CHRYSLER SHUTS PLANTS

RICE TEXT VIDEO AT UN
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2008/12/113242.htm

RICE QUARTET REMARKS
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2008/12/113219.htm

RICE INTERVIEW DEC 9,08
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2008/12/113016.htm

QUARTET PRESS STATEMENT
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2008/dec/113216.htm

BUSH TEXT AT ARAB EMERITES
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/01/20080113-1.html

BUSH ON MIDEAST
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/mideast/

UN council endorses US-led Middle East peace talks
Tue 16 Dec 2008, 17:58 GMT

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday declared that U.S.-brokered negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians are irreversible and urged both sides to redouble efforts to secure peace.The declaration was at the heart of a resolution drafted by the United States and Russia. The resolution, which passed 14-0 with Israel's enemy Libya abstaining, was the first adopted on the Middle East crisis in nearly five years.The U.S. and other delegations had hoped for a unanimous vote in favor of the two-page text.Libyan U.N. Ambassador Giadalla Ettalhi criticized the text for not condemning Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, which he described as basically a crime against humanity.Disregarding such practices is an invitation to continue such behavior, he told the council.

Ettalhi had wanted the resolution to mention several Palestinian complaints, including the blockade of the Gaza Strip and Israeli settlement in Palestinian areas.

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat welcomed the resolution, but added that he hoped it will not be added to the archives of other resolutions that have not been implemented so far.U.S. officials said the point of the resolution was to endorse the goals of talks on Palestinian statehood launched in November 2007 by the administration of President George W. Bush in Annapolis, Maryland, while avoiding specific disagreements.The adopted resolution only indirectly addresses the complaints of the Palestinians and Israelis by urging them to refrain from any steps that could undermine confidence or prejudice the outcome of the negotiations.It recognizes progress made in the talks and calls for an intensification of diplomatic efforts aimed at securing a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East.

BUSH LEGACY

The Republican administration had wanted a deal on Palestinian statehood by the end of this year but all sides now say that will not happen. Bush leaves office on Jan. 20, when Democrat Barack Obama will become U.S. president.U.N. diplomats have said the Bush administration, highly unpopular in the Arab world, hopes this resolution will help secure it a positive legacy for its Middle East policies and counter criticism it has faced for its 2003 invasion of Iraq.U.S. Secretary of State of Condoleezza Rice described the situation in the Middle East as catastrophic when Bush took over from his predecessor Bill Clinton in 2001.British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the lack of a peace deal so far did not mean the Annapolis talks failed.The Annapolis process has not delivered a Palestinian state but the absence of an Annapolis process would have left us much worse off, he said. (Additional reporting by Jerusalem bureau; Editing by Howard Goller)

New resolution on Mideast peace passes at UN,With Bush set to leave, the administration tries to nudge forward the process it started in 2007.By Howard LaFranchi Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the December 17, 2008 edition

United Nations, N.Y. - The Bush administration, looking to shore up its foreign-policy legacy, and the international community, hoping to influence the future Obama White House, are teaming up to press the Middle East peace process forward. It's an against-the-odds attempt. But the first United Nations Security Council resolution on the peace process in five years – since the diplomacy-stalling Iraq war in 2003 – was approved Tuesday. The vote was 14 to 0, with Libya abstaining. The idea is to show broad support for keeping the peace process that was started by President Bush a year ago on its rails into the next US presidency. The resolution, sponsored by the US and Russia, has little binding impact but sends a number of signals. First, it indicates, especially to the Israelis and Palestinians, that even though the so-called Annapolis process did not result in a peace agreement by the end of Mr. Bush's term, progress has been made and should be built upon. And second, a signal goes out to President-elect Obama that the peace process should not start over from Square 1 when he takes office. The irony of this second point is that it is promoted in particular by the Bush administration, which wanted nothing to do with the negotiation structure left behind by the Clinton White House.

The peace process is confronting a period of transition on more fronts than one, as Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador to the UN, noted repeatedly before the vote. We believe that the effort has to be pinned down, and it has to continue without a pause, which may be there because of some political circumstances – change of administration in the United States, elections in Israel, possible elections in the Palestinian autonomy, he said. But the political context is just one reason that some see the resolution having little practical impact. Arab officials who attended a Monday meeting of the Quartet of powers shepherding the peace process – the US, Russia, the UN, and the European Union – expressed frustration over the lack of major progress toward a settlement and a Palestinian state. The resolution could even set back progress if it had the effect of enshrining an unsuccessful approach to peace, some analysts say. A Security Council resolution that provides explicit support for the two-state solution is a good thing. But if it locks in a format or negotiating approach, in particular one that after a year has provided ample proof of not working, then it is a bad thing, says Philip Wilcox, a former US diplomat who is now president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace in Washington. Condoleezza Rice, who was in New York Monday and Tuesday for what could be her last appearance at the UN as secretary of State, defines the Annapolis process as both bottom-up and top-down – meaning it is not simply the US and other powers knocking the parties' heads and telling them what they have to do. Indeed, Secretary Rice has been criticized for leaving the two sides on their own in negotiations and not playing the traditional American go-between. But, she insists, considerable progress [has been made] on the core issues.

The two sides have made some progress on incremental issues, Mr. Wilcox says, but none on the core issues – such as borders, status of Jerusalem, and Israeli settlements. Israel is supportive of the resolution, said Gabriela Shalev, Israel's ambassador to the UN, speaking to reporters Tuesday in New York. One reason for Israel's stance, she says, is that the resolution gives support to the Annapolis process and its emphasis on bilateral (instead of multilateral) negotiations. We are committed to the peace process, but the peace process is something that has to go on between the parties themselves, Ambassador Shalev says. There can be some kind of pushing from the outside, but in the end, it must be the two parties that reach an accord. Even some officials who believe considerable progress has been made over the past year – for example, in creating viable Palestinian security forces in the West Bank – say the resolution reflects the wishes of its sponsors and in particular the personal drive of Rice. This has become something of a personal thing for her, said a senior European official, who wished not to be named because the diplomatic discussions over the resolution were ongoing. You have to give [Rice] credit: She has managed to push the parties further down the road.

HERBERT GRUBEL ON THE AMERO - VIDEO
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2008/12/father-of-amero-herbert-grubel-speaks.html#links

WHEN MESSIAH COMES - AUDIO
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2008/12/when-messiah-comes.html#links

CNN NEWS VIDEO
http://edition.cnn.com/video/

LAURIE ROTH SHOW 10PM-1AM MON-FRI
http://www.usaradio.com/listen_live_usa2.php

YAHOO NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video

MIDEAST CONFLICT NEWS
http://news.yahoo.com/video/1874;_ylt=A0wNcxFdg6xIgbkAwD6z174F

ABC NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2461

FOX NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/3074

FOX BUSINESS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/3045

AP NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2529

BBC NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2918

REUTERS VIDEO NEWS
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2704

AFP NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/3091

CNBC NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/3245

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

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

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

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

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

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

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU DEC 18,2008

09:30 AM +7.33
10:00 AM -19.75
10:30 AM +2.97
11:00 AM +19.52
11:30 AM -22.94
12:00 PM -3.42
12:30 PM -54.16
01:00 PM -35.76
01:30 PM -59.26
02:00 PM -98.52
02:30 PM -164.79
03:00 PM -148.83
03:30 PM -285.74
04:00 PM -219.35 8604.99

S&P 500 885.35 -19.07

NASDAQ 1552.37 -26.94

GOLD 853.80 -14.52

OIL 36.85 -3.21

TSE 300 8370.39 -353.72

CDNX 699.94 -23.52

S&P/TSX/60 507.27 -22.57

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

Dow +22 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -35 points at low.
Dow +35 points at high.
YEAR TO DATE:
Dow -33.48%
Nasdaq -40.45%
Hatfield has a hold on rating on UPS.

TARP IN THE BLACK:
-Value of preferred +$2.7 BILLION
-Value of Warrants +$5.1 BILLION
-TOTAL +$7.8 BILLION(3.17%)

FEDEX:
Year to date -28.26%
3 YR performance -35.97%

PHILADELPHIA FED:
Prices Paid -33.2(DEC)Vs -30.7(NOV)
Index -32.9(DEC)Vs -39.3(NOV)
New Orders -25.2(DEC)Vs -31.4(NOV)
Prices Recieved -37.8(DEC)Vs -15.5(NOV)
Employment -28.7(DEC)Vs -25.2(NOV)

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS

Dow -62 points at low today so far.
Dow +56 points at high so far today.

OIL WHATS NEXT?
$40 oil? Pump price $1.90
$35 oil? Pump price $1.76
$30 oil? Pump price $1.49
Pump Price Today $1.67

GERALD CELENTE PREDICTIONS (NEXT YEAR):
-Riots around the world already due to economic conditions.
-Massive firings and raising taxes.
-JAN 09 Major Retailers going bankrupt due to bad Christmas sales.
-FEB 09 Empty stores due to retail Bankruptcies.
-Food riots,Housing Riots this winter.
-Commercial Real Estate and Credit Card Companies Collapse.
-Going into Greater depression than the last.
-People hitting the streets due to hopelessness,Revolution.
-Worst rioters will be students who owe loans.
-People will rebell through:Internet,Streets,Riots.
-Government steps in with Military in the streets to control riots.
-Crime bills by Government to bring troops in streets.
-Possible Bank Holidays,can't get money from your accounts,money devalued.
-American Empire will fall the way Russia did.
-Mideast and Iran the trouble spots due to oil.
-2012 the target date for the worst.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS

Dow -296 points at low.
Dow +56 points at high.
Dow -2.4% today.
S&P -2.1% today
Nasdaq -1.7% today.
S&P 500,Nasdaq on track for 2nd conseccutive weekly gain maybe.
Energy,Materials and Industrials drag down stocks today.
Oil at New 4 1/2 year low,falls below $38.00 as low as 36+.(JUNE 2004)

EU loosens state aid rules, feels pressure on budget deficits
VALENTINA POP Today DEC 18,08 @ 09:37 CET

The European Commission has given in to calls to loosen up rules on state aid in order to tackle looming economic recession, while some national governments are piling on the pressure for a similar amnesty on their widening budget deficits.These changes are justified given the exceptional economic conditions, competition commissioner Neelie Kroes told a press conference on Wednesday (17 December).But given that these are temporary circumstances, today's measures must also be temporary, she added.Under the changes, which took effect Wednesday, governments will be able to grant direct aids and susbsidised loans of up to €500,000 without notifying the commission. This is more than double the current €200,000 threshold, above which national governments face long procedures and delays.Governments may also offer guarantees for loans to firms at a reduced premium, as well as subsidise loans and provide risk capital aid of up to €2.5 million per company per year, rather than the €1.5 million that is currently the case.The new measures come after several member states raised their voices in the last few weeks against the lack of flexibility in the commission's rules.Ms Kroes rejected the criticism, saying that the EU executive proved it was able to act swiftly and that the delays were caused by countries who did not provide all the necessary information.

Governments want free rides for their deficits

Meanwhile, member states with growing budget deficits, such as France, Italy, Greece and Ireland are putting the commission under increased pressure to loosen up not only state aid rules, but also on the stability pact that binds eurozone countries not to have a deficit of more than three percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). Failure to comply with this provision can trigger expensive fines for the national governments.Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, responsible for economic and monetary affairs, has already indicated that a deficit of some decimal points over the three percent threshold would be allowed next year.Yet according to EU diplomats quoted by the German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung, more and more countries want to loosen or even temporarily lift the provisions of the stability pact, an idea firmly rejected by Mr Almunia.Mr Almunia was told not to voice his concerns about the stability pact by the four member states, the German paper reports.Meanwhile, Berlin is worried that if such attitudes prevail, the pact will die in the end, the Suddeutsche Zeitung wrote.Allied with Germany on the matter are Austria, the Netherlands and Finland. Yet even Germany might soon see its deficit expanding to close to the three percent threshold. After having approved a first stimulus package and with a second one in the works, Berlin's debt is expected to soon reach at least €40 billion.

S. Korean lawmakers brawl over US free trade pact By JAE-SOON CHANG, Associated Press Writer – Thu Dec 18, 12:39 pm ET

SEOUL, South Korea – Brawling South Korean lawmakers tried to sledgehammer their way into a parliamentary meeting room barricaded by the ruling party as the National Assembly descended into chaos Thursday over a free trade agreement with the United States.Opposition parties were incensed by the ruling Grand National Party's move to submit the agreement to a committee on trade, setting in motion the process for the accord to win approval in the legislature.Security staff and aides from the ruling party stood guard outside the room to keep opposition lawmakers away after the committee's GNP-affiliated chairman invoked his right to use force to keep order in parliamentary proceedings.Scuffles broke out as dozens of opposition members and their aides attempted to push their way into the office. TV footage showed people from both sides shoving, pushing and shouting in a crowded hall at the National Assembly building amid a barrage of flashing cameras.Opponents later used a sledgehammer and other construction tools to tear open the room's wooden doors, only to find barricades of furniture set up inside as a second line of defense.Cable news channel YTN reported that an electric saw was used to open the door. YTN footage showed security guards spraying fire extinguishers at those trying to force their way inside and one man with blood trickling down his face.The opposition attempt failed, and 10 GNP legislators introduced the bill to the committee.This is a clear violation of law, the main opposition Democratic Party said in a statement, accusing the GNP of illegally occupying the parliamentary chamber and unilaterally introducing the bill. This is a declaration of war against the opposition and the people.Clashes between lawmakers are not unusual in the National Assembly. Such violence has long been cited as one of the worst ills of South Korean politics.

South Korea and the United States signed the accord that calls for slashing tariffs and other barriers to trade in April last year after 10 months of tough negotiations, though neither side's legislature has yet ratified it — the key step needed for it to take effect.The pact is the largest for the U.S. since the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico and the biggest ever for South Korea. NAFTA, signed in 1993, took effect the following year.Proponents in both countries say it would not only expand trade but further cement ties between Washington and Seoul — key security allies who have cooperated on issues such as North Korea for decades.Opponents counter that it will cause pain to key sectors in both nations — agriculture in South Korea and automobiles in the United States.

GNP legislators had locked themselves in the committee room earlier in the day to head off any opposition attempts to occupy the chamber — the only place where the bill can be introduced.After a subcommittee review, the bill would be put to a vote at the committee before reaching the full parliamentary session for a final vote.

The GNP says it aims to pass the bill by year's end. The party has a majority in both the committee and in the entire parliament, with 172 seats in the 298-member unicameral National Assembly. But the process is expected to be tough going because opposition parties say they will do whatever possible to stop it.The Democratic Party says the trade deal should not be approved until the government comes up with better measures to protect farmers and others expected to suffer from increased U.S. imports.The ruling GNP says the trade pact should be approved as early as possible because South Korea — a major exporting nation — stands to gain much from the deal.

Amid concern the administration of President-elect Barack Obama might ask to renegotiate the agreement, supporters of the pact believe early ratification by Seoul could also put pressure on the U.S. Congress to do the same.

Europeans fearful of recession and energy disruptions
VALENTINA POP Today DEC 18,08 @ 18:07 CET

People across Europe have a grim view of the economic outlook for 2009, according to a new survey of European Union citizens. At the same time that Europeans are worrying about their wallet, they are also fretting about recent developments in the Caucasus, with three out of five thinking the Georgian conflict could have a negative impact on the EU's energy security.The new Eurobarometer reflects the difficult times in which we currently live. Citizens are clearly very concerned by the economic crisis, Margot Wallstrom, EU commissioner for institutional relations and communication strategy said about the regular European Commission survey released on Thursday (18 December). She in particular noted that despite growing concern about many different global issues, support for the EU has not however dropped since the spring, saying this suggests that people see the EU as part of the solution.More than two–thirds of EU citizens (69%) consider the situation of their national economy to be bad, a 20 percent rise since last year, while 58 percent of Europeans consider the bloc's economy as a whole to be in a bad shape – a 31 percent increase since 2007.Asked about the world economy, 71 percent of EU citizens also thought it was in a bad way. The survey was carried out shortly after the collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank and the publication of commission forecasts announcing an EU-wide economic slowdown and recession, but still some time before the crisis had fully developed.Over half of Europeans now expect employment (53%) and the economy (51%) within their countries to worsen next year.Inflation and the economy are now the two most important issues, Europeans indicated (37 percent each).

Meanwhile, trust in the EU has continued to decrease gradually. General support for EU membership has increased by one percent since spring 2008, reaching 53 percent, yet the figure still marks a drop on last year (58%). Irish respondents were the most positive, with 79 percent saying that their country has benefited from EU membership, followed by Estonians (78%), Slovaks (77%), Danes and the Dutch (76%).

Hungary, which has been facing serious economic problems during the financial crisis, was the only country where the majority of the respondents (51%) said EU membership has not been beneficial. Ahead of the crisis, support for membership had been an even 50 percent.The United Kingdom and Cyprus (46% each) also maintained a majority of respondents sour on the 27-country bloc.Trust in the European institutions has also worsened. Support for the European Parliament (51%) dropped one percent since spring and four since 2007, the commission received the same ranking as in spring (47%), but dropped three percent since last year, while the European Central Bank dropped two percent since spring. On the other hand, the number of respondents who answered that they explicitly do not trust these three institutions has increased markedly, with those distrustful of the commission rising to 30 percent up from 27 percent in the spring and those lacking faith in the parliament climbing to 31 percent also up from 27 percent. The central bank fared the worst out the EU institutions, however, with the number of those distrusting the ECB rising six percent to 30 percent up from 24 percent.

Georgian war impacts energy security

Three out of five Europeans think that the August conflict between Russia and Georgia could have an impact on the security of supply in the EU (60%). Concern that the Georgian conflict may affect the energy supply in the EU is greatest in Greece, a country highly dependent on Russian gas imports, where 81 percent of respondents expressed this view.Over seven out of ten respondents in the Czech Republic, Cyprus (77% each), Poland (76%), Slovakia and Slovenia (74% each) also voiced concern in this regard.At the other end were Portuguese (39%) and Spaniards (46%), followed by Bulgarians and Romanians (47 and 51 percent, respectively) – where the don't know rates were also very high. It would thus appear that citizens living in countries that are geographically closer to Georgia or Russia are the most worried, maybe because they are more dependent on energy supplies from Russia or other outside suppliers, the survey concludes.Age groups who have experienced the Cold War were the most concerned - adults aged 40-54 and 25-39, as well as people over 55 (65, 60 and 59 percent, respectively), while only 50 percent of young people in the 15-24 band expressed concern.Of all Europeans, French respondents most considered the EU to have been successful at bringing the Russian-Georgian conflict to an end after mediation efforts performed by President Nicolas Sarkozy, with 41 percent supporting this position. But on average, only 26 percent of EU citizens thought the same, while 35 percent answered they did not know who played the most important role in ending the conflict.The number of British respondents who thought the UN did so (18%) were almost double those who attributed this achievement to the EU (10%).

Chrysler shuts plants as Bush weighs bailout pleas
By Poornima Gupta and Chang-Ran Kim DEC 17,08

DETROIT/TOKYO (Reuters) - Embattled U.S. automakers General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC both announced new steps to shore up their dwindling cash on Wednesday as they awaited word on whether the White House will grant pleas for billions of dollars in emergency loans they need to survive.GM said it was suspending work on construction of a new engine plant in Flint, Michigan where it plans to build a new small engine key to its effort to reinvent itself as a maker of fuel-efficient and all-electric cars.Chrysler said it would shut down all of its production for at least a month, effective from the last shift on Friday.The No. 3 U.S. automaker, considered the weakest player in an embattled industry, also said its U.S. dealers were losing up to a quarter of all potential sales because of the difficulty in securing loans for consumers.In another move underscoring the deepening of the industry's financial crisis, Chrysler said its financing arm could have to suspend loans for its dealers to carry inventory of unsold cars, potentially cutting off trade credits that U.S. auto retailers depend on to stay in business.President George W. Bush said a decision on the request for emergency loans to GM and Chrysler needed to be made relatively soon, but suggested he was still thinking through basic questions on how the aid should be structured.I'm looking at all options, Bush said in an interview with Fox News Channel.United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger said time was running out for the Bush administration to come to the aid of the struggling industry.We're just appealing to the administration to take action as quickly as possible to relieve the fears that exist out there. And then we've got to get the credit market loosened up to where consumers can take advantage of credit, Gettelfinger said in an interview with CNN.GM has said it could run short of cash by early January without a federal loan, and Chrysler has said it has only slightly more time absent a bailout.

Both automakers and Ford Motor Co, which is not seeking emergency funding, have warned that the failure of one of the Detroit automakers could topple others by triggering a cascade of failures among the cash-strapped suppliers that provide components across the industry.Earlier, Honda Motor Co issued its third profit warning this year, slashing its operating forecast by two-thirds because of slowing sales and a soaring yen.The deeper-than-expected revision at Japan's No.2 automaker could touch off similar moves at domestic rivals Toyota Motor Corp and Nissan Motor Co, also reeling from the dollar's fall to 13-year lows against the yen.U.S.-traded shares of Honda dropped 7 percent. Toyota fell 2 percent, while Nissan shed 6 percent in U.S. trade.One analyst said he expected that the Bush administration would come around to providing aid to the industry after showing that it understood the objections to a bailout raised by Republican lawmakers.The administration has said that the auto industry cannot be allowed to fail, and while there's going to be some political posturing, in the end that's where they'll be, said David Kudla, chief executive at investment advisory firm Mainstay Capital Management.

DOWNTURN HITS HONDA HARD

Just two months ago, Honda had been expected to weather the downturn better than its rivals with its fuel-efficient fleet, but demand has fallen across-the-board since Lehman Brothers collapsed in September and credit tightened.The situation is worsening by the day and is showing no sign of recovery, Honda Chief Executive Takeo Fukui told a news conference.Honda, also the world's largest motorcycle maker, said it now expected an operating profit of just 180 billion yen ($2 billion) in the year to March, down 67 percent from the 550 billion yen it forecast in October.The new target is more than 80 percent below last year's 953 billion yen operating profit.

Investors said the brutal downgrade may still not go far enough because of the stronger yen.The new earnings projections are worse than expected but still look tough to meet, said Toshiyuki Matsushita, chief investment officer at Bluebear Investment Managers.Honda revised its assumption for the dollar to average 95 yen in the second half, from 100 yen in October, but this is still more favorable than the current rate of 88 yen.Every 1-yen drop in the dollar cuts Honda's annual operating profit by about 20 billion yen ($220 million), reducing overseas earnings when translated back into yen.In response, Honda said it would cut capital spending, delay new plants and product launches and reduce its third-quarter dividend. It will also review bonus payments for directors and cut their monthly salaries by 10 percent from January.Toyota, the world's largest automaker, is expected to cut its sales goal by at least 1 million vehicles at its year-end news conference on December 22.Earlier this week, Toyota suspended work on a Mississippi plant where it had planned to build its Prius hybrid.Rating agency Standard & Poor's revised its Triple-A outlooks on Toyota's long-term debt to negative from stable, saying it was not immune to the weakening global auto market.($1=88.99 yen)(Additional reporting by Nobuhiro Kubo, Yumiko Nishitani and Taiga Uranaka in TOKYO, Fang Yan in SHANGHAI; Ted Kerr in New York; Graphic by Catherine Trevethan; Editing by Lincoln Feast)

Riot police, youths clash in Athens, shoppers flee By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS, Associated Press Writer DEC 18,08

ATHENS, Greece – Riot police clashed with rock-throwing demonstrators in central Athens on Thursday, sending Christmas shoppers and people in cafes running for cover. Frightened parents scooped up their children from a Christmas carousel in the city's main square and fled.The protesters broke away from a peaceful rally and hurled rocks and firebombs at police and buildings near parliament, overturned a car and set fire to trash bins. They also splashed police with red paint.Police responded with tear gas and flash grenades.Firefighters and police also rushed to stop protesters from burning down the city's main Christmas tree, which was just replaced earlier this week after the first was torched in riots. Families abandoned the carousel in downtown Syntagma Square after happily going on rides all morning.

Thursday's clashes were the latest outbreak of violence after the police's fatal shooting of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos Dec. 6. Protests over the boy's death and the increasing economic hardship in Greece have led to the worst rioting the country has seen in decades.Hundreds of businesses have been smashed, burned or looted and gangs of youths fought running battles with riot police firing tear gas every night for a week. The riots have been fed by dissatisfaction with Greece's increasingly unpopular conservative government.More than 200 youths took part in running battles with police Thursday in Athens. They also set fire to a private security van and set up a burning barricade after smashing a cafe storefront, and dragging out and setting fire to its furniture. Downtown streets were littered with smashed paving stones and marble blocks.Shop owners who saw their businesses smashed and looted during the initial riots last week now say they are having trouble making ends meet because many customers are staying away from the city center.Who's going to pay all these bills? I'm taking in euro200 ($290) a day, complained Spyros Papaspyrou, the owner of a shoe shop in central Athens. Do they want me to stand outside my shop with a shotgun? I can't understand why they can't arrest 80 people in the center of Athens.Before the violence broke out, some 7,000 students and other protesters marched in a rally, chanting We are the law, we'll stay on the streets. As they passed, fearful shop owners shuttered their store fronts. Some demonstrators painted white crime-scene-style body outlines on the streets.Earlier in the day, some 1,000 demonstrators joined a peaceful Communist Party-backed march through the city. Some 300 people also marched in Greece's second largest city of Thessaloniki.

While sporadic rallies have been held in Europe in support of the Greek protesters, none were reported Thursday.Major labor union staged work stoppages Thursday to protest the teenager's shooting and the conservative government's economic policies.

Air traffic controllers walked off the job for three hours, forcing state Olympic Airlines to cancel 28 flights and reschedule another 14. State hospitals were operating with skeleton staff in a 24-hour strike.The government appealed for calm after another teenager was shot in the hand late Wednesday near his school. It was unclear who shot him.Police spokesman Panayiotis Stathis said no officers were in the area at the time of the attack, and Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos promised a thorough investigation. The boy underwent surgery Thursday.Associated Press writers Nicholas Paphitis in Athens and Costas Kantouris in Thessaloniki contributed to this report.(This version CORRECTS number in quote to 80.)

MEPs deal blow to EU compromise on working time,The European Court of Justice has ruled that time spent on call by doctors be considered part of their working hours)LUCIA KUBOSOVA 17.12.2008 @ 17:55 CET

EUOBSERVER / STRASBOURG - The European Parliament has voted to force Britain to remove its controversial opt-out from the EU's weekly limit on working hours, striking a blow to the long-sought deal among the member states on the maximum amount of hours Europeans can safely spend at work.A majority of MEPs agreed that the current provision applied mainly by the UK and some new member states should be scrapped three years after adoption of the directive. The Wednesday (17 December) vote delivered 421 votes in favour of the move against 273 MEPs opposed, with 11 abstentions Additionally, deputies ruled that there should be in future no exemptions from the currently applied health-and-safety-related cap of a maximum 48-hour working week calculated over a reference period of 12 months.Finally, the parliament reinforced its previous decision that the time spent on call by workers - particularly doctors, firemen or social workers - should be calculated as a proper working time, even if they are not called in to work.This is a triumph for all the political groups in the European Parliament - for the whole Parliament. It is a victory for the two million doctors and medical students across the EU, said Spanish centre-left MEP Alejandro Cercas, who had filed the amendments to the member states' position. It was precisely due to the definition of working hours that the EU executive embarked on changing the working time rules in 2002, following several rulings by the bloc's Court of Justice stating that on-call time should be regarded as a regular working hours.Given the significant implications for public spending that this ruling might impose on national governments, as well as the lack of professionals in the most affected sectors, Brussels introduced a list of changes but it took member states several years to adopt them.In June, 27 ministers finally managed to move ahead in a compromise package that involved Britain agreeing on concessions regarding more generous conditions for agency workers in return for the possibility of keeping its opt-out from the 48-hours-per-week limit.

Trade union demonstrations

Thousands of trade union members marched on the European Parliament in Strasbourg ahead of Wednesday's decision.The democratic legitimacy of today's vote is beyond question, Carola Fischbach-Pyttel, secretary-general of the European Federation of Public Service Unions, commented following the vote. But the UK's business minister, Pat McFadden, told the BBC it would be a mistake to end the opt-out during an economic downturn when people might need to work extra hours. Several UK Conservative and eurosceptic deputies also argued against the move favoured by a majority of MEPs. Derek Clark from the UK Independence Party said: It will mean higher unit costs and more job losses as firms lose competitive edge, which is why France abandoned its 35-hour week.Business organisations echoed the negative sentiments. We are extremely disappointed by the position adopted by the parliament today, and by its inability to understand the serious effects that this vote will have on the European economy, at a time when it is already harshly hit by the economic crisis, said Arnaldo Abruzzini of Eurochambers, the European chamber of commerce. Given the different versions of the working time bill agreed by the EU's two law-making bodies, the parliament and the Council (the member states) will next year launch a conciliation procedure in a bid to strike a common deal.EU social policy commissioner Vladimir Spidla said: The commission will do everything it can as an honest broker to help the European Parliament and the Council find a solution that allows them to reach a satisfactory agreement.

Gaza militants ready for end of truce with Israel By DIAA HADID and IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Writers – Wed Dec 17, 3:42 pm ET

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Masked Palestinian gunmen practice capturing Israeli soldiers, training videos show how to make grenades and rocket squads fire daily at Israeli border towns.It looks like a warmup for battle.Gaza's Islamic Hamas rulers say a six-month cease-fire with Israel formally ends Friday, and Hamas and smaller armed groups won't say clearly whether they will extend it. The vagueness, and rocket fire, could be signs of a new round of fighting, or merely a negotiating tactic to pressure Israel.Under the truce, Gaza militants were to halt rocket fire on Israeli border communities. Israel was to end raids on Gaza and allow more goods and people through its border crossings, sealed after Hamas overran the territory in June 2007.While the Egyptian-brokered truce has brought a drop in violence, neither side is entirely happy. Israel notes the rocket fire hasn't ended, while Palestinians complain the truce didn't benefit Gaza, mainly because the crossings haven't been opened, leading to widespread shortages of basic goods.We aren't encouraged, said Khader Habib, an Islamic Jihad leader.Hamas says the deal expires Friday, but Israel says the unwritten agreement had no expiration date.The truce has increasingly unraveled since early November, when Israeli forces entered Gaza to destroy a tunnel that could have been used in a cross-border raid. In response, Palestinian militants resumed firing rockets at Israel.At least 20 rockets were fired at Israel on Wednesday, the military said. One exploded in the border town of Sderot, wounding two people and damaging a restaurant, police said.There can't be a situation where there is a truce, but the situation on the ground is very different, said Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. This demands that we address it, he added, stopping short of pledging retaliation.

Israel has renewed airstrikes against rocket squads, aiming at launchers in northern Gaza on Wednesday, the military said. Palestinian hospital officials said a 47-year-old man was killed when a missile hit his house and a balcony collapsed on him.In the end, the test is the calm and the benefit the residents have had for long months, even though it is relative calm, said Amos Gilad, a senior Israeli Defense Ministry official who helped negotiate the truce.Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal said this week the deal would not be extended, while Gaza's Hamas bosses insist no decision on an extension has been made.Both sides are jockeying for better terms.

Israel wants to be able to enter Gaza to prevent attacks. Hamas wants Israel to open the border crossings.Even before the truce began fraying, Israel did not allow free transfer of goods in and out of Gaza. Since the rocket fire resumed in November, Israel has kept the borders virtually sealed, allowing in only minimal humanitarian aid.Still, the lull has been a relief for people on both sides of the border. A poll Tuesday indicated that 74 percent of Palestinians and 51 percent of Israelis want to extend the cease-fire.The number of casualties and rocket attacks dropped sharply after the truce took hold. From January to June, 338 Palestinians and 16 Israelis were killed in cross-border violence, according to Associated Press figures. Since the truce took effect, 21 Palestinians, most of them militants, were killed by Israeli fire. No Israelis were killed. Israel's military says 1,786 rockets were fired in the first half of 2008, compared to around 199 in the second. During the truce, Hamas has been smuggling weapons through tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border. Hamas militants are also believed to be burrowing tunnels into Israel to carry out attacks. Through the summer, Hamas ran military-style camps for youngsters, and the smaller Islamic Jihad has been practicing tracking down Israel soldiers. In Islamic Jihad training videos obtained by the AP, gunmen captured mock Israeli soldiers hiding in a burned out building and demonstrated how to make grenades and rockets.

Israel has the region's most powerful army and would likely be able to retake Gaza quickly. However, Israeli leaders are hesitant to order a major ground offensive, because they fear high casualties on both sides.

Israel's Kadima party votes Wed Dec 17, 5:27 pm ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Members of Israel's ruling Kadima party on Wednesday elected 22 candidates for the February 10 early legislative elections.About 80,000 party members were eligible to cast their ballots and 45 percent of them turned out at 95 polling stations, the party said.Results were expected to be published early Thursday.The vote was the second held by the centrist party. In September, the party picked Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni as its new leader to replace scandal-plagued Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.Livni hopes to take over from Olmert following the February election but faces tough competition from former premier Benjamin Netanyahu, whose right-wing Likud party dominates in opinion polls.In recent weeks, Livni has been perceived as courting right-wing voters in a bid to gain ground against her rival.She has lashed out at Defence Minister and Labour party chief Ehud Barak claiming he was not tough enough in his response to rocket fire by militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.She has also distanced herself from statements by Olmert who said Israel needed to make territorial concessions to the Palestinians in order to achieve peace.

Palestinians got $1.7bln in aid last year: France Wed Dec 17, 11:11 am ET

PARIS (AFP) – The international community has given 1.7 billion dollars (1.18 billion euros) in aid to the Palestinian Authority over the last year, the French foreign ministry said Wednesday.That was 0.6 billion dollars more than was promised at a major donor conference held last December in Paris, spokesman Frederic Desagneaux said.At that conference, donors promised to provide 7.4 billion dollars over three years, which was considerably more than the 5.6 billion dollars the Palestinians had requested.The donors agreed to allocate 1.1 billion dollars in the first year.Such payments above the promises made are the concrete sign of the exceptional engagement of the international community, Desagneaux said.The conference agreed a package of aid to stabilise the Palestinian economy and try to shore up the faltering peace process with Israel.Palestinian leaders said the money was needed for direct support to the budget to help develop a viable economy and institutions for a future Palestinian state.

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Florida police say 1981 murder of 6-year-old Adam Walsh is solved
By The Associated Press DEC 16,08

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Authorities in South Florida plan to announce that they've finally solved the 1981 killing of a little boy whose father later gained fame as the host of America's Most Wanted.Hollywood police have scheduled a news conference Tuesday afternoon to close the case of the abduction and homicide of six-year-old Adam Walsh. Adam's parents, John and Reve Walsh, long ago derided the investigation as botched. Both were expected to attend the news conference. The boy went missing from a Hollywood mall July 27, 1981. Fishermen discovered his severed head in a canal about 200 kilometres away two weeks later. The rest of his body was never found.

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HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

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

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

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

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

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, 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 17,2008

09:30 AM -28.60
10:00 AM -81.00
10:30 AM -128.79
11:00 AM -75.82
11:30 AM -114.06
12:00 PM -68.74
12:30 PM -41.89
01:00 PM -30.90
01:30 PM -19.04
02:00 PM +5.58
02:30 PM -20.71
03:00 PM -37.75
03:30 PM -70.17
04:00 PM -99.80 8824.34

S&P 500 904.42 -8.76

NASDAQ 1579.31 -10.58

GOLD 889.10 +26.40

OIL 40.46 -3.13

TSE 300 8724.11 (NOT REPORTED)

CDNX 723.46 (NOT REPORTED)

S&P/TSX/60 529.84 (NOT REPORTED)

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

Dow -110 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -141 points at low so far today.
Dow -67 points at high today so far.
YEAR TO DATE
Dow -32.72%
S&P 500 -37.81%
Nasdaq -40.06%
Russell 2000 -36.97%
Nyse Composite -40.40%
Dow Transports -26.03%
Dow Utilities -30.08%
Amex Composite -42.29%

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS

Dow -144 at low today
Dow -67 at high today.

Crude oil Inventories +500,000 Barrels.
Gasoline Inventories +1.3 MILLION Barrels.
Distillate Inventories +2.9 MILLION Barrels.
Refinery Utilization -3.3% to 84.1%

Ruth Madoff to hand over her passport to authorities in Madoff scandle.
Madoff out on bail but will be electronically monitered.
OPEC DECIDES TO CUT OIL OUTPUT BY 4.2 MILLION BARRELS A DAY FROM SEPTEMBERS LEVEL,2.2MILLION BARRELS FROM CURRENT LEVELS.

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Major Averages on pace for first monthly gain since August.
Alex Jones:FED above law,won't reveal were $8.5 TRILLION went,and this was 2 weeks ago,could be $11 TRILLION disappeared by now.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS

MARKETS NOW
-Eerie stillness in Stock market.
-Price swings,Volume decline.
WORRIES:
-Redemptions pick up in JANUARY.
-Weaker Dollar not helping Reflation trade.

EMERGING CAPITAL PARTNERS
-Biggest U.S PVT. Equity firm in Africa.
-50 investments in 40 countries.
-70% of ECP'S staff lives and works in Africa.

Dow -146 at low today.
Dow +35 at high today.
Dow -1% today.
S&P -1% today.
Nsadaq -0.6% today.
Dow Transports finish +2.6% today.
Dow Utilities -2% today.
Crude Oil lower despite 2.2 MILLION per day drop by OPEC production cut.
Dollar has been weaker for 7 or 8 days in a row.

Coke to unveil natural diet drink in U.S.: report
Mon Dec 15, 1:50 AM

(Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co is expected to launch a drink in the U.S. this week containing a natural, calorie-free sweetener, the Wall Street Journal said.Coke is pushing ahead even though the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as of Sunday hadn't issued formal approval of the ingredient, the paper said.Coke plans to market three flavors of a juice drink in its Odwalla line that contain the sweetener, derived from the herb stevia, the paper said citing people familiar with Coke's plans.

Coca-Cola's rival PepsiCo Inc has several drinks ready to go in the U.S. market with the sweetener, the paper said, adding that the company is waiting for the FDA to clear the additive.Stevia is approved for use in at least 12 countries and as a dietary supplement in the U.S., according to the paper.After some studies suggested adverse health effects from stevia-based products, such as potential mutations in the livers of rats, the FDA concluded in the early 1990s that data weren't sufficient to allow its use as a food additive, the paper said.Coke, Pepsi and companies they are working with told the paper that their sweetener -- called Truvia by Coke and PureVia by Pepsi -- is more highly purified than the versions of stevia used in those earlier tests, and that new data have been submitted to the FDA.Coca-Cola and PepsiCo could not be immediately reached for comment by Reuters.(Reporting by Ajay Kamalakaran in Bangalore; Editing by Mike Nesbit)

IMF Chief Warns Of Riots In Response To Economic Crisis ,Strauss-Kahn says advanced countries would see violent civil unrest if elite continue to exploit financial chaos for their own ends Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The head of the International Monetary Fund has warned that advanced nations will be hit by violent civil unrest if the elite continue to restructure the economy around their own interests while looting the taxpayer.During a speech in Madrid, Dominique Strauss-Kahn said that “social unrest may happen in many countries - including advanced economies” if governments failed to adequately respond to the financial crisis.He added that violent protests could break out in countries worldwide if the financial system was not restructured to benefit everyone rather than a small elite, reports the Guardian.Strauss-Kahn’s comments echo those of others who have cautioned that civil unrest could arise, specifically in the U.S., as a result of the wholesale looting of the taxpayer and the devaluation of the dollar.

Widely respected trends forecaster Gerald Celente recently told Fox News that by 2012America will become an undeveloped nation, that there will be a revolution marked by food riots, squatter rebellions, tax revolts and job marches, and that holidays will be more about obtaining food, not gifts.Back in October, Senator Chris Dodd said that revolution would unfold if banks refused to lend money.If it turns out that they are hoarding, you’ll have a revolution on your hands. People will be so livid and furious that their tax money is going to line their pockets instead of doing the right thing. There will be hell to pay, Dodd told the New York Times.Last month, leading economist Nouriel Roubini said that food riots would be the ultimate consequence of the Federal Reserve and the Treasury’s current policies.Riots and demonstrations have gripped normally sedate Iceland following a financial catastrophe that has wiped out half of the krona’s value and put one third of the population at risk of losing their homes and life savings.Expectations of violent civil unrest have not gone unnoticed by the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Institute, who recently issued a report warning that the United States may experience massive civil unrest in the wake of a series of crises which it terms strategic shock.The consequence? The necessity to use military force against hostile groups inside the United States, according to the report.Tens of thousands of active duty military personnel returning from Afghanistan and Iraq are set to conduct homeland patrols inside the U.S. and their duties will include tackling civil unrest and crowd control, according to a Northcom announcement earlier this year.

OPEC cuts 2.2 million barrels a day DEC 17,08

ORAN, Algeria – OPEC says it is cutting 2.2 million barrels a day from its output — the largest ever at one time — to stem crude prices that have plummeted over 70 percent from summer highs of nearly $150.An OPEC statement says its latest announcements means it is taking 4.2 million barrels a day off the market compared to September levels. The 4.2 million figure includes more than 500,000 barrels of overproduction OPEC said in September it would eliminate and a formal cut of 1.5 million barrels a day that it agreed on last month.That amounts to a new reduction of 2.2 million barrels announced Wednesday.In practice, it's 2.2 said OPEC President Chakib Khelil.Members among the 13-nation organization were officially producing a daily 29.045 million barrels in September.

Technical problems at TSX leave investors up in the air; N.Y. markets lower
By Malcolm Morrison, The Canadian Press DEC 17,08

TORONTO - Canadian investors are in the dark this morning as a technical glitch prevents the Toronto stock market from processing data. The Toronto Stock Exchange said it was a service interruption on its data feeds but no further details were available from the main stock exchange in the country more than 20 minutes into the trading day. New York markets headed lower in early trading, giving back a big chunk of yesterday's gains that followed the U.S. Federal Reserve's move to cut its federal funds rate target to a range of zero to 0.25 per cent to deal with a rapidly worsening economy. The Canadian dollar moved down 0.02 of a cent to 83.19 cents US after a weaker U.S. currency sent the loonie up more than two cents. New York's Dow Jones industrials gave back 70.3 points to 8,853.9 following a 359-point jump. The Nasdaq composite index declined 15.31 points to 1,574.58 while the S&P 500 index declined 7.85 points to 905.35 amid a much worse than expected earnings report from Morgan Stanley, which lost US$2.37 billion during its fiscal fourth quarter as it took a range of losses on assets amid one of the roughest quarters for investment banks. The New York-based firm, which is aggressively building on its new status as a bank holding company, lost $2.34 per share for the quarter, much worse than the 34 cents a share that analysts had expected.

The January crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange lost 49 cents to US$43.11 ahead of an announcement expected later in the day that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will slash production by at least two million barrels a day to put a floor under prices that have retreated since hitting a US$147 high in July. In other corporate news, The Globe and Mail reported that Canadian Pacific Railway Co. (TSX:CP) plans to cut 600 union jobs in an effort to reduce spending during tough economic times. The newspaper cites an internal message to staff that also laid out plans to restrict air travel, suspend bonuses and eliminate six flex days awarded to staff less than two years ago. In the internal message, chief executive Fred Green conceded the moves will be unpopular but said they were necessary to survive a sharp economic downturn that has cut into the railway's freight delivery business. Kingsway Financial Services Inc. (TSX:KFS), a major insurance company under pressure from one of its biggest shareholders to improve its finances, says the company is cutting costs by about US$20 million next year. On the earnings front, pharmaceutical company MDS Inc. (TSX:MDS) reported a fourth-quarter loss of US$255 million on a big after-tax writedown related to the troubled Maple medical-isotope reactor project. And it said the results are preliminary and do not include another writedown announced last week, estimated at between $270 million and $370 million related to goodwill at its MDS Pharma Services division. That will be accounted for when it releases its annual report next month. Shares in travel operator Transat AT Inc. (TSX:TRZ) moved to $ after it said that non-cash and non-operating items drove the company into the red for fiscal 2008, amounting to a net loss of $50 million. Transat also reported a $45.7 million writedown related to asset-backed commercial paper and a $2.3 million foreign exchange loss. Meanwhile, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox blamed regulators for a decade-long failure to investigate Wall Street money manager Bernard L. Madoff, now accused of running a US$50 billion Ponzi scheme. Cox said staff attorneys never bothered to seek a formal commission-approved investigation that would have forced Madoff to surrender vital information under subpoena.

Markets overseas were mixed.

Japan's Nikkei stock average rose 0.52 per cent, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index rose 2.18 per cent. In late morning trading, Britain's FTSE 100 rose 0.5 per cent, Germany's DAX index fell 0.15 per cent, and France's CAC-40 was flat. Shares of BNP Paribas plunged as much as 16 per cent Wednesday after the French bank said extreme market volatility triggered a loss of US$972 million over the first 11 months of the year due to steep losses in its investment banking operations over the last two months.

White House pressured by lawmakers on auto bailout Wed Dec 17, 6:39 am ET

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration faces competing pressures from lawmakers in different congressional factions as it reviews its options for bailing out the downtrodden U.S. auto industry.Conservative Republicans implored the White House not to use money from the $700 billion bailout for the financial sector to aid carmakers. A leading House Democrat, meanwhile, said the government should secure veto power over the companies' business decisions as part of any aid.Bush administration officials said they were still evaluating options and attempting to avoid a disorderly bankruptcy of the companies while suggesting that concessions from all sides would need to accompany any deal.We're trying to do something that's responsible, said White House press secretary Dana Perino.But a week after Congress failed to reach consensus on a $14 billion aid package for struggling General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, several lawmakers pressed for an array of terms and conditions in any deal crafted by the White House, complicating matters.Conservative lawmakers, many from Southern states that are home to Japanese auto plants, asked Bush not to use the $700 billion Wall Street rescue fund, known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program, to help the U.S. carmakers.Congress never voted for a federal bailout of the automobile industry, and the only way for TARP funds to be diverted to domestic automakers is with explicit congressional approval, wrote 26 GOP lawmakers, led by Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas.Seven Senate Republicans led by Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina sent a similar letter saying that without restructuring, we do not believe any amount of money will succeed in saving these companies.Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., urged Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to adopt the accountability provisions included in a House-passed auto bailout bill — the product of a deal with the White House — as a condition of any bridge loans to automakers.

The measure would have given a Bush-appointed car czar oversight over any major business decisions by the automakers while they were taking advantage of federal aid, including the power to veto any transaction of $100 million or more.Given the serious mistakes that senior auto industry executives acknowledge they have made in the past, such safeguards are absolutely necessary to ensure that taxpayers are protected and that the retooling of this critical industry proceeds as quickly as possible, Frank wrote.The White House and Treasury Department were in talks with Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who has been seeking big union concessions in exchange for rescue money, on the terms and structure of a possible bailout, said a senior GOP congressional aide.Corker came close last week to striking a deal with the United Auto Workers union for a $14 billion bill that would have forced the carmakers to bring their wages and benefits in line with those of Japanese auto companies in the U.S. by a specific date in 2009. The measure collapsed after the UAW refused to agree to wage cuts that quickly as Senate Republicans demanded. The new contacts with the administration were disclosed on condition of anonymity because the congressional aide was not authorized to divulge them.GM and Chrysler have said they will run out of cash within weeks if they don't get help. Ford Motor Co. has said it has enough cash to survive 2009.Perino said the administration was still working on details of the package, which could reach $15 billion for General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC. She said concessions had to be made in exchange for the money.I don't think that there's any possible way that this president would agree to allow taxpayer financing to go toward firms that are not willing to make tough decisions to become viable and competitive in the future, she said.Bush said Tuesday that his administration was considering all options for helping the automakers. He said the already distressed economy could slide further into recession without prompt action.

What you don't want to do is spend a lot of taxpayers' money and then have the same old stuff happen again and again and again, Bush told CNN. At the same time, he said, we're trying to get this done in an expeditious way.Options under consideration by the Bush administration include using part of the $700 billion fund to provide loans to the carmakers or using money from the fund as collateral for emergency loans to the automakers by the Federal Reserve. Associated Press writers Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Ken Thomas contributed to this report.

Flaherty says economy needs stimulus DEC 17,08

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (Reuters) - Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Wednesday monetary and fiscal stimulus are needed to help steer Canada's economy through the recession.His comments came just over a week after the Bank of Canada cut its key overnight rate by 75 basis points to 1.25 percent and said for the first time that Canada's economy is entering a recession.The Bank of Canada has more scope to move in the future if the governor chooses to, the finance minister said during an interview on CBC television ahead of a meeting with his provincial counterparts.

Flaherty was also asked if providing fiscal stimulus to the economy was more important than monetary stimulus.I think they both have to happen, quite frankly ... the policies should complement each other. We have to make sure we have both kinds of stimuli in the Canadian economy.In a separate interview on Business News Network, Flaherty said he hopes an economic stimulus package will include tax cuts and infrastructure spending. He also added that it was unlikely that Detroit's Big Three automakers will completely shut down.Flaherty told CTV television that Canada's federal and provincial governments must both put money into infrastructure to help buffer the country from the global economic downturn. He also said Canada can react quickly after a U.S. auto stimulus package is in place.(Reporting by Louise Egan in Saskatoon and Scott Anderson in Toronto; Writing by Frank Pingue; Editing by Frank McGurty)

MEPs likely to back EU's green revolution
RENATA GOLDIROVA Today DEC 17,08 @ 09:21 CET

EUOBSERVER / STRASBOURG - The European Parliament is heading for a revolutionary vote on the the set of green laws, known as the climate package, that should see the 27-nation EU boosting renewable energy, cutting greenhouse gas emissions and increasing its energy efficiency. Today is one of those very rare occasions when politicians can really write history, EU environment commissioner Stavros Dimas told MEPs in Strasbourg on Tuesday (16 December). Speaking ahead of the crucial vote, Mr Dimas urged EU lawmakers not to play out their possible objections during the vote, but in their respective capitals. Everybody is a bit dissatisfied ... but the package is equitable, fair and is going to deliver [set] environmental objectives by the end of the next decade, the commissioner said, adding that By adopting this package we will confirm our international role in addressing climate change.During Tuesday's debate, some MEPs criticised a blizzard of concessions granted especially to industrial and coal-dependent member states in Central and Eastern Europe. New member states will be bought off with a solidarity slush fund, cap and trade emissions permits will be given away when they should have been auctioned, and major players like electricity companies will get derogations that amount to super subsidies, UK Liberal Graham Watson said.

All of this pushes down the cost of carbon, cuts the cash raised and makes the emissions targets harder to hit, the MEP concluded.Claude Turmes, the green MEP from Luxembourg, said he was less happy about foreseen prospects of renewable energy in the transport sector. Our planet has limits - we have limited oil resources as well as agricultural fields, he argued, criticising luxury cars fuelled by pseudo-biofuels. We will fight against unreasonable eco-fuel getting to the market, he said.

Finish green Satu Hassi, for her part, objected to an excessive availability to outsource EU emission cuts to other countries. I hope the governments behave in a responsible way and make sure that the major part of emissions reductions are achieved domestically, she said. But despite a series of objections, the climate package is likely to enjoy a smooth ride during the vote today (17 December). All three EU institutions - the commission, the parliament and the council representing member states - sealed an informal deal a few days ago (13 December). You should vote for the package. It's not one proposal here, one proposal there - one affects the other. If you have objections, do it in your country, commissioner Dimas said in his last appeal to EU lawmakers.

Emissions from new cars

One of the sectors that are attentively watching the outcome of the parliament's vote is the automotive industry, responsible for some 12 percent of overall EU emissions of CO2. The draft law, a part of the climate package, foresees car makers bringing down emission levels from the current 160 grammes of CO2 per kilometre to 120 grammes per/km. Roughly two thirds (65 percent) of the new car fleet should meet this ambitious target by 2012, while the entire fleet is expected to comply by 2015. Even a single gram on top will result in a fine. According to Ivan Hodac from the Brussels-based European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA), representing 15 major producers including VW, BMW, Renault and Fiat, the foreseen conditions are very difficult, but something we can live with.The industry - suffering from low sales in the face of the current economic downturn - is set to ask for additional financial support to meet the green goals. So far, the European Investment Bank pledged to provide it with cheaper loans of €16 billion between 2009-2012. We will certainly ask for additional funding. On top of this, we need to do something to motivate the people to return to buying cars, Mr Hodac told EUobserver.EU energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs, for his part, said that all proposals included in the climate package make a revolutionary change in the way we produce and consume energy. Cleaner cars will also limit our growing dependency on oil, he argued.

EU moves towards mandatory lobbyists register
VALENTINA POP Today DEC 17,08 @ 10:00 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Commission and parliament have formed a joint working group on Tuesday (16 December) aimed at drawing up a proposal for a common register for the over 15,000 EU lobbyists by mid-2009, amidst criticism from NGOs regarding the influence of big business on the EU executive when drafting legislation.A de facto mandatory register for EU lobbyists, merging the existing mandatory list from the European Parliament with the voluntary financial interests register set up by the EU commission might be designed by mid-2009, Kristian Schmidt, deputy head of cabinet for administration and anti-fraud commissioner Siim Kallas told EUobserver.He said that the EU council, the decision-making body formed by 27 governments and with its own administrative and legal service, was also invited to this joint working group, but did not attend. We can't wait for the council, Mr Schmidt added.The working group is formed of commissioner Kallas and MEPs Diana Wallis, Ingo Friedrich and Jo Leinen. It is expected to present proposals before the European elections in June 2009.Items to be discussed will include the objectives of a common framework for the activities of interest representatives (lobbyists), its main features - such as coverage, nature and scope of the information disclosed, code of conduct, complaint and sanctions – possible specifications for a one-stop shop, as well as the technical and financial implications of this single register, a commission statement reads.The aim of the proposal would be to give the general public a single entry point to a comprehensive overview of the role of lobbyists in the EU decision-making bodies.

Non-transparent lobbying at the commission

Meanwhile, Alter-EU, a coalition of over 160 civil society groups advocating for EU lobbying disclosure legislation was still criticising the commission for defending the prominent role of business interests in drafting EU legislation.The commission defended the presence of business representatives in its expert groups which help draft legislation by pointing to their expertise, an Alter-EU statement reads.Even the commission's own guidelines are being violated as expert groups including the one on biotechnology and on coal are completely controlled by industry, Alter-EU campaigner Yiorgos Vassalos said.The guidelines say that all relevant interests in society should have an opportunity to express their views and that the risk of vested interests distorting the advice in expert groups should be minimised and a diversity of viewpoints resulting from differences in scientific approach, different types of expertise, different institutional affiliations should be collected. The commission has said it will publish details of who sits on expert groups, but this will not include the details of anyone who seeks anonymity. This is not acceptable. Some expert groups have a huge influence on highly controversial areas of policy, yet their members are not even known to the public, let alone held accountable, Mr Vassalos added.Alter-EU had demanded full disclosure of the working groups and claims the commission keeps the names or organisations of advisers in half of the expert groups secret, while basic information was missing for two thirds of them.

Israel issues new warning on Iranian nuclear arms DEC 17,08

JERUSALEM – Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is warning that if Iran acquires a nuclear weapon, it could try to attack the United States.Barak said the world should press Iran to stop it from building nuclear weapons.He spoke at a conference of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. He said, If it built even a primitive nuclear weapon like the type that destroyed Hiroshima, Iran would not hesitate to load it on a ship, arm it with a detonator operated by GPS and sail it into a vital port on the east coast of North America.Indicating the possibility of a military strike, Barak said, We recommend to the world not to take any option off the table, and we mean what we say.

Britain sets May 31 as Iraq pullout deadline By JIM HEINTZ, Associated Press Writer DEC 17,08

BAGHDAD – Britain's prime minister announced Wednesday that his country's soldiers will leave Iraq by the end of May, a move that will force the U.S. to send troops into the Shiite south to secure supply lines to the much larger American force.

Britain, with some 4,000 troops currently in Iraq, is the second-largest contributor to the international military coalition after the United States.But the war has been extremely unpopular in Britain, and the end of the mission could be a political boon to Brown if he calls, as expected, a national election for June 4.Britain had previously said the mission would conclude in the early summer, and Brown's statement appeared to accelerate that timetable.Although security in Iraq has improved markedly in recent months, a double bombing in Baghdad during Brown's visit highlighted the violent passions that persist.Police said 18 people were killed and 52 wounded when a car bomb exploded in eastern Baghdad and a roadside bomb went off minutes later as police rushed to the scene. The U.S. military reported nine killed and 43 wounded; conflicting casualty tolls are common in Iraqi bombings.Late Wednesday, a bomb exploded moments after a U.S. military patrol passed by in the mostly Sunni Baghdad neighborhood of Sulaikh, killing a 13-year-old boy and wounding three other people, an Iraqi military officer at the scene said on condition of anonymity.And the U.S. military said Iraqi forces killed three assailants who opened fire on them northwest of Baghdad and detained four suspected insurgents.We have agreed today that the mission will end no later than the 31st of May, Brown said at a news conference with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.Al-Maliki thanked the British for their efforts in getting rid of dictatorship and terrorism.They have made a lot of sacrifices, al-Maliki said.

More than 45,000 British troops took part in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein — compared with about 250,000 American troops in the invading force. At least 173 British soldiers have died in Iraq, compared with more than 4,200 Americans.Britain's decision means the United States will have to send forces to the south to help with security and protect vital supply routes from Kuwait to the nearly 150,000-strong American force in central, northern and western Iraq.A U.S. brigade is expected to take over Britain's base next to Basra's international airport once British forces leave.The new mission will pose more challenges to the U.S. military as it moves to end its presence in Iraq's cities by the end of June and from all of Iraq by 2012 under terms of a new security pact.Most of the area between Basra and Baghdad already has been put under the control of the slowly reviving Iraqi military.Brown went to Basra after meeting with al-Maliki and visited the nearby port of Umm Qasr, Iraq's only sea outlet. He then left for Britain.He said the region has seen significant security improvements and that this reflects the cooperation between local security forces and local authorities with the U.K. troops.Unlike the U.S., Britain has no plans to shift large numbers of troops from Iraq to Afghanistan. Brown has said other NATO allies must play a greater role.

Before leaving Baghdad, Brown also said that he and al-Maliki discussed the fate of five Britons who were kidnapped by a Shiite militia a year and a half ago. The men — information technology consultant Peter Moore and four guards — were seized from the Iraqi Finance Ministry compound in Baghdad in a brazen raid May 29, 2007. Little information has come since, although a British newspaper reported this summer that the militia said one of the hostages had committed suicide. I call for all those who are holding them to let them return to their families immediately and without condition, Brown said. Brown emphasized that despite the military withdrawal, Britain will remain strongly engaged in Iraq. We will take forward a collaborative approach to build skills and capacity for the government of Iraq as a source of crucial revenue — a priority will be developing the expertise of the Oil Ministry, he said. And we are in discussion with many of our own companies who are interested in investing in Iraq.

Anti-piracy force thwarts attack on Chinese ship By AHMED AL-HAJ, Associated Press Writer – Wed Dec 17, 10:47 am ET

SAN'A, Yemen – An international anti-piracy force thwarted the attempted takeover of a Chinese cargo ship off the Somali coast on Wednesday, sending in attack helicopters that fired on the bandits and forced them to abandon the ship they had boarded.In another blow to the region's thriving piracy trade, the Indian navy handed over 23 pirates it caught at sea to authorities in Yemen.In Wednesday's assault, nine pirates armed with guns overtook the Chinese ship with speedboats and boarded the vessel, said Noel Choong, who heads the International Maritime Bureau's piracy reporting center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.He said the 30-member crew sent a distress message to the bureau as it saw the pirates approaching, then barricaded themselves inside their living quarters. Choong said the bureau quickly alerted the international naval force, which dispatched two helicopters and a warship.Two helicopters arrived at the scene first and helped deter the hijacking. They fired at the pirates, forcing them to flee the ship, he said. There were no injuries during the five-hour ordeal.The Chinese ship is very fortunate to have escaped. This is a rare case where pirates have successfully boarded the ship but failed to hijack it, he added.Somali pirates, spurred by widespread poverty in their homeland, have hijacked more than 40 vessels off their country's coastline this year. Many of the seizures have taken place in the Gulf of Aden, which lies between Somalia and Yemen and is one of the world's busiest waterways. Many of the vessels are taken to pirate-controlled regions in Somalia, where they are held for ransom.

China's official Xinhua News Agency identified the boat involved in the latest attempt as the Zhenhua 4 and said it belonged to China Communications Construction Co. and was registered in the Caribbean island of St. Vincent.It was the latest in a series of attacks by Somali pirates on Chinese vessels. On Tuesday, said it was considering sending warships to the area to help battle piracy.The announcement came during a unanimous U.N. Security Council vote to authorize nations to conduct land and air attacks on pirate bases on the coast of Somalia.The area is just too wide to patrol. Hopefully with the U.N. resolution, there will be more firm action to stop this menace, Choong said.Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei told the council that China was considering sending warships to the Gulf of Aden to join ships from the U.S., Russia, Denmark, Italy and other countries.In Yemen, meanwhile, the Indian navy handed over 23 pirates arrested in the Gulf of Aden last Saturday after they threatened a merchant vessel in the lawless waters off the Yemeni coast, a Yemeni security official said.The Indian sailors boarded two pirate boats and seized what was described as a substantial arms cache and equipment at the time. The security official said the pirates included 12 Somalis and 11 Yemenis.The handover took place in the southern port of Aden, and the pirates were to be interrogated and charged in court. He stressed that Yemen has the right to try Somali pirates because their arrest took place inside Yemeni waters.The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to media pending a government statement. He spoke to The Associated Press by telephone from Aden.Associated Press writers Henry Sanderson in Beijing, and Eileen Ng in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, contributed to the report.

BEGGINING OF NATIONS - PEOPLES

WERE GOING BACK TO THE BEGGINING OF PEOPLE AFTER THE FLOOD.

1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

JAPHETH THE FATHER OF THE WHITE PEOPLE.
GENESIS 10:2
2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

SONS OF JAPHETH
1-GOMER (GERMANY)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomer
2-MAGOG (RUSSIA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magog_(Bible)
3-MADAI (MEDES)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madai
4-JAVAN (GREEKS)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javan
5-TUBAL (GEORGIA)Some say (ITALIANS,SPANISH,PORTUGESE)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubal
6-MESHECH (MOSCOW)Some say (ARMENIANS)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshech
7-TIRAS (4 SEA PEOPLE NATIONS)Some say (Egyptians)
INTERESTING 7 SONS (7 MEANS COMPLETION IN THE BIBLE)

SONS OF GOMER (GERMANY)
GENESIS 10:3
3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
1-ASHKENAZ (ancestor of the Germanic, Scandinavian and Slavic peoples).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenaz
2-RIPHATH (European peoples who spoke, or speak, a Celtic language)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riphath
3-TOGARMAH (TURKISH,ARMENIAN,GEORGIAN PEOPLES)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togarmah
INTERESTING 3 SONS (3 MEANS TRINITY IN THE BIBLE)

SONS OF JAVAN(GREEKS)
GENESIS 10:4-5
4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
1-ELISHAH (GREEK CYPRIATS)(GERMANY,PORTUGESE TRIBES)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elishah
2-TARSHISH (SPAIN)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarshish
3-KITTIM (CYPRUS)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kittim
4-DODANIM (PEOPLE OF ISLAND OF RHODES)
GENESIS 10:5
5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

WELL THESE NATIONS ALL BLEND IN WITH WHITE ENGLISH SPEAKING NATIONS THAT LIVED ON ISLANDS AROUND THE WORLD.

HAM THE FATHER OF THE BLACKS,ASIANS
GENESIS 10:6
6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

SONS OF HAM
1-CUSH (ETHIOPIANS,SOMALIA,ASIANS,AFRICANS)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Cush
2-MIZRAM (EGYPT)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizraim
3-PHUT (LIBYA,MOROCCO)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phut
4-CANAAN (ISRAEL,LEBANON,JORDAN,PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY,STRIA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan

SONS OF CUSH (ETHIOPA,SOMALIA,ASIANS,AFRICANS)
GENESIS 10:7
7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
1-SEBA (ARABIAN TRIBE)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Cush
2-HAVILAH (GULF OF ADEN,ISMAELITES(ARABS)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havilah
3-SABTAH (ARABIAN TRIBE)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Cush
4-RAAMAH (YEMEN)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raamah
5-SABTECHA (ARABIAN TRIBES)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Cush
6-SHEBA (SAUDI ARABIA)
6-DEDAN (SAUDI ARABIA)
GENESIS 10:8-20
8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.(TOWER OF BABEL IN IRAQ NEAR EUPHRATES RIVER)
11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,(IRAQ-SYRIA)
12 And Resen(SYRIA)between Nineveh(SYRIA)and Calah:(IRAQ)the same is a great city.
http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=129&letter=N&search=calah
13 And Mizraim begat Ludim,(ASIA MINOR) and Anamim,and Lehabim,(LIBYA)and Naphtuhim,
14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
http://jewishencyclopedia.com/search_results.jsp?searchType=1&pageNum=1&search=mizraim&searchOpt=0
15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

CANAAN PEOPLES - SO WE CAN KNOW THE MIXED MULTITUDE THAT LEFT EGYPT WITH THE ISRAELIS IN THE EXODUS.

CANAAN - designating the strip of coast-line along the Mediterranean, more particularly the northern—i.e., the Phenician—part thereof. With this restriction Kan'na appears in the Egyptian inscriptions (Müller, Asien und Europa, pp. 206 et seq.). But it was also applied to the whole coast district down to the Egyptian frontier (Philistæa). Like the Greek Palestine, which originally designated only the southern coast-line,
http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=78&letter=C&search=canaan

SIDON - BEIRUT LEBANON
HETH - MOUNTAINS OF PALESTINE
http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=806&letter=H&search=heth
JEBUSITE - MOUNTAIN WAR PEOPLE
AMORITE - PHILISINES (ARABS)
http://jewishencyclopedia.com/search_results.jsp?searchType=1&pageNum=1&search=canaan&searchOpt=0
GIRGASHITE - AFRICANS(ARABS)
HIVITE - INHABITED CENTRAL PALISTINE
ARKITE - NORTHWEST PALESTINIANS
SINITE - NOT FOUND
ARVADITE - RUWAD OR RUWEIDA
ZEMARITE - NOT FOUND
HAMATHITE - NOT FOUND
GENESIS 10:18
18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
GENESIS 10:19
19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

BORDERS OF THE CANAANITES
SIDON - BEIRUT LEBANON
GAZA - GAZA
SODOM - PENTAPOLIS
GOMORRAH - PENTAPOLIS
ADMAH - PENTAPOLIS
ZEBOIM - PENTAPOLIS
ZOAR - PENTAPOLIS
5 cities Adamah, Gomorrah, Sodom , Zeboim, and Zoar, expressly called Pentapolis
LASHA - NOT FOUND

SO BY MY LITTLE INFO THE MIXED MULTITUDE THAT LEFT EGYPT WITH THE ISRAELIS IN THE EXODUS WERE ISRAELIS-EGYPTIANS,ISRAELI-ARABS,ISRAELI-LEBANESE,AND ISRAELI-AFRICANS. NOW WE KNOW WHY THEY HAD TO WANDER IN THE DESERT 40 YEARS TO BECOME OF ONE MIND IF MY CALCULATIONS HERE ARE CORRECT. IT DEFINATELY WAS A MIXTURE OF ISRAELIS.

SHEM THE FATHER OF THE ISRAELIS
GENESIS 10:21
21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

CHILDREN OF SHEM
GENESIS 10:22
22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
1-ELAM - The great plain north of the Persian Gulf and east of the lower Tigris and the mountainous districts by which it is enclosed on the east and north. It is the Elamtu of the Babylonians and Assyrians and the Elymais of the Greeks—who also called it Susiana from the capital Susa (Shushan)—and corresponds nearly to the modern Khuzistan.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=120&letter=E&search=elam
2-ASSHUR - Name of a city once the capital of Assyria.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=2036&letter=A&search=asshur
3-ARPHAXAD - an Armenian region, north of Assyria.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1817&letter=A&search=arphaxad
4-LUD - VARIOUS
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=465&letter=S&search=lud
5-ARAM - group of kindred tribes scattered over portions of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Arabia.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/search_results.jsp?searchType=1&pageNum=1&search=aram&searchOpt=0
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1698&letter=A&search=aram

CHILDREN OF ARAM
GENESIS 10:23
23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

1-UZ - a country northeast of Egypt, which it separated from Philistia, being one of the lands to which, at the command of Yhwh, Jeremiah gave the wine-cup of fury to drink
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=61&letter=U&search=uz
2-HUL - a mountainous country on the east of Babylonia, was known in history before 4000 B.C. through its wars with the Babylonian king Eannadu.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=465&letter=S&search=hul
3-GETHER - Term used in a general way to designate those peoples who are said in Gen. x. 21-30 to be the descendants of the patriarch Shem.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=465&letter=S&search=gether
4-MASH - CONNECTED TO LAST
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=465&letter=S&search=mash

ARPHAXAD BEGAT SALAH
GENESIS 10:24
24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
SALAH - Son of Arphaxad and father of Salah; mentioned only in Gen. xi. 13.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=32&letter=K&search=salah
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=496&letter=C&search=salah

SALAH BEGAT EBER
GENESIS 10:24
24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
EBER - Eber originally designated a district.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=17&letter=E&search=arphaxad

EBERS 2 SONS
GENESIS 10:25
25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.
PELEG - The eponymous ancestor of the Hebrews; grandson of Arphaxad and great-grandson of Shem; father of Joktan, the ancestor of the Arabs, and of Peleg, among whose progeny, in the fifth generation, was Abram.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=17&letter=E&search=peleg
JOKTAN - Younger son of Eber and progenitor of thirteen Arabic tribes.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=384&letter=J&search=eber

JOKTAN BEGAT 7
GENESIS 10:26-27
26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

ALMODAD - The first element, Al, may be the Arabic article, and the second perhaps a corruption of Maudad
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1286&letter=A&search=almodad
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=384&letter=J
SHELEPH - Sheleph is the Arabic Silf, a name of frequent occurrence.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=465&letter=S&search=sheleph
HAZARMAVETH - one of the four chief tribes of southern Arabia, known for their traffic in frankincense.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=448&letter=H&search=hazarmaveth
JERAH - descendants of the patriarch Shem.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=465&letter=S&search=Jerah
HADORAM - Son of Joktan; progenitor of one of the Arabian tribes.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=45&letter=H&search=hadoram
UZAL - descendants of the patriarch Shem.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=465&letter=S&search=uzal
DIKLAH - The names of the other sons of Joktan point clearly to an Arabic origin, and it is quite reasonable to suppose that Diklah also had in Arabic home. in Arabic is a common word meaning date-palm. An Assyrian origin is suggested by Hommel because of the similarity between Diklah and the name of the Tigris—DiKlath in Aramaic.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=356&letter=D&search=diklah

GENESIS 11:1-32
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

WELL THIS WAS AN INTERESTING STUDY I MUST ADMIT.

I JUST WANT TO ADD A FEW MORE SCRIPTURES BEFORE ENDNG.

GENESIS 9:18-29
18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.(NOTICE HAM IS STRESSED HERE)
19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.(I WONDER DID HAM SODOMISE NOAH WHILE DRUNK,INTERESTING)
25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem;(FATHER OF THE ISRAELIS) and Canaan shall be his servant.(FATHER OF BLACKS AND ASIANS)
27 God shall enlarge Japheth,(FATHER OF THE WHITE PEOPLE) and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem;(FATHER OF ISRAELIS) and Canaan shall be his servant.(FATHER OF BLACKS AND ASIANS).
28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

AND HERE IS THE FLOOD STORY SO USE CAN READ IT ALL.

GENESIS 6:1-22
1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

GENESIS 7:1-24
1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

GENESIS 8:1-22
1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:
19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

GENESIS 9:1-17
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

AND HERE IS THE END OF THE EXODUS STORY HOW GOD SAVED ISRAELIS.

EXODUS 11:1-10
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.
2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.
3 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.
4 And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:
5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.
7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.
9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

EXODUS 12:1-51
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
42 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

EXODUS 13:1-22
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
4 This day came ye out in the month Abib.
5 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.
8 And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.
9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.
10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.
11 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,
12 That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD'S.
13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.
14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.
17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:
18 But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.

EXODUS 14:1-31
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.
5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.
9 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.
10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.
11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
12 Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
15 And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
26 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
31 And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.

EXODUS 15:1-27
1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
11 Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.
19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
27 And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.

EXODUS 16:1-36
1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.
6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:
7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?
8 And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.
9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings.
10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.
11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.
13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
16 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
29 See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
32 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.
34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.