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AUDIT THE FED IS AT 226 MEMBERS SIGNED AS OF YESTERDAY.

RON PAUL ON ALEX JONES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLWvFYbkxnE&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSln28BkIyc&feature=player_embedded

Ron Paul on HR 1207: We’ve had a major victory, but there’s still a lot of work to do. By tmartin • June 12, 2009

Ron Paul: I’d like to give you an update on 1207. This week we went over the number 218, which means that the majority of the members of the House of Representatives have signed on as co-sponsors. As a matter of fact, we’re up to 226 co-sponsors of the bill and this means that the momentum is picking up. It would be nice someday to see 290, which would mean that it could be passed even under suspension. We still have a long way to go, but this is really a very important event, an important number. We also have to remember that we should push S 604, the Senate bill, which is the same bill and there’s not nearly as many co-sponsors over there, but eventually the Senate would have to act on this bill. But we also have the strong support of Dennis Kucinich. As a matter of fact, he came on and symbolically became the 218th member to co-sponsor our legislation, but I also have co-sponsored his legislation, which is HR 2424. As a matter of fact, he has passed that in the committee that he’s on, the Government Oversight Committee, and that now will be acted on one way or the other.Now, his bill is a little bit different. What it does, it provides access from Congress and the GAO to look at the papers in the Federal Reserve dealing with the lending facilities that were all devised here in this past year and that is very important and I have, like I said, been a co-sponsor of that.

But his bill now has… several things could happen and that could be brought directly to the floor or it could go to the Banking Committee. As a matter of fact, I think Chairman Frank is asking to take a look at that bill and that’s not all bad, but it does lend itself to some confusion. But if it comes to the Banking Committee, then I might then have the opportunity to take 1207 and attach it to what Mr. Kucinich has done and that would be fine. His bill doesn’t cancel my efforts out and my bill doesn’t cancel his efforts out.But 1207 is much broader, Dennis’ bill has a sunset provision. After five years, it is sunsetted. That’s not all bad, but it’s not as good as what we’d want. What 1207 does, it’s an overall audit of everything the Fed does and there’s no sunsetting on it and calls for a full audit. So it’s a different approach and 1207 is much thorough and, of course, we want to make sure that the bill in the Senate gets momentum as well. So we are now looking forward to some very positive things happening, but we also have to remember, there’s nothing automatic about this. I think when push comes to shove, the authorities who will be under the gun if we ever get the Fed exposed are going to come down real hard and they’re going to be talking to the leaders of both parties on all the bad things that could happen if they ever found out what was going on.But, you know, in a way, I don’t lie awake at night worrying about this because I think we’ve had a major victory. We’ve had a moral victory and we’ve had a political victory. We may well end up with a legislative victory, but just think, even if they close us out and they don’t allow this bill to be passed, it will prove our point. It will prove our point that there’s a lot of shenanigans going on in the Federal Reserve that deserve attention and so the fact that so many people have joined in on this effort around the country as well as the members of Congress, it is, to me, a major victory and we have to continue this momentum.

But we have to look at all the options. The legislative process is not going to end in a week or even a month. It may take a while. When it gets to the Banking Committee, Chairman Frank might decide to extract this portion of the auditing procedure and put it into a banking bill and that might become more confusing. And there will be efforts, of course, to water the bill down and I have to watch out for that because the temptation will be to allow the bill to go through, but strike a few clauses or put a phrase in there that really guts the bill. That’s essentially what happened in 1978 when the audit bill was passed. They said, Sure. You can audit the Federal Reserve now, except for…and they listed all the exclusions and made the audit bill in 1978 worthless and we need to correct that. It’s a tremendous opportunity right now for us to find out more about the Federal Reserve, rein in the Federal Reserve, and in time, we can talk about why we don’t need the Federal Reserve and why we need a constitutional system of money which, of course, is not paper money and it can’t be run and managed by a Central bank.But overall, there’s every reason to be excited about what has happened and that we making great progress here in the Congress and around the country for monetary reform.

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EARTHQUAKES

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

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

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

Drilling might be culprit behind Texas earthquakes By JEFF CARLTON, Associated Press Writer – Sat Jun 13, 12:02 pm ET

CLEBURNE, Texas – The earth moved here on June 2. It was the first recorded earthquake in this Texas town's 140-year history — but not the last.There have been four small earthquakes since, none with a magnitude greater than 2.8. The most recent ones came Tuesday night, just as the City Council was meeting in an emergency session to discuss what to do about the ground moving.The council's solution was to hire a geology consultant to try to answer the question on everyone's mind: Is natural gas drilling — which began in earnest here in 2001 and has brought great prosperity to Cleburne and other towns across North Texas — causing the quakes? I think John Q. Public thinks there is a correlation with drilling, Mayor Ted Reynolds said.We haven't had a quake in recorded history, and all the sudden you drill and there are earthquakes.At issue is a drilling practice called fracking, in which water is injected into the ground at high pressure to fracture the layers of shale and release natural gas trapped in the rock.

There is no consensus among scientists about whether the practice is contributing to the quakes. But such seismic activity was once rare in Texas and seems to be increasing lately, lending support to the theory that drilling is having a destabilizing effect.On May 16, three small quakes shook Bedford, a suburb of Dallas and Fort Worth. Two small earthquakes hit nearby Grand Prairie and Irving on Oct. 31, and again on Nov. 1.The towns sit upon the Barnett Shale, a geologic formation that is perhaps the nation's richest natural gas field. The area is estimated to have 30 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas and provides about 7 percent of the country's supply.The drilling's economic impact has been significant, because gas companies pay signing bonuses and royalties to property owners for the right to drill beneath their land. Signing bonuses climbed to around $25,000 an acre at the boom's peak.Cleburne agreed to lease the mineral rights in the earliest stages of the frenzy, receiving a modest $55 an acre for 3,500 acres of city land. There are about 200 drilling sites in Cleburne, and it is not unusual to see cattle chewing grass in the shadow of gas pipes.Cleburne has collected between $20 million and $25 million in royalties since 2001, about $6 million in 2008 alone, Reynolds said. Such riches have allowed the building of parks and sports complexes in the city of 30,000, about 30 miles south of Fort Worth.That's a lot of libraries and police cars, the mayor said proudly.It's enabled us to escape the worst part of the recession, enables us to keep tax rates low and lowered unemployment.Landowners are also getting theirs. Locals call it mailbox money, occasional royalty checks that arrive from the gas companies. The mayor, a contractor who owns three quarters of an acre, said his most recent check, for three months' worth of royalties, was nearly $850.

It's better than a poke in the eye,he said.

Although many residents never felt the quakes, those who did have described them in different ways. When the first few hit, some ran outside to see if a house had exploded. The city manager said he thought his wife was closing the garage door. Picture frames and windows rattled.None of the quakes caused any damage or injuries, though city officials said they are keeping a close eye on the earthen dam at Lake Pat Cleburne.There seems to be little fear around town of any catastrophic damage, but the ground shaking is unnerving nonetheless. Townspeople want to find out at least what is causing it, even if it is unclear whether anything can be done about it.

The gas is extracted through a process known as horizontal drilling. A company will drill roughly 5,000 feet to 7,000 feet down and then go horizontally for as much as 4,000 feet or so. Then the fracking begins. A spokeswoman for Chesapeake Energy, which owns most of the mineral rights leases in the Cleburne area, said the company is eager to get to the facts and is working with the government and local researchers to determine whether there is a link. Drilling has occurred for more than a hundred years,Julie Wilson said in an e-mail.Tens of thousands of wells have been drilled with no nearby earthquakes at all; hundreds of earthquakes have occurred with no drilling nearby.Cliff Frohlich, a scientist at the University of Texas and author of Texas Earthquakes, said he believes more than 20 Texas earthquakes in the past 100 years are related to drilling for petroleum and gas. But he added: I would be surprised if a seriously damaging earthquake came out of this.John Breyer, a petroleum geologist and professor at Texas Christian University, said drilling is absolutely not causing the earthquakes. It's like the Great Wall of China, he said. If you pull a brick out of the wall every half-mile, you are not going to affect the stability of the structure. The mayor said he is open to any answer the city's geologist brings him.We are going to find out what's causing them and if it is something that we can deal with, I promise we will deal with it,Reynolds said.But it's like the dog that chases the car and catches the car: I don't know what you do then.

Strong 6.3-magnitude quake shakes Vanuatu: USGS Fri Jun 12, 8:27 am ET

SYDNEY (AFP) – A strong 6.3-magnitude quake shook Vanuatu in the South Pacific Friday, the US Geological Survey said.The quake struck at a depth of 53 kilometres (33 miles) about 62 kilometres west-northwest of the capital Port-Vila at 8:44 pm (0944 GMT), it said.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii did not issue any warning related to the quake.Vanuatu sits on the so-called Pacific Rim of Fire, where the meeting of continental plates causes high volcanic and seismic activity.

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Typhoons trigger earthquakes on Taiwan: scientists Wed Jun 10, 2:14 pm ET

PARIS (AFP) – Surprised scientists say that typhoons which hit Taiwan unleash long, slow earthquakes, a phenomenon that may save the island from devastating temblors.

Seismologists installed movement sensors in boreholes at depths of 200-270 metres (650-870 feet) in eastern Taiwan, monitoring a spot where two mighty plates, the Philippine Sea Plate and the Eurasian plate, bump and jostle in an oblique, dipping fault.Over five years, researchers saw a remarkable link between tropical storms and slow earthquakes, a seismic beast first identified three decades ago.Slow quakes entail a slippage in the fault that unfolds progressively over hours or days, rather than a sudden, violent release of the kind that destroys buildings and lives.The sensors noted 20 such slow earthquakes, 11 of which coincided with typhoons, during the study period.The 11 quakes were all stronger and characterised by more complex seismic waveforms than other slow events.These data are unequivocal in identifying typhoons as triggers of these slow quakes. The probability that they coincide by chance is vanishingly small,said co-author Alan Linde of the Carnegie Institution for Science in the United States.A typhoon causes a fall in atmospheric pressure -- and the researchers suggest that this in turn reduces pressure on the land over the fault.

As a result, one side of the fault lifts slightly, causing the pressure that has been building up inside to be released.This fault [in Taiwan] experiences more or less constant strain and stress buildup,Linde said in a press release.If it's close to failure, the small perturbation due to the low pressure of the typhoon can push it over the failure limit.If there is no typhoon, stress will continue to accumulate until it fails without the need for a trigger.The typhoon does not work as a seismic trigger on faults that lie on the seabed because water moves into the area, dampening out any difference in pressure, they theorise.Often considered a curse, typhoons -- for Taiwan -- could in fact could be a blessing.A storm could act as a pressure valve, preventing strain from building up to the point where the fault ruptures devastatingly.The Nankai Trough, in southwestern Japan, also lies on the convergence of the Philippine Sea and Eurasian plates.The plates are converging at about four centimetres (2.5 inches) per year, which is about half that of the activity in Taiwan.

In theory, Taiwan should be more vulnerable than the Nankai Trough because of the greater slippage, but the record shows that it has had no great earthquakes and relatively few large quakes, said Linde. By comparision, the Nankai Trough is capable of unleashing a true monster, a magnitude-8 earthquake, every 100 to 150 years. The paper, published in the British journal Nature, is led by Chiching Liu of the Institute for Earth Sciences at Academic Sinica, Taipei.

Texas storms flood, cancel flights, shut off power Fri Jun 12, 12:28 am ET

DALLAS – A series of powerful storms packing heavy rains and frequent lightning strikes grounded dozens of flights, left hundreds of thousands without power and caused widespread damage across portions of Texas on Thursday.No deaths or injuries were reported from the storms that began whipping the Dallas-Fort Worth area Wednesday night with winds up to 70 mph. By the time the storms cleared the city, some areas of Dallas got more than 8 inches of rain.More than 180,000 homes and businesses were without power Thursday night, said Megan Wright, a spokeswoman for Oncor Electric Delivery.More than 400 flights were canceled Thursday at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport before they resumed operating later in the day. Ground workers were brought in from outside part of the day because of lightning in the area, said airport spokesman David Magana.Southwest Airlines, which flies out of Dallas Love Field, canceled 21 flights Thursday because of the weather — 15 of those were in Dallas. Another 13 planes were diverted in the height of the morning's storms and dozens of flights were delayed across the country, company spokesman Brad Hawkins said.They expected the storms to develop and move through, then they just parked, he said.That's what threw everything for a loop.Dallas workers were trying to repair a pump that moves groundwater from a west Dallas neighborhood into the Trinity River after the pump was struck by lightning. Another pump was still working. city spokeswoman Danielle McClelland said.We just hope this rain holds off so we can get this one pump fixed. We're in a wait and see mode,McClelland said.

The marina at Eagle Mountain Lake in Fort Worth sustained millions of dollars worth of damage and was closed. The storms damaged the marina's roof, smashed docks and turned boats upside down, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.Michelle Levitsky, of Frisco, just north of Dallas, says the winds bewildered her farm animals.When the storm hit, they started running around, running into each other. The goats were being knocked over and tumbling. The chickens — we had their wings clipped — they were in the air, just being picked up by the wind,she told KDFW-TV of Dallas and Fort Worth. She said all survived.A second wave of severe weather took aim on Central Texas late Thursday, downing trees and power lines in Burnet County and forcing authorities in Williamson County to reroute 911 calls.

Lack of funding stymies Iowa city's flood recovery By Ryan Schlader – Sat Jun 13, 9:36 am ET

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Reuters) – Amanda Brandt is frustrated at what she sees as unmet promises to help her and her Iowa neighbors rebuild homes ruined by rain-swollen rivers that spilled over their banks one year ago.The city is lacking some leadership and direction, Brandt said.It seems every time we are told an important date is coming up, it gets pushed back.Thousands of flood-damaged homes lie vacant in the core of Cedar Rapids, a city of 120,000 hard hit by June 2008 flooding that inundated towns and farms across the Midwestern United States.Are we satisfied with that progress? No, clearly not, Cedar Rapids City Manager Jim Prosser said.A lot of people whose lives aren't even close to being whole yet have a lot of unanswered questions, bills to pay, and don't have the resources to recover.Cedar Rapids' struggles echo recovery efforts in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, flooded after Hurricane Katrina nearly four years ago, and in Galveston, Texas, following Hurricane Ike in September.

Brandt, who has moved into a different home but bears the costs of her ruined old one, said officials make promises but no one takes responsibility when funding only trickles in.More than 10 square miles (26 sq km) containing 5,400 homes and 700 businesses were flooded by the Cedar River, which winds through the city. The muddy waters inundated the headquarters of the fire and police departments, city hall, the courthouse and the main library.City officials said they have received a small fraction of the estimated $5.7 billion needed to rebuild.An announcement earlier this month of a $517 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to help flood victims only triggered fresh doubts.Thousands of residents are in limbo without knowing whether or when they would get the money to rebuild.We were told that buyout funds would arrive in June, then we are told it would be this fall. Once the money comes, it may not be distributed to flooded homeowners until two-and-a-half years after the flood. To me, that is unacceptable,Brandt said.

Prosser said no one intended to mislead the public.

I think we've been careful not to over-promise because we realize that good intentions from the federal government and even from the state doesn't translate into getting the cash in hand,he said.Iowa Governor Chet Culver has said he will ask the federal government to speed up aid.

TREMENDOUS FRUSTRATION

Many displaced families are living with friends, family or in rental apartments. Nearly 270 families live in trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.Some 1,300 property owners in neighborhoods that resemble war zones have asked the government to buy them out, but the city cannot act until funding arrives.There's a tremendous amount of frustration, said Jim Ernst, an official with the city's housing task force. If this was a foreign country, we would send billions of dollars without the red tape,said Frank King, president of a neighborhood association. We need more money, we need it quicker, and we need it in more flexible programs, said Doug Neumann, head of a Cedar Rapids business group. In the immediate aftermath of the flooding, residents heaped praise on the government response, but Neumann said government programs were inadequate for the rebuilding phase. Even so, three-quarters of downtown business closed by the flood have reopened, he said. When you look at the assistance that they have gotten compared to the overall damage, inventory loss, economic loss, and additional debt, most businesses have shouldered almost all the rebuilding cost themselves,Neumann said.(Editing by Andrew Stern and Paul Simao)

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

Baxter in full production of swine flu vaccine Sat Jun 13, 1:34 pm ET

DEERFIELD, Ill. – Specialty drug maker Baxter International Inc. says it's in full scale production of a swine flu vaccine that will be commercially available in July.

The company based in Deerfield, Ill., made its announcement Friday, a day after the World Health Organization declared swine flu a global pandemic.Baxter has said that its patented technology cuts in half the usual time it takes to develop a vaccine — to about 13 weeks instead of 26.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 45 swine flu deaths nationwide.

SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.

GENESIS 1:5,14
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)

SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS

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

NASA scrubs Saturday morning space shuttle launch By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer – Sat Jun 13, 10:09 am ET

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A potentially dangerous hydrogen gas leak cropped up during the fueling of space shuttle Endeavour on Saturday and forced NASA to postpone the launch by at least four days.It was almost identical to a leak that stalled another flight back in March and threatened to bump Endeavour's space station construction mission all the way into July.NASA halted the countdown shortly after midnight, less than seven hours before Endeavour was due to blast off. The seven astronauts had yet to suit up.Launch director Mike Leinbach said the leak, located at a vent line hookup on the fuel tank, was significant. Hydrogen gas is extremely volatile and can burn in large enough quantities, he noted.There's no way we could have continued, Leinbach said at a hastily called news conference.It's a commodity you just don't mess with.

The hydrogen gas leak is similar to one that NASA faced while trying to launch Discovery three months ago. That flight was delayed four days because of the problem and shortened as well. Atlantis, however, encountered no such trouble during its countdown in May for the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission.NASA's launch team immediately began draining Endeavour's external fuel tank while trying to figure out what went wrong. In March, the leak occurred where a vent line hooks up to the tank. The hookup was replaced along with a couple of seals and the seepage stopped, but engineers never did determine the exact source of the trouble.Officials said workers wouldn't be able to get to the vent line on Endeavour's tank until Sunday.NASA is up against a tight deadline. A four-day delay would make Endeavour's next launch attempt Wednesday. But that's the day the space agency is supposed to launch a moon-bound spacecraft aboard an unmanned rocket.Mike Moses, chairman of the mission management team, said it was too soon to say which mission would take priority.We haven't even begun to work that yet,he said.In any event, if Endeavour isn't flying by next Saturday, it will have to wait until July 11 for the next launch attempt because of unfavorable sun angles that would make the shuttle too hot while docked at the international space station.During the 16-day mission, Endeavour and its crew are supposed to deliver the final segment of Japan's huge space station lab, along with some spare parts for the orbiting outpost and more than 600 pounds of food for the six men living there.

When Endeavour pulls up, there will be 13 people together in orbit for the first time.

Of the seven shuttle astronauts, only one is a woman, a Canadian. The rest of the crew are U.S. citizens. On board the space station, the crew is more international. The six occupants, all men, represent Belgium, Canada, Japan and Russia, as well as the United States.Endeavour and its crew will spend 11 1/2 days at the space station. Five spacewalks are planned.If Endeavour flies this month, its arrival will come at a particularly busy time for the space station. The station crew doubled in size late last month; that's taken some adjustment for everyone involved. Then just a week ago, two of the crew went out on a spacewalk. Earlier this week, the two put their spacesuits back on and went into the air lock to work on a docking hatch.NASA is pushing to launch Endeavour as soon as possible because of the demanding lineup of shuttle flights over the next 1 1/2 years. The space agency is under presidential direction to retire its three remaining shuttles and complete the station by the end of 2010 if possible.It has a lot of downstream effects if we punt to July, Moses said.Every launch delay pushes the next one back. It's not the end of the world, but it's not the simplest thing to do.Eight shuttle missions remain, including Endeavour's upcoming trip. Each one is dedicated to finishing the station, currently 81 percent complete, and hauling up supplies, spare parts and experiments. The space station will be supplied over the long haul by unmanned Russian, European and Japanese craft, but none as big as the shuttle. That's why NASA needs to deliver large spare parts now, while the shuttles are still flying. Until NASA's new spaceship is ready to carry passengers — which isn't expected to happen before 2015 — U.S. astronauts will hitch rides back and forth on the cramped Russian Soyuz spacecraft for up to $51 million a person.Associated Press writer Mike Schneider contributed to this report from Cape Canaveral. On the Net: NASA: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

AHMADINEJAD GETS ELECTED BACK IN IN A LAND SLIDE....BOOOOO.

Clashes erupt in Iran over disputed election By ALI AKBAR DAREINI and ANNA JOHNSON, Associated Press Writers JUNE 13,09

TEHRAN, Iran – Supporters of the main election challenger to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed with police and set up barricades of burning tires Saturday as authorities claimed the hard-line president was re-elected in a landslide. The rival candidate said the vote was tainted by widespread fraud and his followers responded with the most serious unrest in the capital in a decade.By nightfall, cell phone service appeared to have been cut in the capital Tehran. And Ahmadinejad, in a nationally televised victory speech, accused the foreign media of coverage that harms the Iranian people. There was more rioting at night and fires continued to burn on the streets of Tehran.Several hundred demonstrators — many wearing the trademark green colors of pro-reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi's campaign — chanted the government lied to the people and gathered near the Interior Ministry as the final count from Friday's presidential election was announced.It gave 62.6 percent of the vote to Ahmadinejad and 33.75 to Mousavi — a former prime minister who has become the hero of a youth-driven movement seeking greater liberties and a gentler face for Iran abroad.Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, closed the door on any chance he could use his limitless powers to intervene in the disputes from Friday's election. In a message on state TV, he urged the nation to unite behind Ahmadinejad, calling the result a divine assessment.Mousavi rejected the result as rigged and urged his supporters to resist a government of lies and dictatorship.I'm warning that I won't surrender to this manipulation,said a statement on Mousavi's Web site. The outcome of what we've seen from the performance of officials ... is nothing but shaking the pillars of the Islamic Republic of Iran's sacred system and governance of lies and dictatorship,it added.

Mousavi warned people won't respect those who take power through fraud.The headline on one of his Web sites read:I won't give in to this dangerous manipulation.Mousavi appealed directly to Khamenei to intervene and stop what he said were violations of the law. Khamenei, who is not elected, holds ultimate political authority in Iran and controls all major policy decisions.

Mousavi and key aides could not be reached by phone.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. hopes the outcome of the election reflects the genuine will and desire of the Iranian people. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the U.S. administration is paying close attention to reports of alleged election irregularities.At a joint appearance with Clinton, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said his country was deeply concerned by reports of irregularities in the election.The clashes in central Tehran were the more serious disturbances in the capital since student-led protests in 1999. They showed the potential for the showdown to spill over into further violence and challenges to the Islamic establishment.The demonstrations began Saturday morning shortly before the government announced the final results.Protesters set fire to tires outside the Interior Ministry and anti-riot police fought back with clubs and smashed cars. Helmeted police on foot and others on buzzing motorcycles chased bands of protesters roaming the streets pumping their fists in the air. Officers beat protesters with swift blows from their truncheons and kicks with their boots. Some of the demonstrators grouped together to charge back at police, hurling stones.Plumes of dark smoke streaked over the city, as burning barricades of tires and garbage bins glowed orange in the streets. Protesters also torched an empty bus, engulfing it in flames on a Tehran street.An Associated Press photographer saw a plainclothes security official beating a woman with his truncheon. Italian state TV RAI said one of its crews was caught in the clashes in front Mousavi's headquarters. Their Iranian interpreter was beaten with clubs by riot police and officers confiscated the cameraman's tapes, the station said.In another main street of Tehran, some 300 young people blocked the avenue by forming a human chain and chanted Ahmadi, shame on you. Leave the government alone.There was no word on any casualties from the unrest.

There were also protests by Mousavi supporers in the southern city of Ahvaz in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan who shouted, Mousavi, take our votes back! witnesses said.It was not clear how many Iranians were even aware of Mousavi's claims of fraud. Communications disruptions began in the later hours of voting Friday — suggesting an information clampdown. State television and radio only broadcast the Interior Ministry's vote count and not Mousavi's midnight news conference. After night fell, Tehran's cell phone network appeared to be down. When users tried to call cell phones, a message appeared on their phones saying error in connection. There was no immediate comment from Iran's Telecommunications Ministry and it did not appear that cell phones were down throughout the country. Residents in several provinces say their service is working. Nationwide, the text messaging system remained down Saturday and pro-Mousavi Web sites were blocked or difficult to access. Text messaging is frequently used by many Iranians — especially young Mousavi supporters — to spread election news. It was also difficult to access social networking sites such as Facebook, which Mousavi's campaign used to galvanize supporters. Ahmadinejad called on the public to respect the vote and attacked the foreign media's coverage. All political and propaganda machines abroad and sections inside the country have been mobilized against the nation,he said in a televised addresss.They have launched the heaviest propaganda and psychological war against the Iranian nation. Many global networks continuously worked, employing very complicated methods, that work against our nation and arranged a full-fledged battle against us.Without mentioning the unrest on the streets, Ahmadinejad proclaimed that a new era has begun in the history of the Iranian nation.A bright and glorious future is ahead for the Iranian nation. ... I invite everyone to join me in constructing Iran,he said.

Mousavi's campaign headquarters urged people to show restraint.

Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli, who supervised the elections and heads the nation's police forces, warned people not to join any unauthorized gatherings.The powerful Revolutionary Guard cautioned Wednesday it would crush any revolution against the Islamic regime by Mousavi's green movement.The Revolutionary Guard is directly under the control of the ruling clerics and has vast influence in every corner of the country through a network of volunteer militias. Police stormed the headquarters of Iran's largest reformist party and arrested several top reformist leaders, said political activists close to the party. There was no immediate confirmation from authorities of the raid on the party, the Islamic Iran Participation Front. The activists spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.Even before the vote counting began, Mousavi declared himself definitely the winner based on all indications from all over Iran. He accused the government of manipulating the people's vote to keep Ahmadinejad in power and suggested the reformist camp would stand up to challenge the results. It is our duty to defend people's votes. There is no turning back,he said, alleging widespread irregularities.

Mousavi's backers were stunned at the Interior Ministry's claim that Ahmadinejad won after widespread predictions of a close race — or even a slight edge for the reformist candidate.Turnout was a record 85 percent of the 46.2 million eligible voters. Many Iranians went to the people because they wanted to bring change, said Mousavi supporter Nasser Amiri, a hospital clerk in Tehran.Almost everybody I know voted for Mousavi but Ahmadinejad is being declared the winner. The government announcement is nothing but widespread fraud. It is very, very disappointing. I'll never ever again vote in Iran.At Tehran University — the site of the last major anti-regime unrest in Tehran in 1999 — the academic year was winding down and there was no sign of pro-Mousavi crowds. But university exams, scheduled to begin Saturday, were postponed until next month around the country. In the capital, several Ahmadinejad supporters cruised the streets waving Iranian flags out of car windows and shouting Mousavi is dead! The election outcome will not sharply alter Iran's main policies or sway major decisions, such as possible talks with Washington or nuclear policies. Those crucial issues rest with the ruling clerics headed by Khamenei. But the election focused on what the office can influence: boosting Iran's sinking economy, pressing for greater media and political freedoms, and being Iran's main envoy to the world.Iran does not allow international election monitors. During the 2005 election, when Ahmadinejad won the presidency, there were some allegations of vote rigging from losers, but the claims were never investigated.Associated Press Writer Nasser Karimi contributed to this report from Tehran.

U.S. envoy talks Middle East peace with Syria's Assad Sat Jun 13, 7:46 am ET

DAMASCUS (Reuters) – U.S. envoy George Mitchell discussed on Saturday Washington's Middle East peace efforts with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, marking a further thaw of relations between the two countries.We are well aware of the many difficulties ... yet we share an obligation to create conditions for negotiations to begin promptly and end successfully,Mitchell, President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy, said after the meeting.His visit to Syria was preceded by talks between U.S. and Syrian security officials in Damascus on Friday that included discussions on Iraq, sources in the Syrian capital said.A U.S. embassy official said the meeting was between a military-led U.S. team and a Syrian delegation. The official declined to give further details.Relations between Syria and the United States improved after Obama took office in January and U.S. officials said he was committed to seeking a peace deal between Syria and Israel as part of an overall Middle East peace deal.

Syria has an integral role to play in reaching comprehensive peace,Mitchell said.

The Syrian government, however, remains under U.S. sanctions, partly because of what the United States describes as a Syrian role in helping insurgents infiltrate Iraq. Obama renewed the sanctions last month and said Syria still posed a threat to U.S. interests.(Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis)

WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL

AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.

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

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

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

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

Defying sanctions, NKorea vows to make more nukes By KWANG-TAE KIM, Associated Press Writer JUNE 13,09

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea responded to new U.N. sanctions with more defiance, promising Saturday to step up its nuclear bomb-making program by enriching uranium and threatening war on any country that dares to stop its ships on the high seas.The North's threats were the first public acknowledgment that the reclusive communist nation has been running a secret uranium enrichment program. Suspicions of the program touched off the latest nuclear crisis in 2002.The country also vowed never to give up its nuclear ambitions as a way to protect its sovereignty amid signs of preparations for naming its ailing leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son, Jong Un, as his successor.Despite repeated assurances from Washington, North Korea has harbored deep-rooted suspicions that the U.S. could invade to topple its regime.It has become an absolutely impossible option for (North Korea) to even think about giving up its nuclear weapons,the North's Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the country's official Korean Central News Agency.North Korea also warned that any attempted blockade by the U.S. and its allies would be regarded as an act of war and met with a decisive military response.The new threats came in response to tough new sanctions imposed by the U.N. Security Council over the North's second nuclear test on May 25.The sanctions are aimed at depriving North Korea of the financing used to build its rogue nuclear program. The resolution also authorized searches of North Korean ships suspected of transporting illicit ballistic missile and nuclear materials.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the new U.N. penalties provide the necessary tools to help check North Korea's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons.

This was a tremendous statement on behalf of the world community that North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons and the capacity to deliver those weapons through missiles is not going to be accepted by the neighbors as well as the greater international community,Clinton said Saturday at a news conference in Niagara Falls, Ontario.I think these sanctions ... give the world community the tools we need to take appropriate action.In a move that could further escalate the nuclear standoff with the U.S., North Korea also said it has reprocessed more than a third of its spent nuclear fuel rods and vowed to weaponize its new plutonium, a key ingredient of atomic bombs along with enriched uranium.North Korea is believed to have about 110 pounds (50 kilograms) of plutonium, enough for a half dozen bombs, said Yoon Deok-min, a professor at South Korea's state-run Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security.Reprocessing 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods stored at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex could yield an additional 18 to 22 pounds (8-10 kilograms) of plutonium — enough to make at least one more atomic bomb, he said.The North's announcement represents a huge setback for an aid-for-disarmament deal aimed at ending its nuclear ambitions, and presents a new diplomatic headache for President Barack Obama as he prepares for talks with his South Korean counterpart on Tuesday on the North's missile and nuclear issues.Analyst Kim Yong-hyun of Seoul's Dongguk University said North Korea was sending a stern message to Washington ahead of the meeting.He said North Korea is engaging in a game of chicken with the U.S. that he predicted would eventually end in bilateral talks.

South Korea expressed serious concern and regret over the North's statement.

The provocative steps can never be tolerated,the South's Foreign Ministry said in a statement, urging the North to return to stalled disarmament talks. In a February 2007deal, North Korea agreed to begin disabling Yongbyon in return for the equivalent of 1million tons of fuel oil and other concessions from the U.S., South Korea, Russia, China and Japan. But disablement came to a halt as North Korea wrangled with Washington over how to verify its past atomic activities. The latest round of talks, in December, failed to make any progress. North Korea has said it will test a long-range missile and is suspected of preparing for a third nuclear test, but there is no evidence that either is imminent. Meanwhile, South Korea's top admiral expressed a firm intention to fight back against any North Korean provocations along their disputed western sea border, saying another deadly naval skirmish could occur in the area, where there were deadly naval clashes in 1999 and 2002. As a precaution, South Korea has dispatched hundreds more marines to two islands near the maritime border. Be ready to chop off the wrist of the enemy if it touches even the tip of our hand, navy Chief of Staff Jung Ok-keun said in the text of a speech to be read at a Monday ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the 1999 naval battle. Associated Press writers Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations and Carolyn Thompson in Niagra Falls, Ontario, contributed to this report.

G8 nations consider exit from credit crisis By Anna Willard and David Lawder -JUNE 13,09

LECCE, Italy (Reuters) – The world's rich nations, heartened by signs the credit crisis is easing, have started to consider how to unwind rescue steps for their economies once recovery is certain, their finance ministers said on Saturday.Meeting in southern Italy, the ministers described their economies in the most positive terms since the collapse of Lehman Brothers nine months ago ushered in the world's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.The force of the economic storm is receding. There are encouraging signs of stabilization across many economies, said U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner as finance ministers of the Group of Eight nations ended two-day talks.A surge in long-term government bond yields over the past several weeks shows financial markets fear huge sums of money poured into economies through drastic stimulus will ultimately fuel inflation and cripple state finances.But ministers clearly differed over how quickly the world should start rolling back huge state spending plans and hiking interest rates. And there was continued disagreement over other aspects of the crisis, especially testing the health of banks.The meeting's final joint statement said they had asked the International Monetary Fund to help them analyze possible ways of ending economic stimulus policies.A G8 source, who declined to be named, told Reuters that the IMF report would probably be presented at the fund's October annual meeting in Istanbul. Most private sector economists do not expect any major tightening of fiscal and monetary policies in the developed world before next year.

NO EARLY EXIT

Pressure has been building in the G8, particularly from fiscally conservative nations such as Germany and Canada, for plans to wind down stimulus as soon as it is no longer needed -- exit strategies that would prevent market interest rates from climbing high enough to threaten economic recovery.The communique stressed there would be no immediate end to stimulus, noting unemployment might continue rising even if production began picking up. While the economic outlook is improving, the situation remains uncertain,it said.Geithner indicated the United States was unlikely to tighten policy any time soon:It is too early to shift toward policy restraint.

Underlining the precariousness of any economic recovery, data released as the meeting began on Friday showed euro zone industrial production shrank by more than a fifth in April, dropping faster than markets had expected.The debate over stimulus is diplomatically sensitive because if some countries roll back their programmes earlier than others, they may be accused of not doing their fair share to ensure a global recovery.Russian finance minister Alexei Kudrin described the meeting as stormy, featuring heated debate on what stage of the crisis the world had reached.

BANK STRESS

The meeting appeared to make little progress on one tool for restoring confidence to the global financial system: stress tests to determine the financial strength of banks.Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty called on Europe to conduct more such tests and to reveal the results, at least on a system-wide basis.But Europe's leading powers are divided on publishing results of their tests, which are run by different regulators using different methods, and there was no mention of stress tests in the G8communique.French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said the Europeans would explain nicely to the Americans" that there would be no quick consensus on stress tests.

Speaking after the meeting, Flaherty said he had become much less frustrated at the Europeans' stance, but added that differences of opinion remained. As the economy improves, enthusiasm for international cooperation seems to abate faster than financial market tensions,Marco Annunziata, chief economist at UniCredit Group, said in a report on the meeting.

MARKETS

The communique identified volatile commodity prices as a major threat to economies; crude oil has jumped nearly 75 percent since the end of February, even though it remains about 50 percent down from last year's record peak. Ministers from both France and Italy blamed much of the volatility on speculators, in the same way that they blamed financial speculation last year for worsening the credit crisis. Speculation is coming back, a certain type of finance is raising its head again and doing the same not very nice things it was doing until last summer,Italian Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti told reporters. At the instigation of the Italians, the G8 ministers released a set of principles and standards for the conduct of business globally, calling for more information and protection for investors, tighter regulation, and a stronger sense of commercial ethics. The breadth and intensity of the prolonged downturn have revealed the importance of strengthening our commitment to standards of propriety, integrity and transparency,said a summary of the principles, to be called the Lecce Framework.The G8 groups the United States, Germany, Japan, Britain, France, Italy, Canada and Russia.(With additional reporting by Gernot Heller, Francesca Landini, Valentina Za and Gavin Jones; writing by Andrew Torchia and Patrick Graham)

INVENTION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.

2 PETER 3:10-11
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).

MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Nuclear terror would strain day-after bomb sleuths By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent JUNE 13,09

VIENNA – If the unthinkable happened, would we be left on the day after, as radioactive dust settled, with the unknowable? If a terrorist nuclear bomb destroyed the heart of a great city, how would we know who did it, with what? Mideast fanatics with a device improvised from stolen uranium? A weapon smuggled in by a rogue regime? A hijacked U.S. bomb?

Where do you strike back? How do you head off another attack?

President Barack Obama calls nuclear terrorism the most immediate and extreme threat to global security.It's an unthinkable that's being thought about daily in classified corners of world capitals.But knowledgeable scientists and the investigators behind a new U.S. government report say the American nuclear establishment needs more specialists and more background data on possible bomb sources to do the detective job that awaits on that day after.I don't believe the intelligence community is ready for the challenge,said Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, who worked for years as a U.S. intelligence leader on weapons of mass destruction.The concerns are evident in the June 1 government report, an unclassified version of a classified assessment by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and in an earlier study by major U.S. scientific organizations.They say an aging, shrinking corps of nuclear forensic experts and U.S. analytical facilities would be badly stretched if a city-leveling nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb spreading radioactivity was detonated in the United States.The scientists also said international databases cataloging characteristics of nuclear materials worldwide, essential for tracing clues in such an event, are currently not nearly extensive or usable enough.If you have the reference data, you can identify the origin. It's just like a fingerprint database,explained Richard Hoskins, a security expert at the International Atomic Energy Agency, in an interview at the IAEA's Vienna headquarters.

Hoskins keeps a global watch on nuclear smuggling. His IAEA database counts 1,646 incidents of trafficking, theft or loss of nuclear materials since 1995, including 18 involving plutonium or highly enriched uranium, nuclear bomb fuels.No case involved enough material to build a bomb, and Hoskins said his agency detects no strong evidence of a terrorist network, rather than opportunistic thieves, behind any incident. But they don't know what they don't know, he stressed.We know that the size of the problem — both successful and failed attempts — is probably substantially larger than the number we have,he said.And at least one terror group is known to aspire to nuclear status, noted another Vienna-based authority, Roger Howsley, head of the World Institute for Nuclear Security, a newly formed, U.S.-supported body to advise on safeguarding nuclear facilities.

Al-Qaida has said it would if it could,he said.

Terrorists face daunting challenges in trying to steal a usable bomb, or build an effective model if they obtain bomb material, experts say.But even the minute chance that terrorists might have that ability changes the equation dramatically,Mowatt-Larssen, an ex-CIA official and former U.S. Energy Department intelligence chief, said at a recent Post-Nuclear Event discussion at Washington's Georgetown University.

To prevent equation-altering breakthroughs, nuclear forensics is deployed pre-detonation,to try to trace material seized from traffickers back to the source, to plug leaks at vulnerable nuclear facilities. With sophisticated equipment and training, chemists and physicists at U.S. national laboratories and elsewhere can learn much from analyzing a few grams of fissile material. For example: The ratio of isotopes in natural uranium — of U-238, U-235 and U-234 — varies from place to place and can tip investigators to where a sample of uranium was mined. Plutonium's isotopes vary according to the reactor that made it. Bomb-makers Russia, North Korea, Pakistan and Israel, for example, all have different kinds of plutonium-producing reactors.The grain size and shape of bomb material can pinpoint a manufacturing process.Even conventional forensic clues contaminating a site or sample — hair, fibers, soil — can help.

The results of atomic sleuthing can be astounding,Michael R. Carter, a security specialist at California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, said at the Georgetown session. Without elaborating, he said U.S. analysts made definitive findings in the case of highly enriched uranium seized from smugglers in the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia in 2006, the most recent such weapons-grade case in Hoskins' files. The material is widely assumed to have come from Russia. But in many cases pinpoint results would be impossible, because of vast gaps in database information needed to trace fissile material.The problem is this kind of data is not shared regularly,said the IAEA's Laura Rockwood. Nuclear fuel manufacturers view it as proprietary information. Governments see national security risks in handing it over, particularly to share with states without nuclear weapons.Last year's U.S. scientists' report, by a task force of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society, urged nuclear weapons states to cooperate more closely on an international database.Klaus Mayer, a nuclear forensic specialist with the European Commission, doesn't see that happening. There are so many sensitivities involved,he told The Associated Press by telephone while visiting Georgia. Instead, the Europeans see more promise in a decentralized system of shielded national databases, to be queried in emergencies. Like the U.S. scientists' report, the new GAO study said the diminishing ranks of veteran American forensic specialists — less than 50 — must be refilled with newly trained Ph.D. radiochemists and other specialists.

Because the U.S. last tested a nuclear bomb in 1992, few scientists remain at the national laboratories with hands-on experience in using radiochemistry techniques on debris from a nuclear event and analyzing the results,it said. The GAO said Defense, Homeland Security and other U.S. departments must better coordinate programs for producing new nuclear sleuths, and field analytical gear, to be deployed by hazmat-suited scientists at a scene of devastation, must be modernized. The relevant agencies either concurred in or had no comment on the GAO's recommendations. Whatever improvements are made, the assessment by a CSI: Nuclear team after an attack can never be cast with absolute certainty — even with a claim of responsibility — and will always take days or weeks to deliver to a president, say those who study the problem.Cristina Hansell, a scholar at California's Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, figures the Ph.D. detectives might finger an alleged culprit — a surreptitious North Korean bomb, a stolen Russian device, a Pakistani weapon in extremists' hands — with 65 to 70 percent likelihood.Are you going to bomb someone else on that basis? she wondered.Such questions will come into sharper focus later this year or early in 2010, when Obama plans a global summit on nuclear security, to better mobilize to face what he says will be a lasting threat in a terror-ridden world.

CARRIE PREJEAN CANNED BECAUSE OF TRUTH

1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,nor effeminate,nor abusers of themselves with mankind,10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

HOMOSEXUALS.

GENESIS 19:5
5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

ROMANS 1:18-32
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:(HOMOSEXUALITY,AND ALL SEX SINS)
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:(LESBIENS)
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly,(SODOMITES) and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.(AIDS ETC)28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

GENESIS 1:27-28 (GODS BLESSING MAN AND WOMAN ONLY IN MARRIAGE)
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

GOD SAYS HERE FILL THE EARTH WITH CHILDREN (MAN AND WOMAN).NOT JUST HAVE SEX WITH THE SAME SEX PERSON (LUST AND GREED)(SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUP HERE).

CARRIE PREJEAN GOT CANNED FOR BEING A CHRISTIAN AND STICKING UP FOR GOD AND NOT FOR THE GODLESS LUKEWARM WORLD.WAY TO GO CARRIE FOR STICKING UP FOR OUR KING AND SAVIORS WORDS AND WAYS KING JESUS THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND THE WORLD.THIS SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUP AGENDA AND KEITH LEWIS WERE AGAINST CARRIE RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING.THE REAL REASON CARRIE GOT CANNED WAS BECAUSE THIS GODLESS KEITH LEWIS WANTED TO FORCE CARRIE TO GO TO A SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUP MEETING DRESSED UP AND THEN THE NEXT DAY SHE WAS TO ANNOUNCE TO THE MEDIA THAT SHE WAS AT A SODOMITE GROUP MEETING,BUT PRAISE JESUS CARRIE REFUSED,THATS WHY LOWLIFE LEWIS REALLY CANNED CARRIE.

THIS GOT PRECIOUS CARRIE PREJEAN CANNED FROM BEING MISS CALIFORNIA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XMvviFbkf0&NR=1
HERES THE GAY THAT GOT CARRIE CANNED (THE SODOMITE RAINNBOW GROUPER)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI1u6bZ39YE&feature=related

Exclusive: Carrie Prejean Speaks Out for First time Since Losing Miss California Title Friday, June 12, 2009

This is a rush transcript from Hannity,June 11, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

SEAN HANNITY, HANNITY HOST: Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California, was stripped of her crown amidst allegations that she violated her contract. Now, this is her first appearance since that event, and she joins me now in an official interview.
Carrie, welcome back. Thanks for being with us.

CARRIE PREJEAN, FORMER MISS CALIFORNIA: Hi, Sean, thank you for having me.

HANNITY: Should I congratulate you? Or are you sad about the events as they have unfolded now in the last couple of hours?

PREJEAN: Well, I'm definitely not sad about it. I'm a little bit disappointed.

HANNITY: Now, you — I read your statement here. And by the way, in typical fashion, you have been very gracious. You thanked the people of California; you thanked Donald Trump; you thanked Tammy Farrell, who's going to be replacing you.I know she'll do a great job,you said, so — but yet there's this controversy. Tell us what happened.

PREJEAN: Sean, I honestly don't know what happened. All I know is yesterday morning I was on my way to an event, and I got a phone call from the media, and they said, What's your statement,basically. And I said, About what?

And they said, you know, About you getting fired. And I couldn't believe it. I was absolutely speechless. I didn't know what to say. That was the first I'd heard of it.

HANNITY: Now that's odd. They never contacted you. You found out from the media that this had happened.

PREJEAN: Uh-huh, yes, I did.

HANNITY: Your statement, you said, I worked in good faith to meet all my responsibilities as Miss California. You met every scheduled appearance, every responsibility. You followed the proper protocol, et cetera, et cetera, about engagements. You didn't do anything outside of what the contract said. There was, as far as you're concerned, no violation at all?

PREJEAN: I have not violated my contract. In fact I have worked so hard since the press conference, and I thank Donald Trump so much for all he's done for me. But I followed the contract to the T and done everything possible to cooperate with — with the circumstances that I was under. So I've not done anything to be in breach of contract, Sean.

HANNITY: Now, the people from, I guess, Miss California, the pageant — this is not Donald Trump, by the way. The people that you were having conflicts with from the very beginning. They got in contact with my office and wanted to make sure I saw these e-mails, this list of emails here.

And one of the things I'm noticing, they didn't release the entire thread of e-mails. Have you seen the ones that have been released?

PREJEAN: No, I haven't, and I mean, of course that's obvious that they're not going to release all of the information that was back and forth, but I know that there was about 70 e-mails back and forth from us, whether it was from my attorney to Keith Lewis' attorney or from myself back to Keith or his assistant. So there was constant communication; it just definitely was a miscommunication.

HANNITY: Well, there were times I could tell that you were a little bit frustrated in the things that they were asking you to do. For example, there's this one exchange. Why would you even allow this offer to be presented, and this specifically was — you said it was unprofessional. Playboy had offered you money to pose semi nude.

PREJEAN: Right, and that was actually maybe a few days after the press conference. I could not believe the e-mail that I received. It was two different offers. One was for a reality show. The other one was for Playboy, and my mouth just dropped, Sean. I couldn't believe that my directors were asking me to do this sort of thing right after this huge press conference.

HANNITY: Yes. Well, and you even said in this, Of course I would not do that. It's a setup to get me dethroned.Do you think that they were purposely setting you up, and do you think by releasing these private — and they've released your private e-mail address.

PREJEAN: Yes.

HANNITY: ... that they purposely — why would they do that and how do you feel about that?

PREJEAN: Well, Sean, all I know is from the moment I gave my answer on stage that night, I have had no support from Keith Lewis or Shanna Moakler or from anybody from the Miss California organization.

HANNITY: Well, one of the things you said, and you talk about this in your press release, you said you hope Americans watching this story understand that you've learned through all this, that you've done your best under difficult circumstances to handle the vicious attacks.

Now, Perez Hilton, who asked that original question, he called you a dumb, and then he used the B word. Very few people came to your defense. Why do you think that is?

PREJEAN: Right, and I think at this point, everybody is trying to cover themselves. You know, this is a business, and this is — a pageant, and nobody wants to look like the bad guy.I think that I was bold enough to take a stand that I took on that stage that night. I lost the crown, I think, because of my answer. And whether or not people want to agree with me or not, but this is all happening right now because of the stance that I took and the boldness that I took for traditional marriage.

HANNITY: Yes, but the strange thing is you were so gracious, even when you were saying that. I know people disagree, but you asked my opinion on a controversial issue. This is the same opinion of the people of California when they had an opportunity to vote. This is the same opinion of Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton.

PREJEAN: Right, and I think that this is definitely a test to Americans to see if tolerance is a two-way street, bottom line, this is what it comes down to.

HANNITY: In that sense, I would agree with you, that you were a victim of intolerance here.

PREJEAN: Right.

HANNITY: Do you think there was a political agenda on the part of the people?

PREJEAN: Absolutely. Absolutely. I think Keith Lewis from day one has had his own personal agenda. And it's been very hard to deal with that, and since the moment I gave my answer, he's not supported me. He actually came out with a story saying he's deeply saddened and hurt that I gave the answer that I did and reached out to Perez Hilton and apologized on my behalf. So from that moment on, Sean, this is why we're dealing with me being dethroned.

HANNITY: You know, it is kind of amazing that I think a lot of the intolerance in the country now is coming from the left. If you look at David Letterman's comments about Governor Palin, if you look at this — the Playboy magazine, you know, the comments about women and a list of conservative women.This has not been a defining issue. You're a Christian. You're a conservative. You have social conservative values. This is not — you told us in the last interview this is not the defining issue for you in your life, is it?

PREJEAN: No, this is not — this is not — this is nothing to do with me against any particular group or — you know, this is nothing to do with meet hating gays or whatever.I mean, this is — bottom line, I answered a question at a beauty contest. And now I am being punished. I am being dethroned because of the answer that I gave. I mean, this is what it came down to.I'm not in breach of contract. I haven't signed any book deal or signed with any business proposal. Bottom line is, this is all happening because of the answer that I gave, Sean, and I think the majority of Americans know it.

HANNITY: Your attorney put out a statement today that this Keith Lewis from the pageant is bordering on slander and — by attacking you. Is he begging for a lawsuit? Is there — do you think there will be legal action?

PREJEAN: I'm not sure. That's definitely something that my lawyers are looking into.

HANNITY: Let me ask you another thing. You said really nice things about Donald Trump. The last time you were here you also said nice things. I'm a friend of Donald's. And I told you that the last time. You thanked him for his support. You're grateful to him. You admire and respect him. Do you think he's caught in the middle here?

PREJEAN: I absolutely do. I think that he is caught in the middle, and, he has a business to run, and he is a very brilliant man, and I respect his decision, and I know it was either me or Keith, and it came down to me going.

HANNITY: Yes.

PREJEAN: So I'll always respect Donald Trump's decision, and I admire him greatly.

HANNITY: All right. So I guess the biggest question is now, in the sense that maybe I was talking about earlier, congratulating you, what — what do you see in the future for Carrie Prejean?

PREJEAN: Well, I definitely see me speaking out and taking a stand for what I believe in, and I want to encourage Americans of all ages to not be silent. And to speak out and state your beliefs and not be afraid.And you know you will probably face vicious attacks, but not nearly the attacks that I've had. So don't be afraid, and be encouraged to stand up for what you believe in, and don't be scared.

HANNITY: I agree with you in your answer, by the way, and if Perez Hilton wants to come on this program and say the things he said about you to me, to my face, I dare him. Let him come on the program.

PREJEAN: Well, thank you, Sean, and thank you so much for your support. You've been great.

HANNITY: All right. Carrie, best — best to you, and we'll invite you back on the program again soon. We really wish you the best, and thank you for being with us tonight. Thank you.

Watch Hannity weeknights at 9 p.m. ET!

222 AUDIT FED GOES TO VOTE FOR SURE NOW

BORN IN THE USA? Trifecta: 3rd media outfit bans Obama eligibility ads Clear Channel joins CBS, Lamar in dissing constitutional question
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=100813

Global warming hogwash: Plans to save us are actually wasteful
Jonah Goldberg June 11, 2009

Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, If we can put a man on the moon ...,grab your wallet.The latest example of anthropogenic-lunar empowerment is global warming. Al Gore and Barack Obama routinely cite the Apollo program as proof that we can make good on the president's messianic campaign pledge to stem the rising tides and hasten the healing of the planet.President Obama says he wants to invest massively in scientific research, eventually spending 3 percent of gross domestic product on scientific research and development, with a big chunk devoted to energy research. But at the same time, the Democrats are pushing their cap-and-trade scheme -- the Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill -- through Congress, and it surely won't work. The Apollo engineers' motto was Waste anything but time. Waxman-Markey seems to do that one better, promising to waste everything, including time. It's a legislative blunderbuss that fails any remotely honest cost-benefit analysis, as Jim Manzi painstakingly demonstrates in the current issue of National Review. Under the bill, the government would sell or give away waivers -- call them ration cards -- for carbon emissions, worth tens of billions of dollars. The system is destined to become politicized. Waivers will be granted to favored industries and donors in states with political clout.

If everything worked exactly according to plan, it would cost the economy trillions of dollars over the coming decades. Meanwhile, climatologist Chip Knappenberger -- administrator of the World Climate Report, an avowedly global-warming-skeptical blog -- uses standard climate models to show that the payoff would be to reduce global temperatures by about 0.1 degree Celsius by 2100. Sponsors of the legislation haven't offered a competing analysis.The costs would be more than 10 times the benefits, writes Manzi, even under extremely unrealistic assumptions of low costs and high benefits.All the while, China, India and others are simply scoffing at the suggestion they curtail carbon emissions.Now, I am more skeptical about the threat of global warming than Manzi is, never mind the Al Gore chorus. But let us assume the chorus is right and it is the moral equivalent of a war for our very survival as a civilization. The question remains: Why? We could spend trillions on research into scrubbing carbon from the air, bioengineering organisms to eat greenhouse gases or crafting substances to reflect more heat back into space. We could establish prizes for development of long-life batteries or clean coal technologies. And if any of these investments paid off, decades from now the benefits would still dwarf Waxman-Markey at a fraction of the cost. It hardly takes a rocket scientist to see that.
Tribune Media Services Jonah Goldberg is an editor at National Review Online.
JonahsColumn@aol.com 2009, Chicago Tribune.

OBAMA DECEPTION EXTRAS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBgz-_oVklw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_BQNZJBfxI&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpLvx93xfZk&feature=player_embedded
RON PAUL DISCUSSES AUDIT BILL
http://www.infowars.com/audio-dr-ron-paul-discusses-bill-to-audit-fed/
WND AUDIT FED STORY
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=100855

CONGRADULATIONS AMERICA THIS COULD ABOLISH THE FED IF PASSED.

You did it! Bill to audit the Fed to go to house floor
Daily Paul June 11, 2009

Updated on June 11.

On record so far on www.thomas.gov.Title: To amend title 31, United States Code, to reform the manner in which the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is audited by the Comptroller General of the United States and the manner in which such audits are reported, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 2/26/2009) Cosponsors (208)Latest Major Action: 2/26/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Here’s 3 related (WORKING) links for easy access:

DEMOCRATIC List of Shame
http://www.dailypaul.com/…

REPUBLICAN List of Shame
http://www.dailypaul.com/…

S 604: F R Sunshine Act of 2009. Companion bill to HR1207
http://www.dailypaul.com/

RON PAUL ACCUSED OF VON BRUNN FROM LEFT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gscSr2JsmDw&feature=player_embedded

US House to debate Ron Paul’s Audit the Fed bill
STEPHEN C. WEBSTER Raw Story June 11, 2009

After months of activism and lobbying by Congressman Ron Paul’s supporters, House Resolution 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, will move out of committee to be debated by the full House of Representatives.In a show of cross-party unity, Ohio Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich became the bill’s 218th co-sponsor, pushing it over the threshold for debate in Congress.The bill, which achieved co-sponsorship by 222 members of the House on Thursday, has been in consideration by the House Financial Services Committee since Feb. 26.Congressman Kucinich, along with Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY), announced Tuesday that the House Financial Services Committee will subpoena the Federal Reserve to ascertain the details of the Fed’s agreements with Bank of America in the institution’s acquisition of Merrill Lynch.The full committee and Domestic Policy Subcommittee, under the leadership of Chairman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), have been investigating the circumstances surrounding the federal government’s bailout of the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch transaction, Kucinich’s office noted in a Tuesday release. Specific documents subpoenaed include emails, notes of conversations and other documents.While the bill enjoys some Democratic supporters, the vast majority of H.R. 1207 co-sponsors are Republican.The tremendous grass-roots and bipartisan support in Congress for HR 1207 is an indicator of how mainstream America is fed up with Fed secrecy,said Congressman Paul in a Thursday media advisory.I look forward to this issue receiving greater public exposure.

Though the move from committee to full House is sure to hearten supporters, the Senate also has pending before it a bill which would have originally given Congress greater oversight of the Federal Reserve. But in its present form, notes Huffington Post writer Ryan Grim, a recent, every-so-slight modification essentially neutered the bill.Thanks to an overlooked document posted on the website of Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the top ranking Republican on the Finance Committee, voters can virtually watch the water being dumped into the brew that Grassley had hoped to force the Fed to drink,he wrote.On page five of Grassley’s amendment, he intends to give the Comptroller General of the Government Accountability Office power to audit any action taken by the Board under…the third undesignated paragraph of section 13 of the Federal Reserve Act — which would be almost everything that it has done on an emergency basis to address the financial crisis, encompassing its massive expansion of opaque buying and lending.Grim adds: Handwritten into the margins, however, is the amendment that watered it down: with respect to a single and specific partnership or corporation. With that qualification, the Senate severely limited the scope of the oversight.Congressman Paul, in defense of his proposal to audit the bank which controls America’s currency, argues not just for transparency. He wants to close it down.

Detractors have [...] argued that the Fed must remain immune from the political process, and that that more congressional oversight would distort their very important decisions,Paul wrote in an editorial titled, Audit the Fed, Then End It! On the contrary, the Federal Reserve is already heavily entrenched in the political process, as the Fed chairman is a political appointee. High-level officials routinely make the rounds between positions at the Fed, member banks, Treasury and back again, taking care of friends and each other along the way.He continued: As far as the foolishness of placing complex monetary policy decisions in the hands of politicians –I couldn’t agree more. No politician or central banker, no matter how brilliant, is smart enough to know more than the market itself. The failure of central economic planning has been witnessed over and over. It is frankly beyond me why we ever agreed to try it again.To understand how unwise it is to have the Federal Reserve, one must first understand the magnitude of the privileges they have. They have been given the power to create money, by the trillions, and to give it to their friends, under any terms they wish, with little or no meaningful oversight or accountability. Thus the loudest arguments against greater transparency are likely to come from those friends, and understandably so.

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

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

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

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

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

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

From The TimesJune 12, 2009 Binyamin Netanyahu may yield to two-state solution after pressure from Obama James Hider in Jerusalem

Binyamin Netanyahu is expected to endorse a two-state solution in a much-heralded speech this weekend, but he may stall on American demands to freeze Jewish settlements in the West Bank.Feeling the squeeze between the US Administration, which wants a moratorium on settlement growth and a commitment to a Palestinian state, and his national-religious coalition, which favours neither, the Israeli Prime Minister appears likely to try to steer a middle course.Israeli newspapers were full of speculation about what Mr Netanyahu — who has so far refused openly to back a Palestinian state alongside Israel — might offer to deflect pressure from Washington. Ehud Barak, his Defence Minister, urged him this week to recognise a Palestinian state, but members of Mr Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party have cautioned him against the move.Haaretz, the centre-left newspaper, said that the Prime Minister was likely to mention a two-state solution and pledge to adhere to the road map — a US-brokered document that calls for an end to Israeli settlement building and a clampdown on militant groups by the Palestinian Authority. The road map was adopted in 2003 but both sides have accused each other of failing to meet their obligations.

No we can’t, Israeli hardliners tell Obama
The Israeli media have predicted that when he speaks at Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv on Sunday night, Mr Netanyahu will recommend an immediate resumption of negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, but will also set out some demands, including that the Palestinians should recognise the state of Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people.While accepting the road map Mr Netanyahu is not thought to be planning to mention an explicit freeze on settlements, as demanded by President Obama in his keynote speech to the Muslim world in Cairo last week.In conceding to a two-state solution, he may even try to ask the US to relax its demands that all settlement expansions should be stopped — a move that is vehemently opposed by Mr Netanyahu’s national-religious constituency.Such a compromise would in effect take the peace process back to where it was under the previous centre-left Government of Ehud Olmert, whose resignation amid repeated corruption allegations eventually brought the Israeli Right to power this year. Mr Olmert had pledged to take action against settlements but opponents said that the Jewish communities built on land conquered by Israel in the 1967 war still enjoyed an unprecedented growth spurt while he was in office.The dilemma faced by Mr Netanyahu will raise uncomfortable memories of his first stint as Prime Minister in the late 1990s, when his fractious right-wing coalition toppled him after he yielded to American pressure to hand over tracts of the West Bank to the control of the Palestinian Authority as part of the now defunct Oslo peace accords.Analysts noted that Mr Netanyahu appeared to have been taken by surprise by the strength of Mr Obama’s resolve to thwart the growth of settlements.

Members of the ruling coalition, wary of their leader caving in, have cautioned the Prime Minister against giving too much away before negotiations have even resumed. The US pressure is mainly psychological. One should not forget that the President is not the only one in the United States. There’s the Congress and the Senate, which support Israel,Miri Regev, a Likud MP, said.Another powerful member of Mr Netanyahu’s party, Benny Begin, the son of Israel’s first right-wing Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, said that if the only solution is two states for two peoples, then there is no solution.Mr Netanyahu has in the past opposed the creation of an independent Palestinian state, arguing that such an entity would soon fall under the control of the Iranian-backed Hamas, the Islamist movement that rules the Gaza Strip.

Carter: Israeli-Palestinian Peace Not Possible Without Hamas Involvement.Hamas must be part of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process for it to succeed, former President Jimmy Carter told reporters in Syria.FOXNews.com Thursday, June 11, 2009

Hamas must be part of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process for it to succeed, former President Jimmy Carter told reporters Thursday in Damascus, Syria.I don't believe there is any possibility to have peace between Palestinians and Israel unless Hamas is involved directly in harmony with Fatah,he said, according to a Reuters report.

Carter's remarks come amid aggressive diplomatic efforts by the Obama administration for a peace deal through a two-state solution. Secretary of State Clinton has made it clear that the U.S. and European-designated terror group will not be part of peace process unless it renounces violence and recognize Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has also refused to talk to Hamas.Carter said he hoped to see a prisoner exchange agreement between Hamas and Israel involving Corporal Gilad Shalit and Palestinian prisoners, including Marwan Barghouti.Shalit, an Israeli soldier, has been in Hamas custody since his abduction in 2006, although the group has not demonstrated proof of life and will not let the International Red Cross visit him. Israel currently holds nearly 11,000 Palestinian prisoners, including Barghouti, who is currently serving five life sentences for his involvement in suicide attacks in Israel.Prisoner releases have taken place in the past between Israel and the Palestinians, including more than 450 Palestinians released last year. Carter will travel to Israel after his visit to Syria. He is expected to visit with Israeli officials.

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

Negotiations on Ireland's Lisbon guarantees continue
HONOR MAHONY 11.06.2009 @ 17:20 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Negotiations on Ireland's guarantees on the EU Lisbon Treaty are going down to the wire with still no text on the table exactly a week before EU leaders are supposed to sign up to them.EU ambassadors were meant to gather Thursday (11 June) to have a special meeting on the matter but agreeing wording that does not make any other member state jittery but keeps Ireland's electorate happy is proving more difficult than first thought.Ireland is looking for special guarantees on ethical issues, tax sovereignty and its neutral status. It wants them signed off by EU leaders at their summit next week and a commitment made to make them binding as quickly as possible.The idea was to tack them on to the next available treaty - possibly Croatia's accession treaty - so that they could be ratified by national parliaments across the bloc.However, member states fear this could open the door to a further delay in the getting the text ratified, particularly if anything in the text catches the idea of eurosceptic Czech President Vaclav Klaus.The Czech president has already ruffled some Brussels feathers by refusing to sign off the treaty - the last act of ratification in the central EU member state - until the Irish have voted in their second referendum, due in October.What we definitely want to avoid a text that raises questions. We don't want him [Klaus] to say: that is an interesting new element, let's bring it before the constitutional committee,said an EU diplomat.

But being wary of reopening the debate is also a key concern of Britain, where the opposition Conservatives want to overturn the treaty and of the Netherlands, which had to do some tricky manoeuvring to get the treaty through parliament, after Dutch voters rejected its predecessor, the EU constitution, in a 2004 referendum.Bilateral discussions on the texts took place on Thursday and will continue on Friday (12 June).

The Irish, who have still not circulated a full text to member states, are intending to have one ready by Tuesday when there will be a meeting of government representatives from all 27 member states.This is a better option than having a patchwork of paragraphs,said an EU diplomat. Dublin and the Czech EU presidency are hoping to get as complete as possible agreement on the texts on Tuesday.All member states are trying to avoid a scenario where EU leaders are writing the texts when they meet at the end of the week.It is not a pretty sight to have prime ministers drafting texts,remarked one diplomat.EU foreign ministers are meeting on Monday but Irish foreign minister Micheal Martin said ahead of the meeting that he did not anticipate that [they] will engage in a lengthy discussion of the legal guarantees or the outcome of the European Council, as negotiations will be on-going at both official and political level.We have to be careful that in getting what we want, we do not upset procedures for others,said the minister, referring to the already-completed parliamentary ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in all other member states.

Of the three guarantees, the two on ethical issues and neutrality will be Ireland-specific. The tax guarantee will not.In addition, there will be a declaration on the workers' rights. Although this will be non-binding, it is causing concern among several countries who want to make sure it strikes a balance between employee rights and the internal market.

Sarkozy and Merkel offer Barroso conditional backing
ELITSA VUCHEVA Today JUNE 12,09 @ 07:21 CET

France and Germany are refusing to give EU commission president Jose Manuel Barroso full formal backing to become head of the institution for a second time at next week's summit, insisting the support should be political only.The two leaders on Thursday (11 June) said that their backing for the Portuguese politician was unambiguous but not unconditional.Important personnel and policy decisions must be taken immediately. That is why Germany and France support Jose Manuel Barroso, German chancellor Angela Merkel said at a joint press conference with French president Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris.The French leader echoed these statements, but explained that France and Germany wanted a political decision on Mr Barroso's reappointment to be reached at the 18-19 June EU summit, not a formal one.I can tell you that Ms Merkel and myself, we will support Mr Barroso's candidacy, without ambiguity, Mr Sarkozy said.We wish… that a political decision be taken at the next [European] Council to appoint Mr Barroso for a second mandate, before taking a formal legal decision later on, he added.The French leader explained that this political decision could then be ratified by the European Parliament in July. The manoeuvre would be made in order to avoid appointing the entire EU commission under the Treaty of Nice on which the EU is currently based and which foresees a reduction in the number of commissioners in the next commission. On the other hand, if the Lisbon treaty is eventually agreed, the number of commissioners remains the same, following a political agreement by EU leaders last year.If Ireland approves the Lisbon Treaty in a second referendum that should take place in the autumn, there will be… a second decision to name the commission president, this time based on Lisbon and not Nice.

Keeping Mr Barroso in a legal limbo would also give both leaders more say over the portfolios of their new commissioners.

Clash with Sweden

The two leaders also insisted that Mr Barroso had to present a clear programme in order to win their total backing.We have asked Mr Barroso… to clarify, to make formal, in a way, his intentions before this second term, the French president said, explaining that Mr Barroso had to commit himself to a Europe that protects Europeans and to improving financial regulation – both points being dear to Paris.It is Mr Barroso and a programme. Or a programme and Mr Barroso,Mr Sarkozy added.The terms of the re-appointment of Mr Barroso is set to be a flash point at next week's summit with Sweden, as incoming EU presidency, insisting that he be given full approval so Stockholm has an able partner to work with over the second half of the year.

Opposition in the parliament

Meanwhile, opposition to Mr Barroso is building up in the EU parliament, which will vote on the commission president nominee in July.The leader of the Socialist group in the parliament, Martin Schulz, wrote to EU leaders on Thursday urging them to delay their decision because of the need for a commission that puts people first as well as for a clear legal basis for the appointment.Any attempt to force a rapid decision in this matter could only lead to a rejection from our Group, Mr Schulz warned.The Socialists suffered a blow at the European elections, but remain the second biggest force in the new parliament. Mr Barroso's candidacy is also opposed by some Liberal and Green MEPs.

EU arms embargo against China absurd, says ambassador
ANDREW WILLIS Today JUNE 12,09 @ 17:42 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – China's ambassador to the European Union, Mr Song Zhe, told an audience in Brussels on Friday (12 June) that the EU arms embargo against the Asian giant was radically out of step with the otherwise deepening relations between the two sides. Mr Song said the policy was an absurd political discrimination against a strategic partner,adding that many Chinese diplomats and ordinary citizens also found the embargo and the EU's failure to recognise China as a market economy bewildering.The issues continue to produce tension between the two sides, despite the fact that senior officials have stressed the need to focus on the bigger picture rather than getting bogged down on specific issues. Mr Song himself said: A logical and accurate definition of our relationship must be based on a macro, global and strategic point of view,during the discussion hosted by the European Policy Centre think-tank. The EU's refusal to sell arms to China dates back to the suppression of protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989, but some member states, in particular France, have suggested that the policy is outdated. A majority of states do not agree however.Likewise, the EU is reluctant to give China market economy status before it automatically qualifies in 2014, as doing so would limit the amount of anti-dumping cases it can take against the large Asian country, one of its principle weapons in the various trade disputes that regularly arise.

Partnership and Co-operation Agreement

Mr Song's comments come three weeks after a EU-China summit in Prague and at a time when policy makers on both sides are discussing the future direction of bilateral relations.Franz Jessen, head of the China unit in the European Commission directorate for external affairs, said relations between the EU and China had evolved considerably since the two sides signed a Trade and Co-operation Agreement (TCA) in 1985.Greatly increased contact, from the top political level in EU-China summits, down to more technical discussions between commission head's of unit and its Chinese counterparts, meant there were far fewer surprises than before, said Mr Jessen.

Ambassador Song Zhe has taken public diplomacy to new levels in the last couple of years,he said, with other commission officials confirming that China's mission to the EU in Brussels has been highly effective in getting its message across. However, he also stressed the need for a new document formally outlining bilateral relations between the two sides, citing China's greatly expanded economic and political influence as the main reasons. Discussions on a further reaching Partnership and Coo-peration Agreement (PCA) were opened in 2007, with Mr Jessen predicting the political component of this agreement to be completed in the year to come.

Sarkozy tries to rescue internet law after court decision
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today JUNE 12,09 @ 09:27 CET

Paris intends to move ahead with sections of its three strikes law, stripping out its most controversial aspects following a ruling from France's Constitutional Court that the bill contravenes the holiest of French documents, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789.Those aspects of the bill not struck down by the court will be promulgated in the coming days, Agence France Presse is reporting, citing an unnamed government official.The government's aim is to get the new agency envisaged in the bill, the Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des Œuvres et la Protection des Droits sur Internet (HADOPI), or High Authority on Diffusion of Works of Art and the Protection of the Rights on the Internet (Hadopi), up and running as soon as possible while it decides its next move.The law allows the Hadopi agency to cut off the internet access of users found to be repeatedly downloading copyright content without the permission of the owner. Internet cut-off would be the third strike after downloaders had first been sent an warning email and then a letter in the post.The agency would still be created, but would only be able to send the warning emails and letters.Late Thursday, French president Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly demanded the presence of senior officials for emergency discussions on how to push forward with the bill after the court's decision.

According to record industry officials close to the government, Paris is believed to be considering the creation of special copyright courts to deal specifically with the issue, thus getting around the court's ruling.On Wednesday (10 June), the court ruled that cutting off internet access by the Hadopi agency - without recourse to a court of law - contravened three articles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, France's fundamental document setting out the rights of French citizens, breaching rights to freedom of expression and the presumption of innocence.The ruling echoes the arguments the European Parliament put forward in its attempt to outlaw the French bill by tacking on an amendment to a package of legislation liberalising the European telecommunications sector. On Thursday, EU telecoms ministers meeting in Luxembourg rejected the package as a whole, despite favouring the entirety of legislation apart from the amendment, which means that the law must now move to a conciliation process between the two sides and mediated by the commission. This will begin in the autumn, but the legislation is still not expected to be passed before February. Responding to the court's decision, the European Commission's information society spokesman, Martin Selmayr, said: We have always said we think that intellectual property rights issues can be settled at national level. We take note of the decision of the Constitutional Council. It confirms that the issue can be settled at national level.We hope this decision will help to close disputes over the telecoms package,he told reporters in Brussels.

The commission has backed the parliament's perspective throughout the legislative process, but decided not to take legal action against France as it did not consider the French bill illegal under EU law.Not everything that I do not like politically is also illegal,said information society commissioner Viviane Reding at the time.The French Constitutional Court has found differently, eliciting celebrations amongst internet freedom advocates.It's a great victory for citizens who have shown that they can act together to protect their liberties. The graduated response is finally buried,said Jeremie Zimmerman of La Quadrature du Net, an internet rights pressure group.He was not worried that the government was to move ahead with the creation of the Hadopi agency if it did not have the ability to cut off people's internet access.
It's now just a giant spam machine for the entertainment industry paid for by the taxpayer.

Franco-Belgian metropole tests new EU structures for public authorities
VALENTINA POP 11.06.2009 @ 17:43 CET

EUOBSERVER/BRUSSELS – A Euro-metropole - a new form of transnational civil administration is being established at the border of France and Belgium in a pilot project of what the EU aims to gradually develop into: a series of authorities with stronger regional, cross-border focuses.We are a bit of a pioneer in the EU, Stefaan de Clerck, vice-president of the body and Belgium's justice minister told EUobserver, the first to to practice this new European structure for public authorities, Mr de Clerck said, who was mayor of his native town, Kortrijk, up until December, when he was appointed minister of justice.The Euro-metropole Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai established in January 2008 covers an area of over 3,500 square metres and two million inhabitants between the French city of Lille and the Belgian towns of Kortrijk in Flanders and Tournai in Wallonia. Unlike other voluntary forms of regional co-operation, the Euro-metropole is established as a legal entity, allowing it to hire its own civil servants, the Belgian minister explained. It is a so-called European grouping for territorial co-operation (EGTC), which under EU law enables public authorities from member states to team up and deliver joint services, without requiring a prior international agreement to be signed and ratified by national parliaments. National governments must however approve the formation of these entities on their territories.The Euro-metropole is formed of representatives from the local, regional and national authorities on a principle of parity between the constituent countries: for each two French officials, two Belgian officials – one from the Flemish-speaking side, the other from the French-speaking one.

It is a general political structure for the managing of all sort of problems – different politicians with different responsibilities are around the table – mayors, police, representatives from regional and national authorities, he said, citing examples such as pursuing cross-border crime or investing in common infrastructure projects as the sort of activities the authority will be dealing with.He said that the people in this transnational region were close to each other not only because of the geographical proximity, but also as a result of historical ties, for it was only Louis XIV who drew the frontier between Kortrijk and Lille.At the beginning of the 20th century, there were a lot of people from Flanders going to work there. Now we have the reverse – some 30,000 French working in Belgium,the minister said.Companies established within the territory of the Euro-metropole should all benefit from the research and innovation done at the Centre of Excellence founded by French authorities in Lille.It would be very stupid if this only worked for French companies and not for all the companies in the metropole,the Belgian politician said.Co-operation with the French authorities is sometimes difficult because of the different administrative structures in the two countries, Mr de Clerck said. Centralism was not so much the problem, as it was the political interference of the prefect, appointed by Paris, in day-to-day business on local and regional level and who was able to block projects.We are used to our independence and we feel free, but in France, for instance in security matters, the prefect is central. This is completely different in Belgium, where the mayor of a city is also head of the police,he said.

Nation state on the decline?

In Mr de Clerck's view, the era of nation-based, rigid public administration structures is over, especially in cross-border regions.I'm convinced that the old constitutional approach of organisation of the state in Europe doesn't work anymore. You have an EU level that is growing in importance and at a local and regional level, you need networking between various actors. This trend is challenging the old structures, because it is a flexible, results-oriented approach,he said.

These flexible networks on different topics – economic, education, environment – would always work better than the hierarchical, traditional approach. This networking idea is much more an urban way of thinking. You have bigger concentrations of people living together and belonging to a larger-scale structure free in its choices and working together.Mr de Clerck explained. Nations must be a bridge to Europe, but they also have to make the link to regions, to the local and metropolitan level. Cities are growing in importance. They are the engines of development. That's why the trans-border and metropolitan levels are essential,he said.Asked whether he thought that national governments will see these new forms of trans-border bodies as a threat, the Belgian politician said he was confident that these new forms of co-operation were the way forward.If Europe wants to be successful, it needs to handle the transborder problems in a very concrete way,he concluded.

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

WHO: Swine flu pandemic has begun, 1st in 41 years By MARIA CHENG and FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press Writers JUNE 11,09

GENEVA – Swine flu is now formally a pandemic, a declaration by U.N. health officials that will speed vaccine production and spur government spending to combat the first global flu epidemic in 41 years. Thursday's announcement by the World Health Organization doesn't mean the virus is any more lethal — only that its spread is considered unstoppable.Since it was first detected in late April in Mexico and the United States, swine flu has reached 74 countries, infecting nearly 29,000 people. Most who catch the bug have only mild symptoms and don't need medical treatment.WHO chief Dr. Margaret Chan made the long-awaited declaration after the U.N. agency held an emergency meeting with flu experts and said she was moving to phase 6 — the agency's highest alert level — which means a pandemic is under way.The world is moving into the early days of its first influenza pandemic in the 21st century, Chan said in Geneva.Dr. Thomas Frieden, the new head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in Atlanta that he does not expect widespread public anxiety in the United States as a result of the declaration, noting it came nearly two months after the virus was identified.For many weeks, U.S. health officials have been treating it as a pandemic, increasing the availability of anti-viral flu medicines and pouring money into a possible vaccination program. And scientists have grown to understand that the virus is generally not much more severe than the seasonal flu.That helps to tamp down any fears that may be excessive, Frieden said at a news conference — his first as CDC director.But the virus can still be deadly and may change into a more frightening form in the near future, and so people should not be complacent, he added.So far, swine flu has caused 144 deaths, compared with ordinary flu that kills up to 500,000 people a year.

The pandemic decision might have been made much earlier if WHO had more accurate information about swine flu's rising sweep through Europe. Chan said she called the emergency meeting with flu experts after concerns were raised that some countries, such as Britain, were not accurately reporting their cases.Chan said the experts unanimously agreed there was a wider spread of swine flu than was being reported.She would not say which country tipped the world into the pandemic, but WHO flu chief Keiji Fukuda said the situation from Australia seemed to indicate the virus was spreading rapidly there — more than 1,300 cases were reported by Thursday.In Chile, authorities have identified almost 1,700 cases to WHO.Many health experts said the world has been in a pandemic for weeks but WHO became too bogged down by politics to declare one. In May, several countries urged WHO not to declare a pandemic, fearing it would cause social and economic turmoil. At the time, WHO said it would rewrite its pandemic definition to avoid announcing one.But with the recent surge in cases across Europe, Chile, Australia and Japan, the agency was under increasing pressure to acknowledge a pandemic.This is WHO finally catching up with the facts, said Michael Osterholm, a flu expert at the University of Minnesota.David Ropeik, an expert in risk perception and communication at Harvard University, says the word pandemic is less frightening than when emerged during worries about bird flu a few years ago.He said the soft buildup to declaring swine flu a pandemic has been helpful.That allows people to get used to what is otherwise a scary word, understand the particulars of the disease, and that should mean reaction will be a little more information-based and a little less emotional,Ropeik said in an e-mail.

WHO will now recommend that pharmaceutical companies make swine flu vaccine. The agency typically recommends which flu strains drug companies should use in the vaccines. In a global outbreak, WHO also advises whether companies should make pandemic vaccine.The decision to make pandemic vaccine is a gamble. Most flu vaccine makers cannot make both regular seasonal flu vaccine and pandemic vaccine at the same time. That means they must decide which one the world will need more. Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline PLC said it could start commercial production of pandemic vaccine in July but that it would take months before large quantities are available. Glaxo spokesman Stephen Rea said the company's first doses of vaccine would be reserved for countries who had ordered it in advance, including Belgium, Britain and France. He said Glaxo would also donate 50 million doses to WHO for poor countries. Pascal Barollier, a spokesman for Sanofi-Aventis, said they were also working on a pandemic vaccine but WHO had not yet asked them to start making mass quantities of it. WHO described the pandemic as moderate. Fukuda said people should not get overly anxious about the virus.Understand it, put it in context, and then you get on with things, he said.Still, about half of the people who have died from swine flu were previously young and healthy — people who are not usually susceptible to flu. Swine flu is also crowding out regular flu viruses. Both features are typical of pandemic flu viruses.

Swine flu is also continuing to spread during the start of summer in the northern hemisphere. Normally, flu viruses disappear with warm weather, but swine flu is proving to be resilient.What this declaration does do is remind the world that flu viruses like H1N1 need to be taken seriously,said U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, warning that more cases could crop up in the fall. Now that a pandemic has been declared, some countries might be prompted to devote more money to containing the virus. Many developed countries have pandemic preparedness plans that link spending to a WHO declaration. The U.N. is keen to avoid panic.We must guard against rash and discriminatory action, such as travel bans or trade restrictions,said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Fear has already gripped Argentina, where thousands have flooded hospitals this week, bringing emergency health services in Buenos Aires to the brink of collapse during winter weather. Last month, a bus arriving in Argentina from Chile was stoned by people who thought a passenger had swine flu.China has quarantined travelers, including New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, on the slightest suspicion of contact with an infected person.The U.S. government has already increased the availability of flu-fighting medicines and authorized $1 billion for developing a new swine flu vaccine. In addition, new cases seem to be declining in many parts of the country, U.S. health officials say, as North America moves out of its traditional winter flu season.Still, New York City reported three more swine flu deaths Thursday, including a child under 2, a teenager and a person in their 30s.Countries where outbreaks appear to have peaked should prepare for a second wave of infection,Chan warned.AP Medical Writers Maria Cheng reported from London and Michael Stobbe contributed from Atlanta. Jordans reported from Geneva. Michael E. Miller in Mexico City, Edith Lederer in New York, Dikky Sinn in Hong Kong, Vincente L. Panetta in Buenos Aires, and Bradley S. Klapper and Eliane Engeler in Geneva also contributed.

WHO declares level 6 swine flu pandemic -- first time since 1968
BY Brian Kates DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Thursday, June 11th 2009, 2:29 PM Abd/AP

Patients wearing a face mask, as a precaution to swine flu, wait for a doctor at the the San Juan de Dios hospital in Guatemala City.As the death toll climbs, the World Health Organization declared a swine flu pandemic, a move that could prompt fast-track production of preventive vaccines.The declaration of a global epidemic came Thursday as WHO officials huddled in an emergency session in Geneva in the wake of 141swine flu deaths worldwide, including 12 in New York City.It is likely in light of sustained community transmission in countries outside of North America - most notably in Australia - that level 6 will be declared, Scotland's Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon told Scottish lawmakers. It is the first flu pandemic declared by the WHO since the Hong Kong flu killed an estimated 1 million people in 1968.On Wednesday, WHO reported 27,737 cases worldwide, most of them mild and requiring no treatment.WHO chief Dr. Margaret Chan says she believes a pandemic is under way, but was seeking proof that the H1N1 strain is spreading rapidly from person to person outside the Americas before declaring a global epidemic.The world is better prepared than ever for a pandemic, with stockpiles of antiviral drugs like Roche's Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKline's Relenza, experts said.Sanofi Pasteur and other major pharmaceutical companies have been working on a swine flu vaccine since last month, when WHO gave them a seed stock of the virus created by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.It could take up to six months before large amounts of a swine flu vaccine are available, GlaxoSmithKline spokesman Stephen Rea said.On Wednesday, city officials reported three more swine flu deaths, bringing the death toll to 12. The City Council scheduled an oversight hearing for Thursday on the H1N1 virus.The Health Department estimated that more than 500,000 city residents may have been sickened by the virus. The highest incidence is in Queens, where the outbreak began in April.

Ordinary flu kills about 250,000 to 500,000 people each year.

Without vaccines, the H1N1 flu strain could return to the northern hemisphere in a far more virulent form in winter, cause widespread sickness and death, mass work absences, and major disruption to trade, some experts fear.The World Bank estimated last year that a serious pandemic could cost $3 trillion and cut global gross domestic product by nearly 5%.With News Wire Services.

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 FRI JUNE 12,2009

09:30 AM -1.10
10:00 AM -38.24
10:30 AM -17.46
11:00 AM +4.00
11:30 AM -12.47
12:00 PM -18.82
12:30 PM -12.10
01:00 PM -12.70
01:30 PM -13.15
02:00 PM -3.40
02:30 PM -10.89
03:00 PM +18.06
03:30 PM +16.32
04:00 PM +28.34 8799.26

S&P 500 946.21 +1.32

NASDAQ 1858.80 -3.57

GOLD 939.70 -22.30

OIL 72.20 -0.43

TSE 300 10,644.96 -69.15

CDNX 1154.81 +6.49

S&P/TSX/60 646.17 -4.66

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -0.06%
S&P +4.61%
Nasdaq +18.09%
TSX Advances 1,026,declines 570,unchanged 253,Volume 2,285,552,410.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 491,Declines 383,Unchanged 358,Volume 328,899,589.

Dow -52 PTS at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -54 PTS at low today.
Dow +12 Pts at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $941.10.OIL OPENS AT 71.57 TODAY.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -54 points at low today so far.
Dow +12 points at high today so far.

DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 1,373,declines 1,859,unchanged 125,New Highs 13,New Lows 42.
Volume 1,223,905,879.
NASDAQ Advances 1,002,declines 1,342,unchanged 116,New highs 17,New Lows 7.
Volume 361,763,005.
TSX Advances 631,declines 746,unchanged 262,Volume 1,057,113,613.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 338,Declines 297,Unchanged 315,Volume 159,197,325.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -54 points at low today.
Dow +35 points at high today.
Dow +0.32% today Volume 164,016,223.
Nasdaq -0.19% today Volume 2,048,837,700.
S&P 500 +0.14% today Volume N/A

RECORD LOWS DOW
-Sept 30,1996 5,882.17
-Oct 30,1996 5,993.23
-Nov 6,1996 6,177.71
-Dec 16,1996 6,268.35
-Apr 15,1997 6,587.16
-Apr 21,1997 6,660.21
-Apr 28,1997 6,783.02
-May 1,1997 6,976.48
-May 7,1997 7,085.65

RECORD LOWS S&P 500
-Sept 5,1996 649.44
-Sept 6,1996 655.68
-Sept 11,1996 667.28
-Sept 12,1996 671.13
-Oct 1,1996 689.08
-Oct 28,1996 697.26
-Nov 4,1996 706.73
-Nov 5,1996 714.14
-Dec 17,1996 726.04

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE,WEEKENDER
Dow +0.26%
S&P +4.76%
Nasdaq +17.87%
CANADAS WEEK ENDING STATS
TSX Advances 733,Declines 828,Unchanged 257 Volume 1,948,976,679.
TSX Venture Advances 465,Declines 384,Unchanged 336 Volume 292,949,161.

BERNANKE DENIAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INmqvibv4UU&feature=player_embedded
BERNANKE CONFRONTED ABOUT BILDERBERG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVjIQllKRgs&feature=player_embedded
HAASS IGNORES BILDERBERG QUESTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-YQgHgJoLg&feature=player_embedded
RICHARD GAGE ON COAST TO COAST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OELOQvWa8g8&feature=player_embedded
BECK AGAINST FIRST RESPONDERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AiSRCcfLDs&feature=player_embedded

Geithner Said to Tell Bernanke Fed Gains Most in Rules Overhaul
By Robert Schmidt and Jesse Westbrook

June 12 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve is likely to emerge as the most powerful regulatory agency in the Obama administration’s plan for overhauling financial market oversight, people familiar with the proposal said. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Chairman Ben S. Bernanke in a June 9 meeting the administration will call for the Fed to be the regulator of firms deemed too big to fail, one of the people said. While a council of regulators would share oversight of financial risks, Treasury officials describe it as weak, lacking power to make final decisions on intervening with the firms, the people said. The proposal is just the first step in what may become the biggest revamp of U.S. financial rules in seven decades, and will be subject to intense debate in Congress, analysts said. Its focus on the Fed clashes with rising skepticism among some lawmakers as to whether the central bank has appropriately used its emergency lending powers during the crisis. No matter what Treasury proposes next week, Congress is going to play a very heavy hand in this, said Camden Fine, president of the Independent Community Bankers of America, a Washington trade group.It’s a fluid situation and it will remain fluid.Bernanke came under fire at a House Oversight Committee hearing yesterday for his role last year in what some legislators said was pressuring Bank of America Corp. to complete its takeover of Merrill Lynch & Co.

New Fed Lobbyist

The central bank has hired a former aide to President Bill Clinton’s three Treasury secretaries, Linda Robertson, to help bolster its public image and plot legislative strategy as Congress debates the regulatory changes. Robertson served as a lobbyist for Enron Corp.In President Barack Obama’s plan, scheduled to be released June 17, the Fed is also expected to retain supervisory authority over bank holding companies and the state-chartered banks it currently regulates, the people familiar with the matter said.Asked yesterday whether the Fed or a council should be the regulator for systemically important banks, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, said: We’re still talking about that.Under the administration plan, the central bank would lose its responsibilities for some issues relating to credit cards, mortgages and financial education to a newly created consumer protection agency, the people said.

SEC’s Role

The Fed’s gain in the Obama plan is unlikely to erode the role of the Securities and Exchange Commission in regulating money managers, brokerage firms and stock exchanges.SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro left the June 9 meeting with Geithner, the former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Bernanke increasingly confident her agency wouldn’t lose its current responsibilities, people familiar with the matter said.The administration had earlier discussed stripping the SEC of its authority over mutual funds, people familiar with the matter said last month. The proposal to give the Fed enhanced duties has also drawn criticism from former regulators, who say the central bank failed to curtail business practices that triggered billions of dollars of losses at financial institutions after the U.S. mortgage market collapsed in 2007.

Should Be Fired

If the Fed hasn’t been worried about systemic risk all these years, then people really should be fired,former SEC Chairman Richard Breeden told lawmakers in March. Rather than simply calling for more authority for people who didn’t use the authority they already had, we need to reexamine why our regulators missed so many of the risks staring them in the face.Citigroup Inc., whose primary regulator is the Fed, has received $45 billion in government cash injections after loans made to less-creditworthy homebuyers defaulted and the bank had to bail out investment funds set up to hold higher-risk mortgage securities off its balance sheet. The Fed conducted routine inspections and examinations of the New York-based bank. In the Merrill controversy, Bank of America Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Lewis told New York state investigators earlier this year that Bernanke and Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson pressured him to complete the purchase even as Merrill’s spiraling losses posed risks to Bank of America and its shareholders. At the House hearing yesterday, some lawmakers alleged the Fed overstepped its authority. In one Dec. 20 e-mail released by the committee, Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker wrote that Bernanke planned to make it even more clear that if Bank of America tried to back out of the deal and they need assistance, management is gone.In an April letter to Representative Dennis Kucinich, chairman of the oversight panel’s domestic policy subcommittee, Bernanke said the Fed acted with the highest integrity during its discussions with Bank of America on Merrill Lynch and didn’t seek to withhold any information from the public.To contact the reporter on this story: Robert Schmidt in Washington at rschmidt5@bloomberg.net; Jesse Westbrook in Washington at jwestbrook1@bloomberg.net.Last Updated: June 12, 2009 00:01 EDT

Britain should join the Euro, says Mandy, as he praises great success of single currencyBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 11:49 AM on 12th June 2009

Lord Mandelson has reopened the divisive issue of joining the single currency.
The Business Secretary described it as an important objective for Britain during a trip to Berlin, hailing the euro as a great success. It is the first time such a senior minister has openly enthused about the euro for over five years. Gordon Brown effectively closed down the debate on scrapping the pound with his five tests in.
All powerful: Business Secretary Peter Mandelson addresses a news conference in Berlin yesterday. He described the euro as a great success.The First Secretary of State said: Does it remain an important objective for Britain to find itself in the same currency as that single market in which it interacts? Obviously yes.He insisted that such a decision was for the future and had to be made on the right terms in the right circumstances.However, he added: It is perfectly clear that the euro has been a great success in anchoring its eurozone members during the financial crisis.

More...Good news for holidaymakers as the pound hits a 2009 high against the euro

I hope people will recognise that this represents a major vindication for the single currency.However, the Tories stressed that countries that had joined the euro had lost control over monetary policy.Shadow foreign secretary William Hague said:It is deeply disturbing that the man who now makes most of the Government's policies has declared that Britain should join the euro.

Fraudsters eye huge stimulus pie, consultant says JUNE 12,09

Companies will face extra requirements to prevent problemsExplore related topics
Banks Story Comments (218) Alert Email Print ShareBy Greg Morcroft, MarketWatch
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Swindlers, con men, and thieves could siphon off as much as $50 billion of the government's planned stimulus package as the money begins flooding the economy in coming months, according to David Williams, who runs Deloitte Financial Services Advisory and counsels clients on fraud prevention. Williams predicted that about $500 million of the total $787 billion stimulus would be channeled into the traditional procurement network for government contracts, while the rest will be spent directly by the government or outside the corporate network. The rule of thumb typically is that of the about $500 billion worth of money that's going to run through the procurement process, somewhere between 5% and 10% of that usually finds it way into potential problems,Williams said.That's sort of the benchmark that I use.Companies will face increased pressure to try to stem the tide, and need to be prepared to safeguard data as well as the cash, according to Williams.

Williams said this week that the money flowing from the current stimulus package is particularly vulnerable to fraud because almost all movement of money is now done electronically. We're telling our clients to be very careful and to make sure their firms are resilient in terms of dealing with the potential opportunities for fraud and waste,Williams said. That means keeping an eye out for the traditional scams such as billing for services not performed. But it also means firms must become even more diligent about electronic records and network security. It becomes ever more important that firms remain diligent about their data,Williams said.Stimulus Funds Susceptible to FraudAs much as 10% of the federal government's stimulus money is likely to get lost to fraud, says David Williams, chief executive of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services. MarketWatch's Greg Morcroft reports. Earlier this month, FBI Director Robert Mueller warned the nation to brace for a potential crime wave involving fraud and corruption related to the economic stimulus package.These funds are inherently vulnerable to bribery, fraud, conflicts of interest, and collusion. There is an old adage, that where there is money to be made, fraud is not far behind, like bees to honey,Mueller said. See full story. Earlier this month, Vice President Joe Biden said some stimulus-related scams had already happened and that some mistakes were inevitable. President Barack Obama said Monday that the White House is trying to make sure the stimulus money isn't being ill-spent.He said many of the safeguards and transparency measures so far seem to have worked but added his administration will have to stay vigilant. At a time when everybody is tightening their belts, the last thing the American people want to see is that any of this money is being wasted,Obama said.

Potential damage
Williams suggested that the fraud and theft losses from the roughly $787 billion stimulus package approved earlier this year could reach about $50 billion. Williams said firms would be well advised to beef up monitoring of their transaction systems, and that his firm is helping clients develop software and computer systems to predict and catch fraud before it gets started. Williams acknowledged that the FBI has geared up its efforts to focus on financial scams. He said other agencies, including the Department of Justice and industry watchdogs, are also beefing up oversight. They are going to spend their time making sure that this money gets to being used in the way it's supposed to be used,Williams added. After 9-11, counterterrorism became the FBI's top priority, even as the agency grappled with corporate crime such as the Enron and WorldCom scandals, said Mueller, who took the helm of the FBI on Sept. 4, 2001, just one week ahead of the terrorist attacks. The 9-11 attacks prompted the FBI and other government agencies to divert resources from financial fraud and other corporate crimes to fighting terrorism, including the transfer of 2,000 agents tracking white-collar crime to counterterrorism, Mueller said. But now the focus is returning to white-collar crime and fraud in a big way. These rules will come right back to haunt companies if they are not careful, Williams said.So firms need to make sure that their organizations are ready to receive funds and protect those funds diligently as the potential for fraud surfaces.He said that for the largest companies used to doing contract work with the government a high level of oversight will be business as usual.But there will be others where this is unprecedented and they will have to do more to comply,Williams added.Meanwhile, Obama said the White House will keep trying to make sure citizens know where the stimulus money is going. We're going to do it continuing to operate in a transparent fashion so that taxpayers know this money is not being wasted on a bunch of boondoggles, Obama said at the White House on Monday.Greg Morcroft is MarketWatch's financial editor in New York. Robert Schroeder contributed to this story from Washington.

Nobel Economist Stiglitz: Government’s Response is WORSE than Socialism
Washington’s Blog Thursday, June 11, 2009

Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says that the government’s response to the financial crisis is worse than socialism:Some have called this socialism with American characteristics. But socialism is concerned about ordinary individuals. By contrast, the US has provided little help for the millions of its people who are losing their homes. Workers who lose their jobs receive only 39 weeks of limited unemployment benefits, and are then left on their own. And, when they lose their jobs, most also lose their health insurance.America has expanded its corporate safety net in unprecedented ways, from commercial banks to investment banks, then to insurance, and now to cars, with no end in sight. In truth, this is not socialism, but an extension of long-standing corporate welfarism. The rich and powerful turn to the Government to help them whenever they can, while needy individuals get little social protection.We need to break up the too-big-to-fail banks; there is no evidence that these behemoths deliver societal benefits that are commensurate with the costs they have imposed.This raises another problem with America’s too-big-to-fail, too-big-to-be-restructured banks: they are too politically powerful. Their lobbying efforts worked well, first to deregulate, and then to have taxpayers pay for the clean-up. Their hope is that it will work again to keep them free to do as they please, regardless of the risks for taxpayers and the economy. We cannot afford to let that happen.I believe the word Stiglitz is looking for is oligarchy.