N KOREA TO DO 3RD NUKE TEST SOON

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3

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

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

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(4 WINDS OF THE WORLD-WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(COULD ALSO MEAN THE 4 CORNERS OF THE EARTH OR WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

COMPLETE SILENCE AFTER AN EMP GOES OFF
REVELATION 8:1
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(AMERICA) and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK CYBER,EMP ATTACK,THEN NUKE ATTACK ON AMERICA)

North Korea to target U.S. with nuclear, rocket tests

By Ju-min Park and Choonsik Yoo | Reuters – 2 hrs 13 mins ago JAN 24,13

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Thursday it would carry out further rocket launches and a nuclear test that would target the United States, dramatically stepping up its threats against a country it called its "sworn enemy".The announcement by the country's top military body came a day after the U.N. Security Council agreed to a U.S.-backed resolution to censure and sanction North Korea for a rocket launch in December that breached U.N. rules.North Korea is not believed to have the technology to deliver a nuclear warhead capable of hitting the continental United States, although its December launch showed it had the capacity to deliver a rocket that could travel 10,000 km (6,200 miles), potentially putting San Francisco in range, according to an intelligence assessment by South Korea."We are not disguising the fact that the various satellites and long-range rockets that we will fire and the high-level nuclear test we will carry out are targeted at the United States," North Korea's National Defence Commission said, according to state news agency KCNA.North Korea is believed by South Korea and other observers to be "technically ready" for a third nuclear test, and the decision to go ahead rests with leader Kim Jong-un, who pressed ahead with the December rocket launch in defiance of the U.N. sanctions.China, the one major diplomatic ally of the isolated and impoverished North, agreed to the U.S.-backed resolution and it also supported resolutions in 2006 and 2009 after Pyongyang's two earlier nuclear tests.Thursday's statement by North Korea represents a huge challenge to Beijing as it undergoes a leadership transition, with Xi Jinping due to take office in March.China's Foreign Ministry called for calm and restraint and a return to six-party talks, but effectively singled out North Korea, urging the "relevant party" not to take any steps that would raise tensions."We hope the relevant party can remain calm and act and speak in a cautious and prudent way and not take any steps which may further worsen the situation," ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters at a regular press briefing.North Korea has rejected proposals to restart the talks aimed at reining in its nuclear capacity. The United States, China, Russia, Japan and the two Koreas are the six parties involved."After all these years and numerous rounds of six-party talks we can see that China's influence over North Korea is actually very limited. All China can do is try to persuade them not to carry out their threats," said Cai Jian, an expert on Korea at Fudan University in Shanghai.Analysts said the North could test as early as February as South Korea prepares to install a new, untested president or that it could choose to stage a nuclear explosion to coincide with former ruler Kim Jong-il's Feb 16 birthday."North Korea will have felt betrayed by China for agreeing to the latest U.N. resolution and they might be targeting (China) as well (with this statement)," said Lee Seung-yeol, senior research fellow at Ewha Institute of Unification Studies in Seoul.
U.S. URGES NO TEST
Washington urged North Korea not to proceed with a third test just as the North's statement was published on Thursday."Whether North Korea tests or not is up to North Korea," Glyn Davies, the top U.S. envoy for North Korean diplomacy, said in the South Korean capital of Seoul."We hope they don't do it. We call on them not to do it," Davies said after a meeting with South Korean officials. "This is not a moment to increase tensions on the Korean peninsula."The North was banned from developing missile and nuclear technology under sanctions dating from its 2006 and 2009 nuclear tests.A South Korean military official said the concern now is that Pyongyang could undertake a third nuclear test using highly enriched uranium for the first time, opening a second path to a bomb.North Korea's 2006 nuclear test using plutonium produced a puny yield equivalent to one kiloton of TNT - compared with 13-18 kilotons for the Hiroshima bomb - and U.S. intelligence estimates put the 2009 test's yield at roughly two kilotons.North Korea is estimated to have enough fissile material for about a dozen plutonium warheads, although estimates vary, and intelligence reports suggest that it has been enriching uranium to supplement that stock and give it a second path to the bomb.According to estimates from the Institute for Science and International Security from late 2012, North Korea could have enough weapons grade uranium for 21-32 nuclear weapons by 2016 if it used one centrifuge at its Yongbyon nuclear plant to enrich uranium to weapons grade.North Korea has not yet mastered the technology needed to make a nuclear warhead small enough for an intercontinental missile, most observers say, and needs to develop the capacity to shield any warhead from re-entry into the earth's atmosphere.North Korea gave no time-frame for the coming test and often employs harsh rhetoric in response to U.N. and U.S. actions that it sees as hostile.The bellicose statement on Thursday appeared to dent any remaining hopes that Kim Jong-un, believed to be 30 years old, would pursue a different path from his father, Kim Jong-il, who oversaw the country's military and nuclear programs.The older Kim died in December 2011."The UNSC (Security Council) resolution masterminded by the U.S. has brought its hostile policy towards the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea) to its most dangerous stage," the commission was quoted as saying.(Additional reporting by Christine Kim in SEOUL, Ben Blanchard and Sui-Lee Wee in Beijing; Writing by David Chance; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and Ron Popeski)

North Korea Announces Third Nuclear Missile Test Launch

As Japan prepares to shut down all of its nuclear reactors, North Korea announces it will soon launch a third nuclear missile test.

By Chana Ya'ar First Publish: 1/24/2013, 3:31 PM-Israelnationalnews

North Korean rocket launch, Dec 2012-Reuters/KCN

As Japan prepares to shut down all of its nuclear reactors, North Korea has announced it will soon launch a third nuclear missile test.
The defiant Southeast Asian nation said Thursday it plans to launch a long-range ballistic missile, which can carry a nuclear warhead, despite a severe warning against the move from the United Nations.The international body has already imposed a number of economic and other sanctions against North Korea in an attempt to stop Seoul from continuing its headlong rush towards military nuclear development.But as Iran has done for years, North Korea also has ignored international efforts to impede the progress of its nuclear development activities.“Our long-range missiles are not only designed to launch satellites into orbit, but to carry nuclear warheads as well,” boasted the nation’s leader, Kim Jong-Un. In remarks carried by state media, Korea’s National Defense Commission said the planned launch would be part of an “upcoming all-out action” targeting the United States, “the sworn enemy of the Korean people.”
The statement came in the wake of a U.N. Security Council resolution passed Tuesday condemning North Korea’s Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket launch putting a satellite into space last month.  The resolution also expanded existing sanctions against the country. The United States advocated for and supported the resolution.
Sources in the South Korean military warned in December 2012 that North Korea is able to fire missiles with a range of more than 10,000 kilometers – far enough to reach the western coast of the United States. The warning followed a test conducted earlier in the month by North Korea in which a ballistic missile was fired.On September 6, 2007, Israel destroyed a budding nuclear power plant being constructed in northern Syria with assistance from North Korea.Concrete evidence of North Korea’s involvement was provided to the U.S. Congress following the destruction of the facility.   

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.

Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.

12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

Likud Activist: Judea and Samaria Still Supports Likud

A Likud activist in Judea and Samaria on Thursday rejected claims that there had been a drop in support for the party in the region

By David Lev First Publish: 1/24/2013, 2:05 PM-Israelnationalnews

Likud members-Flash 90

A Likud activist who works on behalf of the party in Judea and Samaria on Thursday rejected claims that there had been a drop in support for the party in the region – and in fact, the situation was just the opposite, with levels of support rising for the party in Judea and Samaria.Rabbi Yehuda Glick said that in 90% of localities in Judea and Samaria, there were more votes cast for the Likud than there were Likud party members. There had been concern among some Likud activists in Judea and Samaria that many Likud members who had joined as part of the Manhigut Yehudit movement to vote in the Likud primaries would vote for Jewish Home or Otzma LeYisrael in the general election. But according to Glick, in the vast majority of cities and towns all Likud members voted for the party, with many others joining them.As far as the small minority of towns where Likud membership exceeded the number of votes for the party in the general election, Glick said that they were generally very small towns where many of the Likud members were soldiers who were on active duty, and had voted on their bases or at other polling stations.Glick, himself a member of the Likud, attributed the perceived “crisis” in relations between residents of Judea and Samaria and the party to actions by the Likud itself. “For example, there was tension in Beit El, where the Likud attacked the rabbinical leadership. Despite this, though, the Likud got a healthy turnout there, proving that the relationship between the party and residents of Judea and Samaria is sill healthy.”

12th Jewish Home Seat Smashes 'Equality' of Left and Right Blocs

According to the near final results of the elections, Jewish Home will be awarded a 12th Knesset seat, making it the 4th largest party

By David Lev First Publish: 1/24/2013, 11:32 AM-Israelnationalnews

Shuly Muallem-Ro'i Edot

According to the near final results of the votes of soldiers, diplomats, and prisoners that were being tallied Thursday morning, Jewish Home will be awarded a 12th Knesset seat, making it the fourth largest faction in the Israeli parliament. The seat will come at the expense of Arab party Ra'am-Ta'al, which goes down to four seats.With the twelfth seat, Bayit Yehudi, the representative party of the National Religious sector, matches the sector's historic record number of Knesset seats, achieved in 1977, when the National Religious Party received 12 Knesset seats. At that time, there was no Shas party, which was one of the main reasons for the party's going down in the following elections, so that the return to 12 seats is really a significant upward shift..

With the extra seat, the traditional “right-left” balance now falls on the side of the traditional right parties. Altogether, the Likud, Jewish Home, Shas, and United Torah Jewry have 61 Knesset seats between them. In recent days, media pundits had been promoting the idea that there was a 60-60 deadlock between left and right, but that included the Arab parties, who have never been in a coalition and are 11 of the so-called "left-bloc" seats.The illusion of a deadlock was broken Wednesday night, when Yair Lapid stated categorically that he did not consider himself a member of the “left bloc,” and that he would not join a bloc along with Arab MK Hanin Zoabi – who participated in the 2010 flotilla in which Hamas-allied terrorists attacked IDF soldiers - and would not stand in the way of a government to be formed by Binyamin Netanyahu, as Tsippi Livni and Shelly Yechimovich of Labor had pledged to do.The twelfth Jewish Home MK is Shuly Muallem, a resident of Gush Etzion and the widow of IDF officer Moshe Muallem, who was killed in a tragic IDF helicopter accident in 1997. Muallem is the deputy chairperson of the IDF Widows and Orphans Organization. Speaking to Arutz Sheva Thursday, Muallem said that “it was the votes of the soldiers that got me into the Knesset. As a widow of an IDF officer, I pledge to continue my activities on behalf of soldiers, and ensure that all Israeli share in the burden of serving and defending the country.”

19th Knesset Record-Breaker for Women, Religious MKs

Israel’s new parliament will see more female Knesset members time around than previously -- another record-breaker for this election.

By Chana Ya'ar First Publish: 1/24/2013, 10:46 AM-Israelnationalnews

Ayelet Shaked-Moti Kikayon

Several records were broken in this year's national elections, among them the number of complete newcomers to the Knesset -- 50 -- and the rise in religiously-observant lawmakers, and women.
Among the 53 new lawmakers joining the 19th Knesset this year, nearly a third – 38 -- are observant members, a jump from 28 religious MKs in the prior session.In addition, 26 women have joined Israel’s new parliament, another record-setting increase from 21 in the 18th Knesset.Women will now  comprise 23 percent of the 19th Knesset – a statistic that outstrips the United States, where only 18 percent of the nation’s Congress are women, despite the record-setting membership of 98 female lawmakers on Capitol Hill.Veteran MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) is also a religiously observant Jew, and will undoubtedly find herself quite busy in helping to acquaint her peers with the "unspoken codes" she learned in her own first term in office.It is important to realize, however, that four parties – Likud (without Yisrael Beytenu), Labor, Bayit Yehudi and Meretz actually set quotas and set aside specific slots for female representation on their lists.Both hareidi-religious Jewish parties – United Torah Judaism and Shas –  did not allow women to run on their lists at all.There were also no realistic places on the lists for women on the Jewish-Arab Hadash and Israeli Arab UAL-Ta’al lists.A sampling of the new faces includes:Ayelet Shaked, (Bayit Yehudi) former bureau manager for then-opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud) and chairwoman and founding member of the My Israel Movement together with Bayit Yehudi chairman Naftali Bennett.Yael German, former Mayor of Herzliya,Penina Tamnu-Shata, (Yesh Atid), attorney, first female MK of Ethiopian origin,Yifat Kariv (Yesh Atid), City Councilmember, Hod HaSharon

Karin Elharar, attorney Ruth Calderon, Jewish educator,Orit Strook, (Bayit Yehudi), chairwoman, Yesha Human Rights Organization,Michal Rozin, former CEO of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel.

Israeli voters force Netanyahu to seek centrist partner

By Alistair Lyon | Reuters – 1 hr 25 mins ago JAN 24,13

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's next government must heed voters and devote itself to bread-and-butter issues, not thorny foreign policy problems such as Iran's nuclear plans and the Palestinian conflict, senior politicians said on Thursday.Israelis worried about housing, prices and taxes have reshaped parliament, forcing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to woo their centrist champion as his main coalition partner.

Final results from the January 22 national election were due later on Thursday, but were not expected to differ significantly from published projections.Defense Minister Ehud Barak told CNN that voters had imposed new constraints on the next government."It will be much more balanced, probably limited, cannot do whatever it wants and will have to take into account the growing pressure from within to focus on many internal issues," he said.Yair Lapid, the surprise success of Tuesday's ballot, stormed to second place with 19 seats in the 120-member assembly against 31 for Netanyahu's alliance of his Likud party ultra-nationalists led by former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.Formal coalition talks have yet to begin, but Netanyahu swiftly adopted chunks of Lapid's election platform as his own after the poll, keen to seal a deal that would create a solid base of 50 seats before drawing in other partners from the right or centre needed for a stable ruling majority.Lapid said "color had returned to the cheeks" of Israelis following the vote, adding that he was happy Netanyahu had now embraced his party's themes of "equal sharing of the burden" and helping the middle class, especially with housing and education."Equal sharing" is political code for meeting the complaints of secular tax-payers about the concessions given to the ultra-Orthodox, whose menfolk study in Jewish seminaries, often on state stipends, and who are not drafted into the army.
"EQUAL BURDEN"
Lulled by pre-election opinion polls, Netanyahu may have assumed he could coast back to power at the head of a right-wing coalition enthused by his mission to halt Iran's nuclear drive and eager to settle more Jews in the occupied West Bank.But his Likud party and Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu lost 11 of the seats they had won at the last election in 2009, punished by voters more preoccupied with problems of daily life.
Lieberman said he and Netanyahu shared with Lapid and Naftali Bennett, leader of a new far-right party, the goals of "equal burden, living costs and affordable housing".But Lieberman told Army Radio reaching a similar consensus on foreign policy might prove elusive. "We can start with diplomacy, but that will impair the government's functioning," he said. "This government must focus on domestic issues."In its first reaction to the election, the United States, Israel's chief ally, renewed a call for resuming stalled peace talks with the Palestinians, but huge obstacles remain, even if the next Israeli government gains a more moderate flavor.
Yasser Abed Rabbo, a member of the PLO executive committee, said Palestinian leaders were watching for change after a vote that had given Israel a "new and different opportunity".He told reporters any renewed talks must be based on creating a Palestinian state on the pre-1967 war lines."We are not ready to be part of the process of more political theatre or to give cover for government policy which represents the same policies as the last one, while settlements continue and we experience daily killing and repression."
U.S.-brokered peace talks broke down in 2010 amid mutual acrimony. Since then Israel has accelerated construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem - land the Palestinians want for their future state - much to the anger of Western partners.
RAZOR-THIN
Complicating Netanyahu's quest for a workable coalition is the difficulty of reconciling the demands of a dozen factions in parliament, where those on the right hold a razor-thin edge.Lapid, a former TV anchorman who only founded his Yesh Atid (There is a Future) party a year ago, seeks to end exemptions from military service for Israel's 10 percent minority of ultra-Orthodox Jews who also receive generous state benefits.
Those privileges were extracted from successive governments by religious parties such as Shas and the United Torah Party in exchange for their backing. The two parties have a combined total of 18 seats in parliament, and Netanyahu is likely to want to include at least one of them for a broad-based coalition.
He may also turn to the hardline Jewish Home group led by his former protege Bennett, a millionaire software entrepreneur, which won a projected 12 seats."Jewish Home can certainly be one of the desired partners in the new coalition," Likud lawmaker Zeev Elkin told Israel Radio.However, Bennett has denounced the idea of Palestinian statehood and advocates annexing swathes of the West Bank, putting him at odds with Lapid, who wants "divorce" talks with the Palestinians to end the decades-old Middle East conflict.The Labour party, which came third with 15 seats after putting economic and social issues at the forefront of its campaign, not the Middle East peacemaking it once championed, has vowed not to join any Netanyahu-led coalition.Once official results are announced on January 30, President Shimon Peres will ask someone, almost certainly Netanyahu, to try to form a government, a process that may take several weeks.
(Reporting by Jerusalem bureau; Editing by Peter Graff)

Pope on social networking: the virtual is real

By NICOLE WINFIELD | Associated Press – 51 mins ago JAN 24,13

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI put church leaders on notice Thursday, saying social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter aren't a virtual world they can ignore, but rather a very real world they must engage if they want to spread the faith to the next generation.The 85-year-old Benedict, who tweets in nine languages, used his annual message on social communications to stress the potential of social media for the church as it struggles to keep followers and attract new ones amid religious apathy, competition from other churches and scandals that have driven the faithful away.Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, head of the Vatican's communications office, cited a 2012 study commissioned by U.S. bishops that found that 53 percent of Americans were unaware of any significant presence of the Catholic Church online.
Other studies, Celli said, made clear that the "millennial generation" of people born after 1982 use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube far more than their parents as primary sources of information, entertainment and sharing political views and community issues."The digital environment is not a parallel or purely virtual world, but is part of the daily experience of many people, especially the young," Benedict said in his message. "Social networks are the result of human interaction, but for their part they also reshape the dynamics of communication which builds relationships: a considered understanding of this environment is therefore the prerequisite for a significant presence there."Benedict himself still writes longhand, but he is a superstar online, with 2.5 million Twitter followers, nearly 11,000 of them following his Latin tweets alone. And under his pontificate, the Holy See has greatly increased its presence online, with YouTube channels, papal apps and an online news portal www.news.va that gathers all Vatican information in one place.But the digital exposure hasn't come without risk or criticism: In the days after the Vatican announced that Benedict would respond to questions about faith on his first tweets from his (at)Pontifex handle last month, the Vatican was bombarded with threats of "Twitter bombs" from critics trying to scare the pope away from the online social forum."Leaving would've been a mistake," said Monsignor Paul Tighe, the No. 2 in the Vatican's social communications office. "It wouldn't have been fair to abandon all the people who joyfully welcomed the pope's message."Celli acknowledged that much of the pope's message this year repeated exhortations from previous years about the need for respectful dialogue online, for users to present themselves authentically and to listen, not just preach."At first look it could look like reheated soup," Celli conceded. But he said that sometimes messages need repeating, particularly in the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church. "I don't want to make any particular revelations here, but don't believe that everything that is said is absorbed at the ecclesial level."Celli noted, for example, that at a recent Vatican meeting of the world's bishops on spreading the faith, the recommendations for the church's social communications strategy "could have been written 30 years ago.""That means that he who is intervening doesn't have the perception of what is happening today, in the sphere of social networking," Celli said. "That's a problem for us."___Follow Nicole Winfield at www.twitter.com/nwinfield

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(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYUgVL9PdxM&list=UU4SH8rh0OjYV3zwqnIfqNbA&index=1&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PX-vW4VccY&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/indexes/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfPX59y4KxE&feature=related

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU JANUARY 24,2013

09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +55.90
10:30 AM +66.16
11:00 AM +79.89
11:30 AM +97.93
12:00 PM +82.32
12:30 PM +69.84
01:00 PM +38.76
01:30 PM +42.07
02:00 PM +37.43
02:30 PM +35.12
03:00 PM +46.16
03:30 PM +59.05
04:00 PM +46.00 13,825.33

S&P 500 1494.82 +0.01

NASDAQ 3130.38 -23.28

GOLD 1,667.80 -18.80

OIL 96.09 +0.86

TSE 300 12,823.62 +29.57

CDNX 1229.46 -12.07

S&P/TSX/60 737.10 +2.36

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +19 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +97 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,671.30.OIL opens at $96.09 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +97 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +97 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)

CRUDE OIL +2.8 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE -1.7 MILLION BARRELS
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES +508,000 BARRELS
NATURAL GAS-THU -172 BCF

IMF chief: 2013 is make-or-break year for eurozone

Today @ 09:27 JAN 24,13 By Valentina Pop

BERLIN - International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde has said that eurozone leaders should "keep the momentum" of reforms like the banking union, as recession is now forecast to linger on in 2013.
"2013 will be a make or break year. The biggest risks are in the developed countries - Japan, the eurozone and the US, there are threats if they don't keep up the momentum," Lagarde said on Wednesday (23 January) during her speech at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos.Earlier that day, the IMF revised its global growth forecast, giving a more pessimistic outlook than three months ago: instead of a 0.1 percent increase in the eurozone this year, the Washington-based lending body now predicts a recession of 0.2 percent.Lagarde said it was important for the eurozone to have a functional banking union in place as soon as possible, in reference to current negotiations on setting up a single supervisor for banks, to be hosted by the European Central Bank."Fiscal consolidation, however painful it may be in some areas of the eurozone, must continue, as well as a clear focus on jobs," Lagarde said.She repeated what top economists at the IMF admitted in a study earlier this month - that "policy makers did not pay enough attention to inequality" and focused too much on spending cuts at the expense of the most vulnerable in the society.
"What is less clear is how to achieve that inclusive growth. Minimum wages can also work sometimes, but if there is any priority, it should be youth employment," she said.Over half of young people in Greece and Spain are out of a job, as national economies continue to shrink, the fourth year of recession for Greece and the second for Spain.Lagarde, a former French finance minister under whose leadership the IMF has become more sympathetic to social woes, criticised the vested interests and corrupt networks in the financial sector, saying they were at the root of the 2008 financial crisis."Too much activity was hidden away in shadowy corners. Things have changed, but we need further and better changes in 2013, to finish up the financial sector reform, for instance on shadow banking and derivatives," she noted.The EU is struggling to strengthen rules for the financial sector, but critics say the new laws have been watered down by lobbying from banks and investment funds.

World Bank highlights growth outside the EU crisis

Today @ 09:19 JAN 24,13 By Benjamin Fox

BRUSSELS - For those suffering from eurozone crisis syndrome, it is easy to forget that an economic world exists beyond the EU's borders.For all the talk of recession and depression it would be a mistake to think that economies are in retreat the world over. In reality, most of the world is growing - and not just the usual suspects.While the US, the EU and Japan tread water, five years after the start of the financial crisis, the 150 or more countries of the developing world are growing at an average of 5.1 percent.Indeed, the World Bank which, like an increasing number of economic authorities, believes that the worst of the crisis may be over, expects the growth rate to hit 5.5 percent in 2013 and 5.8 percent in 2014 - closer to the pre-crisis rates of between 7 and 8 percent.In the words of the Bank's Andrew Burns, speaking with this website, the prognosis for the world economy in 2013 is "relatively sombre but has an upside to it."A Canadian economist and senior advisor, Burns is the author of the Washington-based body's annual Global Economic Prospects report. One of the main findings of the 2013 study, published last week, is that while developing economies have been hit by the problems in the US and Europe, they are still "the main driver of global growth."For European readers, the report is a deflating, but scarcely surprising, text.The World Bank expects the eurozone to remain in recession for the first half of 2013, contracting by a further 0.1 percent over the course of the year. Meanwhile, Europe's economic rivals in the US and Japan will see meagre growth of 1.8 percent and 0.8 percent, respectively.So is this further proof of the slow decline of the western economic superpowers? There is no doubt that the world's richest societies are not getting much richer. With a rate well over 7 percent, China almost certainly achieved more growth in 2012 than the eurozone will see in the 2010-2019 decade.Burns acknowledges that the global gap between rich and poor is slowly closing, but emphasises the magnitude of the economic chasm that still exists."The gap is closing but per capita incomes in developing countries are still less than 10 percent [of those in the industrialised world]. Even if you have the same growth rates as now, in 2050 developing countries are still going to be half of the GDP of high income countries in 2010," he said.That said, we are still looking at a huge rebalancing of the world economy.Even the near 10 percent figure in 2012 is a leap from the meagre 3 percent per capita income levels that existed in 1992.As developing countries get stronger, the dynamic of world trade is also evolving, with countries more reliant on trade with each other than on access to the US, Japanese and European markets.Says Burns: "This trend is marking the world going forward and it means that the relationship between developing countries and the rest of the world is changing. So in 2011, for the first time, more than 50 percent of developing countries trade was with other developing countries, not the high income countries. That was partly because of the weaknesses in the high income world but also a reflection that developing countries are growing."Meanwhile, even if most economic pundits tend to focus on the so-called tiger economies in South and East Asia, Burns noted: "what is surprising is the fact that Africa is one of the fast growing regions in the world.""If you take South Africa out of the aggregate, sub-Saharan Africa is growing at 5.8 percent, over a third of countries in the region are growing at over 6 percent, and it's the only area where foreign direct investment (FDI) actually went up last year. It's a place where things are happening," he added.While resource-rich African countries have benefited from the recent spike in commodity prices, the changes go deeper, with increasing levels of investment in telecoms, e-commerce and consumer goods distribution and with a growing middle-class to support it.The EU is anxious to get any economic advantage it can.The European Commission has opened negotiations on free trade agreements with a string of countries ranging from Japan to India and to the seven countries in the south-east Asian Asean group.But Burns says that developing countries are at the same time discovering the rewards not just of regional or bilateral trade deals, but also of voluntarily reducing their own tariff restrictions."Regional trade agreements have, on balance, been trade creating not diverting, but probably as important has been the unilateral recognition that trade is good ... As a result, we see that trade in Africa has exploded, and average tariffs in Africa have come down from 30 percent in the 1990s to around 10 percent now," he said.The good news for the developing world comes with a warning, however.The World Bank says the dilemma of how to cut budget deficits while simultaneously paying for infrastructure investment applies as much to the developing world as to Europe.Austerity the world over? EU crisis victims are not alone.

Monti attacks 'short-termism' in EU politics

Today @ 08:28 JAN 24,13 By Valentina Pop

BERLIN - Italy's outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti on Wednesday (23 January) criticised fellow EU leaders for the way they dealt with the euro crisis and said corporations are blocking reforms in order to promote "vested interests" in Europe."Leadership is the opposite of short-termism. And there was short-termism in the initial response to the euro-crisis," Monti said in a speech at the World Economic Forum, a yearly gathering of political leaders in the Swiss resort of Davos.The technocrat and former EU commissioner took over the reigns of power in 2011, when his predecessor and convicted fraudster Silvio Berlusconi stepped down amid market pressure which drove Italy close to a bailout.Monti praised the Italian people for trusting him and for enduring the sacrifices that were needed to bring Italy back on track.Without naming Berlusconi, he blamed the previous generations of Italian leaders who failed to transform the country, accumulated debt and allowed corruption and vested interests to flourish.He spoke frankly about "northern leaders" - a hint to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Dutch and Scandinavian allies - who "failed to recognise the systemic component of the crisis," meaning that markets mistrusted Italy even when it started to clean up its act, because there was no confidence in the euro as such.As seen in Italy, Monti said painful reforms everywhere in Europe can be accepted by the public if they see justice and fairness, instead of the rich and privileged being let off the hook."I saw corporate interests having rather more taxes than opening markets. Sometimes their resistance is camouflaged behind traditional ideas. Vested corporate interests are found throughout the EU, not just Italy," Monti said.As for his own political choices, Monti - who so far had never been a political party member - said he took the decision to lead a coalition of centrist parties in the general elections on 24-25 February despite it being "against my nature and my personal interest.""The essence of my endeavour is to build a highly competitive social market economy in Italy and in Europe. It is an ambitious agenda but we owe it to our people, to the most fragile who pay the price of unemployment. They are victims of governments not strong enough in confronting corruption, vested interests, tax evasion, market manipulation," he said.

Cameron is right

The former internal market commissioner, who authored a plan on how to improve the EU single market a few years ago, said he agrees with British Prime Minister David Cameron on one issue: that the single market is not working properly.Cameron earlier on Wednesday said he wants Britain to renegotiate the terms of its EU membership, focusing on the single market, and then to submit the new deal to a referendum in 2017.
Monti said he also sees the "advantage" of putting the "real question" to the British people: whether they want to be in or out of the EU, rather than playing around with "marginal" questions."I don't know what the British people will say, but I am confident that all the costs and benefits of this decisions will come up and facilitate a positive decision for all Europeans," he said.

MUSLIM NATIONS

GENESIS 12:1-3
1  Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2  And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3  And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

MATTHEW 25:32-34,40-41
32  And before him (JESUS) shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33  And he shall set the sheep on his right hand,(ISRAEL SUPPORTERS) but the goats on the left.(ISRAEL HATERS)
34  Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
40  And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren,(ISRAELIS) ye have done it unto me.
41  Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand,(ISRAEL HATERS) Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)

EZEKIEL 12:25
25  For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.

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,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
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.

EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-18
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,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) 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.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)

JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37  For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)

EZEKIEL 35:3-6,11-15
3  And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir,(ARABS) I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
4  I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
5  Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred,(AGAINST ISRAEL) and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6  Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
11  Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12  And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13  Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
14  Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.(ARAB,MUSLIMS)
15  As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir,(ARABS) and all Idumea,(ARAB,MUSLIMS) even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12  Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13  The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14  And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.

JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23  Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24  Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25  How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27  And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)

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)

Russian Foreign Minister Warns Against Strike in Iran

Attacking Iran's nuclear facilities "a very dangerous idea," says Russian FM Sergei Lavrov.

By Elad Benari First Publish: 1/24/2013, 5:16 AM-Israelnationalnews

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov-Reuters

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday warned against the idea of strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities, RIA Novosti reports.
The remarks were made after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, in a speech given after he was reelected for a third term, said that one of the principles of his new coalition would be preventing Iran from getting a nuclear bomb.“Attempts to prepare and carry out strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities are a very dangerous idea,” RIA Novosti quoted Lavrov as having said at a press conference in Moscow.“We hope that these ideas and statements will not be realized,” he added. Addressing the talks between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Lavrov said that the Iranians to speed up the proceedings."The Iranians said they wanted to sign an agreement. We believe they can do it a little faster than they have so far," said Lavrov.
The IAEA and Iran have been holding talks over the atomic agency’s request to access sites where it believes the Islamic Republic has been conducting nuclear weapons tests.Another round of talks was held last week but no deal was reached, as diplomats briefed afterwards voiced skepticism that more talks next month could bridge the differences.The United States, Israel and some of their allies accuse Iran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear energy program. Iran rejects the allegations, arguing that it is entitled to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.Russia has said it will scuttle any UN Security Council resolution which could be interpreted as allowing military action against Iran.Netanyahu told visiting U.S. Senators last week that “history will not forgive those who do not stop Iran's nuclear program,” adding that “a nuclear Iran is the problem of the world.”In November Netanyahu indicated that by the time his next term as Prime Minister is over, Iran will not have a nuclear weapons program, stressing that if it is necessary, he will lead an independent Israeli attack against Iran, even without the support of the United States.

Syrian jets bomb rebel-held areas near Damascus

By BARBARA SURK | Associated Press – 43 mins ago JAN 24,13

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian warplanes bombed rebel-held areas near Damascus on Thursday as President Bashar Assad's troops battled opposition fighters for control of a strategic road that links the capital with the main airport.The fighting around Damascus was part of the government offensive to dislodge rebels from towns and villages ringing the Syrian capital — areas that have been opposition strongholds since the uprising against Assad's rule began nearly two years ago.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said fighter jets carried out eight airstrikes on Daraya, a strategic suburb close to a key military air base southwest of Damascus. The group, which relies on reports from activists on the ground, also said heavy fighting was reported near Damascus International Airport and that the regime was shelling the town of Aqraba along the airport road.There were no immediate reports of casualties.According to the United Nations, more than 60,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict, which began when opposition supporters took up arms to fight a brutal government crackdown on dissent.Because of its strategic location near a military base, Syrian troops have been pounding rebel positions in Daraya for weeks. Earlier this month, the government claimed its troops had regained control over much of the district from where the rebels have been threatening Damascus, the seat of Assad's power.Activists posted a video of the Daraya fighting online that shows artillery shells slamming into concrete buildings, sending plumes of thick, white and gray smoke into the sky.Daraya is flanked by the key districts of Mazzeh, which is home to the military air, and Kfar Sousseh, where the government headquarters, the General Security intelligence agency's head office and the Interior Ministry are located.State-run news agency SANA said troops have been battling rebels in the oil-rich province of al-Hasaka in the country's northeast, killing and wounding several "terrorists" — the term the government and state media use to refer to rebels.Also in the north, SANA said terrorists shot and killed a math teacher, Nabih Jamil al-Saad, on Wednesday near his home in the town of Hmaida in Raqqa province. A day earlier, rebels killed Mamdouh Abudllah Bin Abd Dibeh, a cardiologist, in front of his clinic in Sheik Mheddin area of Damascus, SANA said.It was not clear if either the teacher or the doctor had ties to the regime. Rebels have targeted government officials, civil workers and prominent personalities, such as actors, who are known Assad supporters.In a separate report, SANA said many residents of the central town of Salamiya in Hama province took part in a funeral procession for those killed in a car bomb explosion at a headquarters of a pro-government militia late Monday. The Observatory said earlier that at least 42 people were killed in the car bombing, but SANA did not say how many died.In photographs published by the official news wire, dozens of men are seen standing in front of 11 caskets, wrapped into Syrian flags. Another photograph by SANA shows hundreds of men rallying at what the official news wire said was a funeral procession at Salamiya's al-Huriyeh square.Also on Thursday, in what Syrian state TV said was a live broadcast, Assad was seen sitting cross-legged on the floor of the al-Afram mosque in Damascus during prayers marking Prophet's Muhammad's birthday.___Associated Press writer Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria, contributed to this report.

Clashes in Egypt on eve of uprising anniversary

By MAGGIE MICHAEL | Associated Press – 41 mins ago JAN 24,13

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian riot police fired tear gas and clashed Thursday with dozens of protesters as they tried to tear down a cement wall built to prevent demonstrators from reaching the parliament and the Cabinet building in central Cairo.The violence came on the eve of the second anniversary of Egypt's uprising that toppled longtime authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak. Three weeks of mass protests that erupted on Jan. 25, 2011, eventually forced Mubarak out of office.Since then, Egypt underwent a tumultuous transition under the interim leadership of military generals until the election last June of Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood group. His first six months in office were marked by political tensions, street clashes, and an economic crunch that sapped his popularity.Thursday's clashes may foreshadow a violent anniversary on Friday, when youth activists and opposition groups have called for large rallies in Cairo's Tahrir Square and in front of the presidential palace in the upscale Heliopolis suburb.The opposition has demanded a suspension or radical changes to be made Egypt's newly adopted constitution, which an Islamist-dominated constituent assembly drafted amid deep polarization and mass street protests.The constitution, which many Egyptians see as a detrimental to civil liberties and a precursor to a religious state, passed with a 64 percent "yes" vote in a December referendum in which around 33 percent of voters took part.In an online video message posted on Thursday, the nation's most prominent opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei urged Egyptians to rally in the streets but warned that change will take time."I demand from each one of you, all across Egypt, to prove that the revolution must continue and much be completed," said ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former head of the U.N. nuclear agency in the message."Egyptians rose up for the sake of freedom, dignity and social justice," he said. "We must not stop until we see all the demands achieved. It will take time but we have to put ourselves on the right path."The opposition wants to use the occasion to put pressure on Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, who secular and liberal Egyptians accuse of trying to monopolize power.Meanwhile, the Brotherhood and other Islamist parties announced they will stay away from the streets on Friday's anniversary and warned the opposition against instigating violence. However, a Brotherhood member said that orders were given for supporters to rally at a mosque located near the presidency. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.Egypt witnessed some of its worst street clashes on Dec. 4, when supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood clamped down on tents and protesters holding a sit-in in front of the presidential palace. Clashes ended with 10 dead and hundreds injured on the two sides.The Brotherhood said it would mark the anniversary by planting a million trees in a campaign entitled "Let's build Egypt."In a statement posted on the group's official website, its leader, Mohammed Badie, advised Muslims to "watch their enemies," invoking challenges the Prophet Muhammad faced while founding a new state in the holy city of Medina in the 7th Century.

Commemorating the prophet's birthday, a national holiday, Badie said Muhammad faced "hypocrites, filled with hatred and envy for the emerging group."

60-60 SPLIT IN LEFT / RIGHT VOTING IN ISRAEL

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

Pres. Peres Meeting with Party Leaders JAN 23,13 Israelnationalnews

President Shimon Peres summoned the heads of the factions elected to the Knesset to hear their opinion on the appropriate candidate to form a new government.

Four weeks will be given to the selected candidate to form a new government. Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, as the head of the party that received the most amount of votes has the most leverage.

Vote Shift: Right, Left Evenly Matched with 60 Seats Each

With 99 percent of the vote counted it seems Kadima will enter Knesset, leaving right- and left-wing blocs even, if Arab parties join left.

By Maayana Miskin and Chana Ya'ar First Publish: 1/23/2013, 8:00 AM-Israelnationalnews

Counting votes (archive)-Israel news photo: Flash 90

With 99 percent of the votes counted, it seems that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu may have a hard time creating the next coalition. Despite Netanyahu’s significant lead over rival parties, the right-wing and left-wing blocs are now evenly matched with 60 seats each.Netanyahu’s Likud, which ran together with Yisrael Beytenu, took 31 seats. In second place is Yesh Atid with 19 seats, followed by Labor with 17.
Shas and Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) won 11 seats each. Yahadut HaTorah (Gimmel) got 7 seats, an increase over its current six.Tzipi Livni’s Hatnua party got 6 seats, the Jewish-Arab Hadash party took 4 4, Meretz appears to have 6, the other Arab parties together earned 7, and Kadima appears to have passed the voting threshold with just 2 seats. Otzma L'Yisrael (Strong Israel, led by MK Michael Ben Ari) may not have made it into the Knesset.While the numbers do not quite add up, as the final calculations have not been completed, the final breakdown will apparently leave current coalition members Likud, Bayit Yehudi and the hareidi-religious parties Shas and Yahadut HaTorah with a total of 60 seats, and Yesh Atid, Labor, Hatenua, Meretz, Kadima and the Arab parties with a total of 60 seats.Netanyahu may be able to include Yesh Atid in his coalition.Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid, a longtime popular TV anchor until exactly one year ago, and son of the former far-left secular Shinui party head Tommy Lapid, defines his party as centrist rather than left-wing, and has not ruled out the possibility of joining a Likud-led coalition.However, the party’s strong stance in favor of mandatory IDF recruitment for hareidi-religious yeshiva students may make it difficult for Netanyahu to include both Lapid’s party and the hareidi-religious parties in a coalition. The dilemma will undoubtedly raise the necessity of negotiations for a compromise -- at best -- over the critical and delicate issue.

MK: Likud’s Attack Ads Killed Right-Wing Majority

Likud’s attacks on the Bayit Yehudi party drove young voters to the centrist Yesh Atid, says MK Uri Orbach.

By Maayana Miskin First Publish: 1/23/2013, 12:41 PM-Israelnationalnews

MK Uri Orbach-Flash 90

Likud’s own advertising cost it a right-wing majority in Knesset, MK Uri Orbach (Bayit Yehudi) claimed Wednesday.Likud focused on attacking the Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) party in recent weeks, primarily by portraying its candidates as extremists. According to Orbach, the ads convinced many young voters not to vote for Bayit Yehudi – but instead of choosing Likud Beytenu, they turned left and voted for another new party, the Yesh Atid party led by Yair Lapid.Lapid’s party was the surprise of the elections, winning 19 seats in place of the 11-12 that it had been predicted to receive.Yesh Atid describes itself as centrist, and may be willing to join a coalition led by Netanyahu. However, with its unexpected size, the party may also have the option of aligning with the left and blocking a second consecutive term for Netanyahu, although its chances of forming a government are not realistic.Orbach blamed the Otzma L'Yisrael party, as well, for the failure of the right wing and hareidi-religious parties to earn a majority of Knesset seats. The party, led by MK Michael Ben Ari and Dr. Aryeh Eldad, formerly of Ichud Leumi, failed to pass the threshold to enter Knesset and the roughly 60,000 votes it earned did not go toward more Knesset seats for the political right.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu seemed unconcerned Wednesday by reports showing the right and left-wing blocs evenly matched with 60 seats each. In a statement he thanked Israelis for turning out to vote Tuesday. The left-wing bloc includes the Arab parties and since they have never been coalition partners, is not a relevant comparison.“The results clearly show that Israel’s citizens want me to continue as Prime Minister,” he declared, “and want me to put together as broad-based a coalition as possible.” The new makeup of the Knesset provides an opportunity for “many changes,” he added.Netanyahu’s apparent calm may indicate confidence that the Yesh Atid party will agree to join him in a coalition despite its inclusion in the left wing bloc in various media reports. Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid has previously indicated that he is willing to join any government that will agree to his party’s major platform points, including IDF enlistment for hareidi-religious yeshiva students.

Pessimism in PA Follows Israel’s 2013 Elections

Pessimism in the Palestinian Authority about the prospects for peace with Israel follow its national elections the “morning after.”

By Chana Ya'ar First Publish: 1/23/2013, 3:11 PM-Israelnationalnews

PLO official Hanan Ashrawi-Flash 90

Pessimism in the Palestinian Authority about the prospects for peace with Israel has followed the country’s national elections on the “morning after.”
“I don’t see a peace coalition or a peace camp emerging now and revitalizing itself,” said Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee.Going into the elections, Ashrawi had told the Saudi Okaz newspaper, “elections in Israel will bring about an even more extreme right-wing government that will seek to destroy the possibility of peace, not only in the Israel-Palestinian arena, but in the entire region.”Ashrawi followed up with reporters again at a news briefing in Ramallah on Wednesday, the day after 66.6 percent of Israelis cast their ballots in what at first appeared to be a near-even split between the right and left-wing camps.With 99 percent of the votes counted, the left and right were only really even if one included the Israeli Arab parties among the leftist bloc. Such parties include Knesset members such as Ahmed Tibi, Haneen Zouabi,  and Jamal Zahalka, all of whom have bluntly advocated the elimination of the “enemy” State of Israel, and expressed their hope for the Palestinian Authority, as “Palestine,” to rise in its place.
A right-wing coalition is still likely to be put together by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who like other faction leaders is actively engaged in trying to form a winning combination. But it is probable Netanyahu will have to moderate his coalition and create a more centrist government, this time around. The reason: a dramatic drop in mandates for the Likud-Beytenu list and the rise to second place of centrist former TV news anchor Yair Lapid’s “Yesh Atid” (There is a Future) party.Lapid campaigned on a platform that highlighted what he called the “equal share of the burden, the cost of living and housing.” He adamantly maintained to reporters that his primary responsibility was to “raise the issue of the middle class.”The leftist Labor party, led by another former journalist, Shelley Yechimovich, is in third place, having won 15 mandates. She is followed by two right-wing parties tied with 11 seats each - hareidi-religious Sephardic Shas party, and Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) led by another newcomer, former IDF special ops officer Naftali Bennett.The Bayit Yehudi leader also referred to taking care of the “equal share of the burden” in his post-election remarks on Wednesday, saying “the public went for something new. Both Yair Lapid and we are new. The public is now waiting to see the results. Our commitment is to restore the economy and take care of the equal share of the burden.” Leftist Tzipi Livni’s “HaTnuah” party won 6 votes, as did the far-left Meretz party. The United Arab List-Ta’al party won 5 seats, and Balad won 3. The Arab-Jewish “Hadash” (New) party won 4 seats, and the once-powerful Kadima party, founded by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, squeaked in with a bare 2 seats.

250,000 ‘Wasted’ Votes in 2013 Elections

Nearly a quarter of a million voters chose parties that did not make it into the Knesset this time around.

By Chana Ya'ar First Publish: 1/23/2013, 11:52 AM-Israelnationalnews

Elections 2013-Israel news photo: Ben Bresky

Nearly a quarter of a million voters chose parties that did not make it into the Knesset this time around.
The ‘Otzma L’Yisrael’ party (Strong Israel) came closest to reaching its goal, but failed to pass the 2 percent threshold needed to enter the parliament. The party, led by MK Michael Ben Ari, earned 61,825 votes, and lacked the 15,000 more needed to break the barrier.The ‘Am Shalem’ party was next, with 42,095 mandates, also lacking enough to enter the Knesset.Both were followed by several other, smaller new parties, all of which made poor showings and had no chance of entering.
Among them were Rabbi Amnon Yitzchak’s ‘Koach L’Hashpiah’ (Power to Influence)  party, with 26,744 votes; ‘Eretz Hadasha’ (New Land) with 26,331 votes; and the ‘Calcala’ (Economy) party, which won only 1,881 votes despite publicity for its controversial ads and use of celebrities. The final votes from Tuesday’s national election will be counted beginning today (Wednesday) in the evening. When the tally is completed, the threshold for entering the Knesset is expected to be set at 76,100, according to the Central Elections Committee.
At present, the threshold is being set at two percent of the total number of votes, which are still being tallied due to the submission from polls among IDF soldiers in the field.

Meretz Urges the Left to Block Netanyahu Coalition

‘Don’t throw Bibi a lifeline,’ urges far-left Meretz chairwoman.

By Maayana Miskin First Publish: 1/23/2013, 10:10 AM-Israelnationalnews

MKs Horowitz, Galon and Gilon-Flash 90

As results from the elections become clearer, hope is growing on the far left that the left wing will be able to block Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu by preventing him from forming a new coalition. Without support from parties that  can form a bloc with a total of over 60 seats, Netanyahu will not be named the next prime minister.Zahava Galon, chairwoman of the far-left Meretz faction, met Tuesday night with Yair Lapid, Shelly Yechimovich and Tzipi Livni, the heads of Yesh Atid, Labor and Hatnua respectively. “Don’t throw Bibi Netanyahu a lifeline,” she urged them.Galon had previously urged Yesh Atid and the left to stand with Arab parties to thwart Netanyahu. “We have the opportunity to create a bloc – center, left, and Arabs,” she declared Tuesday night.“The time has come,” she continued. “This could be an historic opportunity to replace the extreme-right regime that has trampled democracy.” She called on her fellow party heads on the left to “create a bloc to block the extremist Bibi, in order to preserve democracy and restore sanity to Israel.”Galon’s proposed 60-seat bloc would have to include both Yesh Atid and the Arab parties Balad and Ra’am Ta’al, a prospect that seems unlikely given Yesh Atid’s centrist stance on defense and diplomacy and Balad and Ra’am Ta’al’s extremism, which has included support for terrorists.Labor head Shelly Yechimovich has also expressed hope that the left will be able to block Netanyahu. Her proposal includes seeking support from the hareidi-religious factions Shas and Yahadut HaTorah (Gimmel) rather than Balad or Ra’am Ta’al.Both plans rely on Yesh Atid to prefer toppling Netanyahu to joining his government as the second most powerful party. 

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(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED JANUARY 23,2013

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OIL 95.59 -1.09

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MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +40 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +80 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,692.50.OIL opens at $96.41 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
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Dow +80 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +80 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)

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THE ISRAELI ELECTERAL SYSTEM

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
http://www.knesset.gov.il/description/eng/eng_mimshal_beh.htm

The Electoral System in Israel

Summary: Israel has an electoral system based on nation-wide proportional representation, and the number of seats which every list receives in the Knesset is proportional to the number of voters who voted for it. The only limitation is the 2% qualifying threshold. In other words, a party must receive at least 2% of the votes in order to be elected. According to this system, the voters vote for a party list, and not for a particular person on the list. Since the institution of the primaries system in some of the parties, these parties directly elect their candidates for the Knesset. Some of the parties elect their candidates via the party's institutions. In the ultra-religious parties their spiritual leaders appoint the candidates. The Knesset elections take place once every four years, but the Knesset or the Prime Minister can decide to hold early elections, and under certain circumstances can serve for more than four years.  The electoral system  Historical background  The legal basis  The principles    The frequency of elections  Who can participate in elections?  The distribution of seats  Who is elected to the Knesset? The Electoral System Israel has an electoral system based on nation-wide proportional representation. In other words, the number of seats that each list receives in the Knesset - the House of Representatives - is proportional to the number of votes it received. Unlike most of the Western parliamentary democracies, the system in Israel is followed in an extreme manner, and the only limitation on a list which participated in the elections being elected is that it should pass the qualifying threshold, which is currently 2%. (Until the elections to the 13th Knesset the qualifying threshold was only 1%. During the 16th Knesset, the law changed the threshold from 1.5% to 2%.). Historical Background The State of Israel inherited the rigid system of proportional representation from the political system of the yishuv (the organized Jewish community) in mandatory times. This system was based on the zeal with which the various political parties - in which ideology and personalities played a major role - fought to preserve their independence. The justification given for the large number of parties resulting from the system was, that in a period in which major, far-reaching and rapid changes were still taking place in the population make-up as a result of immigration, it was important to enable maximal representation for various groups and opinions. The Legal Basis for the System The electoral system is based primarily on two laws: the Basic Law: the Knesset of 1958 and the Knesset Elections Law (combined version) of 1969. Since the Parties Law of 1992 was passed, only registered parties can present a list of candidates and participate in the elections. The Principles Upon Which the Electoral System is Based The general framework for the elections was laid down in article 4 of the Basic Law: The Knesset, and according to it the Knesset is to be elected in general, country-wide, direct, equal, secret and proportional elections. This article can only be amended by a vote of a majority of the Knesset members. The principle of the generality of the elections ensures the active right of every Israeli citizen, who is at least 18 years old, to vote and the right of every Israeli citizen, who is at least 21 years old, to be elected. Even though the Basic Law: The Knesset gave the legislator the power to deny the right to vote to anyone as it may see fit, the Knesset has never made use of this power. Those holding certain official positions, such as the President of the State, the State Comptroller, judges or dayanim, career officers, and senior civil servants, may not stand for election to the Knesset. However they can contend if they resign from their post 100 days or 6 months before the elections, depending on the public position, as the law specifies. The principle of country-wide elections states that Israel is a single electoral district insofar as the distribution of Knesset seats is concerned. Direct elections mean that the voter elects the Knesset directly, rather than an electoral college (as is the case in the election of the President in the United States). Equal elections apply to equality amongst the votes given, and the Supreme Court laid down that the principle of equality relates to equality of opportunities for all the lists participating in the elections as well. The principle of secrecy ensures fairness in the elections and aspires to prevent the placing of effective pressure on voters, since no one has any way of knowing how they actually voted. The principle of proportionality manifests itself in that all the lists, which get past the qualifying threshold, are represented in the Knesset by a number of members which is proportional to their electoral strength. The Frequency of Elections The Knesset elections are supposed to take place every four years. The Knesset can decide, by an ordinary majority, to dissolve itself and call for early elections. Under the direct vote for Prime Minister system, the Prime Minister could notify the President of early elections. After the abolishment of that system, the Prime Minister can recommend to the President to call for early elections, but the Knesset can block that initiative. The elections to the Second (1951), Fifth (1961), Tenth (1981), Eleventh (1984), Thirteenth (1992), Fourteenth (1996), Fifteenth (1999), Seventeenth (2006), and Eighteenth (2009) Knessets were all held before the due date by the Knesset's initiative. The elections for the Sixteenth Knesset were brought forward by the initiative of the Prime Minister. The Knesset can also decide, by a special majority, to prolong its term beyond four years. This happened in the case of the elections to the Eighth Knesset (1973) which were delayed because of the Yom Kippur War. In either case of delayed or early elections, the newly formed Knesset is meant to serve a full four-year term from the date of elections as determined by the law, regardless of the election date. Who Can Participate in Elections? The contest in the elections is among lists of candidates. Since the Parties Law was passed in 1992, only a party, which has been legally registered with the Party Registrar, or an alignment of two or more registered parties, which have decided to run in the elections together, can present a list of candidates and participate in the elections (for example, in the elections for the fifteenth Knesset, the list "One Israel" was composed of three parties; Labor, Gesher and Meimad). A party can informally add to its list bodies or personalities that are not members of the party and that are not registered themselves as a party (for example, in the elections for the fifteenth Knesset, the Unified Arab List included contenders from the Democratic Arab Party, a registered party, and individuals from the Islamic Movement, a non-registered party). The following lists may not run in the elections: A list which acts directly or indirectly against the existence of the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people or against its democratic nature; a list which incites racism; a list which supports the armed struggle of an enemy state or a terrorist organization against the State of Israel. The Distribution of Seats Among the Lists The lists that have passed the qualifying threshold receive a number of Knesset seats which is propotional to their electoral strength. This is done by the division of valid votes given to the lists which passed the qualifying threshold, by 120, in order to determine how many votes entitle a list to a single seat. In the elections to the second and seventh Knessets the excess votes (the votes received by a list which passed the qualifying threshold, but are not sufficient for a whole seat) were distributed to those lists which had the largest number of excess votes (the Hare method). In the elections to the First Knesset, and since the elections to the Eighth Knesset, the excess votes are distributed to the lists with the largest number of voters per seat - a method known in the world as Hagenbach-Bischoff (de-Hondt), and is known in Israel as the Bader-Ofer method - named after MKs Yohanan Bader (Gahal) and Avraham Ofer (Alignment) who proposed its adoption. Two lists can reach an agreement regarding the distribution of excess votes between them before the elections. Who is Elected to the Knesset? The candidates of any given list are elected to the Knesset on the basis of the order in which they appear on it. If a certain party received sufficient votes for 10 seats, the first 10 candidates on its list will enter the Knesset. If a Knesset member passes away or resigns his seat in the Knesset for whatever reason, the next on the list will replace him/her.