2008 ALL OVER AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

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

AMERICA HAS LOST ITS CREDIT RATING.

U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P
Reuters By Walter Brandimarte | Reuters – AUG 5,11

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor's on Friday, in a dramatic reversal of fortune for the world's largest economy.S&P cut the long-term U.S. credit rating by one notch to AA-plus on concerns about growing budget deficits.U.S. Treasuries, once undisputedly seen as the safest investment in the world, are now rated lower than bonds issued by countries such as the UK, Germany, France or Canada.The outlook on the new U.S. credit rating is negative, S&P said in a statement, a sign that another downgrade is possible in the next 12 to 18 months.(Reporting by Walter Brandimarte; Editing by Jan Paschal)

http://news.yahoo.com/dow-falls-512-steepest-decline-since-08-crisis-210736924.html
Europe crisis revives '08 fears but risks are less AP By JONATHAN FAHEY - AP Business Writers,PAUL WISEMAN - AP Business Writers | AUG 5,11

Wild gyrations in the stock market. Big banks holding risky bonds. Fear that toxic assets will contaminate banks and freeze up credit on both sides of the Atlantic.
Wall Street is having a flashback to the panicky days of September and October 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and American International Group needed a bailout that became the biggest on Wall Street — $182 billion.This time investors are worried that Europe's debt crisis could slam an already weak U.S. economy. But few analysts think it will do as much damage as the collapse in home prices and mortgage-backed securities did in 2008, when they caused a credit squeeze and banks feared lending to each other.Compared with the fall of 2008, our larger banks are in pretty good shape, says Philip Swagel, a former Treasury official who is now an economist at the University of Maryland. They've rebuilt their capital positions. The institutions that are exposed (to European debt) are in much better shape.After months of worrying about the risk of default by Greece and Portugal, investors fear that two much bigger countries — Italy and Spain — might be unable to meet their debt payments. They also worry that Italian and Spanish banks have loaded up on their countries' government bonds and haven't valued them accurately.Analysts say a default by an economy as big as Italy's or Spain's would likely throw Europe into recession. That would further strain a fragile U.S. economy and weigh on the global financial system.If Italy or Spain defaulted, their banks would absorb big losses that could spread to other institutions. French banks have lent heavily to Italian banks, and U.S. banks have lent heavily to French banks.You have the potential for a domino effect, says Thomas Abruzzo, head of the North American financial institutions team at Fitch Ratings.But Abruzzo says he's confident that U.S. banks have hedged much of the risk they've taken in Europe to protect against steep losses. They've also built up their capital — the financial buffer that protects them against losses.

What's more, the Italian and Spanish government debts are better understood than the exotic mortgage securities at the heart of the 2008 crisis that began in the United States. Then, no one knew which banks were holding how much in mortgage securities or what those securities were worth.Banks stopped lending to each other. Credit froze up. Panic set in. Corporations that relied on short-term loans faced a debilitating cash crunch.These days, U.S. corporations are hoarding cash and don't require immediate access to financial markets. Banks also have changed the way they fund themselves. In 2007, they relied heavily on very short-term loans. They needed to be repaid, and replaced, quickly.When markets seized up, banks quickly ran out of money. Now they have diversified their funding streams with longer-term borrowings. They have more agility to avoid heavy losses.Companies now are not in a position where they can be quickly put into a liquidity crisis, said Thomas Tzitzouris, head of fixed income research at Strategas Partners.The scope of the current trouble, however, is much wider than it was in 2008. The institutions in trouble now are not a few banks or trading firms: They are entire countries.Italy is the third-largest borrower in the world, with more than $2 trillion in debt. That dwarfs the debt of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch, the companies on the brink in 2008.

Measured by the interest rates being charged on Italian debt compared with other countries' debt, investors are putting the odds of an Italian default at higher than 50 percent.The markets are saying Italy is on the chopping block,Tzitzouris says.An Italian default, he says, would bust huge holes in the balance sheets of banks and insurance companies, among others. Contagion would quickly spread, and you are looking at a severe worldwide recession.Though U.S. banks are better protected from a credit crisis this time, a deep recession in Europe would hurt a U.S. economy already struggling to grow. The economy expanded at an annual rate of only 0.8 percent in the first half of the year.July's 9.1 percent unemployment rate was down a tick from June's — but still stuck at recessionary levels. Consumers, pinched by high gasoline and food prices, are reluctant to spend. And businesses, worried about future sales, are reluctant to hire.A European default crisis would put a dent in U.S. exports, which have been one of the U.S. economy's few bright spots. The Standard & Poor's 500 companies get about 20 percent of their earnings in Europe.In this interconnected world, such a large default would have repercussions on banks and corporations around the world,says Uri Dadush, director of the international economics program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. We know it's going to be big. But we don't want to find out how big.

Italy offers reform for ECB support, stems market rout Reuters By Gavin Jones and Andreas Framke | Reuters – AUG 5,11

ROME/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Italy buckled to world pressure in a bid to halt a market rout endangering the global economy, pledging to speed up austerity measures and social reforms in return for European Central Bank help with funding.About $2.5 trillion has been wiped off world stocks this week on worries the euro zone debt crisis was spreading and the U.S. was slipping into recession. Better than expected U.S. jobs growth in July helped support Wall Street on Friday but stocks slipped back into the red in late trading.After a frantic round of telephone diplomacy, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said his government would bring forward cuts to balance the budget in 2013, a year ahead of schedule, and rush through welfare and labor market reforms.We consider it appropriate to introduce an acceleration of the measures which we introduced recently in the fiscal planning law to give us the possibility of reaching our objective of balancing the budget early, by 2013 instead of 2014, Berlusconi told a news conference after a day of calls with world leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.Sources close to the matter told Reuters the European Central Bank had demanded such measures in exchange for buying bonds to ease the pressure on Italy, which has come under market attack.Late in the day, the White House said President Barack Obama had spoken separately with Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy about the eurozone crisis but offered no details of their discussions.The ECB had no immediate reaction to Italy's announcement but a European Commission spokesman said the measures responded to assessments set out earlier in the day by EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn and go in the right direction.

Investors have been unimpressed by a 48 billion euro austerity package passed by Berlusconi's government, partly because most of the measures were delayed until after elections scheduled for 2013, for clear political reasons.The crisis was receiving attention at the highest levels as leaders of Germany, France and Spain conferred by telephone during the day.Discord among EU policymakers over how to stop a disastrous spread of the sovereign debt crisis to Italy and Spain, the euro zone's third and fourth biggest economies, has caused increasing frustration among investors.The European Central Bank disappointed markets by buying Irish and Portuguese bonds but not government paper in Italy and Spain where bond yields have blown out this week on fears that they may need bailing out.That now appears to have been a gambit to force Italy to act.In principle it is right to say that the ECB could start buying Spanish and Italian bonds if they made an extra effort with fiscal and structural reforms,a senior euro zone official told Reuters.Bank of Spain governor Jose Manuel Gonazalez-Paramo, a member of the ECB's governing council, said he expected Spain to announce further measures on August 19 to ensure it meets its budget austerity targets.Earlier in the day, China and Japan called for coordinated action to avert a new worldwide crisis sourced to Europe and the United States, as did European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn.International policy coordination through the G7 and G20 is of critical importance, he told a news conference, having broken off his vacation and returned to Brussels.Britain called for a concerted international effort to show governments would work together to avert a financial crisis and Brazil also urged unity, saying the world economy was in a situation of stress.

ECB RIFT

The ECB reactivated its dormant bond-buying program on Thursday in an attempt to address the euro zone's deepening sovereign debt crisis, but only bought Portuguese and Irish debt. Influential members of the ECB opposed even that.Central bank sources told Reuters that four out of 23 ECB governing council members, including powerful German Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann, voted against the decision to resume any bond purchases.Traders said the central bank intervened for a second day on Friday, but was again only buying Portuguese and Irish paper. Pressure eased on Italian and other peripheral debt but Italy's 10-year-yields overtook those of Spain for the first time since May 2010 and both yields remained above 6 percent, confirming investors concerns about the lack of action.Berlusconi's declaration may have broken the impasse.This will help overcome opposition by these ... figures in the governing council and facilitate ECB intervention, which is the only thing that can stabilize the market now. I don't see how we can survive another week like this one,one source involved in the talks said.But more profound decisions will need to be taken, and soon.Investors said policy differences among European Union governments and central bankers were heightening anxiety about Europe's will to stem the debt crisis.To bail out Spain would test the fund's existing firepower to the limit while doing so for Italy would overwhelm it although Rehn insisted neither would require assistance.In the first analyst comment on Berlusconi's announcement, Chiara Corsa, vice-president of Unicredit Research, said: This is the response we were hoping to see and there are no doubts that the government pledged to deliver what has been called for, to say the least.However she noted that Berlusconi and Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti had omitted to respond to EU calls for more liberalization of the economy to boost growth, adding that whether they had done enough to calm market turmoil depends on whether the market believes it or not.

CHINA, JAPAN SEEK ACTION

In Japan, Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda said global policymakers needed to confront currency distortions, the debt crises and concerns about the U.S. economy.
Japan sold yen on Thursday to try to cap the currency's rise. It has become a popular safe-haven bet, as has the Swiss franc, as concerns about the United States and Europe grow.Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said U.S. debt risks were escalating and countries should step up cooperation on global economic risks.Yang, who is visiting Poland, called on the United States to adopt responsible monetary policies and protect the dollar investments of other nations.The U.S. Federal Reserve holds its next policy-setting meeting on Tuesday, and economists say there is little more it can do to try to spur growth.Analysts said they would look to see if European leaders are willing to expand its emergency financial stability fund to an amount that would put a floor under the market panic. Currently at 440 billion euros, it would need to be doubled or tripled to cover economies as big as Italy and Spain.Rehn said the EU should keep adapting its financial rescue fund and, in the longer term, consider common euro zone bonds.EU heavyweights Germany and France have so far opposed any common debt issuance, arguing that it would remove a key driver of fiscal discipline in individual member states and push up their own borrowing costs as AAA-rated sovereigns.In Washington, a similar sense of inertia to Europe has taken hold.Just days after a bitterly fought, last-minute deal to raise the country's debt ceiling and avoid default, realization has sunk in that many elements of the $2.1 trillion deficit reduction plan are not locked in place.Doubt has spread through markets that Congress will stick to implementing it in full after the November 2012 elections.(Additional reporting by Paul Taylor in Paris, Kathrin Jones and Sakari Suoninen in Frankfurt, Leika Kihara in Tokyo, William James, Jeremy Gaunt and Ana Nicolai da Costa in London, Pedro da Costa, Kristina Cooke, Walter Brandimarte and Lucia Mutikani in New York and Emily Kaiser in Singapore; writing by Paul Taylor, Barry Moody and Mike Peacock; editing by Janet McBride and Andrew Hay)

FALSE TEACHERS,PROPHETS,DECIEVERS

MARK 7:6
6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

LUKE 16:15
15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

TITUS 1:16
16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

MATTHEW 24:4-5,11,24-25
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.

1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

MARK 13:22-23
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.

2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

DEUTORONOMY 18:10-12
10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

JUDE 10-13
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

MATTHEW 10:32-33
32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me(JESUS) before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
33 But whosoever shall deny me (JESUS) before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.

NOTICE THE USELESS MEDIA WILL NOT SAY HES A MORMON CULTIST LEADER.

Polygamist leader convicted of child sex abuse
APBy WILL WEISSERT - Associated Press | AP – AUG 5,11

SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — A jury convicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs of child sexual assault, in a case stemming from two young followers he took as brides in what his church calls spiritual marriages.The head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints stood stone-faced Thursday as the verdict was read. Jeffs, who acted as his own attorney, stood mostly mute for his closing argument, staring at the floor, for all but a few seconds of the half hour he was allotted.At one point he mumbled, I am at peace, and said no more. The only noise in the courtroom was the creaking of wooden benches brimming with spectators.Jeffs, 55, had claimed his religious rights were being trampled on and that God would seek revenge if the trial continued. He now faces up to life in prison. The sentencing phase of the trial began after the verdict was announced, and Texas' attorney general said it could take three days.Prosecutors used DNA evidence to show Jeffs fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl and played an audio recording of what they said was him sexually assaulting a 12-year-old. They also played audio recordings in which Jeffs was heard instructing young women on how to please him sexually.The FLDS, which has at least 10,000 members, is a radical offshoot of mainstream Mormonism and believes polygamy brings exaltation in heaven. They see Jeffs as God's spokesman on earth.Police had raided the group's remote West Texas ranch in April 2008, finding women dressed in frontier-style dresses and hairdos from the 19th century as well as seeing underage girls who were clearly pregnant. The call to an abuse hotline that spurred the raid turned out to be a hoax, and more than 400 children who had been placed in protective custody were eventually returned to their families.But authorities brought charges against several men from the group, with Jeffs by far the highest-profile defendant.

As the sentencing phase began, prosecutors told jurors they will present evidence that Jeffs had 78 wives, in addition to his legal spouse, and that 24 of them were under the age of 17. Lead prosecutor Eric Nichols also said he would show that Jeffs either witnessed or performed hundreds of polygamist marriages, including 67 church marriages involving underage girls.Jeffs stood up and made several incoherent objections to what was being said.I object to anything pertaining to a religious manner,he said at one point.A constitutional guarantee involving things sacred must be invoked.Prosecutors have relied heavily on information seized from the compound, which is in the town of Eldorado, 45 miles (72 kilometers) south of San Angelo, and features a four-story temple of white limestone. Much of the material was discovered in a vault at the end of a secret passageway in the temple and another vault in an annex building.You might have asked yourselves, Nichols told jurors during closing arguments, a lot of people may ask, why would someone record sex? ... This individual considers himself to be the prophet. Everything he did, hour after hour, he was required to keep a record of that.On one of the tapes played at the trial, Jeffs made a reference to drawing close or being close, which authorities testified is how church members refer to sex. Two female voices said OK.A good wife is trained for her husband and follows the spirit of peace,Jeffs was heard saying.Another audio tape included Jeffs and the younger girl from a recording made in August 2006 at the Texas compound, according to testimony from Nick Hanna, a Texas Ranger involved in the 2008 raid.Played in court, it was difficult to decipher, but Jeffs' and a female voice are heard. He says, I perform this service in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen, then mentions the alleged victim by name. When she says something, he responds, don't talk while praying.Several minutes of heavy breathing followed.Jeffs represented himself after firing seven attorneys in the six months leading to the trial. He broke his courtroom silence with an objection marked by a nearly hourlong speech defending polygamy, and twice threatened the judge and the court with warnings of punishment from God.

He refused to cross-examine the state's witnesses, and delayed giving an opening statement until he began presenting his own defense. In that statement, he evoked images of the civil rights movement and mentioned former Mormon leader Joseph Smith Jr. He also asked the jury to remember constitutional guarantees of religious freedom.The lone defense witness Jeffs called, church elder JD Roundy, spent about 10 minutes on the stand Thursday discussing FLDS history after 4½ hours of testimony the previous evening.One of Jeffs' many former defense attorneys, Deric Walpole, was asked if it was frustrating to watch him defend himself.It took me a while to get used to the idea, but it's about him, it's about what he wanted to do, Walpole said. It's about that man doing what he sees fit.Jeffs failed three times to remove state District Judge Barbara Walther from the case, the last rejection coming even without a hearing. He claimed Walther was biased because she issued the warrant for the original raid and was frequently updated as it progressed.Eleven other FLDS men were charged with crimes including sexual assault and bigamy. All seven of those who have been prosecuted were convicted, receiving prison sentences of between six and 75 years.

POISONED WATERS

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

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

Mysterious orange goo washes up in Alaska village
AP AUG 5,11

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities say a mysterious orange-colored substance has washed up on the shores of a remote village in northwest Alaska.Tests have been conducted on the substance on the surface of the water in Kivalina (KIV'-uh-LEE'-nuh). City Administrator Janet Mitchell told The Associated Press that the substance has also shown up in some residents' rain buckets.Coast Guard Petty Officer David Mosely tells KTUU that it's not a petroleum substance and it's not man-made. Mitchell says the village is requesting that an algae expert from the University of Alaska Fairbanks investigate.Pictures taken by resident Mida Swan show an orange sheen across the harbor and on beaches in the village about 625 miles northwest of Anchorage.Swan says she didn't smell anything odd when she dipped her hand into the substance.

FAMINE

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

FAMINE

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Crisis in Somalia: Why is the famine so severe and aid so difficult? How can you help? By Laura Rozen | The Envoy – AUG 5,11

Somalia is experiencing the worst famine the world has witnessed in a generation, the result of the region's worst drought in 60 years. The UN estimates that a quarter of the Somali population is now displaced—some 1.5 million people—and more than 10 million are in immediate need of food assistance or face starvation.The demands are urgent, and getting adequate assistance to the region in time has been tough.The Lookout asked experts on the area and the crisis for answers—and how you can help today.

Q: How did such a severe famine evolve ?

A: Three factors have caused the Somalia famine to be so severe, aid experts say: severe drought, severe lack of governance and severe poverty.First, the Horn of Africa has experienced two seasons of unprecedented drought conditions. Second, there's been a total breakdown in governance in Somalia over the course of a civil war dating back more than 20 years. Third, people are already extremely impoverished. And the three circumstances are perilously interconnected.You have not had a government in Somalia for 22 years, Oxfam's Shannon Scribner told The Envoy. There's a civil war. People suffer from extreme poverty. When you add in the worst drought in 60 years, people don't have any assets to cope... They don't have food reserves. They don't have livestock. When the livestock dies, they don't have much left.

Q: How many people are affected by the famine?

A: The State Department estimates that 11.5 million people in the Horn of Africa are in need of emergency assistance or face starvation.In addition, more than 800,000 Somalis have already fled to refugee camps in neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia. An estimated 1.5 million Somalis—a quarter of the population—are currently displaced from their homes, the aid coalition group Interaction says.Some 9,000 new Somali refugees are fleeing to Kenya every week, and another 3,000 Somali refugees per week are entering Ethiopia, Oxfam's Scribner said.U.S. officials warn refugee flows could rise. We have heard troubling reports from inside Somalia that the combined daily arrival rates of 3,200 new refugees in Ethiopia and Kenya could rise still more dramatically as the situation in Somalia grows increasingly desperate, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Ruben Brigerty for Population, Refugees and Migration told journalists at a special State Department briefing on the crisis last week.

Q: Was the Somalia famine preventable? How did it develop such severity and why wasn't the world better prepared for it?

A: In short, we should have been able to pre-empt this famine, or at least head off its severity, aid experts say.In the 21st century we shouldn't be experiencing famines on earth. These are preventable, said Sam Worthington, president of Interaction, a coalition of humanitarian aid and nonprofit groups based in Washington, D.C.The U.S. and UN had good early warning information about the conditions on the ground related to food security and climate, aid experts said. For instance, it knew that there had been a fall drought and that a spring drought, if it occurred, would put millions of people at risk. Now, says Worthington, As this famine unfolds, literally hundreds of thousands of lives and children's lives are at risk, and tens of thousands have already died.But problematic relationships with governments in the region—from Somalia to Ethiopia—contributed to the lack of sufficient preparation for a response.The militant Islamist group al-Shebaab, which controls parts of Somalia, kicked out aid groups in 2009 for being un-Islamic. Recently, U.S. officials have indicated that al-Shebaab, however, is not a monolithic organization, and that some of its local leaders are eager for aid groups to return.What you're looking at is a perfect storm: a humanitarian disaster compounded by political complexities, conflict and insecurity throughout the region, said Sarah Margon, a former Senate staffer who specializes in Africa, currently at the Center for American Progress. International aid groups that don't have viable partners in Eritrea, Somalia and parts of Ethiopia are under serious risk, and the Ethiopian regime is becoming increasingly [autocratic]. The combination of all these sectors make a natural disaster response doubly difficult.

Q: What is the U.S. policy toward humanitarian aid going to parts of Somalia under the control of al-Shebaab?

A: The Obama administration announced last week that it is easing restrictions on humanitarian aid groups working to deliver aid to parts of Somalia under the control of al-Shebaab.The State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development are authorized to provide grants and contracts to fund non-governmental organizations providing humanitarian assistance in Somalia, including in areas under the de facto control of al-Shabaab, State Department spokesman Mark Toner told journalists. NGOs would now be covered under the license from the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control in the event their operations may accidentally benefit al-Shabaab,Toner said.Our number-one goal is to save lives, a USAID official told journalists last week. What we are mainly concerned about is creating the flexibility in all possible ways so that assistance can be provided.

Q: How can private citizens help?

A: Individual cash donations offer far greater flexibility and speed than governmental assistance—which comes with restrictions—to aid groups operating on the ground.In the fluid environment of where we are trying to help and help rapidly, the quickest and most effective way to provide a doctor to provide supplementary feeding or a blanket, are private donations,said Worthington.Resources from governments, including our own, while needed, tend to be more directed.Funds raised from the public, he said, allow aid groups on the ground to go, Hey, this is not a medical case, but let's provide nutritional feeding here,or This camp here needs to be moved.It removes all of the layers of constraint.

Q: How responsive has the public been so far to the Somali famine?

A: There's been something of a lag in public response, aid groups say, perhaps in part because the media have not had much of a presence in Somalia.We are not seeing the level of public response that we would like to see, according to Worthington. The response clearly picks up as the images get out there. But it's not a place where the cameras are rolling. Where stories of how a family lost four of children get on the nightly news. Because of this—because of the difficulty of access, it's a little bit removed still. We hope that will eventually change with time and that the deep compassion we see in the American people, that is part of us, will be triggered to provide the resources.

Q: How can you help? A: Interaction has a list of its members providing relief assistance in the Horn of Africa here:http://www.interaction.org/crisis-list/interaction-members-respond-drought-crisis-horn-africa

OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN

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

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

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

No relief in sight for Texas heat and drought
Reuters By Wendell Marsh | Reuters – AUG 5,11

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The nation's triple digit heat wave -- which hit its 34th day on Friday -- could last until the end of August, while extensive drought in and around Texas may last into October, forecasters said.The deadly heat event that has broken numerous records has left the southern plains and Mississippi Valley struggling to meet demand for power and water and has cost billions in impact on crops and livestock.Many more days of triple-digit heat are on deck as iron-clad high pressure at most levels of the atmosphere continues to squat over the south-central U.S., Accuweather.com's senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said.The severe heat is just one part of a compounded climatic problem, an expert from the National Weather Service said.Last year's La Nina, the weather event that left equatorial sea surface temperatures in the central Pacific two to four degrees Fahrenheit cooler, triggered this year's exceptional drought.Normally, La Nina causes a 10 percent drop in precipitation.Since January, the state of Texas, where the drought is anchored, has only had 40 percent of normal rain fall, NWS climate specialist Victor Murphy said.Heavy rains fell in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Friday afternoon, with flash floods wreaking several hours of havoc and prompting fire department rescues of people trapped in their homes and cars.Captain Rob Brisley said the city's fire department responded to more than 80 weather-related calls in three hours, including reports of lightning strikes, downed power lines and flooding emergencies.At least 10 people were taken out their homes by boat as rising waters threatened a neighborhood northwest of downtown, and homes west of downtown also were evacuated, Brisley said.

Rain also slightly cooled the Tennessee River, allowing the Tennessee Valley Authority's Browns Ferry nuclear power plant in Decatur, Alabama to begin ramping up production.The heat had raised the river's temperature to higher than 90 degrees and forced a severe cutback in the energy supplied by the plant, which uses the river water to cool the reactors.On Wednesday, we had three units operating at 50 percent power. Today we have one unit at 75 percent, two at 70 percent,TVA spokesman Ray Golden said.

WIDESPREAD DROUGHT

Drought now affects over a million square miles of the lower 48 states, or 32 percent, according to the Weather Channel. The most extreme cases of "exceptional" drought stretch from Arizona to Louisiana and parts of Georgia, covering almost 11 percent of the lower 48 states.The resulting lack of ground moisture prevents clouds from developing in the low level atmosphere, making daytime showers near impossible.
That problem combined with a persistent dome of high pressure, the climatic conditions are not likely to change.It's a feedback process which just keeps on going, feeding on itself, Murphy told Reuters by phone.Drought begets heat, heat begets drought. That's how we've been since May, he said.The NWS drought outlook released on Thursday reported that in Texas, Oklahoma and parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kansas, and New Mexico, the drought will persist or intensify until the end of October.The region has felt the impact of the several months of severe weather acutely. Wildfires in April and May burned over 3 million acres and the agriculture and livestock industries have seen a preliminary impact of $6 to $8 billion, Murphy said.Water scarcity will likely be this next pressing issue. Images of cracking lakebeds and water turn blood-red from bacterial growth have filled weather reports in recent days.Barring a tropical cyclone, we are forecasted to stay the same as we are,Murphy said.The hurricane season is likely to bring relief to Southeastern states such as Georgia, Alabama, Florida and the Carolinas.The Climate Predication Center, a division of NWS, said on Thursday that the hurricane season would be more likely to be an above average one, notching up their outlook for tropical storms to 14-19 from 12-18 and the number of hurricanes to 7-10 from 6-10.

Despite the heat, high school football practices continue as coaches keep a weary eye on players.Pre-season practices, which are often seen as a rite of passage in the South, may have already claimed the lives of two Georgia players as well as a coach in Texas who had a heart condition.A 14-year-old football player who collapsed after practice in South Carolina last week died of complications stemming from sickle cell anemia, a coroner ruled on Friday.Heat is suspected of playing a major role in the deaths of a 79-year-old mother and her 60-year-old son, whose bodies were found Thursday in their home that lacked air-conditioning, Nashville police said on Friday.The mother and son had heart issues and had been dead two weeks, police said.(Additional reporting by Tim Ghianni, Harriet McLeod and Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Jerry Norton)

Forecasters: Drought may persist for another year
AP By PAUL J. WEBER - Associated Press | AP AUG 5,11

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The drought that has turned Texas and parts of the Plains into a parched moonscape of cracked earth could persist into next year, prolonging the misery of farmers and ranchers who have endured a dry spell that is now expected to be the state's worst since the 1950s.Even the state's feral hogs are hiding from the heat, postponing a new reality TV show about Texans gunning them down from helicopters.Texas saw less than an inch of rain statewide in July, and more than 90 percent of the state is already in the two most extreme stages of drought.Anything below 2 to 3 inches of rainfall would be a fly-on-the-windshield type thing as far as improvement, said Victor Murphy, a climate expert with the National Weather Service.It wouldn't reverse this continued death spiral we're on.Also Thursday, the state climatologist declared this the most severe one-year drought on record in Texas. Officials expected to declare soon that it has become the worst drought since the 1950s.A newly updated weather map showed the drought holding firm — if not intensifying — through at least October.In Dallas, county officials say at least 13 people have died from the heat this summer. The high temperature Thursday was expected to hit 109 degrees, which would be a record for the date.Statewide demand for power was expected to approach the maximum Thursday for a fourth straight day. Some large industrial plants were forced off the overburdened electric grid, requiring them to shut down or rely on their own power reserves.And for the first time this summer, utilities warned residential customers of the potential for rolling outages.Beleaguered farms and dead pastures have been hurt the most. The agriculture industry, which accounts for nearly 9 percent of the Texas economy, may be headed for the biggest single-year losses ever — potentially as high as $8 billion, according to the Texas AgriLife Extension Service.

The La Nina watch issued by the Climate Prediction Center warned that the phenomenon marked by a cooling of the tropical Pacific Ocean could soon redevelop. La Nina typically results in less rain for southern states, and it's blamed for drought conditions in Oklahoma and New Mexico, too.A La Nina watch means conditions are favorable for La Nina to return within the next six months. But Texas will probably know as early as October or November, said Mike Halpert, a deputy director of the Climate Prediction Center.By that time, the driest places could be out of water.In the town of Robert Lee, a rural farming community of about 1,000 in the middle of West Texas, people are worried that Lake E.V. Spence could dry up by winter and leave the town without any water.Some residents wonder if the National Guard can haul in water. Making matters worse, a pipe that was probably busted by the dry, shifting ground began gushing water the town cannot spare. City workers scrambled Thursday to fix it.Closer to Austin, the Llano River trickled at a rate about 95 percent slower than normal. The city of Llano already has contacted bottled water distributors about supplying residents with bottles for cooking and drinking if the river flow stops entirely, which could happen in a matter of weeks.It's amazing we're still getting what water we are, City Manager Finley deGraffenried said. We're running 107 degrees yesterday and the day before. It's unbearable.Texas received no significant rain in April or May, which are typically the state's wettest months. Lake levels are so low that earlier this week, a massive chunk of the space shuttle Columbia that broke apart over Texas in 2003 was found poking out of the receded waters of Lake Nacogdoches.

About 70 percent of Texas rangeland and pastures are classified as being in very poor condition, which means there has been complete or near-complete crop failure or there's no food for grazing livestock.One of the most memorable droughts occurred in the 1950s, when a decade of below-average rainfall and long dry spells actually changed the state's demographics, with many families fleeing parched farms for cities. Experts say the current drought is nowhere near so severe, but if it continues, the scarcity of water will be painful.In the mid-1950s, Texas had a population of 7 million.We got a state with 25 million now. You can see the impact would be significantly greater if we had a drought that the 1950s had,said Travis Miller, a member of the state's Drought Preparedness Council and AgriLife Extension Service leader.One upside is that second La Ninas are historically weaker than the first, Halpert said.The formation of La Nina also doesn't guarantee there won't be significant rain. The pattern often makes for a more active hurricane season, which could lash Texas with a soaking storm. Forecasters said Thursday they still see a busy hurricane season ahead, calling for 14 to 19 tropical storms.If I was in Texas, this is not great news, Halpert said.But it's not the end of the world.Associated Press Writer Linda Stewart Ball in Dallas contributed to this report.

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.

THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.

Tropical Storm drenches Haiti, Dominican Republic
APBy TRENTON DANIEL - Associated Press | AP – Thu, Aug 4, 2011

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Tropical Storm Emily hovered off the south coast of Haiti on Thursday, causing flooding, damaging hundreds of homes and threatening greater misery for multitudes living in tent camps or the flood-prone countryside.
The storm's heavy rains prompted the government of the neighboring Dominican Republic to move at least 1,600 people because of the threat of flooding and mudslides.Emily dropped more than 5 inches (140 millimeters) around the southwestern Dominican city of Barahona and an equal amount was still expected in the area, said Miguel Campusano, a forecaster with the Dominican meteorology office.In Haiti, about 600,000 people are still in flimsy tents and shanties because of the January 2010 earthquake, strong winds whipped through palm trees in the capital while heavier rains fell further north, damaging homes as well as a cholera treatment center, said Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, the country's civil defense director. But there were no reports of deaths.

In the capital, which has most of those left homeless by the earthquake, the rain was relatively light so far, but the government evacuated a few families from a camp for quake victims to a school that is being used as a storm shelter, said Jean-Joseph Edgard, an administrator in Haiti's Civil Protection Department.The storm seemed to pause Thursday morning, then resumed a slow march to the west-northwest off the coast of the island Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic, and forecasters said they expected it to hit Haiti later in the day. Emily had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 kph).Forecasters said the storm was likely to cross eastern Cuba on Friday and might touch Florida on Saturday, though the projected track would keep its center offshore.John Cangialosi, a hurricane specialist with the hurricane center, said up to 20 inches of rain was possible in isolated high-elevation areas. That is enough to cause serious problems in a country prone to catastrophic flooding.There was reason for concern. A slow-moving storm in June triggered mudslides and floods in Haiti and killed at least 28 people. Widespread poverty makes it difficult for people to take even the most basic precautions.Joceline Alcide stashed her two children' birth certificates and school papers in little plastic bags that aid groups handed out. It was her only means to protect herself.There really isn't much more we can do. We just got these bags, the 39-year-old Alcide said, standing outside her teepee-like tarp shelter.The National Hurricane Center said the storm was moving to the west-northwest at about 5 mph (7 kph) and it was centered about 90 miles (145 kilometers) south of Port-au-Prince.
Associated Press writers Ben Fox in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Ezequiel Lopez in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, contributed to this report.

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

EU profoundly disappointed by new Israeli settlement plan AFP– AUG 5,11

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Friday roundly disapproved Israel's go-ahead to the building of 900 new homes in east Jerusalem, saying new settlements damaged the prospects for peace.I am profoundly disappointed by Thursday's approval of a project that has triggered fierce criticism from the Palestinians and the international community, Ashton said.The new homes will expand a neighbourhood in Jerusalem's southwest that is defined as being within municipal boundaries despite lying directly next to the Palestinian West Bank town of Bethlehem.The European Union has repeatedly urged the government of Israel to immediately end all settlement activities in the West Bank, including in East Jerusalem. All settlement activities are illegal under international law, she added in a statement.Israel's decision to further expand settlements was particularly regrettable at a time when the international community was working to restore talks leading to a solution of the conflict, Ashton said.Continued settlement undermines trust between the parties and efforts to resume negotiations. This is especially true with regard to Jerusalem.

I believe there can be no sustainable peace in the Middle East without a two-state solution with the state of Israel and a viable and contiguous Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security.Settlement activity damages this prospect, she concluded.Israel's settlement construction has snarled peace talks that restarted in September 2010, but ground to a halt weeks later when a partial Israeli ban on settlement building expired.Israel declined to renew the freeze, which covered the West Bank but not east Jerusalem, and the Palestinians say they will not negotiate while Israel builds on land they want for their future state.

Palestinian money crisis looms ahead of UN bid
AFP By Hossam Ezzedine | AFP – AUG 5,11

Hit by delays in payments from donor countries and by Israeli restrictions, the Palestinian Authority is suffering a financial crisis, even as it aspires to become a state.On Tuesday it paid its approximately 170,000 employees in full only after they threatened to go on strike after receiving half-pay the month before.But it warned that doing so would seriously hamper the government's ability to function as it struggles with the funding shortfall.In light of the continued financial difficulties, the payment in full of salaries will significantly reduce the capacity of the government to meet other needs over the next month, and everyone understands that,prime minister Salam Fayyad said on Sunday.For months, Fayyad has warned of financial woes due to a chronic shortfall in financial support pledged by donors, especially Arab countries.On July 26, he even attended a special session of the Arab League, requested by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, in a bid to push member states to honour their aid commitments.He said the Palestinian Authority had received only $79 million (55.6 million euros) so far in 2011 out of $330 million pledged by Arab nations for a six-month period.Saudi Arabia subsequently transferred a supplementary donation of $30 million, but the hole in the Palestinian budget remains large.The European Union said Tuesday it had paid 22.5 million euros to enable the Authority to pay July salaries and pensions of nearly 83,000 employees and retirees.

To cushion the impact of the crisis, the economy ministry this month capped prices for basic food items in the run-up to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which began Monday.The maximum price of a kilo of bread is now set at 3.50 shekels ($0.70, 0.49 euros), that of a 10 kilo bag of rice is 57 shekels and that of 10 kilos of sugar is 44 shekels.Beyond the current crisis, national economy minister Hassan Abu Libdeh says the Palestinian economy faces structural impediments that are the result of Israel's occupation.There are many United Nations member states, unable to pay their employees, who borrow, he said. The financial crisis facing the Palestinian Authority is now mainly due to the fact that it cannot take full advantage of its economy.If Israel were to lift only 10 percent of its restrictions on the Palestinian economy, it would represent an income higher than our monthly needs,he said.If Israel lifted its restrictions on agriculture, the contribution of agriculture to national income would be multiplied by eight.The current financial crisis comes as the Palestinians prepare to head to the United Nations to seek membership for a state on the lines that existed before the 1967 Six Day War.But Libdeh said he was convinced that a state unencumbered by Israeli occupation would be economically viable and stable.We're not worried about the ability of the Palestinian state to attain a minimum level of economic prosperity, he said, noting that international institutions have given Fayyad's management high marks.Robert Serry, the UN's special coordinator for the Middle East peace process told the world body last week that the Palestinians are ready to assume the responsibility of a state in the near future.His conclusions echo those issued in recent months by both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, with both institutions lauding the nascent state's progress towards a viable economy.But the World Bank warned that the Palestinian economy was still lacking a vibrant private sector, something it said could not be altered while Israeli restrictions on access to natural resources and markets remain in place.

STOCK RESULTS AUG 5,11

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The Mysterious Death of Osama bin Laden: Creating Evidence Where There Is None Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Infowars.com Aug 5, 2011 Bin Laden

The New Yorker has published a story planted on Nicholas Schmidle by unidentified sources who claim to be familiar with the alleged operation that murdered Osama bin Laden.There is no useful information in the story. Its purpose seems simply to explain away or cover up holes in the original story, principally why did the Seals murder an unarmed, unresisting Osama bin Laden whose capture would have resulted in a goldmine of terrorist information and whose show trial would have rescued the government’s crumbling 9/11 story? The gullible Schmidle tells us: There was never any question of detaining or capturing him–it wasn’t a split-second decision. No one wanted detainees,the special-operations officer told me. In other words, the SEALs murdered bin Laden, because the US government did not want detainees, not because trigger-happy stupid SEALs destroyed a font of terrorist information.Why did the SEALS dump bin Laden’s body in the ocean instead of producing the evidence to a skeptical world? No real explanation, just that SEALS had done the same thing to other victims. Schmidle writes: All along, the SEALs had planned to dump bin Laden’s corpse into the sea–a blunt way of ending the bin Laden myth. But before they did so, the US checked with an unidentified Saudi intelligence operative, who allegedly replied, Your plan sounds like a good one.I mean, really.

After all of Sy Hersh’s New Yorker revelations of US government lies and plots, one can understand the pressure that might have been applied to the New Yorker to publish this fairy tale. But what is extraordinary is that there was a real story that Schmidle and the New Yorker could have investigated.In the immediate aftermath of bin Laden’s alleged murder by the SEALs, Pakistani TV interviewed the next door neighbor to bin Laden’s alleged compound. Someone supplied the video with an English translation running at the bottom of the video. According to the translation, the next door neighbor, Mr. Bashir, said that he watched the entire operation from the roof of his house. There were 3 helicopters. Only 1 landed. About a dozen men got out and entered the house. They shortly returned and boarded the helicopter. When the helicopter lifted off it exploded, killing all aboard. Mr. Bashir reports seeing bodies and pieces of bodies all over.The US government acknowledges that it lost a helicopter, but claims no one was hurt. Obviously, as there were no further landings, if everyone was killed as Mr. Bashir reports, there was no body to be dumped into the ocean.A real investigation would begin with Mr. Bashir’s interview. Was he actually saying what the English translation reported? I have not been able to find the interview with the English translation, but I believe this is the interview that I saw. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0vo-L3VACs

Surely there is a qualified interpreter who can tell us what Mr. Bashir is saying. If the English translation that I saw is not a hoax, then we are presented with a story totally different from the one the government told us and repeated again through Mr. Schmidle.If the English translation of Mr. Bashir’s interview is correct, one would think that there would be some interest on the part of US news organizations and on the part of the intelligence committees in Congress to question Mr. Bashir and his neighbors, many of whom are also interviewed on Pakistani TV saying that they have lived in Abbottabad all their lives and are absolutely certain that Osama bin Laden was not among them.Mr. Schmidle goes to lengths to describe the SEALs’ weapons, although his story makes it clear that no weapons were needed as bin Laden is described as unarmed and undefended. The startled bin Laden didn’t even hear the helicopters or all the SEALs coming up the stairs. In addition to all his fatal illnesses which most experts believe killed him a decade ago, bin Laden must have been deaf as neighbors report that the sound of the helicopters was intense.

When Pakistanis on the scene in Abbottabad report a totally different story from the one that reaches us second and third hand from unidentified operatives speaking to reporters in the US who have never been to Abbottabad, shouldn’t someone qualified look into the story? Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how Americans lost the protection of law, has been released by Random House.

Obama’s ineligibility: Prepare to defend America – As the scam unravels - Lawrence Sellin Thursday, August 4, 2011-CFP

imageIn Barack Hussein Obama’s America, ordinary Americans exercising their Constitutional rights are considered “terrorists”, simply because they oppose his radical agenda.Obama’s contempt for us knows no bounds. His plan to suppress us is no longer constrained by the Constitution and the rule of law. Or so he hopes.
Although Obama is trying to empty Guantánamo Bay of real terrorists, it is still too small for Obama to house the millions of Americans who now realize that he is an illegal President and has committed felonies both before and after occupying the White House.To facilitate the suppression of free speech and other Constitutional rights, the Obama White House has unveiled a new domestic terror strategy, which will be useful against Tea Party malcontents and supporters of Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann.According to the plan, local communities around the country are best suited to take on the challenge of combating the kind of violent extremism that inspires people to kill or oppose Obama’s policies. The strategy calls on federal agencies to help police, schools and community groups prevent violent extremism or the exercise of former Constitutional rights through the use of gulags and re-education camps.Unfortunately for Obama, his co-conspirators and sycophants, the scam is starting to unravel.The most pertinent questions in the coming months will be:Who will be sent to prison with Obama? Who will cop a plea for immunity from prosecution? (hint)Which members of Congress will be put out to pasture for their complicity?

Obama is an illegal President according to Article II, Section I, Clause 5 of the Constitution and the binding precedent of Minor vs. Happersett (1875). There is no ambiguity, although those complicit in the fraud have deliberately provided information to mislead the American people.The Supreme Court held that Mrs. Minor was a US citizen because she was born in the US to parents who were citizens and defined that category of citizen as natural born. The Court specifically avoided reference to the 14th Amendment upon which the Wong Kim Ark case was based. Minor vs. Happersett.Is it a coincidence that every President since the Revolutionary era has been a natural born citizen with the exception of Obama and Chester A. Arthur, who also hid his birth records? There is now yet another detailed technical analysis of the PDF file the White House released on April 27, 2011 indicating that it is not a scan of the original document, as claimed by the White House, but instead is the final form of an electronic file used to forge the birth certificate on Adobe software.Members of Congress will not investigate the overwhelming proof that Obama presented, on national television, a forged Certificate of Live Birth as an official record of his birth. They will not respond to evidence that Obama’s Selective Service registration is also a forgery and that his Social Security Number is illegal.

The list of the ignorant or Obama co-conspirators include: at Sen. Jeff Sessions R-AL, Rep. Tom McClintock R-CA, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison R-TX, Rep. Kristi Noem R-SD, Rep. Leonard Lance R-NJ, Sen. Mel Martinez R-FL, Sen. Sherrod Brown D-OH, Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite R-FL, Sen. Charles Schumer D-NY, Sen. Saxby Chambliss R-GA, Sen. Robert Casey D-PA, Rep. Wally Herger R-CA, Rep. Paul Hodes D-NH, Sen. Mike Crapo R-ID, Rep Vic Snyder D-AR, Sen. Lamar Alexander R-TN, Sen. Michael Bennet D-CO, Sen. Mark. R. Warner D-VA, Sen. Dianne Feinstein D-CA, Sen. Mike Enzi R-WY.Go here to read their confused or misleading statements.Even Rush Limbaugh has now openly expressed doubt about Obama’s Certificate of Live Birth:Tomorrow is Obama’s birthday, he said on August 3, 2011. Not that we’ve seen any proof of that.In this conspiracy of silence, not one member of Congress dares to speak about it. Their days as representatives of the people are numbered.Despite a cowardly Congress, a grassroots political rebellion is brewing. One Georgia county Republican Party is standing up to the probable usurpation of the Presidency.A resolution and cover letter have been sent to three members of the U.S. House of Representatives contending that Barack Hussein Obama is not a natural born citizen as required by the U.S. Constitution to serve as President and demands unfettered access to Obama’s records purportedly held by various state and federal agencies.Ordinary Americans, those who Obama and his minions contemptuously call terrorists, are beginning to rally to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and discharge the oath that Obama has so arrogantly violated.This is one political Pearl Harbor that we are not going to let happen.Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Dow Bloodbath Could Herald Great Depression-NY Times admits: It’s a double dip as markets plunge.Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Friday, August 5, 2011

Seven months after President Barack Obama gave a State of the Union speech in which he said the economy was in recovery mode and that the stock market has come roaring back, the New York Times today all but admits that America has entered a double dip recession following yesterday’s 512 point Dow plunge, while others go further, warning of a new Great Depression as markets continue to plummet today.Why it takes a dramatic fall in the stock market for the establishment media to admit something that’s been painfully obvious in almost every other sector of the economy for the last 2 years goes right to the heart of the split between Wall Street and Main Street.Rising unemployment, crumbling house prices, record food stamp usage, and the soaring price of gold as a barometer of dollar depreciation are three key reasons why contrarians have been warning all along that the economy was in fact getting worse and that talk of a recovery was deluded at best and crazy at worst.For refusing to go along with the happy clappers by putting the blinkers on when it comes to the real measurements of economic health and not the phony, casino-style stock market, people like Gerald Celente and Max Keiser were accused of engaging in pessimism porn even as their forecasts played out.Americans who believed the propaganda about the non-existent “recovery” and failed to move their assets into safe havens will feel stabbed in the back now that the Old Gray Lady finally admits the 2008 recession never really ended. But it really serves them right for placing trust in an establishment that has lost all credibility.Under the headline, Time to Say It: Double Dip Recession May Be Happening, Floyd Norris highlights how the recession was significantly deeper than we were first told, and the so-called recovery was notably overestimated.

Last week the government announced its annual revision to the numbers for the last several years. New government surveys indicated Americans had spent less than previously estimated in 2009 and 2010 on a wide range of things, including food, clothing and computers. Tax returns showed Americans even cut back on gambling. The recession now appears to have been deeper — a top-to-bottom fall of 5.1 percent — and the recovery even less impressive. The economy is still smaller than it was in 2007,writes Norris.Thursday’s market bloodbath also prompted John Lonski, chief economist at Moody’s Investors Service in New York, to predict a return to recession. I now think the odds are uncomfortably high for a double dip, he said.But Peter Morici, a professor at the University of Maryland business school and former chief economist for the U.S. International Trade Commission, went further, warning of a crisis to rival the fallout of 1929.If we go down a second time, it will be the Great Depression,he said. Last time (during the long recession) you didn’t see armies of men roaming the country looking for work. Next time the (extended) unemployment benefits will be tapped out, public employees will be laid off; we will see some really bad things.Yesterday’s stock market plunge, which is being repeated in Asian and European markets so far today, will precipitate what the Federal Reserve and Ben Bernanke were planning all along – QE3 – which could represent a terminal blow for the already stricken U.S. dollar. Helicopter Ben will flood the money supply with more fake greenbacks, the artificially inflated stock market will briefly rally once more, and all the suckers will plough all their money back in only to get burned again later down the line.Smart and sober realists who doggedly stuck to the unspectacular but reliable safe havens of gold, silver and other stores of wealth, will once again preserve the value of their assets.

As Marc Faber told Bloomberg yesterday,Stocks will be dropping 30%, then rallying 20%, and dropping another 30% – that’s going to be the pattern. And whoever can’t live with that shouldn’t be buying equities at all.Faber warns there is a case to be ultrabearish about everything, and markets are going to go lower, adding that next week will give us a clearer picture of exactly how much enthusiasm Bernanke has for hammering the final nail in the dollar’s coffin with the launch of QE3.

Lynching the Tea Party - Mohan Eapen Thursday, August 4, 2011 CANADA FREE PRESS

What are the responsibilities of a CEO? Classical definition would encompass leading, communicating, decision making and managing the affairs of a corporate entity to ensure that all its stakeholders’ issues are addressed and the shareholders’ interests are fulfilled. Going by this definition would it not be the responsibility of any CEO to juxtapose the expenses and revenues, both real and projected, while trying to maintain a healthy profitability? Aren’t the American CEOs well known all over the world for their exceptional business sense, often employing strategies to drive both short term and long term profitability of their respective companies? Is it not an accepted fact that corporate America ruthlessly cull CEOs who do not perform exceptionally on any of the responsibilities entrusted to them? Is it also not a fact that even some of those CEOs who generate decent results just because they fail to live up to the expectation of the shareholders, are replaced? If the answers to all of the above questions are a resounding yes, why then is the United States, the capitalist beacon of hope, run in any other way?

Why is a balanced budget, for that matter even a functional budget, an arcane concept for the CEO of the USA? Why is he not held accountable for not having passed a budget for the last 800 plus days? What are his key performance indicators (KPIs)? not to be confused with the economic indicators. Who are the shareholders he is accountable to and what exactly has he been reporting to them about his own performance and that of the country he has been running for the past two and half years? Would any conventional corporate CEO have survived even four quarters with the kind of results achieved by this CEO? Why has he not been able to foresee, with all the resources at his disposal, the needs of the country and preempt at least some of the current unimaginably complex and disastrous situations? CEOs cannot shrug off their responsibilities by blaming the poor performance of their predecessor, the reason why there was a change in the first place.
Media, Doomsday Predictions and TEA Party Bashing

The answers to all these questions are quite obvious but the fourth estate chooses to ignore them while focusing on dooms day predictions and Tea Party bashing. The American people, the share holders of the United States of America, were extremely perceptional. They were very quick to realize the ineptitude of the new CEO they elected to office and at the first democratic opportunity they registered their displeasure by electing Republican Senator Scott Brown from Massachusetts. That was not indication enough for the new CEO to understand the change of mood among the shareholders, as he continued unabashedly on his ideology driven, agenda ridden administration. At the next democratic opportunity the shareholders voted to take away the solid majority enjoyed by the Democrats in the House and left even the Senate Democrats gasping in their fury. Surprisingly, still the CEO learned nothing constructive from such an emphatically expressed opinion of the shareholders. If the failure to adapt the first time around could be attributed to his inexperience, sheer hubris has to be factored in along with his monumental ineptitude, the second time around.

The shareholders had spoken unequivocally not once, but twice. Even the most unimaginative could garner some sense of the gravity of their collective democratic opinion expressed in the most civil and constitutionally prescribed way. They hoped that the country would not fail and voted for change swiftly, just as passionately as they had voted in the presidential elections two years earlier. Yes, the message of hope and change had come home to roost. Yet the CEO was oblivious of what was going on around him or at least his action gave that impression. The country had undergone a silent revolution, silent mainly due to the stunning abdication of responsibility by the otherwise vociferous mainstream media. They had given the incumbent a pass on one of the most disappointing and devastating performances as the nations CEO. The shareholders had spoken and they demanded real change unlike the verbally bloated version of change that originates from a teleprompter. The change came in the form of a fresh crop of Tea Party members of congress who came in with an unambiguous mandate to control the clueless CEO and his actions. To control the relentless growth of the government and its expenditure, to address the rapidly expanding deficit and the lack of a budget, to stop the vicious cycle of relentless borrowing and the frenzied spending and to affect change in the way Washington functioned. For the shareholders, November 2010 elections were a watershed moment when they finally made the message clear even to the slow to comprehend GOP members of congress, enough is enough.

Ever since the Tea party started flexing their muscles the thus far silent main stream media again turned vociferous and increasingly uncivil and bellicose

Ever since the Tea party started flexing their muscles the thus far silent main stream media again turned vociferous and increasingly uncivil and bellicose, often attaching an array of denigrating attributes including racism and terrorism. Tea party leaders quickly became the favorite objects of ridicule for the liberal elites of the so called mainstream media. The hatchet wielding ideologues camouflaged as journalists were just beginning their field day. Interestingly the CEO was hiding behind the smoke screen created by this biased media avoiding all his responsibilities to the point where the entire country, excepting the no matter what liberals and Democrats, was wondering, who is actually in control?

The current impasse and the fervent negotiations to avoid a default and the principled stance of the Tea Party representatives have to be viewed from this perspective. Suddenly the tea party representatives are the Hezbollah, they are terrorists and the latest talking point is the economic doom that awaits the US and the world on October second. It does not matter anymore that the CEO did absolutely nothing so far which the American people elected him to do other than improving his handicap on a golf course while the entire nation and the world at large was really handicapped. The Tea Party was made to be the sole reason for the impending doom and everyone else suddenly rooting for the American people. While rejecting bill after Republican bill in the senate, the Democrats have latched on to words they cannot even begin to comprehend, such as compromise and bipartisanship, as if they hold the patents to them. Democrats along with the main stream media have been behaving like a lynch mob out to stigmatize the Tea Party as a bunch of racist morons, political pariahs and terrorists who needed to be stopped in their tracks.

American people are definitely tolerant and democratic, may be a little bit naïve, but they are certainly not stupid, the Tea Party has proved it yet again

Meanwhile this CEO is focused on a single negotiating point in the whole deal which made it necessary for him to seek a debt ceiling hike one more time before his reelection. He even threatened to veto any bill that includes this component, no matter what happens to the country and the people that have been entrusted to him. He can overlook the tax hikes, even a constitutional amendment for a balanced budget; but seeking a higher debt limit to borrow more funds in an election year? That is his sacred political ground, tread light. The media; they are still mesmerized by the audacity of the hopeless. The disconnect is so very obvious to anyone who cares. He probably still believes that the share holders will give him one more chance as the nation’s CEO despite the fiasco of an administration he is currently providing. How much louder should the people shout for him to come out of his stupor? American people are definitely tolerant and democratic, may be a little bit naïve, but they are certainly not stupid, the Tea Party has proved it yet again.

WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnq5cQMiAB8&feature=related
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links
DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.
LORD MONCKTON ON WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHyMYEzRyf8&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUUcb36a_4I&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA0xEM1KwG4&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7o1S4m5mCw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieC7HYC5cto&feature=player_embedded

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

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

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

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

REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

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

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

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

Government to Monitor Social Networks For Extremist Propaganda Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Thursday, August 4, 2011 Facebook

A new strategy document released by the White House promises to closely monitor…the Internet and social networking sites in order to counter online violent extremist propaganda” as the federal government attempts to embed itself further in local communities under the guise of preventing domestic extremism.The document, Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States (PDF), focuses on identifying Americans who have supposedly been radicalized or groomed by Al-Qaeda to carry out attacks in the United States.As the L.A. Times notes, the plan involves federal departments not usually associated with national security, and is heavily focused around increasing the federal government’s involvement with schools and the emotional and behavioral development of young people.The document defines extremist propaganda as that which is used to feed on grievances and assign blame. The government vows to aggressively combat such ideology by continuing to closely monitor the important role the internet and social networking sites play in advancing violent extremist narratives.In targeting the Internet and social networking websites for surveillance in the name of fighting domestic terrorism, the White House is continuing in the vein of the previous administration who in 2006 revealed that since 9/11 they had been pursuing a plan to diminish the role of conspiracy theories as a primary recruitment tool for terrorists.The document arrives in the same week that the Pentagon also announced it would be hiring individuals to detect and track popular ideas on social networks.

Indeed, one such examples amidst many where the federal government monitored the Internet to counter extremist propaganda was before protests against the Federal Reserve in 2009 that took place across the United States. After the demonstrations were organized on social networks, the Pentagon released a Force Protection Advisory about planned protests at all Federal Reserve Banks and office locations within the United States,that was sent to Northcom and the FBI.On November 22, 2008, Alex Jones led a rally at the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas Texas. The Dallas protest is specifically mentioned in the official Army document.Despite the White House document’s claim that, opposition to government policy is neither illegal nor unpatriotic and does not make someone a violent extremist, the Department of Homeland Security has gone out of its way to characterize adversaries of big government as potential domestic terrorists.The MIAC Report, admist a deluge of other training documents released by state and federal authorities (or leaked by whistleblowers), equates Ron Paul supporters, libertarians, people who display bumper stickers, people who own gold, or even people who fly a U.S. flag with radical race hate groups and terrorists.The MIAC report specifically describes supporters of presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr as militia influenced terrorists and instructs the Missouri police to be on the lookout for supporters displaying bumper stickers and other paraphernalia associated with the Constitutional, Campaign for Liberty, and Libertarian parties.

A recent DHS promotional video for its See Something, Say Something campaign also overwhelmingly portrayed white middle class Americans as the most likely terrorists. Bizarely, the vast majority of the people seen reporting them to authorities in the 10 minute clip were from ethnic minorities, a theme echoed in the introduction to the White House document which welcomes the waves of immigrants who have flocked to the United States.There seems little doubt that the Obama administration is attempting to marginalize its most fervent critics by characterizing them as potentially violent extremists, to the point where Tea Party lawmakers are now being labeled as terrorists by New York Times writers as well as Vice-President Joe Biden.
Indeed, numerous Democratic strategists have subtly invited a domestic terror attack blamed on anti-government extremists that President Obama could exploit to rescue his sinking approval ratings.Following Jared Lee Loughner’s shooting spree in Arizona back in January, Politico called on Obama to seize upon his Oklahoma City moment,adding that the attack presented a critical opportunity to re-define the nation’s political debate, a talking point endlessly repeated for weeks that merely became a euphemism for allowing Democrats to exploit the attack to silence critics of big government.

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 FRI AUGUST 05,2011

09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM -53.81
10:30 AM +43.78
11:00 AM -29.07
11:30 AM -68.43
12:00 PM -227.52
12:30 PM -65.43
01:00 PM +123.59
01:30 PM +132.43
02:00 PM +116.16
02:30 PM +107.70
03:00 PM +61.61
03:30 PM +13.07
04:00 PM +60.93 11,444.61

S&P 500 1199.38 -0.69

NASDAQ 2532.41 -23.98

GOLD 1,664.50 +5.50

OIL 86.51 -0.04

TSE 300 12,182.20 -218.00

CDNX 1811.49 -41.85

S&P/TSX/60 691.34 -10.72

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +160 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -227 points at low today.
Dow +172 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,662.50.OIL opens at $87.89 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -245 points at low today so far.
Dow +172 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -245 points at low today.
Dow +172 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,684.10 (NOT AT CLOSE)

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.

EU countries wary of oil sanctions on Syria
ANDREW RETTMAN 04.08.2011 @ 18:51 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU sanctions on Syrian oil and gas are a distant prospect for now. But the bloc is looking to add more regime members and security-sector companies to its blacklist.A handful of EU countries raised the prospect of future energy sanctions on Syria at a meeting of the bloc's Political and Security Committee (PSC) in Brussels on Thursday (4 August).One senior EU diplomat who took part in the talks told EUobserver the proposals were couched in vague language. At least one member state spoke of the possibility of enlarging sanctions in future to much broader economic measures. The words oil and gas were not mentioned. But this was an allusion to the oil and gas area,the contact said.Another EU diplomatic source said that any oil measures would require a discussion at EU foreign minister level, with the next ministerial scheduled for 2 September in Poland. The idea is to put together an options paper [on economic sanctions] for ministers to discuss at a later stage,the source noted.Syria currently exports around 150,000 barrels a day of heavy crude oil mostly to France, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. A number of EU companies are also involved in oil and gas extraction and exploration in the country - including Gulfsands Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell and Total.Syrias oil sector is tiny by international standards but provides around €1.8 billion a year in revenue, or 30 percent of government income, according to the International Monetary Fund.

The PSC meeting instead charged EU ambassadors in Damascus with drawing up names of extra regime associates and of Syrian companies directly involved in aiding the repression to add to the bloc's existing blacklist of 35 individuals and four entities.An EU diplomat said the extra measures could be put in place next week. The contact added that the number of new names will be small because all or almost all the people who count in Syria are already on the list.The prevailing mood in the PSC was that economic sanctions would rebound by hurting ordinary Syrians by, for example, resulting in petrol shortages for small businesses.The PSC ambassadors also charged the European External Action Service (EEAS) with trying to mobilise neighbouring Arab countries to speak out against President Bashar Assad's actions. The Arab League, in contrast to its reaction on Libya, has stayed silent on Syria.The twin-track diplomacy and sanctions approach also envisages fresh EU action at the UN Security Council (UNSC) level.EEAS chief Catherine Ashton on Thursday joined EU countries in welcoming Wednesday's UNSC statement condemning the Syrian massacres. But EU members on the UNSC - France, Germany, Portugal and the UK - plan to renew their push for a more weighty UNSC resolution using tougher language in time for the council's next discussion on Syria on 10 August if the killings do not stop.The biggest problem [in the UNSC] is Russia. The Russians are quite trigger-happy themselves so they do not want to see a precedent of the UNSC publishing resolutions condemning countries which fire on their own people,an EU diplomat said.

EU welcomes watered-down UN text on Syria
ANDREW RETTMAN 04.08.2011 @ 09:30 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU foreign ministers have welcomed a UN statement calling on all sides to stop violence in Syria. But US diplomats say European oil sanctions are needed to exert pressure on the regime.The UN Security Council (UNSC) in a presidential statement published on Wednesday (3 August) [called] for an immediate end to all violence and [urged] all sides to act with utmost restraint, and to refrain from reprisals, including attacks against state institutions.It also requested the [UN] secretary general to update the security council on the situation in Syria within seven days.The communique replaces a more weighty EU-sponsored draft UNSC resolution put forward two months ago. The failed EU text had called for a UN investigation into crimes against humanity perpetrated against peaceful protesters.EU foreign ministers hailed the UNSC statement despite its diluted language, designed to appease Syria's historic ally, Russia.France's Alain Juppe said in a statement: The council is sending an unambigious message to Damascus. The UK's William Hague noted: The support for this statement throughout the security council demonstrates the rising international concern at the unacceptable behaviour of the regime.Sweden's Carl Bildt called it an important step.The move did nothing to stop killings in Syria, however.

Reports on Thursday morning say at least 45 people lost their lives in the town of Hama when Syrian tanks shelled civilian homes while soldiers posted on roads out of the city and snipers picked off individuals, including children.Speaking in Congress on Tuesday, the US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, gave the lie to the UNSC hypothesis that the Syrian opposition is engaging in reprisals.The most dangerous weapon [in the hands of protesters] I saw was a sling-shot,he said of his trip to Hama last month.Ford added that the EU should impose oil sanctions on Syria if the international community wants to put real pressure on President Bashar Assad.
Unilaterally, additional American measures probably aren't going to have that big of an impact ... The big companies working in the energy sector in Syria are from Europe or Syria's neighbours.An open letter sent by 68 US senators to President Barack Obama on Wednesday backed Ford's position. We ask that you engage with our European allies and European energy companies on ceasing the purchase of Syrian oil and investment in Syria's oil and gas sectors, and that you work to encourage the European Union to sanction the Commercial Bank of Syria,it said.The only pro-oil-sanction call in Brussels has so far come from the Liberal group in the EU parliament.Liberal leader Guy Verhofstadt on Tuesday said in a press release that: listing ... the two state-owned oil companies Syria Petroleum Corporation and Sytrol would significantly deprive the regime of its daily revenues, since 90 percent of Syrian oil exports are exported to the EU - and market conditions do not favour easy substitution of other arrangements.The EU has so far imposed travel bans and asset freezes on 35 Syrian regime members and four defence-related Syrian companies.

ECB returns to markets to help Italy and Spain
VALENTINA POP 04.08.2011 @ 18:07 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Central Bank (ECB) has decided to go back to markets to buy bonds from troubled eurozone countries after a five-month pause in a bid to stem the crisis from spilling to Italy and Spain.I wouldn't be surprised that before the end of this conference you would see something on the market, ECB chief Jean Claude Trichet said during a press conference in Frankfurt on Thursday (4 August) aftrenoon after the monthly meeting of the bank's governing board.If we intervene, we intervene and we'll publish the amount of what we have done, he added, referring to the bond purchase as a non-standard measure aimed to facilitate the flow of money in the 17-country strong eurozone.He refused to give any details as to the amount and origin of the government bonds to be purchased in the short term.But traders in London reported that Irish and Portuguese bonds were first in line, with no news of Italian and Spanish purchases.Trichet acknowledged that the bond-buying move was not backed by all the members of the bank's governing board. But he said there was an overwhelming majority in favour. It is the first time since March that the ECB is going to the markets to ease the pressure of the spreading debt crisis.

Trichet also joined calls made earlier by EU commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso for national governments, parliaments and the EU legislature to implement the details of the July deal on a second Greek bailout, which also gives extra powers to the EU bailout fund (EFSF), including that of purchasing bonds on the markets.We expect all these decisions taken by leaders in July to be executed fully and in a very effective and rapid fashion, he said. What has been said by the heads is that they will rapidly finalise negotiations with the European Parliament. We consider it's essential to have a strong rigorous surveillance.As to Italy and Spain's efforts to resist being drawn into the debt crisis, Trichet insisted that all governments have to be ahead of the curve. This is of course true for Italy as well as all others.The 10-year Italian and Spanish bond yields started and finished the press conference at 6.1 percent, still above the six-percent margin considered to be unsustainable.Market analysts are sceptical that the ECB bond-purchasing move will succeed in halting crisis contagion.The track record of the ECB's bond purchasing programme so far is anything but promising. As long as it remains a half-hearted mission ... it will probably not be enough,Carsten Brzeski, a senior economist with ING Belgium said in a statement.

Barroso raises alarm about severity of euro crisis
ANDREW RETTMAN 04.08.2011 @ 13:52 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has indicated that bond market developments on Italy and Spain threaten the very survival of the euro.The top official in a letter sent to the Heads of State or Government of the Euro area on Wednesday (3 August) and made public by the commission on Thursday said new bailout measures agreed by the 17 eurozone countries in July are not having their intended effect on the markets, after the cost of borrowing for Italy and Spain spiraled this week.He added: Whatever the factors behind the lack of success, it is clear that we are no longer managing a crisis just in the euro-area periphery. Euro-area financial stability must be safeguarded.Barroso blamed in part the undisciplined communication and the complexity and incompleteness of the 21st July package for the escalation of the crisis.But his letter also sent out a mixed message on the new measures.On one hand, he said governments should quickly ratify the July package and refrain from fiddling with its details by introducing excessive constraints in terms of either additional conditionality or collateralisation of ... lending.On the other hand, he said there should be a rapid reassessment of all elements related to the EFSF, and concomitantly the ESM [the two new bailout mechanisms], in order to ensure that they are equipped with the means for dealing with contagious risk.

A commission spokesowman, Karolina Kottova, said the reassessment could involve increasing the size of €440 billion bailout kitty.She added that this does not mean extra money is needed to bail out Italy or Spain, whose public debt is counted in the trillions.When we speak about all elements we mean all elements and all elements might include the size [of the bailout money] as well,she told press in Brussels on Thursday. Discussion of magnitude is not related to the situation that some of you have raised about Italy and Spain. It's part of a broad reflection.Kottova declined to say which EU countries are seeking extra conditionality for the bailouts or what type of new conditionality is being talked about.Barroso's public warning on the crisis is his second in as many days, with the tone of the letter published on Thursday sharper than his press release on Wednesday.Markets will on Thursday also look to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt to decide if it will resume buying weak eurozone bonds.A revival of the ECB's securities markets program is the only real option that would prevent a liquidity crisis for Spain and Italy,Goldman Sachs economist Dirk Schumacher told Agence France Presse ahead of the announcement, due at 2.30pm local time.

Full text of Barroso letter-Brussels, 3rd August 2011-Dear Colleagues,Developments in the sovereign bond markets of Italy, Spain and other euro area Member States are a cause of deep concern. Though these developments are clearly unwarranted on the basis of economic and budgetary fundamentals and the recent efforts of these Member States, they reflect a growing scepticism among investors about the systemic capacity of the euro area to respond to the evolving crisis. Markets remain to be convinced that we are taking the appropriate steps to resolve the crisis.The 21st of July bold decisions on the Greek package and the increased flexibility of the EFSF (precautionary use, recapitalisation of banks and intervention in secondary bond markets), are not having their intended effect on the markets. Markets highlight, among other reasons, the global economic uncertainties due to both economic growth and the protracted decision on budgetary adjustments in the US but, first and foremost, the undisciplined communication and the complexity and incompleteness of the 21st July package.Whatever the factors behind the lack of success, it is clear that we are no longer managing a crisis just in the euro-area periphery. Euro-area financial stability must be safeguarded, with all EU institutions playing their part with the full backing of euro area Member States. We need also to consider how to further improve the effectiveness of both the EFSF and the ESM in order to address the current contagion.Concretely, I would like to call on you to accelerate the approval procedures for the implementation of these decisions so as to make the EFSF enhancements operational very soon. These changes should also avoid introducing excessive constraints in terms of either additional conditionality or collateralisation of EFSF lending. I trust that governments and national Parliaments will rapidly approve these decisions necessary to improve the EFSF flexibility.I also take the opportunity to urge a rapid reassessment of all elements related to the EFSF, and concomitantly the ESM, in order to ensure that they are equipped with the means for dealing with contagious risk.Finally the Commission stands ready to contribute to the improvement of working methods and crisis management in the euro area.Yours faithfully,Jose Manuel Barroso.

Media Matters: Jones Covering Gun Confiscation Will Get Cops Killed Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com August 4, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2opf44tS_s&feature=player_embedded

The George Soros funded disinfo operation, Media Matters, has recycled propaganda in an effort to attack and discredit Alex Jones. Writing for David Brock’s attack dog organization tied to establishment Democrats and the pro-war Center for American Progress, Chris Brown attempts to once again connect Jones to Richard Poplawski, the deranged lunatic who murdered three Pittsburgh police officers in 2009. Poplawski was found guilty by a jury on June 28, 2011, and sentenced to death.Media Matters insists Poplawski killed the police officers because he was convinced they were coming for his guns. Alex Jones was responsible for planting this idea in his head, they insist. Poplawski’s friends and family say he actually believed this bizarre conspiracy theory, which he gleaned parts of from an extremist conspiracy website and radio program run by Alex Jones, a well known conspiracy monger, Brown writes.

Brown fails to mention the fact that the Poplawski link to Alex Jones was debunked after it was discovered that the cop killer held views opposed to those of Jones. This was admitted by none other than the ADL, we reported on April 6, 2009, two days after the shooting.In response to the facts, the liberal news site Raw Story and Daily Kos (operated by CIA candidate Markos Moulitsas Zuniga) were obliged to correct their stories. The websites had taken their lead from Dennis R. Roddy of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette who wrote: Believing most media were covering up important events, Mr. Poplawski turned to a far-right conspiracy Web site run by Alex Jones, a self-described documentarian with roots going back to the extremist militia movement of the early 1990s.One might think that such a tragic outcome would give Alex Jones pause before he started another round of promoting his wild-eyed theories about the U.S. government coming to take our guns,Brown writes, attempting to rekindle the bogus effort to link Jones to Poplawski. He then takes a video Jones posted on August 1 out of context to continue his accusation that Alex’s First Amendment right of free speech and stating the facts may result in more cop murders.In the video, Alex notes that a new federal regulation requires gun merchants along the border with Mexico to report sales of semiautomatic rifles to the government. He then reports that an employee had verified ATF or FBI visits after buying more than one firearm. Jones says the system does not want armed citizens, they want to set a precedent. And as our country goes into designed banker depression, as we implode, they are coming after our guns, a statement Brown insinuates may lead to more dead cops.The system is having the police and military start a fight where they know gun-owning constitutionalists are not going to along with it, Jones says in the video. They are going to start responding as things degenerate. And they are going to be called terrorists. The system, the social engineers, are sending the ATF and the Feds on a collision course with law abiding patriotic Americans so they can kick off a civil war in America.

The beta test for this situation was conducted in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. No one will be able to be armed. We will take all weapons. Only law enforcement will be allowed to have guns, said Police Superintendent P. Eddie Compass after New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered the confiscation of legal firearms from law-abiding citizens.Second Amendment groups, concerned the action would establish a precedent, filed a motion in federal court to stop the illegal confiscation. The actions of the New Orleans police have inspired 13 states, including Louisiana, to enact laws to keep state and local officials from taking guns during a state of emergency, such as after a natural disaster or terrorist attack, Stateline.org reported in 2007.Despite this, government continues to make legal firearms illegal by decree during national disasters and storms, for instance in North Carolina when Hurricane Earl skirted the eastern seaboard state. In New York, the National Guard worked with federalized local police to search for guns using x-ray technology provided by the Pentagon.The Pentagon has worked closely with foreign troops to confiscate weapons, as an Infowars.com mini-documentary revealed last July. Operation Vigilant Guard reveals the on-going effort to not only destroy Posse Comitatus — once upon a time designed to prevent the military from working with state and local law enforcement — but the globalist effort to incorporate foreign partners into any future effort to impose martial law and gun confiscation in response not only to hurricanes but a contrived terrorist event, we wrote at the time.Alex Jones has exhaustively documented the effort to train troops and police to confiscate weapons in his films, Police State 2000 and Martial Law 911 Rise of the Police State. He covered military drills for gun confiscation and martial law first-hand.Instead of putting Jones’ comments into perspective or considering the evidence, Chris Brown flatly states Jones is up to his old tricks and is attempting to incite violence against the government. He ignores the last few minutes of the video where Jones talks about ATF agents that had some good left in them and revealed details of Project Gun Runner, the government effort to arm the drug cartels that resulted in the death of border patrol agents and police officers.Media Matters is attempting to demonize Jones and other members of the patriot movement by insisting they are inciting violence against the government. This fits right into the effort by the government and its lapdog corporate media to craft a white extremist narrative and mythology in preparation for action against constitutionalists and other liberty-lovers.PrisonPlanet.tv members can tune in this evening at 7 PM CST and watch a special presentation covering Media Matters and the latest efforts by the globalists – and Media Matters is indeed a globalist project funded by George Soros – to demonize patriots and feed them into a fairy tale that broad brushes them as violent lunatics.

IMF chief Lagarde faces France finance crime probe
AFP August 5, 2011, 4:13 am

PARIS (AFP) - A French court gave the green light Thursday for an embezzlement investigation targeting new International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, in a case her lawyer branded as politically motivated.Lagarde, who took up her new post last month, has denied any wrongdoing or illegality in a case which resulted in a big compensation payment for a private businessman out of public funds in 2008 when she was France's finance minister.The IMF's executive board immediately expressed confidence in the 55-year-old, whose immediate predecessor at the organisation, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, resigned after he was accused of attempted rape.Gerard Palisse, the presiding judge at the Court of Justice of the Republic, said the tribunal had approved a judicial inquiry concerning Mrs Lagarde, in which magistrates would investigate her role in settling the financial dispute.Such an inquiry can lead to criminal charges, which in this case would be punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a fine of 150,000 euros ($212,000).State prosecutors in a statement detailed the charges as embezzlement of public funds and complicity in falsifying documents, and said prosecutor Cecile Petit would formally request the probe in the coming days.Lagarde's lawyer Yves Repiquet said the second charge was related to changes made to legal documents which affected the outcome of the contested financial settlement. Both charges were unfounded, he said.He complained that the case was driven by suspicion abusively cast on Christine Lagarde by a handful of opposition members of parliament for political ends and said he expected the case to be dismissed.Repiquet also insisted the inquiry was in no way incompatible with Lagarde's new role as managing director of the IMF.

The IMF is the global lender of last resort with a key role in calming the effects of the financial crisis on public finances in Europe.I have a perfectly clear conscience about the affair, Lagarde said in June. Whether the investigating magistrates decide to pursue an inquiry or not, I am just as confident and calm, she added the following month.Lagarde became the first woman head of the IMF, taking over from her compatriot Strauss-Kahn -- another former finance minister -- after he resigned after being accused of trying to rape a hotel chamber maid.Opposition politicians in France welcomed the news of the investigation.Jean-Marc Ayrault, the president of the opposition Socialist group in parliament, said the decision to open the investigation confirmed the existence of anomalies and irregularities in the management of this dossier.It was a group of Socialists who asked the court to consider a probe.The French have the right to know if decisions have been taken in violation of the public interest, Martine Aubry, a contender for the Socialist nomination for the presidency, said in a statement.And Francois Bayrou, leader of the Centrist Modem Party, welcomed the development as a decisive step on the path to the truth.In a statement after Thursday's announcement, the IMF board said it had already reviewed the issues in the case when it weighed Lagarde's candidacy.It would not be appropriate for the board to comment on a case that is currently before the French judiciary, it said.However, the board is confident that she will be able to effectively carry out her duties as managing director.Lagarde has been accused of exceeding her authority by cutting short a legal battle between flamboyant French tycoon Bernard Tapie and the formerly state-owned bank Credit Lyonnais by sending it to private arbitration.The arbitration panel awarded compensation to Tapie, a supporter of Lagarde's then boss, President Nicolas Sarkozy, in the case, linked to the bank's alleged mishandling of Tapie's sale of sportswear brand Adidas.The total payment was around 400 million euros ($560 million), though Tapie is thought to have pocketed less.Under the French judicial system, the magistrates' inquiry could lead to Lagarde being formally charged and possibly tried with a criminal offence. That process would likely take several years.

US shirked its responsibility to the global economy – top Russian economist Published: 04 August, 2011, 10:53

The former head of Russia's Central Bank has said that the US is to some extent Indebted to the entire world and that in a unipolar system which keeps pursuing globalization, this spells an inevitable collapse.

­RT: Mr. Gerashchenko, hello and thank you very much for being here. You became head of Centrobank [Russia's Central Bank] when Russia began pursuing its shock therapy policy, following advice from American experts. How would you advise your American colleagues now, with the situation they are facing? Viktor Gerashchenko: Live within your means, that's all. That's just what they told us back then, with no idea at all about our economic and social situation at the time. That was in 1992, when we began – well, parts of the government began – to listen to their advice after Russia joined the IMF that year. Later, they wrote – and the famous Stieglitz, a Nobel laureate and former economic advisor to Clinton, was among them – that they were doing everything wrong. What they were telling us was all wrong.RT: If we think about the ability to live within one's means, who is better at that now: the Russia of those days or today's USA?

VG: You see, the USSR was living on credit, of course. But it was solvent, and other states were eager to give credit, even the US, though the latter wasn’t doing it directly, but through European affiliates. They all knew, after all, that the Soviet economy was under control and that the country would pay its debts sooner or later, even without high oil prices. That's why they were eager to give credit to the USSR, especially to finance the purchase of high-tech goods to be supplied to the Soviet market. The fact is, though, that after 1932, a time of crisis for the US, America wouldn’t sell the USSR complete production facilities, like the car plant in Togliatti or chemical plants, of which the USSR had bought four billion dollars worth and which had played their part in its technical progress. But anyway, the Soviet Union's credit rating was quite high.It has been easy for the US to take credit because of the entire system that’s been built up since 1945. When the IMF was being set up, there was a heated dispute between the UK and the US. Of course, the British had to back off, because their economy had been greatly damaged by the war. That later led to the devaluation of the pound, some years after the war. In fact, all of Europe was living off the Marshall Plan back then, and that consisted mostly of agricultural commodities, along with some industrial plants and factories that had depleted their technological potential, ones that the US didn’t need anymore. This, in part, was the reason for America’s technological leap. Over more recent years, though, with production capacities growing rapidly in the Third World, the share of production in America's GDP has been shrinking. That's how America began to live on credit. And living on credit is always difficult, as a time may come sooner or later when debts will have to be paid off. Right now, nobody wants to remember that it was in the early 90s, when Bush and the Republicans came to power, that the US external state debt, obtained by issuing treasury bonds with different terms (anything from one week to 20 years) and interest rates, grew massively. Right now, it has been increased still further. So, generally, it all happened under Republican rule. My question is, then, why all the hubbub now? It’s just political games, nothing more.

RT: How much time do you think the USA has left before it has to start living within its means?

VG: Well, you see, speaking of the country's gold reserves… The USSR only joined the IMF in 1992, although it was among its founders back in 1945. The Soviet delegation took part in all relevant discussions and we even managed to secure the right to keep our contribution to the capital of the World Bank in gold, the reserves of which Stalin was very keen to control. The gold was to be kept in the USSR, with the IMF having the right to come at any time to check it was still there and hadn’t been sold.The USSR could have joined the IMF before December 1st 1945, but then the head of Gosplan, Voznesensky, stepped in and said, We came out of the war so poor that if we gather and file all the stats required by the IMF, all will see is how much we actually lost in the war. So we’d better not join.IMF rules dictate that any country's currency reserves resulting from a good balance of payments and without a budget deficit should be kept abroad, either in US dollars or in gold.Well, it would be ridiculous to buy gold, the price of which tended to swing all the way from $800 to $400 an ounce in just a year. The US never maintained gold prices, even though it used to be $35 an ounce, and in 1971, President Nixon raised it to $70 an ounce. When De Gaulle collected all dollars throughout France and sent them to the US asking to exchange them for gold, the gold content of the dollar was devalued. But everyone keeps quiet about that.They began living on credit. You could only keep your currency either in gold, or in a currency that was used in 90 percent of world trade at the time. And so did our country. Even though now we’ve kept it in dollars, euros and even, in small part, Swiss francs or something of that kind, since 2002. But the US to some extent lives in debt to the entire world. And that isn’t right.

RT: The US managed to avoid a federal technical default. But what was the threat for the whole world?

VG: If the US declared a default it wouldn't have been able to repay treasury bonds it had issued, according to the limit set by Congress, to the Ministry of Finance, or to the US government, or to the US President, the government head. So they wouldn't be able to replace them with new bonds in time.

RT: And what happens within the country if they reach a compromise to cut their expenses?

VG: This has no explicit connection to the situation within their country. On the other hand, the dollar exchange rate, including cash, immediately drops on the world's markets.And the exchange rate for securities traded around the world drops as well, in spite of the fact that they're issued by US companies. So, they incur bookkeeping losses at the very least, and perhaps even real financial losses.To a large extent, the debt was formed under the Bush presidency. The war in Iraq and their role in the Afghanistan conflict required huge military expenses.And in effect, the whole world, including our country, has been funding those military costs, their budget deficit, and their balance of payments deficit.

RT: The approved US military budget for this year alone is about $700 billion. And frankly speaking, there are no reasons to believe that these military expenses will be reduced. Do you believe this could be possible?

VG: I believe that the globalization which has been happening for a while now and which hasn't been giving much to developing or Third World countries, will result in some kind of collapse.

RT: Since 1940, the US has raised its debt limit 90 times, that’s become a standard procedure. But then, the situation progressed to the point of shaking the world's markets and the world was threatened with unknown economic territory. How did that happen?

VG: To a large extent, in the 1960s or 1970s, 90 percent of international settlements were in dollars – that was between countries that weren't even connected with the US. Then the euro zone was established to start giving up national currencies, even though some European countries like Denmark didn’t join. Nonetheless, the dollar remained the key settlement currency. Everyone needed dollars, and often required dollars rather than any other currency. Therefore, the dollar became the worldwide currency. But a worldwide spread also calls for worldwide responsibility. And the US authorities didn't show enough of that responsibility.

RT: A number of economists call the actions of the US financially irresponsible.Do you agree, or is it rather a kind of game being played in their own interests?

VG: From the viewpoint of economic theory, there is a certain irresponsibility. LaRouche, a famous American economist of French or Canadian origin, about 10 years ago said that the US economy, considering its domestic and foreign economic policy, is bound to face a crash like the Roman Empire.

RT: If ratings fall, the economic players, central banks, will change the structure of their reserves. Can a mass dumping of the US treasury happen, and what implications can we expect in this case?

VG: What else is there for them? Our Chinese colleagues, in spite of their trade surplus with the US and their unwillingness to revalue their currency, still keep most of their funds in dollars, even though they use them actively to penetrate the development of African and Asian economies, to develop their infrastructure, and so on.There’s nowhere to go. The world is established in a unipolar way. You can’t just get out of a marriage, especially when you have kids.

Stocks Plunge on Fears of Global Turmoil
By GRAHAM BOWLEY Published: August 4, 2011

What began as a weak day in the stock markets ended in the worst rout in more than two years, as investors dumped stocks amid anxiety that both Europe and the United States were failing to fix deepening economic problems.With a steep decline of around 5 percent in the United States on Thursday, stocks have now fallen nearly 11 percent in two weeks. Markets have been plunging as investors sought safer havens for their money — including Treasury bonds, which some had been avoiding during the debate over extending the nation’s debt ceiling.Sparking the drop was an unsuccessful effort by the European Central Bank to reassure the markets, which instead ended up spooking investors. The bank intervened with a show of support to buy bonds of some smaller countries, but not Italy and Spain, whose mounting troubles have come into the spotlight. This was taken as a sign that the recent rescue packages by Europe could soon be overwhelmed by the huge debt burdens in those two countries.Investors were further unnerved by a candid remark by José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, who seemed to confirm fears about the sense of political paralysis. Rather than play down the problems, as European officials have done since the debt crisis began last year, he said, Markets remain to be convinced that we are taking the appropriate steps to resolve the crisis.

With investors in the United States already focusing anew on fragile economic growth and high unemployment, waves of selling of stocks began in Europe and continued throughout the day in the United States. Analysts said the market still might have further to fall, as investors reassess the dimming economic prospects. In the short run, attention will be focused on critical unemployment numbers for July to be released on Friday morning. And some in the markets are already questioning whether the Federal Reserve has done enough to mend the economy and whether it could soon take further steps to stimulate growth.On Thursday, more than 14 billion shares changed hands, the heaviest selling in more than a year. In addition to being unnerved by weaker economic data reported in recent days, investors appeared to lose their optimism about the strength of corporate profits that had driven increases in the stock market in the first half of this year.At the close, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index was down 60.27 points, or 4.78 percent, to 1,200.07. The Dow Jones industrial average was off 512.76 points, or 4.31 percent, to 11,383.68, and the Nasdaq was down 136.68, or 5.08 percent, to 2,556.39.The S.& P. 500 has now fallen 10.7 percent from 1,345 on July 22, underlining the new negative investment sentiment about the economy and about Europe.We are now in correction mode, said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at Standard & Poor’s. We could have another couple of weeks to go before it bottoms.The last time the market was in a correction was last summer, when it fell 16 percent before recovering.Analysts said credit markets were still healthy and the United States was now stronger than just a few years ago so that a repeat of the financial crisis was unlikely.

There is a huge difference — during the financial crisis the banking sector broke down. Right now it’s a crisis of confidence based on weak economies but the banking sector is not broken, said Reena Aggarwal, professor of finance at Georgetown University.The Vix, which measures the implied volatility of options on the S.& P. 500 index, and is called the fear index by traders, spiked on Thursday, though it is still much lower than during the depths of the financial crisis in 2008.Washington’s reaction to the market’s tumble was muted. The Treasury Department said it did not plan to issue any statements or provide officials to comment.Markets go up and down, said the White House spokesman, Jay Carney. We obviously are monitoring the situation in Europe closely.As the prospects for economic growth dimmed, several commodities, including oil, silver and palladium, fell by more than 5 percent, perhaps producing some good news for consumers.With oil prices dropping below $87 a barrel, wiping out the rise caused by unrest in the Middle East and North Africa earlier in the year, drivers can expect sharply lower gasoline prices just in time for the Labor Day weekend and back-to-school shopping.Agricultural crops and most industrial metals fell somewhat less drastically, with copper falling 1.9 percent, aluminum by 1.7 percent, corn by 1.9 percent, wheat by 3.4 percent and soybeans by
Taken together, the drops should mean lower input costs for manufacturers and give the Federal Reserve more policy options should the economy continue to slow.A closely-watched survey of American investor attitudes provided by the American Association of Individual investors on Thursday showed the biggest increase in bearish sentiment for five years in the latest week. As investors fled assets like stocks, they piled into the perceived safety of United States Treasuries where 10-year interest rates fell to 2.41 percent, recording the biggest one day fall since March 2009.Yields on one-month United States notes actually fell into negative territory before closing at zero.Besides piling into Treasuries, institutional investors are also seeking out the safety of cold, hard cash, pouring billions into commercial bank accounts backed up by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Investors had also been buying Swiss francs and Japanese yen. But earlier this week, Switzerland unexpectedly cut interest rates in an effort to weaken the franc. Japan on Thursday also intervened to weaken its currency, raising the specter that more nations could take similar steps to try to protect their economies.

Around the world, markets from Brazil to Turkey were battered.In Britain, stocks closed down 3.43 percent. In Germany, the DAX index dropped 3.4 percent. In France, the CAC 40 closed down 3.9 percent.It really is Europe today, said Barry Knapp, head of United States equity strategy at Barclays Capital. The market feels that European leaders are one step behind, and they are.Asian markets quickly followed suit in trading lower. In midday trading on Friday, the Nikkei 225 in Japan was down 3.47 percent to 9,312.22 while the S.& P./ASX 200 index in Australia fell 3.98 percent to 4,106.40. The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong opened sharply lower as well, and was down 4.6 percent to 20,865.95 by midday.With some warning signs that weaker European banks are struggling to fund themselves, the central bank moved to help weaker banks by expanding its lending to institutions in the euro zone. Bank stocks nevertheless fell sharply in Europe.In the United States, as the stock market fell, it broke through critical support levels, leading to more selling as traders rushed to reduce exposure to plummeting prices. That included computerized program traders, one analyst said.Reporting was contributed by Nelson D. Schwartz, Clifford Krauss, Mark Landler, Motoko Rich and Bettina Wassener.

Rawesome Foods small victory: James Stewart bail reduced to $30,000, Victoria Bloch released from jail Mike Adams Natural News Aug 5, 2011 Raw milk

Keep up the great work, NaturalNews readers! In the hours following the public protests and global attention being paid to the Rawesome Food raids, an LA County Judge reduced James Stewart’s bail from $123,000 to $30,000. By all indications, James Stewart will be out of jail Friday morning (if not sooner). A condition of his release is that he not engage in the sale of unpasteurized milk and cheese — a condition which is, by itself, completely unconstitutional and a violation of natural law. But nevertheless, this is the condition being set by the LA County courts.In addition, Victoria Bloch, the L.A. liaison to the Weston A. Price Foundation, has been released and is reportedly at home this evening. We hope to speak with Victoria Friday in a phone interview and bring you her report, if she’s ready to share that story publicly. This ordeal has no doubt been extremely stressful for all those involved, and it’s nowhere near over: The charges of conspiracy against all three persons (James, Victoria, Sharon) still exist and will reportedly be prosecuted by a special environmental prosecutor from the FDA. (We are still working on confirming that tip so we can’t 100% support that yet…) (http://www.naturalnews.com/033233_g…)

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If people want to buy raw milk knowing full well that there is a tiny fraction of a percentage of risk that the milk might make them sick, then let em buy the milk! Doesn’t raw fish have a warning that could be used for raw milk? Isn’t downhill skiing dangerous? Isn’t swimming in a public pool far more dangerous than drinking raw milk? And what about the dangers of eating aspartame, MSG, hydrogenated oils and chemical food preservatives? Why are all the government agencies okay with all those poisons but not okay with people eating real food that might, on extremely rare occasions, cause someone to have an upset stomach? I am sick of our nanny state Big Government bureaucrats trying to intervene in our private lives to the point where parents are barred from packing their children’s school lunches… or where parents are restricted from buying raw goat’s milk to provide nutrition for infant babies whose mothers cannot breastfeed. With the Rawesome Foods raids, our government is stealing food from babies and then charging people with felony crimes for daring to provide such wholesome food in the first place!NaturalNews continues to bring you the cutting-edge news from the front lines on this story, and we plan to cover every significant development in this story as quickly as we can, so keep checking our home page for updates throughout the day Friday (and beyond).