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DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

Ireland promises Lisbon ratification by end of 2009
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EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Ireland has promised to ratify the EU's Lisbon Treaty by November next year in exchange for concessions from the other EU states on its key demands.A document green-lighted by EU leaders gathered in Brussels on Thursday (11 December) reads: The Irish government is committed to seeking ratification of the Lisbon Treaty by the end of the term of the current [European] Commission, in November 2009.Irish voters said No to the Lisbon Treaty on 12 June. (Photo: EUobserver)It is important to Irish society and to future generations that we make the right decision now in terms of retaining an active, influential role at the heart of the European Union, Irish foreign minister Micheal Martin told RTE Radio prior to the decision.In exchange, EU leaders have agreed that each member country will keep one commissioner in the next European Commission if the Lisbon Treaty enters into force.In its current form, the Lisbon Treaty foresees a reduction of the commission whereby as of 2014 just two-thirds of the member states would have a commissioner at any one time. The reduction can be changed by the EU countries however, if they agree to such a move unanimously.Dublin has said that according to their research into why their citizens voted No, keeping their commissioner had been a key concern, together with holding on to its traditional neutrality. Ireland has also sought assurances that the EU would not impose rules concerning taxation or ethical issues, such as abortion, euthanasia and gay marriages.

Ireland has secured concessions on these points as well. The European Council [EU member states] has carefully noted the other concerns of the Irish people presented by the taoiseach as set out in the statement annexed relating to taxation policy, family, social and ethical issues, and Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) with regard to Ireland's traditional policy of neutrality, reads the document.The European Council agrees that these concerns shall be addressed to the mutual satisfaction of Ireland and the other member states by way of the necessary legal guarantees, it continues.The Irish commitment to pass the Lisbon Treaty means the country is likely to hold a second referendum on the document sometime next year, possibly before the end of October. The Irish first rejected the text on 12 June by a vote of 53.4 to 46.6 percent.An Irish Times poll last month showed that given such assurances, voters would approve the treaty in a second referendum, however, with 43 percent of respondents saying they would now vote Yes, 39 percent No and 18 percent having no opinion.

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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.

Storms drench Italy, 1 dead in Rome By ARIEL DAVID, Associated Press Writer DEC 11,08

weather.com ROME – Violent storms flooded parts of Rome on Thursday, killing at least one person as the sea threatened to once more inundate Venice.Firefighters in the capital said they had to evacuate dozens of people trapped in cars on flooded streets and on ground floors of buildings. Civil protection officials said more rain was expected Friday, further swelling the roiling Tiber river, which runs through the city.Rescuers found one woman dead inside her car, which was submerged in an underpass as hail and rain poured down on Rome early Thursday, spokesman Gennaro Tornatore said.From midnight to 8 a.m. Thursday, 60-101 millimeters (2.36-3.98 inches) of rain fell in Rome — more than the average for the entire month of December, said Fabrizio Santori, head of the city's security commission.Aerial pictures of the capital showed the streets of entire neighborhoods submerged by brown mud.Snow has fallen in northern Italy over the last few days, and the bad weather is now reaching across the center and south of the country.The situation in Rome is critical, but the weather conditions tell us we need to keep an eye on the south too, Tornatore said.Mayor Gianni Alemanno asked authorities to declare a state of emergency, and Italy's largest union scaled back a planned general strike because of the weather. The civil protection said it was monitoring several swelling rivers, including the Tiber and Florence's Arno.Authorities urged Italians not to travel by car unless strictly necessary. The weather has been snarling traffic in cities and causing delays at train stations and airports across the country.In Venice, alarms sounded early in the morning as the high tide came in, flooding the city's lowest parts, including the landmark St. Mark's Square.The historic piazza was covered only in a few inches (centimeters) of water, far less than last week, when an unusually high tide caused one of the worst floods in the city's recorded history.However, the municipality said strong southern winds pushing water into the lagoon could increase the high tide level.

Rare snow covers south Louisiana, Miss.By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press Writer DEC 11,08

NEW ORLEANS – A rare snowfall blanketed south Louisiana and parts of Mississippi Thursday, closing schools, government offices and bridges, triggering crashes on major highways and leaving thousands of people without power.Parts of Louisiana were expected to get up to four inches of snow. Snow also covered a broad swath of Mississippi, including the Jackson area, and closed schools in more than a dozen districts. The National Weather Service in Jackson said up to 8 inches was possible in the southern and eastern parts of the state.A heavy band of snow coated windshields and grassy areas in New Orleans, where the National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning.Office workers stepped out of high-rises to catch a snowflake, snap pictures with cell-phone cameras and swap snow stories.At a park in New Orleans' Uptown neighborhood, Sara Echaniz, 41, snapped photos and dodged snowballs thrown by her son, 3-year-old Sam. He didn't believe it was snow until it started sticking to the ground, said Ecahniz, a native of Rochester, N.Y., who was pregnant with the child the last time it snowed in New Orleans, in December 2004.

In Alabama, heavy rains prompted forecasters to issue a flood watch for parts of the state. Wintry precipitation also was possible later Thursday as temperatures were expected to drop.Flood watches were issued through Thursday night for much of North Carolina ahead of the storm system. Colder air behind the front could produce snow late Thursday and early Friday in the mountains.In Louisiana, nearly 7,000 power outages were reported in south-central parishes as falling tree limbs snapped under the weight of ice and snow.Some flights at Louis Armstrong International Airport outside New Orleans were delayed and canceled. Airport spokeswoman Michelle Wilcut said deicing equipment was being used on planes. Cleco Corp., one of the state's largest power providers, said the number of outages was expected to grow.Forecasters said the mix of sleet and snow was expected to diminish later in the day as the weather system moved east.In southeast Louisiana, temperatures were above freezing so accumulations were not expected to linger much beyond Thursday. An inch was forecast for New Orleans.The wintry weather is rare in south Louisiana, though the state's northern parishes see it about once a year. New Orleans' last snowfall, in 2004, was a dusting that came nine months before Hurricane Katrina struck. The record snowfall for the city is about 5 inches, recorded Dec. 30, 1963.The weather service said the previous earliest date for measurable snowfall in New Orleans was Dec. 22, 1989.

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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, 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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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU DEC 11,2008

09:30 AM -50.23
10:00 AM -57.51
10:30 AM -2.23
11:00 AM -10.59
11:30 AM -44.13
12:00 PM +10.25
12:30 PM -4.14
01:00 PM +28.99
01:30 PM -35.28
02:00 PM -65.63
02:30 PM -80.13
03:00 PM -164.39
03:30 PM -204.46
04:00 PM -196.33 8565.09

S&P 500 873.59 -25.45

NASDAQ 1507.88 -57.60

GOLD 820.10 +11.30

OIL 47.22 +3.70

TSE 300 8391.90 -242.10

CDNX 713.44 +7.90

S&P/TSX/60 507.73 -17.32

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

Dow -208 at low so far today.
Dow +32 at high so far today
Dow -124 at 4 minutes of trading today.
All 50 Democratic Senators want Blagojevich to resign.
House passes bailout 237-170,sends $14 BILLION plan to Senate.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS

Dow -248 points at low.
Dow +32 points at high.

Dow -2.2% today.
S&P -2.8% today.
Nasdaq -3.6% today.
Dow,S&P 500 has risen 10 times in last 13 sessions but down today.
Oil prices surge more then 10% today.
Energy stocks rebound as oil prices rise.
Financials lead stocks lower.
4 of 30 Dow stocks up at close.
Stocks trim losses in last 20 minutes.

Wall Street tumbles on auto bailout worries By JOE BEL BRUNO and TIM PARADIS, AP Business Writer DEC 11,08

NEW YORK – Wall Street's anxiety about Detroit automakers welled up Thursday, sending stocks sharply lower in an afternoon sell-off as investors grew fearful that a bill to rescue the companies wouldn't make it through the Senate.The pullback follows mostly moderate moves in stocks since mid-November and is a fresh reminder of investors' fears about the economy.Prospects for the $14 billion in loans to cash-starved General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC dimmed Thursday afternoon as opposition from both parties mounted.Lawmakers opposed to the plan are arguing that any support for the nation's auto industry should carry significant concessions from autoworkers and creditors and reject tougher environmental rules imposed by House Democrats. The House approved the plan late Wednesday on a vote of 237-170 to infuse money within days to the two struggling automakers. Ford Motor Co. has said it does not need aid.The heads of the three automakers said that even one of the companies going into bankruptcy would slam an already battered economy with thousands of job losses.Wall Street has been betting Washington would extend a lifeline to the automakers and even recovered early Thursday from a sell-off at the opening bell that followed weak readings on unemployment and the trade deficit. But the worries about the carmakers weighed on a market that managed to trade flat for much of the session.What we had was a little bit of a jumping of the gun, overreaction to the auto-rescue bill, said Jon Nadler, senior analyst at Kitco Bullion Dealers Montreal. The Dow tried to put a good face on things, but at the end of the day, reality set in.According to preliminary calculations, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 196.33, or 2.24 percent, to 8,565.09. The decline comes a day after the Dow added 70 points after a surge in gold and other commodities prices gave investors reason to snap up energy and materials stocks.The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 25.65, or 2.85 percent, to 873.59, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 57.60, or 3.68 percent, to 1,507.88.The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies tumbled 25.19, or 5.3 percent, to 451.21 as investors looked for the safety of larger companies expected to fare better in a weak economy.

Declining issues on the New York Stock Exchange outnumbered advancers by more than 3 to 1, while trading volume came to a moderate 1.47 billion shares. Lighter trading can exacerbate the market's swings.What's going to happen in the Senate is really weighing on the market in a big way, said Dr. Robert Froehlich, chief investment strategist for DWS Investments. He contends that a failure of the auto bailout would trigger a sell-off similar to what occurred when a financial sector rescue plan didn't make it out of Congress on the first try. The Dow Jones industrials tumbled 777 points on Sept. 29 as the plan failed an initial House vote.Wall Street remains on edge, as was clear by Thursday's pullback, but trading has been generally more orderly since the S&P 500 and the Dow hit multiyear lows on Nov. 20. Even some big moves in stocks in recent weeks don't compare with the enormous swings in September and October.One measure of unease in the market is still elevated but well off its highs. The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, known as the VIX, is at 56. Ordinarily what's known as Wall Street's fear gauge might be in the 20s and 30s but it had near 90 in October.Ed Hyland, global investment specialist for J.P. Morgan's Private Bank, said investors are hoping the government's medicine, from interest rate cuts to financial infusions in banks, will eventually help lift the economy but that it remain unclear how soon the economy will recover.There is still a high degree of uncertainty out there, he said. All you have to do is look at the Treasury market to get a gauge of how much fear there is in the overall investment community.In Treasurys, the yield on the three-month T-bill stood at 0.02 percent, unchanged from late Wednesday. The low yield still indicates a high degree of investor unease. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which also moves opposite its price, fell to 2.63 percent from 2.69 percent late Wednesday.The one-month T-bill's yield was at 0.01 percent, down from 0.04 percent late Wednesday. It was auctioned on Tuesday with a yield of zero percent, a sign that institutional and foreign investors were so eager to preserve principal they were willing to forgo interest. The dollar was mostly lower against most other major currencies, while gold rose. Oil prices surged 10 percent as the dollar weakened and as investors hoped for a significant OPEC production cut next week to boost the market. Light, sweet crude jumped $4.46 to settle at $47.98 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Chevron Corp. rose $1.02, or 1.3 percent, to $79.46 following the rise in oil, while Hess Corp. advanced $3.02, or 6.8 percent, to $47.71. U.S. automakers declined as investors worried about the prospects for a bailout. GM fell 48 cents, or 10.4 percent, to $4.12, while Ford fell 35 cents, or 10.8 percent, to $2.90. Chrysler isn't publicly traded. Financials fell amid worries about their balance sheets. US Bancorp warned it is earmarking more than $1 billion in the fourth quarter for bad loans. US Bancorp fell $2.82, or 10.2 percent, to $24.85. JPMorgan Chase & Co. fell $3.58, or 10.7 percent, to $29.94, while Wells Fargo & Co. declined $3.29, or 11.3 percent, to $25.90. Consumer stocks fell after a surprise jump in weekly unemployment claims touched off fresh worries about weak consumer spending. Costco Wholesale Corp. fell $1.63, or 3 percent, to $52.06 after the warehouse chain's first-quarter earnings fell short of Wall Street's projections following a drop in sales of discretionary items. Overseas, Japan's Nikkei 225 added 0.70 percent. Britain's FTSE-100 rose 0.49 percent, Germany's DAX slipped 0.78 percent, and France's CAC-40 fell 0.43 percent. On the Net: New York Stock Exchange: http://www.nyse.com Nasdaq Stock Market: http://www.nasdaq.com

Auto bailout stalled, GOP seeks UAW concessions By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and DAVID ESPO, Associated Press Writers DEC 11,08

WASHINGTON – A $14 billion auto industry bailout bill stalled in the Senate on Thursday, and Republicans demanded upfront concessions from the United Auto Workers as the price for support needed for passage.UAW officials were in talks with key Republicans and Democrats at the Capitol, although it wasn't clear what, if any, givebacks the union was willing to discuss.The developments unfolded after Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky joined other GOP lawmakers in announcing his opposition to a White House-backed bill that was approved by the House on Wednesday. He called for an alternative that would reduce the wages and benefits of the Big Three automakers to bring them in line with those paid by Japanese carmakers Nissan, Toyota and Honda.Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the sponsor of that proposal, was in closed-door meetings with UAW officials and Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, the Banking Committee chairman, to see if it could be modified to win the support of Democrats, who count labor unions among their strongest political allies.A growing number of Republicans and Democrats were turning against the House-passed bill — itself the product of hard-fought negotiations between the Bush White House and congressional Democrats — despite urgent entreaties from both President George W. Bush and President-elect Barack Obama for quick action to spare the economy the added pain of a potential automaker collapse.

The rescue plan would speed emergency short-term loans to cash-starved General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC.Ford Motor Co. would be eligible as well but has said it has enough cash to survive without federal help.The measure would create a Bush-appointed overseer — a kind of car czar — to dole out the money but also with authority to yank it back if the carmakers didn't cut quick deals with their unions and creditors, among others, to restructure.McConnell said that measure isn't nearly tough enough.Pushing to convert skeptics in both parties, Democrats agreed to drop at least one unrelated provision that threatened to sink the measure, a congressional official said. They eliminated a pay raise for federal judges after Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, who represents an automobile manufacturing state, announced she would oppose the carmaker aid unless that provision was removed.Supporters had an uphill battle pressing the rescue package on a bailout-fatigued Congress — particularly a measure designed to span the administrations of a lame-duck president and his successor. Forced together by growing economic turmoil, the incoming and outgoing presidents were united in pressing hard for swift approval.In Chicago, Obama told reporters that an industry shutdown would have a devastating ripple effect on the already ragged economy.

Earlier, just after the Labor Department reported new applications for jobless benefits were at their highest level in 26 years, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said the country couldn't afford an auto industry meltdown.On Capitol Hill, patience was wearing thin as the clock ticked down on the current Congress.Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., the majority leader, called for swift separate votes Thursday on compromise legislation backed by Democrats and the White House as well as the GOP proposal. If not, he promised a test vote Friday morning to force a final up-or-down decision within days.We have danced this tune long enough, Reid declared.But many Republicans remained staunchly opposed to the rescue, and some Democrats were ill or absent from the emergency, postelection congressional session. Supporters of the bailout acknowledged that in this scenario, getting the needed 60 votes to pass it would be very difficult.It's a challenge for us, but we're working as hard as we can and I would just say it's very close, said Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. Republicans were directly challenging Bush, arguing that any support for the domestic auto industry should carry significant, specific concessions from autoworkers and creditors. They are also bitterly opposed to tougher environmental rules carmakers would have to meet as part of the House-passed version of the rescue package — something that also faces some Democratic opposition. The House approved its plan late Wednesday on a vote of 237-170. Supporters cited dire warnings from GM and Chrysler executives, who have said they could run out of cash within weeks. A pair of polls released Thursday indicated that the public is dubious about the rescue plan. Just 39 percent said it would be right to spend billions in loans to keep GM, Ford and Chrysler in business, according to a poll by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. Just 45 percent of Democrats and 31 percent of Republicans supported the idea. In a separate Marist College poll, 48 percent said they oppose federal loans for the struggling automakers while 41 percent approved. Associated Press Writers Ken Thomas and Alan Fram contributed to this report.

THIS RIGHT OFF BY OBAMA SOUNDS LIKE THE LEWINSKI SCANDLE,HE GOT THE RIGHT PEOPLE ON HIS LIST ALL EX CLINTON LEADERS. CLINTON:QUOTE I NEVER HAD SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH THAT WOMAN.OBAMA QUOTE:I NEVER TALKED TO THE GOVERNOR ABOUT SELLING MY SEAT TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. PAY TO PLAY SCHEME.

THE DEEPER THIS SCANDLE GOES THE MORE I KNOW MY PREDICTION THAT AMERICA WILL COME TO NOT IS COMING TO LIGHT QUICK,OBAMAS NOT EVEN IN OFFICE YET AND THIS SCANDLE WHICH HE KNOWS NOTHIN ABOUT AND THE BIRTH CIRTIFICATE SCANDLE WHAT HE SAYS IS A REAL CERTIFICICATE AND NOT A KENYAN BORN BUT HAWAIIAN BORN IS COMPLETE (HINT).

WITH 41 DAYS TILL THE INAUGURATION OBAMAS PAL JESSE JACKSONS'SON IS #5 PERSON THAT WAS TRYING TO GET THE SEAT. ON OCT 31,08 SOMEONE TOLD BLAGOJEVICH:WE WERE APPROCHED 'PAY TO PLAY' THAT,YOU KNOW,HE RAISE ME 500 GRAND($500,000).AN EMISSARY CAME. THEN THE OTHER GUY WOULD RAISE A MILLION ($1 MILLION),IF I MADE HIM (SENATE CANDIDATE 5)A SENATOR. COULD THIS RAISER BE NON OTHER THAN JESSE JACKSON SR,ONLY TIME WILL TELL.

Obama denies link in Illinois scandal Anne Davies, Washington December 11, 2008 FBI reveals Governor's brazen bid to sell right to succeed president-elect in US Senate.

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PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama has denied any knowledge of a staggering web of corruption that came to light in his home state of Illinois, after the state's Governor, Rod Blagojevich, was arrested, taken away in handcuffs, and charged with trying to sell the right to replace Mr Obama in the US Senate.President-elect Barack Obama says he had no contact with the Illinois Governor accused of trying to sell his vacant Senate seat.

- Obama denies knowledge of alleged plot
- FBI taps conversations
- Governor: 'I can parachute me there' claim

The Governor, who has the sole right to appoint Mr Obama's replacement in the Senate, was caught by wiretaps in his campaign office and on his home phone,plotting ways to leverage personal financial benefit from the appointment, including — at one stage — a cabinet post in the Obama administration.According to an FBI affidavit, Blagojevich was caught on wiretaps saying the Senate seat is a f---ing valuable thing, you just don't give it away for nothing. He was also recorded saying that unless I get something real good, he would appoint himself to the vacancy.In another conversation, he described the power to appoint as f---ing golden. I'm just not giving it up for f---ing nothing. I'm not going to do it, and I can always use it. I can parachute me there.Despite the fact that it is well known that the FBI has been running a five-year investigation into corruption in Illinois politics — 15 people have already been charged — Blagojevich brazenly discussed with aides and lobbyists acting as advisers how he could make money out of the Senate appointment and other decisions before him.As late as Monday, as he faced the media outside a shuttered factory in Chicago, Blagojevich was denying that he was the target of any probe.

He was secretly recorded canvassing the idea of getting a cabinet position in Mr Obama's administration — he wanted Health and Human Services or an ambassadorship for appointing Mr Obama's preferred candidate and close friend, Valerie Jarrett — but he later realised this was aiming too high.He then turned to schemes to get the president-elect to appoint him to a non-profit organisation and to lean on several wealthy individuals to fund it, in return for which he would appoint Mr Obama's preference. He also talked to aides about getting Mr Obama to help his wife get a $US150,000-a-year ($A228,000) board position.Blagojevich's chief of staff, John Harris, has also been charged. Both were granted bail and their passports confiscated.It is unclear whether these schemes were relayed to Ms Jarrett or to the Obama transition team, but Mr Obama explicitly said he had not spoken with the Governor about the appointment.US attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said at a press conference: We make no allegations that he (Mr Obama) was aware of anything.He went on to describe the allegations against the Governor as a political corruption crime spree that revealed a pattern of pay to play in Chicago politics.Other tapes revealed Blagojevich planning how to get the financially stressed Tribune Group, which publishes the Chicago Tribune, to remove one of its editors and certain critics from its editorial board, before he would consider giving state assistance for the sale of Wrigley Field, the famous baseball venue owned by the company.

The Tribune Group did not sack the individual or the board members — indeed, it continued its investigation of Blagojevich and at one stage refrained from publication at the request of the FBI to protect the bureau's investigation.The indictment also alleges Blagojevich was seeking $US2.5 million in campaign contributions by the end of the year from companies and individuals.The investigators said the pay to play culture in Illinois politics was deeply entrenched. If it isn't the most corrupt state in the United States, it's certainly one hell of a competitor, said Robert Grant, head of the FBI's Chicago office.The arrest of Blagojevich poses questions over how the vacant Illinois Senate seat can now be filled. Moves are afoot to pass urgent legislation allowing Illinois to hold a special election to fill the spot.Unless Blagojevich resigns or is impeached, he could fill the Senate position tomorrow with his choice of candidate.

Pan-Europe Libertas Party launched to fight anti-democratic Brussels
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EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Declan Ganley, the Irish businessman behind the Libertas campaign group, of the key organisations that defeated the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland's referendum on the text in June, has launched Libertas as the first truly pan-European political party.The new Libertas Party, which aims to run candidates in all 27 European Union states for the European Parliament elections in June 2009, says it wants to democratise the European institutions, with an elected commission and a president.We are founding the party to campaign for the people of Europe to respond to the growing anti-democratic tendency in some of the institutions in Brussels, Mr Ganley told reporters on Thursday (11 December) in the organisation's new offices just metres away the European Council building where European premiers and presidents were arriving to meet for their last summit of the year.The Irish taoisheach, Brian Cowen, is expected at the meeting to tell European leaders that he will hold a second referendum on the treaty if his counterparts accede to two requests: A declaration that Irish taxation policy, family, social and ethical issues, and common security and defence policy with regard to Ireland's traditional policy of neutrality should all be safeguarded; and a pledge to maintain the one-commissioner-per-state principle abolished in the Lisbon Treaty.Pointing out that a greater percentage of Irish citizens voted against the treaty than the percentage of US citizens that voted for Barack Obama, Mr Ganley said that it is undemocratic to force Ireland to hold a second referendum and that other European citizens have been prevented from voting on the text.We will give [the EU leaders] the referendum they did not want to give the people of Europe.We are at a fork in the road, between the Europe of the Lisbon Treaty, an anti-democratic Europe that does not derive its legitimacy from the citizens ... and a democratic Europe.He insisted that the new party is not anti-EU or eurosceptic.

We want Europe to be strong and stand tall in the world, but based on democratic principles, he said. This is a pro-European organisation. There is no future for Euroscepticism. The European Union is necessary, he added.It is the status quo that if left as it is, will allow euro scepticism to grow.The new party will not partner with other political parties, but rather run all its candidates under the Libertas banner in each of the EU states.Beyond its position on democracy in Europe, Libertas' social and economic positions will be centrist, in order to attract people from across the political spectrum, although Mr Ganley was not sure about communists.
The left in Ireland played a prominent role in campaigning against the treaty, as did the left during the French and Dutch referendums that defeated the Lisbon Treaty's precursor, the Constitutional Treaty.However, at the press conference announcing the new party, Mr Ganley was light on policy details much beyond the treaty and the structure of the EU.Pressed by reporters to flesh out its other positions, Mr Ganley said that the party would be broadly free-market oriented, that European defence was very serious and that climate change could be addressed by a pan-European competition for entrepreneurs to develop innovative new technologies.

He also said that abortion and gay marriage were not issues Libertas had campaigned on in Ireland, suggesting that these are not issues the pan-European party will either.The party will hold a congress in Brussels the spring and hammer out its policy positions.Mr Ganley said that no candidates had been picked yet and would not say whether any prominent politicians had signed up to his cause. He did however say that should Philippe de Villiers, the French leader of the right-wing Mouvement pour la France so wish, he would be very pleased to have him as a candidate.Declan Ganley said he would like to be a candidate himself, but had not yet made a decision.The party's offices were bankrolled by Mr Ganley's Libertas Institute in Ireland, but is inspired by the online fundraising success of the Obama campaign. He encouraged EU citizens to visit Libertas.eu, and donate a euro or a zloty or any European currency up to the €12,000 maximum.We badly need it, he said.Speaking directly to voters, he said: [Voting for Libertas] may be the only opportunity you ever have to have a referendum on Europe.Although there are umbrella groupings in the European Parliament, such as the Party of European Socialists - the centre-left political family, and the European People's Party - its centre-right counterpart, they are still very loose and split along national lines, with very different platforms. Libertas will be the first genuinely pan-European political party with a common programme.

UKIP grumbles at competition

Britain's eurosceptic party, the UK Independence Party, said there was absolutely no common ground on Europe between Declan Ganley's new party, Libertas, and UKIP.UKIP's leader, Nigel Farage, said: Libertas has nailed its colours firmly to [UK Tory chief] David Cameron's mast of wishing to stay within the European Union and try to reform from inside.I think it will come as a surprise to many to learn just how pro EU Mr Ganley is, he added.Graham Watson, head of the Liberals in the European Parliament, described the new party as anti-European, but welcomed the challenge coming from Libertas and said that it ironically may even galvanise pro-Europeans to defend the EU.We are far from condemning this initiative of Declan Ganley. He is doing Europe a favour by stimulating interest and debate about the EU, which may result in a higher turnout at next year's European elections, the Liberal leader said.

Greek-inspired protests spread across Europe By PAUL HAVEN, Associated Press Writer DEC 11,08

MADRID, Spain – The unrest that has gripped Greece is spilling over into the rest of Europe, raising concerns the clashes could be a trigger for opponents of globalization, disaffected youth and others outraged by the continent's economic turmoil and soaring unemployment.Protesters in Spain, Denmark and Italy smashed shop windows, pelted police with bottles and attacked banks this week, while in France, cars were set ablaze Thursday outside the Greek consulate in Bordeaux, where protesters scrawled graffiti warning about a looming insurrection.At least some of the protests were organized over the Internet, showing how quickly the message of discontent can be spread, particularly among tech-savvy youth. One Web site Greek protesters used to update each other on the locations of clashes asserted there have been sympathy protests in nearly 20 countries.More demonstrations were set for Friday in Italy, France and Germany.Still, the clashes have been isolated so far, and nothing like the scope of the chaos in Greece, which was triggered by the police killing of a teenager on Saturday and has ballooned into nightly scenes of burning street barricades, looted stores and overturned cars.Nevertheless, authorities in Europe worry conditions are ripe for the contagion to spread.As Europe plunges into recession, unemployment is rising, particularly among the young. Even before the crisis, European youths complained about difficulty finding well-paid jobs — even with a college degree — and many said they felt left out as the continent grew in prosperity.In Greece, demonstrators handed out fliers Thursday listing their demands, which include the reversal of public spending cuts that have brought more layoffs, and said they were hopeful their movement would spread.

We're encouraging nonviolent action here and abroad, said Konstantinos Sakkas, a 23-year-old protester at the Athens Polytechnic, where many of the demonstrators are based. What these are abroad are spontaneous expressions of solidarity with what's going on here.Across the continent, Internet sites and blogs have popped up to spread the call to protest.Several Greek Web sites offered protesters real-time information on clash sites, where demonstrations were heading and how riot police were deployed around the city. Protest marches were arranged and announced on the sites and via text message on cell phones.In Spain, an anti-globalization Web site, Nodo50.org, greeted visitors with the headline State Assassin, Police Executioners and told them of hastily called rallies Wednesday in Barcelona and Madrid.We stand in solidarity with the Greek protesters, the site said.Elsewhere in Europe, reports about the clashes in Greece were quickly picked up online by citizen journalists, some of whom posted details of confrontations on Twitter. At the Independent Media Center, photos and video of the demonstrations were uploaded and plans were listed for upcoming solidarity actions in London, Edinburgh and Berlin.One writer on the site london.indymedia.org exhorted people to follow the Greek example and reclaim the streets. Burn the banks that robbed you ... It is a great opportunity to expand the revolution in all europe.What's happening in Greece tends to prove that the extreme left exists, contrary to doubts of some over these past few weeks, French Interior Ministry spokesman Gerard Gachet told The Associated Press.

But, he added, the coming days and weeks would determine whether there's a danger of contagion of the Greek situation into France.In cities across Europe, protests flared in solidarity with the demonstrations in Greece. One rally outside the Greek Embassy in Rome turned violent on Wednesday, damaging police vehicles, overturning a car and setting a trash can on fire. In Denmark, protesters pelted riot police with bottles and paint in downtown Copenhagen; 63 people were detained and later released. And in Spain, angry youths attacked banks, shops and a police station in Madrid and Barcelona late Wednesday. Some of the protesters chanted police killers and other slogans. Eleven people — including a Greek girl — were arrested at the two rallies, which drew a total of about 200 protesters. Daniel Lostao, president of the state-financed Youth Council, an umbrella organization of Spanish youth groups, said young people in Spain face daunting challenges — soaring unemployment, low salaries and difficulty in leaving the family nest because of expensive housing. Still, he said he doubted the protests in Spain would grow. We do not have the feeling that this is going to spread, Lostao said. Let's hope I am not wrong.In France, protesters set fire to two cars and a garbage can filled with flammable material outside the Greek consulate in Bordeaux Thursday and scrawled graffiti threatening more unrest, Greek Consul Michel Corfias said. Graffiti reading solidarity with the fires in Greece, was scrawled on the consulate and the word insurrection was painted on the doors of neighboring houses. The events in Greece are a trigger for French youth angry by their own lack of economic opportunity, Corfias said. Associated Press reporters Matt Moore in Berlin, Daniel Woolls in Madrid, Ariel David in Rome, John Leicester and Jamey Keaten in Paris, and Elena Becatoros in Athens, Greece, contributed to this report.

Suicide bomber kills 55 in packed Iraq restaurant By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer DEC 11,08

BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber killed at least 55 people Thursday in a packed restaurant near the northern city of Kirkuk where Kurdish officials and Arab tribal leaders were trying to reconcile their differences over control of the oil-rich region. The brazen attack — the deadliest in Iraq in six months — occurred at a time of rising tension between Kurds and Arabs over oil, political power and Kirkuk.No group claimed responsibility for the attack at the upscale Abdullah restaurant, which was crowded with families celebrating the end of the four-day Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha. The U.S. blamed the blast on al-Qaida, which uses suicide bombings as its signature attack.Police Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qadir, who gave the casualty figures, said the dead included at least five women and three children. About 120 people were wounded.It appeared, however, that the target was a reconciliation meeting between Arab tribal leaders and officials of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the Kurdish party of President Jalal Talabani, on ways to defuse tension among Arabs, Kurds and Turkomen in the Kirkuk area.Kurds want to annex Kirkuk and surrounding Tamim province into their self-ruled region of northern Iraq. Most Turkomen and Arabs want the province to remain under central government control, fearing the Kurds would discriminate against them.Iraq's parliament exempted the Kirkuk area from next month's provincial elections because the different ethnic groups could not agree on how to share power.A guard at the entrance said the blast occurred moments after a man parked his car and walked inside. He was not searched because the guards had not been told to frisk customers, the guard said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of fears for his own safety.At the city's main hospital, family members wept and screamed in the blood-smeared corridors as doctors tried to save lives. Many victims were horrifically wounded, and mangled bodies lay unattended on the emergency room floor.

Salam Abdullah, a 45-year-old Kurd, said he was having lunch with his wife when they saw shrapnel flying through the room.I held my wife and led her outside the place. As we were leaving, I saw dead bodies soaked with blood and huge destruction, he said. Abdullah was wounded in his head and left hand; his wife suffered head and chest injuries.I do not know how a group like al-Qaida claiming to be Islamic plans to attack and kill people on sacred days like Eid, said Awad al-Jubouri, 53, one of the tribal leaders at the luncheon. We were only meeting to discuss our problems with the Kurds and trying to impose peace among Muslims in Kirkuk.The attack was the deadliest in Iraq since June 7, when a car bomb killed 63 people in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad.U.S. officials say attacks are down 80 percent nationwide since March, though major bombings still occur. A double truck bombing killed 17 people on Dec. 4 in the former Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah west of Baghdad.It was unclear what effect Thursday's attack would have on reconciliation efforts in Kirkuk, since the victims included both Arabs and Kurds. Mass attacks against civilians have prompted many Sunnis to turn against the insurgency.But ethnic competition is intense in Kirkuk and elsewhere in the volatile north, the most ethnically mixed part of the country.The U.N. mission, which has been trying to defuse tension in Kirkuk, urged community leaders to demonstrate responsible leadership and to urge restraint by their followers at this difficult time.In a joint statement, U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and the top U.S. commander Gen. Ray Odierno condemned the bombing and accused al-Qaida of trying to divide Iraqi communities and halt the progress toward a stable, inclusive and tolerant society.

U.S. commanders have long believed that resolving differences among the ethnic communities is the key to defeating the insurgents in the north because al-Qaida and the dozen other Sunni extremist groups there exploit those tensions. But progress has been difficult because of deep-seated suspicions and conflicting claims on Kirkuk, the center of Iraq's vast northern oil fields which the Kurds have long wanted to bring into their autonomous region. Kirkuk has been hit by at least 41 suicide attacks since May 2005, according to an Associated Press tally. The deadliest attack occurred July 17, 2007, when a suicide truck bomber struck a Kurdish political office, killing at least 80 and wounding more than 180. Iraq's constitution provides for a referendum to be held in Kirkuk to determine whether it would be annexed to the Kurdish regional administration. But the vote has been repeatedly postponed because of fears that the balloting would worsen ethnic tension. At the same time, relations between the Kurds and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have worsened because of differences over control of oil resources, Kirkuk and power-sharing. A draft law to regulate the oil industry has been stalled for nearly two years because the Kurds withdrew their support, maintaining it gave too much control to the national government. The Kurds also want a bigger say in decision-making within the ruling coalition. Al-Maliki has accused the Kurds of breaking the law by sending Kurdish troops outside the self-ruled region, ostensibly to protect Kurdish communities in central government territory. Associated Press reporters Yahya Barzanji in Sulaimaniyah, Sameer N. Yacoub in Baghdad and the AP News Research Center in New York contributed to this report.

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DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

IF IRAQ PLAYS A MAJOR ROLE,THIS COULD EXPLAIN WHY THE 4 DEMONIC ANGELS OR WORLDWIDE WAR ANGELS ARE RELEASED AT THE EUPHRATES RIVER IN IRAQ-IRAN IN THE FUTURE TO START WW3 AFTER JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED.

Iraq plans EU-style Middle East union
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Iraq has unveiled plans for the creation of a regional economic and security union for the Middle East explicitly modelled on the European Union.Official government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh announced the proposal on Tuesday (9 December) in Washington at the Institute of Peace, a US government-linked think-tank, saying that talks on the plan with the country's neighbours were already underway.Mr al-Dabbagh said there was great interest in the project, according to AFP. Informal discussions on Regional Economic Partnership have reportedly been launched with Kuwait, Syria and Turkey, though not yet Iran. The aim would also to be to bring on board Jordan and Saudi Arabia and - in a subsequent phase - the Gulf states of Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, but not Israel.

The proposed bloc would look to lower trade barriers and develop joint economic projects, as well as sharing water resources and electricity. Resolving border disputes and common perspectives on combating militant extremism would also be on the agenda.Iraq's plan, a vision of Mr al-Dabbagh's government, would also aim to improve oil and gas transit and construct roads between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean.The new Iraq could convert the region into the EU model, the UK's Daily Telegraph quotes the Iraqi official as saying at the meeting. Iraq is going to play a major stabilising factor, he added.Iraq sees a necessity for regional security and economic co-operation, Mr al-Dabbagh said.The proposal is the latest in a long line of regional groupings modelled on the European Union.The African Union, a confederation of 53 African states was established in 2002, growing out of the earlier Organisation of African Unity. The grouping is still at the very earliest stages of approaching anything like the EU's level of joint governance and integration.The Union of South American Nations, or Unasur (Unasol in Portuguese and Unasul in Dutch) is an intergovernmental union founded in May this year and integrates two existing customs unions: Mercosur and the Andean Community. It too is still undergoing its birth pangs.

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Ultra-hawkish list of candidates for Likud By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press Writer – Tue Dec 9, 3:00 pm ET

JERUSALEM – Benjamin Netanyahu suffered a setback Tuesday in his quest to reclaim the prime minister's office in Israel when his front-running Likud Party chose a slate of candidates even more hawkish than him.The outcome could weaken his party's popularity, and even if Netanyahu wins a Feb. 10 election, it could limit his ability to negotiate peace with Israel's Arab neighbors.The big winner in results announced early Tuesday was Netanyahu's nemesis, Moshe Feiglin. While Netanyahu opposes the current peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians and hopes to limit contacts to economic cooperation, Feiglin goes much further. His theocratic platform calls for banning minority Arab citizens from the parliament, encouraging non-Jews to leave the country and pulling Israel out of the United Nations.

Netanyahu, who resisted peace efforts when he was prime minister from 1996-1999, hoped to present a more mainstream list of candidates to bolster support for his party, backing popular ex-generals, politicians and others for the list.But party members instead chose candidates with uncompromising views, led by Feiglin, who founded a movement that blocked highway intersections around the country in 1995 to protest partial peace accords between Israel and the Palestinians.Others included the son of former Likud Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Benny Begin. He told Army Radio there will be no (peace) agreement in the near future because of Arab rejection of Israel.Rivals did not hide their glee at the blow to Netanyahu's prestige. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Kadima, who is not seeking re-election, said the primary showed the Likud has become an extreme right-wing party that would lead the state of Israel to a corner of isolation.The election is set for three weeks after Barack Obama — who has pledged to work for a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians — takes office as U.S. president.Even if Netanyahu intended to press for concessions to the Palestinians for peace — and many doubt he would — pressure from within his own party could stop him.Recent polls have shown Netanyahu's Likud with a 10-seat lead over Kadima, headed by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. But they have also shown that the presence of Feiglin on the Likud list could scare away a significant number of potential voters. A Likud insider estimated a loss of three or four seats, while some analysts predicted even more erosion.

Livni reveled in Netanyahu's predicament. The Likud list is not my problem. It's Bibi's problem, she said, using Netanyahu's nickname. It's a weight around his neck, not mine.Even the most optimistic polls had Likud winning about 35 seats in the 120-seat parliament, forcing Netanyahu to patch together a coalition with powerful partners from the ultra-Orthodox and ultra-hawkish sectors.Losing even a handful of those 35 because of the Feiglin effect could drop Likud into a tie with Kadima, a centrist movement started by then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who broke away from Likud because of its opposition to his unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005. That would make coalition-building more difficult and long-term stability doubtful.

Israel's electoral system, based on voting for parties instead of individual candidates, lends itself to multi-party results and a fractured parliament.Over the past decade, traditional parties have been losing strength and sectorial parties have been gaining. After the last election, less than three years ago, Kadima formed a government after winning just 29 seats, holding less than a majority in its own government, a first in Israel.When Olmert resigned in September because of corruption charges, Livni was chosen to replace him but was unable to form her own government — another first. The resulting national election will be Israel's fifth in less than seven years.

Middle East Quartet to meet in New York on December 15 Tue Dec 9, 1:33 pm ET

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators will meet at U.N. headquarters in New York on December 15, together with some Arab foreign ministers, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Tuesday.France, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, said last month it wanted a meeting this year of the Quartet, which is composed of the EU, Russia, the United Nations and the United States.Michele Montas, spokeswoman for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, told a news conference that representatives of the Quartet had talked by telephone and agreed to meet on December 15.The secretary-general is going to host the members of the Quartet and a number of Arab foreign ministers to a discussion, she said, adding she did not have a confirmed list of attendees at this time.At a meeting in Egypt on November 9, the Quartet strongly backed the talks launched at Annapolis, Maryland, a year ago by U.S. President George W. Bush, even though few expect a deal to be reached this year as originally planned.Bush leaves office on January 20, when Barack Obama will take over as president.The talks have been hobbled from the start by violence and bitter disputes over Jewish settlement-building and the future of Jerusalem. Political transitions in Israel and the United States have further delayed any progress.(Reporting by Claudia Parsons; Editing by John O'Callaghan)

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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.

South hit by violent storms, bracing for 2nd round By HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press Writer – Wed Dec 10, 1:43 pm ET

JACKSON, Miss. – A night of unseasonably warm weather generated torrential rains and tornadoes that damaged two schools and dozens of homes in the Southeast, and some states were bracing for snow and sleet as temperatures drop Wednesday.Sleet was possible in areas of Louisiana and the National Weather Service issued a winter weather watch for parts of Mississippi, warning that a rare snowfall accumulation was possible.Mike Edmonston, senior meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Jackson, Miss. said forecasters were predicting 1-3 inches over central and eastern portions of Mississippi, but some areas could see 4 inches or more. Mississippi averages around 2 inches of snow a year and that usually comes sporadically with little accumulation.The winter precipitation threatened to hit before many people could clean up the mess left by powerful storms and likely tornadoes that damaged at least two schools and dozens of homes in Alabama and Mississippi a day earlier.At least one person was injured in south Mississippi when a car struck a downed tree on Intestate 59 in Jones county, authorities said. At least 39 houses and mobile homes were damaged in Mississippi as well as three businesses.Classes were canceled when an apparent tornado ripped off part of the roof of an elementary school in Walker County, Ala., northwest of Birmingham. The storm also damaged more than a dozen homes there.There were reports of damaged homes and trees on roadways across Mississippi and reports of large hail.

Heavy rain caused minor flooding in western Tennessee and 3.44 inches had fallen in Jackson by Wednesday morning, with another 3.5 inches in Memphis and 2.21 inches at Dyersburg, the National Weather Service reported. Heavy rain and possible high winds were predicted across north Georgia Wednesday and into the day on Thursday.Such heavy storms develop about once in the region this time of year, said Mike Leary, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Peachtree City.You get a big influx of Gulf moisture that's really quite warm, he said. That sets up instability in combination with the cold front coming down.Associated Press Writers Jay Reeves in Birmingham, Ala., Debbie Newby in Atlanta, Bill Fuller in New Orleans, and Randall Dickerson in Nashville, Tenn., contributed to this report.

Colo. forecasters expect busy 09 hurricane season Wed Dec 10, 1:24 pm ET Reuters

FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Hurricane forecasters at Colorado State University on Wednesday predicted above-average activity in the Atlantic next year: 14 named storms, including seven hurricanes — three major.The 50-year average is 9.6 named storms, 5.9 hurricanes and 2.3 major hurricanes.Researchers William Gray and Phil Klotzbach said in their extended-range forecast there is a 63 percent chance that at least one major hurricane will make landfall on the U.S. coastline.The long-term average probability is 52 percent.This is Gray's 26th year of forecasting hurricanes. His predictions are watched closely by emergency responders and others, but many say such long-range forecasts don't have a lot of practical value beyond focusing public attention on the dangers.The hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. Klotzbach cautioned that the December prediction includes a large amount of uncertainty because the season is so far in the future.Last December, Gray and Klotzbach predicted 13 named storms for the 2008 season, including seven hurricanes, three of them major. In June they revised that to 15 named storms, eight hurricanes — four major. The season produced 16 named storms, eight hurricanes, with five major.

Klotzbach said the new forecast is based on factors including warm Atlantic sea surface temperatures and the likely absence of El Nino conditions.El Nino is a warming in the Pacific Ocean that can have such far-reaching effects as changing wind patterns in the eastern Atlantic, which can disrupt the formation of hurricanes.
On the Net:Colorado State University hurricane forecast: http://hurricane.atmos.colostate.edu

Possible tornadoes wreck homes in north Texas Tue Dec 9, 9:24 pm ET

DENISON, Texas – Severe storms tore through north Texas with probable tornadoes, damaging or destroying more than 20 homes and injuring one person, authorities said Tuesday.Teams from the National Weather Service in Fort Worth said they believe two probable tornadoes hit late Monday in an area near Southmayd and Denison, about 70 miles north of Dallas.Lt. Mike Eppler, a spokesman for the Denison Police Department, said the storm Monday night uprooted trees, blew out car windows, overturned tractor-trailers and destroyed a shuttered bowling alley.Straight-line winds may have caused damage in other parts of Grayson County, said meteorologist Jessica Schultz.One person in the Collinsville area suffered minor injuries, authorities said.

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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, 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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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED DEC 10,2008

09:30 AM +50.18
10:00 AM +47.63
10:30 AM +123.53
11:00 AM +71.52
11:30 AM +107.48
12:00 PM +137.31
12:30 PM +101.47
01:00 PM +75.82
01:30 PM +87.53
02:00 PM -14.86
02:30 PM -17.84
03:00 PM +7.73
03:30 PM +65.63
04:00 PM +70.09 8761.42

S&P 500 899.24 +10.57

NASDAQ 1565.48 +18.14

GOLD 809.50 +35.30

OIL 43.61 +1.64

TSE 300 8610.98 +213.42

CDNX 705.49 +19.47

S&P/TSX/60 523.76 +14.18

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

Dow +80 points at 4 minutes of trading.
Dow +44 points at low today so far.
Dow +151 points at High today so far.

YEAR TO DATE
Dow -34.48%
Nasdaq -41.66%
S&P -39.48
NYSE STATS
Advances 2,261,Declines 621,Unchanged 81,New highs 4,New lows 22.
NASDAQ
Advances 1,843,Declines 498,Unchanged 162.
Major Averages higher for 10th time in 13 sessions so far today.

Canada cuts interest rate to 1.5%,lowest since 1958
71,000 lost jobs in November in Canada.
The Dow first touched 1000 points in 1966,than not again untill 1983.

SECURITIZING DOWNGRADE
-Moody's downgrades Jumbo deals issued by B of A in 2006 and 2007.
-13% of prime Jumbo pool is delinquent.
-Largest downgrade of non-CDO thus far.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS

Dow -4 points at low.
Dow +151 at high.

Colorado state forecasters predict 14 Tropical Storms,7 Hurricanes for 2009 Season.
Wholesale Inventories dropped by 1.1% in OCT. biggest drop since NOV 2001 VS 0.4% (SEPT).

CURRENT STATE OF THE ECONOMY? SURVEY CNBC
Exellent 0%,Good 4%,Only fair 25%,Poor 70%.
ARE YOU CONFIDENT YOUR MONEY IS SAFE IN A FEDERALLY INSURED BANK ACCOUNT?
Totally/Mostly CON:65%,Somewhat/not CON:31%
HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO PAY OFF HOLLIDAY SHOPPING-RELATED DEBT?
-One month or less DEC 08 32%,DEC 07 29%.
-2-3 Months DEC 08 9%,DEC 07 13%
-Will not have debt DEC 08 51%,DEC 07 46%
AMERICANS PLAN TO SPEND $704 ON AVERAGE THIS YEAR.-4.6% 08/07Y/Y.
Wages same/Decrease $690
Wages Increase $681
Home Value Increase $828
Home Value Decrease $602
Home Value Same $874

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS

Dow -39 points at low today.
Dow +151 points at high today.

Dow +1% today.
Dow nears 8800 points today.
Dow was up 2.2% at days high,down 0.5% at days low.
Dow falls 0.5% this month.
Nasdaq +1% today.
Nasdaq was up 2.4% at days high,down 0.3% at days low.
Nasdaq gains 2% this month.
S&P +1% today.
S&P ends just below 900 points today.
S&P was up 2.2% at days high,down 0.3% at days low.
Stocks close higher,in middle of days range.

AUTO BILL LATEST
-White House and Democrats finalize bailout.
-House Vote may happen today.
-Senate Republicans blast loan terms.

Republican senators voice opposition to auto aid By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, Associated Press Writer DEC 10,08
^DJI 8,761.42 +70.09
^GSPC 899.24 +10.57
^IXIC 1,565.48 +18.14

WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans say they have grave concerns about the agreement between congressional Democrats and the Bush White House to speed billions of dollars to struggling U.S. automakers.Sen. George V. Voinovich, a Republican from Ohio and a leading supporter of the emergency measure, says it doesn't have the necessary Republican votes to pass Congress.Administration officials who were dispatched to Capitol Hill to sell the agreement got an earful of criticism from GOP senators during a closed-door luncheon.The revolt came as the House began procedural votes on the package. Democrats are pushing to pass it this week.Reuters.

CANADA FX DEBT-C$ up on hopes for US auto plan, bonds ease
Wed Dec 10, 10:08 AM

TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar climbed against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday morning, supported by hopes for a rescue plan for ailing U.S. automakers and by higher oil prices.Bond prices fell as investors stepped back into stocks.At 9:35 a.m. (1435 GMT), the Canadian dollar was at C$1.2562 to the U.S. dollar, or 79.61 U.S. cents. That is up from C$1.2646 to the U.S. dollar, or 79.08 U.S. cents, at Tuesday's close. The Canadian currency was hit on Tuesday after the Bank of Canada cut its key interest rate by 75 basis points and declared for the first time that the economy is entering a recession.The U.S. House of Representatives could vote as early as Wednesday on a $15 billion plan to bail out and restructure U.S. automakers. The hopes that the plan could be finalized helped boost global stock markets and the positive sentiment filtered through to commodity markets. It also helped cool risk aversion, which has been sparking safe-haven U.S. dollar buying.

There is a little better tone from equity markets and risk aversion playing out in response to news of a tentative loan package for the Big Three automakers. And commodity prices are a little higher, said Sal Guatieri, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets.Oil bounced above $44 a barrel after Tuesday's slump, and the recovery lent support to the Canadian dollar, which has tracked the price of oil in the past few years because of Canada's status as a major oil-exporting nation.

BONDS FALL

Canadian bond prices were lower across the curve as stock markets gained and investors set aside fears of a global recession.The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index opened higher on Wednesday, as did major U.S. exchanges, following the lead of stock markets in Europe and Japan, which were also supported by the U.S. automaker aid plan.The two-year bond fell 8 Canadian cents to C$102.25 to yield 1.585 percent. The 10-year bond declined 40 Canadian cents to C$109.15 to yield 3.125 percent.The yield spread between the two- and 10-year bond was at 152 basis points, down from 155basis points at the previous close.The 30-year bond lost 55 Canadian cents to C$121.25 to yield 3.775 percent. In the United States, the 30-year Treasury yielded 3.1106 percent.(Reporting by Ka Yan Ng; editing by Peter Galloway)

Israel OKs money transfer to ease Gaza cash crunch By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer – Wed Dec 10, 1:32 pm ET

JERUSALEM – Israel agreed on Wednesday to allow the delivery of cash to banks in the Gaza Strip to ease a cash crunch that has badly hobbled the economy of the blockaded Palestinian territory.Defense Minister Ehud Barak authorized the transfer of 100 million shekels ($25 million) to Hamas-controlled Gaza from Palestinian banks in the West Bank, his office said. The shekel is the territory's main currency, although Gazans also use U.S. dollars and Jordanian dinars.Jihad al-Wazir, head of the Palestinian Monetary Authority, said the money shipment would help but added that Gazans needed a regular supply of cash. The Israeli approval does not resolve the overall problem of regular inflow of liquidity, he said.Palestinian monetary officials earlier said they needed an immediate infusion of 250 million shekels just to cover salaries of Gaza's government workers.An Israeli military spokesman, Peter Lerner, said armored trucks would cross Israel from the West Bank to Gaza with the money. He said the transfer would be made by Sunday.The Israeli statement said the transfer came in response to a request from Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer and the moderate Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, whose West Bank-based government is holding peace talks with Israel.Israel has not allowed money to enter Gaza since October, causing cash shortages in local banks. Last week, on what was meant to be pay day for tens of thousands of civil servants, many Gazans were unable to collect their pay because cash ran out.

The Gaza blockade was imposed by Israel and Egypt last year when the Islamic militants of Hamas seized power by violence, leaving Palestinian moderates in charge only of the West Bank. The sanctions were slightly loosened in June year when Israel and Hamas reached a cease-fire agreement, but Israel sealed the territory again when violence erupted in early November.

Cost Of Bailout Hits $8.5 Trillion Total sum represents 60 per cent of GDP
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The total cost of funds committed to the bailout in its various guises has now hit $8.5 trillion dollars, up from $7.7 trillion in just two days after the federal government committed an additional $800 billion to two new loan programs on Tuesday.

The total amount of funds now committed equals a figure that represents 60 per cent of the U.S. gross domestic product.Millions of Americans with savings accounts and pensions will ultimately pay the price because, as the San Francisco Chronicle admits today, The Fed lends money from its own balance sheet or by essentially creating new money.You’ll also find this little snippet in the article, Most of the money, about $5.5 trillion, comes from the Federal Reserve, which as an independent entity does not need congressional approval to lend money to banks or, in unusual and exigent circumstances,to other financial institutions.Just another reminder that the private, run for profit, Federal Reserve has the printing presses cranked on overdrive in order to bailout Wall Street and the big banks, while the homeowner and the middle class see their savings devalued out of existence.If you print money all the time, the money becomes worth less, warns Diane Lim Rogers, chief economist with the Concord Coalition, but its an empty threat to delirious traders and investors drunk on a record stock market rally after the government pumped more fake liquidity into the bloated bubble.Veteran investor Jim Rogers echoed the sentiment, predicting the dollar is going to lose its status as the world’s reserve currency, adding, It will be devalued and it will go down a lot. These guys in Washington, they want to debase the currency.They think that if you drive down the value of your money, it makes you more competitive, now that has never worked in history in the long term, said Rogers.

How long will it be before Americans realize the looming specter of hyperinflation spells disaster for their life savings? How long will it be before we see rioting in the streets on a par with the scenes witnessed in Iceland over the weekend, where the Icelandic krona has lost half its value in a matter of weeks? Meanwhile, over in the UK, the government assured the vast majority of the population that they will “tax the rich” in order to pay for the bailout on the other side of the Atlantic, with whopping 61 per cent tax bands being levied on those earning over £100,000 a year.Since when was £100,000 a year rich? After tax, even if someone was able to save half of their remaining income, it would take them around 30 years to save a million pounds, adjusting for inflation. That is not rich.The reality of course is that it is the middle class who will once again foot the bill for everything, leaving the elite to prolong their con game of fiat money and imaginary credit , once again suckering the poor in for a lifetime of indentured financial servitude.

EU parliament body scanners offer virtual strip search
VALENTINA POP Today DEC 10,08 @ 17:22 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Parliament has eight scanners on stock that can expose body parts if put in use, a parliament spokeswoman has confirmed. MEPs recently opposed an attempt by the European Commission to allow airports to use this type of scanner, already in place in British, Dutch, Swiss, US and Australian airports.The decision to acquire eight full-body scanners was taken by the European Parliament's administrative body in 2002, following the al-Qaeda attacks of 11 September 2001, as a measure to protect MEPs and visitors, Marjory van den Broeke, spokeswoman for the parliament's secretary-general told EUobserver.They have luckily never been used, but they could be if the authorities decided to rise the terror alert to code orange or red, she said. The eight machines cost €68,000 each and were distributed to the parliament's buildings in Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg, Ms van den Broeke explained.She also stressed that the scanners were only on stock and to be used only in the case of a terrorist threat. A resolution passed in the parliament at the end of October opposed the daily use of such machines in EU airports, she said.German daily newspaper Die Welt wrote on Wednesday (10 December) that the body scanners were hidden in the basement of the European Parliament.

British MEP Graham Watson, head of the parliament's Liberal group (ALDE) proposed a test run of the machines on the European Parliament's secretary-general and its staff.The parliament's drive for transparency seems to have gone a little bit too far, Mr Watson told EUobserver, adding that this matter would be definitely brought up in the meeting with the other party leaders.German centre-right MEP Markus Ferber, who sits on the budgetary control committee told Die Welt this was just another example of a waste of tax money, criticising his colleagues who had approved the purchase of the equipment. This is a huge mess. It's the pinnacle of hypocrisy for the MEPs who are responsible for purchasing these devices being the same ones who ranted and raved about installing them at airports, he said.Late October, MEPs opposed a legislative proposal to allow EU airports to use full-body scanners, arguing that they infringe privacy rights and data protection laws and undermine people's dignity.They said the machines were in effect a virtual strip search.In the US, where such scanners are used in 10 of the biggest airports, passengers can decline to step into the machines and opt instead for a pat-down.UK and the Netherlands also use these types of scanners, while Germany has rejected them as nonsense.

EU states not applying free movement rules, Brussels says
ELITSA VUCHEVA Today DEC 10,08 @ 17:38 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU member states' implementation of rules on free movement and residence within the bloc has been rather disappointing, the European Commission said on Wednesday (10 December).Currently, EU citizens have the right to move to another member state to retire, study, work and live, with certain requirements and conditions linked to this right and set in EU legislation from 2004.Most member states have failed to fully comply with these EU rules Brussels says, however.

According to the commission not one single member state has transposed the directive [on the right of EU citizens to move and reside freely within the EU] effectively and correctly in its entity. Not one article of the directive has been transposed effectively and correctly by all member states.The overall transposition of the directive is rather disappointing, the EU executive adds in its statement.Only Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal and Spain have correctly adopted more than 85 percent of the directive's provisions. In contrast, Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Slovenia and Slovakia have correctly adopted less than 60 percent of the provisions.Additionally, some member states create artificial hurdles to free movement of EU citizens.One example for this is the right of residence of Europeans in another member state for more than three months, which some countries link to conditions not foreseen in the directive.The Czech Republic recognises the right of residence only when the family has satisfactory accommodation. Malta requires EU citizens to obtain a work licence in order to have the right of residence as workers. Such requirements are contrary to community law, the commission says.Under the free movement directive, any EU citizen who is a student, worker, or self-employed, or has enough resourses not to become a burden on the social assistance system of the host member state and has a health insurance in the host country, can reside in any EU state longer than three months.

Infringement threat

Flaws in the implementation of EU law in this field might result in a breach of the principles lying at the very core basis of the European construction, EU justice commissioner Jacques Barrot told journalists in Brussels.He added that if things did not change, the commission would not hesitate to launch infringement procedures against the member states that continuously fail to correctly implement the free movement rules.Mr Barrot rejected calls coming from some countries, notably Denmark and Ireland, to change the EU rules as they may boost marriages of conveniences with non-EU nationals.Guidelines the commission is to publish in the first half of next year should suffice to reassure member states on this and other issues, showing them there are good practices to fight against such marriages, Mr Barrot said.Rules in place in the UK in that respect, including language knowledge verification and trial periods following the marriage, could serve as an example, he added.

Liberals name Ignatieff as new leader By Randall Palmer Randall Palmer DEC 10,08

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada's opposition Liberals named Michael Ignatieff, a formidable campaigner they hope will reverse the once-mighty party's decline, as their new leader on Wednesday.Ignatieff has been the party's lead voice of caution on the question of trying to bring down the minority Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper through an alliance with other opposition parties. He is also expected to nudge the party back to the center after its recent lean to the left.He replaces Stephane Dion, who in the October 14 election led the Liberals to their worst showing since Canada was founded in 1867. It was the Liberals' second straight election loss.Ignatieff was acclaimed as interim leader on Wednesday after his two competitors dropped out of the race this week and he is expected to become permanent leader at a party convention in May.This decision comes at an historic time for Canada, party President Doug Ferguson said in a statement.Our interim leader will be called upon to lead our caucus and our party through a volatile Parliament, and a possible federal election in the midst of the worst economic crisis in memory.Both Ignatieff and Dion are former university professors but Ignatieff has shown himself more able to deliver punchy sound bites in both English and French, though he has drawn some criticism for appearing aloof and aristocratic.

He faces the huge task of rebuilding a party that is broke and is poorly organized in large parts of Canada, particularly in the West and in Quebec. He is much more popular in Quebec than Dion, who was seen as taking too hard a line against separatism.Ignatieff will have to manage expectations of those, like former rival Bob Rae, who are itching to keep an opposition coalition alive to bring down the Conservatives even though the Conservatives won a strengthened mandate less than two months ago.Last week the Liberals signed a formal agreement with the left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP) and the separatist Bloc Quebecois to try to bring the Conservatives down and install a Liberal-NDP government.But Ignatieff has said this path, which polls show is unpopular, should only be followed if necessary.One concern the Liberals have is that they might find themselves in another election, badly trailing the Conservatives, rather than being offered a chance to form a coalition government.The NDP and the Bloc remain eager to pursue that course.There's no question of giving Mr. Harper another chance here. He blew it, NDP deputy leader Thomas Mulcair told CBC television.However, it is ultimately not up to the NDP and the Bloc but rather the Liberals, and in particular Ignatieff, as to whether the government will be toppled.

Liberal caucus endorses Ignatieff as interim leader
By The Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Liberal MPs and senators have unanimously endorsed Michael Ignatieff as interim party leader. The vote by caucus clears the way for the Toronto MP to be officially declared interim leader by the national executive today - after it finishes its consultation process with Liberals across the country. Bob Rae - who withdrew from the leadership race Tuesday - nominated Ignatieff at today's closed-door caucus meeting. Rae, Stephane Dion and Dominic LeBlanc all praised Ignatieff and spoke of the need for party unity. Ignatieff's leadership puts the coalition with the NDP in some doubt. Liberal House Leader Ralph Goodale wouldn't say going into caucus whether Ignatieff would withdraw from the alliance. He says Ignatieff should be cut some slack in order to decide what is the most responsible course to follow.

US congressmen rebuff Irish anti-Lisbon links
PHILIPPA RUNNER Today DEC 10,08 @ 09:25 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - US congress members have poured cold water on a European Parliament query about potential foreign funding for the anti-Lisbon treaty campaign in Ireland, in line with expectations.Our congressional colleagues drew our attention to a statement from US deputy secretary of state John Negroponte at Trinity College Dublin on 17 November, completely refuting the suggestion of any US dimension whatsoever, British conservative MEP Jonathan Evans told EUobserver on Wednesday (9 December), after returning from a European Parliament delegation to the US.On the contrary, both Democrats and Republicans re-affirmed their keenness to work with a strong and coherent EU, comments recently accentuated by president-elect Obama, he added.German socialist MEP Helmut Kuhne asked US lawmakers at the meeting in Miami if the US government had in any way supported Irish businessman Declan Ganley, whose Libertas organisation was among groups which campaigned for a No vote in the Irish referendum in June.The query was made following informal instructions from the office of European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering, after German green MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit in September suggested the Pentagon or the CIA may have helped Mr Ganley in order to weaken the EU.

Mr Cohn-Bendit continued in a similar vein last week at a meeting with Czech President Vaclav Klaus, saying Mr Klaus should not have met with Mr Ganley during a recent state visit to Dublin because of the problematic financing of the businessman's political activity.When asked in Dublin last month if the US government had helped Libertas, Mr Negroponte said: absolutely not. I say that on very good authority, not only being deputy secretary of state but also being a former director of national intelligence.Mr Ganley's company, Rivada Networks, makes communications equipment for the US government. But he has denied any US link to Libertas and promised to take Irish politicians to court for grossly defamatory statements on the subject.The Irish government is widely expected to run a second referendum on Lisbon in October 2009, after negotiating a package of sweeteners from EU states at this week's summit.The package is set to include keeping an Irish commissioner and securing declarations to protect Irish neutrality, taxation and anti-abortion laws, which would later be given legal force by being lodged at the UN or tacked on to Croatia's EU accession treaty.Mr Ganley is likely to remain a force in European politics for some time to come. Libertas opened an office in Brussels last month as part of his plans to run in European Parliament elections in June.

Czech delay

Meanwhile, the Czech parliament on Wednesday put off until 3 February a vote on Lisbon ratification as the ruling conservative ODS party tries to secure socialist support for hosting a US anti-missile shield first.The move means the Czech EU presidency will start work in January as the only EU state not to have voted on the treaty.President Klaus, along with Polish President Lech Kaczynski, have also promised not to sign off on Lisbon unless Ireland overturns its No vote.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

EU Somali mission able to arrest pirates
VALENTINA POP 09.12.2008 @ 18:01 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU naval mission off the coast of Somalia will arrest and transfer pirates for prosecution to member states or countries beyond the 27-country bloc, the mission's commander-in-chief has said. Three ships from Great Britain, France and Greece were already off the Somali coasts under the first EU naval mission on Monday, its commander in chief, British Rear Admiral Phillip Jones told journalists at a press conference on Tuesday (9 December) marking the official launch of the operation, dubbed Atalanta.We have a specific mandate to contribute to reducing piracy and ensuring humanitarian access, he explained, while admitting: A naval force in itself cannot completely eradicate piracy.Mr Jones admitted that the surveillance area was vast, saying: The more ships and aircraft, the better. The pirates operate up to 500 miles off the Somali coast and in the whole of the Gulf of Aden - a vital corridor for oil tankers and humanitarian aid ships.Under its mandate, the mission is expected to escort UN World Food Programme vessels delivering aid to Somalis and patrol the areas where pirates operate. The mission is also to escort other vulnerable ships, including commercial traffic.Operating under the UN Convention Against Piracy, the EU mission has given itself a green light to use force in order to deter, prevent and intervene against acts of piracy and armed robbery.

Unlike piracy, which takes place in international waters, armed robbery refers to similar actions conducted in territorial waters and requires the national government to approve any foreign intervention against it. The Somali government has given this approval to the EU mission, Mr Jones said.He was reluctant however to detail the rules of engagement against pirates but repeatedly called them robust enough to have a deterence effect. The operation will also be able to place pirates under arrest and transfer them for prosecution to member states or non-EU countries, yet any such action would be considered on a case-by-base basis, depending on the nationality of the vessel, the legislation of the country involved and whether the action took place in international or territorial waters, Mr Jones explained.Headquartered in Northwood, Hertfordshire, in the UK, the operation is planned to last for 12 months on a four-month rotation basis, and will have at any time up to six ships with helicopters and three surveillance aircraft in support of the mission. Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium are also expected to contribute, while talks are under way with a number of countries beyond the EU, such as Japan, which might also put forward a frigate.The force commander at sea is Commodore Antonios Papaioannou, who will be replaced after four months by a Spanish commander and in the last part of 2009 by a Dutch commodore.

Irish minister fudges Lisbon treaty question
LEIGH PHILLIPS 09.12.2008 @ 09:45 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Irish foreign minister Micheal Martin declined to clarify his country's position on holding a second referendum on the Lisbon treaty next year, despite reports of an impending announcement.We have not decided to hold a referendum, he told a packed crowd of Brussels officials and journalists at a meeting on Monday (8 December) held by the European Policy Centre, an EU think-tank.

But when pressed if he saw any other way out of the impasse other than a second referendum, he responded: I'm not a constitutional lawyer. There are perhaps other ways, but they are fraught with risks.The UK's Daily Telegraph had earlier the same day cited unnamed Irish diplomats as saying Taoisheach Brian Cowen will at the EU summit on Thursday (11 December) declare that a second vote will be held in October 2009, or possibly in April 2009.EU leaders are to meet in Brussels to consider the Lisbon conundrum, as well as enter into final negotiations on the bloc's climate and energy package and assess the current economic situation.When challenged if a second referendum might be seen as insulting to Irish people when voters in France and the Netherlands - who also voted against an earlier incarnation of the treaty - would not be forced to vote once again, he added: In a democracy, I don't think it is insulting to ask people a question. The important thing is to listen to the people.

The minister said his government had taken the time to analyse in depth not only why people voted for or against the Lisbon treaty, but also their general attitudes towards Brussels.We found most have a very positive attitude towards the EU - 70 percent believe that it has been a positive thing for Ireland.

Ireland's demands?

Mr Martin outlined five key reasons for the No vote, which could form the backbone of Dublin's demands from other EU states to help them push an amended treaty package through.The biggest reason for voting No was worries over threats to Ireland's traditional neutrality. This was a very strong issue. This came through clearly in our research, he told the room.Irish citizens were also very concerned about competence creep from Brussels and especially the European Court of Justice, which is seen as gradually encroaching into domestic jurisdiction. He said this notably took the form of fears that Ireland's protection of the right to life of the unborn would at some point be undone.Days after the June referendum, a European Commission Eurobarometer survey of the reasons why people had voted No showed that conservative fears that Europe might impose legalised abortion, gay marriage and euthanasia on Ireland was an issue for only two percent of voters on the No side.Mr Martin said that abortion and these other ethical issues combined with other reasons in the minds of the voters: I don't mean they all voted that way, but it was a factor in their heads.Taxation, a strong theme of free-market-oriented No campaign group Libertas, also proved to be prominent in voters' heads. A full third believed that the treaty undermined national competence in direct taxation, said the minister.Mr Martin told the meeting that workers' rights and social issues figured significantly in the popular imagination as well, saying that people were worried about recent European Court of Justice decisions that appeared to limit people's right to strike and collective bargaining. We're open to suggestions from the commission on how to copperfasten these rights and deliver enhanced protections for workers, he added.

The fifth issue was the reduction in the number of commissioners outlined in the Lisbon treaty. According to the treaty, in future only two thirds of the member states would maintain a commissioner at any given time. Critically, losing a commissioner was a key worry, with 80 percent rating the issue as of very high importance, he said.

Commissioner conundrum

If the Treaty of Lisbon is to enter into force, it requires the agreement of all member states, the minister said. If that is to be secured, the concerns of the Irish people will have to be addressed in a clear and convincing manner by means of legally binding assurances.He apologised for not being more precise in his response, but, it will all become clear by the end of the week, he said.However, Ireland's plans may get a bumpy ride from other member states. Foreign ministers, meeting in Brussels on Monday ahead of the summit considered Dublin's requests.After the meeting, Slovak foreign minister Jan Kubis said: I suppose the Irish will get some support from EU leaders at the summit, suggesting they will listen to their concerns and try to work on them in the coming months, but it is clear that they will not just copy all of their demands and accept them.Mr Kubis added that most countries would mainly have a problem accepting changes in the institutional make-up of the European Commission, as this may require a new round of treaty ratification - a move most countries oppose.

Macedonia name dispute holds hostage EU credibility
ELITSA VUCHEVA 09.12.2008 @ 08:54 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Macedonia is ready to start accession talks with the EU and the fact that a 17-year-old dispute with Greece over its name is hindering the process harms not just Skopje, but the EU's credibility as well, Macedonian foreign minister Antonio Milososki has said.This name issue has been misused by one EU member country, and this fact is to a certain extent taking hostage the credibility of the EU when it comes to establishing and promoting objective membership criteria, Mr Milososki told EUobserver in an interview.Macedonia has been an EU candidate since 2005, but has not yet opened membership negotiations with the 27-nation bloc.It had hoped to do so this year, but a European Commission progress report released in November did not recommend to EU member states to launch the process, citing deficiencies in a number of areas, and highlighting violent incidents that took place during this summer's elections in Macedonia.Skopje believes there is another reason behind Brussels' decision, however.I am not convinced that's the only reason why Macedonia was not given a chance to open accession negotiations. Maybe there is something that is beyond the reports, Mr Milososki said, referring to the dispute with Greece over Macedonia's name - an issue which he said is making his small country disproportionately more famous worldwide than [its] size.

Greece has been refusing to recognise its neighbour's constitutional name - Republic of Macedonia - since it declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, as a northern region in Greece is also called Macedonia and Athens fears allowing Skopje to use the name will open the way to territorial claims. It also believes the appellation is part of its own historical heritage.The dispute has been going on for more than 17years. Meanwhile, the international community has been using Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) as a provisional term designating the country since 1993. Separately, Macedonia's name has been recognised by some 120 other countries worldwide, including Russia, the US, China, Canada, Turkey, as well as a number of EU states.

It's the name,says France

Earlier this year, the deadlock over Macedonia's name caused Greece to block a NATO invitation to Skopje, and Athens has indicated that its neighbour's EU integration would also be slowed down as long as the issue is not solved.On Monday (8 December), current EU president France said that the unsolved name dispute was clearly Macedonia's biggest problem at the moment as far as its EU accession process is concerned.The problem of Macedonia, it's the name, French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner told journalists after a meeting with his EU counterparts in Brussels.

Frankly, you can ask me about visas and about progress [towards the EU], as long as the name issue is not solved, you are knocking on the wrong door. This problem must be solved, he added.After all these years of UN-mediated negotiations between Greece and Macedonia, the situation seems today very very complicated for such a simple problem, the French minister concluded.For his part, Mr Milososki stressed the EU should help to tone down the issue and not to let it become a criterion for his country to join the EU.We would like this issue to retain its bilateral dimension and not to be Europeanised, because it's not a dispute with the EU, it's a dispute with Greece, Macedonia's top diplomat said.

Merit-based approach

Mr Milososki also stressed that despite the reforms his country still has to make in a number of areas, it is already prepared to start EU membership talks.We are aware we are not perfect, but Macedonia is not less prepared than some other countries - already negotiating or already members of the EU - to open accession negotiations, he said.[On a] merit-based approach, Macedonia should be considered as soon as possible as the next country opening accession negotiations, the minister added.

Skopje is also hoping to obtain visa free travel to the EU as early as next year.

For its part, Brussels noted that Macedonia had made good progress on the visa arrangements and is expected to deliver its assessment on the country's readiness for visa liberalisation in the first quarter of 2009.

Britain to withdraw most troops from Iraq by June By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer DEC 10,2008

BAGHDAD – Britain announced Wednesday it will withdraw all but a handful of its 4,000soldiers from Iraq next year, ending a mission that was unpopular at home and failed to curb the rise of Iranian-backed Shiite militias in the south.The decision comes as the United States is weighing a drawdown in its nearly 150,000-strong force. President-elect Barack Obama has called for withdrawing all combat troops from Iraq by the spring of 2010, shifting responsibility to the Iraqis for the defense of the country against Sunni and Shiite extremists.The British announcement, which was expected, signals a conclusion to the role of the second biggest troop contributor to the multinational coalition after the United States. More than 45,000 British troops took part in the March 2003 invasion that overthrew Saddam Hussein.In London, the Defense Ministry said all but a few hundred of the 4,000 soldiers, most of them in the heavily Shiite south, would be gone by June.The government did not say when the withdrawal would begin. But the Daily Telegraph newspaper of London said it would start in March, when a U.S. unit takes over the British headquarters at the airport in Iraq's second-largest city, Basra.A U.S. brigade will deploy to the south to train Iraqi soldiers and secure vital supply lines from Kuwait, the newspaper said. The Associated Press requested comment from the U.S. command but received no reply.The British have not confirmed whether they will now send more soldiers to Afghanistan. Military commanders have warned that British troops are overstretched from commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan, where Britain has some 7,800 soldiers.

Air Chief Marshal Jock Stirrup, the chief of the Defense Staff, said last month that a major withdrawal of Britain's 4,000 troops in Iraq in 2009 won't mean additional forces can immediately be sent to Afghanistan.In Basra, Gov. Mohammed al-Waili expressed confidence that Iraqi forces could continue to secure the area — the heart of Iraq's vital oil industry.Our security forces are fully ready and prepared to fill any vacuum caused by the withdrawal of British soldiers, he told the AP. We think that the stable security situation will continue after the departure of the British.British Prime Minister Gordon Brown had expected to make substantial reductions this year but suspended those plans after Iraqi troops launched a major attack against Shiite militias in Basra last March, wresting control of the city from extremists.The Iraq war has been extremely unpopular in Britain, and the effort to topple Saddam never enjoyed as much support as in the United States. In 2003, several hundred thousand people took to the streets of London to protest the invasion, and the issue shadowed the final years of Tony Blair's premiership.Even the current foreign secretary, David Miliband, has acknowledged that the war was divisive in both the country and the governing Labour Party.Our whole country will breathe a sigh of relief that an end to this illegal war is now in sight, said Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, the third-largest party in Parliament.With widespread opposition at home, British troops never took as aggressive a posture as American soldiers to the north, in part because of British sensitivities over its image in Iraq as the former colonial power that crushed a bloody uprising in 1920.

Privately, British officers spoke disparagingly of U.S. cowboy tactics in suppressing Sunni insurgents in central and northern Iraq and Shiite extremists in Baghdad and south of the capital.With the British taking a more passive stand, Shiite militias, including the Mahdi Army of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, took control of wide areas of Basra and other parts of the south during Britain's stewardship.Gunmen held sway until Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, also a Shiite, ordered Iraqi soldiers and police to regain control of Basra last March. U.S. aircraft and ground troops provided support for the operation. But Iraqi officers complained bitterly that the British withheld military support. In August, the Times of London reported that British troops stayed out of the fight because of a secret deal with an Iran-backed militia. The Ministry of Defense denied any deal was struck and said it held back to ensure that the operation was seen as Iraqi-led. At least 177 British soldiers died in Iraq, compared to at least 4,209 members of the U.S. military mission. The last combat death suffered by British forces in Iraq was March 26. Although most British troops are in the south, commandos from the elite Special Air Services serve alongside U.S. special operators in the largely secret war against al-Qaida in Iraq. A British general serves as the deputy to the top U.S. commander, Gen. Ray Odierno. Also Wednesday, Iraq's election commission announced it will launch a petition drive to see if there's enough support for a referendum to decide whether Basra province will become a self-ruled region. The commission said it would set up 34 centers across Basra where voters can sign the petition asking for a self-rule referendum. The drive begins on Monday and will last until Jan. 14, commission officials said. Basra lawmaker Wail Abdul-Latif said that at least 10 percent of registered voters must sign the petition in order for a referendum to be scheduled. If a majority voted in favor in the referendum, Basra would become a self-ruled region with the same powers as the Kurdish self-ruled area in the north. That would give local authorities more control of the province's vast oil wealth. Associated Press reporters Robert Barr in London and Sameer N. Yacoub in Baghdad contributed to this report.

UN says cholera death toll in Zimbabwe reaches 775 By ANGUS SHAW, Associated Press Writer Angus Shaw DEC 10,08

HARARE, Zimbabwe – The death toll from Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak has risen sharply, the United Nations said Wednesday, reporting 775 deaths and 16,141 cases of the waterborne disease in the southern African nation.Cholera has spread rapidly in Zimbabwe because of the country's crumbling health care system and the lack of clean water. Last week, Zimbabwe declared a health emergency because of cholera and the collapse of its health services.The latest figures from the World Health Organization show a jump of nearly 200 deaths from Tuesday, when the U.N. humanitarian office reported that 589 people had died out of 13,960 cases.Zimbabwe's government says the disease is under control but aid agencies warn that coming rains could spreading cholera further in a population already weakened by disease and hunger.With hundreds of people fleeing the country to seek treatment, cholera has already spread to Zimbabwe's neighbors. Nine deaths were reported Tuesday in South Africa.President Robert Mugabe is coming under increasing pressure as concern about the country's deepening humanitarian and political crisis mounts. President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have all called recently for the 84-year-old leader to step down.

Also Wednesday, a group of lawyers marched peacefully through downtown Harare calling for the release of human rights activist Jestina Mukoko.Mukoko, director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, was allegedly taken from her home a week ago when activists held nationwide protests against the country's deepening economic and health crises.Zimbabwean security officials regularly detain, harass and beat opponents of Mugabe's increasingly autocratic rule, although the government denies such allegations.A judge ordered police Tuesday to investigate Mukoko's disappearance.The lawyers — some dressed in their black gowns — carried placards reading: Stop abductions now and calling Mukoko a woman of peace.The opposition Movement for Democratic Change said in a statement that at least 20 activists were missing.A number of international and regional organizations, including South Africa's ruling party, also were raising concerns about the whereabouts of the activists.The African National Congress urged Zimbabwe's government to find them as a matter of urgency.Irene Khan, secretary-general of Amnesty International said human rights abuses were worsening in Zimbabwe as Mugabe's regime was desperate to stay in power.In Oslo, Norway, on Wednesday, Nobel peace laureate Martti Ahtisaari criticized Mugabe, saying the international community failed to meet its obligation to intervene when something goes terribly wrong, as it has.(Mugabe) was the hope of the continent after Zimbabwe was born. How this desire for absolute power make somebody behave the way he has done? I feel very sad about that, he said.Mugabe, 84, has ruled his country since its 1980 independence from Britain and has refused to leave office following disputed elections in March. A power-sharing deal worked out in September with the opposition has been deadlocked over how to divvy up Cabinet posts.Associated Press writers Frank Jordans in Geneva and Doug Mellgren in Oslo contributed to this report.

OPENLY SAYING ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT

EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)

REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)

REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.

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 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

WORLD GOVERNMENT

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

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

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

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

Financial Times Editorial Admits Agenda For Dictatorial World Government ,Jaw-dropping report concedes that global governance is a euphemism for anti-democratic global government Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, December 9, 2008

The Financial Times, one of the most respected and widely read newspapers on the planet, features an editorial today that openly admits the agenda to create a world government based on anti-democratic principles and concedes that the term global governance is merely a euphemism for the move towards a centralized global government.For years we were called paranoid nutcases for warning about the elite’s plans to centralize global power and destroy American sovereignty. Throughout the 1990’s people who talked about the alarming move towards global government were smeared as right-wing lunatics by popular culture and the media.Now the agenda is out in the open and in our faces, the debunkers have no more ammunition with which to deride us.A jaw-dropping editorial written by the Financial Times chief foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman entitled And now for a world government lays out the plan for global government and how it is being pushed with deceptive language and euphemisms in order to prevent people from becoming alarmed.

For the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible, writes Rachman, citing the financial crisis, global warming and the global war on terror as three major pretexts through which it is being introduced.Rachman writes that global governance could be introduced much sooner than many expect and that President elect Barack Obama has already expressed his desire to achieve that goal, making reference to Obama’s circle of advisors which includes Strobe Talbott, who in 1992 stated, In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.Rachman then concedes that the more abstract term global governance, which is often used by top globalists like David Rockefeller as a veil to offset accusations that a centralized global government is the real agenda, is merely a trick of soothing language that is used to prevent people reaching for their rifles in America’s talk-radio heartland.But some European thinkers think that they recognise what is going on, says Rachman. Jacques Attali, an adviser to President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, argues that: Global governance is just a euphemism for global government. As far as he is concerned, some form of global government cannot come too soon. Mr Attali believes that the core of the international financial crisis is that we have global financial markets and no global rule of law.

Rachman proceeds to outline what the first steps to an official world government would look like, including the creation of A legally binding climate-change agreement negotiated under the auspices of the UN and the creation of a 50,000-strong UN peacekeeping force.A world government would involve much more than co-operation between nations, writes Rachman. It would be an entity with state-like characteristics, backed by a body of laws. The European Union has already set up a continental government for 27 countries, which could be a model. The EU has a supreme court, a currency, thousands of pages of law, a large civil service and the ability to deploy military force.So, it seems, everything is in place. For the first time since homo sapiens began to doodle on cave walls, there is an argument, an opportunity and a means to make serious steps towards a world government, concludes Rachman, before acknowledging that the path to global government will be slow and painful.Tellingly, Rachman concedes that International governance tends to be effective, only when it is anti-democratic, citing the continual rejection of EU expansion when the question is put to a vote. In general, the Union has progressed fastest when far-reaching deals have been agreed by technocrats and politicians – and then pushed through without direct reference to the voters, writes Rachman.

So there you have it - one of the world’s top newspapers, editorially led by chief economics commentator Martin Wolf, a top Bilderberg luminary, openly proclaiming that not only is world government the agenda, but that world government will only be achieved through dictatorial measures because the majority of the people are dead against it.Will we still be called paranoid conspiracy theorists for warning that a system of dictatorial world government is being set up, even as one of the world’s most influential newspapers admits to the fact? Or will people finally wake up and accept that there is a globalist agenda to destroy sovereignty, any form of real democracy, and freedom itself in the pursuit of an all-powerful, self-interested, centralized, unrepresentative and dictatorial world government?

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

And now for a world government By Gideon Rachman December 8 2008 19:13

I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US. I have never seen black helicopters hovering in the sky above Montana. But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.A world government would involve much more than co-operation between nations. It would be an entity with state-like characteristics, backed by a body of laws. The European Union has already set up a continental government for 27 countries, which could be a model. The EU has a supreme court, a currency, thousands of pages of law, a large civil service and the ability to deploy military force.So could the European model go global? There are three reasons for thinking that it might.First, it is increasingly clear that the most difficult issues facing national governments are international in nature: there is global warming, a global financial crisis and a global war on terror.

Second, it could be done. The transport and communications revolutions have shrunk the world so that, as Geoffrey Blainey, an eminent Australian historian, has written: For the first time in human history, world government of some sort is now possible. Mr Blainey foresees an attempt to form a world government at some point in the next two centuries, which is an unusually long time horizon for the average newspaper column. But – the third point – a change in the political atmosphere suggests that global governance could come much sooner than that. The financial crisis and climate change are pushing national governments towards global solutions, even in countries such as China and the US that are traditionally fierce guardians of national sovereignty. Barack Obama, America’s president-in-waiting, does not share the Bush administration’s disdain for international agreements and treaties. In his book, The Audacity of Hope, he argued that: When the world’s sole superpower willingly restrains its power and abides by internationally agreed-upon standards of conduct, it sends a message that these are rules worth following. The importance that Mr Obama attaches to the UN is shown by the fact that he has appointed Susan Rice, one of his closest aides, as America’s ambassador to the UN, and given her a seat in the cabinet. A taste of the ideas doing the rounds in Obama circles is offered by a recent report from the Managing Global Insecurity project, whose small US advisory group includes John Podesta, the man heading Mr Obama’s transition team and Strobe Talbott, the president of the Brookings Institution, from which Ms Rice has just emerged. The MGI report argues for the creation of a UN high commissioner for counter-terrorist activity, a legally binding climate-change agreement negotiated under the auspices of the UN and the creation of a 50,000-strong UN peacekeeping force. Once countries had pledged troops to this reserve army, the UN would have first call upon them.

These are the kind of ideas that get people reaching for their rifles in America’s talk-radio heartland. Aware of the political sensitivity of its ideas, the MGI report opts for soothing language. It emphasises the need for American leadership and uses the term, responsible sovereignty – when calling for international co-operation – rather than the more radical-sounding phrase favoured in Europe, shared sovereignty. It also talks about global governance rather than world government.

But some European thinkers think that they recognise what is going on. Jacques Attali, an adviser to President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, argues that: Global governance is just a euphemism for global government. As far as he is concerned, some form of global government cannot come too soon. Mr Attali believes that the core of the international financial crisis is that we have global financial markets and no global rule of law.So, it seems, everything is in place. For the first time since homo sapiens began to doodle on cave walls, there is an argument, an opportunity and a means to make serious steps towards a world government. But let us not get carried away. While it seems feasible that some sort of world government might emerge over the next century, any push for global governance in the here and now will be a painful, slow process.There are good and bad reasons for this. The bad reason is a lack of will and determination on the part of national, political leaders who – while they might like to talk about a planet in peril – are ultimately still much more focused on their next election, at home.But this problem also hints at a more welcome reason why making progress on global governance will be slow sledding. Even in the EU – the heartland of law-based international government – the idea remains unpopular. The EU has suffered a series of humiliating defeats in referendums, when plans for ever closer union have been referred to the voters. In general, the Union has progressed fastest when far-reaching deals have been agreed by technocrats and politicians – and then pushed through without direct reference to the voters. International governance tends to be effective, only when it is anti-democratic. The world’s most pressing political problems may indeed be international in nature, but the average citizen’s political identity remains stubbornly local. Until somebody cracks this problem, that plan for world government may have to stay locked away in a safe at the UN.gideon.rachman@ft.com Post and read comments at Gideon Rachman’s blog The Financial Times Limited 2008