WORLDWIDE PEOPLE MISSING IN HAITI QUAKE

1 TIMOTHY 1:9
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

PDD 51 & New Executive Order Give Obama Dictator Power
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, January 18, 2010
http://www.infowars.com/pdd-51-new-executive-order-give-obama-dictator-power/

An Obama executive order that creates a council of state governors who will work with the feds to expand military involvement in domestic security, together with PDD 51, a Bush era executive order that gives the President dictatorial power in times of national emergency, eliminate the last roadblocks to declaring martial law in the United States.The new order, which is entitled Establishment of the Council of Governors (PDF), creates a body of ten state governors directly appointed by Obama who will work with the federal government to help advance the synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities in the United States.The governors will liaise with officials from Northcom, Homeland Security, the National Guard as well as DoD officials from the Pentagon in order to strengthen further the partnership between the Federal Government and State governments, according to the executive order.The exective order combines seamlessly with Presidential Decision Directive 51 to hand Obama dictator status in times of declared, and not necessarily genuine, national emergency.In May 2007, former President George W. Bush sparked much alarm by openly declaring himself to be a dictator in the event of a national emergency under provisions that effectively nullify the U.S. constitution, but such an infrastructure has been in place for over 70 years and this merely represented a re-authorization of martial law powers.Legislation signed on May 9, 2007, declares that in the event of a catastrophic event, the President can take total control over the government and the country, bypassing all other levels of government at the state, federal, local, territorial and tribal levels, and thus ensuring total unprecedented dictatorial power.

The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, which also places the Secretary of Homeland Security in charge of domestic security, was signed earlier without the approval or oversight of Congress and seemingly supercedes the National Emergency Act which allows the president to declare a national emergency but also requires that Congress have the authority to modify, rescind, or render dormant such emergency authority if it believes the president has acted inappropriately.Journalist Jerome Corsi, who studied the directive, also states that it makes no reference to Congress and its language appears to negate any requirement that the president submit to Congress a determination that a national emergency exists.In July 2007, Congressman Peter DeFazio (D – OR) was asked by his constituents to see what was contained within the classified portion of the White House’s plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack.Since DeFazio also sits on the Homeland Security Committee and has clearance to view classified material, the request would have appeared to be routine, but the Congressman was unceremoniously denied all access to view the documents, and the White House wouldn’t even give an excuse as to why he was barred.I just can’t believe they’re going to deny a member of Congress the right of reviewing how they plan to conduct the government of the United States after a significant terrorist attack, DeFazio told the Oregonian.We’re talking about the continuity of the government of the United States of America, DeFazio says.I would think that would be relevant to any member of Congress, let alone a member of the Homeland Security Committee.Maybe the people who think there’s a conspiracy out there are right,DeFazio concluded.These new powers have now been handed over to President Obama, allowing him, along with a body of councillors personally selected by him, to declare martial law without there necessarily being a genuine national emergency, greasing the skids for U.S. troops and National Guard to conduct domestic policing of the American people.In October 2008, Northcom, a Unified Combatant Command of the United States military based out of Peterson AFB, Colorado Springs, was assigned the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team returning from Iraq. An alarming September 8 Army Times report which was later denied after it sparked controversy stated that the troops would be used by Northcom to deal with civil unrest and crowd control in the aftermath of a national emergency.

The Obama executive order states that governors will help advise the feds on National Guard, homeland defense, and civil support activities.The fact that the order further blurs the lines between state and federal power, as well as greasing the skids for more military involvement in domestic affairs has stoked fears that Obama may be laying the groundwork for his promised national civilian security force.Conservatives and libertarians responded to the announcement by expressing their suspicion that Obama is preparing to give governors their marching orders in targeting anti-government types that have long been characterized as a terrorist threat by the feds in numerous reports stretching back over a decade.There is a definite purpose to this, wrote one commenter on the popular Free Republic website, The initial steps toward a domestic Civilian Security Force in each state, as called for by the fascisti during the campaign. It will be coordinated at the state level, under the authority of DHS and DoD and assorted agencies. The provision will be made for it to be federalized in an emergency, as is the National Guard.This is a concrete step toward eliminating the independent authority and dissolving the sovereignty of the several States. It lays the groundwork for the end of the United States as a Republic,she adds.Others warn that Obama could be preparing to cancel elections under the justification of a national emergency, a fear that was often expressed when Bush was in office but one that never materialized.However, the executive order clearly represents another assault on Posse Comitatus, the 1878 law that bars the military from exercising domestic police powers, which was temporarily annulled by the 2006 John Warner National Defense Authorization Act before parts of it were later repealed.

http://www.infowars.com/feds-cops-attempt-to-shut-down-legal-gun-sales-in-austin-texas/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lat1jw_1nyE&feature=player_embedded
Feds, Cops Attempt to Shut Down Legal Gun Sales in Austin, Texas
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com January 18, 2010

The police in Austin, at the behest of the federal Bureau of Alcohol and Firearms, has attempted to shut down legal gun sales. The Texas Gun Shows website has the following posted: Vendor notice – Austin show only: At the direction of the Austin Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, ONLY LICENSED FFL DEALERS will be allowed to set up and sell firearms at the N. Austin show location.The notice posted at Texas Gun Shows.FFL is short for Federal Firearms License.It is a federal license that enables an individual or a company to engage in a business pertaining to the manufacture of firearms and ammunition or the interstate and intrastate sale of firearms. It does not control gun sales between individuals on the local level.Texas residents may purchase rifles, shotguns, handguns ammunition, reloading components, or firearms accessories. No permit or registration is required under state law. It is unlawful to knowingly sell, rent, give or offer to sell, rent or give any firearm to a person under 18 years of age, without the written consent of his parent or guardian, but entirely legal for adults to sell firearms.The BATF and Austin cops are attempting to discourage gun sales with this color of law trick. It is not backed up by any law on the books. It is intimidation.In recent years the feds have attempted to portray entirely legal gunshows as a nexus for criminal activity. Gun Show Undercover, a project of the City of New York and its mayor the anti-Second Amendment extremist Michael Bloomberg, has traveled around the country and filmed what it declares to be illegal gun sales. The BATF claims that 30 percent of guns involved in federal illegal gun trafficking investigations are connected to gun shows.

The BATF claims Mexican drug cartels exploit the so-called gun-show loophole.Guns are purchased illegally, sold at a profit to drug dealers and used to kill innocent people and police officers, all while local law enforcement authorities lack the federal support they need to do their job, Bloomberg wrote in April, 2009.The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has estimated that 90 percent to 95 percent of the guns recovered at Mexican crime scenes have been purchased in the United States, because Mexico’s laws make it much more difficult for criminals to buy guns.Bloomberg has pushed for closing down gun shows. More than 350 mayors from both political parties have joined together to urge Congress to repeal these restrictions – and to close the gun-show loophole, a step both Sen. John McCain and President Obama have supported,he wrote.In response to this propaganda, Fox News reported that 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S. Most of the illegal guns sold in Mexico originate from South Korea, China, and Russia. Interpol says Russian Mafia groups such as Poldolskaya and Moscow-based Solntsevskaya are actively trafficking drugs and arms in Mexico.For now, gun sales between adults are legal in Texas. Residents of Austin should not be intimidated by this bogus color of law attempt to chill the Second Amendment.On his Sunday show, Alex responded to the Austin cops and feds trying to shut down legal sales between individuals at gun shows.

WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnq5cQMiAB8&feature=related
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links
DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.

EPHESIANS 6:10-13
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,(DEMONIC ANGELS IN HIGH PLACES) against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.(SPIRTIUAL DEMONIC PERSONS)
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

LUKE 4:5-7(BECAUSE SATAN OFFERS WORLD POWER, WORLD ORDERERS HAVE ACCEPTED SATANS GIFT)
5 And the devil, taking him (JESUS) up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.

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

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

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

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

We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950

Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.

KNOW THE TRUTH OF OBAMA HEALTHCARE BILL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcBaSP31Be8&feature=player_embedded
http://www.infowars.com/flashback-know-the-truth-about-h-r-3200-obamas-health-care-bill/

THE 3 AMEGO WAR MONGARS TEAM UP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLAstyeUIt0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.infowars.com/disgusting-war-criminals-peddle-humanitarian-aid-for-haiti/

Rothschilds & Rockefellers: Trillionaires Of The World
New World Order Infowars.com January 17, 2010

Money is Power, or shall we say, The Monopoly to Create Credit Money and charge interest is Absolute Power. (Alex James)

Amsel (Amschel) Bauer Mayer Rothschild, 1838: Let me issue and control a Nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws.

Letter written from London by the Rothschilds to their New York agents introducing their banking method into America: The few who can understand the system will be either so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favours, that there will be no opposition from that class, while, on the other hand, that great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that Capital derives from the system, will bear its burden without complaint and, perhaps, without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.

Nathan Rothschild said to the Commons Secret Committee on the question early in 1819: In what line of business are you? – Mostly in the foreign banking line. Have the goodness to state to the Committee in detail, what you conceive would be the consequence of an obligation imposed upon the Bank [of England, which he owned] to resume cash payments at the expiration of a year from the present time? – I do not think it can be done without very great distress to this country; it would do a great deal of mischief; we may not actually know ourselves what mischief it might cause.Have the goodness to explain the nature of the mischief, and in what way it would be produced? – Money will be so very scarce, every article in this country will fall to such an enormous extent, that many persons will be ruined.

The director of the Prussian Treasury wrote on a visit to London that Nathan Rothschild had as early as 1817: .., incredible influence upon all financial affairs here in London. It is widely stated.., that he entirely regulates the rate of exchange in the City. His power as a banker is enormous.

Austrian Prince Mettemich’s secretary wrote of the Rothschilds, as early as 1818, that: … they are the richest people in Europe.

Referring to James Rothschild, the poet Heinrich Heine said: Money is the god of our times, and Rothschild is his prophet.

James Rothschild built his fabulous mansion, called Ferrilres, 19 miles north-east of Paris. Wilhelm I, on first seeing it, exclaimed: Kings couldn’t afford this. It could only belong to a Rothschild!

Author Frederic Morton wrote that the Rothschilds had: conquered the World more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before…

As Napoleon pointed out: Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest - he cancelled debt and interest in France – hence the Battle of Waterloo.

Some writers have claimed that Nathan Rothschild warned that the United States would find itself involved in a most disastrous war if the bank’s charter were not renewed.(do you see the similarities here? If you don’t play the game an economic disaster will fall on you and you will be destroyed.)

There is but one power in Europe and that is Rothschild. 19th century French commentator.

Lord Rothschild (Rockefellers and Rothschilds’ relatives) in his book The Shadow of a Great Man quotes a letter sent from Davidson on June 24, 1814 to Nathan Rothschild, As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world. The closeness of the Rothschild brothers is seen in a letter from Soloman (Salmon) Rothschild to his brother Nathan on Feb. 28, 1815, We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential. (2) This closeness is further seen in that of the 18 marriages made by Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s grandchildren – 16 were contracted between first cousins.

Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. The Communist Manifesto. In the case of the Bolshevik revolution, Rothschilds/ Rockefellers’ Chase Bank owned the state. In the US, the FED owners own the state.

Rothschilds’ favorite saying who along with the Rockefellers are the major Illuminati Banking Dynasties: Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!

Nathan Rothschild said (1777-1836): I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire. The man who controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire and I control the British money supply.

Rockefeller is reported to have said: Competition is a sin. Own nothing. Control everything. Because he wants to centralize control of everything and enslave us all, i.e. the modern Nimrod or Pharaoh.

The Rothschild were behind the colonization and occupations of India and the Rothschild owned British Petroleum was granted unlimited rights to all offshore Indian oil, which is still valid till this day.

Give me the control of the credit of a nation, and I care not who makes the laws. The famous boastful statement of Nathaniel Meyer Rothschild, speaking to a group of international bankers, 1912: The few who could understand the system (cheque, money, credits) will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favours, that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.The boastful statement by Rothschild Bros. of London.

These people are the top masterminds and conspired for the creation of illegal FEDERAL RESERVE BANK in 1913: Theodore Roosevelt, Paul Warburg – Representative Of Rothschild, Woodrow Wilson – U.S. President Signed FED Into Act, Nelson W. Aldrich – Representative Of Rockefeller, Benjamin Strong – Representative Of Rockefeller, Frank A. Vanderlip – Representative Of Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller – Rockefeller Himself, Henry Davison – Representative Of J. P. Morgan, Charles Norton –Representative Of J. P. Morgan.

In the last century, members of the British Fabian Society dynastic banking families in the City of London financed the Communist takeover of Russia. Trotsky in his biography refers to some of the loans from these British financiers going back as far as 1907. By 1917 the major subsidies and funding for the Bolshevik Revolution were co-ordinated and arranged by Sir George Buchanan and Lord Alfred Milner. [no doubt using money from Cecil Rhodes' South African gold and diamond legacy - Ed] The Communist system in Russia was a British experiment designed ultimately to become the Fabian Socialist model for the British takeover of the World through the UN and EU. The British plan to takeover the World and bring in a New World Order began with the teachings of John Ruskin and Cecil Rhodes at Oxford University. Rhodes in one of his wills in 1877 left his vast fortune to Lord Nathan Rothschild as trustee to set up the Rhodes Scholarship Program at Oxford to indoctrinate promising young graduates for the purpose, and also establish a secret society [Royal Institute of International Affairs RIIA, which branched into the Round Table, the Bilderbergers, the CFR, the Trilateral, etc -- Ed] for leading business and banking leaders around the World who would work for the City to bring in their Socialist World government.

Rothschild appointed Lord Alfred Milner to implement the plan.

Benjamin Freedman (Friedman) said this in 1961, Washington (he was a millionaire insider in international Zionist organizations, friend to 4 US presidents, and was also part of the 117-man strong Zionist delegation at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 where Germany was forced into bankruptcy to the Zionist BankLords and social chaos): Two years into WW1, Germany, which was then winning the war, offered Britain and France a negotiated peace deal, but German Zionist groups seeing the opportunity made a deal with Britain to get the United States into the war if Britain promised to give the Zionists Palestine.

In other words, they made this deal: We will get the United States into this war as your ally. The price you must pay us is Palestine after you have won the war and defeated Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey.They made that promise, in October of 1916. And shortly after that — I don’t know how many here remember it — the United States, which was almost totally pro-German because the newspapers and mass communications media here were controlled by the Zionist bankers who owned the major commercial banks and the 12 Federal Reserve Banks (the original Stockholders of the Federal Reserve Banks in 1913 were the Rockefeller’ s, JP Morgan, Rothschild’s, Lazard Freres, Schoellkopf, Kuhn-Loeb, Warburgs, Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs, all with roots in Germany’s Zionists like the British Royal family, J.P. Morgan, Carnegie, Bush, Rumsfeld, Clintons, the Nazis that were brought into the CIA, etc. http://land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/federal_reserve.shtml ) and they were pro-German because they wanted to use Germany to destroy the Czar of Russia and let the Communists whom they funded take over. The German Zionist bankers — Rothschilds, Rockefeller, Kuhn Loeb and the other big banking firms in the United States refused to finance France or England to the extent of one dollar. They stood aside and they said: As long as France and England are tied up with Russia, not one cent! They poured money into Germany, fighting with Germany against Russia, to lick the Czarist regime. The newspapers had been all pro-German, where they’d been telling the people of the difficulties that Germany was having fighting Great Britain commercially and in other respects, then after making the deal with the British for Palestine, all of a sudden the Germans were no good. They were villains. They were Huns. They were shooting Red Cross nurses. They were cutting off babies’ hands. And they were no good. The Zionists in London sent cables to the US, to Justice Brandeis: Go to work on President Wilson. We’re getting from England what we want. Now you go to work, and you go to work on President Wilson and get the US into the war. And that did happen. Shortly after President Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany.

The power of the Rothschild family was evidenced on 24 Sept 2002 when a helicopter touched down on the lawn of Waddedson Manor, their ancestral home in Buckinghamshire, England. Out of the helicopter strode Warren Buffet, – touted as the second richest man in the World but really a lower ranking player- and Arnold Schwarzenegger (the gropinator), at that time a candidate for the Governorship of California. Also in attendance at this two day meeting of the World’s most powerful businessmen and financiers hosted by Jacob Rothschild were James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank and Nicky Oppenheimer, chairman of De Beers. Arnold went on to secure the governorship of one of the biggest economies on the planet a year later. That he was initiated into the ruling class in the Rothschilds’ English country manor suggests that the centre of gravity of the three hundred trillion dollar cartel is in the U.K. and Europe not the U.S.

A recent article in the London Financial Times indicates why it is impossible to gain an accurate estimate of the wealth of the trillionaire bankers. Discussing the sale of Evelyn Rothschild’s stake in Rothschild Continuation Holdings, it states: …[this] requires agreement on the valuation of privately held assets whose value has never been tested in a public market. Most of these assets are held in a complex network of tax-efficient structures around the World.

Queen Elizabeth II’s shareholdings remain hidden behind Bank of England Nominee accounts. The Guardian newspaper reported in May 2002 … the reason for the wild variations in valuations of her private wealth can be pinned on the secrecy over her portfolio of share investments. This is because her subjects have no way of knowing through a public register of interests where she, as their head of state, chooses to invest her money. Unlike the members of the Commons and now the Lords, the Queen does not have to annually declare her interests and as a result her subjects cannot question her or know about potential conflicts of interests… In fact, the Queen even has an extra mechanism to ensure that her investments remain secret – a nominee company called the Bank of England Nominees. It has been available for decades to the entire World’s current heads of state to allow them anonymity when buying shares. Therefore, when a company publishes a share register and the Bank of England Nominees is listed, it is not possible to gauge whether the Queen, President Bush or even Saddam Hussein is the true shareholder.

By this method, the trillionaire masters of the universe remain hidden whilst Forbes magazine poses lower ranking billionaires like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett as the richest men in the World. Retired management consultant Gaylon Ross Sr, author of Who’s Who of the Global Elite, has been tipped from a private source that the combined wealth of the Rockefeller family in 1998 was approx (US) $11 trillion and the Rothschilds (U.S.) $100 trillion. However something of an insider’s knowledge of the hidden wealth of the elite is contained in the article, Will the Dollar and America Fall Down on August 19?..on page 1 of the 12th July 2001 issue of Russian newspaper Pravda. The newspaper interviewed Tatyana Koryagina, a senior research fellow in the Institute of Macroeconomic Researches subordinated to the Russian Ministry of Economic Development (Minekonom) on the subject of a recent conference concerning the fate of the U.S. economy:

Koryagina: The known history of civilization is merely the visible part of the iceberg. There is a shadow economy, shadow politics and also a shadow history, known to conspirologists. There are [unseen] forces acting in the World, unstoppable for [most powerful] countries and even continents.

Ashley Mote (EU): Mr President, I wish to draw your attention to the Global Security Fund, set up in the early 1990s under the auspices of Jacob Rothschild. This is a Brussels-based fund and it is no ordinary fund: it does not trade, it is not listed and it has a totally different purpose. It is being used for geopolitical engineering purposes, apparently under the guidance of the intelligence services.I have previously asked about the alleged involvement of the European Union’s own intelligence resources in the management of slush funds in offshore accounts, and I still await a reply. To that question I now add another: what are the European Union’s connections to the Global Security Fund and what relationship does it have with European Union institutions? “Recently, Ashley Mote of the European Union (EU) asked this volatile question in a public EU meeting, a question never answered, as Mr. Mote, merely by asking this question, was immediately scratched from the White House Christmas card list and placed on its top ten hit list. The Illuminati’s cash cow, grazing freely on the World wide pasture of greenbacks, isn’t called Elsie but instead is called the Global Security Fund, a name actually meaning in the secret cult’s language Global Terrorist Fund. In simple terms, it’s a gigantic illegal trust fund, estimated by undercover overseas financial investigators at 65 trillion dollars, set-up for Illuminati rainy days and established when it is desperately needed in a pinch for bribery, assassinations and sponsoring World wide terrorist activities to divert attention from their banking mafia. Although the fund is cloaked in secrecy and made possible by the Western civilization’ s Federal Reserve banking system, investigators trying to pry into the Illuminati’s secret treasure trove have uncovered some interesting facts.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

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.

REVELATION 3:10-11
10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from (NOT THROUGH) the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world,(7 YR TRIBULATION) to try them that dwell upon the earth.
11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

LUKE 21:28
28 And when these things(ALL THE SIGNS COMING TO PASS,THE BEGGININGS OF THEM) begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.(THE RAPTURE CAN OCCURR ANY SECOND NOW).

Religious Haitians see hand of God in earthquake By MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press Writer – Sun Jan 17, 7:03 pm ET

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Deeply religious Haitians see the hand of God in the destruction of Biblical proportions visited on their benighted country. The quake, religious leaders said Sunday, is evidence that He wants change.Exactly what change He wants depends on the faith: Some Christians say it's a sign that Haitians must deepen their faith, while some Voodoo followers see God's judgment on corruption among the country's mostly light-skinned elite.And then there's American evangelist Pat Robertson, who said Wednesday that Haiti had been cursed by a pact he said its slave founders made with the devil two centuries ago to overthrow their French rulers and become the world's first black republic. The White House called his remarks stupid.As desperate believers gathered to pray Sunday across the shattered capital, the Rev. Eric Toussaint told a congregation gathered outside the ruined cathedral that the earthquake is a sign from God, saying that we must recognize his power.Haitians, he said, need to reinvent themselves, to find a new path to God.

Some followers of Voodoo, practised alongside Roman Catholicism by the vast majority of Haitians, said the devastation of key symbols of power was punishment for corrupt leaders who have allowed the mostly light-skinned elite to enrich themselves while the black majority suffers.If all of a sudden, in 15 seconds, 20 seconds, all the physical representations of corruption are destroyed, it gives you pause for thought,said Richard Morse, a renowned Haitian-American musician whose mother was a singer and revered Voodoo priestess. The Justice Ministry: down. The National Palace: down. The United Nations headquarters: down.Unharmed by the quake was the famed bronze statue, Le Maron Inconnu — the Unknown Escaped Slave — noted Morse, who owns the Oloffson Hotel featured in Graham Greene's novel The Comedians.The destruction of every major Catholic church in the capital, including the 81-year-old cathedral, also was a sign, he said: When there is all this corruption going on, whose role is it in society to speak out? Isn't the Church supposed to say something?
Most Haitians are Christian — largely Catholic with a small but growing number of Protestants. But most also practice Voodoo, which along with Catholicism is an official state religion.

Several people were seen issuing apocalyptic warnings on the streets Sunday, including a man standing in front of the collapsed National Palace shouting: Redeem yourselves! The end of the world is near! But Morse noted that Haitians are already very religious. His countrymen may suffer many ills, but when it comes to spiritual strength, Haiti is one of the richest nations in the world.And in that sense, the earthquake seems to have been counterproductive in terms of salvation.How could He do this to us?, cried Remi Polevard, who said his five children lie beneath in the rubble of a home near St. Gerard University. There is no God.Sunday night, as downtown residents began burning some of the bodies that have been rotting on the streets for five days, a woman walking by in an orange dress pulled out a copy of the Bible.She flung it into the fire.AP photojournalist Julie Jacobson contributed to this report.

Miles from capital, Haiti quake ruins coastal city By PETER PRENGAMAN, Associated Press Writer – JAN 18,10

JACMEL, Haiti – This coastal city normally would be gearing up for its raucous Carnival festival, with revelers in brightly decorated masks dancing in the streets and the air filled with joyous song.Instead, the streets are plugged with rubble, the air heavy with the stench of the dead. And the only melody is a mournful tune strummed by Gabriel Mollet.The unemployed Mollet played guitar amid the ruins on a downtown street Sunday, huddled with a few friends as they pondered their fate and the future of this once-graceful city that hoped to greet tourists for the pre-Lenten season.Mollet, 31, said the earthquake left little behind.Everything was taken from me except my life, he said.All around him were crumbled houses. Nearby, rescue workers from Colombia dug through a jumble of concrete, steel poles and splintered wood, searching for survivors. Though Jacmel wasn't hit as hard as parts of the capital 20 miles away, the situation here is dire.The main road to Port-au-Prince, normally a three-hour drive to the northeast on a twisting road, is blocked by debris, so food can only be brought in by air or atop motorcycles able to wind their way through.

Rescue crews were unable to bring in the heavy machinery they need to search for victims amid the rubble.We have yet to find anyone alive, said Jenny Ramirez, a Colombian firefighter.All we can do is try to help people we can see because we don't have the machinery to do more.The quake left the town's hospital seriously damaged, forcing a team of a few doctors and nurses to rush between patients at a makeshift clinic. About 100 people there were sprawled on the ground under tents.
We've got no supplies. We need help, Dr. Christelle Dessources said.It was difficult to say how many in this town of some 40,000 people were killed by the quake. Danny Pye, director of the children's home Joy in Hope, said initial estimates were about 3,000 dead.Some bodies have been put in the morgue, some have been buried; others remain in the streets.About three-quarters of the homes in Jacmel's downtown were damaged. The neighborhood was one of the charms that drew foreigners to the old port town, once home to wealthy coffee merchants. Mansions that belonged to the merchants, and other buildings with French-inspired architecture, have been turned into shops for artisans, whose colorful crafts and paintings were popular with tourists.The turquoise waters of Jacmel's bay and its serene reputation had made the town a tranquil contrast to the bustling and gritty Port-au-Prince. It boasted a large expatriate community — a mix of Europeans, mostly French, and some Americans — and was seen as a spot of hope amid Haiti's perpetual challenges.The earthquake likely will set back tourism several years. Norma di Pietro, a 50-year-old Italian traveler, was eager to escape.I've told myself that if I can leave this country, I'm never coming back. Never,she said.Di Pietro was inside a hotel when the quake struck. She ran out when the rumbling started, and has been sleeping outside ever since. She's trying to hire a plane to fly her to the neighboring Dominican Republic. I just want to get out of here, she said.

Thousands of people left homeless by the quake initially took to sleeping on Jacmel's airfield but only about 50 remained Sunday. The others have returned to what's left of their houses or found have refuge with the handful of missionaries in the area. Along the coastline, several bungalows normally filled with tourists were mangled. Dogs and pigs picked over garbage strewn through the rubble. Men asked visitors for money or food. Despite the desperation, locals said they hadn't witnessed any looting or violence. Every so often, a coastal breeze swept away the odor of the bodies, leaving the scent of salt in its place. Jacmel is still Jacmel, said Fenel Bruno, a Haitian missionary.We just need to clean it up.

Haiti's voodoo priests object to mass burials
Joseph Guyler Delva Sun Jan 17, 2010 5:20pm EST

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's voodoo priests are objecting to anonymous mass burials as an improper way to handle the tens of thousands of dead from the earthquake -- and have taken their complaint to President Rene Preval.Dumping the dead in hurriedly excavated mass graves without proper rites is seen as desecration in a country where many believe in zombies -- dead bodies brought back to life by supernatural forces who could persecute the living.Haitian officials say so far at least 50,000 bodies have been dumped in mass graves outside the shattered capital, Port-au-Prince, in what they view as the most efficient way to dispose of the fast-rotting corpses from Tuesday's disaster.It is not in our culture to bury people in such a fashion, Haiti's main voodoo leader, Max Beauvoir, said in a meeting with Preval.Local radio is broadcasting messages for Haitians to put bodies recovered from under the rubble of collapsed buildings on the street for collection by garbage and other trucks.The conditions in which bodies are being buried is not respecting the dignity of these people, Beauvoir, who was educated at City College of New York and the Sorbonne in Paris, said in the Preval meeting this weekend.More than half of Haiti's 9 million people are believed to practice voodoo, a religion with roots in Africa. Some 80 percent also are Catholic and most Haitians see no conflict between the two.

Five days after the earthquake, scores of untouched corpses, now bloated and stinking, remain on streets. Red Cross officials have repeatedly said no one should fear disease from dead bodies after the earthquake that is believed to have killed up to 200,000 people.I don't understand why everyone is worried about a disease risk,Haitian Red Cross President Michaelle Amedee Gedeon told Reuters.Do we have cholera in Haiti? No. Do we have the plague in Haiti? No. Rodents, water will not get contaminated. The only bad effect from the corpses is the smell.On Sunday, more bodies appeared overnight, with locals saying they were thieves burned and shot by lynch-mobs, gangs and police. They said about 20 people were killed like that.
(Additional reporting by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Anthony Boadle and Bill Trott)

WHEN THE EARTH MOVES U.N. chief's Haiti trip draws press outrage-Secretary-general's office slaps media: We are not responsible to you January 17, 2010 8:42 pm Eastern Stewart Stogel 2010 WorldNetDaily

UNITED NATIONS – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's recent foray to observe the situation in earthquake-ravaged Haiti has drawn press outrage. Earlier today, Ban, with a small group of carefully selected and managed journalists, left Newark Liberty International Airport for a one-day whirlwind tour of Port au Prince, the Haitian capital. Just which press went with the U.N. chief and how they were accredited has been kept secret, but the exclusive nature of the jaunt elicited an outcry from several outlets and has proved to be only the latest in a series of controversies over how the United Nations manages its relations with the world media. Ban spokesman Martin Nerisky explained, We don't have to tell you anything [on identifying the reporters]. ... This is not like naming a soccer team.Nesirky also told the U.N. press corps, bluntly,We are not responsible to you.Earlier, a Nesirky staffer admitted that a press list (which he had been compiling since the earthquake) may not go anywhere: I just do not know what they are going to do with the list.The list, it now appears, was no more than a diversion designed to keep news organizations from politicking the U.N. for space on the Haiti trip.

As to the criteria Nesirky used for his press selection, the Ban press secretary admitted it was personal.The original press list, partially obtained by WND, showed the only U.S. presence on the visit to be The New York Times (a Ban favorite) among 10 spots allocated for journalists. The French were given two seats on the U.N. plane. The exclusion of the Associated Press and Reuters brought howls from the wire services. Late complaints by the wires pressured Nesirky to review his press selections. Eventually, Nesirky relented and added AP, Reuters, CNN and Voice of America to his select group for future coverage. Even with the expanded group of journalists, the U.N. still sought fit to snub the three major U.S. broadcast networks, the Fox News Channel, The Wall Street Journal, The Miami Herald, Time magazine and The Times (of London) among many others – all for a trip that appears to be no more than a publicity campaign for the secretary-general. Ban, it is believed, wants to use the Haitian catastrophe to bolster his leadership image. The former South Korean foreign minister is in his third year of a five-year term and may be seeking a second term in 2011. And yet, a recent poll showed that almost 60 percent of Americans do not know who Ban Ki-moon is. Ban's staff hopes that a carefully orchestrated visit to Haiti will begin to address that problem. Preceding the U.N. chief, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the region yesterday. Former President Bill Clinton is the U.N.'s special Haitian envoy but conspicuously did not accompany Ban to Haiti.

The latest U.N. credential fiasco comes on top of frustration after numerous media organizations (including WND) experienced accreditation problems with the U.N. during the recent climate summit in Copenhagen. At that time, too, the U.N. refused to release the identities of those who received press access. The United States Mission to the United Nations, which had been actively involved in opening press access at the U.N. during the tenures of ambassadors John D. Negroponte, John Bolton and Zalmay Khalilzad, has been silent under current Permanent Representative Susan Rice.

Many countries report missing and dead in Haiti By The Associated Press – Sun Jan 17, 4:06 pm ET

A glance at countries reporting dead and missing in Haiti:

Antigua and Barbuda: 2 missing.
Austria: 1 dead.
Belgium: 3 missing.
Brazil: 15 dead and five missing.
Britain: 1 dead.
Canada: 8 dead, 1,115 unaccounted for.
Chile: 4 missing.
Costa Rica: 2 missing.
Denmark: 1 U.N. worker missing.
Dominican Republic: 6 dead.
El Salvador: 1 missing
France: 12 dead, government fears 20-30 may have died.
Germany: 1 dead, about 30 missing.
Italy: 1 dead, 3 feared dead; 10 others unaccounted for.
Mexico: 1 dead, 40 of the 80 Mexicans living in Haiti located.
Netherlands: 3 injured, including child; 18 missing.
Peru: 1 dead.
Poland: 4 missing.
Spain: 3 dead, 23 unaccounted for.
Tunisia: at least 1 dead (head of U.N. mission Hedi Annabi)
United States: 16 dead, 1 a U.S. government employee of whom 2 still missing. Some 45,000 Americans are in the country.
Uruguay: 3 missing.
United Nations: 37 U.N. personnel confirmed dead, nearly 330 missing. Some personnel may also be included in national counts.

Israeli PM in Berlin for historic joint cabinet meeting
JAN 18,10

BERLIN (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Berlin with top ministers Monday to hold a historic joint cabinet meeting on German soil, an AFP reporter said.The gathering of the two governments, the second ever after a similar meeting in Israel two years ago, will address urgent security issues such as Iran and underline the strong bond forged in the wake of the Holocaust.Netanyahu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were also to hold bilateral talks focused on efforts to revive Middle East peace talks and face threats to regional security, the prime minister's spokesman Mark Regev said.The trip is designed to strengthen and expand the cooperation between Israel and Germany. There is a very special relationship between Berlin and Jerusalem, Regev told AFP.We are focused on how to strengthen the relationship in order for there to be tangible cooperation today and in the future.

The leaders, along with five Israeli ministers and their German counterparts, will also visit the Holocaust Memorial near the Brandenburg Gate during the Israeli delegation's day-long stay in Berlin.Defence Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman were among members of Israel's centre-right cabinet joining the premier.The ministerial talks will cover a broad range of issues, including defence cooperation.Media have widely reported that Israel has ordered a sixth Dolphin-class diesel submarine from Germany. Israel currently has three Dolphins and has confirmed it ordered two more.The submarines are believed to have a range of 4,500 kilometers (2,800 miles) and the capacity to launch nuclear-capable cruise missiles.We attach great importance to our ties with Germany because of their economic and political impact and mainly because of Israel's security, Netanyahu told reporters ahead of his trip.Germany is playing a leading role in efforts to broker a prisoner exchange between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement for an Israeli soldier held by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip since 2006.The joint cabinet meeting was initially planned for November but was postponed because Netanyahu came down with a viral infection.Merkel and several of her ministers had made a similar visit to Jerusalem in March 2008.Germany is Israel's third biggest trade partner after the United States and China.

London-based Jewish newspaper attacked by hackers
JAN 18,10

LONDON – The Web site of Britain's flagship Jewish newspaper has been attacked by Turkish-speaking hackers, its editor said Monday.The site of the London-based Jewish Chronicle, the world's oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper, was replaced by a Palestinian flag and anti-Semitic writings for several hours, editor Stephen Pollard said.Somebody hacked into the site and had a message up for a couple of hours, Pollard told AP.It did no damage, as far as we can tell.The site was still unavailable early Monday. A version of the site cached by Google showed a large Palestinian flag against a black background. In a message posted in English and Turkish, a group calling itself the Palestinian Mujaheeds quotes from the Quran and attacks Jews in anti-Semitic terms.Pollard said that the attack might be related to the diplomatic feud that erupted between Israel and Turkey last week, but added:I don't want to speculate.The Turkish government was outraged when Israel summoned its ambassador last week to express its anger over a Turkish television drama that depicts Israeli agents kidnapping children and shooting old men. Israel's deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, denied the ambassador a handshake and forced him to sit on a low sofa as the cameras rolled.Israel has since apologized for the incident, which threatened to poison relations between the traditional allies.The Chronicle, founded in 1841, has a weekly circulation of about 30,000.

HOMOSEXUALS.(SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUP)

GENESIS 19:5
5 And they(SODOMITES)called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men(ANGELS) which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.(THESE DEMON POSSESSED SODOMITES WANTED TO HAVE SEX WITH ANGEL MEN...SICKOS)

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.

QUEERLY BELOVED Government policy now targeting homophobia-Goal is to squash belief homosexuality is immoral January 17, 2010 9:27 pm Eastern
By Drew Zahn 2010 WorldNetDaily
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0MV3Ls1-BM&feature=player_embedded

Quebec Attorney General Kathleen Weil, announcing new policy with Laurent McCutcheon, president of Foundation Emergence, a Quebec homosexual advocacy group
Opponents of hate crimes legislation, who have frequently pointed to Canada as an example of how such laws are used to increasingly suppress moral objections to homosexuality, now have more fuel for their fire in the form of the Quebec Policy Against Homophobia.The policy, released last month by Quebec's Minister of Justice and Attorney General Kathleen Weil, assigns the government the task of eliminating all forms of homophobia and heterosexism – including the belief that homosexuality is immoral – from society as a whole. The text and specifics of the policy are steeped in vague bureaucratic language about coordination and synergy,but the goal is spelled out clearly: to enlist the government to normalize homosexuality in society and to quell common criticisms levied against sexual minorities, a term the policy uses to inclusively describe lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals and transgenders.An inclusive society such as ours must take the necessary steps to combat homophobic attitudes and behavior patterns and move towards full acceptance of sexual diversity,states the Premier of Quebec Jean Charest in a letter that serves as the policy's introduction.The policy sets out the government's goal of removing all the obstacles to full recognition of the social equality of the sexual minorities, at all levels of society.The policy further defines the heterosexism that must be stomped out as affirmation of heterosexuality as a social norm or the highest form of sexual orientation. Furthermore, the policy laments,It is still possible to hear people say that homosexuality is an illness, morally wrong or a form of deviant behavior, and that people choose their sexual orientation. These beliefs, often instilled in the past, tend to marginalize sexual minority groups and prevent full recognition of their social equality.

Such prejudice,the policy affirms, must be combated. And while the word church is never explicitly mentioned in the policy, it does declare it important to publicize the most insidious forms of homophobia with a plan to target the various locations in which homophobic attitudes and behavior patterns, as well as heterosexist stereotypes, are found.The policy also warns,It will be necessary to deal with the heterosexist values on which some institutional practices are founded.Weil introduced her ministry's new direction by stating, The policy released this morning shows, once again, that Quebec society is a leader in the field of sexual minority rights.Indeed, Quebec was the first jurisdiction in North America to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation with an amendment to its charter of human rights and freedoms in 1977. In 1995, the province amended its criminal code to include sexual orientation as an aggravating factor in hate crimes, a law expanded in 2004 to include not only crimes but hate propaganda.Same-sex marriage was legalized in Quebec in 2005. The progression from hate crime legislation to outlawing hate propaganda to now enlisting the government's power in socially normalizing homosexuality is the very process decried by many Americans, as the U.S. also begins passing the first of such laws. Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, for example, told WND the practical application of such laws already has been seen in several other countries, including the United Kingdom, where the Christian Institute highlighted reports of a senior citizen being accused of hate crimes for writing a letter objecting to a pro-homosexual festival: This is the way it gets implemented in all the other countries,Cass said.Christians are singled out for prosecution, with threats, imprisonment and fines simply for refusing to stop doing what Christ commands: proclaiming the truth.

[These cases] are a good precursor of where this goes,he warned. Weil, however, argues that until society comes to accept sexual minorities,they will continue to be subjected to harassment, intimidation and insult – regardless of anti-discrimination laws. To be fully effective, the legal equality of sexual minorities must be supported by social equality,Weil writes in her introduction to the policy. The Quebec government intends, by adopting this policy against homophobia, to play a leading role in achieving this objective.To that end, the policy consists of four guidelines for the Quebec government, which, in the words of the policy, direct the government to: Recognize the realities faced by sexual minority members
Promote respect for the rights of sexual minority members
Promote wellbeing for sexual minorities

Ensure a concerted approach by government authorities and institutions
The specific action points of the policy are loosely defined, but include funding additional studies, efforts to help sexual minorities find social services, rooting out institutional practices that discriminate against or intimidate sexual minorities, adapting public services to the specific needs of the sexual minorities and the creation of additional bureaucracies to monitor progress. A brief line in the policy, which declares that schools can play a key role in retraining the populace on sexual minority rights, however, has elicited some reaction. Georges Buscemi, president of Campaign Quebec-Vie, a Quebec pro-life group, told LifeSiteNews.com it is obvious that the policy would impose homosexuality training on children. They've done it with the ethics and religious culture course, he said,so I'm not at all surprised that they'd be willing to fully integrate it into that course, with extra stuff tacked on.LifeSiteNews reports that the Ethics and Religious Culture program is a province-mandated curriculum for all Quebec students spanning grades 1 to 11 that already presents homosexuality as a normal lifestyle.

Buscemi is also alarmed by the policy's requirements that institutions and social services be conformed to fit the needs of sexual minorities.I could see this being the beginning of the end of religious freedom in the sense that if a church, for example, is offering a service, for example marriage, and is not tailoring the service to the needs of a homosexual, then it could be sanctioned for not doing that,he explained. They're going to try for the longest possible to just use social pressure and increasingly isolate the recalcitrant entities and institutions, Buscemi predicted. They're quite clear; they're quite unapologetic. It's going to be a concerted effort, including all the ministries. ... This is going to be a full-court press. It's going to lead to ostracizing different churches that have doctrinal oppositions to homosexual behavior.

EU states divided over jump to 30% cut in CO2
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today JAN 18,10 @ 09:00 CET

European Union member states are divided over the bloc's pledge to raise its CO2 commitment up to a 30 percent cut by 2020 in the wake of the Copenhagen UN climate summit debacle.Environment ministers from across the bloc over the weekend met in Seville, Spain, to assess the reasons for the failure in the Danish capital in December and to map out the EU's next moves.As part of the so-called Copenhagen Accord cobbled together by the US, China, South Africa, Brazil and India outside the UN process, the 30-odd signatories to the document are to submit their greenhouse gas reduction pledges by the end of January.But it appears unlikely that the EU will move to the upper end of a 20-30 percent range before this deadline, given the limited reduction commitments made by other major emitters. The US has said it will commit to a 17 percent reduction, but only on 2005 levels, which is equivalent to just a three to four percent cut using the same 1990 baseline as Brussels.EU environment commissioner Stavros Dimas conceded that there was no unanimity around the table. Some countries had never been in favour of the move to a 30 percent cut, but after the UN climate conference in December ended acrimoniously, with rich countries pitted bitterly against their poorer counterparts and without an official result in which other major emitters had committed to significant emissions reductions, such a jump has become even more controversial.The UK, France, Germany, Belgium and Spain, currently holding the EU's six-month rotating presidency, all back a jump to 30 percent, while Italy and Poland remain set dead against such a move.We definitely think we should maintain the 30 percent offer. We think it is very, very important. It has always been a conditional offer but it is a very important signal that it is maintained,UK energy and climate minister Ed Miliband told reporters.French environment minister Jean-Louis Borloo added: It is not a question of going to 30 percent blindly. Nobody would accept that. We will go to 30 percent depending on the commitments that are published.Italy and Poland fear costs for domestic industry and households will be raised sharply without similar commitments by other powers, however.As a compromise position, Belgium has suggested a move to a reduction pledge of 25 percent.

Parliament threatens to derail EU-US bank data deal
VALENTINA POP Today JAN 18,10 @ 09:28 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The European Parliament is threatening to derail an interim agreement allowing US authorities to track European bank transactions in terrorism investigations unless certain concessions are made.The president of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek at the end of last week sent a second letter to the Spanish EU presidency asking for more information on the so-called Swift agreement.We have not received any answers to the first letter, sent in December to both the [outgoing] Swedish and the [incoming] Spanish EU presidencies, a spokesman for Mr Buzek said.A plenary debate on the matter is scheduled for Wednesday in Strasbourg, during which the Spanish presidency is expected to give more answers on the technicalities of the deal. The agreement would allow US prosecutors and investigators to tap into intra-European bank transactions as part of anti-terrorist enquiries - something EU lawmakers say raises privacy concerns.The parliament can still scrap the agreement, even after it comes into force on 1 February, pending the lawmakers' consent.A final deal should be negotiated by the end of the year, together with the EU parliament.

In order for Parliament to be in a position to give its consent or not, it had laid down two clear conditions, namely that Parliament is granted full access to information related to this interim agreement and that its concerns are fully reflected in the negotiating mandate for the longer term agreement required once the interim agreement expires at the end of October, a press release by the Liberal group in the EU legislature reads.The Liberals have spearheaded the issue, with their leader, Guy Verhofstadt, indicating that he has the support of other groups to reject the agreement altogether if the Spanish EU presidency does not come forward with some concession.The interim deal was sealed by EU justice ministers on 30 November last year, just one day before the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty - rules granting the EU legislature more powers in the field of justice and home affairs. At the time lawmakers criticised the rush to sign the deal, while the US pointed to the fact that the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift) was about to stop storing data on European transactions on US soil by the end of 2009.If parliament took the controversial step of refusing to give its consent, the US would no longer have access to intra-EU transactions - something that would strain relations between Brussels and Washington, especially in the wake of the Christmas Day bomb plot in Detroit.

Swift in 2006 was thrust into the centre of an EU-US dispute after it emerged that the American authorities had been secretly using information on European transactions as part of their so-called War on Terror. A Belgium-based company, Swift, kept a database on US territory, giving Washington a legal handle on its global activities. The company records international transactions worth trillions of dollars daily, between nearly 8,000 financial institutions in over 200 countries.
From 1 January, we have changed the architecture of the Swift network, keeping intra-European traffic in Europe – one database in the Netherlands and a mirror database in Switzerland, Euan Sellar, a spokesman for the company told EUobserver.He said Swift is currently waiting to hear the legal details of the agreement, noting that the US authorities had no mandate to ask for European transactions.We'll have to see once the deal comes into force, if it's legally binding, we will comply,he said.

Meanwhile, US officials, asking not to be named, told this website that the EU parliament had been regularly informed of the importance of having such data made available to anti-terrorist investigators. We prefer to use the 'Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme' label instead of Swift, because there are several other companies involved as well,one US official said. As to the final agreement, Washington is hoping the EU parliament will move swiftly so that the deal is in force by the end of October when the interim agreement expires.

Juncker calls for greater eurozone oversight
ANDREW WILLIS Today JAN 18,10 @ 09:06 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Eurozone chief Jean-Claude Juncker has called for better oversight of the 16-member currency area, with a greater role for the European Commission to reprimand countries for falling behind. The eurogroup should pursue broader economic surveillance, both to identify individual priority issues for each of our member states and to establish a coherent framework for action to enhance the performance of the entire eurozone economy, Mr Juncker wrote in a letter to eurozone finance ministers, seen by AFP.The European Commission should not hesitate to ... address a warning to the member state not respecting criteria and commitments, continued the Luxembourgish prime minister on the eve of a eurozone finance ministers' meeting in Brussels on Monday (18 January).The comments come in the context of a wider debate about European economic co-ordination, with the Spanish EU presidency recently supporting stricter surveillance of economic targets agreed under the EU's 2020 growth strategy, to be discussed by leaders at a summit next month. Critical remarks from Germany have caused the Spaniards to partially row back on talk of corrective measures for states which fail to meet targets under the plan however, with Germany keen to preserve the independence of the European Central Bank and prevent extra bureaucracy.In his letter to finance ministers, Mr Juncker also says he is keen to boost the euro area's profile in international institutions, including the creation of a single seat for the currency club in the G20 and International Monetary Fund.

Re-election

Already head of the euro group since 2005, Mr Juncker looks set to be re-elected to the policy co-ordinating post for another 30 months on Monday, when the 16 finance ministers meet. The election stems from the EU's new set of rules, with the previously informal euro group configuration now achieving formal standing under the Lisbon Treaty, in force since 1 December 2009. However many see the appointment as something of a consolation prize for Europe's longest serving leader, after his failed bid to secure the post of the EU's first full-time president, ultimately claimed by the Belgian, Herman Van Rompuy. Reports suggest French President Nicolas Sarkozy blocked Luxembourg's inveterate chain-smoker from getting the Van Rompuy post last November, blaming Mr Juncker for not acting quickly enough to tackle the global financial crisis.Certain leaders didn't want to give me their trust, Mr Juncker said at the time.

Austrian nominee promises to be tough but fair on EU regions
VALENTINA POP 15.01.2010 @ 17:32 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Austria's commissioner nominee for regional affairs, Johannes Hahn, told MEPs on Thursday he saw himself as a father-figure for the regions, looking after their development while also being tough on the use of EU money.Each father has an interest to see his kids thrive and develop well ... but sometimes he also has to be tough and say where the boundaries are, the centre-right Austrian politician said during the three-hour hearing.One of the areas where Mr Hahn pledged to be tough is the level of errors potentially indicating fraud in the use of EU regional aid, which has regularly seen the Court of Auditors raise red flags.The error rates identified by the Court of Auditors are alarm bells for me. I will have zero tolerance for errors and above all for suspected and actual fraud, Mr Hahn said.As his predecessors, Mr Hahn spoke of the need to strike the right balance between financial control and cutting red tape, praising the work done by Danuta Hubner in simplifying the policy rules. Ms Hubner was a regional commissioner between 2004-2009 and is now chairwoman of the parliamentary committee on regional affairs he was addressing.On the future of the policy, which currently accounts for over a third of the overall EU budget, Mr Hahn avoided making any concrete commitments. But he said one had to be open to change, where it is needed, while indicating he was not in favour of a radical overhaul of the community budget at the expense of regional policy.Pressed on the issue of misspent EU money, Mr Hahn referred to the €2.5 billion recovered in the last two years, considerably more than in previous years.But the objective of regional policy is not to say we've saved x billion euros. We need to have the money spent according to the rules, but it would be wrong to have the objective of having an awful lot of money left in the pot.

On specific policies, he spoke passionately about cross-border initiatives, especially with regions from non-EU member states. I believe one hundred percent in cross-border projects, this is the kind of policy that generates change. And we should particularly foster cross-border co-operation with regions outside the EU, because the EU is first and foremost a peace-building project,he argued.One such initiative involving regions within and outside the EU is the Danube strategy, which is still in its early drafting phase in the EU commission. Austria has been a strong promoter of this macro-regional policy, which will draw from the Baltic Sea strategy, the first EU approach of this kind.It is a very exciting project, that includes eight EU states and six countries which are not yet members. Similar to the Baltic Sea strategy, it looks at issues in the use of water ways, he said.

Integrity questions deflected

Mr Hahn was questioned by several MEPs on issues related to his former company, Novomatic, active in the gaming industry, which he quit in 2003. He said he had brought documentation to prove that there was no evidence that Novomatic laundered money or that he was in any way still connected to the company.I am not trying to duck the question. It is an important issue and I want it to be clear that there are no criminal investigations against me or anyone else,he stressed.It is a groundless personal attack against me.MEPs seemed overall pleased with his answers. The ones who had raised his integrity issues were more critical and said the legal service should have a look at the documents he provided. His appointment is however seen as a shoo-in, committee chairwoman Danuta Hubner indicated.I was impressed with his knowledge at this stage, because I know how difficult this policy is, including on the critical points - the dilemma between financial control and administrative burden,she told this website.If approved together with the whole body of commissioners on 26 January, Mr Hahn is expected to take office on 1 February.

Ukraine ready to reconcile with Russia By DOUGLAS BIRCH, Associated Press Writer - JAN 18,10

KIEV, Ukraine — The candidates in Ukraine's presidential runoff next month stood on opposite sides of the barricades in the 2004 Orange Revolution but when it comes to Russia, they see nearly eye to eye.Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych both pledge to reconcile Ukraine with its giant neighbor to the east, by far Ukraine's biggest trading partner and the region's dominant military power.In the future, NATO membership appears to be out. There will be far less Kremlin-bashing in Kiev, and relations with Georgia will not be nearly as close as they were under Orange President Viktor Yushchenko, who was trounced in Sunday's ballot.Five years ago many Orange protesters dreamed of breaking Ukraine's historic dependence on Moscow and becoming part of Western Europe.But they've had a rude awakening, in the form of an battle with Russia over energy prices, the 2008 Russia-Georgia war and one of the worst recessions in Europe.All seemed to demonstrate that like it or not, Ukraine couldn't get along without good relations with Moscow, its historic ally.With about 82.5 percent of ballots counted Monday, Yanukovych had some 35.7 percent while Tymoshenko was second with 24.8 percent. The 16 other candidates trailed behind — including Yushchenko, with just 5.4 percent of the vote. Only the two top finishers are eligible for the runoff.

The blunt-spoken Yanukovych, a former electrician and factory manager who became prime minister before the Orange Revolution, has pledged to scrap Ukraine's NATO bid and elevate Russian to the status of a second official language alongside Ukrainian.
Tymoshenko, a heroine of the pro-Western revolt, in 2007 criticized what she called Russia's imperial ambitions. But in the past year she has made peace with the Kremlin on energy and security issues.After the vote Sunday, Tymoshenko thanked supporters for ignoring attacks against her.Despite the great campaign of discrimination that was launched by all the oligarchs who rallied around Yanukovych, people showed their wisdom, trust and faith in me, she said.Despite warnings of large-scale election fraud in the days leading up to Sunday's vote, officials and election observers said the ballot seemed fair and orderly.Five years ago, fraud allegations sent tens of thousands of Ukrainians into the streets of Kiev, demanding an end to what they regarded as a corrupt regime. After weeks of protests, Yushchenko beat Yanukovych in a court-ordered revote.Yushchenko's win was hailed in the West as a victory by democratic forces over the cynical veterans of Ukraine's Soviet regime. But in Moscow, many saw it as part of a Western plot to surround and weaken Russia.After his election, Yushchenko became embroiled in political skirmishing that paralyzed the government and he failed to push through many of his promised reforms.Yanukovych seemed elated by his victory over Yushchenko, his old rival, on Sunday.Today marks the end of Orange power, he said.There will be no room for (Yushchenko) in the second round. He has officially lost the faith of the people.
Ukraine's currency crashed in 2008, the economy sputtered and the International Monetary Fund had to step in with a $16.4 billion (euro11.41 billion) bailout. Ukraine's gross domestic product plunged by 15 percent in 2009, according to the World Bank, which estimates that the country will see anemic growth this year. Some analysts said that despite Tymoshenko's second-place finish, her sharp political instincts give her the edge in the Feb. 7 runoff vote. Yanukovych's voter base has been exhausted. Although it was strong and compact and never betrayed him, it did not grow,said Viktor Nebozhenko, director of the sociology institute Ukrainian Barometer.Tymoshenko, as a great communicator, has chances to win this election.

Corporate dealmaking hopes lift European markets By PAN PYLAS, AP Business Writer – JAN 18,10

LONDON – European stocks markets rose modestly Monday as speculation of a pickup in corporate dealmaking helped offset earlier losses in Asia while Wall Street was to remain closed for the Martin Luther King public holiday.The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 31.14 points, or 0.6 percent, at 5,486.51, with shares in International Power PLC leading the advance — up 5 percent — following weekend speculation that GDF Suez is preparing a bid for the company.Meanwhile, GDF shares in France were up 1.5 percent, helping the CAC-40 rise 18.26 points, or 0.5 percent, to 3,972.64, while Germany's DAX was 32.51 points, or 0.6 percent, at 5,908.48.

Shares in candy maker Cadbury PLC in London were also marked up around 1.5 percent in London on weekend newspaper reports that Kraft Foods Inc. was preparing to sweeten its offer for the British company.Analysts said there are mounting expectations that the amount of mergers and acquisitions taking place will increase over the coming months as the global economy recovers from recession. One corollary of increased confidence is an increase in mergers and acquisitions.And companies considering doing deals won't want to leave it until too late if they think that the ten-month bull run in equity markets continues as the recovery becomes entrenched.As equity prices continue to move higher the opportunities to make smart acquisitions could become more limited, so a flurry of M&A activity could well be expected in the coming months, said Anthony Grech, market strategist at IG Index.With Wall Street closed later to commemorate the life of the civil rights leader and economic news limited, investors think the rest of the session will prove to be lackluster.When Wall Street returns on Tuesday, the focus will turn towards the next batch of fourth quarter corporate earnings figures, including those from Citigroup Inc. and IBM Corp.

So far, earnings have been fairly mixed, with upside surprises from the likes of Intel Corp. offset by disappointments elsewhere, most notably Alcoa Inc.A meeting of the 16 finance ministers of the countries that use the euro in Brussels later — after stock markets have closed in Europe — will be closely monitored in the currency markets though.The main topic of debate will be the shaky state of Greece's public finances and the measures planned by the new Socialist government to rein in borrowing over the coming years.Concern about Greece's debts has been one of the reasons why the euro has floundered over the last month or so from 16-month highs above $1.50.It seems that Greece is heading for a crisis that will seriously test the strength of the eurozone, said Rob Pike, a trader at Spreadex.It is uncertain whether the eurozone has the stability to resist this since a default by Greece could signal an increase in pressure on other member states via increased borrowing costs, said Pike.The euro had recovered its poise somewhat ahead of the meeting, trading 0.3 percent higher at $1.4377.

Meanwhile, the dollar was 0.1 percent higher at 90.84 yen.Earlier in Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average ended 127.02 points, or 1.2 percent, lower at 10,855.08 while Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 194.15 points, or 0.9 percent, to 21,460.01. Markets in Singapore and Taiwan also lost ground. Other markets fared better, with South Korea's Kospi gaining 0.6 percent to 1,711.78 and Australia's stock measure adding 0.2 percent and Shanghai's index rising 0.4 percent. Oil prices rose modestly, with benchmark crude for February delivery up 35 cents at $78.35. On Friday, the contract slid $1.39 to settle at $78. The price was down $4.75 for the week after declining for five straight days. AP Business Writer Jeremiah Marquez in Hong Kong contributed to this report.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

AND WERE WILL ALL THIS VIOLENCE WORLDWIDE LEAD? TO WW3 AND THE DEATH OF HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION-3 BILLION PEOPLE.

5,000 displaced after violence in northern Nigeria
Mon Jan 18, 4:18 am ET

JOS, Nigeria – The Red Cross says violence between Christians and Muslims in the city of Jos in northern Nigeria has displaced 5,000 people and left 69 others injured.Jos-based Red Cross official Auwal Muhammad Madobi says rioters burned down churches, mosques and homes during the attacks Sunday. On Monday, police and soldiers manned road blocks and conducted searches on those traveling through the city.A local police spokesman said the city was calm Monday. He said officials began collecting bodies from the streets and hospitals, but could not say how many were killed in the violence. Witnesses said Sunday night that they saw 10 bodies in a local mosque.In 2008, two days of religious violence in Jos left more than 300 people dead.

7 charged over violent protest in Kenya By Tom Odula, Associated Press Writer – JAN 18,10

NAIROBI, Kenya – Seven Kenyans have been charged in court with assaulting five police officers during a violent protest last week to demand the release of a radical Jamaican-born Muslim cleric.The seven pleaded not guilty and were released on bail Monday. Soon afterward, police arrested, within the court premises, the head of the Muslim Human Rights Forum, Al-Amin Kimathi, who had witnessed the hearing. Kimathi's group organized Friday's protest during which several people were killed.

In a related development, Nairobi police chief, Anthony Kibuchi, says that police arrested late Sunday about 400 people in a crackdown on suspected sympathizers of an extremist Somali Islamic group. Kenya's internal security minister had blamed Friday's violence on sympathizers of al-Shabab.

US concerned at Coptic Christian arrests in Egypt
Sat Jan 16, 4:32 pm ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States said it was deeply concerned at the arrests Saturday of Coptic Christians heading to show support for fellow Copts killed and injured in Egypt earlier this month.The United States is deeply concerned by today's arrests of individuals traveling to the Egyptian town of Naga Hammadi to express support for those tragically killed and injured during the celebrations, said Mark Toner, acting State Department spokesman.According to publicly available evidence, those arrested included bloggers, democracy and religious freedom advocates, he added.We call on the government of Egypt to uphold the rights of all to peacefully express their political views and desires for universal freedoms and to ensure due process for those detained, Toner said.Egypt's state prosecutor said earlier that three Muslims accused of gunning down six Egyptian Christians on the Coptic Christmas Eve will stand trial before an emergency security court.Abdel Magid Mahmud said in a statement the three men were charged with premeditated murder aimed at harming national interests.The suspects were arrested a day after the six Copts and a Muslim policeman were shot dead along a stretch of road with churches and a shopping centre in the southern village of Nagaa Hammadi.The drive-by shooting took place after worshippers emerged from midnight mass before Christmas, marked by Copts and other Orthodox communities across the world on January 7.The killings, which were condemned by Pope Benedict XVI, sparked outrage among the country's Copts, who make up nearly 10 percent of Egypt's 80 million people, and led to clashes with police.

India to sign new MiG deal with Russia: official
JAN 18,10

NEW DELHI (AFP) – India and Russia are set to agree a 1.2-billion-dollar deal for 29 MiG-29 fighter jets which will cement Moscow's role as New Delhi's principal arms supplier, an official said Monday.A senior Indian defence ministry official said the deal was likely to be finalised this week during a visit to New Delhi by a Russian military team. He declined to say when it would be signed.The contract has already been negotiated and just some finishing touches are now awaited, the official, who did not want to be named, said.He put its worth at 1.2 billion dollars and said the planes would be handed over to the Indian navy.The deal has already been cleared by the cabinet of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who paid a state visit to Russia last month.The official said the deal would be in addition to 16 MiG-29 planes New Delhi will acquire for deployment on an aircraft carrier it also hopes to obtain from Russia, which supplies 70 percent of Indian weaponry.

The Russian embassy in New Delhi did not respond to queries on the deal.

Relations between India and Russia, currently negotiating arms contracts worth over 15 billion dollars, hit a low following wrangling over the cost of refurbishing the retired aircraft carrier.Russia in 2004 promised to gift the Admiral Gorshkov to India, provided Delhi paid a Russian shipyard 974 million dollars to revamp the vessel.Since then, the price has skyrocketed for fixing up the 27-year-old ship.Last year, Russia startled India with a demand for 2.9 billion dollars.Now we are closer to an understanding on Gorshkov, the ministry official said without elaborating.
During Singh's trip to Russia in December the countries signed two agreements on arms, one on their two-way weapons trade in the years 2011-2020 and another on servicing Russian-made arms sold to India.India plans to spend tens of billions on dollars to modernise its military.

DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS

REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.

REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries (DRUGS), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Canadian drug-injection site allowed to stay open By Allan Dowd – Fri Jan 15, 4:22 pm ET

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) – The Canadian government must allow Vancouver's Insite facility, North America's only sanctioned drug-injection site, to remain open, a provincial appeals court ruled on Friday.The facility allows addicts to use their own illegal drugs under supervised conditions, and is the focus of a battle between the federal government, which wants to close it, and local health officials, who say it saves lives.In a split decision, the British Columbia Court of Appeal rejected Ottawa's bid to end Insite's special exemption from federal drug laws, which has allowed it to operate on a medical trial basis since 2003.The appeal court's majority upheld a lower court ruling that addicts needed Insite as a medical service, and that the province of British Columbia had the right to keep it open even if the federal government did not like it.Insite is in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside area which is one of Canada's poorest neighborhoods, with one of country's highest rates of HIV and AIDS, diseases often spread by injection drug use.Insite and the social and drug problems of the Downtown Eastside are expected to come into the world's media spotlight next month when Vancouver hosts the Winter Olympics.The health crisis sparked by illegal drug use in the central core of Vancouver demonstrates starkly the need for a practical response to the reality that people are obtaining drugs, using them, and becoming addicted despite a national effort to control their use ... and avoid their abuse," Justice Carol Mahood Huddart wrote in the appeal court's ruling.

Insite's supporters, including local police, say medical studies show it helps addicts by reducing overdose deaths and giving people better access to services to help end their drug addictions.It's a good way of slowing the spread of disease. This is a good day, said Dean Wilson, who has fought his own battles with drug addiction and help to found Insite.The Conservative federal government argued Insite should be closed because the science supporting it was inconclusive, and there was an obligation to uphold the country's drug laws.The appeals court's dissenting justice said Ottawa had a responsibility to protect the public from illegal drugs.

The U.S. government has pressured Canada to close Insite.Ottawa was disappointed with the ruling, but could not say yet if it would be appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, a spokeswoman for federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq said.Insite's supporters urged Ottawa not to appeal, and said the ruling should allow other Canadian cities to establish supervised injection sites. Insite is modeled on similar facilities in Europe.It's just in step with the rest of the world, said former Vancouver Mayor Philip Owen.(Reporting by Allan Dowd; editing by Rob Wilson)

IMF chief: global recovery stronger than expected By MALCOLM FOSTER, Associated Press Writer – JAN 18,10

TOKYO – The head of the IMF said China and other developing Asian economies are leading a global recovery that is faster and stronger than expected, but warned that money rushing into emerging markets could lead to asset bubbles.Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, strongly suggested Monday that the IMF would raise its 2010 global growth forecast from the 3.1 percent it projected in October.China, India and other emerging Asian economies were close to returning to their pre-crisis growth rates, while rebounds in the U.S., Japan and other advanced economies remained sluggish, he said.The forecasts we're going to release in a couple of days will show that this recovery is going faster and stronger than we expected several months ago, Strauss-Kahn told reporters in Tokyo.

While the IMF doesn't forecast a double-dip, or second recession, risks remain, he said.We have to very cautious because this recovery remains very fragile.While hundreds of billions in stimulus spending by governments around the world avoided another Great Depression, he said, the most important risk facing the global economy is deciding how and when to reverse those polices and deal with resulting debt burdens.Now we have to fix the consequences of the policy that has been put in place to fight against the crisis, he said.Finding the right time to implement exit policies is really a difficult one.If you exit too late, you waste resources, he said.If you exit too early, you have a risk of going back into recession.The best indicators for timing fresh growth strategies are monitoring private demand and employment, he said. The IMF recommends that governments devise policies that will support the labor market given still-high joblessness, which could lead to social unrest in some countries.A key lesson from the global financial crisis is that authorities need to beef up supervision — more so than regulations — of financial institutions, he said.You may have the best regulations in the world, but if it's not supervised correctly, it's no use.Strauss-Kahan also said he was worried that the unified political will to tackle the crisis demonstrated at the Group of 20 summits last year will vanish as the world economy recovers.The rush of money into major emerging markets such as China, Brazil and Russia reflects investors' recognition that these economies are growing rapidly.But Strauss-Kahn said this could lead to many problems, including asset bubbles and a sudden drop in foreign investment, much like Eastern European countries experienced during the global financial crisis.

Oil stays near $78 on demand doubts, weaker dollar By PABLO GORONDI, Associated Press Writer – JAN 18,10

Oil prices hovered around $78 a barrel Monday as traders weighed doubts about global oil demand against a weaker U.S. dollar, which made crude cheaper for investors holding other currencies.By midday in Europe, benchmark crude for February delivery was up 30 cents to $78.30 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Friday, the contract slid $1.39 to settle at $78. The price was down $4.75 for the week after declining for five straight days.Earlier Monday, declines in most of the major Asian stock markets dampened investor sentiment and helped pushed crude prices as low as $77.07.This followed Friday's decline on Wall Street, where rising loan losses at JPMorgan Chase & Co. sparked concerns about profits at other big banks. Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo & Co. are expected to post results this week.We see a downward pressure on oil. The corporate earnings results so far have not really indicated much revenue growth and that points to continued weakness in the U.S. economy, said Victor Shum, an energy analyst with consultancy Purvin & Gertz in Singapore.Shum said the recent cold weather in the U.S. has failed to sharply reduce oil inventories and the frigid spell is now easing, which will detract from demand for oil.Oil prices may slide further but Shum said bargain hunting is likely to stem the fall at the mid $70s level. If the bank earnings are strong, the mood could also turn around quickly, he said.The euro and the British pound were both higher against the dollar, making crude priced in dollars cheaper for investors holding those currencies. The euro bought $1.4379 compared with $1.4358 late Friday in New York, while the British pound rose to $1.6338 from $1.6258.Analysts also mentioned a dispute about taxes on oil shipments between Russia and Belarus as a factor which could affect the market.With Europe suffering from the winter cold, any sustained supply disruption could have an impact on prices," said a report from Britain's KBC Energy Economics.A large chunk of EU crude supplies are transited through the country.In other Nymex trading in February contracts, heating oil rose 0.19 cent to $2.0479 a gallon and gasoline was up 0.88 cent at $2.0542 a gallon. Natural gas futures shed 4.8 cents to $5.643 per 1,000 cubic feet.In London, Brent crude for March delivery gained 15 cents to $77.26 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
Associated Press writer Eileen Ng in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, contributed to this report.

$28 TRILLION GIVIN TO THE ROBBER BANKS TO BUY UP LAND AND BONUSES, THE SCAM IS BEING REVEALED TO THE WORLD FINALLY.

AIG probe widens to include Paulson, Friedman By DANIEL WAGNER, AP Business Writer – Fri Jan 15, 8:15 pm ET

WASHINGTON – A House committee is broadening its probe of secretive bank bailouts to include former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and former Federal Reserve Bank of New York Chairman Stephen Friedman.The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has invited Paulson and Friedman to testify about their roles in the bailout of American International Group Inc., according to Chairman Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y.

Lawmakers want to know more about deals that funneled billions from AIG to banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Friedman is a Goldman director who resigned from the New York Fed after concerns he had conflicts of interest.California Rep. Darrell Issa, the committee's top Republican, also said he wants Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to answer questions about the bailout, which he helped lead.A Towns spokeswoman said he is making decisions daily about witnesses and testimony. A Fed spokesman would not comment.An earlier watchdog report said the bailouts might have cost taxpayers billions more than necessary because officials did not demand concessions from the banks. The money went to satisfy massive financial obligations that AIG was unable to meet without a government rescue.The bailouts were managed by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York under the leadership of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Geithner has defended the deals and will testify on Jan. 27.

California Rep. Darrell Issa, the committee's top Republican, called earlier Friday for Paulson to testify. He asked for the hearing last week after uncovering e-mails in which New York Fed lawyers told AIG to keep some details secret.Issa also wanted the committee to demand documents from the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve by issuing subpoenas. He said lawmakers should question Bernanke.Towns heeded Issa's earlier call to subpoena the New York Fed for documents including Geithner's e-mails and phone records. A Towns spokeswoman said he is making decisions daily about witnesses and testimony.In inviting Paulson, Towns addressed accusations by Democrats that the hearing was motivated by partisan attacks on Geithner.House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., said Thursday that Bush appointees Paulson and Bernanke outranked Geithner. Frank said his committee also will be looking at the AIG deals.Issa insisted the investigation is not and has never been about Tim Geithner. Its goal is to learn the truth about the apparent waste of billions of taxpayer dollars and the government's efforts to conceal this waste from the American people, he said in a statement Friday.Towns said Friday the hearing also will include testimony from Neil Barofsky, the bailout watchdog who prepared a report criticizing the deals; New York Fed general counsel Thomas Baxter; and Elias Habayeb, the chief financial officer of the division that brought down AIG.

Treasury and the Federal Reserve refused to say which banks benefited from the backdoor bailouts or how much money they got until after it was disclosed in news reports. Banks including Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Societe Generale benefited from the deals.AIG had been negotiating the values of banks' contracts before the government took it over in September 2008, according to published reports. Geithner considered reducing the payments for two days before paying the banks off in full.The oversight committee is investigating why the banks were paid in full and why officials including Geithner refused to name them.The probe will give a fuller picture of the largest bailout of the financial crisis. The government's rescue of AIG — eventually totaling $180 billion — sparked public outrage and contributed to calls for financial reform. The government also received a nearly 80 percent stake in AIG in return for the support. Representatives for Paulson and Friedman would not comment. A Treasury spokesman did not respond to requests for comment.

HELP IS IN HAITI NOW AS DEAD BUILDS

SHIFRA HOFFMAN OF ISRAEL NATIONAL RADIO CLAIMS OBAMA GOT AMERICA UNDER MARTIAL LAW.I WILL TRY TO GET STORIES ABOUT IT IF TRUE.IF TRUE OBAMA CAN USE THE ARMY ON ANYONE AND PUT THEM IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS AT WILL.OBAMA HAS TOTAL CONTROL OF AMERICA IF UNDER MARTIAL LAW.

An Orwellian world for Big Brother
Ken Craggs Online Journal Friday, January 15th, 2010
http://www.infowars.com/an-orwellian-world-for-big-brother/

The Council of Europe document Internet Governance and critical Internet resources states (p.7) that . . . the Internet of Things refers to the seamless connection of devices, sensors, objects, rooms, machines, vehicles, etc, through fixed and wireless networks. Connected sensors, devices and tags can interact with the environment and send the information to other objects through machine-to-machine communication . . . The Semantic Web promotes this synergy: even agents that where not expressly designed to work together can transfer data among themselves when the data come with semantics.Pachube (pronounced Patch-bay) is a platform that helps individuals and organisations connect to and build the ‘internet of things’ and enable buildings, interactive environments, networked energy meters, virtual worlds and sensor devices to talk and respond to each other. Pachube, according to the founder, Usman Haque, is a vision inspired by Dutch architect Constant Nieuwenhuys and his 1956 proposal for a visionary society, New Babylon.Around the world, a near invisible network of RFID wireless tags is being put on almost every type of consumer item. Wireless tags and sensors are being produced in their billions and are capable of being connected to the Internet in an instant. Yet this network is being built with little public knowledge or consent.IT company Hewlett Packard intends to create a Central Nervous System for the Earth (CeNSE), consisting of a trillion nanoscale sensors and actuators embedded in the environment and connected via an array of networks with computing systems, software and services to exchange their information among analysis engines, storage systems and end users. Ericsson, the Mobile telecommunications company, predicts that 50 billion devices will be wirelessly connected in 2020 and Cisco envisages the next generation of the Internet as having 1,000 times as many devices as the current Internet.Sense Networks collects billions of data points about people’s locations from cell phones, taxi cabs, cameras, GPS devices, WiFi positioning, cell tower triangulation, RFID and other sensors to locate people and help predict human behaviour on a macro scale. This is the original text of the CitySense proposal submitted to the NSF Computing Research Infrastructure program in 2006.

Tracking and locating people and objects which are constantly moving is said to have become more important to the daily routine of individuals, commercial organisations, the emergency services [and governments]. GlobalTag is the first wireless tracking device that incorporates GPS, RFID, Sensors and Satellite Communications. And the Viewpoint i2g can track assets and/or personnel whether they are indoors or out. ViewPoint integrates the interior positioning system (IPS) data of the ViewPoint system with data from global positioning system (GPS) sources. This integrated IPS and GPS information can be accessed from popular mapping services, including GoogleEarth and Microsoft Virtual Earth.Considering that the doors of a many cars can be locked and unlocked with a signal, how long will it be before similar technology is applied to the doors and windows of all buildings, including each and every home. Each building will probably have a receptor which receives a signal and activates the locking of doors and windows. The receptors on homes in a housing estate, for instance, could be switched on or off, via the Internet of Things, in a manner similar to the way that a telecommunications company can disconnect some landline telephones in a street while leaving the other landlines in that street connected. Sometime in the future, people with anti-social tendencies may end up being locked up in their own homes while their fridges, lights and other household appliances are controlled by Big Brother through the Internet of Things.A recent study for the European Commission entitled Towards a future Internet, stresses the view that much of the governance issues for the future Internet are related to political will and leadership . . . A balance must be struck between overregulation and under-regulation, a safe society and a surveillance society. The future Internet should not be designed for technocrats, governments and businesses, but for ordinary citizens, while protecting their security and privacy and limiting government surveillance and Orwellian-like control. The report goes on to conclude that the current Internet administration has limited transparency and that the Internet has become increasingly ubiquitous and grown to become a critical infrastructure, on both a technical and socio-economic level and that in the future, there will be multiple Internets, rather than the single Internet we have today.This article states that A new Internet ( GENI) could ultimately mean replacing networking equipment and rewriting software on computers, at a cost of billions of dollars. But any new network is likely to run parallel with the existing one for some time, with individuals and businesses gradually migrating over as they need more advanced applications.In 2002, W3C founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee raised what is known as Issue 25 regarding What to say in defense of principle that deep linking is not a legal act?. By the end of 2009, Issue 25 had still not been resolved. W3C members include the UK and US governments, so Issue 25 says a great deal about the true spirit of ‘Open Government’ when W3C are willing to go ahead with the semantic web and linking open data without firstly finding out if their activities are legal or illegal.

Page 13 of the EIFFEL Report states, We are beginning to cluster the world around us, but we are only at early stages. Newspapers were a mechanism for filtering, organizing and limiting information that otherwise would overwhelm us. With the demise of newspapers, what elements of the almost infinite flow of bits will bring order that is reflective of the human mind and human social structure? . . . In the current economic and political situation, no country can make decisions that will have only a local effect. There is no more isolation. Given that, one must consider the relationship between the Internet and governance. And perhaps even more importantly, the Internet may change forever governance of, by or for a people. Blogging and cell phone cameras that can transmit photos are having profound effects on the capability of individuals to constrain their governments at times when the governments may not want that.The Council of Europe document Internet Governance and critical Internet resources states (p.7) that . . . the Internet of Things refers to the seamless connection of devices, sensors, objects, rooms, machines, vehicles, etc, through fixed and wireless networks. Connected sensors, devices and tags can interact with the environment and send the information to other objects through machine-to-machine communication . . . The Semantic Web promotes this synergy: even agents that where not expressly designed to work together can transfer data among themselves when the data come with semantics.Pachube (pronounced Patch-bay) is a platform that helps individuals and organisations connect to and build the internet of things and enable buildings, interactive environments, networked energy meters, virtual worlds and sensor devices to talk and respond to each other. Pachube, according to the founder, Usman Haque, is a vision inspired by Dutch architect Constant Nieuwenhuys and his 1956 proposal for a visionary society, New Babylon.

Around the world, a near invisible network of RFID wireless tags is being put on almost every type of consumer item. Wireless tags and sensors are being produced in their billions and are capable of being connected to the Internet in an instant. Yet this network is being built with little public knowledge or consent.IT company Hewlett Packard intends to create a Central Nervous System for the Earth (CeNSE), consisting of a trillion nanoscale sensors and actuators embedded in the environment and connected via an array of networks with computing systems, software and services to exchange their information among analysis engines, storage systems and end users. Ericsson, the Mobile telecommunications company, predicts that 50 billion devices will be wirelessly connected in 2020 and Cisco envisages the next generation of the Internet as having 1,000 times as many devices as the current Internet.Sense Networks collects billions of data points about people’s locations from cell phones, taxi cabs, cameras, GPS devices, WiFi positioning, cell tower triangulation, RFID and other sensors to locate people and help predict human behaviour on a macro scale. This is the original text of the CitySense proposal submitted to the NSF Computing Research Infrastructure program in 2006.Tracking and locating people and objects which are constantly moving is said to have become more important to the daily routine of individuals, commercial organisations, the emergency services [and governments]. GlobalTag is the first wireless tracking device that incorporates GPS, RFID, Sensors and Satellite Communications. And the Viewpoint i2g can track assets and/or personnel whether they are indoors or out. ViewPoint integrates the interior positioning system (IPS) data of the ViewPoint system with data from global positioning system (GPS) sources. This integrated IPS and GPS information can be accessed from popular mapping services, including GoogleEarth and Microsoft Virtual Earth.Considering that the doors of a many cars can be locked and unlocked with a signal, how long will it be before similar technology is applied to the doors and windows of all buildings, including each and every home. Each building will probably have a receptor which receives a signal and activates the locking of doors and windows. The receptors on homes in a housing estate, for instance, could be switched on or off, via the Internet of Things, in a manner similar to the way that a telecommunications company can disconnect some landline telephones in a street while leaving the other landlines in that street connected. Sometime in the future, people with anti-social tendencies may end up being locked up in their own homes while their fridges, lights and other household appliances are controlled by Big Brother through the Internet of Things.

A recent study for the European Commission entitled Towards a future Internet, stresses the view that much of the governance issues for the future Internet are related to political will and leadership . . . A balance must be struck between overregulation and under-regulation, a safe society and a surveillance society. The future Internet should not be designed for technocrats, governments and businesses, but for ordinary citizens, while protecting their security and privacy and limiting government surveillance and Orwellian-like control. The report goes on to conclude that the current Internet administration has limited transparency and that the Internet has become increasingly ubiquitous and grown to become a critical infrastructure, on both a technical and socio-economic level and that in the future, there will be multiple Internets, rather than the single Internet we have today.This article states that A new Internet ( GENI) could ultimately mean replacing networking equipment and rewriting software on computers, at a cost of billions of dollars. But any new network is likely to run parallel with the existing one for some time, with individuals and businesses gradually migrating over as they need more advanced applications.In 2002, W3C founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee raised what is known as Issue 25 regarding What to say in defense of principle that deep linking is not a legal act?. By the end of 2009, Issue 25 had still not been resolved. W3C members include the UK and US governments, so Issue 25 says a great deal about the true spirit of Open Government when W3C are willing to go ahead with the semantic web and linking open data without firstly finding out if their activities are legal or illegal.Page 13 of the EIFFEL Report states, We are beginning to cluster the world around us, but we are only at early stages. Newspapers were a mechanism for filtering, organizing and limiting information that otherwise would overwhelm us. With the demise of newspapers, what elements of the almost infinite flow of bits will bring order that is reflective of the human mind and human social structure? . . . In the current economic and political situation, no country can make decisions that will have only a local effect. There is no more isolation. Given that, one must consider the relationship between the Internet and governance. And perhaps even more importantly, the Internet may change forever governance of, by or for a people. Blogging and cell phone cameras that can transmit photos are having profound effects on the capability of individuals to constrain their governments at times when the governments may not want that.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

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.

Haiti by the numbers: Damage, help on giant scale By The Associated Press – Sat Jan 16, 12:17 pm ET

People in Haiti needing help: 3 million. Bodies collected for disposal so far: 9,000. Number of people being fed daily by the United Nation's World Food Program: 8,000.
The numbers behind the outpouring of earthquake assistance are giant. But they are dwarfed by the statistics indicating the scope of the disaster in Haiti, the number of victims and their deep poverty.The level of need is going to be significantly higher than many previous disasters, said Dr. Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.Here are some numbers, with the proviso that figures are estimates that are constantly changing.

THE DEAD

Current death estimates: The Red Cross says 45,000 to 50,000 people have died. The Pan American Health Organization puts the number between 50,000 and 100,000.Bodies collected for disposal so far: 9,000. An additional 7,000 corpses were reportedly placed in a mass grave.People needing help: 3 million.Percent of buildings damaged or destroyed: Up to 50 percent.Hospitals or health facilities in Haiti damaged, forced to close: eight.Patients treated by Doctors Without Borders initially: more than 1,500.Search-and-rescue teams on ground or en route Friday: 38.

Homeless people in Port-au-Prince: at least 300,000.Water needed daily: 6 to 12 million gallons (enough to fill 18 Olympic sized swimming pools a day).Kate Conradt, chief spokeswoman for Save the Children, said that the challenge ahead cannot be overcome in a few days or weeks.This is a long-term disaster,she said in a telephone interview from Port-au-Prince.Helping Haiti is going to take far more than we ever could imagine,VanRooyen said.So in response, the world has opened its wallets.

THE MONEY

United Nations Emergency appeal for aid: $550 million. United States pledge of aid: $100 million. European Commission's initial spending: 3 million Euros. Total pledge of aid by governments around world: $400 million. Number of governments that have sent aid so far: more than 20. International Red Cross' initial emergency appeal goal: $10 million. Amount of money raised by Save The Children: $7 million. Amount of money pledged by George Soros: $4 million. Amount of money raised by the Salvation Army and some other charities: more than $3 million.

HELP THAT'S ALREADY THERE OR COMING

Number of people being fed daily by U.N.'s World Food Program: 8,000. Number of people a day WFP hopes to feed within 15 days: 1 million. Number of people a day WFP hopes to feed within one month: 2 million. Amount of food salvaged by WFP in damaged Haitian warehouse being distributed: 6,000 tons (out of a total of 15,000 tons stored before the earthquake). Meals prepared and freeze dried by the Salvation Army in Kansas and Iowa to ship to Haiti: 1.28 million, weighing nearly 200,000 pounds.

Number of trucks carrying bottled water being trucked in from neighboring Dominican Republic: 13. UNICEF initial shipment of rehydration liquids, water-purification tables, hygiene kits and tents: enough for 10,000 people. Size of Doctors Without Borders initial relief package: 25 tons. International Red Cross pre-positioned relief supplies: enough for 3,000 families. Plane of Red Cross supplies sent Thursday: 40 tons. Body bags sent by Red Cross on Thursday: 3,000. We are seeing overwhelming need within the city and increasingly desperate conditions, Conradt said.We visited two camps today with 5,000 people and only four latrines total. We were told that the number of people there doubles at night, but during the day they are looking out for food, water and family members.

Camps like that are all over Port-au-Prince. And this is a country that before Tuesday's earthquake was the poorest in the Western Hemisphere and one of the poorest worldwide. More than half of Haiti's 9 million people live on less than $1 a day, even before the earthquake, according to the United Nation's World Food Program. The World Bank said the average Haitian lives on just $1,180 a year. Nearly half of Haiti's population is hungry and only half had access to safe drinking water before the earthquake, according to the World Food Program. Nearly 60 percent of Haiti's children under 5 are anemic.

PEOPLE FROM ELSEWHERE

Americans in Haiti when earthquake struck: 45,000. Number of Americans evacuated from Haiti: 846. Number of Americans confirmed dead: six. Number of Canadians dead: four. Number of United Nations worker in Haiti when earthquake struck: 12,000. Number of UN workers confirmed dead: 37. Number of UN workers missing: 330.
Number of Dominicans dead: six. Number of Brazilians dead: 15. Number of Europeans dead: six. Number of staffers of Christian humanitarian agency World Vision: 370. U.S. troops there to help or possibly on their way: 10,000. Haitian Red Cross volunteers: 1,700. This report was compiled by Associated Press writers Seth Borenstein in Washington and Frank Jordans in Geneva. Edith Lederer at the United Nations in New York contributed. SOURCES: The Associated Press, United Nations, U.S. State Department, European Commission, International Red Cross, Save The Children, Salvation Army, other charities.

Haitians desperate for supplies; rescues continue By MICHELLE FAUL and MIKE MELIA, Associated Press Writers – JAN 17,10

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Rescuers pulled a dehydrated but otherwise uninjured woman from the ruins of a luxury hotel in the Haitian capital early Sunday, an event greeted with applause from onlookers witnessing rare good news in a city otherwise filled with corpses, rubble and desperation.It's a little miracle, the woman's husband, Reinhard Riedl, said after hearing she was alive in the wreckage.She's one tough cookie. She is indestructible.For many, though, the five days since the magnitude-7.0 quake hit have turned into an aching wait for the food, water and medical care slowly making its way from an overwhelmed airport rife with political squabbles. And while aid is reaching the country, growing impatience among the suffering has spawned some violence.Nobody knows how many died in Tuesday's quake. Haiti's government alone has already recovered 20,000 bodies — not counting those recovered by independent agencies or relatives themselves, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told The Associated Press.The Pan American Health Organization now says 50,000 to 100,000 people perished in the quake. Bellerive said 100,000 would seem to be the minimum.A U.N. humanitarian spokeswoman declared the quake the worst disaster the international organization has ever faced, since so much government and U.N. capacity in the country was demolished. In that way, Elisabeth Byrs said in Geneva, it's worse than the cataclysmic Asian tsunami of 2004: Everything is damaged.

Truckloads of corpses were being trundled to mass graves Saturday. Search teams also recovered the body of Tunisian diplomat Hedi Annabi, the United Nations chief of mission in Haiti, and other top U.N. officials who were killed when their headquarters collapsed.Experts have said rescue of people trapped beneath wreckage after three days is unlikely. But an American team pulled a woman alive from a collapsed university building where she had been trapped for 97 hours. Another crew got water to three survivors whose shouts could be heard deep in the pancaked ruins of a multistory supermarket.At the Hotel Montana, the son of co-owner Nadine Cardoso said he could hear her voice from the rubble, and the effort to pull her to safety began. Twelve hours later, with more than 20 friends and relatives of the prominent community member watching early Sunday, she was lowered from a hill of debris on a stretcher.The rescue was bittersweet for Cardoso's sister, because rescuers also told Gerthe Cardoso they had abandoned a search for her 7-year-old grandson after an aftershock closed a space where he was believed to be.Well, we can't have them both, she said after her sister was saved.Later Sunday. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was expected to arrive in Haiti to discuss aid delivery, which appeared to be speeding up.Florence Louis, seven months pregnant with two children, was one of thousands of Haitians who gathered at a gate at the Cite Soleil slum, where U.N. World Food Program workers handed out high-energy biscuits for the first time.It is enough because I didn't have anything at all, said Louis, 29, clutching four packets of biscuits.The Haitian government has established 14 distribution points for food and other supplies, and U.S. Army helicopters scouted locations for more. Aid groups opened five emergency health centers. Vital gear, such as water-purification units, was arriving from abroad.On a hillside golf course, perhaps 50,000 people were sleeping in a makeshift tent city overlooking the stricken capital. Paratroopers of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division flew there Saturday to set up a base for handing out water and food.

After the initial frenzy among the waiting crowd, when helicopters could only hover and toss out their cargo, a second flight landed and soldiers passed out some 2,000 military-issue ready-to-eat meals to an orderly line of Haitians.But aid delivery was still bogged down by congestion at the Port-au-Prince airport, quake damage at the seaport, poor roads and the fear of looters and robbers. Many people are just fleeing to the countryside, they are looking for a place to stay and for food, said Enel Legrand, a 24-year-old Haitian volunteer aid worker. The airport congestion also touched off diplomatic rows between the U.S. military and other donor nations. France and Brazil both lodged official complaints that the U.S. military, in control of the international airport, had denied landing permission to relief flights from their countries. Haitian President Rene Preval, speaking with the AP, urged all to keep our cool and coordinate and not throw accusations.As relief teams grappled with on-the-ground obstacles, U.S. leadership promised Saturday to step up aid efforts. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited and pledged more American assistance. President Barack Obama met with former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton in Washington and urged Americans to donate to Haiti relief efforts. In Port-au-Prince, hundreds of Haitians simply dropped to their knees outside a warehouse when workers for the agency Food for the Poor announced they would distribute rice, beans and other supplies. They started praying right then and there,said project director Clement Belizaire. Children and the elderly were asked to step first into line, and some 1,500 people got food, soap and rubber sandals until supplies ran out, he said. Associated Press writers contributing to this story included Alfred De Montesquiou, Tamara Lush, Jennifer Kay and Kevin Maurer in Port-au-Prince; Danica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Bradley Brooks in Sao Paulo; Frank Jordans in Geneva, and Libby Quaid in Washington.

Scientists: Haiti must prepare for more massive quakes
by Mira Oberman – Sat Jan 16, 2:04 pm ET

CHICAGO (AFP) – Haiti and its neighbors must prepare themselves for more massive quakes after the devastating tremors this week increased pressure along a lengthy fault line, scientists warned Friday.Paul Mann, a senior research scientist at the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin, warned that just because the rebuilding process had started people shouldn't assume the risk was over.

This relief of stress along this area near Port-au-Prince may have actually increased stress in the adjacent segments on the fault, he told AFP.Researchers have already begun to work on models to try to predict how the stress changes resulting from the 7.0-magnitude quake which struck Tuesday is affecting the adjacent segments of the fault.This fault system is hundreds of kilometers long and the segment that ruptured to form this ear quake is only 80 kilometers long, Mann said in a telephone interview.There are many more segments which are building up strain where there haven't been earthquakes for hundreds of years.Potentially any one of these segments could cause an earthquake similar to that which happened in Haiti.There are, thankfully, only two major population centers along the fault: Port-au-Prince and Kingston, Jamaica.But as demonstrated in the chaos which followed Tuesday's tremor, the impact of a quake of that magnitude can be paralyzing, Mann said.Adding to the danger is the fact that the segment which broke was not among those closest to Port-au-Prince.

And there is a second fault system in the north of Haiti which extends to the Dominican Republic which has not ruptured in 800 years and has built up sufficient pressure for a 7.5 magnitude quake.The question is when are those going to rupture, Mann said, adding that it is very difficult to predict whether or not that's going to happen next week or 100 years.Eric Calais, a French geophysicist who works at Purdue University in Indiana, is among those trying to assess the danger.He had warned Haitian officials years ago of dangerous pressure in the fault which caused this week's devastating quake, but little could be done to reinforce the desperately poor nation's weak buildings.The Haitian government is not to blame in this, Calais told AFP.They listened to us carefully and they knew what the hazard was. They were very concerned about it and they were taking steps. But it just happened too early.

Calais began researching the fault line in 2003 and soon took his initial findings to the Haitian government, even meeting with the prime minister.In March 2008 he and Mann presented a paper showing that the fault had built up sufficient pressure to cause a 7.2 magnitude quake.But they could not pinpoint when the quake might strike and the government was occupied with recovering from a series of four hurricanes which struck that year. While the government had begun work on an emergency response plan, little could be done to retrofit and strengthen key buildings such as hospitals, schools and government buildings from which rescue operations could be organized. It's a poor country, Calais said.Strengthening a building to resist a large earthquake can be as costly as replacing the building.The devastation will allow Haiti to rebuild stronger than before, Calais said, noting that there are relatively cheap engineering solutions that can be applied to ensure that new buildings will not collapse in the next quake. It's very important for Port-au-Prince to rebuild properly,he added.There are other segments of that fault that could rupture in the future.

Iraq reclaims a Jewish history it once shunned By REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press Writer – Sun Jan 17, 12:16 am ET

BAGHDAD – It was seized from Jewish families and wound up soaking in sewage water in the basement of a secret police building. Rescued from the chaos that engulfed Baghdad as Saddam Hussein was toppled, it now sits in safekeeping in an office near Washington, D.C.Like this country's once great Jewish community, the Iraqi Jewish Archive of books, manuscripts, records and other materials has gone through turbulent times. Now another twist may be in store: Iraq wants it back.Iraqi officials say they will go to the U.S., possibly next month, to assess the materials found by U.S. troops and plan for their return after an absence of nearly seven years.Some Jewish authorities are skeptical, arguing that since most estimates put the number of Jews in Iraq at less than 10, the archive no longer belongs here. But to Saad Eskander, the director of the Iraq National Library and Archives, it is part of a larger effort to rescue the cultural history Iraq lost during the invasion, and to put Iraqis on a tentative path to coming to grips with their past.Iraqis must know that we are a diverse people, with different traditions, different religions, and we need to accept this diversity ... To show it to our people that Baghdad was always multiethnic, said Eskander.The archive was found in May 2003, when U.S. troops looking for weapons of mass destruction got a tip to check out the basement of a building of the Mukhabarat — Saddam's secret police. Passing a 2,000-pound unexploded bomb on their way into the building, they found a flooded basement.It was really quite disgusting, to be honest, because it was about chest-deep sewage water, said Richard Gonzales, the Army officer who led the team and has since retired.

The troops found no WMD, but it was worth the trip. Books, photos and papers floated in the murky water. And not just any books, but Hebrew-language books, in a country that had been at war with Israel since 1948 and had once accused Jews of espionage and after a show trial hanged nine of them in a public square.The fact that the materials survived at all is remarkable, considering how much of Iraq's cultural heritage was looted or destroyed after the fall of Saddam — more than a quarter of the National Library's books and 60 percent of its collection of maps, photographs and records, Eskander said.Gonzales knew he had something significant on his hands but he didn't have enough people or tools to deal with it. So he went to Ahmed Chalabi, the leader of the Iraqi exile group whose discredited WMD claims had been the main justification for the invasion.Chalabi got him a pump and some manpower. The materials were pulled out of the basement, laid out to dry in the sun and packed in 27 metal trunks.Accumulated over the years were photos, parchments and cases to hold Torah scrolls; a Jewish religious book published in 1568; 50 copies of a children's primer in Hebrew and Arabic; books in Arabic and English, books printed in Baghdad, Warsaw and Venice — the lost heritage of what was once one of the largest Jewish communities in the Middle East, dating to the 6th century B.C.

Abraham of the Old Testament is believed to have come from the city of Ur, in what is modern-day Iraq, and despite periods of persecution, the community endured and thrived over centuries. But problems worsened when Iraq sided with Germany in World War II, and came to a head when Israel was created.By the early 1950s, Iraqi Jews were fleeing the country in droves. The few thousand who remained were harassed, too frightened to hold services, and their assets seized. In 1969, after Saddam's Baath party took power, came the hangings.The secret police are believed to have confiscated countless books and other archival material from the Jewish community.

Sometimes they would contact us when they had intelligence about such documents, Hebrew documents or books, said Kamil Jawad Ashour, the deputy director of the National Library.On one occasion I went with them to a house in Basra of a Jewish family where they confiscated some documents and books from them. And there was only an old woman there.After the 2003 invasion, Corine Wegener was working in Baghdad as an arts, monuments and archives officer — a rarity in the U.S. military — when she was asked to examine the materials from the basement.They were still damp, and that meant mold, a preservationist's nightmare. Only freezing stops mold, so a refrigerator truck was found and kept running 24 hours a day. I was out there three or four times a day with a food thermometer checking the temperature, Wegener said.

Agreement was reached, and later approved by the Iraqi Ministry of Culture, to move the archive to the U.S. for preservation. After being freeze-dried in Texas, the collection was taken to the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Maryland. There the items were photographed, lightly cleaned, wrapped and boxed. NARA and the Center for Jewish History, a New York-based nonprofit group, are using the photos to catalog the collection. But to handle and digitize it, more preservation work would be needed. The archive was supposed to return to Iraq after two years. Until now, the Iraqis — focused more on surviving the day to day violence in the country — have never pushed for the archive's return. Doris Hamburg, who directs preservation projects at NARA, said it takes ages to repair damaged materials. Further work needs outside funding that has not materialized. But the archive's longer-than-anticipated stay in the U.S. has raised questions in Iraq, where public opinion tends to conflate Israel with Jews in general, and anything even tangentially related to either is suspect. I am afraid that there is pressure from some groups, both inside and outside the United States, in order to prevent the return of these Iraqi manuscripts to their original country, said Abdullah Hamid, the head of Iraq's National Center for Manuscripts and Documents. Hamburg denies any pressures and stresses Iraq can have the archive back whenever it wants, Iraqi officials at the National Library said they have no indication the Americans are trying to hold onto the archive. But Dov S. Zakheim, an Orthodox Jew who was a senior Department of Defense official under President George W. Bush warned that if the Iraqis were to claim the archive as their own, it would anger the Jewish community. It's not theirs. It's just not theirs, he said.Jews feel very strongly about their heritage.Mordechai Ben-Porat, who helped orchestrate a mass airlift of Jews leaving Iraq after Israel's establishment in 1948, says the archive should be in the museum dedicated to Iraqi Jews which he runs in Israel, where Jewish scholars can make use of the materials. The books belong to the majority of the Iraqi Jews, and they are not in Iraq. The books should be given to us, as the representatives of the Jews of Iraq, he said. However, he appeared resigned to the likelihood the archive would return to Iraq.

Maurice Shohet of the World Organization of Jews from Iraq said the community would like the materials to be digitized so that everyone has access, and was worried the necessary preservation work could not be done in Iraq. If these documents go back to Iraq the way they are they will be lost forever, he said. Since Iraq has no diplomatic relations with Israel, Eskander thought it unlikely Israeli scholars would get visas to enter Iraq and study the archive. The Israeli Foreign Ministry said it was not involved in any move to bring the archive to Israel. Digitization to make them available on the Web would solve a lot of the problems, but would require extensive preservation work, which many worry is beyond Iraq's present capabilities.

But Iraqi officials stressed they have the expertise and will make preservation a priority. Down the hall from Eskander's office are experts, many trained in Europe, who are repairing documents similarly damaged during the invasion. Wegener said she was deeply torn about whether the collection should be removed from what at the time was an occupied country. But I firmly believed then, and I believe now, that if we did not, it would have been destroyed.All the same, the archive's long absence from Iraq has made it politically sensitive, Eskander said. It annoyed Iraqis a lot that the Americans who failed to protect Iraqi cultural treasures were devoting such care to the Jewish archive. Why, given its treatment of its Jewish population, would Iraq want the Jewish Archive back? Eskander, 48, can point to himself. He is a Faily, a member of a small Shiite-Kurdish minority persecuted under Saddam, and he wants Iraqis to know about such oppression and learn from it. In a country that has lost thousands of lives to sectarian violence since 2003, where Christian churches are bombed, and where people perceived as friendly to Israel often receive death threats, Eskander can point to the collection of Hebrew-language books he has in his office for safekeeping. Like the Iraqi Jewish Archive, these books were found tucked in the corner of another basement — that one dry. They are catalogued on the library's Web site and available for study. The American national archive did a great job, and we're grateful for their help. ... The idea now is that we will do it here in Baghdad,Eskander said.It's our cultural heritage.Associated Press writers Matti Friedman and Josef Federman in Jerusalem, and investigative researcher Randy Herschaft in New York, contributed to this report.
On the Net: http://www.iraqnla.org http://www.nara.gov

Pope to visit Rome synagogue amid Jewish anger by Gina Doggett – JAN 17,10

ROME (AFP) – Pope Benedict XVI was headed Sunday for Rome's main synagogue for a much-anticipated visit after angering many Jews by moving his wartime predecessor Pius XII further on the road to sainthood.A 500-strong press corps will record Benedict's third visit to a Jewish house of worship, which comes barely four weeks after he revived controversy over Pius XII, whom many Jews accuse of inaction over the Holocaust.The visit, announced in October, appeared at risk of being cancelled amid howls of protest over the papal decree bestowing the title venerable on the Nazi-era pope.The tension is in stark contrast to the warm welcome reserved for Benedict's predecessor John Paul II, who became the first modern pope to visit a synagogue -- the same imposing temple on Rome's River Tiber -- in 1986.A high-profile stayaway Sunday is the president of Italy's assembly of rabbis, Giuseppe Laras, who said Benedict had weakened ties between Catholics and Jews.Israel's ambassador to the Holy See will attend but remarked that Catholic anti-Judaism still exists.

Adding fuel to the fire, the head of the Roman Catholic Church on Friday urged Vatican doctrinal experts to speed rapprochement with a Catholic fraternity that includes a Holocaust-denying bishop, Richard Williamson.Renzo Gattegna, who heads the Union of Communities of Italian Jews, said:It cannot be denied that some decisions taken by the current pope in 2009 led to moments of tension and concern on the Jewish side.Gattegna listed the Pius XII and Williamson affairs as well as Benedict's decision to rehabilitate the Latin version of the Catholic Church's Good Friday mass, which contains a prayer for the conversion of the Jews.Cooler heads on both sides see the occasion as an important step along the way to reconciliation between the two faiths, a process that began in the 1960s with Vatican II.The 82-year-old German-born pope said Sunday during his weekly Angelus prayer: Despite the problems and difficulties, there is a climate of great respect and dialogue between the two faiths.Benedict stressed the belief in a single God, first of all, but also the protection of life and the family, the wish for social justice and peace.

The pope's host, Rome's Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni, said last week that the visit was a sign that Benedict wanted to continue the dialogue.The director of Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano asserted Saturday that few Catholics had done as much as Benedict XVI to bring Christians and Jews together, hailing the pope's steps forward since a 1965 Vatican II declaration absolved Jews of blame for Jesus' death.
Participants are to include the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fouad Twal, the apostolic nuncio to Israel, Antonio Franco, and Oded Wiener, secretary general of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.Rome's Jewish community, the oldest in Europe, has some 15,000 members.While Pius XII was pope, the Nazis rounded up more than 1,000 Roman Jews for deportation on October 16, 1943. Only a handful returned from the death camps.Benedict is to place a wreath before a plaque commemorating this tragedy before going into the synagogue. He will also stop before another inscription marking a 1982 attack by Palestinian extremists that killed a two-year-old child and wounded 27 other people. In a speech, Benedict is expected to stress the common roots of the two faiths as he did during his trip to Israel in May 2009. Later he is to meet briefly with Rabbi Di Segni before planting an olive tree to mark his visit.

Just a few weeks after a young woman assaulted the pope in St Peter's Basilica on Christmas Eve, yanking the pope to the floor but not harming him, security was tight ahead of Sunday's synagogue visit. The route Benedict will take across the Tiber from the Vatican was to be determined at the last minute.

Israeli minister visits Abu Dhabi for first time By BARBARA SURK, Associated Press Writer – JAN 17,10

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Israel for the first time sent a Cabinet minister to the United Arab Emirates, a small Gulf country with which it doesn't have relations, to attend a conference on alternative energy.National Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau told The Associated Press on Sunday he did not meet with any Emirati officials while attending a conference of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), based in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi. The agency's activities are open to Israel because it is a member state.Landau said the Israeli delegation entered the country after special arrangements were made.They had to do it since they committed themselves to making it possible for all member states, with or without relations, to participate in the agency's activities, Landau said in a phone interview from Abu Dhabi.Last year the UAE denied entry to Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer to an international tournament in Dubai. The UAE officials said Peer was denied a visa because of anti-Israel sentiments in the Gulf state following last year's three-week war between Israel and Islamic militants in Gaza.The tournament was fined a record $300,000 for refusing Peer the entry. Last week the UAE authorities sent a written assurance to the World Tennis Association that all players who will qualify for the 2010 championships will be allowed into the country and welcome to play in Dubai.

On Sunday, an official with the UAE's Foreign Ministry told The Associated Press that allowing Israel Cabinet minister to participate in the agency's activities was part of obligations in hosting (the agency) in the UAE.The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press. He added, that Israel's participation in the international event in the oil-rich Abu Dhabi will have no implications or indications for bilateral links between the UAE and any other party.Israel only has diplomatic relations with two Arab countries, Egypt and Jordan.Last year, Mauritania and Qatar suspended contacts with Israel to protest the Gaza bloodshed. Mauritania, an Arab League member, had full diplomatic relations with Israel. Qatar, an energy-rich Gulf state had maintained low-level relations with the Jewish state by hosting an Israeli trade office in the capital Doha since 1996.IRENA was established a year ago with a mission to promote sustainable use of al forms of renewable energy. In June, Abu Dhabi was selected as the agency's headquarters.It's the first ever international organization based in the UAE.

Obama confident bank tax plan will pass Congress By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press Writer – Sat Jan 16, 5:25 pm ET

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama expressed confidence Saturday that lawmakers would approve his proposed tax on banks to recover bailout money, despite opposition from Republicans and the financial industry.Like clockwork, the banks and politicians who curry their favor are already trying to stop this fee from going into effect, he said, using his weekly radio and Internet addresses to promote the plan he announced this past week.The very same firms reaping billions of dollars in profits, and reportedly handing out more money in bonuses and compensation than ever before in history, are now pleading poverty. It's a sight to see.If banks can afford to pay out all those bonuses, he said, then they can repay taxpayers, too.We're not going to let Wall Street take the money and run. We're going to pass this fee into law, he said.Congress must approve the tax and that's not assured, given the immediate opposition from Republicans. Democrats also could lose their 60-vote majority in the Senate, with Democrat Martha Coakley in an unexpectedly close race against Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts to fill the seat held for decades by the late Democrat Edward M. Kennedy.Brown opposes Obama's bank tax. Obama planned to campaign in the state on Sunday.The White House's decision to use the address to speak about the proposed tax instead of the U.S. response to the suffering and devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti suggested one line of attack Obama would use against Brown on Sunday.The proposed 0.15 percent tax would last at least 10 years and generate about $90 billion over the decade, according to administration estimates. It would apply to about 50 of the biggest banks, those with more than $50 billion in assets, and include many institutions that accepted no money from the $700financial industry bailout.Obama said that although the banks were facing a crisis of their own creation,the distasteful but necessary taxpayer-funded bailout prevented an even greater calamity for the country.

Most of the banks have returned the money they borrowed, and Obama said that was good news.But as far as I'm concerned, it's not good enough, he said.We want the taxpayers' money back, and we're going to collect every dime.Six of the biggest U.S. banks are on track to pay $150 billion in total executive compensation for 2009, slightly less than the record $164 billion in 2007 before the financial crisis struck, according to the New York state comptroller's office.Obama challenged those who say banks can't afford the tax without passing the costs on to shareholders and customers.That's hard to believe when there are reports that Wall Street is going to hand out more money in bonuses and compensation just this year than the cost of this fee over the next 10 years, he said.If the big financial firms can afford massive bonuses, they can afford to pay back the American people.On the Net:
Obama address: http://www.whitehouse.gov American Bankers Association: http://www.aba.com

TORAH PORTION FROM JAN 17 - 23,2010

SINCE WHAT ISRAEL READS WILL BE FULFILLED IN THAT WEEK I WILL BE PUTTING THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTION ON FOR ALL OF US TO KEEP TRACK OF ISRAEL HAPPENINGS.

TORAH PORTION FROM JAN 17 2010 6PM - JAN 23 6PM 2010

EXODUS 10:1 - 13:16
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him:
2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.
3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:
6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve the LORD your God: but who are they that shall go?
9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.
10 And he said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.
11 Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.
13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.
18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.
21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you.
25 And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.
26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.
27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.
28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in that day thou seest my face thou shalt die.
29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face again no more.

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

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

EXODUS 13:1-16
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
4 This day came ye out in the month Abib.
5 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.
8 And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.
9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.
10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.
11 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,
12 That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD'S.
13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.
14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.

PROPHETS PORTION

JEREMIAH 46:13-28
13 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.
14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.
15 Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.
16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
18 As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:
26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.
27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

NEW TESTAMENT PORTION

LUKE 2:22-24
22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
23 (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
24 And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.

JOHN 19:31-37
31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
35 And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

ACTS 13:16-17
16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
17 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.

REVELATION 8:6-9:12
6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
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.
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels,which are yet to sound!
1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

REVELATION 16:1-21
1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
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.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.