locations on March 15th. But Arabs in areas controlled by the Fatah-led PA and Hamas face a unique reality that Arabs under other autocratic regimes do not. While seeking an independent Arab state in the Jewish heartland, they do not constitute a unified polity residing in a contiguous area or have a single administrative body to protest against. Ruled by rival governments wedged on different sides of Israel, its not clear whom the protestors wish to confront or what their common cause may be. Some want the rival PA governments to reconcile. Others demand they resign. Still others want to demonstrate against continued Israeli presence.The Western-backed PA, under the supposedly reformed terrorist group Fatah, administers several semi-autonomous cantons in Judea and Samaria, while the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas has ruled Gaza since 2007. The division between the two factions has crippled the Arab nationalist cause in these areas and led Hamas and the PA into perennial armed conflict. In Gaza, Hamas has been incrementally imposing its own stringent brand of Sharia Law, while in Judea and Samaria, Mahmoud Abbas has postponed elections for national posts for almost two years, banned its people from working for Israelis or dealing in Israeli goods, and used his US-trained and funded security forces to quell dissent.

A recent attempt at reconciliation between the PA and Hamas floundered when Abbas announced elections as a sop to popular dissent, but restricted them to municipal rather than national elections. But despite their bizarre situation and the absence of a single unwanted leader to focus on, activist Hasan Farahat, 22, insists there is enough common cause for a revolution: Everybody is sick of the situation, he said. We want work, we want the right to speak freely. We want freedom.Hamas and the PA, however, see even small demonstrations as direct challenges. On Monday, Hamas cracked down on a small demonstration in Gaza City demanding reconciliation with the PA and seized video from a German TV crew showing a security official striking the protest organizer as he arrested him. In previous nascent protests, Hamas security arrested activists and seized phones and computers, according to the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights. PA security forces initially broke up protests - some with as many as 2,000 participants - by beating participants with truncheons. Organizers say they are being watched by the authorities and have received threats.

While the mainstream media and human rights groups often loudly decry the use of force on the part of Israel's security forces to break up violent Arab riots in Judea and Samaria, there has been little criticism of Hamas and PA violence against peaceful protest gatherings by Arabs in their administrative areas. Nor has either faction, both of which have vocally supported populist self-determination the Arab world, explained why they violently oppose it for the people whose cause they claim to champion.A poll of PA Arabs taken on February 24-26 indicated that they are not very interested in revolution anyway.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

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.

War Hero Kahalani: Armor Corps' Achilles Heel is Healed
by Gavriel Queenann MAR 2,11

The Trophy-Windbreaker System will enhance the performance of our forces on the battlefield, Yom Kippur War hero Brigadier General (res.) Avigdor Kahalani opined following the first successful use of the anti-missile system. The system was first used in combat Tuesday when it intercepted an anti-tank missile fired at an IDF Merkava IV tank on routine patrol along the security fence between Israel and southern Gaza.The system intercepted the anti-tank missile, fired by Hamas terrorists, and prevented it from damaging the tank or inflicting casualties. The terrorists were subsequently identified and killed by an IDF force operating in the area.In a conversation with the IDF Website, Kahalani, who is now chairman of Friends of the IDF, explained that the system is A real revolution for the Armored Corps. It is an especially significant active defense system that protects the lives of soldiers. Although there are not many [anti-tank] missiles [possessed by Hamas], they can cause significant damage, especially to fighters, hence its importance. Over the years anti-tank weapons were the Achilles heel of the Armor [Corps] and now it is resolved.

Kahalani also said the system must be installed as soon as possible on the rest of the IDF's tanks. A tank's operating profile will necessarily be different, he explained. Weapons systems can be deployed more freely and tanks will be able to focus on pursuit of the enemy. The crewmen sitting in the tank will be safe and won't have to fear rocket-fire from an unexpected direction. They will be concentrating on the battlefield and realizing goals more efficiently. It will make it easier to plan the battlefield.We must praise the system developers, Kahalani said. I say this not only from my own experience in the field, but also in my capacity as Chairman of the Friends of the IDF. The Trophy-Windbreaker system's ability to keep our soldiers safe is something wonderful and unusual, said Kahalani. This is a further contribution to Armored Corps, who can do their duty with a clearer sense of battlefield security.The Trophy-Windbreaker system, developed by Israeli weaponry manufacturer RAFAEL, is an active protection system that destroys incoming missiles and rockets in mid-flight. Details of how the system destroys incoming weapons have been kept deliberately vague.Avigdor Kahalani served as commander of an armored company on the Golan Heights in the Six Day War. He received the Medal of Distinguished Service for service in the war, after being badly wounded when his tank caught fire. He went on to receive the Medal of Valor for service during the Yom Kippur War, in which he commanded a hastily assembled group of tanks and crews from different armor units after the Israeli army was caught off-guard. The group repulsed a vastly superior Syrian force in what proved to be one of the turning points of the war.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

IRAN ADOPTS CLINTON(NWO) MIDEAST PHRASE

THE WORLD DICTATOR

REVELATION 6:1-2,13:1-3,7-9,16
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(THIS IS THE EU DICTATOR)
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(7 HEADS ARE THE 7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY (THE EU) AS WELL AS THE VATICAN WHICH IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS. 10 HORNS ARE 10 KINGS THAT ARISE FROM THE EU, THEN #11 COMES ON THE SCENE BECOMES THE HEAD OF 3 OUNTRIES AND THEN THE EU DICTATOR, COMES FROM 1 OF THE 3 COUNTRIES THAT RULE FOR THIS TERM. I BELIEVE THE 3 COUNTRIES RULING AT THE TIME ARE SPAIN AND 2 OF THE ORIGINAL 6 THAT STARTED THE EU. FROM 1 OF THESE 3 COUNTRIES COME THE FUTURE EU DICTATOR PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION WHO GUARENTEES ISRAELS SECURITY FOR A LAND FOR PEACE 7 YEAR TREATY.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(THE JEWISH EU DICTATOR GETS HIS POWER FROM SATAN,HE COMES FROM THE OCCULT).
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE DICTATOR HAS A FALSE RESURRECTION. JUST LIKE JESUS HAD A LITERAL RESURRECTION THIS DICTATOR GETS MURDERED AT THE 3 1/2 YR MARK OF THR 7 YEAR TREATY AND COMES BACK TO LIFE. THIS IS HOW HE CAN CLAIM TO BE GOD AND GET AWAY WITH IT AND CONTROL THE WHOLE EARTH.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
16 And he causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

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

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

JACK VAN IMPE ON HIS MAR 2,11 SHOW MENTIONED THAT MAYBE THE TOPPLING OF ALL THESE WORLD DICTATORS AROUND THE WORLD IS BECAUSE PROPHECY IS STARTING TO BE FULFILLED THAT THERE WILL ONLY BE A SINGLE WORLD DICTATOR.NOT MANY DICTATORS AROUND THE WORLD.JACK THINKS AND I AGREE WITH HIM THE WORLD IS BEING SETUP FOR THE SINGLE EUROPEAN UNION WORLD DICTATOR.AND IT FITS RIGHT IN WITH PROPHECY.
http://www.thegospel.com/clients/jvim-jack-van-impe-ministries/media.asp

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).

Commission accused of power-grab under new EU rules
ANDREW WILLIS 01.03.2011 @ 17:18 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Member states and interest groups stand to lose considerable power to the European Commission under new rules surrounding the implementation of EU legislation, experts on the subject say.The rules, which come into force on Tuesday (1 March), are designed to overhaul decision-making in the 300-odd EU committees that vote on the detailed implementation of EU laws - a procedure known as comitology.Through ratification of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, member states handed greater control over hundreds of daily decisions such as food labeling and trade-protection measures to the commission, Daniel Gueguen, a leading public affairs consultant, told EUobserver.The reason why the new system will be worse is its increasing complexity. The commission gets more power to the detriment of member states and lobbyists, said Mr Guéguen, the author of a recent book on the subject.

Asked whether the move amounted to an intentional power-grab by the commission, Mr Guéguen said: There is no doubt. It's not official but in practice yes. They are the only people who have the time to understand the complexity of the issues. The European Parliament may think it is getting more power but in practice it will not.
After nine months of protracted negotiations with the commission and member states, MEPs finally approved a regulation governing the new implementing powers last December, as defined by the Lisbon Treaty.The procedure is widely practised across the globe, with national legislature's frequently delegating much of the day-to-day implementation decisions to a country's executive branch. At the EU level, powers have been handed to the commission in a wide-ranging list of areas, on condition that it consults with committees of national experts before decisions are taken.
Under former EU treaties, a simple majority of member state experts could block a commission proposal on technical issues such as milk quotas or the approval of certain chemical substances. They could also elect to transfer controversial decisions such as those related to GMOs to the level of EU ministers.Under the Lisbon Treaty and last December's regulation however, a harder-to-achieve qualified majority is now needed, while the ability to push politically sensitive decisions up to council of ministers level has also been restricted.

An EU official who is well versed on the subject confirmed that the new comitology rules would work very much in the commission's favour. The commission is in control of the agenda and can push its own interests. It can now adopt its own proposals unless there is a qualified majority of member state experts against it, said the source on condition of anonymity.National governments have recently been scrambling to claw back some of the lost powers, mostly in vain, added the contact. Member states woke up way too late. This is what happens when you negotiate a new treaty at 3am.Supporters of the new rules say they will help to further streamline EU decision-making and hand the European Parliament a greater say. But a number of states including Germany and the UK have recently shown considerable unease about the new mechanism, concerned that their ability to influence important trade decisions will be reduced.The commission argues that bringing trade under the new comitology rules will reduce the ability of sectoral groups to lobby against the wider public interest, and also prevent member states from politicising particular issues such as tariffs on shoe imports.And contrary to the views of Mr Guéguen, the Belgian EU presidency last December hailed the MEP agreement on a regulation governing comitology as an important step towards simplifying the EU procedure, frequently said to be lacking transparency.

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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MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -2 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -39 points at low today.
Dow +58 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,436.90.OIL opens at $100.50 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -39 points at low today so far.
Dow +58 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -39 points at low today.
Dow +58 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,439.20 (NOT AT CLOSE) (TODAY)

CRUDE OIL -364,000 BARRELS
GASOLINE -3.6 MILLION BARRELS
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES -800,000 BARRELS
REFINERY UTILIZATION

MARCH 11TH,THIS IS THE SAME DATE LINDSEY WILLIAMS SAID WATCHOUT AS PROTESTS ARE DUE TO START IN SAUDI-ARABIA.

EU calls emergency Libya summit for 11 March
ANDREW RETTMAN 01.03.2011 @ 17:34 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU leaders plan to hold a special summit on the Libya crisis in Brussels on 11 March, the same day that leaders from the 17 euro-using countries will hold a mini-summit on joint economic governance.I will make proposals to the European Council on the strategic lines of the European Union's reaction to developments in Libya and in our southern neighbourhood, EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy said in a written statement on Tuesday (1 March).The self-styled grey mouse of EU politics called the meeting under pressure from France and the UK, the former colonial Great Powers in north Africa. Italy, Poland and Spain also backed the idea. An EU diplomat said France is keen to impose new sanctions on Gaddafi. The extra measures are to target regime-linked companies to prevent him from hiding money. But they are unlikely to touch Libyan oil exporters.France is also keen to debate military support for humanitarian aid, economic assistance for the wider region and a general reset in EU relations with Maghreb countries.The diplomatic contact noted that new sanctions could be ready by Thursday and that the summit could be brought forward if something atrocious happens in Libya before next week.

A Turkish diplomat remarked: 11 March is still quite some time away in view of the rapidly changing situation in Libya. I hope that the EU will want to consult with us on the subject. Better still would be to invite our prime minister to the summit.
Germany was initially reluctant to hold the Libya meeting, with German diplomats saying as late as Monday afternoon that the French idea is not serious.The clash with the eurozone event is politically awkward for Berlin.The group-of-17 meeting is a German initiative to get weaker euro-members to sign up to a legally-binding German model of fiscal discipline in what could be giant leap forward in the history of EU integration.Berlin has rejected public calls by non-euro countries, primarily Poland, to let them take part.On 11 March Polish prime minister Donald Tusk will come to the EU Council building in Brussels in the morning to talk about Libya. But he will have to go home at lunchtime when the doors slam shut for the euro event.
Poland and Germany declined to comment.

Great Powers unwelcome

For his part Alastair Crooke, a former high-level EU advisor on the Middle East who now runs an NGO in Beirut, said the best thing the EU and US can do is to stay out of events in north Africa.There is a deep mistrust here which goes back to the 1920s when the Great Powers, Britain and France, promised people independence and what they got was neo-colonial occupation, he explained.He noted that EU diplomacy is starting from scratch after the revolutions: They've been too busy talking at the top table with Gaddafi and [former Egyptian leader] Mubarak to have any depth of contacts with the opposition forces on the ground.Mr Crooke added that Iran is staying out of Libya because it understands the situation better than the West.At this stage it [the opposition movement] is not a political structure. It's something much more profound and much more rooted in human response to circumstances ... All revolutions generate a dominant narrative at some stage, core myths and ideas about society that give it some meaning for ordinary people. Here it is too soon even for that. Any outsider should be careful about intervention.

Chinese oil firms more open to change than EU ones
VALENTINA POP 01.03.2011 @ 17:43 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Chinese oil and gas firms may score worse than some of their EU counterparts in terms of opacity and corruption, but experts say they are more willing to change their corporate culture.China's state-owned oil and gas giants such as CNOOC, Petrochina and CNPC are among the worst performers when it comes to disclosing payments made to governments abroad, for instance Libya's Moammar Gaddafi, a ranking published Tuesday (1 March) by Transparency International shows.
But EU companies do not score much better: Britain's BP and BG, France's Total, Germany's Wintershall, Austria's OMV and Shell from the Netherlands all rank below the average of 16 percent disclosure, out of 44 companies surveyed worldwide and representing 60 per cent of global oil and gas production.In Libya, for instance, out of the 12 foreign companies (including Chinese and European ones), only Norway's Statoil Hydro disclosed the taxes and fees paid to the Gaddafi government.But while Chinese companies may still invoke a different cultural tradition of doing business, EU ones have no excuse, says Carl Dolan from Transparency International. Even if there is no political pressure on Chinese companies to change, they will have to, as some of them are listed on the US stock exchange, Mr Dolan said. The US last year has passed a law obliging oil and gas companies listed on its stock exchange to disclose payments to governments in every country they operate in and The Hong Kong stock exchange recently also altered its disclosure requirements. This may lead to greater openness and anti-corruption practices within the Chinese companies, he said.

There is no sign of a similar move at EU level for now, with Brussels and national officials saying that introducing more transparency would put European companies at a competitive disadvantage to Chinese ones.This is a bogus argument. The EU should move the standards upwards rather than downwards, Mr Dolan said. Norway's Statoil - which ranked highest in all three transparency rankings and last year made a profit of €5 billion - is a telling example that such reporting practices do not render the business model inefficient.The more companies reveal about their interaction with local governments, the less room there is for facilitation payments payments (to use industry terminology) or bribes (in Mr Dolan's words) required to oil the state machinery in speeding up a delivery or unblocking customs disputes.The UK government did recently signal it will push for EU legislation similar to the one in the US and Hong Kong.Support from the UK Government is vital as the London Stock Exchange is one of the largest and most important financial markets in the world, where more than a trillion pounds worth of oil, gas and mining shares are listed, Gavin Hayman of fellow pro-transparency NGO Global Witness said.In a briefing paper, Global Witness said EU arguments that local oil and gas companies would lose out to Chinese ones if they were to open up are phony.There are other reasons explaining potential Chinese competitive advantage,the paper argues.Unlike Western oil, gas and mineral companies, Chinese companies have focused on providing economic and social infrastructure (roads, railways, ports, schools and hospitals) in poor, resource-rich countries. As a result, developing countries in particular in Africa have sometimes preferred giving oil concessions to Chinese companies rather than their Western counterparts to have resource wealth directly trickle down and stimulate wider social development.

MUSLIM NATIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Poll: Where do PA Arabs See Themselves in the Mideast Turmoil?
by Maayana Miskin MAR 1,11

Palestinian Authority Arabs are pessimistic regarding their situation, and most would support a non-violent way to reunite Fatah and Hamas and form a state. However, when asked if they expect a youth revolution in the West Bank similar to those that occurred in Tunisia and Egypt, only 22.8% said yes,31.3% said no, with the rest undecided, and 27.2% explained that they felt that Palestinian conditions are different from those in the Arab countries.Researchers questioned 1,360 PA adults, 860 of them from Judea and Samaria and the remaining 500 from Gaza. The poll was conducted on February 24-26.The majority of respondents were pessimistic regarding the future, with 54.1% expressing concern regarding the state of the PA economy and 61.8% saying they fear for their lives, their family and their property under the PA..Of those surveyed, 80.1% said they support the protest movement in the Arab world that has seen leaders toppled in Tunisia and Egypt, and regimes threatened in Libya and Bahrain.

Still, despite uncertainty about their future and support for Mideast protests,, they do not embrace the idea of turning their own lives upside down. Close to 75% said they would support a non-violent popular movement among Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza aimed at getting their government to bring an end to the Fatah-Hamas schism, a move that would unite actively anti-Israel and terrorist Hamas with Fatah.
On the other hand, more than 76% said they would support a popular uprising aimed at forcing Israelis to leave Judea and Samaria, but in this case non-violence was not mentioned. The question of non-violence is irrelevant, since attempted violence against Jews is ongoing.Peace was also a non-issue. Only 19.6% expressed support for peace talks, while 77.6% said the PA should continue to refuse to speak to Israel unless Israel forbids Jews to build homes east of the 1949 armistice line.Even the 19.6% who remained in favor of talks were not all optimistic: just 18% said they believe an end to the Israel-PA conflict is possible at this time.Despite the strong support for unifying Hamas and Fatah, 56.5% said they prefer PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, the current second in command to Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, running their lives, to Hamas' Gaza head, Ismael Haniyeh. Just 19.2% said Haniyeh would be preferable to Fayyad.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

UN Suspends Libya from Human Rights Council
by Elad Benari MAR 2,11

The UN General Assembly suspended Libya from the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday over leader Muammar Qaddafi's brutal crackdown on the protests in his country.The 192-member assembly passed a suspension resolution by consensus and without a vote. Nobody spoke up for Qaddafi during the debate, though Venezuela did call upon all countries to put a stop to the invasion plans against Libya, which Venezuelan Ambassador Jorge Valero claimed the United States was leading.The resolution says that the General Assembly decides to suspend the rights of membership in the Human Rights Council of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. It goes on to express deep concern about the human rights situation in Libya.The resolution also welcomes last week’s statement by the Arab League which suspended Libya from its session due to Qaddafi’s behavior. It also welcomes the communiqué issued by the Peace and Security Council of the African Union which had decided to dispatch an urgent fact-finding mission to Libya.It comes after British Prime Minister David Cameron warned Qaddafi that his country is weighing military action to prevent the continued slaughter of anti-regime protesters. Cameron said that Britain may create a no-fly zone over Libya and send weapons to protesters, and may even send troops to Libya as a peacekeeping force.

U.S. officials made a similar announcement on Monday, saying that all options are open, including the creation of a no-fly zone. The U.S. military is moving naval and air forces closer to Libya, making it easier for President Barack Obama to order intervention.The UN Security Council condemned last week the violence used against the protesters in Libya. All 15 members of the Security Council expressed grave concern at the situation in Libya and condemned the violence and use of force against civilians.The council called for an immediate end to the violence and for steps to be taken in order to address the legitimate demands of the Libyan people. They also called on the Libyan government to meet its responsibility to protect its population, to act with restraint, and to respect human rights and international humanitarian law.Qaddafi, meanwhile, has repeatedly refused to step down and has said that he will die in Libya as a martyr.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Iran Adopts Bill Clinton's New Middle East Phrase
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu MAR 1,11

When Bill Clinton was president, he envisioned a New Middle East based on the failed Oslo Accords, which blew up in 2000 with the Second Intifada, also known as the Oslo War. Iran now says a new Middle East indeed is on the way, but one with the Islamic Republic as its axis.Iran's pivotal role in the new Middle East is undeniable, Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Politburo Chief General Yadollah Javani said on Monday, addressing a conference in the Western Iranian city of Kermanshah and quoted by the semi-official Fars News Agency.Today the Islamic Revolution of the Iranian nation enjoys such a power, honor and respect in the world that all nations and governments wish to have such a ruling system, he added.Javani said that recent Arab uprisings in Muslim countries herald the spread of Iran’s Islamic Revolution. His comments came one day before massive Iranian forces battled protesters in an effort to squash opposition rallies.In Madrid, visiting President Shimon Peres accused Iran not only of fostering terror in the Middle East but also of duplicating its efforts in Latin America.

He told the Spanish parliament, Iran nourishes Hizbullah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza with terrorism and weapons, and it is creating visible and hidden terrorist cells in other countries, in the Middle East and even Latin America.President Peres also said he was delighted at the changes in the Arab world as a result of recent uprisings, predicting that they will bring about more democracy. Last week, he told Spanish officials that he expects Iranians to topple the regime in Tehran.However, the regime of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has brutally squelched the protest movement, which began two years ago after his disputed re-election. The tight alliance between military forces, Ahmadinejad and supreme Muslim clerics has given them the upper hand against the opposition.Having so far survived international sanctions, Iran continues to deepen its ties with Syria with the aim of extending its influence in the entire Muslim world.It recently sent two warships through the Suez Canal for the first time since the 1979 revolution against the American-backed Shah.The presence of the Iranian vessels in Syria is an indication of the Islamic Republic of Iran's strength and the enemies' failure, Syrian Defense Minister Lt. General Ali Habib said in a meeting with visiting Iran's Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, according to Fars.The ships are currently docked in Syria for training, and one of them is armed with torpedoes and anti-ship missiles, the news agency added.Iran and Syria have signed an agreement enabling the two countries' naval forces to boost their mutual cooperation.Definitely, the good ties between the two friendly and brotherly countries of Iran and Syria and their use of each other's experiences would strengthen the two states, specially in naval fields, stated Sayyari.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Iran Seeks Mass Destruction Weapons Parts from Norway
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu MAR 1,11

Norway has foiled Iranian attempts to buy technology for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that might be used to deliver a nuclear missile, Norway’s security chief has revealed.Janne Kristiansen, general director of the Norwegian Police Security Service, told Reuters that Iran tried to circumvent the state-owned Kongsberg Defense firm by contacting smaller companies that sell dual-purpose components and technology which can be used for building or delivering nuclear missiles, as well as for civilian uses.She declined to name the companies or state the specific products Iran has been seeking but stated that Iran did not succeed in obtaining sensitive technology despite pushy behavior by Iranians who initially inquired about harmless products.Iran has consistently denied charges by Israel and Western leaders that it is trying to reach nuclear capability, with Israel in it sights. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stated that Israel should be wiped off the map.Kristiansen said the would-be buyers, after presenting their initial requests, added to their list more sensitive products and proposed financing and transportation to get around Norwegian export regulations.We have… seen how small companies with falling revenues and liquidity problems can become potential targets for procurement actors, she said. Such firms are in a vulnerable position and will potentially have a hard time saying no to lucrative contract offers.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Huge fire sweeps across central Florida
– Tue Mar 1, 3:40 pm ET

MIAMI (AFP) – Firefighters were battling a fast-moving, massive blaze and clouds of thick smoke that prompted evacuations and highway closures in central Florida, though tempered in part by heavy downpours.The fire, which began on Monday, spread quickly. By dawn on Tuesday, it had swept over an area of more than 10,000 acres (4,000 hectares), forcing hard-hit Brevard County to declare a state of emergency.

Schools were closed, many homes were evacuated and other residents were asked to take precautions and be prepared to deal with the effects of smoke for several days to come.We are advising people to use extreme caution, said Cliff Frazier, spokesman for the Florida Division of Forestry.Emergency response officials did not report any injuries so far.Strong winds spread the fire and smoke from Brevard County, east of Orlando, to Volusia County in the north, where the local emergency personnel said about 20 homes were evacuated in Scottsmoor.The flames shut down close to 30 miles (45 kilometers) of the I-95, a major interstate highway that runs through Florida, from late Monday to early Tuesday, snarling traffic for tens of thousands of commuters.But heavy rainfall helped improve visibility and facilitated efforts by firefighters.

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.

Rain and snowmelt trigger Midwest flooding
– Tue Mar 1, 1:49 pm ET

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Rivers and streams swollen by rain and melting snow spilled flood waters into communities across Illinois, Indiana and Ohio on Tuesday, killing one woman whose vehicle was swept into a river.There were also four storm-related deaths in Tennessee, and flash floods struck in the mountainous eastern part of the state, authorities said.Strong storms lashed the region with high winds and up to five inches of rain beginning on Sunday, adding to run-off from melting snow and ice to push rivers out of their banks.Dozens of people had to be rescued in and around Findlay, Ohio, as flood waters from the cresting Blanchard River inundated residential neighborhoods and part of downtown.The fast-flowing river crested early on Tuesday and was gradually receding, and the city of 37,000 was spared compared to the worst of five floods experienced in 2007 and 2008, Mayor Pete Sehnert said by telephone.We've bought a lot of properties up and tore a lot of homes down that in the past would have been in the path of the waters, Sehnert said. Residents were warned about the coming flood and volunteers stacked tens of thousands of sandbags.

Water and electricity services were on in Findlay, but schools and many businesses were closed, Sehnert said. The city divided its police and fire personnel on either side of the river in anticipation of bridges being shut down.Overflowing rivers and creeks across northern Illinois, Indiana and Ohio flooded roads, golf courses, farmland and some homes, the National Weather Service said. It issued dozens of flood warnings, noting some rivers had yet to crest.Across northern Ohio, 700 people were evacuated from their homes, said Tamara McBride of the Ohio Emergency Management Agency.There have been more people who have chosen not to evacuate. We really don't know yet the number of people affected, McBride said.The 51-year-old woman who died was traveling near Norwalk when flood waters from a tributary swept her vehicle off the road and into the overflowing Huron River, McBride said.The deaths in Tennessee included two victims who died when trees fell on their trailer homes, a worker who was sucked into a culvert, and a motorist who crashed on a water-covered road, Jeremy Heidt of the state's emergency management agency said(Reporting by Andrew Stern; Editing by Jerry Norton)

HELICOPTER BEN BERNANKE AND TWINKLE TOES TIM GEITHNER WERE AT IT YESTERDAY TRYING TO MAKE A BROKE AMERICA SMELL LIKE A ROSE AGAIN.WHEN ITS A SKUNK PLANT IN DISQUISE.

Bernanke says costly oil no threat to U.S. economy By Pedro Nicolaci da Costa and Mark Felsenthal – Tue Mar 1, 5:28 pm ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday the surge in oil prices is unlikely to hurt the U.S. economy unless it is sustained, even as investors sold off equities on fears of a slowdown.Bernanke, making his first comments since the turmoil in Libya drove U.S. crude oil above $100 a barrel, said he would expect higher prices to lead to only a modest, temporary increase in U.S. inflation at most.The Fed chief told the U.S. Senate Banking Committee he saw increasing evidence that the economic recovery has enough momentum to become self-supporting. But job growth remains far too anemic, he said, indicating the Fed was unlikely to cut short its $600 billion bond-buying stimulus.We do see some grounds for optimism about the job market over the next few quarters, Bernanke said, citing a steep recent decline in the jobless rate among other factors.Bernanke, who will testify for a second day before a House of Representatives committee on Wednesday, also reiterated a warning that a failure by Congress to raise the U.S. government's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling could lead to a devastating debt default.

It would be extremely dangerous and very likely a recovery-ending event, he said. The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday said the debt limit could be reached as early as April 15, 10 days later than its previous estimate.Bernanke's warning came just hours before the House approved a short-term funding bill that would avert a looming government shutdown and buy time to fashion a longer-term budget. The Senate was expected to quickly take up the measure.Some Republicans have vowed to use the need to raise the debt ceiling as a lever to push for deep spending cuts.Bernanke told the panel that downside risks to growth had eased and, for the first time, said the prospect of deflation was now negligible. The threat of deflation, a downward spiral in wages and prices that could derail the economy, was a key justification for the Fed's bond-buying spree.It's encouraging to see that the risk of deflation is moderating according to the Fed, said Omer Esiner, chief market analyst at Commonwealth Foreign Exchange in Washington. That's one of the keys that will be necessary for the Fed to wind down its quantitative easing program.

NO SPILLOVER

At the same time, Bernanke did not appear concerned that the recent spike in the price of crude oil, driven in part by a wave of pro-democracy revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa, would do much harm to the U.S. economy.The most likely outcome is that the recent rise in commodity prices will lead to, at most, a temporary and relatively modest increase in U.S. consumer price inflation, Bernanke said.However, he warned that if expectations of future inflation were to build, the Fed may need to act.We will continue to monitor these developments closely and are prepared to respond as necessary to best support the ongoing recovery in a context of price stability, he said.U.S. crude oil futures rose 2.7 percent on Tuesday to settle at $99.63 a barrel, not far from highs hit late last month. Crude had traded at roughly $86 a barrel before protests swept through Egypt in late January.
http://bit.ly/hsRloR)Financial markets showed little reaction to Bernanke's comments, but the jump in oil prices weighed on stocks, with the Standard & Poor's 500 index closing down 1.57 percent. Wall Street's so-called fear gauge, the CBOE Volatility Index, jumped 13.1 percent. U.S. government bond prices rose as investors sought safety. With official interest rates held near zero since December 2008, the Fed in November embarked on a controversial program to buy government debt to keep down long-term interest rates. Bernanke said buoyant financial markets suggest the policy is working, but the labor market still has a long way to go. In January, the jobless rate stood at 9 percent.Until we see a sustained period of job creation, we cannot consider the recovery to be truly established, Bernanke said.

MANDATE BATTLE BREWING

Much of the discussion at the hearing centered around Washington's heated budget debate. Bernanke refrained from offering detailed advice on fiscal matters, but urged lawmakers to get the deficit under control. The long-term imbalances are not just a long-term risk,Bernanke said.They're a near and present danger.The banking committee's chairman, Democrat Tim Johnson, kicked off the session with a strong defense of the Fed's dual mandate of price stability and maximum sustainable employment.Some Republicans who have been critical of the Fed's ultra-easy monetary policy have vowed to introduce legislation forcing the central bank to focus solely on inflation. Johnson suggested that would not be an easy fight.As the economy continues to struggle to recover, we should be using every tool in the toolbox to create jobs and spur growth, he said in a statement. Taking tools away from the Fed now is the wrong idea at the wrong time.(Additional reporting by Emily Kaiser, Doug Palmer, Lucia Mutikani and Tim Ahmann; Editing by Tim Ahmann, James Dalgleish and Leslie Adler)

Oil price fuels Wall Street selling By Angela Moon – Tue Mar 1, 5:35 pm ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Concerns that rising oil prices could hurt economic recovery prompted investors on Tuesday to sell stocks and hedge against further declines.The CBOE Volatility Index VIX (.VIX), Wall Street's so-called fear gauge, jumped 14.5 percent to 21.01 on growing uncertainty about oil. The index measures the cost of using options as insurance against a decline in the S&P 500 (.SPX) index.We've been seeing how quickly the VIX can spike up, and there is no reason to believe that it won't double from where it is now, said Harry Rady, CEO of Rady Asset Management in San Diego, California.Brent crude rose above $116 a barrel as supply disruptions persist and political violence spreads in the Middle East and North Africa. Higher oil translates into increased energy and gasoline costs for consumers.U.S. crude and gasoline futures extended gains in extended-hours trading after data showed domestic crude inventories unexpectedly fell. U.S. stock index futures fell slightly, with S&P futures off 3.3 points.Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the recent surge in oil was unlikely to derail the economy, but his comments did little to reassure investors worried that turmoil in the Middle East could hit Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter. The Dow Jones Transports index (.DJT) fell 2.5 percent.

Stocks have taken their cue from oil since the start of turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa in January. The S&P had its weakest performance since November last week but still tallied three months of gains.The Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) fell 169.38 points, or 1.39 percent, at 12,056.96. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index dropped 21.04 points, or 1.59 percent, to 1,306.18. The Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC) lost 44.86 points, or 1.61 percent, to 2,737.41.About 8.67 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Amex and Nasdaq, higher than last year's daily average of 8.47 billion. Volume has recently been solid on days when the market falls, but often comes under 7 billion on up days.Investors took a cautious stance as cyclical sectors experienced the biggest losses, while defensive sectors such as utilities, healthcare and consumer staples limited losses.Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) and Coca-Cola Co (KO.N) helped the Dow to limit losses. Wal-Mart rose 0.2percent to $52.06, while Coca-Cola was up 1.5 percent to $64.91.Gasoline and heating oil futures each gained about 3.5 percent to $3. The S&P's materials (.GSPM) index dropped 2.3 percent while the industrials (.GSPI) dropped 2.2 percent. According to AAA, the national average price of regular unleaded gasoline is currently at $3.35 per gallon.The real story is gasoline, said Nick Kalivas an analyst, at MF Global in Chicago. The market is getting worried that you could see $4 gasoline in the U.S.

Financial stocks came under pressure after JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) said it could face material fines and significant legal costs from a wide-ranging probe into the industry's foreclosure practices.JP Morgan fell 2.3 percent to $45.60 while the KBW bank index (.BKX) fell 2.3 percent.Declining stocks outpaced advancing stocks on the NYSE by a ratio of about 3 to 1, while on the Nasdaq, decliners beat advancers by a ratio of 10 to 3.(Reporting by Angela Moon, Editing by Kenneth Barry)

SEC charges ex-Goldman director in insider case
By Jonathan Stempel – Tue Mar 1, 6:22 pm ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc director leaked secret details to Galleon Group hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam about Warren Buffett's plan to invest $5 billion in the Wall Street bank at the height of the financial crisis, a U.S. securities regulator charged.The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said the director, Rajat Gupta, tipped Rajaratnam by phone just minutes before the public learned of the investment by Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc, which helped ensure Goldman's stability.Gupta, a former worldwide managing director at consulting firm McKinsey & Co, was also accused of tipping Rajaratnam about quarterly earnings at Goldman and Procter & Gamble Co, where he was a director before resigning on Tuesday.

The 62-year-old Gupta is one of the highest-ranking corporate executives implicated in the government's wide-ranging insider trading probe, which has resulted in criminal or civil charges against dozens of individuals.Tuesday's charges mark the first time that activity said to have occurred at Goldman was directly implicated in the probe.The SEC said Rajaratnam, who faces a March 8 criminal insider trading trial, used the tips to trade at his firm, Galleon Group, reaping more than $18 million of illegal gains. It said Gupta invested in at least some Galleon hedge funds.Gupta was honored with the highest trust of leading public companies, and he betrayed that trust by disclosing their most sensitive and valuable secrets, SEC enforcement chief Robert Khuzami said in a statement. Directors who violate the sanctity of board room confidences for private gain will be held to account for their illegal actions.The SEC began administrative and cease-and-desist proceedings against Gupta. It described Gupta as a friend and business associate of Rajaratnam.
Based on the allegations in the order instituting the administrative proceedings, it appears the SEC has a powerful, circumstantial case against Gupta, said Kathleen Hamm, managing director at Promontory Financial Group in Washington and a former SEC enforcement official.

TOTALLY BASELESS CHARGES, LAWYER SAYS

Gary Naftalis, a lawyer for Gupta, called the SEC allegations totally baseless, and said his client had lost his entire $10 million investment in a Galleon fund that Rajaratnam managed, known as GB Voyager.Mr. Gupta has done nothing wrong, Naftalis said in a statement. There is no allegation that Mr. Gupta traded in any of these securities or shared in any profits as part of any quid pro quo.Gupta sat on Goldman's board from November 2006 until last May and served on its corporate governance committee.The Westport, Connecticut, resident had served on Procter & Gamble's board since 2007 before resigning on Tuesday.He's stepping down in the interest of the company, to prevent any distraction to the P&G board or our business, company spokesman Paul Fox said.Rajaratnam also faces SEC civil charges. He has denied wrongdoing.

This is simply an effort to destroy a favorable witness, John Dowd, a lawyer for Rajaratnam, said in a statement about the Gupta charges. There is no case, absolutely none. No conversations, no benefit, no nothing. These are old friends and Mr. Gupta is a distinguished human being.Goldman spokesman Ed Canaday declined to comment. Berkshire did not return a request for comment.It is striking the SEC refers to phone calls immediately before the trades, said Kip Weissman, a partner at Luse Gorman Pomerenk & Schick PC in Washington and a former SEC enforcement lawyer. This suggests there was a witness, or that the SEC has more circumstantial evidence.
Gupta is one of a web of associates in Corporate America that investigators have said Rajaratnam used to learn advance tips about potentially market-moving news. A Harvard Business School graduate, Gupta was previously worldwide managing director at McKinsey, where he worked for more than three decades.The Gupta case does not help in instilling confidence in Main Street investors that they're getting a fair shake at these multinational companies, said Michael Nix, co-chief investment officer at Greenwood Capital Associates LLC.In trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, Goldman fell $2.47, or 1.5 percent, to close at $161.31, while Procter & Gamble fell 31 cents, or 0.5 percent, to $62.74.

MULTIPLE TIPS ALLEGED

Prosecutors have said a Morgan Stanley banker also leaked inside information that found its way to Rajaratnam.Former McKinsey consultant Anil Kumar pleaded guilty in January 2010 to leaking inside information about a possible merger to Rajaratnam, in return for $1.75 million.White-collar defense lawyers said civil administrative proceedings may afford the SEC a more friendly forum in which to pursue its case. They also allow the regulator to avoid having to amend its own lawsuit against Rajaratnam.It's faster, the evidence rules are more liberal, and the SEC can wield a bigger hammer in penalties, which can include barring someone from the securities industry. Weissman said.The SEC alleged Gupta tipped Rajaratnam about Goldman's results for the second and fourth quarters of 2008, resulting in more than $16.6 million of illicit gains.It said he also tipped Rajaratnam about Procter & Gamble's results for the final quarter of 2008, resulting in more than $570,000 of profit. The SEC said Gupta had at least two phone calls with Rajaratnam shortly before Goldman announced Berkshire's investment on September 23, 2008.It said one call came just before the market closed that day, immediately after Gupta had disconnected from a phone link to the board meeting where Goldman approved the investment. Goldman announced the Berkshire stake after markets closed.Rajaratnam's trades in Goldman based on these tips resulted in more than $900,000 of profit, the SEC said.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; additional reporting by Matthew Goldstein, Grant McCool and Phil Wahba in New York; Joe Rauch in Charlotte, North Carolina and Jessica Wohl in Chicago; editing by Dave Zimmerman and John Wallace)

WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL

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

DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

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

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

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

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

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

WARS AND RUMURS OF WARS.

MATTHEW 24:6
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

MARK 13:7
7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.

U.S. warns of civil war in Libya unless Gaddafi goes
By Maria Golovnina - MAR 1,11

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya could descend into civil war unless Muammar Gaddafi quits, the United States said on Tuesday, its demand for his departure intensifying pressure on the longtime leader after news of Western military preparations.Gaddafi remained defiant, dispatching forces to a western border area amid fears that the most violent Arab revolt may grow bloodier and cause a humanitarian crisis.Tunisian border guards fired into the air on Tuesday to try to control a crowd of people clamoring to cross the frontier and escape the violence.About 70,000 people have passed through the Ras Jdir border post in the past two weeks, and many more of the hundreds of thousands of foreign workers in Libya are expected to follow.Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam warned the West against launching any military action to topple Gaddafi, and said the veteran ruler would not step down or go into exile.Using force against Libya is not acceptable. There's no reason, but if they want...we are ready, we are not afraid, he told Sky television, adding: We live here, we die here.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told U.S. lawmakers: Libya could become a peaceful democracy or it could face protracted civil war.She said the Obama administration would look into allegations that Gaddafi personally ordered the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, because of new statements by defecting Libyan officials making it clear that the order came from the very top.The United States said it was moving ships and planes closer to the oil-producing North African state.The destroyer USS Barry moved through the Suez Canal on Monday and into the Mediterranean. Two amphibious assault ships, the USS Kearsarge, which can carry 2,000 Marines, and the USS Ponce, are in the Red Sea and are expected to go through the canal early on Wednesday.

U.S. RULES NOTHING OUT

The White House said the ships were being redeployed in preparation for possible humanitarian efforts but stressed it was not taking any options off the table.We are looking at a lot of options and contingencies. No decisions have been made on any other actions, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe sounded a note of caution, saying military intervention would not happen without a clear United Nations mandate.British Prime Minister David Cameron said it was unacceptable that Colonel Gaddafi can be murdering his own people using airplanes and helicopter gunships.General James Mattis, commander of U.S. Central Command, told a Senate hearing that imposing a no-fly zone would be a challenging operation that would mean actual attack.You would have to remove air defense capability in order to establish a no-fly zone, so no illusions here, he said.It would be a military operation -- it wouldn't be just telling people not to fly airplanes.Analysts said Western leaders were in no mood to rush into conflict after the troubled, drawn-out involvements in Afghanistan and Iraq.They will be desperate not to place themselves in that situation, unless not doing so would result in even worse massacres, said Shashank Joshi of London's Royal United Services Institute.

Suspicions grew that Gaddafi, a survivor of past coup attempts, did not grasp the scale of the forces against him.All my people love me, he told the ABC network and the BBC on Monday, dismissing the significance of a rebellion that has ended his control over much of oil-rich eastern Libya.

REBELS CLAIM STRENGTH GROWING

Rebel fighters claimed the balance of the conflict was swinging their way.Our strength is growing and we are getting more weapons. We are attacking checkpoints, said Yousef Shagan, a spokesman in Zawiyah, only 50 km (30 miles) from Tripoli.A rebel army officer in the eastern city of Ajdabiyah said rebel units were becoming more organised.All the military councils of Free Libya are meeting to form a unified military council to plan an attack on Gaddafi security units, militias and mercenaries, Captain Faris Zwei said. He said there were more than 10,000 volunteers in the city, plus defecting soldiers.Rebels guarding a munitions store said they feared a direct hit by Gaddafi's warplanes could cause destruction for miles around. But Zwei said pilots appeared to be aiming to miss. We have complete confidence in the Libyan air force not to hit anything that affects their relatives in the east, he said.Despite the widespread collapse of Gaddafi's writ, his forces were fighting back in some regions.A reporter on the Tunisian border saw Libyan troops reassert control at a crossing abandoned on Monday, and residents of Nalut, about 60 km (35 miles) from the border, said they feared pro-Gaddafi forces were planning to recapture the town.Mohamed, a resident of rebel-held Misrata, told Reuters by phone: Symbols of Gaddafi's regime have been swept away from the city. Only a (pro-Gaddafi) battalion remains at the city's air base but they appear to be willing to negotiate safe exit out of the air base. We are not sure if this is genuine or just a trick to attack the city again.Across the country, tribal leaders, officials, military officers and army units have defected to the rebels. Sanctions will squeeze his access to funds.

BREAD QUEUES

Tripoli is a clear Gaddafi stronghold, but even in the capital, loyalties are divided. Many on the streets on Tuesday expressed loyalty but a man who described himself as a military pilot said: One hundred percent of Libyans don't like him.There were queues outside bread shops on Tuesday morning. Some residents said many shops were limiting the number of loaves customers could buy.The U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday unanimously suspended Libya's membership of the U.N. Human Rights Council because of violence by Libyan forces against protesters.A U.N. Security Council resolution on Saturday called for a freeze on Gaddafi's assets and a travel ban and refers his crackdown to the International Criminal Court.Libya's National Oil Corporation said output had halved because of the departure of foreign workers.Brent crude prices surged above $116 a barrel as supply disruptions and the potential for more unrest in the Middle East and North Africa kept investors on edge.(Additional reporting by Yvonne Bell and Chris Helgren in Tripoli, Dina Zayed and Caroline Drees in Cairo, Tom Pfeiffer, Alexander Dziadosz and Mohammed Abbas in Benghazi, Yannis Behrakis and Douglas Hamilton; Christian Lowe and Hamid Ould Ahmed in Algiers, Souhail Karam and Marie-Louise Gumuchian in Rabat and Samia Nakhoul, William Maclean and Alex Lawler in London; writing by Andrew Roche; editing by Angus MacSwan)

Gaddafi defiant as West flexes military muscle
By Maria Golovnina - MAR 1,11

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Two U.S. warships were to pass through the Suez Canal on Wednesday heading toward Libya as Western nations sought to keep up pressure on Muammar Gaddafi to end a crackdown on a popular uprising and to step down.The United States warned Libya could descend into civil war unless Gaddafi quits, amid fears that the most violent Arab revolt may grow bloodier and cause a humanitarian crisis.

But Gaddafi remained defiant and his son, Saif al-Islam, warned the West against launching military action and said the veteran ruler would not step down or go into exile.Italy said it was sending a humanitarian mission to Tunisia to provide food and medical aid to as many as 10,000 people who had fled violence in neighboring Libya.Tunisian border guards fired into the air on Tuesday to try to control a crowd of people clamoring to cross the frontier.About 70,000 people have passed through the Ras Jdir border post in the past two weeks, and many more of the hundreds of thousands of foreign workers in Libya are expected to follow.Using force against Libya is not acceptable. There's no reason, but if they want ... we are ready, we are not afraid, Saif al-Islam told Sky television.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told U.S. lawmakers: Libya could become a peaceful democracy or it could face protracted civil war. The United States said it was moving ships and planes closer to the oil-producing North African state.The destroyer USS Barry moved through the Suez Canal on Monday and into the Mediterranean. Two amphibious assault ships, the USS Kearsarge, which can carry 2,000 Marines, and the USS Ponce, are in the Red Sea and are expected to go through the canal early on Wednesday.

U.S. RULES NOTHING OUT

The White House said the ships were being redeployed in preparation for possible humanitarian efforts but stressed it was not taking any options off the table.We are looking at a lot of options and contingencies. No decisions have been made on any other actions, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe sounded a note of caution, saying military intervention would not happen without a clear United Nations mandate.British Prime Minister David Cameron, who said Britain would work with allies on preparations for a no-fly zone in Libya, said it was unacceptable that Colonel Gaddafi can be murdering his own people using airplanes and helicopter gunships.General James Mattis, commander of U.S. Central Command, told a Senate hearing that imposing a no-fly zone would be a challenging operation. You would have to remove air defense capability in order to establish a no-fly zone, so no illusions here, he said.It would be a military operation.Analysts said Western leaders were in no mood to rush into the conflict after drawn-out involvements in Afghanistan and Iraq.Gaddafi, a survivor of past coup attempts, told the U.S. ABC network and the BBC on Monday: All my people love me, dismissing the significance of a rebellion that has ended his control over much of oil-rich eastern Libya.

REBELS SAY STRENGTH GROWING

Rebel fighters said the balance of the conflict was swinging their way. Our strength is growing and we are getting more weapons. We are attacking checkpoints, said Yousef Shagan, a spokesman in Zawiyah, 50 km (30 miles) from Tripoli. A rebel army officer in the eastern city of Ajdabiyah said rebel units were becoming more organized.All the military councils of Free Libya are meeting to form a unified military council to plan an attack on Gaddafi security units, militias and mercenaries, Captain Faris Zwei said. He said there were more than 10,000 volunteers in the city, plus defecting soldiers.The New York Times reported that the rebels' revolutionary council was debating whether to ask for Western airstrikes on some of Gaddafi's military assets under a United Nations banner.The Times said Abdel-Hafidh Ghoga, the council's spokesman, declined to comment on its deliberations but said: If it is with the United Nations, it is not a foreign intervention, which the rebels have said they oppose.The Times said there was no indication the U.N. Security Council would approve such a request, or that Libyans seeking to oust Gaddafi would welcome it.Despite the widespread collapse of Gaddafi's writ, his forces were fighting back in some regions. A reporter on the Tunisian border saw Libyan troops reassert control at a crossing abandoned on Monday, and residents of Nalut, about 60 km (35 miles) from the border, said they feared pro-Gaddafi forces were planning to recapture the town.Mohamed, a resident of rebel-held Misrata, told Reuters by phone: Symbols of Gaddafi's regime have been swept away from the city. Only a (pro-Gaddafi) battalion remains at the city's air base but they appear to be willing to negotiate safe exit out of the air base. We are not sure if this is genuine or just a trick to attack the city again.Across the country, tribal leaders, officials, military officers and army units have defected to the rebels. Sanctions will squeeze his access to funds.

Tripoli is a clear Gaddafi stronghold, but even in the capital, loyalties are divided. Many on the streets on Tuesday expressed loyalty but a man who described himself as a military pilot said: One hundred percent of Libyans don't like him.The U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday unanimously suspended Libya's membership of the U.N. Human Rights Council. A U.N. Security Council resolution on Saturday called for a freeze on Gaddafi's assets and a travel ban and refers his crackdown to the International Criminal Court. The United States has frozen $30 billion in Libyan assets.Libya's National Oil Corp said output had halved because of the departure of foreign workers. Brent crude prices surged above $116 a barrel as supply disruptions and the potential for more unrest in the Middle East and North Africa kept investors on edge.Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper, citing unnamed U.S. sources, said British special forces were preparing to seize mustard gas and other potential chemical weapons in Libya.It quoted unnamed British sources as saying they had not yet received a specific U.S. request for involvement, but officials said plans were being drawn up for every eventuality.(Additional reporting by Yvonne Bell and Chris Helgren in Tripoli, Dina Zayed and Caroline Drees in Cairo, Tom Pfeiffer, Alexander Dziadosz and Mohammed Abbas in Benghazi, Yannis Behrakis and Douglas Hamilton; Christian Lowe and Hamid Ould Ahmed in Algiers, Souhail Karam and Marie-Louise Gumuchian in Rabat and Samia Nakhoul, William Maclean and Alex Lawler in London; writing by Janet Lawrence; editing by Philip Barbara)

Iran forces fire teargas at protesters: pro-reform websites
– Tue Mar 1, 12:45 pm ET

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian security forces fired teargas and clashed with anti-government protesters demonstrating against the treatment of opposition leaders, pro-reform websites reported on Tuesday.Thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets of Tehran and other cities, chanting slogans against the government, Sahamnews reported.Security forces and plainclothes agents fired teargas and clashed with demonstrators in Tehran to disperse them, another opposition website Kaleme reported.Protesters have formed groups in hundreds and are marching toward Tehran's Azadi (Freedom) Square.Potesters demanded the release of Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi, forced to stay in their homes in Tehran since February 14. In the meantime, thousands of their supporters have taken to the streets, defying a heavy security presence, to back uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, Sahamnews said.Seeking to avoid a revival of mass anti-government rallies that erupted after a disputed 2009 presidential election, the authorities had warned against any illegal gatherings after some opposition websites posted calls for a rally on Tuesday.Riot police attacked protesters with batons and electric shocks in Tehran, Kaleme reported.

Two people were killed and dozens arrested during a February 14 rally, the first big show of opposition since the elite Revolutionary Guards crushed street protests in December 2009.The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, which has staff in the United States and Germany, quoted an informed source as saying Mousavi and Karoubi, along with their wives, had been moved from their homes to a safe house in an area close to Tehran.The judiciary denied reports on Monday that the two had been jailed. Their arrest might ignite tension in the Islamic Republic with hardline rulers wary about any spillover of popular turmoil in the Arab world into Iran.In London, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a statement he was deeply concerned by reports that Mousavi and Karoubi had been moved from their houses to an Iranian detention center.I call on the Iranian authorities to release both men immediately, Hague said, adding that calls by pro-government Iranian parliamentarians for the opposition leaders to be executed were inexcusable.Sahamnews said tension was increasingly growing in Tehran and some other cities, adding that large numbers of security personnel were stationed at main streets and squares in Tehran to prevent gathering of opposition supporters.Gunshots were heard around Enqelab (Revolution) Square and nearby streets,Kaleme reported.

Hardliners have urged the judiciary to hand down death penalties to opposition leaders, accusing them of being part of a Western plot to overthrow the Islamic system.Mousavi and Karoubi, who spearheaded protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election in 2009, say the reform movement is still alive despite mounting pressure on opposition supporters.(editing by Paul Taylor)

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Yemeni president says US and Israel behind unrest By AHMED AL-HAJ, Associated Press – Tue Mar 1, 6:36 pm ET

SANAA, Yemen – Yemen's embattled president on Tuesday accused the U.S., his closest ally, of instigating the mounting protests against him, but the gambit failed to slow the momentum for his ouster.Hundreds of thousands rallied in cities across Yemen against the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in the largest of the protests of the past month, including one addressed by an influential firebrand cleric, a former ally of Saleh, whom the U.S. has linked to al-Qaida.Go on until you achieve your demands, Sheik Abdul-Majid al-Zindani told tens of thousands of demonstrators in the capital of Sanaa. A former U.S. ambassador to Yemen called al-Zindani's decision to turn against President Ali Abdullah Saleh a major setback for the president.Some warned that the current political turmoil and possible collapse of Saleh's regime could give a further opening to Yemen's offshoot of the global terror network, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.James Jones, former White House National Security Advisor, warned a Washington conference that Yemen's crisis could deepen the current vacuum of power in Yemen on which al Qaida has thrived.The Yemen-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, believed to have been involved in the attempted 2009 bombing of an American airliner, is seen as particularly active and threatening to the U.S.

Saleh has been a weak but important U.S. ally in the fight against al-Qaida, accepting tens of millions of dollars in U.S. military and other aid and allowing American drone strikes on al-Qaida targets.Garry Reid, deputy assistant U.S. Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Combating Terrorism, told the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington think tank, that the Saleh government was the best partner we're going to have ... and hopefully it will survive because I certainly would have to start over again in what we've tried to build.Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Yemen in January and urged Saleh to do more.

However, on Tuesday, Saleh seemed to be turning on Washington. In a speech to about 500 students and lecturers at Sanaa University, he claimed the U.S., along with Israel, is behind the protest movement.I am going to reveal a secret, he said. There is an operations room in Tel Aviv with the aim of destabilizing the Arab world. The operations room is in Tel Aviv and run by the White House.Saleh also alleged that opposition figures meet regularly with the U.S. ambassador in Sanaa. Regrettably those (opposition figures) are sitting day and night with the American ambassador where they hand him reports and he gives them instructions, Saleh said.The Obama administration rejected these claims. White House spokesman Jay Carney called on Saleh to focus on implementing the political reforms demanded by his people instead of scapegoating.Saleh's relationship with the U.S. has been ambivalent, and he has at times attempted to play down his military alliance with Washington. Anti-U.S. sentiment remains strong in Yemen, as elsewhere in the region, and Saleh's comments appeared to be an attempt to discredit the protesters by suggesting they are serving foreign interests.Part of this is putting blame on others, part of it is trying to manage the situation, said Christopher Boucek, an analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a U.S. think tank. He (Saleh) does not want to feed into grievances that gave rise to the opposition against him, such as being too close to the U.S.Thomas Krajeski, senior vice president of the U.S. National Defense University and former U.S. ambassador to Yemen, gave the Saleh regime a 50-50 chance of surviving the current crisis and he said it's not clear who is likely to succeed him. We just don't know what comes next, Krajeski told a conference at Washington's Bipartisan Policy Center.

But Krajeski predicted that Yemen's tribes would quickly step in to establish a new government rather than let the country become what he called an ungoverned mess, like Somalia.Jonathan Ruhe, a policy analyst for the Bipartisan Policy Center, said: It's kind of hard to imagine a post-Saleh world. If he should fall, the future is wide open.In another attempt to silence critics, Saleh fired five of the country's 22 provincial governors Tuesday, including three who had spoken out against the government's at times violent crackdown on demonstrators.In London, Britain's Foreign Office summoned a senior Yemeni diplomat to express deep concern over the deaths of protesters at rallies. The government of Yemen should listen to the legitimate grievances of the Yemeni people, the Foreign Office said. The momentum against the president, who refuses to step down until elections in 2013, has kept growing since protests erupted a month ago — inspired by successful uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. He has lost the support of key tribal chiefs and on Tuesday, opposition parties called their supporters into the streets for the first time. Crowds of tens of thousands each were reported in five areas of the country, including in Sanaa.Saleh's government is widely seen as corrupt, with relatives of the president holding key positions in government and business. Grievances about the growing disparity between Yemen's poor — nearly half the population of some 23 million — and a small ruling clique have helped drive the protests. Yemen is the Arab world's poorest country.In the port city of Aden, the scene of deadly clashes between police and demonstrators last week, thousands rallied Tuesday to express their anger. We are demonstrating and calling for the downfall of the regime because Aden, under Saleh, has turned into a village, said Faiza al-Sharbary, a 45-year-old teacher. At one time, it was one of the best cities. Therefore this regime has to leave.In Sanaa, tens of thousands gathered outside the university, the heart of the protests.Al-Zindani, the influential Islamic cleric, praised the young protesters, saying their rallies are a new way to change regimes that we did not know 50 years ago.Go on until you achieve your demands, he told them. You have come out demanding changes as a result of desperation.Al-Zindani's role appeared unclear. Saleh, in power for 32 years, has tried to co-opt the preacher, appointing him last year as a mediator between the government and opposition parties over electoral reform.

However, al-Zindani is also thought by the United States to be a one-time spiritual mentor of Osama bin Laden. He has been placed on the U.S. list of terrorist financiers, and is the subject of travel and financial sanctions by the U.S. and the United Nations.In the past, the cleric has criticized the U.S.-backed fight against al-Qaida, warning that it could lead to a foreign occupation of Yemen.Some in Yemen said the current turmoil could strengthen the local al-Qaida branch.One of the principal worries of our regional and global partners has been that if Yemen goes into anarchy, the possibility of al-Qaida having easy access should be quite clear, said Mohamed Qubaty, a senior member of Yemen's ruling party.Krajeski, the former U.S. ambassador to Yemen, said al-Zidani's decision to criticize Saleh and questioned his legitimacy was a major setback for the government.That's a big deal, he said. Saleh worked very hard to keep this guy in control. If Zindani is breaking with him that is another knock on his base.Krajeski added though that he didn't think that radical Islam was a big factor in the current unrest, although it was part of the general opposition to Saleh's government.Yemen has been the site of numerous anti-U.S. attacks, going back to the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Aden harbor, which killed 17 American sailors. Late last year, several CIA operatives were targeted in a failed bombing at a restaurant in a Sanaa suburb. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula was also thought to be behind the attempted bombing of an American airliner landing in Detroit in 2009.Associated Press writers Matthew Lee and Douglas Birch in Washington, Raphael Satter in London and Karin Laub in Cairo contributed reporting.