JERUSALEM DIVIDED
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
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.
I WONDER IF GOD IS TELLING ISRAELIS ITS TIME TO GO HOME TO ISRAEL WERE USE BELONG.FIRST THIS QUAKE YESTERDAY FELT IN NEW YORK.THEN HURRICANE IRENE IS HEADED FOR NEW YORK ,WASHINGTON AND BOSTON.OR MAYBE GOD IS GIVING OBAMA A WARNING.ITS ONLY A MONTH TILL THE PALESTINIANS WANT TO FORCE ISRAEL TO DIVIDE JERUSALEM AND HAVE A STATE OF THEIR OWN.ONLY TIME WILL TELL AFTER HURRICANE IRENE HITS.
U.S. East Coast alerted to Hurricane Irene threat
Reuters By Neil Hartnell | Reuters – AUG 24,11
NASSAU (Reuters) - The U.S. put its eastern seaboard on alert for Hurricane Irene on Tuesday as the powerful storm barreled up from the Caribbean on a path that could hit the U.S. coast on the weekend.Even as the first hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic season pounded the Turks and Caicos Islands and the southeast Bahamas with battering winds and rain and dangerous storm surge, coastal residents in Florida and the Carolinas were preparing for Irene's approach.I pray God's blessing on us all, Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said as he urged residents of his Atlantic archipelago nation southeast of Florida to take shelter.Irene is the ninth named storm of the busy June-through-November season and looks set to be the first hurricane to hit the United States since Ike pounded the Texas coast in 2008.It weakened on Tuesday to a Category 1 hurricane on the five-step Saffir Simpson scale of intensity, but could strengthen into a major Category 3 storm with winds over 111 miles per hour (178 km per hour) by Thursday, the Hurricane Center forecasters said.
While warning the entire U.S. East Coast to be on the alert, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate and National Hurricane Center Director Bill Read said it was too early to be certain where Irene would directly hit the coastline.We're going to have a very large tropical cyclone move up the Eastern Seaboard over the next five to seven days, Read said on a conference call in which he spoke along with Fugate.The best guess forecast was that it would approach the coast of the Carolinas on Saturday morning as a major storm of Category 3 or upward, Read said.After that, the already saturated New England region of the East Coast could also be at particular risk for torrential rains, high winds and flooding from Irene, Fugate said. Major eastern cities like Washington and New York could feel some impact from Irene, the forecast indicated.In a separate development, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the U.S. East Coast, shaking Washington, New York and other cities.Irene could put a damper on Sunday's dedication ceremony for the new memorial honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jnr. on Washington's National Mall. Tens of thousands of people, including President Barack Obama, were expected to attend.Forecasts showed Irene posing no threat to U.S. oil and gas installations in the Gulf of Mexico.
SALT HARVEST HALTED
Irene was heading west-northwest over the Turks and Caicos Islands and southeastern Bahamas.At 5 p.m. (2100 GMT), it had top winds of 90 miles per hour and was centered 110 miles east of Great Inagua Island in the southern Bahamas. Forecasters warned that a storm surge up to 13-feet high could wash over parts of the Bahamas.Cruise line Royal Caribbean rearranged itineraries for six ships, skipping two scheduled stops at its Coco Cay island in the Bahamas so staff could prepare and evacuate.
Carnival Cruise Lines changed ports of call or shifted the arrival or departure times at ports for seven of its ships, a spokesman said.Morton Salt shut down its operations on Great Inagua because rain melts the salt cake in its crystallizers, leaving it unable to continue the salt harvest. The company temporarily laid off 100 workers this month after getting more than double the average rainfall in July.We are hoping and praying we don't get any more precipitation from this hurricane, said Glen Bannister, Morton Salt's managing director.In North Carolina, where Irene was forecast to come ashore on Saturday, Governor Bev Perdue urged residents to make sure they had three days worth of food, water and supplies.You may lose water or electrical power during the storm, and grocery stores and other businesses may be closed. Also make sure you know the evacuation routes, Perdue said.Evacuations were to begin on Wednesday for parts of North Carolina's Outer Banks, the stretch of barrier islands and beaches jutting into the Atlantic Ocean. Tourists were ordered to leave some areas.At a hardware store in Charleston, South Carolina, Carlito Resnicki, 29, hauled sheets of plywood to his car to board up his home.I have a wife. ... Mama Bear said go buy plywood, so I came.Irene could still swing farther east away from the U.S. coast. But if it skirts North Carolina's Outer Banks without weakening and then plows northward through the heavily populated mid-Atlantic and New England coasts as a Category 1 or 2 hurricane, It could become one of the ten most damaging hurricanes in history,hurricane expert Jeff Masters of private forecaster Weather Underground wrote in his blog.Obama was briefed about Irene while on vacation at the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard. He signed an emergency declaration on Monday for Puerto Rico after the storm pummeled the U.S. territory with heavy rains and winds. Puerto Rican authorities reported power outages and some flooding, but there were no reports of deaths or injuries.(Additional reporting by Manuel Jimenez in Santo Domingo, Jane Sutton and Tom Brown in Miami, Harriet McLeod in Charleston, S.C., Barbara Liston in Orlando; Writing by Pascal Fletcher; Editing by Christopher Wilson)
Hurricane Irene strengthens on path to U.S. coast
Reuters By Neil Hartnell – AUG 24,11
NASSAU, Aug 24 (Reuters) – Hurricane Irene strengthened on Wednesday as it roared up from the Caribbean on a path that prompted residents along the U.S. east coast to prepare for a possible hit over the weekend.Irene regained force as a Category 2 storm on the five-step Saffir Simpson scale, with top winds of 100 miles per hour (155 km per hour), the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.Irene could become a major hurricane within the next day or so, the center said.Even as the first hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic season pounded the Turks and Caicos Islands and the southeast Bahamas with winds, rain and a dangerous storm surge, people in the Carolinas on the southeastern U.S. coast were getting ready for the storm's approach.
At 2 a.m. EDT, Irene was about 400 miles southeast of Nassau and about 975 miles south of Cape Hatteras in North Carolina.Irene, the ninth named storm of the June-through-November season, looks set to be the first hurricane to hit the United States since Ike pounded the Texas coast in 2008. But forecasts showed it posing no threat to U.S. oil and gas installations in the Gulf of Mexico.Irene had weakened on Tuesday to a Category 1 hurricane but could strengthen into a major Category 3 storm with winds over 111 mph by Thursday, the hurricane center said.The storm is forecast to approach the coast of the Carolinas on Saturday morning. After that, the saturated New England region could be at risk from torrential rains, high winds and flooding from Irene, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate said on Tuesday.Major eastern cities like Washington and New York could feel some impact, the forecasts showed.In North Carolina, Governor Bev Perdue urged residents to ensure they had three days worth of food, water and supplies.Voluntary evacuations were to begin on Wednesday for parts of North Carolina's Outer Banks, a stretch of barrier islands and beaches that are popular summer holiday spots.Irene drenched the northeastern Caribbean islands earlier in the week. The first death from the storm was reported on Tuesday in Puerto Rico, where a woman was swept away.
Heavy rains continued to pelt the U.S. Caribbean territory, causing flooding and mudslides. Nearly 300,000 residents were without electricity and 58,000 were without water.(Additional reporting by Jane Sutton and Tom Brown in Miami, Harriet McLeod in Charleston, S.C., Edwin Barnett in Raleigh, N.C., Barbara Liston in Orlando; Writing by Pascal Fletcher and John O'Callaghan; Editing by Miral Fahmy)
Hurricane Irene Affirms Magic Hurricane Date
LiveScience.com Brett Israel LiveScience.com – Tue Aug 23, 10:44 pm ET
Hurricane watchers circle Aug. 20 on their calendars every year. This is the magic date when hurricane season seems to kicks into high gear.Like clockwork, Hurricane Irene — the Atlantic's first hurricane of 2011 — was born on Aug. 22, later strengthening to a Category 2 hurricane. Last year was another good example of an active storm season ramping up after Aug. 20. All of the 2010's major hurricanes (those of Category 3 or higher) formed after Aug. 20, starting with Danielle on Aug. 21.Aug. 20 seems to be special because around this time, the air and ocean are in just the right state to foster and feed the monster storms. In climate-speak, this time of year is when vertical shear (a change in wind directions with height) in the atmosphere is low enough and sea surface temperatures are warm enough to create big storms.Now, storms can get going before Aug. 20, but this is typically about when they start, said Phil Klotzbach, a hurricane forecaster at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.This year was typical in saving its biggest storm so far for after Aug. 20, but it was unprecedented in the number of tropical storms that fizzled before reaching hurricane strength. The 2011 hurricane season began with eight tropical storms that all failed to become hurricanes before Irene broke the streak. One reason for the flurry of tropical storms is that scientists are naming more tropical storms than in past years, Klotzbach said.
The last time a hurricane season saw so many tropical storms before seeing a hurricane was 2002. That year, Tropical Storm Gustav eventually broke the string by strengthening to a Category 4 hurricane. Gustav struck Louisiana on Sept. 8, killing 112 people.The hurricane forecast from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) calls for 14 to 19 named storms (which include tropical storms and hurricanes), seven to 10 hurricanes and three to five major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher).Irene is currently a Category 2 storm, with winds of up to 100 mph (160 kph), and is the first serious threat to the U.S. coast in three years. If no hurricanes make landfall in 2011, this three-season lull will be the longest in recorded history.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Once-a-century earthquake rattles East Coast
Reuters By Lily Kuo and Malathi Nayak – Wed Aug 24, 12:28 am ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A strong earthquake rattled the East Coast on Tuesday, sending tremors as far as Canada, damaging well-known buildings in the nation's capital and sending scared office workers into the streets.There were no reports of major damage or serious injuries from the 5.8 magnitude quake, which was centered in Mineral, Virginia, about 90 miles southwest of Washington, D.C.It was the largest quake in Virginia since 1897 and struck at a shallow depth, increasing its potency.
The Pentagon, White House and U.S. Capitol were evacuated in Washington, and thousands of alarmed workers scurried into the streets up and down the East Coast as the lunchtime quake sent items crashing down from store and office shelves.We were rocking, said Larry Beach, who works at the U.S. Agency for International Development in downtown Washington.It was definitely significant.Federal workers were sent home early.Washington's National Cathedral, host to state funerals and memorial services for many U.S. presidents, suffered damage with three spires in the central tower breaking off.The U.S. East Coast does not normally experience quakes as strong as Tuesday's. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was of 5.8 magnitude, downgrading an earlier estimate if 5.9.Earthquakes of magnitude 5.5 can cause damage to buildings and other structures.In addition to the Virginia earthquake, there were nine tremors in the area immediately around Cokedale, Colorado, near the border of New Mexico.Today we had two significant earthquakes shake large portions of the country, said David Wald, a geophysicist with the USGS.The Western earthquake, magnitude 5.3, within the last 24 hours, shook roughly four western states, primarily Colorado and New Mexico, but also parts of Kansas, Oklahoma as well as Texas -- large states, but probably experienced by tens of thousands of people,he said.
U.S. CAPITOL SHAKEN
As if a rare strong earthquake were not enough, the East Coast was also on alert for powerful Hurricane Irene which was heading up from the Caribbean and could hit at the weekend.The quake made chandeliers sway in the U.S. Capitol and the floor of the U.S. Senate shook before staff headed for the exits. Some minor damage could be seen in the rotunda, under the dome of the Capitol.Bits of paint and plaster fell from high on the walls and chunks of plaster fell from above a doorway in the Capitol's Statuary Hall. The U.S. Congress is in recess so most members were away.I thought at first somebody was shaking my chair and then I thought maybe it was a bomb, said Senate aide Wendy Oscarson-Kirchner.Phone service was disrupted throughout the region as network congestion blocked cell phone users from making calls.There were also nuclear safety fears when one of four emergency diesel generators at the North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia lost power due to the quake and automatically halted operations.The plant operated by Dominion Resources was designed to withstand an earthquake of magnitude up to 6.2, a company spokesman said. Dominion reported no major damage to the facility.Three generators were needed to kick in and keep the reactors' radioactive cores cool. A fourth diesel unit failed.In New York, the tremors prompted evacuations of courthouses, City Hall and halted work at the World Trade Center construction site.What a spooky, strange feeling, said Billy Simeonidis, the owner of BareBurger in Brooklyn.You just don't have any control. I don't know how they do it on the West Coast.Control towers at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City and Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey were also evacuated, and flights were grounded briefly in Washington, Philadelphia and New York.The quake was felt as far away as Toronto. Buildings in Boston were evacuated, and some people who experienced swaying offices said they felt their stomachs turn.We see we had shaking from Canada and Maine all the way down to Georgia and in Michigan and Illinois. So this was over about 20 states, said the USGS's Wald.But saturation TV coverage of an East Coast quake that caused little damage drew smirks of amused disbelief from seismic-savvy Californians watching the news.East Coasters freak out, West Coasters roll their eyes,read one headline accompanying a story about Twitter reactions on the Hollywood website The Wrap.com.
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.
Court nixes Palestinian bid on Jerusalem fence route
AFPAFP – AUG 24,11
An Israeli rights group criticised on Tuesday a court decision upholding the route of Israel's West Bank barrier, which cuts off a Palestinian village from its land in an area between Jerusalem and Bethlehem.Residents of Al-Walaja had appealed to Israel's Supreme Court to reroute a portion of the barrier which they say cuts off the village of 2,500 from farming land, a cemetery and a nearby spring.The village straddles the border between east Jerusalem and the West Bank, with a third of its land falling within the Israeli-annexed sector.But Israel's Supreme Court rejected the petition on Monday, saying security concerns outweighed the disturbance to their lives.Ir Amim, an NGO which lobbies for Palestinians and Israelis to share Jerusalem, said the villagers had been placed in an impossible situation by Israel.
The court verdict does not address the question of Walaja because Israel is condemned to rule Walaja unwisely and unfairly, said Daniel Seidemann, a founder of Ir Amim.We have no business ruling it in the first place, he told AFP. We do not provide them services, do not allow them access to the West Bank, do not allow them access to Israel.Chief Justice Dorit Beinish wrote in her decision the barrier in Walaja was one of the last sections around Jerusalem that still needed completion.The geographical proximity between these territories and the Jerusalem municipal area has over the years transformed it into a preferred target destination for terrorists operating in the area who wish to infiltrate the city limits, she wrote.Moving the barrier could also pose a potential threat to passengers on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem railway, which runs nearby, she said.Israel says the barrier is designed to prevent attacks, but the Palestinians view it as an apartheid wall that carves off key parts of their promised state.When the 709-kilometre (435-mile) barrier is complete, 85 percent of it will have been built inside the occupied West Bank.In a non-binding 2004 judgement, the International Court of Justice called for the dismantling of all parts of the separation barrier built on occupied territory.
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.
Israeli military: Aircraft strike Gaza gunmen
APAP – AUG 24,11
JERUSALEM (AP) — Violence along the Gaza-Israel border heated up on Wednesday, with Israeli airstrikes on militant targets and militant rocket fire at Israel.Israeli media reported that security forces sent down reinforcements to the area. A music festival that was to be held in the southern city of Ashkelon was canceled, conforming with military recommendations against large gatherings in tense security times, the military said.Israeli aircraft killed a militant from Gaza's Islamic Jihad faction before dawn on Wednesday, Hamas security officials said. They later targeted two militants who had fired two mortars at Israel shortly before. No casualties were reported in that airstrike.The Israeli military said the dead militant had smuggled weapons into Gaza and was involved in militant activity in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, near Israel's southern border. It did not elaborate.A militant incursion into Israel from Sinai last week killed eight Israelis. That was followed by Palestinian rocket attacks and Israeli airstrikes that have not stopped despite a cease-fire reached on Sunday.
Rebels tell story of plan to take Tripoli AP By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI - AUG 24,11
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — They called it Operation Mermaid Dawn, a stealth plan coordinated by sleeper cells, Libyan rebels, and NATO to snatch the capital from the Moammar Gadhafi's regime's hands.It began three months ago when groups of young men left their homes in Tripoli and traveled to train in Benghazi with ex-military soldiers.After training in Benghazi, the men would return to Tripoli either through the sea disguised as fishermen or through the western mountains.They went back to Tripoli and waited; they became sleeper cells, said military spokesman Fadlallah Haroun, who helped organize the operation.He said that many of the trained fighters also stayed in the cities west of Tripoli, including Zintan and Zawiya, and waited for the day to come to push into the capital.Operation Mermaid Dawn began on the night of August 21 and took the world by surprise as the rebels sped into the capital and celebrated in Green Square with almost no resistance from pro-Gadhafi forces.Haroun said about 150 men rose up from inside Tripoli, blocking streets, engaging in armed street fights with Gadhafi brigades, and taking over their streets with check points.He said another 200 men from Misrata.But why did the armed Gadhafi troops melt away when the rebels drove through? Fathi Baja, head of the rebel leadership's political committee, said it was all thanks to a deal cut with the head of the batallion in charge of protecting Tripoli's gates, the Mohammed Megrayef Brigade.
His name was Mohammed Eshkal and he was very close to Gadhafi and his family. Baja said Gadhafi had ordered the death of his cousin twenty years ago.Eshkal carried a grudge in his heart against Gadhafi for 20 years, and he made a deal with the NTC — when the zero hour approached he would hand the city over to the rebels, said Haroun.
Eshkal didn't care much about the revolution, said Haroun.He wanted to take a personal revenge from Gadhafi and when he saw a chance that he will fall, he just let it happen.But Haroun said he still didn't trust Eshkal or the men who defected so late in the game.Haroun said that he didn't trust any of the defectors who left Gadhafi's side so close to August 20.They lived knew his days were numbered so they defected, but in their hearts they will always fear Gadhafi and give him a regard, he said.Haroun said NATO was in contact with the rebel leadership in Benghazi and were aware of the date of Operation Mermaid Dawn.Honestly, NATO played a very big role in liberating Tripoli — they bombed all the main locations that we couldn't handle with our light weapons, said Harouin.Analysts have noted that as time went on, NATO airstrikes became more and more precise and there was less and less collateral damage, indicating the presence of air controllers on the battlefields.
Targeted bombings launched methodical strikes on Gadhafi's crucial communications facilities and weapons caches. An increasing number of American hunter-killer drones provided round-the-clock surveillance as the rebels advanced.Diplomats acknowledge that covert teams from France, Britain and some East European states provided critical assistance.The assistance included logisticians, security advisers and forward air controllers for the rebel army, as well as intelligence operatives, damage assessment analysts and other experts, according to a diplomat based at NATO's headquarters in Brussels. The diplomat spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue.Foreign military advisers on the ground provided key real-time intelligence to the rebels, enabling them to maximize their limited firepower against the enemy. One U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said the Qatari military led the way, augmented later by French, Italian and British military advisers. This effort had a multiple purpose, not only assisting the rebels but monitoring their ranks and watching for any al-Qaida elements trying to infiltrate or influence the rebellion.Bolstering the intelligence on the ground was an escalating surveillance and targeting campaign in the skies above. Armed U.S. Predator drones helped to clear a path for the rebels to advance.Baja said as the time for Operation Mermaid Dawn came close to execution, NATO began to intensify their bombing campaign at Bab al-Azizya and near jails where weapons were stored and political prisoners were held.And then the people rose up.
Al-Shalchi reported from Cairo.
EU, U.S. Draft Sanctions Against Syria-European nations and the U.S. have drafted a resolution which seeks an arms embargo and other sanctions on Assad.by Elad Benari Published: 24/08/11, 5:35 AM
European nations and the United States on Tuesday circulated a draft UN Security Council resolution which seeks an arms embargo and other sanctions aimed at stopping the Syrian government’s ongoing crackdown on protesters.The draft was presented after last week it was reported that the U.S., Britain and other European allies were in the process of preparing it.According to a report in The Associated Press, the draft resolution calls for an asset freeze against 23 key Syrian figures including President Bashar Assad, his younger brother Maher, who is believed to be in command of much of the current bloody crackdown, and his millionaire cousin, Rami Makhlouf, who controls the mobile phone network and other lucrative enterprises in Syria.The resolution also calls for an asset freeze against two companies controlled by Makhlouf and would also impose a travel ban on 21 individuals including Makhlouf, but not Assad or his younger brother.The supporters of the sanctions, however, faced immediate opposition from Russia, who has veto power in the Security Council.
According to AP, when asked whether it was the right time to slap sanctions on Syrian President Bashar Assad, Russia’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told reporters, No. We don’t think so.Last week at the Security Council meeting, the members heard briefings on Syria from UN human rights chief Navi Pillay, the world body’s humanitarian coordinator Valerie Amos and UN political affairs chief Lynn Pascoe.
Pillay later told reporters that the Syrian government might have committed crimes against humanity, adding she had recommended that the council should consider referring Syria to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.The draft resolution presented Tuesday echoes the team’s conclusion, notes Pillay’s recommendation but stops short of ordering Syria to be referred to the court, saying only that those responsible for violence should be held accountable.The resolution “strongly condemns the continued grave and systematic human rights violations by the Syrian authorities, such as arbitrary executions, excessive use of force and the killing and persecution of protesters and human rights defenders, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment of detainees, also of children.It demands that Syrian authorities immediately stop human rights violations and the use of force against civilians and allow the full exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms for its entire population, including rights of freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, and lift restrictions on all forms of media.The proposed resolution calls for an inclusive Syrian-led political process conducted in an environment free from fear and intimidation and aimed at effectively addressing the legitimate aspirations and concerns of Syria’s population.On the arms embargo, the draft would require all countries to ban the sale or transfer of arms and military-related assistance to Syria and would also ban the Syrian government from exporting arms or providing military assistance to other states.AP noted, however, that while the resolution is backed by Britain, France, Germany, Portugal and the U.S., it is likely to face opposition not only from Russia but also from veto-wielding China, and possibly from council members Brazil, India and South Africa.
Syria opposition tries to unite, divisions remain
AP By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press | AP – AUG 24,11
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's fragmented opposition took steps toward forming a national council Tuesday, but serious divisions and mistrust among the members prevented them from presenting a unified front against President Bashar Assad's regime more than five months into the country's uprising, participants said.Syria's opposition, fragmented by years of sectarian and ideological tensions, has made unprecedented gains against the regime, but there is no clear leadership or platform beyond the demands for more freedom and for Assad to step down.With Assad's forces cracking down on the protests, the overall death toll has reached 2,200, the United Nations said this week.A group of opposition members have been meeting in neighboring Turkey in recent days, but participants gave conflicting reports about exactly what emerged. Obeida al-Nahhas told The Associated Press that a council had been formed but the details were still being completed; others said there was no council to speak of yet.People are just beginning to form an opposition and so they are treading carefully. This is understandable, said Mahmud Osman, an opposition member at the meeting in Turkey. We don't claim to represent the whole of Syria. But we are talking to everyone and we are trying to build a consensus.The unrest in Syria shows no sign of abating, with both sides of the conflict energized. Protesters pour into the streets every Friday, defying the near-certain barrage of shelling and sniper fire. But the regime is strong as well and in no imminent danger of collapse, setting the stage for what could be a drawn-out and bloody stalemate.Assad has shrugged off broad international condemnation and calls for him to step down, insisting that armed gangs and thugs are driving the violence, not true reform-seekers.
Activists said Tuesday that Syrian security forces killed at least seven people in the central city of Homs on Monday, soon after a U.N. humanitarian team left the area because the security situation was deteriorating.Amateur videos posted online by activists showed crowds of people crowding around cars with the blue U.N. flag, flashing banners that read: We will never stop until we get our freedom.The protesters chanted for freedom and the downfall of the Assad regime.Syria has banned foreign media and severely restricted local coverage, making it nearly impossible to confirm events on the ground.Syria had granted the U.N. team permission to visit some areas to assess humanitarian needs, but activists and a Western diplomat have accused the regime of trying to scrub away signs of the crackdown.Residents and activists said it was quiet until the team left, after which troops opened fire on an anti-government protest, killing four. Gunmen also killed three others elsewhere in Homs, which has become a hotbed of dissent against Assad, human rights groups said.U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said she was shocked at reports of protesters being killed and injured after the U.N. visit and called on Syrian authorities to ensure that people are allowed to protest peacefully and in safety.The U.N.'s top human rights body voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to demand that Syria end its crackdown and cooperate with an international probe into possible crimes against humanity.
European nations and the United States, meanwhile, circulated a draft U.N. Security Council resolution Tuesday seeking an arms embargo and other sanctions aimed at stopping the crackdown. But they faced immediate opposition from veto-wielding Russia, whose ambassadorr said it was not the right time for sanctions.Also Tuesday, the U.S. State Department said Ambassador Robert Ford visited the country's south, while denying that he received prior permission from the Syrian government. An official at the U.S. Embassy described it as a short and routine trip to the village of Jassem near the southern city of Daraa. The area has been witnessing large anti-government protests.State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Ford informed the Syrian government after the visit and explained that he did not ask for permission in advance because they haven't been approving any visits, by anybody, anywhere. She said he stayed only four hours in order not to make life difficult for the residents.A trip last month by the U.S. and French ambassadors to the central city of Hama to express support for protesters drew swift condemnation from the Syrian government, which said the unauthorized visits were proof that Washington was inciting violence in the Arab nation.The Syrian foreign minister then warned both ambassadors not to travel outside the capital without permission.The Local Coordination Committees and the London-based Observatory for Human Rights, two activist groups with a wide network of sources on the ground, reported that security forces stormed several villages in the southern and northern parts of the country, arresting scores on Tuesday.AP Writer Suzan Fraser contributed to this report from Ankara, Turkey.Zeina Karam can be reached on http://twitter.com/zkaram
Islamic Jihad Enraged Over Death of Commander, Vows Revenge-The Islamic Jihad terrorist group is enraged over the death of a key Gaza commander in an IDF air strike, and vows revenge.by Chana Ya'ar Published: 24/08/11, 11:20 AM
The Islamic Jihad terrorist group is enraged over the death of a local commander in its Gaza division following an air strike overnight by the Israel Air Force.An IDF spokesperson confirmed that 34-year-old Ismail al-Asmar was killed in a targeted air strike on a car in which he was traveling late Tuesday night. Two other terrorists in the car were wounded, according to local medical sources. They were traveling near Rafiah, the city that straddles the Gaza border with Egypt.Senior Islamic Jihad member Ahmad al-Mudallal told reporters in response to Al-Asmar's assassination, “This crime was meant to underline that Israel only understands the language of blood and terror.We will take action against the enemy in a language that it understands, the language of blood, he vowed.We will not ignore the crimes it commits against our people.Al-Asmar was a local leader in Rafiah, according to the IDF spokesperson, who added that he was involved in smuggling weapons and sought to advance military operations in the Sinai Peninsula. She added that Lately there have been several attempts by Gaza terrorists to carry out attacks in Sinai, and that was what this operative was involved in.The air strike came in retaliation for days of missile and mortar attacks on southern Israel and is part of the effort to silence the rocket fire against Israel's citizens.Two other terrorists also were targeted early Wednesday morning by IAF fighter jets in two separate locations in Gaza attempting to launch a rocket attack at southern Israel. A direct hit was confirmed in both cases and all Israeli personnel returned to base unharmed.It was not clear to which terrorist group the operatives belonged.Later in the morning, Gaza terrorists fired two mortar shells from two separate locations at the Eshkol Regional Council district. The two shells exploded in two areas, causing light damage but no physical injuries.
Residents of southern Israel's Gaza Belt region have been advised to remain within a 15 seconds' range of any safe space or bomb shelter today (Wednesday, Aug. 24). Those who wish to reach the Home Front Command for any reason may dial 1207. The website, which contains specific information on how to deal with a rocket or mortar attack, and how to determine the safest space in your home, may be reached by clicking here.Directives that were issued following the so-called ceasefire publicized by the Gaza terrorist groups have been canceled, Home Front Command officials emphasized.
Hamas’ Definition of Ceasefire – Two Mortar Shell Attacks-Hamas continued to uphold its version of a new ceasefire by firing two mortar shells at a Gaza Belt community Wednesday.by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Published: 24/08/11, 8:14 AM
Hamas continued to uphold its version of a new ceasefire Wednesday morning by firing two mortar shells at a Gaza Belt community.One of the mortars exploded inside the Jewish town, but no injuries or damage was reported. The second shell hit an open area.The IDF spotted and targeted the terrorists who launched the mortars almost immediately. Hits were confirmed, IDF spokesmen said, and one of the terrorists was killed. The mortar attacks were launched from two separate locations in northern Gaza.If Wednesday morning's attacks were carried out against Hamas’ orders, they show the inability of Hamas to control Gaza. On the other hand, if Hamas coordinated the firing of the mortar shells, the international community may not be able to continue to turn a blind eye. Israel filed a formal complaint Tuesday to the United Nations following continued rocket attacks from Gaza.This week’s announcement by Hamas of a ceasefire was in line with numerous statements in the past of a cessation of hostilities, only to be followed by what usually are short-range Kassam rocket and mortar shell attacks.The firing at Israeli communities often is carried out by other terrorist groups, some of them rivals of Hamas and others working in coordination with the terrorist organization.One example is the Salahuddin Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) that announced a temporary halt to firing rocket fire. The PRC ostensibly is independent of Hamas but is funded and supported by it, according to the IDF.Abu Ataya, spokesman for the PRC, said Tuesday that the temporary halt did not mean a ceasefire and that resistance would continue.
Former US finance chief says euro is breaking down
Today AUG 24,11 @ 09:23 By Andrew Rettman
Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the US federal reserve, has said the eurozone is breaking apart due to variations between economies in the north and south of Europe.Speaking during a question-and-answer session at the Innovation Nation Forum in Washington on Tuesday (23 August), the 85-year-old economist said: The euro is breaking down and the process of its breaking down is creating very considerable difficulties in the European banking system. He added: That stuff [eurozone country bonds held by banks] has always been thought of as the ideal collateral and now it’s getting highly questionable.Greenspan explained that northern countries, such as Germany and Finland, have a culture of budgetary discipline while southern nations, such as Greece, historically consume more than they produce and build up debt.The problem is that there is a growing cleavage in the economic and analytical and banking circles as to whether the euro, which is the crucial issue here, should be 17 countries with very significantly different cultures ... That cannot go on, he said. The general feeling out there is of a lull before the storm.Greenspan's remarks - widely reported by financial newswires - saw the euro dip against the dollar and the cost of German goverment bonds, viewed as a safe haven, tick upward.
His comments came out the same day as Spain moved a step closer to the northern model.Opposition leader Mariano Rajoy told MPs at an emergency meeting of the Spanish parliament on Tuesday that his Popular Party will back government proposals to insert borrowing limits into the country's constitution. My parliamentary group is ready to support the initiative and facilitate its implementation,he said. MPs also voted in an extra €5 billion of savings by - amid other measures - switching to generic drugs in the health service.The constitution move follows a similar pledge by Italy after Madrid and Rome's cost of borrowing shot up last month.Eurozone leaders on 21 July gave the green light to a second bailout package for Greece and new bond-buying powers for its crisis-fund, the EFSF, in a bid to calm markets. But the deal - which allows lending countries to ask Greece for collateral where appropriate - is proving hard to implement.Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen at a party conference in Tampere on Tuesday said he is willing to modify his request for Greece to put up to €600 million in an escrow account as a guarantee. But he refused to drop the plan despite criticism from Austria and the Netherlands. Our responsibility is to seek a solution which will be acceptable and tolerable to other eurozone nations, he said.Austrian finance minister Maria Fekter on Tuesday indicated that Vienna will block the Finnish deal because it increases costs for fellow lenders. Many countries reject the solution that Finland negotiated for itself to the disadvantage of all others ... If there is collateral for one country, then all others must be treated the same way too, she told press in the Austrian capital.Germany has also being dragged into the collateral dispute after a senior member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party said Berlin should seek guarantees. Several states are making big efforts to service their debt. This must be honored. But to keep up those efforts in the long term, collateral is needed, labour minister and CDU deputy chairman Ursula von der Leyen said on German TV.Eurozone capitals are currently in talks on collateral at expert level amid speculation that leaders will need to call another summit to reach agreement.
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Glenn Beck in Caesarea: Love the Jewish People as They Are-At Beck’s Caesarea event, Rabbi Riskin called him a deeply patriotic American, a true friend of Israel.by Fern Sidman, A7 New York Published: 24/08/11, 4:06 AM
The debate over whether former FOX News talk show host and Conservative commentator Glenn Beck is good for the Jews or bad for the Jews goes on in advance of his Restoring Courage rally to be held in Jerusalem on Wednesday afternoon.Moshe Feiglin, head of the Jewish Leadership faction inside the Likud, recently wrote.I must admit that when a friendly non-Jew starts to quote the Bible, I get a bit nervous. It is not just the long history of anti-Semitism that has developed a genetic mutation in the noses of Jews, giving them great sensitivity to anything that smells of Christianity - but also my own personal experience with avowed lovers of Israel and the settlers who took great pains to mask their Christian motives.But David Ha’Ivri, head of the Shomron (Samaria) Liaison Office, rejected the criticism of Beck on Tuesday, saying he is a unique Gentile who loves Israel and Jews.Glenn Beck is one of those unique gentiles who appreciates the Jewish people and our national, historical and theological goals, Ha’Ivri said. His agenda is out in the open and very clear: he wishes us well as the Jewish people preserving our Torah culture on our Holyland.However, in his pre-rally event held for 3,000 mostly American Christians at the Roman amphitheater in Caesarea on Sunday, Beck did not show any indication that he knows of the controversy he caused and simply told the world to not only love Israel but love the Jewish people as they are.Declaring that the entire world is reentering the age of miracles of God, he received thunderous applause when he said, While there may not be a political solution, the good news is the G-d of Israel ain’t running for office.
Simultaneously broadcast to over 80 countries throughout the world and close to 1,200 viewing parties, Beck said, Let the Jewish people know, no matter what our governments may say, we are not our governments, we stand with you. We bring truth, we bring peace, we bring support, we bring comfort.Joining Beck on stage were Pastor John Hagee, founder and president of the Christians United For Israel (CUFI), American born Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Chief Rabbi of Efrat, David Barton, world-renowned historian and Dr. Mike Evans, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author who has sold over 23 million books.Providing musical entertainment for the evening was Grammy nominated R&B/soul/gospel singer Vernessa Mitchell, who was joined by Israeli singers and musicians.The Jews are still the apple of G-d’s eye, still the chosen people, still the covenant people, declared Pastor Hagee as he took the podium. He drew an analogy with the late president John F. Kennedy’s Ich bin ein Berliner speech, when he announced Ani Yisraeli (I am an Israeli). He then led the rally participants in chants of: I am an Israeli! Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, formerly of the Lincoln Square Synagogue on Manhattan's upper west side, spoke of Jewish appreciation for the support of the Christian pro-Israel community, and in particular that of Glenn Beck, who, Riskin said, is a deeply patriotic American, a true friend of Israel.Lauding the stoic character of the Christian supporters of Israel, Rabbi Riskin said, We are not alone. We are Jews and not Christians.You Christians, nevertheless, have the courage to love us in our otherness. We are profoundly grateful for your courage to love us and stand with us.
Prior to the rally in Caesarea, Beck had toured the Samaria (Shomron) region, providing support to the communities there with a special visit to the town of Itamar, the site of the barbaric murder of five members of the Fogel family by Arab terrorists in March of this year.Said Beck on his radio program broadcast from Israel, “I went to Itamar in Judea and Samaria; our cameras were the first to be allowed into the home. It is empty now and they are gone but they couldn’t get all of the blood off the walls. I will tell you, this was one of the most horrific, bloodiest massacres I could imagine. It was horrifying, horrifying.And yet in that community, profound hope. If you stand in their backyard, you can see the two mountains: The Mountain of Blessing and the Mountain of Curse. It is scriptural. Which do you choose? The mountain of blessing or curse. And this community has both.
I can’t believe what people go through here in Israel, and the world stays silent. The media is distorting and lying, lying to you. Lying to you. And it is important that you know it.Arab Knesset members have warned of possible violence on Wednesday as Beck holds his Restoring Courage rally at the Southern Wall excavation sites near the Temple Mount, an event expected to garner an audience of over 2,000 at the Davidson Center in Jerusalem.Arutz Sheva reported that Hadash MK Muhammad Barakei said, There are enough racists in Israel without importing them from the US. The lessons from Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount apparently haven’t been learned. This event isn’t for building coexistence, but to spark fires in a sensitive location ahead of the United Nations vote on a Palestinian state in September. There is a danger that the event will lead to people being harmed, and the police should have prevented it.MK Ahmed Tibi (UAL-Ta’al) called Beck a bizarre, conservative, neo-fascist comedian who is motivated by a hatred of Islam. He also accused MK Danny Danon (Likud), who is involved in Beck’s event, of “dancing to Beck’s flute-playing and rejoicing to every outrageous word against Arabs and Muslims.Beck advised his critics to watch the event before casting judgment. He said that when he held his Restoring Honor event at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, last August, people said he would desecrate the site with what they thought would be a right-wing political rally, but it ended up being nothing of the kind.
Jerusalem is an example of coexistence working. You can’t deny truth, he said.
Activist: Rejecting Beck, Evangelicals Would be Suicidal-Israel is in no position to reject the friendship of Evangelical Christians, says a Land of Israel activist.
by David Lev Published: 24/08/11, 12:07 AM
The debate on the intentions of Glenn Beck and other Christian evangelicals rages on, and Dr. Gadi Eshel, a Land of Israel activist, told Arutz 7 Tuesday that he did not believe that Beck's intentions were improper and rejecting the friendship of evangelicals could cause anti-Semitism.Eshel was responding to comments by Jerusalem City Council member Mina Fenton Monday, who voiced vociferous opposition to Beck's appearance in Jerusalem on Wednesday, saying that his rally was designed to encourage missionary activity. Eshel told Arutz 7 that Christians like Beck supported Israel because they were strong believers in the Bible, and not out of missionary reasons.The basic belief of [evangelical, ed.] Christians like Beck is that the Torah [Pentateuch] and Tanach [Bible] are divine in nature and precede the Christian Gospels. This is different than the beliefs of traditional Christians, like Roman Catholics, and even Episcopalians, who participate in boycotts against Israel, he said.As such, Eshel said, rejecting the friendship offered unconditionally by Beck and evangelicals in general would be the ultimate in ingratitude.Such ingratitude would be an act of suicide, he said.This could cause great damage potentially. The paranoia and automatic negative reaction has the potential to cause a great wave of anti-Semitism.With all the concerns about the rise of radical Islam and the isolation of Israel even by the U.S., Eshel says, spitting at and rejecting Israel's most loyal friends would truly be an act of suicide.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
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EARTH WORSHIP
DEUTERONOMY 17:3-4
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
2 KINGS 23:5
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
THERE HAS BEEN A 5.9 QUAKE IN VIRGINIA FELT IN WASHINGTON AND AREA.5.8 earthquake in Virginia felt in Washington, New York City, North Carolina DETAILS AND STORY AS IT COMES OUT.
OBAMA AS USUAL IS PLAYING GOLF AND KEEPING UPDATED ON THE QUAKE AS HE PLAYS.IS THIS KENYAN MUSLIM FRAUD BARRY SOETORO INTERESTED IN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AS THE QUAKE DAMAGE IS EVALUATED..........NO,HE WOULD RATHER KEEP OCCUPIED ON THE GOLF COURSE.
GET THIS FRAUD OUT OF OFFICE AND SOMEONE IN THERE THAT CARES WHAT HAPPENS TO AMERICAN CITIZENS.
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-golf-course-earthquake-strikes-200920721.html
Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast
AP By BOB LEWIS - Associated Press | AP – AUG 23,11
MINERAL, Va. (AP) — A 5.9 magnitude earthquake centered in Virginia forced evacuations of all the memorials and monuments on the National Mall in Washington and rattled nerves from South Carolina to Martha's Vineyard, the Massachusetts island where President Barack Obama is vacationing.A District of Columbia fire department spokesman said there were numerous injuries, no reports of serious injuries or deaths.The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake was half a mile deep and centered near Louisa, Va., about 40 miles northwest of Richmond. Shaking was felt at the White House and all over the East Coast, as far south as Charleston, S.C. Parts of the Pentagon, White House and Capitol were evacuated.Two nuclear reactors at the North Anna Power Station in the same county as the epicenter were automatically taken off line by safety systems around the time of the earthquake, said Roger Hannah, a spokesman for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.The Dominion-operated power plant is being run off of four emergency diesel generators, which are supplying power for critical safety equipment. Hannah said the agency was not immediately aware of any damage at nuclear power plants in the Southeast.
Obama and many of the nation's leaders were out of town on August vacation when the quake struck at 1:51 p.m. EDT. The shaking was felt on the Martha's Vineyard golf course as Obama was just starting a round.At the Pentagon in northern Virginia, a low rumbling built and built to the point that the building was shaking. People ran into the corridors of the government's biggest building and as the shaking continued there were shouts of Evacuate! Evacuate! The U.S. Park Service evacuated and closed all National Mall monuments and memorials. At Reagan National Airport outside Washington, ceiling tiles fell during a few seconds of shaking. Authorities announced it was an earthquake and all flights were put on hold.Amtrak said its trains along the Northeast Corridor between Baltimore and Washington were operating at reduced speeds and crews were inspecting stations and railroad infrastructure before returning to normal.In New York, the 26-story federal courthouse in lower Manhattan began swaying and hundreds of people were seen leaving the building. Court officers weren't letting people back in.
More than 12 million people live close enough to the quake's epicenter to feel shaking, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The agency said this quake was in the yellow alert category for economic damage, meaning there was potential for local damage but it would add up to far less than 1 percent of the country's gross domestic product.East Coast earthquakes are far less common than in the West, but they tend to be felt over a broad area. That's because the crust is not as mangled and fractured, allowing seismic waves to travel without interruption.The waves are able to reverberate and travel pretty happily out for miles, said U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Susan Hough.The Virginia quake came a day after an earthquake in Colorado toppled groceries off shelves and caused minor damage to homes in the southern part of the state and in northern New Mexico. No injuries were reported as aftershocks continued Tuesday.In Charleston, W.Va., hundreds of workers left the state Capitol building and employees at other downtown office buildings were asked to leave temporarily.The whole building shook, said Jennifer Bundy, a spokeswoman for the state Supreme Court.You could feel two different shakes. Everybody just kind of came out on their own.In Ohio, where office buildings swayed in Columbus and Cincinnati and the press box at the Cleveland Indians' Progressive Field shook. At least one building near the Statehouse was evacuated in downtown Columbus.In downtown Baltimore, the quake sent office workers into the streets, where lamp posts swayed slightly as they called family and friends to check in.Social media site Twitter lit up with reports of the earthquake from people using the site up and down the U.S. eastern seaboard.People pouring out of buildings and onto the sidewalks and Into Farragut Park in downtown DC..., tweeted Republican strategist Kevin Madden.
John Gurlach, air traffic controller at the Morgantown Municipal Airport was in a 40-foot-tall tower when the earth trembled.There were two of us looking at each other saying, What's that? he said, even as a commuter plane was landing.It was noticeably shaking. It felt like a B-52 unloading.Immediately, the phone rang from the nearest airport in Clarksburg, and a computer began spitting out green strips of paper — alerts from other airports in New York and Washington issuing ground stops due to earthquake.
5.9 quake hits East Coast; Pengaton, Capitol buildings evacuated Reuters – AUG 23,11 2:12PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the East Coast from Virginia to at least Boston on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.The earthquake was centered in Mineral, Virginia, which is 92 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., the U.S. Geological Survey said.The quake was initially reported at 5.8 magnitude.The quake had a very shallow depth of 0.6 miles.The Pentagon and Capitol Building in Washington were evacuated, as were courthouses in New York City. The earthquake sent Washington office workers scurrying into the streets.A Reuters witness said the quake was felt as far away as Toronto, Canada.
DEUTERONOMY 17:3-4
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
2 KINGS 23:5
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
THERE HAS BEEN A 5.9 QUAKE IN VIRGINIA FELT IN WASHINGTON AND AREA.5.8 earthquake in Virginia felt in Washington, New York City, North Carolina DETAILS AND STORY AS IT COMES OUT.
OBAMA AS USUAL IS PLAYING GOLF AND KEEPING UPDATED ON THE QUAKE AS HE PLAYS.IS THIS KENYAN MUSLIM FRAUD BARRY SOETORO INTERESTED IN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AS THE QUAKE DAMAGE IS EVALUATED..........NO,HE WOULD RATHER KEEP OCCUPIED ON THE GOLF COURSE.
GET THIS FRAUD OUT OF OFFICE AND SOMEONE IN THERE THAT CARES WHAT HAPPENS TO AMERICAN CITIZENS.
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-golf-course-earthquake-strikes-200920721.html
Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast
AP By BOB LEWIS - Associated Press | AP – AUG 23,11
MINERAL, Va. (AP) — A 5.9 magnitude earthquake centered in Virginia forced evacuations of all the memorials and monuments on the National Mall in Washington and rattled nerves from South Carolina to Martha's Vineyard, the Massachusetts island where President Barack Obama is vacationing.A District of Columbia fire department spokesman said there were numerous injuries, no reports of serious injuries or deaths.The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake was half a mile deep and centered near Louisa, Va., about 40 miles northwest of Richmond. Shaking was felt at the White House and all over the East Coast, as far south as Charleston, S.C. Parts of the Pentagon, White House and Capitol were evacuated.Two nuclear reactors at the North Anna Power Station in the same county as the epicenter were automatically taken off line by safety systems around the time of the earthquake, said Roger Hannah, a spokesman for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.The Dominion-operated power plant is being run off of four emergency diesel generators, which are supplying power for critical safety equipment. Hannah said the agency was not immediately aware of any damage at nuclear power plants in the Southeast.
Obama and many of the nation's leaders were out of town on August vacation when the quake struck at 1:51 p.m. EDT. The shaking was felt on the Martha's Vineyard golf course as Obama was just starting a round.At the Pentagon in northern Virginia, a low rumbling built and built to the point that the building was shaking. People ran into the corridors of the government's biggest building and as the shaking continued there were shouts of Evacuate! Evacuate! The U.S. Park Service evacuated and closed all National Mall monuments and memorials. At Reagan National Airport outside Washington, ceiling tiles fell during a few seconds of shaking. Authorities announced it was an earthquake and all flights were put on hold.Amtrak said its trains along the Northeast Corridor between Baltimore and Washington were operating at reduced speeds and crews were inspecting stations and railroad infrastructure before returning to normal.In New York, the 26-story federal courthouse in lower Manhattan began swaying and hundreds of people were seen leaving the building. Court officers weren't letting people back in.
More than 12 million people live close enough to the quake's epicenter to feel shaking, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The agency said this quake was in the yellow alert category for economic damage, meaning there was potential for local damage but it would add up to far less than 1 percent of the country's gross domestic product.East Coast earthquakes are far less common than in the West, but they tend to be felt over a broad area. That's because the crust is not as mangled and fractured, allowing seismic waves to travel without interruption.The waves are able to reverberate and travel pretty happily out for miles, said U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Susan Hough.The Virginia quake came a day after an earthquake in Colorado toppled groceries off shelves and caused minor damage to homes in the southern part of the state and in northern New Mexico. No injuries were reported as aftershocks continued Tuesday.In Charleston, W.Va., hundreds of workers left the state Capitol building and employees at other downtown office buildings were asked to leave temporarily.The whole building shook, said Jennifer Bundy, a spokeswoman for the state Supreme Court.You could feel two different shakes. Everybody just kind of came out on their own.In Ohio, where office buildings swayed in Columbus and Cincinnati and the press box at the Cleveland Indians' Progressive Field shook. At least one building near the Statehouse was evacuated in downtown Columbus.In downtown Baltimore, the quake sent office workers into the streets, where lamp posts swayed slightly as they called family and friends to check in.Social media site Twitter lit up with reports of the earthquake from people using the site up and down the U.S. eastern seaboard.People pouring out of buildings and onto the sidewalks and Into Farragut Park in downtown DC..., tweeted Republican strategist Kevin Madden.
John Gurlach, air traffic controller at the Morgantown Municipal Airport was in a 40-foot-tall tower when the earth trembled.There were two of us looking at each other saying, What's that? he said, even as a commuter plane was landing.It was noticeably shaking. It felt like a B-52 unloading.Immediately, the phone rang from the nearest airport in Clarksburg, and a computer began spitting out green strips of paper — alerts from other airports in New York and Washington issuing ground stops due to earthquake.
5.9 quake hits East Coast; Pengaton, Capitol buildings evacuated Reuters – AUG 23,11 2:12PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the East Coast from Virginia to at least Boston on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.The earthquake was centered in Mineral, Virginia, which is 92 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., the U.S. Geological Survey said.The quake was initially reported at 5.8 magnitude.The quake had a very shallow depth of 0.6 miles.The Pentagon and Capitol Building in Washington were evacuated, as were courthouses in New York City. The earthquake sent Washington office workers scurrying into the streets.A Reuters witness said the quake was felt as far away as Toronto, Canada.
MORE ROCKETS FIRE ON ISRAEL
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +67.44
10:30 AM +119.55
11:00 AM +120.07
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12:30 PM +194.44
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MORNING,NEWS,STATS
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Dow +59 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -0.07 points at low today.
Dow +241 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,872.40.OIL opens at $84.21 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -0.07 points at low today so far.
Dow +241 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -0.07 points at low today.
Dow +322 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
Ratings agency says EU bailout deal faces fresh risks
Today AUG 23,11 @ 09:27 By Andrew Rettman
Ratings agency Moody's has warned the EU's new bailout package for Greece could unravel over demands for loan collaterals. EU anti-crisis measures are also facing fresh political risks in Germany and Italy.The US-based ratings agency in a note on Monday (22 August) predicted other eurozone countries will reject a deal between Finland and Greece for Athens to put around €600 million in an escrow account in case it is unable to pay back Helsinki's part of its second bailout.Moody's added that the escalating dispute over collateral poses questions about the eurozone's broader ability to handle the crisis.A proliferation of collateral agreements would ... imply that the some euro-area countries would bear disproportionately large shares of the risk associated with the provision of financial support ,it said.We expect other euro-area members to ultimately reject the Finland-Greece deal ... but the message sent by the calls for such agreements confirms that Europe is conflicted over the very decision to provide financial support to its members, not just the amount of support.Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen has warned that if the collateral deal is thrown out, Finland will not sign up to the second Greek bailout.
Katainen's position, which has already seen Austria, the Netherlands and Slovakia explore possibilities for their own collateral arrangements with Greece, attracted criticism from Dutch finance minister Jan Kees de Jager on Monday.The Netherlands is no supporter of this proposal ... It is not compatible with the principle of equal treatment of all euro countries, de Jager said in an open letter to the Dutch parliament.The potential proliferation of collateral requests is not the only emerging risk to the EU's self-imposed deadline to get the new bailout arrangements ratified by all 17 eurozone countries by the end of September.The German central bank in its latest monthly report indicated that the eurozone deal, which also involves provisions for the EU bailout fund, the EFSF, to buy bonds from struggling euro economies, might breach German law by marking a new surrender of sovereign fiscal powers to Brussels.Far-reaching extra risks will be shifted to those countries providing help and to their taxpayers, and entail a large step towards a pooling of risks from particular EMU [European Monetary Union] states with unsound public finances, the Bundesbank said.Unless there is a fundamental change of regime involving a far-reaching surrender of national fiscal sovereignty, it is imperative that the no bail-out rule – still enshrined in the treaties - should be strengthened by market discipline, rather than fatally weakened.The bank's statement lends weight to a legal challenge to the bailout deal filed in Germany's constitutional court ahead of the judge's verdict, due in the coming weeks.For their part, regional authorities in the Hessen lande have threatened to invoke a special mediation mechanism between the German parliament and the regional assembly, the Bundesrat, to examine the implications of the EU bailout deal in a move which could delay German ratification.I am not going to support a mechanism today that binds the hands of generations of politicians,Hesse's jutsice minister, Joerg-Uwe Hahn, said in a letter to MPs.
In Italy a fresh political rift between Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his coalition partner, Umberto Bossi, the head of the nationalist Northern League party, has also cast doubt on parliamentary approval of Rome's proposed new €45 billion austerity package.Bossi's party on Monday drafted changes to the proposed cuts one day before the Italian senate is due to hold initial talks on the deal, calling to scrap a planned increase in Value Added Tax and in Italy's retirement age.Bossi also angered Berlusconi by predicting that Italy is destined to split into two, with the rich industrialised north leaving the south to its own problems.I am sorry, this time, to not agree with my friend Umberto Bossi. I am deeply convinced that Italy will always exist, the Berlusconi said in a rare public disagreement with the Northern League chief.
Italy: Is there a way out of the woods?
Today AUG 23,11 @ 09:32 By Vincenzo Scarpetta
Following recent market panic, the European Central Bank’s (ECB) decision to step in and buy Italian bonds has given Rome some breathing space. Market fears were driven by a frightfully simple prospect: if Italy, the EU’s fourth largest economy, goes, so does the euro.To avoid the worst, Italy now has one, possibly final, chance to push for radical economic reform and break its chronic growth problem. Failing this, Silvio Berlusconi & Co. may have to plan for a future outside the single currency.
Italy’s economic problems have been well documented: a gigantic public debt coupled with an embarrassingly low growth rate and an ageing population. These problems are not new - they are structural.The current period of relief may prove short-lived since the ECB’s lifeline comes with a likely cut-off date. Italy is simply too big to bail. With its gigantic €1.8 trillion public debt, neither the ECB nor foreign governments can guarantee Italy’s finances in the long-term.To shelter Italy from the markets, eurozone taxpayers would have to underwrite hundreds of billions of Italian public debt, either via the ECB or the EFSF (the eurozone’s bailout fund). An increase on that scale would face insurmountable opposition in the German, Dutch, Finnish and Slovakian parliaments.This means that, for all the talk of European solidarity, Italy is left to its own devices. But it won’t be easy. Italy is stuck in the all too familiar situation of having an overvalued currency and inappropriate interest rates (ideally they should be close to zero now, not the ECB’s 1.5%) due to the single currency’s one-size-fits all monetary policy. Therefore, it needs to cut deeper and harder than, say, the UK to convince markets of the long-term viability of its debt burden – the unfortunate cost of sharing a currency with the likes of Germany.
So can Italy get back on the path to economic growth and show the world that it belongs inside the eurozone? Well, the game isn’t up for Palazzo Chigi quite yet - but time is quickly running out.Pressured by both the ECB (who wanted some concrete austerity measures in return for buying Italian bonds) and the markets, Berlusconi and the Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti have committed to achieving a zero deficit by 2013 rather than 2014 as originally planned, through additional savings worth €45.5 billion. This is welcome, but now the key is to first get this new austerity package adopted by the Italian parliament and then, most importantly, implement it properly and push for pro-growth reforms. As we know all too well from Greece, it’s one thing to pass an austerity package - another to put it into practice.
Colossal challenges.If Italy is to get out of the woods, several things need to happen - and all of them throw up colossal challenges.Berlusconi has to go: His premiership has descended into farce and his coalition government gets wobblier by the day, hostage to the sometimes ludicrous demands of the Lega Nord. When he addressed Italian MPs on the eurozone crisis, Berlusconi looked tired, powerless, sometimes disoriented. Unfortunately, Il Cavaliere seems determined to stay. Everyone will be the worse for it.But Italy’s future is on the centre-right: Alas, the opposition is not in much better shape than Berlusconi’s rag tag coalition, with any centre-left government likely to have to rely on several small post-communist parties to get a majority in parliament - hardly a recipe for the successful labour market liberalisation that Italy so desperately needs.Get the regions on board: The two austerity packages unveiled in less than a month have been with resistance from Italy’s regional administrations, which will be heavily affected by the proposed cuts to transfers from central government. As in Spain, a strategy needs to be put in place to convince the regions that these cuts are necessary.
Freeing up the labour market is essential: Radical reform of the labour market should be the top priority for any Italian government. Firing and hiring simply has to become far easier, which in turn lowers barriers to entering the job market. In addition, the tax burden on businesses should be reduced, particularly on SMEs where Italy’s economic strength lies. At the end of the day, Italy cannot live on austerity alone. It’s these kinds of reforms that will win investors’ confidence.
Stay the course: Having decided to bring forward the balanced budget target, the Italian government will most likely need to further dip into pensions. This is a huge challenge which will make the government even less popular. The opposition is now pushing the narrative that Italy is under the thumb of the EU, with key decisions being taken not in Rome, but in Berlin, Frankfurt and Brussels. As elsewhere in Europe, such a message is political dynamite. But the government needs to stay the course. If there’s one advantage to Berlusconi’s growing unpopularity, it’s that he can push through the necessary reforms.There are a range of other things that need to happen. Not least, there needs to be a way to boost domestic demand, particularly with Italian exports losing ground on the world stage.Will all these reforms take place? We shall see. But both Italy and Europe need to be fully aware of the consequences of Rome failing to deliver deep-rooted and necessary change. It’s time to finally bite the bullet or Berlusconi may soon have to add yet another, less than flattering point of note to his CV: bringing down the eurozone.
The author is a researcher at Open Europe, an independent think-tank based in London and Brussels, which calls for reform of the EU.
UN bureau passes EU resolution on Syria
Today AUG 23,11 @ 11:44 By Andrew Rettman
The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva Tuesday passed by 33 votes against nine with four abstentions an EU-sponsored resolution calling for a UN commission of enquiry to urgently go to Syria to investigate reports of atrocities. Top UN rights official Pillay said 2,200 Syrians have been killed so far.
EU donates additional €115mn to Palestinians
Today AUG 23,11 @ 09:36 By EUobserver
The EU on Monday announced an additional €115 million aid package to the Occupied Palestinian Territory for state-building, water-management and sanitation. This support shows clearly the EU's standing commitment to the two-state solution, by supporting those institutions which will help to form the Palestinian state, enlargement commissioner Stefan Fuele said.
EU Globalisation Fund activated in nine countries
Today AUG 23,11 @ 09:39 By EUobserver
Some 23,700 workers dismissed due to the global economic crisis received help from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund last year, according to a European Commission report released on Monday. A total €83.5 million was paid out via the fund to benefit workers in nine countries.
Fenton Against Beck's Rally: Jerusalem is Jewish, Not Christian-Mina Fenton, former Jerusalem councilwoman, opposes Glenn Beck’s pro-Israel rally. It strengthens the Christian claims to Jerusalem.by Elad Benari Published: 23/08/11, 3:17 AM
Mina Fenton, a former Jerusalem city councilwoman, said Monday that she is against American broadcaster Glenn Beck’s planned show of support for Israel this coming Wednesday.Fenton is known for her outspoken criticism of Evangelical Christian aid to Israel, claiming that missionary motives are behind their donations to institutions and families.Beck, a staunch supporter of Israel who has visited the country several times, will hold a Restoring Courage rally near the southern wall of Jerusalem’s old city on August 24. The event will also be attended by Christian supporters of Israel.The exclusivity for the source of holiness of the Temple Mount, the site of the Temple and the city of Jerusalem belongs to the Jews, and was so for about 1,700 years before anyone even heard of the idea of Christianity, Fenton told Arutz Sheva.Holding a Christian event near the southern wall will help in strengthening the Christian Returning to Zion project that any Christian organization that respects itself initiates. They actually say that this area belongs to them,she added.Fenton said that she enlisted rabbis from all sectors of the Jewish population to voice their opposition over Jews participating in Beck’s event. She said that among the rabbis who joined her cause were Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, Rabbi Kook, Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl, Rabbi Dov Lior, Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, Rabbi Shlomo Aviner and Rabbi Elchanan Bin Nun.Fenton told Arutz Sheva that the intervention by the rabbis resulted in Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, who previously expressed his support for the rally, canceling his participation as well as that of a choir of cantors from Jerusalem’s Great Synagogue.
Inflaming the thousands of Christian listeners who listen to Glenn Beck, who is a Mormon, is done by bringing in Christian elements and highlighting their importance, she said. It’s important to Beck that Christians feel, as he does, the spiritual exaltation and sense of belonging, but we must not forget that we have sovereignty in the city of Jerusalem and that the holy places are ours and not theirs. It is just a matter of time before the Christians expect some sort of reward in return for their support. There are no free gifts and no free gestures.Fenton added, The Christians in Israel feel as though they are saviors, or consolers without whom we cannot survive. Look at the event which was held in Caesarea this week. It was meant for Christians only. Glenn promised them a special spiritual experience. He mentioned Jesus, Paul, Pontis Pilate and the historic relationship to Caesarea during Roman rule. What connection does this kind of event have to Jews? Fenton’s comments are similar to ones recently made by Moshe Feiglin, head of the Jewish Leadership faction inside the Likud party.Feiglin recently related that he had decided to turn down an invitation to a reception for Beck in eastern Jerusalem.I must admit that when a friendly non-Jew starts to quote the Bible, I get a bit nervous, he wrote. It is not just the long history of anti-Semitism that has developed a genetic mutation in the noses of Jews, giving them great sensitivity to anything that smells of Christianity - but also my own personal experience with avowed lovers of Israel and the settlers who took great pains to mask their Christian motives.
Christian Zionists Seek to Judaize Jerusalem, Says Arab MK-Glenn Beck effect? MK Ibrahim Sarsour openly calls upon Arab League, OIS, to wage jihad for Jerusalem.by Gil Ronen Published: 23/08/11, 3:04 PM
MK Ibrahim Sarsour, the head of the Ra'am Ta'al Arab party, urged Arab and Muslim leaders to wage war on Israel in a letter Monday. He cited Christian Zionists as one of the elements conspiring to Judaize Jerusalem.The letter was written to the Secretary General of the Arab League and to the Secretary General of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation on the 42nd anniversary of the crime of the burning of Al Aqsa mosque. This refers to the attempt in 1969 by deranged non-Jewish Australian Dennis Michael Rohan to burn down the mosque.Sarsour wrote that The greatest danger to Al Quds [Jerusalem – Ed.] is and will remain the Israeli occupation, and there is no security to the Islamic and Arab character of Al Quds other than its liberation from the grip of the occupation and its return as a sister to holy Mecca and Medina.Israel seeks to Judaize the Holy Basin and this effort receives unlimited aid from the government of Israel, world Jewry and Christian Zionism, he added.In a call for direct action to liberate Jerusalem, Sarsour used Arabic-Muslim shorthand that carries clear meanings for Arabic speakers. Just as Al Quds issued a call to arms to its Ummah [Islamic nation] in the past, and the Ummah rose up in a permanent jihad until it liberated it [Jerusalem], so today it [Jerusalem] calls up that same Ummah. Will there be found in it those who were found in the past [and waged jihad]? In the matter of the responsibility [to liberate Al Quds] none of the Islamic Arab leaders shall escape this question, both in terms of history and in the afterworld. You must make [military] preparations for this answer.
Rants by Arab MKs regarding the Judaization of Jerusalem are common but Sarsour's mention of Zionist Christians is a deviation from the regular formulas and could be a reaction to events being organized by Glenn Beck.
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.
Rocket Fire Continues on Southern Israel During Terrorist Truce-Southern Israel came under rocket fire once again for a fifth night despite claims by Gaza terrorists they were committed to a ceasefire.by Chana Ya'ar Published: 23/08/11, 12:55 AM
Southern Israeli cities came under rocket fire again for a fifth night despite claims by Gaza terrorists they were committed to a ceasefire. Residents in the coastal city of Ashkelon found themselves racing for cover several times throughout the night Monday as the Color Red air raid siren blared its warning, starting in the early evening. Two medium-range Grad Katyusha missiles, fired by terrorists in northern Gaza, exploded in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council district at around 7:40 p.m. local time. Both landed in open areas, although one set off a large brush fire in a field that quickly ignited due to the dry summer heat.A third rocket attack was launched at about 10:00 p.m. The missile landed in an open area in the Ashkelon Regional Council district. Another one followed about two hours later, right around midnight, also in the area of the coastal city. The Color Red air raid siren blared a warning alert each time.No damage or physical injuries were reported.
However, the necessity of racing for shelter late at night creates an especially difficult time for families with children or other relatives who are elderly or unwell, noted Hana Levi Julian, LCSW-R, a behavioral psychotherapist.This comes not only due to the nocturnal disruption in the body's circadian rhythm but also due to the sudden spike in adrenalin that results from the body's response to the alert siren. The cumulative effect of such stimuli are especially damaging to children, whose bodies and minds are in the formative stages of life, she commented.Earlier in the day, a rocket struck an empty building in the Eshkol Regional Council district as well. No physical injuries were reported in any of the attacks.The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) terrorist group had announced earlier Monday in a statement on its website that it would adhere to a Hamas-led ceasefire. However, more than a dozen rockets were fired Sunday night after the so-called truce was imposed.No Gaza-based group took responsibility for the attacks.A deadly Grad Katyusha missile barrage on Be'er Sheva Saturday evening left a 38-year-old man dead and eight others seriously wounded. Ofakim was also targeted, as were numerous other southern Israeli cities and communities. Nearly 40 people were hospitalized due to severe anxiety.
Qaddafi is gone... it’s now your turn, Bashar-Gunmen loyal to Syrian president Bashar Assad killed 10 during protests in which demonstrators chanted he would follow in Qaddafi's steps.by Gavriel Queenann Published: 23/08/11, 5:12 PM
Gunmen loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad killed at least 10 during demonstrations as the protesters, emboldened by rebel success in Libya, called for Assad to bow to international pressure to resign.Mass arrests were reported in the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, and authorities also carried out arrests in other cities, according to rights activists. Security forces conducted raids in Hama, deployed tanks in Deir al-Zour, and positioned forces around Damascus, Al Jazeera television reported.Assad has used tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, helicopters, and even warships to crush the most serious threats to his family’s 40-year rule. The demonstrations began in mid-March in the southern town of Daraa after revolts ousted the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt and sparked a conflict in Libya that is inexorably grinding its way to a Qaddafi-free future.Qaddafi is gone, gone and it’s now your turn, Bashar, the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper quoted Syrians as chanting.At least 10 protesters died yesterday in Hama, Homs, Aleppo and the southern area of Daraa, where rallies against Assad’s rule began. The United Nations Human Rights Council today ordered a probe into Syria’s crackdown on anti-government protesters, including possible crimes against humanity.The council condemned continued grave and systematic human-rights violations by Syrian authorities, such as arbitrary executions, excessive use of force and the killing and persecution of protesters and human-rights defenders.The resolution to urgently dispatch an independent international commission of inquiry to investigate violations of international human-rights law in Syria since July 2011 passed in Geneva by a 33-4 vote, with nine abstentions, on the second day of a special session on Syria.The European Union, the U.S. and Arab countries including Saudi Arabia sponsored the resolution; while China, Russia, Cuba and Ecuador voted against the resolution while India, Mauritania, Angola, the Philippines, Cameroon, Uganda, Bangladesh, Djibouti and Malaysia abstained.Assad informed UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Aug. 18 that security operations targeting civilians had stopped. A day later an estimated 40 protesters were killed in Homs, Daraa and a suburb of Damascus, according to rights activists.
It’s troubling that he has not kept his word, Ban told reporters yesterday in New York.Assad, who succeeded his father as president after his death in 2000, said security has improved and that Syrian forces had foiled efforts to undermine the country. He has blamed the protests on foreign-inspired plots.Assad, in an interview on state television from Damascus on Aug. 21, rejected US and European demands to step down and pledged to schedule parliamentary elections by February and review the constitution. He called the US. and.European nations colonialist powers that want to violate Syria’s sovereignty. Assad has also blamed the protests on Israel saying they were a Zionist plot.The UN puts the civilian death toll in Syria at more than 2,200.
Islamist Cleric: Meet an Israeli? Kill Him-Muslim Brotherhood cleric declares ordinary Egyptians should kill Zionists they meet.by Gil Ronen Published: 23/08/11, 4:13 PM
A senior cleric in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has declared that ordinary Egyptians are obligated to kill Zionists whom they encounter. According to Arutz Sheva Arab affairs expert Dalit Halevy, the pronouncement is part of a general wave of incitement that directly endangers Israelis who are currently in Egypt.This follows Muslim Brotherhood calls to end the peace treaty with Egypt and threats to kill Israel's ambassador if he does not leave the country. Although there are many benefits for Egypt if it continues its relations with Israel, not the least of which is continued American aid, that is not always what counts in the MIddle East where hatred is often stronger than logic.Dr. Salah Sultan, a lecturer on Islamic law in Cairo University and head of the Al Quds Committee in the World Federation of Islamic Scholars, declared Friday that an Egyptian citizen who encounters a Zionist should kill him. This should be done because Israel killed the Camp David Accord, he explained. Sultan said that Israel provokes Egypt by pointing its jet fighters at Egyptian soldiers.Sultan spoke at a protest outside Israel's Cairo embassy, before about 200 members of the Freedom and Justice Party (a front for the Islamic Brotherhood), the Islamic Brotherhood movement, and other extreme groups.In an April interview Sultan said that the liberation of Palestine will come from Tahrir Square.
When the Crusaders invaded Jerusalem, the liberation began from Egypt, he said. Similarly, when Mongols reached Syria in the 13th century CE, Egyptians were the ones who organized and blocked them. The next campaign [against Israel] will be launched from Egypt,he said.
Abbas Delays Democratic Elections – Again-Abbas, who serves as PA chairman two years beyond his term, now delays local elections for third time and without setting a new date.by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Published: 23/08/11, 1:46 PM
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who has served as chairman of the PA two years beyond his term, now has delayed local elections for third time and without setting a new date.According to the PA constitution, Abbas’s term ended two years ago, and Hamas has latched on to the lack of a new vote as just cause for considering the Ramallah-based PA illegitimate.Hamas threw Fatah out of Gaza four years ago in a bloody terrorist militia coup, a year after the Iranian-funded and Syria-based terrorist organization won a majority in the PA legislature’s first and only elections, startling the United States, which had encouraged and even supervised the vote.The U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had trumpeted the elections as heralding a new age of democracy in the Muslim world.That new age still is in the future, possibly a far distant future.Abbas originally scheduled municipal elections in July of last year, but Hamas said it would boycott the vote in Gaza. Holding a ballot without Gaza would explode the whole theory of a Palestinian Authority that can govern itself.The elections were postponed until July 9 and then again to October.Abbas said Monday night, We have decided to postpone the local elections until better conditions are available and to enable the election commission to work in all parts of the country, the Associated Press reported.
Attempts by Hamas and Fatah leaders to reach a unity have failed despite public pledges of an accord earlier this year.Polls have shown that Fatah would defeat Hamas, but Abbas is losing popularity as he fails to meet expectations he has raised that the PA will become an independent state without compromising any of its demands, including sovereignty over the Temple Mount and other areas of northern, southern and eastern Jerusalem.
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.
Break Up the Quartet,Says ZOA-Disband the Quartet – UN, EU. US and Russia – because of its bias against Israel, says the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA).by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Published: 23/08/11, 1:08 PM
The Quartet of the United Nations, European Union, United States and Russia should be disbanded because of its bias against Israel, says the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA).The ZOA said the last straw was the Quartet’s statement last week that criticized Israel for approving new homes in United Jerusalem and Samaria (Shomron) while omitting any reference to constant Palestinian Authority violations of previous agreements.In view of the Quartet’s long-standing bias against Israel, as evidenced in its 2003 Roadmap peace plan, which virtually discarded the Oslo requirement of Palestinian compliance and which aims to create a Palestinian state led by an unreformed, extremist, terror-supporting PA, the ZOA has called for its disbanding, the ZOA stated.It pointed out that it is not alone in its view.Former Deputy National Security Advisor, Elliott Abrams, also called for breaking up the Quartet. He said, The last time the Middle East Quartet met, on July 11, it was unable even to issue a statement about the key issue before it – the Palestinian effort to get the UN General Assembly and Security Council to declare Palestine a state and admit it to membership. Nor has the Quartet been able to issue a statement about the attacks the Assad regime has been carrying out this week against Palestinian refugee camps in Syria, which have led thousands of Palestinians to flee their homes.But it did on August 16 get itself organized to address what it apparently saw as a graver issue and a greater threat to peace, Israel’s announcement of plans to construct additional housing units in Jerusalem and Ariel, a large city in central Samaria.Abrams added, Nowadays the Quartet seems able to reach agreement on only one thing: criticism of Israel.
ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said,The ZOA has watched for years, hoping an elementary sense of responsibility and decency would lead the Quartet to hold the Palestinians to their never-fulfilled obligations to arrest terrorists, outlaw terrorist groups and end the incitement to hatred and murder in the PA-controlled media, mosques, schools and youth camps that feed terrorism. Instead, as in its latest statement, it fixates on Jews seeking to build homes in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem and finds this a threat to peace.Noting the PA's continuing incitement of terrorism, in direct violation of written commitments to stop terror and incitement, Klein added, In recent days, PA-controlled TV has approvingly interviewed a Palestinian mother proud of the fact that her son became a terrorist bomb-maker who wanted to marry 'the seventy' virgins promised for a Muslim martyr in paradise.It also broadcast a program stating that the Western Wall plaza, dedicated to Jewish prayer at the Western Wall, will one day be replaced by a new Arab neighborhood. Also, the official PA daily newspaper has again denied Jewish history by referring to the Jerusalem Temple as an alleged Temple.
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.
Hurricane Irene Spotted From Space
SPACE.com OurAmazingPlanet Staff
Space.com – Tue Aug 23, 7:30 am ET
Hurricane Irene, the first hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, was seen from space today (Aug. 22) as it roared past Puerto Rico.Irene formed as a tropical storm east of the Leeward Islands on Aug. 20. By early Aug. 22, the storm had strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane. The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported that Irene had maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 kph), with higher gusts. The storm was located about 150 miles (240 kilometers) west-northwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico.The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image at 11:20 a.m. local time (15:20 UTC) on Aug. 22. Storm clouds cover part of the Dominican Republic, and all of Puerto Rico. [See satellite photos of Hurricane Irene]
As of Aug. 22, Irene had cut power to more than a million residents of Puerto Rico, according to ABC News. The Miami Herald reported that heavy rains had pushed at least five rivers over their banks on the island. Citing continuing rains, downed power lines, and potential landslides, the Puerto Rico governor urged residents to stay indoors.Moving westward to the island of Hispaniola, Irene menaced the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The storm’s worst winds and rains remained north of the island, reducing the threat of deadly flooding, according to news reports. Nevertheless, authorities worried about approximately 600,000 Haitians still living in Port Au Prince tent cities after the 2010 earthquake. [Weirdo Weather: 7 Weird Weather Events]The NHC reported that a hurricane warning was in effect for the north coast of the Dominican Republic, the southeastern Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. A hurricane watch was in effect for the north coast of Haiti. Irene was moving toward the west-northwest at roughly 12 mph (19 kph), and was expected to continue in that direction for the next day or two.Five-day projections released by the NHC on Aug. 22 showed Irene heading for the continental United States, potentially making landfall in Florida, Georgia or the Carolinas.Irene is the first hurricane for what has been forecast to be an active season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) updated its forecast on Aug. 4, predicting 14 to 19 named storms (which include tropical storms and hurricanes), seven to 10 hurricanes and three to five major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher). An average Atlantic hurricane season will see 11 named storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes. August through October are the peak months of the Atlantic hurricane season.
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
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Ratings agency says EU bailout deal faces fresh risks
Today AUG 23,11 @ 09:27 By Andrew Rettman
Ratings agency Moody's has warned the EU's new bailout package for Greece could unravel over demands for loan collaterals. EU anti-crisis measures are also facing fresh political risks in Germany and Italy.The US-based ratings agency in a note on Monday (22 August) predicted other eurozone countries will reject a deal between Finland and Greece for Athens to put around €600 million in an escrow account in case it is unable to pay back Helsinki's part of its second bailout.Moody's added that the escalating dispute over collateral poses questions about the eurozone's broader ability to handle the crisis.A proliferation of collateral agreements would ... imply that the some euro-area countries would bear disproportionately large shares of the risk associated with the provision of financial support ,it said.We expect other euro-area members to ultimately reject the Finland-Greece deal ... but the message sent by the calls for such agreements confirms that Europe is conflicted over the very decision to provide financial support to its members, not just the amount of support.Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen has warned that if the collateral deal is thrown out, Finland will not sign up to the second Greek bailout.
Katainen's position, which has already seen Austria, the Netherlands and Slovakia explore possibilities for their own collateral arrangements with Greece, attracted criticism from Dutch finance minister Jan Kees de Jager on Monday.The Netherlands is no supporter of this proposal ... It is not compatible with the principle of equal treatment of all euro countries, de Jager said in an open letter to the Dutch parliament.The potential proliferation of collateral requests is not the only emerging risk to the EU's self-imposed deadline to get the new bailout arrangements ratified by all 17 eurozone countries by the end of September.The German central bank in its latest monthly report indicated that the eurozone deal, which also involves provisions for the EU bailout fund, the EFSF, to buy bonds from struggling euro economies, might breach German law by marking a new surrender of sovereign fiscal powers to Brussels.Far-reaching extra risks will be shifted to those countries providing help and to their taxpayers, and entail a large step towards a pooling of risks from particular EMU [European Monetary Union] states with unsound public finances, the Bundesbank said.Unless there is a fundamental change of regime involving a far-reaching surrender of national fiscal sovereignty, it is imperative that the no bail-out rule – still enshrined in the treaties - should be strengthened by market discipline, rather than fatally weakened.The bank's statement lends weight to a legal challenge to the bailout deal filed in Germany's constitutional court ahead of the judge's verdict, due in the coming weeks.For their part, regional authorities in the Hessen lande have threatened to invoke a special mediation mechanism between the German parliament and the regional assembly, the Bundesrat, to examine the implications of the EU bailout deal in a move which could delay German ratification.I am not going to support a mechanism today that binds the hands of generations of politicians,Hesse's jutsice minister, Joerg-Uwe Hahn, said in a letter to MPs.
In Italy a fresh political rift between Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his coalition partner, Umberto Bossi, the head of the nationalist Northern League party, has also cast doubt on parliamentary approval of Rome's proposed new €45 billion austerity package.Bossi's party on Monday drafted changes to the proposed cuts one day before the Italian senate is due to hold initial talks on the deal, calling to scrap a planned increase in Value Added Tax and in Italy's retirement age.Bossi also angered Berlusconi by predicting that Italy is destined to split into two, with the rich industrialised north leaving the south to its own problems.I am sorry, this time, to not agree with my friend Umberto Bossi. I am deeply convinced that Italy will always exist, the Berlusconi said in a rare public disagreement with the Northern League chief.
Italy: Is there a way out of the woods?
Today AUG 23,11 @ 09:32 By Vincenzo Scarpetta
Following recent market panic, the European Central Bank’s (ECB) decision to step in and buy Italian bonds has given Rome some breathing space. Market fears were driven by a frightfully simple prospect: if Italy, the EU’s fourth largest economy, goes, so does the euro.To avoid the worst, Italy now has one, possibly final, chance to push for radical economic reform and break its chronic growth problem. Failing this, Silvio Berlusconi & Co. may have to plan for a future outside the single currency.
Italy’s economic problems have been well documented: a gigantic public debt coupled with an embarrassingly low growth rate and an ageing population. These problems are not new - they are structural.The current period of relief may prove short-lived since the ECB’s lifeline comes with a likely cut-off date. Italy is simply too big to bail. With its gigantic €1.8 trillion public debt, neither the ECB nor foreign governments can guarantee Italy’s finances in the long-term.To shelter Italy from the markets, eurozone taxpayers would have to underwrite hundreds of billions of Italian public debt, either via the ECB or the EFSF (the eurozone’s bailout fund). An increase on that scale would face insurmountable opposition in the German, Dutch, Finnish and Slovakian parliaments.This means that, for all the talk of European solidarity, Italy is left to its own devices. But it won’t be easy. Italy is stuck in the all too familiar situation of having an overvalued currency and inappropriate interest rates (ideally they should be close to zero now, not the ECB’s 1.5%) due to the single currency’s one-size-fits all monetary policy. Therefore, it needs to cut deeper and harder than, say, the UK to convince markets of the long-term viability of its debt burden – the unfortunate cost of sharing a currency with the likes of Germany.
So can Italy get back on the path to economic growth and show the world that it belongs inside the eurozone? Well, the game isn’t up for Palazzo Chigi quite yet - but time is quickly running out.Pressured by both the ECB (who wanted some concrete austerity measures in return for buying Italian bonds) and the markets, Berlusconi and the Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti have committed to achieving a zero deficit by 2013 rather than 2014 as originally planned, through additional savings worth €45.5 billion. This is welcome, but now the key is to first get this new austerity package adopted by the Italian parliament and then, most importantly, implement it properly and push for pro-growth reforms. As we know all too well from Greece, it’s one thing to pass an austerity package - another to put it into practice.
Colossal challenges.If Italy is to get out of the woods, several things need to happen - and all of them throw up colossal challenges.Berlusconi has to go: His premiership has descended into farce and his coalition government gets wobblier by the day, hostage to the sometimes ludicrous demands of the Lega Nord. When he addressed Italian MPs on the eurozone crisis, Berlusconi looked tired, powerless, sometimes disoriented. Unfortunately, Il Cavaliere seems determined to stay. Everyone will be the worse for it.But Italy’s future is on the centre-right: Alas, the opposition is not in much better shape than Berlusconi’s rag tag coalition, with any centre-left government likely to have to rely on several small post-communist parties to get a majority in parliament - hardly a recipe for the successful labour market liberalisation that Italy so desperately needs.Get the regions on board: The two austerity packages unveiled in less than a month have been with resistance from Italy’s regional administrations, which will be heavily affected by the proposed cuts to transfers from central government. As in Spain, a strategy needs to be put in place to convince the regions that these cuts are necessary.
Freeing up the labour market is essential: Radical reform of the labour market should be the top priority for any Italian government. Firing and hiring simply has to become far easier, which in turn lowers barriers to entering the job market. In addition, the tax burden on businesses should be reduced, particularly on SMEs where Italy’s economic strength lies. At the end of the day, Italy cannot live on austerity alone. It’s these kinds of reforms that will win investors’ confidence.
Stay the course: Having decided to bring forward the balanced budget target, the Italian government will most likely need to further dip into pensions. This is a huge challenge which will make the government even less popular. The opposition is now pushing the narrative that Italy is under the thumb of the EU, with key decisions being taken not in Rome, but in Berlin, Frankfurt and Brussels. As elsewhere in Europe, such a message is political dynamite. But the government needs to stay the course. If there’s one advantage to Berlusconi’s growing unpopularity, it’s that he can push through the necessary reforms.There are a range of other things that need to happen. Not least, there needs to be a way to boost domestic demand, particularly with Italian exports losing ground on the world stage.Will all these reforms take place? We shall see. But both Italy and Europe need to be fully aware of the consequences of Rome failing to deliver deep-rooted and necessary change. It’s time to finally bite the bullet or Berlusconi may soon have to add yet another, less than flattering point of note to his CV: bringing down the eurozone.
The author is a researcher at Open Europe, an independent think-tank based in London and Brussels, which calls for reform of the EU.
UN bureau passes EU resolution on Syria
Today AUG 23,11 @ 11:44 By Andrew Rettman
The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva Tuesday passed by 33 votes against nine with four abstentions an EU-sponsored resolution calling for a UN commission of enquiry to urgently go to Syria to investigate reports of atrocities. Top UN rights official Pillay said 2,200 Syrians have been killed so far.
EU donates additional €115mn to Palestinians
Today AUG 23,11 @ 09:36 By EUobserver
The EU on Monday announced an additional €115 million aid package to the Occupied Palestinian Territory for state-building, water-management and sanitation. This support shows clearly the EU's standing commitment to the two-state solution, by supporting those institutions which will help to form the Palestinian state, enlargement commissioner Stefan Fuele said.
EU Globalisation Fund activated in nine countries
Today AUG 23,11 @ 09:39 By EUobserver
Some 23,700 workers dismissed due to the global economic crisis received help from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund last year, according to a European Commission report released on Monday. A total €83.5 million was paid out via the fund to benefit workers in nine countries.
Fenton Against Beck's Rally: Jerusalem is Jewish, Not Christian-Mina Fenton, former Jerusalem councilwoman, opposes Glenn Beck’s pro-Israel rally. It strengthens the Christian claims to Jerusalem.by Elad Benari Published: 23/08/11, 3:17 AM
Mina Fenton, a former Jerusalem city councilwoman, said Monday that she is against American broadcaster Glenn Beck’s planned show of support for Israel this coming Wednesday.Fenton is known for her outspoken criticism of Evangelical Christian aid to Israel, claiming that missionary motives are behind their donations to institutions and families.Beck, a staunch supporter of Israel who has visited the country several times, will hold a Restoring Courage rally near the southern wall of Jerusalem’s old city on August 24. The event will also be attended by Christian supporters of Israel.The exclusivity for the source of holiness of the Temple Mount, the site of the Temple and the city of Jerusalem belongs to the Jews, and was so for about 1,700 years before anyone even heard of the idea of Christianity, Fenton told Arutz Sheva.Holding a Christian event near the southern wall will help in strengthening the Christian Returning to Zion project that any Christian organization that respects itself initiates. They actually say that this area belongs to them,she added.Fenton said that she enlisted rabbis from all sectors of the Jewish population to voice their opposition over Jews participating in Beck’s event. She said that among the rabbis who joined her cause were Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, Rabbi Kook, Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl, Rabbi Dov Lior, Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, Rabbi Shlomo Aviner and Rabbi Elchanan Bin Nun.Fenton told Arutz Sheva that the intervention by the rabbis resulted in Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, who previously expressed his support for the rally, canceling his participation as well as that of a choir of cantors from Jerusalem’s Great Synagogue.
Inflaming the thousands of Christian listeners who listen to Glenn Beck, who is a Mormon, is done by bringing in Christian elements and highlighting their importance, she said. It’s important to Beck that Christians feel, as he does, the spiritual exaltation and sense of belonging, but we must not forget that we have sovereignty in the city of Jerusalem and that the holy places are ours and not theirs. It is just a matter of time before the Christians expect some sort of reward in return for their support. There are no free gifts and no free gestures.Fenton added, The Christians in Israel feel as though they are saviors, or consolers without whom we cannot survive. Look at the event which was held in Caesarea this week. It was meant for Christians only. Glenn promised them a special spiritual experience. He mentioned Jesus, Paul, Pontis Pilate and the historic relationship to Caesarea during Roman rule. What connection does this kind of event have to Jews? Fenton’s comments are similar to ones recently made by Moshe Feiglin, head of the Jewish Leadership faction inside the Likud party.Feiglin recently related that he had decided to turn down an invitation to a reception for Beck in eastern Jerusalem.I must admit that when a friendly non-Jew starts to quote the Bible, I get a bit nervous, he wrote. It is not just the long history of anti-Semitism that has developed a genetic mutation in the noses of Jews, giving them great sensitivity to anything that smells of Christianity - but also my own personal experience with avowed lovers of Israel and the settlers who took great pains to mask their Christian motives.
Christian Zionists Seek to Judaize Jerusalem, Says Arab MK-Glenn Beck effect? MK Ibrahim Sarsour openly calls upon Arab League, OIS, to wage jihad for Jerusalem.by Gil Ronen Published: 23/08/11, 3:04 PM
MK Ibrahim Sarsour, the head of the Ra'am Ta'al Arab party, urged Arab and Muslim leaders to wage war on Israel in a letter Monday. He cited Christian Zionists as one of the elements conspiring to Judaize Jerusalem.The letter was written to the Secretary General of the Arab League and to the Secretary General of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation on the 42nd anniversary of the crime of the burning of Al Aqsa mosque. This refers to the attempt in 1969 by deranged non-Jewish Australian Dennis Michael Rohan to burn down the mosque.Sarsour wrote that The greatest danger to Al Quds [Jerusalem – Ed.] is and will remain the Israeli occupation, and there is no security to the Islamic and Arab character of Al Quds other than its liberation from the grip of the occupation and its return as a sister to holy Mecca and Medina.Israel seeks to Judaize the Holy Basin and this effort receives unlimited aid from the government of Israel, world Jewry and Christian Zionism, he added.In a call for direct action to liberate Jerusalem, Sarsour used Arabic-Muslim shorthand that carries clear meanings for Arabic speakers. Just as Al Quds issued a call to arms to its Ummah [Islamic nation] in the past, and the Ummah rose up in a permanent jihad until it liberated it [Jerusalem], so today it [Jerusalem] calls up that same Ummah. Will there be found in it those who were found in the past [and waged jihad]? In the matter of the responsibility [to liberate Al Quds] none of the Islamic Arab leaders shall escape this question, both in terms of history and in the afterworld. You must make [military] preparations for this answer.
Rants by Arab MKs regarding the Judaization of Jerusalem are common but Sarsour's mention of Zionist Christians is a deviation from the regular formulas and could be a reaction to events being organized by Glenn Beck.
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.
Rocket Fire Continues on Southern Israel During Terrorist Truce-Southern Israel came under rocket fire once again for a fifth night despite claims by Gaza terrorists they were committed to a ceasefire.by Chana Ya'ar Published: 23/08/11, 12:55 AM
Southern Israeli cities came under rocket fire again for a fifth night despite claims by Gaza terrorists they were committed to a ceasefire. Residents in the coastal city of Ashkelon found themselves racing for cover several times throughout the night Monday as the Color Red air raid siren blared its warning, starting in the early evening. Two medium-range Grad Katyusha missiles, fired by terrorists in northern Gaza, exploded in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council district at around 7:40 p.m. local time. Both landed in open areas, although one set off a large brush fire in a field that quickly ignited due to the dry summer heat.A third rocket attack was launched at about 10:00 p.m. The missile landed in an open area in the Ashkelon Regional Council district. Another one followed about two hours later, right around midnight, also in the area of the coastal city. The Color Red air raid siren blared a warning alert each time.No damage or physical injuries were reported.
However, the necessity of racing for shelter late at night creates an especially difficult time for families with children or other relatives who are elderly or unwell, noted Hana Levi Julian, LCSW-R, a behavioral psychotherapist.This comes not only due to the nocturnal disruption in the body's circadian rhythm but also due to the sudden spike in adrenalin that results from the body's response to the alert siren. The cumulative effect of such stimuli are especially damaging to children, whose bodies and minds are in the formative stages of life, she commented.Earlier in the day, a rocket struck an empty building in the Eshkol Regional Council district as well. No physical injuries were reported in any of the attacks.The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) terrorist group had announced earlier Monday in a statement on its website that it would adhere to a Hamas-led ceasefire. However, more than a dozen rockets were fired Sunday night after the so-called truce was imposed.No Gaza-based group took responsibility for the attacks.A deadly Grad Katyusha missile barrage on Be'er Sheva Saturday evening left a 38-year-old man dead and eight others seriously wounded. Ofakim was also targeted, as were numerous other southern Israeli cities and communities. Nearly 40 people were hospitalized due to severe anxiety.
Qaddafi is gone... it’s now your turn, Bashar-Gunmen loyal to Syrian president Bashar Assad killed 10 during protests in which demonstrators chanted he would follow in Qaddafi's steps.by Gavriel Queenann Published: 23/08/11, 5:12 PM
Gunmen loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad killed at least 10 during demonstrations as the protesters, emboldened by rebel success in Libya, called for Assad to bow to international pressure to resign.Mass arrests were reported in the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, and authorities also carried out arrests in other cities, according to rights activists. Security forces conducted raids in Hama, deployed tanks in Deir al-Zour, and positioned forces around Damascus, Al Jazeera television reported.Assad has used tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, helicopters, and even warships to crush the most serious threats to his family’s 40-year rule. The demonstrations began in mid-March in the southern town of Daraa after revolts ousted the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt and sparked a conflict in Libya that is inexorably grinding its way to a Qaddafi-free future.Qaddafi is gone, gone and it’s now your turn, Bashar, the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper quoted Syrians as chanting.At least 10 protesters died yesterday in Hama, Homs, Aleppo and the southern area of Daraa, where rallies against Assad’s rule began. The United Nations Human Rights Council today ordered a probe into Syria’s crackdown on anti-government protesters, including possible crimes against humanity.The council condemned continued grave and systematic human-rights violations by Syrian authorities, such as arbitrary executions, excessive use of force and the killing and persecution of protesters and human-rights defenders.The resolution to urgently dispatch an independent international commission of inquiry to investigate violations of international human-rights law in Syria since July 2011 passed in Geneva by a 33-4 vote, with nine abstentions, on the second day of a special session on Syria.The European Union, the U.S. and Arab countries including Saudi Arabia sponsored the resolution; while China, Russia, Cuba and Ecuador voted against the resolution while India, Mauritania, Angola, the Philippines, Cameroon, Uganda, Bangladesh, Djibouti and Malaysia abstained.Assad informed UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Aug. 18 that security operations targeting civilians had stopped. A day later an estimated 40 protesters were killed in Homs, Daraa and a suburb of Damascus, according to rights activists.
It’s troubling that he has not kept his word, Ban told reporters yesterday in New York.Assad, who succeeded his father as president after his death in 2000, said security has improved and that Syrian forces had foiled efforts to undermine the country. He has blamed the protests on foreign-inspired plots.Assad, in an interview on state television from Damascus on Aug. 21, rejected US and European demands to step down and pledged to schedule parliamentary elections by February and review the constitution. He called the US. and.European nations colonialist powers that want to violate Syria’s sovereignty. Assad has also blamed the protests on Israel saying they were a Zionist plot.The UN puts the civilian death toll in Syria at more than 2,200.
Islamist Cleric: Meet an Israeli? Kill Him-Muslim Brotherhood cleric declares ordinary Egyptians should kill Zionists they meet.by Gil Ronen Published: 23/08/11, 4:13 PM
A senior cleric in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has declared that ordinary Egyptians are obligated to kill Zionists whom they encounter. According to Arutz Sheva Arab affairs expert Dalit Halevy, the pronouncement is part of a general wave of incitement that directly endangers Israelis who are currently in Egypt.This follows Muslim Brotherhood calls to end the peace treaty with Egypt and threats to kill Israel's ambassador if he does not leave the country. Although there are many benefits for Egypt if it continues its relations with Israel, not the least of which is continued American aid, that is not always what counts in the MIddle East where hatred is often stronger than logic.Dr. Salah Sultan, a lecturer on Islamic law in Cairo University and head of the Al Quds Committee in the World Federation of Islamic Scholars, declared Friday that an Egyptian citizen who encounters a Zionist should kill him. This should be done because Israel killed the Camp David Accord, he explained. Sultan said that Israel provokes Egypt by pointing its jet fighters at Egyptian soldiers.Sultan spoke at a protest outside Israel's Cairo embassy, before about 200 members of the Freedom and Justice Party (a front for the Islamic Brotherhood), the Islamic Brotherhood movement, and other extreme groups.In an April interview Sultan said that the liberation of Palestine will come from Tahrir Square.
When the Crusaders invaded Jerusalem, the liberation began from Egypt, he said. Similarly, when Mongols reached Syria in the 13th century CE, Egyptians were the ones who organized and blocked them. The next campaign [against Israel] will be launched from Egypt,he said.
Abbas Delays Democratic Elections – Again-Abbas, who serves as PA chairman two years beyond his term, now delays local elections for third time and without setting a new date.by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Published: 23/08/11, 1:46 PM
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who has served as chairman of the PA two years beyond his term, now has delayed local elections for third time and without setting a new date.According to the PA constitution, Abbas’s term ended two years ago, and Hamas has latched on to the lack of a new vote as just cause for considering the Ramallah-based PA illegitimate.Hamas threw Fatah out of Gaza four years ago in a bloody terrorist militia coup, a year after the Iranian-funded and Syria-based terrorist organization won a majority in the PA legislature’s first and only elections, startling the United States, which had encouraged and even supervised the vote.The U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had trumpeted the elections as heralding a new age of democracy in the Muslim world.That new age still is in the future, possibly a far distant future.Abbas originally scheduled municipal elections in July of last year, but Hamas said it would boycott the vote in Gaza. Holding a ballot without Gaza would explode the whole theory of a Palestinian Authority that can govern itself.The elections were postponed until July 9 and then again to October.Abbas said Monday night, We have decided to postpone the local elections until better conditions are available and to enable the election commission to work in all parts of the country, the Associated Press reported.
Attempts by Hamas and Fatah leaders to reach a unity have failed despite public pledges of an accord earlier this year.Polls have shown that Fatah would defeat Hamas, but Abbas is losing popularity as he fails to meet expectations he has raised that the PA will become an independent state without compromising any of its demands, including sovereignty over the Temple Mount and other areas of northern, southern and eastern Jerusalem.
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.
Break Up the Quartet,Says ZOA-Disband the Quartet – UN, EU. US and Russia – because of its bias against Israel, says the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA).by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Published: 23/08/11, 1:08 PM
The Quartet of the United Nations, European Union, United States and Russia should be disbanded because of its bias against Israel, says the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA).The ZOA said the last straw was the Quartet’s statement last week that criticized Israel for approving new homes in United Jerusalem and Samaria (Shomron) while omitting any reference to constant Palestinian Authority violations of previous agreements.In view of the Quartet’s long-standing bias against Israel, as evidenced in its 2003 Roadmap peace plan, which virtually discarded the Oslo requirement of Palestinian compliance and which aims to create a Palestinian state led by an unreformed, extremist, terror-supporting PA, the ZOA has called for its disbanding, the ZOA stated.It pointed out that it is not alone in its view.Former Deputy National Security Advisor, Elliott Abrams, also called for breaking up the Quartet. He said, The last time the Middle East Quartet met, on July 11, it was unable even to issue a statement about the key issue before it – the Palestinian effort to get the UN General Assembly and Security Council to declare Palestine a state and admit it to membership. Nor has the Quartet been able to issue a statement about the attacks the Assad regime has been carrying out this week against Palestinian refugee camps in Syria, which have led thousands of Palestinians to flee their homes.But it did on August 16 get itself organized to address what it apparently saw as a graver issue and a greater threat to peace, Israel’s announcement of plans to construct additional housing units in Jerusalem and Ariel, a large city in central Samaria.Abrams added, Nowadays the Quartet seems able to reach agreement on only one thing: criticism of Israel.
ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said,The ZOA has watched for years, hoping an elementary sense of responsibility and decency would lead the Quartet to hold the Palestinians to their never-fulfilled obligations to arrest terrorists, outlaw terrorist groups and end the incitement to hatred and murder in the PA-controlled media, mosques, schools and youth camps that feed terrorism. Instead, as in its latest statement, it fixates on Jews seeking to build homes in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem and finds this a threat to peace.Noting the PA's continuing incitement of terrorism, in direct violation of written commitments to stop terror and incitement, Klein added, In recent days, PA-controlled TV has approvingly interviewed a Palestinian mother proud of the fact that her son became a terrorist bomb-maker who wanted to marry 'the seventy' virgins promised for a Muslim martyr in paradise.It also broadcast a program stating that the Western Wall plaza, dedicated to Jewish prayer at the Western Wall, will one day be replaced by a new Arab neighborhood. Also, the official PA daily newspaper has again denied Jewish history by referring to the Jerusalem Temple as an alleged Temple.
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.
Hurricane Irene Spotted From Space
SPACE.com OurAmazingPlanet Staff
Space.com – Tue Aug 23, 7:30 am ET
Hurricane Irene, the first hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, was seen from space today (Aug. 22) as it roared past Puerto Rico.Irene formed as a tropical storm east of the Leeward Islands on Aug. 20. By early Aug. 22, the storm had strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane. The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported that Irene had maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 kph), with higher gusts. The storm was located about 150 miles (240 kilometers) west-northwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico.The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image at 11:20 a.m. local time (15:20 UTC) on Aug. 22. Storm clouds cover part of the Dominican Republic, and all of Puerto Rico. [See satellite photos of Hurricane Irene]
As of Aug. 22, Irene had cut power to more than a million residents of Puerto Rico, according to ABC News. The Miami Herald reported that heavy rains had pushed at least five rivers over their banks on the island. Citing continuing rains, downed power lines, and potential landslides, the Puerto Rico governor urged residents to stay indoors.Moving westward to the island of Hispaniola, Irene menaced the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The storm’s worst winds and rains remained north of the island, reducing the threat of deadly flooding, according to news reports. Nevertheless, authorities worried about approximately 600,000 Haitians still living in Port Au Prince tent cities after the 2010 earthquake. [Weirdo Weather: 7 Weird Weather Events]The NHC reported that a hurricane warning was in effect for the north coast of the Dominican Republic, the southeastern Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. A hurricane watch was in effect for the north coast of Haiti. Irene was moving toward the west-northwest at roughly 12 mph (19 kph), and was expected to continue in that direction for the next day or two.Five-day projections released by the NHC on Aug. 22 showed Irene heading for the continental United States, potentially making landfall in Florida, Georgia or the Carolinas.Irene is the first hurricane for what has been forecast to be an active season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) updated its forecast on Aug. 4, predicting 14 to 19 named storms (which include tropical storms and hurricanes), seven to 10 hurricanes and three to five major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher). An average Atlantic hurricane season will see 11 named storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes. August through October are the peak months of the Atlantic hurricane season.
Monday, August 22, 2011
USAMA CEMENT SHOES KILLING OF USAMA IS FRAUD-STRATFOR
Stratfor disputes OBL killing in Abbottabad
By: Azhar Masood | Published: August 19, 2011
ISLAMABAD - Globally recognised intelligence and forecast STRATFOR has rejected the US Central Intelligence Agency claim that the man killed in Abbottabad’s compound by US Naval SEALs was al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. This was one of the reasons the CIA kept Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in dark.The STRATFOR says: The possibility that bin Laden was already dead and in terms of his impact on terrorist operations, he effectively was. That does not mean, however, that he was not an important ideological leader or that he was not someone the United States sought to capture or kill for his role in carrying out the most devastating terrorist attack in the US history.In its latest intelligence gathering, the STRATFOR claims that aggressive US intelligence collection efforts have come to fruition, as killing of Osama bin Laden was perhaps the top symbolic goal for the CIA and all those involved in the US covert operations. Indeed, President Obama said during his speech on May 1 that upon entering the office, he had personally instructed CIA Director Leon Panetta that killing the al-Qaeda leader was his top priority. The logistical challenges of catching a single wanted individual with Bin Laden level of resources were substantial and while 10 years, the United States was able to accomplish the objective it set out to do in October 2001.
Because of bin Laden’s communications limitations, since October 2001 when he fled Tora Bora after the US invasion of Afghanistan, he has been relegated to a largely symbolic and ideological role in al-Qaeda. Accordingly, he issued audiotapes on a little more than a yearly basis, whereas before 2007 he was able to issue videotapes.The growing infrequency and decreasing quality of his recorded messages was the most notable when al-Qaeda did not release a message marking the anniversary of 9/11 in September 2010 but later followed up with a tape on January 21, 2011.
The bottom line is that from an operational point of view, the threat posed by al-Qaeda - and the wider jihadist movement - is no different operationally after his death.The killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden represents possibly the biggest clandestine operations success for the United States since the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in 2003, it claimed.The confirmation of his death is an emotional victory for the United States and could have wider effects on the geopolitics of the region, but bin Laden’s death is irrelevant for al-Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement from an operational perspective.The operation that led to bin Laden’s death at a compound deep in Pakistan is among the most significant operational successes for the US intelligence in the past decade.An important local source told this scribe: If it was not the case why all the evidences leading to the confirmation of Laden’s death were eliminated. His was never subjected to postmortem. Neither the DNA was collected nor it was matched.Another important source conceded: How come one of the wives of bin Laden, Hamal, who remained in the custody of Iranian Intelligence and hidden mole of US intelligence community made her way to Abbottabad. Hamal never appeared in public.Hamal has deep US connections. When she traveled from Iran to Pakistan her movements were under watch and the watchers had decided Hamal to end her journey in Abbottabad, the sources added.Senior intelligence analysts in Islamabad argue: A three trillion worth manhunt concluded very discreetly. Dead body of the man killed by SEALs had no media mention as was done by the US authorities in case of Iraq’s President Saddam.
After receiving this vital information, this scribe phoned a senior Pakistani journalist in Washington DC early Thursday. He did not rule out latest findings on this subject saying: Why the CIA was in hurry to remove all possible evidences of the bin Laden’s killing who dominated world politics for over a decade? The Washinton-based journalist termed the crash of US Army’s Chinook helicopter and killings of over 36 US Naval SEALs as a part of the effort to finish left over evidence which could lead to facts of May 2 US action in Abbottabad.The STRATFOR further states the primary threat is now posed by al-Qaeda franchise which can attempt to stage an attack in the United States or elsewhere in retribution for bin Laden’s death, but they do not have training or capabilities for high-casualty transnational attacks.Pakistan’s former spymaster Lt Gen (r) Hamid Gul told TheNation they never challenged credence of the STRATFOR. I agree with the latest intelligence gathering about May 2 operation’s follow up. This remains one of the reasons the CIA never informed its Pakistan counterpart ISI when it decided to kill a fake bin Laden, he said.
Bin Laden’s corpse has been on ice for nearly a decade: EU Times
May 4, 2011 THE NATION
Hameed Gul is a retired Pakistani Army three star general known for heading the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the premier Pakistani intelligence agency, after the Soviet-Afghan War.The timing was incredible! By mid May 2011, the US Army was set to be thrown out of Pakistan by the Pakistani government and just weeks before that, bang! They’ve found and killed Osama Bin Laden which was able to hide since 2001.A multitude of different inside sources both publicly and privately, including one individual who personally worked with Bin Laden at one time, told us directly that Osama’s dead corpse has been on ice for nearly a decade and that his death would only be announced at the most politically expedient time.That time has now come with a years-old fake picture being presented as the only evidence of his alleged killing, while Bin Laden’s body has been hastily dumped into the sea to prevent anyone from finding out when he actually died.In April 2002, over nine years ago, Council on Foreign Relations member Steve R. Pieczenik, who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, and James Baker, told the Alex Jones Show that Bin Laden had already been dead for months.Pieczenik would be in a position to know such information, having worked directly with Bin Laden when the US was funding and arming the terror leader in an attempt to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan in the late 70′s and early 80′s (a documented historical fact that talking heads in the corporate media are actually denying today in light of developments).I found out through my sources that he had had kidney disease. And as a physician, I knew that he had to have two dialysis machines and he was dying,Pieczenik told Jones during the April 24, 2002 interview.And you could see those in those films, those made-up photos that they were sending us out of nowhere. I mean, suddenly, we would see a video of bin Laden today and then out of nowhere, they said oh it was sent to us anonymously, meaning that someone in the government, our government, was trying to keep up the morale on our side and say oh we still have to chase this guy when, in fact, he’s been dead for months, added Pieczenik.Pieczenik then stated that the video tape of a fat Bin Laden look alike taking responsibility for 9/11 that was released in December 2001 was such a hoax designed to manipulate people in the emotional aftermath of 9/11.
The subsequent war in Afghanistan that followed 9/11 was orchestrated With the agreement of the bin Laden family, knowing fully well that he would die, said Pieczenik. And I think that Musharraf, the President of Pakistan, spilled the beans by accident three months ago when he said that bin Laden was dead because his kidney dialysis machines were destroyed in East Afghanistan.In addition to Pieczenik, as we reported in August 2002, Alex Jones was separately told by a high level Republican source that Bin Laden was dead and that his body was being kept on ice until Osama’s death could be announced at the most politically expedient time.
When Jones asked the source if his claim was mere speculation or whether it was actually true, the source re-iterated the fact that he was being deadly serious and that Bin Laden’s corpse was physically on ice waiting to be rolled out for public consumption at the most opportune moment.Many expected that moment to be right before the 2004 election, but after Democrats began speculating about the possibility, Republicans settled instead for a fake Osama video tape that was released on the eve of the election and, according to both George W. Bush and John Kerry, was the deciding factor in a closely-fought contest. Veteran news reader Walter Cronkite labeled the entire farce a Karl Rove-orchestrated set-up.In addition to these sources, a deluge of other heads of state as well as intelligence agency professionals have gone on record over the past nine years to state their belief that Bin Laden was likely dead, after it became clear that the Al-Qaeda leader’s health was in severe decline as a result of kidney disease at the end of 2001. These include;
- Former CIA officer and hugely respected intelligence & foreign policy expert Robert Baer, who in 2008 when asked about Bin Laden by a radio host responded, Of course he is dead.
- On December 26, 2001, Fox News, citing a Pakistan Observer story, reported that the Afghan Taliban had pronounced Bin Laden dead and buried him in an unmarked grave.
- On January 18, 2002, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced: I think now, frankly, he is dead.
- On July 17, 2002, the then-head of counterterrorism at the FBI, Dale Watson, told a conference of law enforcement officials that I personally think he [Bin Laden] is probably not with us anymore.
- In October 2002, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told CNN that “I would come to believe that [Bin Laden] probably is dead.
- In 2003, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told Fox News Channel analyst Morton Kondracke she suspected Bush knew the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and was waiting for the most politically expedient moment to announce his capture.
- In November 2005, Senator Harry Reid revealed that he was told Osama may have died in the Pakistani earthquake of October that year.
- In February 2007, Professor Bruce Lawrence, head of Duke University’s Religious Studies program, stated that the purported video and audio tapes that were being released of Bin Laden were fake and that he was probably dead.
- On November 2, 2007, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto told Al-Jazeera’s David Frost that Omar Sheikh had killed Osama Bin Laden. Shortly after she exposed Bin Laden’s 2001 death, she was assassinated.
- In March 2009, former US foreign intelligence officer and professor of international relations at Boston University Angelo Codevilla stated: All the evidence suggests Elvis Presley is more alive today than Osama Bin Laden.
- In May 2009, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari confirmed that his counterparts in the American intelligence agencies hadn’t heard anything from Bin Laden in seven years and confirmed I don’t think he’s alive.
In a way, the establishment had their hand forced in having to announce the death of someone whose shadowy existence had proven very useful to them in maintaining fear and uncertainty amongst the population of America and the world.The fact that the myth behind Al-Qaeda has been completely demolished and that the group, through a myriad of revelations, including Anwar Al-Alawki’s post-9/11 visit to the Pentagon, is now widely known to be a US intelligence front, perhaps now means that Al-Qaeda will be swept under the rug and a new enemy will be invented in order to legitimize the continued US military-complex domination of the globe. (The EU Times)
By: Azhar Masood | Published: August 19, 2011
ISLAMABAD - Globally recognised intelligence and forecast STRATFOR has rejected the US Central Intelligence Agency claim that the man killed in Abbottabad’s compound by US Naval SEALs was al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. This was one of the reasons the CIA kept Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in dark.The STRATFOR says: The possibility that bin Laden was already dead and in terms of his impact on terrorist operations, he effectively was. That does not mean, however, that he was not an important ideological leader or that he was not someone the United States sought to capture or kill for his role in carrying out the most devastating terrorist attack in the US history.In its latest intelligence gathering, the STRATFOR claims that aggressive US intelligence collection efforts have come to fruition, as killing of Osama bin Laden was perhaps the top symbolic goal for the CIA and all those involved in the US covert operations. Indeed, President Obama said during his speech on May 1 that upon entering the office, he had personally instructed CIA Director Leon Panetta that killing the al-Qaeda leader was his top priority. The logistical challenges of catching a single wanted individual with Bin Laden level of resources were substantial and while 10 years, the United States was able to accomplish the objective it set out to do in October 2001.
Because of bin Laden’s communications limitations, since October 2001 when he fled Tora Bora after the US invasion of Afghanistan, he has been relegated to a largely symbolic and ideological role in al-Qaeda. Accordingly, he issued audiotapes on a little more than a yearly basis, whereas before 2007 he was able to issue videotapes.The growing infrequency and decreasing quality of his recorded messages was the most notable when al-Qaeda did not release a message marking the anniversary of 9/11 in September 2010 but later followed up with a tape on January 21, 2011.
The bottom line is that from an operational point of view, the threat posed by al-Qaeda - and the wider jihadist movement - is no different operationally after his death.The killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden represents possibly the biggest clandestine operations success for the United States since the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in 2003, it claimed.The confirmation of his death is an emotional victory for the United States and could have wider effects on the geopolitics of the region, but bin Laden’s death is irrelevant for al-Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement from an operational perspective.The operation that led to bin Laden’s death at a compound deep in Pakistan is among the most significant operational successes for the US intelligence in the past decade.An important local source told this scribe: If it was not the case why all the evidences leading to the confirmation of Laden’s death were eliminated. His was never subjected to postmortem. Neither the DNA was collected nor it was matched.Another important source conceded: How come one of the wives of bin Laden, Hamal, who remained in the custody of Iranian Intelligence and hidden mole of US intelligence community made her way to Abbottabad. Hamal never appeared in public.Hamal has deep US connections. When she traveled from Iran to Pakistan her movements were under watch and the watchers had decided Hamal to end her journey in Abbottabad, the sources added.Senior intelligence analysts in Islamabad argue: A three trillion worth manhunt concluded very discreetly. Dead body of the man killed by SEALs had no media mention as was done by the US authorities in case of Iraq’s President Saddam.
After receiving this vital information, this scribe phoned a senior Pakistani journalist in Washington DC early Thursday. He did not rule out latest findings on this subject saying: Why the CIA was in hurry to remove all possible evidences of the bin Laden’s killing who dominated world politics for over a decade? The Washinton-based journalist termed the crash of US Army’s Chinook helicopter and killings of over 36 US Naval SEALs as a part of the effort to finish left over evidence which could lead to facts of May 2 US action in Abbottabad.The STRATFOR further states the primary threat is now posed by al-Qaeda franchise which can attempt to stage an attack in the United States or elsewhere in retribution for bin Laden’s death, but they do not have training or capabilities for high-casualty transnational attacks.Pakistan’s former spymaster Lt Gen (r) Hamid Gul told TheNation they never challenged credence of the STRATFOR. I agree with the latest intelligence gathering about May 2 operation’s follow up. This remains one of the reasons the CIA never informed its Pakistan counterpart ISI when it decided to kill a fake bin Laden, he said.
Bin Laden’s corpse has been on ice for nearly a decade: EU Times
May 4, 2011 THE NATION
Hameed Gul is a retired Pakistani Army three star general known for heading the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the premier Pakistani intelligence agency, after the Soviet-Afghan War.The timing was incredible! By mid May 2011, the US Army was set to be thrown out of Pakistan by the Pakistani government and just weeks before that, bang! They’ve found and killed Osama Bin Laden which was able to hide since 2001.A multitude of different inside sources both publicly and privately, including one individual who personally worked with Bin Laden at one time, told us directly that Osama’s dead corpse has been on ice for nearly a decade and that his death would only be announced at the most politically expedient time.That time has now come with a years-old fake picture being presented as the only evidence of his alleged killing, while Bin Laden’s body has been hastily dumped into the sea to prevent anyone from finding out when he actually died.In April 2002, over nine years ago, Council on Foreign Relations member Steve R. Pieczenik, who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, and James Baker, told the Alex Jones Show that Bin Laden had already been dead for months.Pieczenik would be in a position to know such information, having worked directly with Bin Laden when the US was funding and arming the terror leader in an attempt to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan in the late 70′s and early 80′s (a documented historical fact that talking heads in the corporate media are actually denying today in light of developments).I found out through my sources that he had had kidney disease. And as a physician, I knew that he had to have two dialysis machines and he was dying,Pieczenik told Jones during the April 24, 2002 interview.And you could see those in those films, those made-up photos that they were sending us out of nowhere. I mean, suddenly, we would see a video of bin Laden today and then out of nowhere, they said oh it was sent to us anonymously, meaning that someone in the government, our government, was trying to keep up the morale on our side and say oh we still have to chase this guy when, in fact, he’s been dead for months, added Pieczenik.Pieczenik then stated that the video tape of a fat Bin Laden look alike taking responsibility for 9/11 that was released in December 2001 was such a hoax designed to manipulate people in the emotional aftermath of 9/11.
The subsequent war in Afghanistan that followed 9/11 was orchestrated With the agreement of the bin Laden family, knowing fully well that he would die, said Pieczenik. And I think that Musharraf, the President of Pakistan, spilled the beans by accident three months ago when he said that bin Laden was dead because his kidney dialysis machines were destroyed in East Afghanistan.In addition to Pieczenik, as we reported in August 2002, Alex Jones was separately told by a high level Republican source that Bin Laden was dead and that his body was being kept on ice until Osama’s death could be announced at the most politically expedient time.
When Jones asked the source if his claim was mere speculation or whether it was actually true, the source re-iterated the fact that he was being deadly serious and that Bin Laden’s corpse was physically on ice waiting to be rolled out for public consumption at the most opportune moment.Many expected that moment to be right before the 2004 election, but after Democrats began speculating about the possibility, Republicans settled instead for a fake Osama video tape that was released on the eve of the election and, according to both George W. Bush and John Kerry, was the deciding factor in a closely-fought contest. Veteran news reader Walter Cronkite labeled the entire farce a Karl Rove-orchestrated set-up.In addition to these sources, a deluge of other heads of state as well as intelligence agency professionals have gone on record over the past nine years to state their belief that Bin Laden was likely dead, after it became clear that the Al-Qaeda leader’s health was in severe decline as a result of kidney disease at the end of 2001. These include;
- Former CIA officer and hugely respected intelligence & foreign policy expert Robert Baer, who in 2008 when asked about Bin Laden by a radio host responded, Of course he is dead.
- On December 26, 2001, Fox News, citing a Pakistan Observer story, reported that the Afghan Taliban had pronounced Bin Laden dead and buried him in an unmarked grave.
- On January 18, 2002, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced: I think now, frankly, he is dead.
- On July 17, 2002, the then-head of counterterrorism at the FBI, Dale Watson, told a conference of law enforcement officials that I personally think he [Bin Laden] is probably not with us anymore.
- In October 2002, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told CNN that “I would come to believe that [Bin Laden] probably is dead.
- In 2003, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told Fox News Channel analyst Morton Kondracke she suspected Bush knew the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and was waiting for the most politically expedient moment to announce his capture.
- In November 2005, Senator Harry Reid revealed that he was told Osama may have died in the Pakistani earthquake of October that year.
- In February 2007, Professor Bruce Lawrence, head of Duke University’s Religious Studies program, stated that the purported video and audio tapes that were being released of Bin Laden were fake and that he was probably dead.
- On November 2, 2007, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto told Al-Jazeera’s David Frost that Omar Sheikh had killed Osama Bin Laden. Shortly after she exposed Bin Laden’s 2001 death, she was assassinated.
- In March 2009, former US foreign intelligence officer and professor of international relations at Boston University Angelo Codevilla stated: All the evidence suggests Elvis Presley is more alive today than Osama Bin Laden.
- In May 2009, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari confirmed that his counterparts in the American intelligence agencies hadn’t heard anything from Bin Laden in seven years and confirmed I don’t think he’s alive.
In a way, the establishment had their hand forced in having to announce the death of someone whose shadowy existence had proven very useful to them in maintaining fear and uncertainty amongst the population of America and the world.The fact that the myth behind Al-Qaeda has been completely demolished and that the group, through a myriad of revelations, including Anwar Al-Alawki’s post-9/11 visit to the Pentagon, is now widely known to be a US intelligence front, perhaps now means that Al-Qaeda will be swept under the rug and a new enemy will be invented in order to legitimize the continued US military-complex domination of the globe. (The EU Times)
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