DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
DON'T TELL ANYONE USE WERE NOT WARNED,I HAVE BEEN WARNING PEOPLE FOR YEARS THE EU WILL CONTROL THE WORLD ECONOMICALLY.GOD TOLD US IN HIS WORD,PEOPLE ARE SKEPTICS OR NON BELIEVERS OR JUST GODLESS ABOUT THE BIBLE OR ANYTHING IN IT,THATS WHY THEY REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT UNTILL NOW WHEN GOD IS BRINGING PROPHECY TO PASS.THEN THEY WILL BE FORCED TO BELIEVE IT WHEN IT HAPPENS IN FRONT OF THEIR BLIND EYES AND DEAF EARS.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 EU President Seeking to Consolidate Economic Power (Dog Bites Man Alert)
On the one hand, as we noted in an earlier post, EU president Herman Van Rompuy has made no bones about his view that the EU needs to have more clout in economic affairs. Per the Telegraph:Herman Van Rompuy, the EU’s new president, has submitted a text calling for the creation of an economic government that shifts responsibility for economic planning from national authorities to the EU level
But the Independent has a story up, EU President’s secret bid for economic power, that makes this effort sound more like a land grab:The new President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, is using the financial crisis sweeping the eurozone to launch an audacious grab for power over national budgets, leaked documents reveal.
The Independent has seen a secret annexe to the letter being sent by Mr Van Rompuy to European Union heads of government inviting them to the summit to be held tomorrow in Brussels. In an early and muscular assertion of authority over national governments and over the EU Commission, the Van Rompuy note states: Members of the European Council are responsible for the economic strategy in their government. They should do the same at EU level. Whether it is called co-ordination of policies or economic government, only the European Council is capable of delivering and sustaining a common European strategy for more growth and more jobs.Mr Van Rompuy states that the crisis has revealed our weaknesses, adding: Budgetary plans, structural reform programmes and climate change reporting should be presented simultaneously to the Commission [his italics]. This will provide a comprehensive overview.How one reads this could easily devolve into those one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter debates. On the one hand, the pragmatists assert that there is a great deal to be gained by having the EU become more cohesive and successful, and national sovereignity will inevitably have to be compromised. On the other, this very move has been deferred as long as humanely possible precisely because it was politically unpalatable. Now to have it take place, with the first act in some member states being an austerity regime….this is not a great way to make the medicine go down. And recall the after-effect of IMF austerity regimes in Asia after its 1997 crisis. It wasn’t just the client states that resolved never never to have anything to do with the IMF, but even mere bystanders like China came to the same conclusion, that it was necessary to build up big foreign exchange reserved to avoid what befell Indonesia and Thailand. Admittedly, an austerity regime for Greece (and the other members of Club Med) may not be as draconian, but Greece is also in much closer proximity to countries that will not be put on a short leash, which could stir even more resentment. And of course, the fact that this story was leaked, with the hope of making waves, also says there will be a great deal of tough discussion and (hopefully) compromise before any deal can be reached.
More from the Independent:An EU source explained: It has become clear to everyone that this economic crisis can’t be solved by individual member states, such as Germany helping out Greece. What we need is the same kind of mechanism that we have now imposed on Greece in order to monitor and survey eurozone countries. So the idea is to put all European economies under surveillance. You can expect some important decisions to be taken this week.In a highly unusual move, the president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, has broken off from a meeting of central bank governors in Sydney to return to Europe…The concern being felt in the highest circles of the EU about the contagion sweeping through Greece, Spain and Portugal is also clearly displayed in Mr Van Rompuy’s confidential note: The crisis has revealed our weaknesses. Our structural growth rate is too low to create new jobs and to sustain our social systems.Referring to the fact that the EU has no way to resolve a budgetary crisis that affects other members states, Mr Van Rompuy goes on: Recent developments in the euro area highlight the urgent need to strengthen our economic governance. In our intertwined economies, our reforms must be co-ordinated to maximise their effect.The financial crisis comes as the EU’s three presidents jockey for position. Mr Van Rompuy is permanent President of the European Council (the job once thought tailor-made for Tony Blair), while the Spanish premier, José Zapatero, is the President of the Council of the European Union and José Manuel Barroso is President of the European Commission. President Barack Obama recently snubbed a proposed spring EU-US summit out of frustration at having to deal with the confusing troika.
The summit will be held away from the usual redoubts of the Euro bureaucracy, in Brussels’ Solvay library. Van Rompuy wanted to create a far more intimate atmosphere without an army of advisers, a source said. There are a lot of tensions between member states right now, which he is why he decided to get them to talk in an open, friendly setting, starting with aperitifs. The idea is to have a proper brainstorming session and hear everyone’s thoughts.Yves here. This is an important juncture. Even though the subtext is that there needs to be some sort of EU deal for Greece and its Club Med confreres, it isn’t just getting to a deal, but the quality of the arrangement that matters for the long term.
Germany preparing to bail out Greece
ANDREW WILLIS Today FEB 10,10 @ 09:27 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Clear signs emerged on Tuesday (9 February) that Germany and other eurozone members are considering a bailout plan for Greece.Reports suggest financial support is likely to come in the form of guarantees or bilateral loans, with EU leaders set to discuss the exact details when they meet for an informal summit on economic issues in Brussels on Thursday. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble told officials in Berlin on Monday that he had concluded there was no alternative to a rescue plan, reports the Wall Street Journal citing an anonymous source. The Financial Times quotes German officials as saying that the steep decline in the euro and pressure on bond prices has forced Berlin to take a significant step to deal with the Greek debt crisis. Recent weeks have seen Greece come under tremendous pressure from financial markets due to doubts over the Greek administration's capacity to push through tough austerity measures, leading to fears of a possible sovereign default and contagion to other eurozone members. Athens will face a major test on Wednesday with Greek public sector workers set to strike over the government's spending cut plans. The protests are set to cause grounded flights, shut government offices and schools and limited hospital operations.
Bailout method?
The European Investment Bank, the main provider of long-term EU loans, ended all speculation on Tuesday that it might become involved in a Greek bailout. The EIB's mission and statute do not allow for bailouts in terms of budget deficits or balance of payments support to individual member-states, Philippe Maystadt, the EIB president, said in a statement.News that European Central Bank chief, Jean-Claude Trichet, will be flying back from Australia for Thursday's summit helped to lift markets on Tuesday, although eurozone rules also prevent the central bank from bailing out national governments. Non-eurozone members Sweden and the UK have suggested that the International Monetary Fund is best placed to supply financial support to Greece, although EU officials have widely rejected this method. We don't need to call in the IMF, EU economic commissioner Joaquin Almunia told the European parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday. Another option is the creation of a special bailout fund.When Europe was created, they created solidarity funds for new entrants, but not for the euro members. This is what is needed now,said economist Joseph Stiglitz, currently advising the Greek government, on British television on Tuesday evening.A final decision on the plan may not come this week but Germany is thought to favour guarantees as the most efficient way to prevent the spread of the debt crisis.
Moral hazard
Whatever the final option, eurozone politicians will be keen to avoid a situation of moral hazard whereby chronic overspenders like Greece appear to be getting off easy.
Mr Almunia told MEPs he hoped leaders at Thursday's summit would offer clear support for Greece in exchange for clear commitment [from the Greek authorities] that they will meet their responsibilities. You don't get support for free, he stressed.
Taxpayers in Germany and other eurozone members involved in the Greek rescue plan will essentially take on the risk involved in providing Greece with guarantees or a large bilateral loan. However, policy makers appear decided that the risks associated with taking no action are far greater. As well as preventing a possible default, a resolution to Greece's problems would help calm investor concerns over the health of public finances in Portugal and Spain. German and French banks also have considerable exposure to the Greek economy, including billions of euros in loans to private individuals and companies.
Barroso urges new wave of optimism in Europe
ANDREW RETTMAN 09.02.2010 @ 18:02 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Tuesday (9 February) celebrated EU enlargement and the single currency as the bloc's main achievements in the face of crisis-related gloom in Europe.Speaking to reporters in Strasbourg following the EU parliament's endorsement of his new team of 26 commissioners, the Portuguese politician attacked the intellectual glamour of euro-pessimism in the bloc.I believe Europe is a force for good, for our citizens and for the world, said Mr Barroso (Photo: EUobserver.com)I think that's one of the most damaging things we have in Europe: Europeans are always saying Europe is not good enough ...Some people like it. I don't like it. I believe Europe is a force for good, for our citizens and for the world, he said. We have reasons to be proud. We have extended the freedom of space and democracy to the whole continent, almost the whole continent,he went on.Europe today is much stronger than when we were six, or nine, or 12.The commission chief brought up the example of Iceland amid speculation that some struggling eurozone members, such as Spain or Greece, might be better off if they had kept their own currencies.Ordinary people [in Iceland] were going to the ATMs [cash machines] and they could not get their money. They could not use their credit cards. This happened to ordinary citizens, because they were not protected by the euro, he said. The remarks were delivered by a visibly tired and at times distracted Mr Barroso, who at the press event twice suppressed a yawn and took time out to read messages on his phone. Commenting on a new institutional pact with the EU parliament, which gives MEPs the authority to call for individual commissioners to resign and to ask the executive to consider new legislation, he drew a line in the sand.Of course I would have to give it serious consideration. Having said this, the final decision to replace a commissioner is, and will remain, in the hands of the commission president, Mr Barosso said.
The commission head also urged MEPs to vote in favour of sharing EU bank data with US counter-terrorism agents in a crunch decision to be taken by parliament at noon on Thursday.He said deputies will in future be granted easier access to classified parts of international agreements on which [they] enjoy the right of consent.I hope this reassurance paves the path to a positive vote,he said.
China officially tops Germany as world's No.1 exporter
ANDREW WILLIS 09.02.2010 @ 17:18 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Official data released from Germany on Tuesday (9 February) confirmed that China has stripped Europe's largest economy of its top exporter title. Data released by the German Federal Statistics Office showed the country's exports fell by 18.4 percent in 2009 when compared to the previous year, hitting a dollar equivalent of $1.121 trillion. China's exports for 2009 totaled $1.202 trillion.Despite the drop, which represents the greatest year-on-year decline for Germany since 1950, the news of China's takeover was not greeted with great alarm by German economists.This is something that was expected. Everyone agrees that China's currency is undervalued, but still it was only a matter of time, Gernot Nerb, head of the industry department with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich, told this website. The official figures also showed a strong export recovery in the fourth quarter of the year, helping to pull Germany out of its recession and providing a silver lining to the more gloomy annual data.With more than 60 percent of Germany's exports going to other EU countries, concerns have been raised that the bloc's forecast low rates of growth in the coming years could prose a problem for Germany's export model.
There is some concern but we are mainly exporting investment goods, and you can not postpone investment for ever, said Mr Nerb, conceding that investment levels will probably not pick up before 2011-12 however. A breakdown of the German figures shows exports to the EU were down 19.1 percent year-on-year, with sales to faster-growing regions of Asia and South America faring little better and falling 17.1 percent.
German imports also declined rapidly in 2009 as result of the financial crisis, dropping fell by 17.2 percent.
EU too slow to act over Greece, say MEPs
ANDREW WILLIS 09.02.2010 @ 17:49 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A number of senior MEPs have criticised the European Commission for acting too slowly in tackling the problem of Greece's budget deficit and rising debt levels. Speaking after the European legislature officially approved a new commission for the next five years, Liberal leader Guy Verhofstadt said Europe had committed a strategical error in not intervening earlier in the Aegean country.
The European Central Bank and the commission should have responded from the start with a package for Greece and then we needn't have gone through what we have seen in the last few weeks,he said. Recent weeks have seen growing market doubts over Athens' ability to claw back its deficit and debt levels, leading concerned investors to demand higher bond yields as they weigh up the possibility of a potential debt default. Greece's budget deficit hit 12.7 percent last year, with its debt-to-GDP ratio forecast to exceed 120 percent in 2010. Centre-right EPP Group vice-chairwoman, Corien Wortmann-Kool MEP, said she supported the commission's current strategy of closely monitoring Greece's timetable of austerity measures, but said it had come months late.Outgoing economy commissioner Joaquin Almunia, flanked by his successor Olli Rehn, defended the commission's actions however.
I don't know how Mr Verhofstadt defines late, but I don't remember him turning to the commission very quickly when Belgium was in trouble, he said of the former Belgian prime minister. Mr Almunia pointed to the difficulties in obtaining accurate statistics on the state of Greece's economy and the change of government last autumn as slowing factors, and said little had been possible until Athens presented its stability programme on 15 January. The Greek programme set outs a list of spending cuts and revenue-raising measures, as the country seeks to bring its budget deficit to below three percent by 2012.
Spain pushes for common strategy on electric cars
VALENTINA POP Today FEB 10,10 @ 09:27 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – EU industry ministers on Tuesday (9 February) discussed plans to establish a common strategy for electric cars, a pet project of the Spanish EU presidency. Following the informal talks in the northern Spanish city of San Sebastian, the country's industry minister Miguel Sebastian said it was not an exaggeration to say that the electric vehicle has been born today in Europe, and that it has done so under the Spanish presidency.Obviously there are lots of questions ...issues of legal security, validation, the safety of the vehicles themselves ...and cost, he admitted, however.As national plans vary throughout Europe and use differing technologies, not always compatible, Spain is pushing for the EU commission to come up with a common strategy in May. The Spanish minister cited Germany's support for the plan.Madrid also wants the electric car included in the bloc's economic strategy for the next ten years, the so-called 2020 Agenda, as it would boost its ailing auto sector, stem soaring unemployment rates and use the renewable energy produced domestically. The EU would compete against already established electric car manufacturers in Japan, China and the United States.It is good for people's pockets, good for European income and employment, good for Europe as a whole, and it will be good for the planet from an environmental perspective, the Spanish minister said.
But his view was not shared by several green groups issuing a report on Monday in which they warned that electric cars alone could actually increase carbon emissions unless they were backed by smart power grids.The report, commissioned by Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and Transport & Environment, says that existing EU legislation on car emissions is flawed because it allows manufacturers to use sales of electric vehicles to offset the continued production of high gas-consuming cars. Increasing sales of electric cars to 10 percent of the total could lead to a 20 percent increase in both oil consumption and CO2 emissions in the EU car sector, the groups warn.About 400 grams of carbon dioxide are emitted on average for every kilowatt-hour of electricity in the EU, but this can more than double if coal is used, says the report.The answer, in their view, is to integrate electric cars with a smart electricity network, which would charge vehicles only when there was an abundance of green power from sources such as wind farms. But smart power networks are still in their early phase, despite EU pledges to develop them further.Just as every car sold today has to have an odometer to show how far it has driven, every electric car needs a smart meter to show how much electricity has been used and better still, whether or not that electricity came from a renewable source, Nusa Urbancic from Transport & Environment said in a statement. Simply plugging electric cars in like kettles would leave consumers and electricity suppliers in confusion and chaos, Ms Urbancic argued.It's up to the EU to ensure that all new cars sold in Europe are fitted with this kind of technology,she added.
Likud MK: Livni's Vote Shows She Wants to Surrender Golan
by Gil Ronen FEB 10,10
(IsraelNN.com) Ophir Akunis, who heads the Likud party's media responses team, accused Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni (Kadima) Wednesday of having a hidden agenda as regards the fate of the Golan Heights, after Livni voted against a bill submitted by MK Eli Aflalo (Kadima).The bill, which the Knesset approved in a preliminary reading, would grant tax benefits to residents of the Golan Heights. The bill was supported by Knesset members from the coalition and also by several Kadima members, despite Livni's opinion against it.Sources in Kadima criticized Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak for refusing to accept Kadima's suggestion to postpone the vote on Golan instead of bringing it up today, when there is still some tension with Syria over recent statements by Israeli and Syrian leaders.Likud Whip Ze'ev Elkin saw meaning in the splitting of the Kadima vote: Time and again, Kadima proves that it has no clear and coherent stand on any question or subject – not about the Golan, nor about other subjects. Even if formally, Kadima has not yet split, de facto it is behaving like two factions, with two heads and two ideologies,Elkin said.
Arabs Attack Christian Evangelists in Samaria
by Hillel Fendel FEB 10,10
(IsraelNN.com) Five Christian volunteers were lightly wounded by Arab rock-throwers in the fields of the Jewish town of Har Brachah in the Shomron; the town’s security officer was detained after he shot in the air.The five injured volunteers were part of a group of American Christians who arrived in Har Brachah in Samaria to help the Jewish residents work their fields. The incident occurred on Tuesday, and they were back working the fields on Wednesday.The chief security officer of the Jewish town of Har Brachah arrived on the scene and when he saw the attack in progress, he fired in the air. The attackers, from the nearby Arab village Irak Burin, then dispersed – but later complained to the police that one of their number had been shot in the shoulder.The police summoned the security officer for questioning and later released him. They also confiscated his weapon, but returned it late Wednesday morning.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Snoverkill slams eastern US by Stephanie Griffith – Wed Feb 10, 8:28 am ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A second major snowstorm in less than a week struck the eastern United States Wednesday, paralyzing travel for millions, shutting down the US capital, and forcing school closures from Virginia to New York.The National Weather Service forecast that the storm, dubbed Snoverkill by the local media, would dump up to 14 inches (36 centimeters) of fresh snow on the mid-Atlantic region.This comes on top of the three feet (91 cm) of snow from the weekend's powerful blizzard, much of which remains on the ground.Federal government offices in the US capital closed Wednesday for the third straight day -- a first since 1996 -- while local schools prepared to remain closed until next week.Even in New York city, Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered schools closed, only the second time to do so since 2004 according to local media.The NWS issued a blizzard warning for the Washington-Baltimore area starting at 10 am (1500 GMT) and lasting nine hours and warned of heavy snowfall and winds of 20 to 30 miles per hour (32 to 48 kilometers per hour).Blowing and drifting snow will reduce visibility to a quarter of a mile or less at times, producing blizzard conditions, the NWS said in its 0845 GMT advisory.This will lead to whiteout conditions, making travel extremely dangerous. Do not travel, the advisory read.It also issued a rare blizzard warning for New York city, to remain in effect until early Thursday morning.The snow may mix with rain and sleet at times on Wednesday, but will otherwise be heavy at times during the day.By late Wednesday the NWS forecast between eight and 13 inches of snow for New York.
Thousands of homes were still without power in the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area after Friday and Saturday's massive snowfall dubbed Snowmageddon.Strong winds expected to accompany the second storm could also mean further power outages across the region.Snow-weary residents have since scrambled to get a sense of normalcy, digging out, stocking up on depleted groceries and clearing their streets from fallen trees and branches.But even before the storm hit, many secondary roadways remained treacherous, with piles of snow and near-invisible black ice.Harried commuters in the mid-Atlantic states struggled to dig out buried cars and trundle to work Tuesday on icy roads, while subway users in the US capital suffered long waits despite the relaunch of suspended above ground services.But just hours after the first new flurries began to fall, Metro said subway service would be limited to underground only stations until Thursday, while transit officials canceled bus and shuttle service.Most of the 230,000 federal employees in the Washington DC area were off work, costing an estimated 100 million dollars a day in lost productivity. Some government offices including the White House, parts of Congress and some agencies however remained operational. A quarter of Washington DC's snow plows were being repaired after being operated without stop since Friday, CNN reported. Washington, Virginia and Maryland all declared emergencies, allowing them to mobilize the National Guard to help cope with the unusually severe winter wallop. No flights were expected to take off from Washington's Reagan National and Dulles International airports on Wednesday, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said.
Airlines operating out of New Jersey, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Chicago also reported cancellations and delays. The government-owned rail corporation Amtrak said it would operate limited service along its money-making Northeast corridor on Wednesday. In addition to snow, the rail service was also battling downed trees and power lines. Jennifer Ganem, stuck at home in the Maryland suburbs with four children under the age of 10, said her family had been particularly challenged by a weekend power outage that kept them in the dark for almost two days. Ganem said news of another blast of snow was a real downer, even for her children who usually look forward to sledding and snow days off from school. My daughter actually said to me this morning, OK, I'm done with winter now, she said. That's a bad sign when you've got 20 more inches of snow coming.
Snow, wind batter East Coast in big 2nd storm By Jeremy Pelofsky – Wed Feb 10, 8:27 am ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The second major snowstorm in less than a week lashed the East Coast from Washington to New York on Wednesday, forcing federal and local government agencies, the United Nations and schools to close.Cities across the Northeast ground to a halt as the National Weather Service predicted blizzard conditions up the coast with up to 16 inches in New York City, up to 22 inches in Philadelphia and 12 inches in Washington.Hundreds of flights were canceled in the three cities and airlines relaxed ticket policies to allow passengers to change their plans without penalty, moves that could cloud the outlook for an industry already hard hit by the battered economy.The United Nations said its New York headquarters would be closed on Wednesday due to the storm.While government offices in Washington were also closed for the third straight day -- at a cost of some $100 million in lost productivity per day -- President Barack Obama was trying to maintain his schedule with a meeting with black leaders to discuss the economy and jobs.The House of Representatives canceled votes for the week. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Senate would not be in session on Wednesday but would resume work on Thursday. He said he doubted the Senate would have any votes this week. Many congressional hearings were also called off.
LIMITED AMTRAK SERVICE
Amtrak passenger rail service warned of limited service along its lucrative Northeast corridor. Among the flights canceled were US Airways' shuttle service between New York, Boston and Washington.State offices in five major Pennsylvania cities were ordered closed, and Maryland and Massachusetts government offices were shut down, with only emergency and essential personnel required to report for duty.
Forecasters said the storm, which has been dubbed Snoverkill and Snomageddon 2.0, would be packing strong winds that could cause additional power outages in a region already reeling from a major weekend snowstorm.Approximately 5,500 customers were without power in the Baltimore and Washington areas, according to the area's three main electric companies, Pepco, Dominion and Constellation Energy Group's BG&E.The storm comes as residents were still trying to dig out from weekend snowfalls of 18 to 32 inches from Washington to southern New Jersey. Some struggled to restock refrigerators and clear fallen trees ahead of the new storm.Schools were closed across much of the region, and many canceled classes for the rest of the week.The bus system in the Washington said it would not operate on Wednesday. The metropolitan area's subway was only operating the underground section of its system.
I love it. I can handle one more round,said government lawyer David Kaplan, 50, as he shoveled snow off his roof on Tuesday in Takoma Park, Maryland, just outside Washington. He spent the past few days sledding and building a luge run in his yard.
But Kaplan also said he spent a fair amount of time shoveling his driveway and roof. It's hard work and I hope never to do it again, he said.(Additional reporting by David Alexander, Tim Ryan, Diane Bartz in Takoma Park, Kyle Peterson, Meredith Davis and Jerry Biezsk in Chicago; Editing by Will Dunham and Vicki Allen)
Calif. storm sputters but LA evacuations continue
FEB 10,10
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. – Evacuations are still in effect for more than 500 foothill homes in Southern California even though the storm that spawned them is petering out.Authorities say the threat of a mudslide remains in La Canada Flintridge, La Crescenta, Acton and two canyons in the Angeles National Forest.No major mud flows were reported from Tuesday's storm, which dumped at least an inch of rain in the area.The communities are below slopes burned bare in wildfires. A mudslide last weekend damaged 43 homes in La Canada Flintridge.The National Weather Service says the area will be mostly sunny for about the next seven days.However, a couple of inches of snow could fall at higher mountain elevations and in the Antelope Valley. Winter storm warnings are effect until 10 a.m. Wednesday.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. (AP) — The latest Pacific storm that brought heavy rain, hail and snow to Southern California is heading east, but the mudslide threat is not over for communities below wildfire-scarred mountains.More than 500 homes in La Canada Flintridge, La Crescenta, Acton and two canyons in the Angeles National Forest were under evacuation orders for the second time in a week Tuesday, only three days after a sudden downpour took them by surprise and sent mud and boulders slamming into homes and cars. The evacuations are expected to remain in place through at least Wednesday morning, Los Angeles County fire Inspector Matt Lavesque said. The weather also kept several roads in the San Gabriel Mountains area closed or restricted early Wednesday.The National Weather Service said at least an inch of rain fell on the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains during the day. Snow levels were expected to drop to as low as 2,500 feet overnight, bringing another round of winter to mountain passes and Southern California ski resorts.
Showers were expected through Wednesday morning, with clearing expected in most areas by afternoon, forecasters said.Backhoes and dump trucks hurried to clear out the basins designed to steer debris and mud into channels and away from homes.About 60 to 70 percent of the residents ordered to evacuate complied, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.They know what's at stake, said Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Bob Furman, as he took a lap along the mud-crusted streets to clear out stragglers.They've been through this before.Officials asked residents to move their vehicles and put away trash cans. During Saturday's storm, the mud tossed parked cars into each other like bumper cars.Sheriff's deputies went door to door, urging people to leave; those who refused signed waivers acknowledging they were aware of the risk.Maureen Kindred said she was remaining in her home with her son to fight back the mud, as she did over the weekend.We literally fought it, she said, taking a break from shoveling mud from in front of her house before it could block the drain on her porch.We fought it with buckets and mops and spades and we dug a canal. We did everything we could to keep water from entering the house, and we succeeded.
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.
Rare earthquake rattles northern Ill.; no damage
FEB 10,10
CHICAGO – A small pre-dawn earthquake has hit northern Illinois, startling residents as far away as Michigan and Iowa, but no damage or injuries were immediately reported.The U.S. Geological Survey says the 3.8-magnitude earthquake hit about 45 miles northwest of Chicago at 4 a.m. Wednesday. Scientists say the epicenter was southwest of the village of Gilberts in Kane County.The USGS initially reported the magnitude as 4.3 but later downgraded it. USGS geophysicist Amy Vaughan says such quakes are rare in northern Illinois.She says residents in Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan also reported feeling the quake.In Kane County, sheriff's dispatchers were overwhelmed with calls, and several residential and business alarms were triggered. But spokesman Lt. Pat Gengler says no injuries or damage have been reported.On the Net:U.S. Geological Survey: http://www.usgs.gov/
Quake shakes southern Mexico, felt in capital
Mon Feb 8, 9:08 pm ET
OAXACA, Mexico – A magnitude 5.7-earthquake shook southern Mexico near the Oaxaca coast Monday, setting off evacuation alarms and swaying buildings as far away as Mexico City.The quake was centered 35 miles (55 kilometers) north of the fishing and resort town of Puerto Angel, according to the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazards Program.It struck at 6:47 p.m. local time and was felt 280 miles (455 kilometers) away in Mexico City.Oaxaca state's civil protection agency said it had received no reports of damage or injury.Here in Puerto Angel is was pretty quick. There wasn't enough time to go out into the street, said Florencia Peliconi, manager of the seaside Hotel Villa Serena Florencia.She saw no damage to buildings.It was more noise (than shaking). Like a truck was coming,she said.In the state capital of Oaxaca, 65 miles (100 kilometers) northwest of the quake center, the tremor set off earthquake evacuation alarms, sending people streaming out of shops and stores.The alarms are designed to go off in earthquakes above magnitude 5.0.(This version CORRECTS name of USGS Earthquake Hazards Program.)
Bernanke outlines plan for pulling in stimulus aid By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer – FEB 10,10
WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke began Wednesday to outline the central bank's strategy for reeling in stimulus money once the economic recovery is more firmly rooted.Bernanke said the Fed will likely start to tighten credit by boosting the interest rate it pays banks on money they leave at the central bank. Doing so would raise rates tied to commercial banks' prime rate and affect many consumer loans. Companies and ordinary Americans would pay more to borrow.But in prepared remarks to a House committee, Bernanke indicated the Fed is still months away from raising rates or draining most of the stimulus money it injected to rescue the financial system. He said the recovery still needs support from record-low interest rates.The Fed chief used his remarks to explain how the central bank will try to withdraw the stimulus money without tipping the economy back into recession.
Using the rate it pays on banks' excess reserves to affect credit would be a new strategy for the Fed. Since the 1980's, its main lever to tighten or loosen credit has been the federal funds rate. That rate is now at a record low near zero.The rate paid on banks' excess reserves is 0.25 percent. Boosting that rate would give banks an incentive to keep money parked at the Fed, rather than lend it.It also would cause the funds rate to rise, economists say. Adjusting the interest paid on banks' excess reserves helps stabilize the funds rate when the financial system is awash in cash, as it is now.Paying interest on the reserves is a relatively new tool for the Fed, having been authorized by a 2008 law. Many foreign central banks rely on it. The Fed started paying interest on the reserves at the height of the financial crisis in October 2008.In his prepared remarks to the House Financial Services Committee, Bernanke lays out his most extensive details to date on the Fed's exit strategy from record-low rates and economic stimulus.Under the threat of a major snowstorm, the panel postponed its hearing scheduled for Wednesday. The hearing was intended to review the Fed's plans for withdrawing its emergency supports. Bernanke chose to release the prepared testimony.Deciding when and how to remove all the stimulus is the biggest challenge for Bernanke in his second term, which started last week. Reeling in the stimulus too soon risks short-circuiting the recovery. That could send unemployment up.Yet the Fed keeps its stimulus measures in place for too long, they could help unleash inflation.Bernanke repeated the Fed's pledge to hold rates at record lows for an extended period. Economists think that means for at least six more months. But Bernanke cautioned that the Fed eventually will need to raise rates to ease inflationary pressures.
Even before the Fed raises the rate paid on banks' excess reserves, it could raise the rate it charges banks for emergency loans, Bernanke said. That rate, called the discount rate, is 0.50 percent. An increase in the discount rate wouldn't affect interest rates charged to consumers and businesses. But Bernanke said it would help normalize the Fed's interest rate policy now that the worst of the financial crisis has passed.He said he expected the Fed to consider a modest increase to the discount rate. Such a move would not raise rates for households and businesses and would not signal any change in interest-rate policy, Bernanke said.The Fed is still weighing the order of steps it can take to reel in the stimulus.Under one scenario, the Fed would first use its tools to drain money from the financial system. Then it would start pushing up rates throughout the economy by boosting the rate paid on banks' excess reserves, Bernanke said.But if a faster exit is needed, the Fed could raise the rate on reserves even as it's using its other tools to pull money from the financial system. The Fed is fine-tuning one tool to withdraw money: By selling securities from its portfolio with an agreement to buy them back later. Those operations are called reverse repurchase agreements. And the Fed is moving ahead on a proposal to let banks to set up the equivalent of certificates of deposit at the central bank. This, too, would help the Fed mop up money pumped into the economy and prevent inflation from flaring later. Together, those two operations — reverse repos and the CD-like deposit accounts — would let the Fed drain hundreds of billions of dollars of reserves from the banking system quite quickly, should it choose to do so,Bernanke said. Bernanke said he doesn't expect the Fed to sell any of its securities anytime soon.
To fight the financial crises, the Fed pumped so much money into the economy for lending programs that its balance sheet swelled to $2.2 trillion — more than double the pre-crisis level. The Fed will need to mop up that money to prevent inflation later. Bernanke said another economic support program aimed at driving down mortgage rates and bolstering the housing market is on track to end in March. By then, the Fed will have finished buying $1.25 trillion in mortgage securities from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It will also have finished buying $175 billion in debt from the mortgage giants.But the Fed hasn't ruled out continuing to buy mortgage securities after then to support the economy.
Oil falls on Bernanke stimulus exit plan By DEBORAH JIAN LEE, Associated Press Writer – FEB 10,10
NEW YORK – Energy prices fell as the dollar rose after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke mapped out a plan for pulling in government stimulus money when the economy recovers.Bernanke said the Fed will probably start to tighten credit by raising interest rates, although that could be months away.On this word from Bernanke the dollar went up and brought crude prices down, said PFGBest analyst Phil Flynn.We live and die by (his) every word and syllable.Benchmark crude for March delivery fell 60 cents to $73.15 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. A stronger dollar makes crude more expensive for investors holding other currencies.Energy prices were also knocked back by concern about European debt and bearish crude inventory numbers, Flynn said.U.S. crude stocks jumped 7.2 million barrels last week, the American Petroleum Institute said late Tuesday, suggesting weak consumer demand for fuels like gasoline and heating oil. Analysts expected an increase of 2 million barrels, according to a survey by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos.
The weekly petroleum inventory report from the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration, scheduled for release Wednesday, was delayed until Friday as a big winter storm kept government offices closed.Without the government numbers, right now the American Petroleum Institute is gospel,said Flynn. (The delay) puts uncertainty in the market place and investors may wait until Friday to make a major decision on buying or selling.Retail gasoline prices fell 0.003 cents overnight to a national average of $2.641 per gallon, according to AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. Prices are 10.6 cents lower than a month ago, but still 71.3 cents higher than year-ago levels.The trend overall for gasoline demand is definitely still very weak, said Flynn. In part, the fresh blanket of snow is keeping drivers off the road, but deeper economic problems will keep their cars parked even after the snowy weather passes.In other Nymex trading in March contracts, heating oil fell 1.67 cents to $1.9212 a gallon, and gasoline was down 2.64 cents at $1.9026 a gallon. Natural gas slid 1.6 cents to $5.274 per 1,000 cubic feet.In London, Brent crude dropped 68 cents to $71.45 on the ICE futures exchange.
Associated Press writer Chun Han Wong in Singapore and Pablo Gorondi in Budapest, Hungary contributed to this report.
Euro zone holds intensive talks on Greek rescue By Matthias Sobolewski and Renee Maltezou – FEB 10,10
BERLIN/ATHENS (Reuters) – Euro zone countries held intensive talks on Wednesday on a possible rescue for Greece, whose debt crisis has shaken the entire currency union, as civil servants staged the first big strike against Athens' austerity plans.
Financial markets gave Greece some respite as investors hoped that other European governments would help Athens to head off a possible default on its debt repayments.
Finance ministers of the 16 countries that share the common European currency scheduled a video conference for Wednesday to discuss the issue, a European Commission spokesman said.However, EU law offers no clear procedure for staging the first bailout of a euro zone country in the currency's 11-year history.One possibility was for individual countries to offer bilateral aid and Germany, one of the few whose finances are in anything like a fit state to do so, might take a leading role. This could sidestep rules which restrict financial rescues at an EU or euro zone level.In Berlin, sources in the coalition government said a deal on which countries would help Greece, and by how much, could be reached on the sidelines of an EU leaders' summit on Thursday.Athens needs to borrow about 53 billion euros ($73 billion) this year to cover a huge budget deficit and refinance debt which is coming due. But investors have taken fright over the risks involved in buying Greek bonds, and the government could slide toward default if they boycott future debt auctions.
Germany and France would probably bear the lion's share of any aid, since Italy and Spain, the other two big economies in the euro zone, are themselves under financial pressure.So far, officials across European capitals seem to have decided little apart from the likely need to offer a financial lifeline to the Greek government, which is sitting on a debts forecast to hit 294 billion euros this year.In Berlin talks were under way both within the center-right coalition and with other euro zone governments.It has not yet been conclusively decided, said one person who attended a meeting with German conservatives and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.At the moment, various ideas are being discussed about what could be done,said the source.
Greece accounts for only a small percentage of euro zone output. But news that its budget deficit had spiraled to 12.7 percent of gross domestic product last year, more than twice the announced level, dented investors' confidence across the currency union and beyond.Talk of a bailout lifted the world stocks and the euro. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index rose 1.3 percent, the Athens benchmark was up 4.8 percent and Greek bank shares surged 8 percent.Investors also regained a little faith in Greek government bonds, which they have sold heavily in recent weeks. The yield on 10-year government bonds was 276 basis point higher than on the German equivalent, the narrowest in three weeks, and way below the recent high of around 400 basis points.
PAPANDREOU SEEKS SUPPORT
In Athens, striking civil servants grounded flights and shut many schools and offices in a foretaste of the resistance the Socialist government faces to a wage freeze, pay cuts for higher public sector earners, tax rises and a later retirement age.Riot police briefly fired teargas demonstrators who tried to break a security cordon but the protests were mostly peaceful. Some Greeks seemed willing to give the government the benefit of the doubt despite the harsh austerity plans.Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou held talks in Paris to seek support from the second biggest euro zone economy for his drive to slash a huge budget deficit, although a French source said there was no agreement yet on aid. We are ready to take any measures in order to make this sure and guaranteed that we reach this goal, Papandreou said, speaking at the Elysee Palace, adding that his government's deficit-cutting plan would be implemented in every detail.Rating agencies and EU policymakers have said Greece, which is prone to violent street protests, will not get support for free and urged the government to be firm. Credit ratings agency Moody's said partial implementation of Greece's budgetary reforms would risk the country's debt being downgraded to Baa1. Private and public sector unions plan another show of strength with a general strike on February 24.
EYES ON EU SUMMIT
EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday with European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet may well issue a statement on Greece's financial crisis, an EU source said. Any financial assistance would likely be tied to strict conditions, but the nature and scale of a rescue remain unclear, partly because a treaty prohibition on EU bail-outs for euro zone members complicates the task. Economists at the Bruegel economic think-tank estimated Greece's needs in a range of 12-24 billion euros. The Wall Street Journal said Berlin was considering taking a lead role with other EU partners in offering Greece and other highly indebted euro zone countries loan guarantees in an effort to calm market fears of a default. A bilateral German bailout could involve a state-owned German bank, like the KfW, buying Greek government bonds, a German member of the European Parliament said on Wednesday.
(Additional reporting by Madeline Chambers in Berlin, Marcin Grajewski and Jan Strupczewski in Brussels, Anna Willard and Emmanuel Jarry in Paris and Emilia Sithole and Dominic Lau in London; writing by Paul Taylor and David Stamp, editing by Mike Peacock)
Putin says Baltic Sea gas pipeline will be safe By MATTI HUUHTANEN, Associated Press Writer – FEB 10,10
HELSINKI – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday downplayed environmental concerns about a planned gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, saying it would be a safe and reliable energy link for Europe.At a regional summit of Baltic Sea nations, Putin expressed surprise at the emotional response to the Nord Stream pipeline, which would carry 55 billion cubic meters (1.9 trillion cubic feet) of natural gas annually between Russia and Germany.Environmentalists and some government officials worry that the construction could lead to toxins and weapons being stirred up from the seabed in one of the world's most polluted seas.It's serious. We are worried about the dioxins and other poisons on the seabed," Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip told reporters earlier Wednesday. We expect our scientists to get full information about it all.But Putin said the German-Russian joint venture had spent more than euro100 million ($135 million) on researching environmental impacts, making it the largest such study in the region.Some of the work was abstract and not practical, but we thought it would be better to be absolutely sure about the total absence of environmental risk, Putin said.We believe the Nord Stream pipeline will be absolutely safe and reliable and a good supplier of natural gas to Europe and make our (area) more stable.
Nord Stream, which plans to start construction this spring, has approvals from Denmark, Sweden, Russia and Germany but is still awaiting a Finnish permit from local environmental agencies. Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said that decision was expected in upcoming days and hinted it would be positive.If there is an ecological risk, I wouldn't believe it would get permission from any country, Vanhanen said.Some 400 experts and participants attended the Helsinki meeting, including presidents and government representatives from Russia, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The area around the Baltic Sea is home to more than 90 million people.The Baltic Sea has been subjected to decades of nutrient deposits, toxic dumping, oil spills, weapons and untreated sewage. Experts say it's particularly vulnerable to environmental changes because it has only a narrow outlet to the Atlantic Ocean.Putin pledged to reduce sewage deposits, saying his country would build water treatment plants in the Baltic Sea port of Kaliningrad. Sweden's Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren pledged to double his country's contribution to the Baltic Sea Action Plan to euro9 million ($12million).Organizers said 150 commitments have been made by schools, non-governmental organizations, cities, private foundations, government departments and corporations. They include company funds for treatment of sewage, agricultural producers pledging to cut nutrient deposits, and colleges and schools promoting awareness of the maritime environment.The chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, Jorma Ollila, said the company would provide expertise on oil spills, especially in winter conditions, and Helsinki Mayor Jussi Pajunen said the city would allow cruise ships in the region to discharge their waste water into the Helsinki sewage system without charge.Sampsa Vilhunen, spokesman for the Worldwide Fund for Nature in Finland, welcomed the pledges but added they are not enough, nowhere near big enough.
Byzantine-era street uncovered in Jerusalem By SHIRA RUBIN, Associated Press Writer – FEB 10,10
JERUSALEM – With the help of an ancient mosaic map, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday they have unearthed a section of an old stone-flagged street in Jerusalem that provides important new evidence about the city's commercial life 1,500 years ago.The 20-foot (6-meter) section of street passes from the west into the center of Jerusalem's Old City, and stands upon a large cistern that supplied water to the city's 30,000 to 40,000 residents. Pottery, coins and bronze weights used to measure precious metals from Byzantine times also were found.The discovery conforms to the layout of the city depicted in a famous 6th-century mosaic map discovered more than 100 years ago in a Jordanian church, said excavation director Ofer Sion.The map has long been used as a guide to understanding the shape of the city from the 4th to 6th centuries, and the direction of the street is new evidence the map is correct, he said.Jerusalem during this time had become a Roman city named Aelia Capitolina, with Jews barred from entering after their revolt against their Roman overlords in 132 A.D. It became a major center for the emerging Christian religion.The Byzantine Empire evolved out of the eastern half of the Roman Empire when the western part succumbed to barbarian invasions and ruled over much of the Middle East until the Arab conquests of the 7th century.
A staunchly Christian empire based in Constantinople, now Istanbul, it valued Jerusalem as a key Christian religious center and invested heavily into the city, which became a destination for thousands of pilgrims every year.This street was the center during the most (commercially) successful period in the history of (ancient) Jerusalem, Sion said.It is wonderful that (today's street) actually preserved the route of the noisy street from 1,500 years ago.Working from the historic map, archaeologists three months ago uncovered the section of the wide, white stone street 14 feet (4.5 meters) below the current street level.Archaeologists have already excavated another ancient street in Jerusalem from that time known as the Cardo, which ran north to south and hosted many shops along its pillared length. Sion said the newly found street included a sidewalk and row of columns.The map, uncovered in 1894 on the floor of a Byzantine-era church in Madaba, Jordan, shows the locations of major streets and the Christian sites in the city, including the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the site where the faithful believe Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected.Once restoration work is completed, within the next few weeks, the segment of street will be covered because of heavy pedestrian traffic, Sion said. It has yet to be decided if the site will be available for viewing.The Israel Antiquities Authority undertook the project in response to a municipal plan to build an electric cable system on the site. In a land where every shovel might unearth something ancient, Israeli law requires the authority to inspect construction zones for ruins before work begins.
SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Stiff wind delays NASA launch of solar observatory By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer – FEB 10,10
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Gusty wind has forced NASA to delay the launch of its newest solar observatory.An unmanned Atlas V rocket was supposed to blast off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday morning with the Solar Dynamics Observatory. NASA put off the launch for an hour, hoping the wind would ease. But the rocket's systems sensed a wind overload and shut everything down, with just three minutes and 59 seconds left in the countdown.NASA says it will try again Thursday to send up the observatory. It's the most advanced probe ever built to study the sun. Scientists want to better understand the violent solar activity that causes communication and power disruptions on Earth.On the Net:http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/main/index.html
India successfully tests nuclear-capable missile By MUNEEZA NAQVI, Associated Press Writer – Sun Feb 7, 7:39 am ET
NEW DELHI – India again successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable missile Sunday that can hit targets across much of Asia and the Middle East, a defense ministry press release said.It was the fourth test of the Agni III missile, the statement added. The first attempt in 2006 failed, but the last two tests were successful.The Agni III missile tested for the full range, hit the target with pinpoint accuracy and met all the mission objectives, the press release added.India's current arsenal of missiles is largely intended for confronting archrival Pakistan. The Agni III, in contrast, is India's longest-range missile, designed to reach 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) — putting China's major cities well into range, as well as Middle Eastern targets.India's homegrown missile arsenal already includes the short-range Prithvi ballistic missile, the medium-range Akash, the anti-tank Nag and the supersonic Brahmos missile, developed jointly with Russia.The missile was launched from Wheeler Island off the eastern state of Orissa on Sunday morning.The test appeared unlikely to significantly raise tensions in the region.Nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan usually notify each other ahead of such missile launches, in keeping with an agreement between the two nations. India and Pakistan have fought three wars since they gained independence from Britain in 1947.The two sides began talks aimed at resolving their differences over the Himalayan region of Kashmir and other disputes in 2004. India put the peace process on hold soon after terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November 2008, which India blamed on the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.India recently offered to restart peace talks, though Pakistan has yet to formally accept.
India announces long-range nuclear-capable missile test by Pratap Chakravarty – FEB 10,10
NEW DELHI (AFP) – India will test a nuclear-capable missile with a range of over 5,000 kilometres (3,000 miles) within a year, its top military scientist said Wednesday, risking a rise in regional tensions.The next series of missiles is Agni-V, which has left the drawing board and is moving toward the first flight trial within the year, the country's chief military scientist, V.K. Saraswat, told a news conference in New Delhi.India's current longest-range nuclear-capable missile, Agni-III, can travel a maximum of 3,500 kilometres and is now ready for use by the military, Saraswat said.The missile system will be fully inducted into the armed forces, Saraswat said.It is the full deterrence that the country needs.The Indian-built Agni-III -- Agni means fire in Sanskrit -- was first tested in 2006 and brings major Chinese cities such as Shanghai within striking distance, defence analysts say.
India kicked off its guided missile project in 1983 and has developed an array of weapons systems, including the Prithvi, which means earth and Agni-I, which is meant for possible use against neighbouring Pakistan.Nuclear-armed Pakistan, with which India has fought three wars since their partition and independence six decades ago, has said India's missile development programme could trigger a new arms race in the region.India, which fought a brief, bloody war with China in 1962, has unresolved border issues with its giant neighbour.The Agni-III is a real mobile system and hence it has a strategic advantage, Saraswat said.Avinash Chander, who heads India's Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme, said both Agni-III and Agni-V would be able to carry 1.5-ton conventional or nuclear warheads.The government scientists said Agni-III was declared operational after three flight tests and numerous computer-simulated trials.The most recent test was held Sunday, when the missile was fired from Wheeler Island, off the coast of the eastern Indian state of Orissa.
Chander said the Agni-III, which he called a 100-percent indigenous system, hit its target with pinpoint accuracy and met all mission objectives.This is the weapon which provides us a platform with an anti-satellite capability, Chander added, referring to India's quest to develop a missile system which can target orbiting satellites.India has said it may develop an intercontinental ballistic missile but Saraswat said Indian scientists were not engaged in developing such a project at the moment.Global consultancy KPMG said India is among the top 10 military spenders with an annual defence budget last year of 1,420 billion rupees (31.55 billion dollars).
Israeli soldier stabbed to death in West Bank By TIA GOLDENBERG, Associated Press Writer – FEB 10,10
JERUSALEM – A knife-wielding Palestinian assailant attacked an idle Israeli military jeep near a West Bank checkpoint on Wednesday, killing a soldier inside the vehicle in what has become a rare case of violence in the territory, the military said.The soldier, who was the lone occupant in the jeep, was waiting at a traffic light when the attacker reached through the window and stabbed him, the Israeli army said. As the wounded soldier tried to drive away, the vehicle spun out of control and flipped over after the driver lost consciousness.The suspect tried to flee but was quickly apprehended. His identity was not immediately clear.Such attacks were once commonplace in the West Bank, but have become relatively rare in recent years, as Palestinian forces have increased security over parts of the territory.Wednesday's attack comes during a time of heightened tensions between Jewish settlers in the West Bank and the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who, under U.S. pressure, has declared a slowdown in construction in West Bank settlements.In another gesture to the Palestinians, Netanyahu also has reduced the number of military checkpoints in the West Bank — drawing accusations from settlers that he is threatening their security.Settler spokesman Yishai Hollender said Netanyahu's policies were again costing us in blood.In December, gunmen shot to death a resident of a Jewish settlement driving on a road in the West Bank.The removal of the checkpoints has helped ease the movement of Palestinians throughout parts of the West Bank. But Israel remains apprehensive about yielding security responsibilities to the Palestinians after years of violence.
Iran says nuclear fuel swap remains an option
Wed Feb 10, 5:27 am ET
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A top Iranian official says a nuclear fuel swap with the West proposed under a U.N.-drafted plan remains an option.The late Tuesday comment by Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's nuclear chief and a vice president, came hours after Iran began enriching uranium to about 20 percent over objections from the U.S. and its allies who fear the process could be used to make nuclear weapons.On Wednesday, Salehi was quoted by state TV as saying the enriching process was moving forward smoothly.Under the U.N. plan, Iran would send its stockpiled, low-enriched uranium abroad for processing into fuel rods to power a research reactor thus denying Iran the ability to enrich those stocks to higher levels needed for making warheads.
Regional leaders working on miracle for ailing Baltic Sea
by Laura Vinha – FEB 10,10
HELSINKI (AFP) – Leaders from Baltic region countries pledged urgent action to generate the miracle needed to save one of the world's most polluted seas at a summit in Helsinki Wednesday.Over-fished, polluted by agricultural nutrient discharge and uncared for, the Baltic is so toxic Greenpeace says pregnant women should not eat its fish.We don't expect any miracles, but serious work by all of us which may make a miracle, said Finland's President Tarja Halonen, who co-hosted the summit with Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen and the Baltic Sea Action Group (BSAG) foundation.The summit brought together national leadership from 11 countries with a Baltic Sea coast or located in its vicinity -- Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Finland Germany, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and Norway.Increasing maritime traffic, over-fishing and eutrophication -- the overconcentration of nutrients caused by sewage and agricultural run-off carrying fertilizers into the sea -- are key threats to be tackled.Actions are needed to make the Baltic Sea healthy, and we have to address these problems by taking care of our national economies and the economies of our neighbours, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said, adding the sea had always united the countries in the region.His country received praise from participants for its actions to improve waste water treatment in the coastal city of Saint Petersburg.But most of the meeting focused on the work that lies ahead to save the Baltic, a shallow, semi-enclosed marine environment which is particularly vulnerable to pollution.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite said 40,000 tonnes of chemical weapons polluted the Baltic, and called for help from the United Nations, the European Union, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and NATO to clean the sea of all weapons.Numerous ships sunk in World War II also litter the bottom of the brackish body of water, which measures some 450,000 square kilometres (174,000 square miles}, said Finland's Halonen.Some 90 million people live in countries either bordering the Baltic Sea or with major river tributaries, and Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said 15 percent of the world's cargo traffic already passes through the Baltic.Increasing shipping heightens the risks of oil and chemical spills, and Stoltenberg called for sustainable growth to secure the environmental and economic future of the region.Regional leaders confirmed their countries' commitment to reducing the phosphorus and nitrogen flows that have caused eutrophication, and Poland's Deputy Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak said his country would invest eight billion euros (11 billion dollars) in improving the treatment of waste water.Researchers say Baltic marine life is being decimated and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) argues only radical measures and a ban on eel fishing could save the species in the Baltic.The summit also brought together a range of companies and foundations, which had made pledges for measures to save the Baltic ahead of the Helsinki meeting.Pre-summit commitments include business innovations to recycle nutrients from waste-water and technology to improve communications between vessels and local authorities to enhance safety.In a speech, Finland's Vanhanen reminded participants of the action that must now be taken.The most important day is tomorrow, when we start implementing our commitments, he said.
Doctor says vendor may have been in rubble 27 days By PAISLEY DODDS, Associated Press Writer – Wed Feb 10, 8:39 am ET
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The tale seems dubious: that a rice vendor survived 27 days trapped under the rubble of a flea market following Haiti's devastating earthquake.
Skeptical health workers said no one could live that long without water and the last confirmed survivor found was a 16-year-old girl removed from rubble 15 days after the Jan. 12 quake. The only sources for the story were the two Haitian men who showed up at a clinic carrying the vendor, dehydrated and malnourished with rail-thin legs.But then the patient became lucid enough to tell his tale Tuesday. And while his account has not been independently verified, doctors now say the 28-year-old man could have survived on water and possibly some fruit beneath the rubble.
The man — identified as Evans Monsigrace — told doctors he had just finished selling rice for the day at a downtown Port-au-Prince flea market when the quake hit. He said he didn't suffer any major injuries and was trapped on his side in an area where food and drink vendors were selling their goods.Based on that (his story), we believe him, said Dr. Dushyantha Jayaweera, a physician at the University of Miami Medishare field hospital where hundreds of patients have been treated since the quake.The story began when two men first took the vendor to a Salvation Army medical center in Port-au-Prince on Monday, saying he had been trapped since the earthquake. He was later moved to the University of Miami hospital because of his critical condition.He came in delirious, asking to die, said Nery Ynclan, a University of Miami media officer in Haiti, noting that Creole translators were at the field hospital.Ynclan said the rice vendor was in stable condition Tuesday and being treated for dehydration and malnutrition. He was nibbling on chocolate, she said.
Someone could not survive 28 days without water, Ynclan said.You can go nine weeks without food.Doctors have said that disaster survivors may be able to sustain themselves with a water supply and without medical attention for up to two weeks
Jayaweera said the man originally claimed he had not had any water or food. The man, however, had normal kidney function with heart palpitations, suggesting he at least had drank something but not enough to avoid getting dehydrated, the doctor said.
Still, doctors at the field hospital and at a Salvation Army medical center had no way to confirm the story.A videotape shot by Michael Andrew, an Arizona-based freelance photographer and a volunteer at the Salvation Army medical center, shows doctors on Monday trying without success to insert a needle into the man's arm to give him fluid. Doctors there then referred the man to the field hospital at the airport, Andrew told The Associated Press.The Salvation Army, in a brief posting on its Web site, said the two men, whom it didn't identify, found the man in the debris of the market Monday. But Andrew said Tuesday it wasn't clear whether others had provided food and water to the man and that many details of the case had yet to be learned.It also wasn't known why teams of international search and rescue workers were not alerted to the man's reported circumstances in the wrecked market.The man's mother, who was at the field hospital, told workers that people clearing rubble downtown discovered him and alerted his brothers.The Haiti quake killed 230,000 people, the Haitian government said Tuesday.
Haiti parents testify they gave kids to Americans By KIRSTEN JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer – Tue Feb 9, 11:46 pm ET
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Parents of some of the children who 10 U.S. missionaries tried to take out of Haiti after its catastrophic earthquake told a judge Tuesday that they freely handed over their kids, the Americans' lawyer said.The parents' testimony means no law was broken and we can't talk any more about trafficking of human beings,attorney Aviol Fleurant told reporters.He said he was confident the judge will dismiss the case.Nine of the Americans, most from an Idaho church group, have now been interviewed by the judge, who is to decide whether they will stand trial. The judge did not speak with reporters.Flaurent said the Americans would be back in court Wednesday. One of them, Jim Allen of Amarillo, Texas, was represented by a separate lawyer Tuesday.The Americans were charged with kidnapping and criminal association last week for trying to take 33 children into the neighboring Dominican Republic on Jan. 29 without proper documentation.The Baptist missionaries say they were heading to a Dominican orphanage following Haiti's devastating quake, and had only good intentions.Their leader, Laura Silsby of Meridian, Idaho, told The Associated Press the day after their arrest that the children were obtained from orphanages and distant relatives.However, the parents of some of the children told the AP last week that they turned their youngsters over to the group. The parents said did so willingly after the missionaries promised the kids would be educated and relatives could visit them.
Silsby was the only American not to appear in court Tuesday.The lawyer who represented the missionaries until last week said that Silsby deceived the rest of the group about having proper paperwork and that everyone but her should go free.
The Americans' original Haitian lawyer was fired late Friday. The Dominican attorney who had hired him claimed the Haitian attempted to bribe the detainees' way out of jail without their knowledge. The Haitian lawyer denied that.
Canada seeks to appeal Vancouver drug site decision
Tue Feb 9, 3:57 pm ET
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada will ask the Supreme Court to overturn a lower-court decision that allowed North America's only sanctioned drug-injection site to remain open in Vancouver despite the federal government's objections.Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said on Tuesday he would ask the Supreme Court of Canada for permission to appeal last month's British Columbia appeals court decision, which said addicts needed Vancouver's Insite facility as a medical service.The previous Liberal government had granted Insite an exemption from federal drug laws, allowing it to operate on a medical trial basis since 2003.The facility, which permits addicts to inject their own illegal drugs under supervised conditions, has become the focus of a battle between the current federal Conservative government, which wants to close it, and local health officials, who say it saves lives.When it comes to combating drugs, we want to get people off drugs, Nicholson told reporters, adding that the case would be argued on grounds of the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments.Insite's supporters say it helps addicts reduce overdose deaths and gives drug users better access to services to help end their addictions.
(Reporting by Randall Palmer; Editing by Frank McGurty)
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
STOCK RESULTS FEB 9,2010
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/site/14081545/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE FEB 09,2010
09:30 AM +2.58
10:00 AM +128.56
10:30 AM +143.22
11:00 AM +111.10
11:30 AM +87.75
12:00 PM +162.34
12:30 PM +208.97
01:00 PM +181.53
01:30 PM +176.40
02:00 PM +185.31
02:30 PM +173.75
03:00 PM +165.89
03:30 PM +194.31
04:00 PM +150.25 10,058.64
S&P 500 1070.52 +13.78
NASDAQ 2150.87 +24.82
GOLD 1,078.90 +12.70
OIL 73.89 +2.20
TSE 300 11,274.20 +158.90
CDNX 1474.53 +13.93
S&P/TSX/60 659.78 +9.99
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +100 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -0.22 points at low today.
Dow +227 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,074.60.OIL opens at $72.67 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -0.22 points at low today so far.
Dow +227 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -0.22 points at low today.
Dow +227 points at high today.
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/site/14081545/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE FEB 09,2010
09:30 AM +2.58
10:00 AM +128.56
10:30 AM +143.22
11:00 AM +111.10
11:30 AM +87.75
12:00 PM +162.34
12:30 PM +208.97
01:00 PM +181.53
01:30 PM +176.40
02:00 PM +185.31
02:30 PM +173.75
03:00 PM +165.89
03:30 PM +194.31
04:00 PM +150.25 10,058.64
S&P 500 1070.52 +13.78
NASDAQ 2150.87 +24.82
GOLD 1,078.90 +12.70
OIL 73.89 +2.20
TSE 300 11,274.20 +158.90
CDNX 1474.53 +13.93
S&P/TSX/60 659.78 +9.99
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +100 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -0.22 points at low today.
Dow +227 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,074.60.OIL opens at $72.67 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -0.22 points at low today so far.
Dow +227 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -0.22 points at low today.
Dow +227 points at high today.
HIDDN JEW SERVING IN SPAIN
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
Deficit concerns continue ahead of EU summit-Euro banknotes: the year 2010 has been a testing time for the single currency so far (Photo: gilderic)ANDREW WILLIS
Today FEB 9,10 @ 09:16 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Just days before EU leaders meet in Brussels to discuss measures to increase the region's competitiveness, market concerns over public finances continue to rattle national governments and hog the media limelight.Spain continued its public relations offensive on Monday (8 February), after concerns over Greece's deficit and debt levels recently spread to the Iberian state and its neighbour, Portugal. The country's finance minister, Elena Salgado, together with her deputy, Jose Manuel Campa, flew to London to meet bondholders and outline recently announced austerity measures. Repeating promises to cut its budget deficit to 3 per cent of gross domestic product by 2013 from 11.4 per cent last year, Mr Campa insisted the government would make the adjustment that's necessary.But their disclosure that the Spanish treasury intends to raise €76.8 billion through debt issuance this year lead to renewed market doubts, sending the country's bond yields higher. Writing last week in the New York Times, Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman said Spain's difficulties were an an object lesson in the problems of having monetary union without fiscal and labour market integration.After a decade-long boom, the 2008 implosion of Spain's housing bubble has left the country with excessive labour costs, spiraling unemployment and a large budget deficit. If Spain had its own currency, this would be a good time to devalue; but it doesn't,said Mr Krugman.
Single currency
The eurozone deficit crisis has also taken its toll on the area's common currency. Last Friday the euro plunged to an eight-month low of $1.3583, recovering slightly on Monday. Markets are also increasingly gambling against the single currency. Driven by fears of a eurozone debt crisis, traders and hedge funds have bet nearly $8bn (€5.9bn) on a falling euro, reports the Financial Times.Credit ratings agency Fitch insisted on Monday however that other eurozone countries face no risk of contagion from the debt and deficit crises afflicting Greece, Portugal and Spain.
The agency's chairman, Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere, told French radio that France and Germany still enjoy sufficient credibility with investors who are the deciders and the masters of the game.Some analysts argue that fiscal problems in the euro area peripheral states are affecting core members such as France, however. In Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right UMP party, calls are increasing to adopt a German-style medium-term budgetary balance law. We can no longer spend as we did in the past,Xavier Bertrand, UMP leader, said over the weekend.And as EU leaders prepare to meet for an informal summit in Brussels this week to discuss ways to increase the bloc's competitiveness, the issue of deficits is slowly edging its way onto the agenda. With a new long-term economic strategy still the main topic for discussion, EU president Herman Van Rompuy conceded in a recent letter to leaders that some aspects of the present economic situation will also need to be looked at.
Out of Hiding: Rabbi is First Hidden Jew to Serve in Spain
by IsraelNN Staff FEB 9,10
(IsraelNN.com) For the first time since the expulsion of Spain's Jews in 1492, a descendant of forcibly-converted Spanish Jews who immigrated to Israel, returned to Judaism and received rabbinical ordination will return to Spain to serve as a rabbi. Rabbi Nissan Ben-Avraham, a resident of Shiloh, has been appointed as Shavei Israel’s new emissary to the Bnei Anousim (whom historians refer to as Marranos) in Spain.Shavei Israel is a non-profit organization that strengthens ties between the State of Israel and descendants of Jews around the world, including the Bnei Menashe of India, the Bnei Anousim in Spain, the Subbotnik Jews of Russia, the Jewish community of Kaifeng in China, the Hidden Jews of Poland from the Holocaust era and others. Rabbi Ben-Avraham was born in 1957 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain and was named Nicolau Aguilo. He immigrated to Israel in 1978, formally returned to Judaism and Hebraicized his name. He later married, was ordained as a rabbi, and became a father of 12 children.As Shavei Israel's emissary in Spain, Rabbi Ben-Avraham will teach Torah, Jewish culture and tradition to Bnei Anousim, and will assist those seeking to learn more about their Jewish roots.
This is a very moving and historic development, said Michael Freund (pictured at left), founder and chairman of Shavei Israel.It marks the first time that a member of the Bnei Anousim is returning to Spain, where he was born and raised, in order to help his fellow Bnei Anousim learn more about their Jewish roots.According to Freund, there are tens of thousands – and maybe even more – of Bnei Anousim in Spain, who are conscious of their special connection to the Jewish people.We owe it to them and to their ancestors to reach out to them, embrace them and welcome them back home, he said.Rabbi Ben-Avraham is a descendant of Mallorca's Jews who were forcibly converted to Catholicism in the 14th and 15th centuries. They were never fully accepted by their Catholic neighbors, who referred to them as Chuetas, which means pigs,and rejected them. They suffered from centuries of discrimination, which reinforced their identity and communal cohesiveness. The Chuetas were forced to marry only among themselves and faced various social and professional restrictions up until the modern era. An estimated 15,000-20,000 still live in Mallorca, though many have assimilated in recent years.
In the early Middle Ages, Spanish Jewry was one of the oldest and most successful Diaspora Jewish communities. But from 1391 onwards, a series of terrible disturbances and great tribulations befell the Jews of Iberia, resulting in unprecedented waves of expulsion, persecution and forced conversions. These tragic events culminated in 1492, when the remaining Jews were formally expelled by the Spanish monarchs. Many of those who had been compelled to convert to Catholicism – known by the Hebrew term Bnei Anousim – remained behind, where they nonetheless continued to preserve their Jewish identity and to practice Jewish tradition covertly, away from the prying eyes of the Inquisition and its enforcers.
Barroso team set for parliament approval after lengthy delay-Barroso: The vote will put an end to a virtual paralysis in Brussels politics since the June European elections (Photo: ec.europa.eu)HONOR MAHONY 08.02.2010 @ 22:19 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The new European Commission team is set to win a confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday (9 February) after a three month delay and a prolonged period of infighting between the EU's two main institutions.The 27-member college, headed for a second time running by Portugal's centre-right Jose Manuel Barroso, looks certain to achieve the majority needed at the early afternoon vote to finally allow it to take up office for the next five years.The vote will put an end to a virtual paralysis in Brussels politics since the June European elections, which kicked off a very public dispute between Mr Barroso's mainly conservative supporters and his vocal left-wing and green critics.The dispute meant that Mr Barroso, who laid out his cards on the table about wanting a second term as commission president already two years ago, was denied a quick re-nomination as president as his opponents sought to delay his confirmation vote and extract concessions.The vote, a secret ballot, eventually took place in September securing Mr Barroso his second term. But the nomination of the rest of the commission only occurred in November after drawn-out ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, the bloc's new institutional rules, which affected the make-up of the commission.With the commission already almost four weeks into caretaker status when he finally announced the new line-up - containing 14 returning commissioners including himself, Mr Barroso's new team still had to run the gauntlet of parliamentary hearings assessing their qualifications for the job.
Several would-be commissioners did not shine in their hearings. Finland's Olli Rehn down for the powerful economic and monetary affairs dossier was seen as too vague. Lithuania's Algirdas Semeta displayed little tax policy knowledge. Catherine Ashton, the EU's top diplomat, was hesitant on several foreign policy issues and Neelie Kroes, from the Netherlands, appeared to have difficultly re-orienting herself from the competition dossier to the digital agenda. But it was Bulgaria's nominee that fell. Rumiana Jeleva's subsequent resignation in late January, after a weak hearing coloured by allegations about her financial interests, delayed the planned commission vote by a further two weeks.In the meantime, MEPs, buoyed by the new rights given to them in the Lisbon Treaty, secured extra political powers from Mr Barroso. A new inter-institutional agreement to be voted on before the investiture of the commission opens the door to parliament forcing individual commissioners to resign - a power not accorded to them in EU law.Over the eight month saga, which has seen Mr Barroso first preoccupied with his re-election and then unable to do much because his institution was in caretaker status, the EU has continued to suffer the fallout from the financial and economic crisis but has lacked clear leadership to deal with it.Meanwhile, critics of the parliament's behaviour during this period suggest MEPs were less motivated by principles but rather by one upmanship among political groups or between parliament and the commission.
AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)
EZEKIEL 39:21
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
ISAIAH 18:1-2
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
JEREMIAH 50:11,37,12
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;(BACKSLIDERS)
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.(A NATION OF MINGLED PEOPLE)
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:(MOTHER ENGLAND) behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
JEREMIAH 51:13,7,53
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
REVELATION 18:3,5,7
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK ON AMERICA)
REVELATION 18:9-11,15-21
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,(NUKE ATTACK I BELIEVE)
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Russia in stand-by mode over US missile plans in Romania
VALENTINA POP 08.02.2010 @ 17:52 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Moscow is concerned and expects proper explanations on US plans to deploy anti-ballistic missile defence systems in Romania, but it is still interested in contributing to a common assessment of threats with Europe and the US, Russia's envoy to Brussels told this website.We took note of President Basescu's statement on his agreement to host those elements. This is a serious issue which we'll be analysing when we receive all the details regarding what exact equipment is meant to be deployed there, Mr Chizhov said in a phone interview on Monday (8 February).Last Thursday, Romanian President Traian Basescu announced that his country had accepted an invitation by the Obama administration to host land-based anti-ballistic missiles as part of US plans to defend Europe against Iranian and other regional threats. The rockets are set to be deployed by 2015, in a second phase of the new version of the US shield, which combines sea and land-based interceptors for short, medium and long-range missiles. The Romanian approval process is at an early stage, as the actual agreement still needs to be negotiated between the two capitals and approved by their respective legislatures.However, the Russian reaction contrasts with its response to similar announcements made in 2007 by the Bush administration on deploying a radar in the Czech Republic and missiles in Poland by 2011. Back then, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned of a new Cold War and threatened to place nuclear missiles in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad bordering EU members Poland and Lithuania if the plans were to go ahead.
Asked why the Russian reaction was milder this time around, Mr Chizhov said that this was a preliminary reaction, pending further clarifications from the American side.It is a source of concern for us, he said, adding that Moscow was also interested to know the reason behind the choice of Romania.One could argue that Romania is somewhat closer to Iran than Poland, but still, according to our information Iran will neither now nor in the foreseeable future posses any missiles capable of reaching Romania. Not to mention Poland, central Europe or the United States, the Russian envoy argued.This view is not shared by Pentagon officials, however, who in a recent review of US' current and planned missile defence architecture note that Iran has developed and acquired ballistic missiles capable of striking deployed forces, allies, and partners in the Middle East and eastern Europe at an increasingly rapid pace.The new system envisaged by Washington would see maritime interceptors deployed in the Mediterranean by 2011 and backed up by a powerful radar whose location has not yet been disclosed.The Romanian interceptors are part of the second phase outlined in the review, which is planned to be put in place around 2015 and to expand the covered area from southern Europe to additional Nato allies,the document reads.A third phase would be operational by 2018 and would have interceptors located in northern Europe. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley last week confirmed that the US was in talks with Poland for the third stage. Warsaw is still on the table after being rebuffed by Mr Obama last year when he decided to scrap the earlier plans tabled by his predecessor. Prague is no longer considered as a potential location, however.
Russia on board?
Mr Chizhov did not rule out a future Russian contribution to the anti-missile defence system.We proposed to start from the beginning, with a joint assessment of risks and challenges in this field. We're ready to discuss that with the Americans and everybody else, he said.Moscow's tempered reaction also comes against the backdrop of Mr Obama's efforts to hit the reset button in US-Russian relations, after they had reached a Cold War era low point during the Bush administration.The revised missile shield should be of no surprise to the Russian side, Nato sources told this website. It was also discussed among European allies, but no decisions on how to integrate that into a Nato architecture had been taken yet, as the upcoming summit in Lisbon this autumn would be a more appropriate occasion for it.As for the EU side, it considered the Romania missile plan a bilateral discussion between a member state and the US, a spokesman for the bloc's foreign policy chief told this website.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
More snow due to hit storm-battered east coast
by Alex Ogle – FEB 9,10
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US east coast was on Tuesday bracing braced for a new major winter storm after record snowfall left thousands shivering in the dark without power, with transportation paralyzed and the federal government shut down.The Wasghington DC remained largely snow-locked, while many local governments, businesses and schools were also closed across the mid-Atlantic region.The National Weather Service issued a 30-hour winter storm warning beginning midday on Tuesday for Washington, Maryland and parts of Virginia, saying it expects another 10 to 20 inches (25-50 cm) of snow to cover the area.The combination of snow and strong winds will make travel very hazardous, said the NWS in its advisory.The extra squall would be on top of more than two feet (0.6 m) of snow around metropolitan Washington and Baltimore, and also comes after the massive December storm that dumped some two feet (61 centimeters) of snow in the area: meaning the region is coming up on the other historic seasonal totals.With this season's total so far at 45 inches (114 cm), according to NWS figures, more snowfall in the coming days could peak out the 1995-96 season's 46 inches (116.8 cm) and the all-time deepest snowfall of 1898-99, at 54.4 inches (138 cm).Washington residents were struggling to get to work, with people slipping on the ice and cars wheel-spinning in the snow as hundreds of emergency personnel battled to clear the roads.This snow is so deep and so heavy that the traditional snow plows can't shovel in some areas. So bulldozers are physically having to lift it up and away, Laura Southard from the Virginia Department of Emergency Management told AFP.In places, the weight of the snow caused roofs to collapse, including at a firehouse in northern Virginia and a hangar for private aircraft at Dulles International Airport.Many of those without power gathered in restaurants and coffee shops on major avenues where power often was restored first. Some residents of suburban Washington spent two days huddled at businesses, unable to go home.
Downtown Washington was not as hard hit by power outages but public transportation remained snarled.Local officials warned that snow plows might not reach many smaller streets before the second storm hits.This is really challenging for us, and will continue to be a challenge for most of the week, said Southard.Even though the blizzard has moved away, unmasking a bright blue sky, it continued to take victims.
Two men were found dead in a car in the town of Bladensburg, Maryland on Sunday, The Washington Post reported. Officials believe they suffered carbon monoxide poisoning as a result of sitting in a closed vehicle without ventilation.Six other people who also appeared to be suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning were rescued from a house in the Washington suburb of Oxon Hill on Sunday, the paper added.The culprit appeared to have been a gasoline generator used inside the house after the power went out.The deepest snow left by Snowmageddon was in the small town of Colesville, central Maryland, which was buried in 40 inches (101 centimeters) of snow, the National Weather Service said. Service slowly resumed on Metro trains, although above-ground rail travel remained suspended, depriving people in the suburbs of their main means of commuting. Cancelled bus services also began operating on a limited schedule. Washington's Reagan National Airport was closed for snow and ice removal, and then reopened. although officials warned many flights may be canceled or delayed. Other local airports were also open. But life was gradually returning to normal as residents dug out cars and cleared driveways. Boris Ruhadze, 24, was stuck at the International House of Pancakes in Rockville, Maryland from Friday afternoon until Monday morning. We slept on the benches in some of the booths, in a part of the restaurant they closed off. The line was out the door on Friday, and even worse on Saturday as people lost power,Ruhadze said.
Afghan floods, avalanches kill 20: official
Mon Feb 8, 12:00 pm ET
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) – At least 20 people have died in floods and avalanches triggered by some of the heaviest rain and snow in Afghanistan for 50 years, an official said Monday.At least six people died and 10 others were missing following heavy rains in the southern province of Kandahar since late Sunday, a provincial spokesman, Zalmai Ayoubi, told AFP.So far we have found six bodies from one car. Two cars with 10 other people in them are missing, he said.We don't know if they are dead or alive, he added.Hundreds of mud-brick houses were damaged and about 1,000 animals killed in the province's Daman district, Ayoubi said.He said dozens of people were stranded by flood waters caused by the heaviest rain seen in the area for half a century, as authorities called on Afghan and foreign troops to airlift people to safety.The floods in Kandahar follow heavy snowfall in central and western parts of the country which has killed at least 14 people in the past week, according to disaster response authorities.The heavy rain and snow comes after winter began without precipitation, sowing concerns about drought in the agrarian country over the coming year.
ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
What’s the Alternative? MK Orlev: Jordan is Palestine
by Hillel Fendel FEB 9,10
(IsraelNN.com) Asked to present his alternative to the two-state Israel-Palestine option, MK Zevulun Orlev (Jewish Home) says, The Arabs of the Palestinian Authority already have a state – Jordan.Speaking with Arutz-7 on Tuesday, Orlev – the Chairman of the Knesset Education Committee – said, The basis for every plan is our right to the Land of Israel, halakhically, historically, etc. In the present situation, however, we must see how we make the most of the situation - and not go for all or nothing. There is no question that we cannot expel all of the Arabs who currently live in Judea and Samaria, and so the question is how do we deal with the given situation.My proposal, or vision, is based on the fact that there is not enough of an expanse in Judea and Samaria for a Palestinian state, and that if one is established, it will not be viable and will have to spread out towards and threaten Israel. Not to mention that such a state would not be stable; we can never know who will rule there – Hamas, Al Qaeda, Iran…The only solution, therefore, is that Jordan, of which 80 percent of its citizens are Palestinian, should be the Palestinian state, with offshoots in the areas that the PA currently controls here in Judea and Samaria. Their national rights, which I believe they deserve, such as a flag, currency, etc., should be manifest in a federation with Jordan - but it must not be an independent state, and Israel must maintain sovereignty and full military control over Judea and Samaria, including the Jordan Valley. In this way, we will maintain our historic rights and our security.
Benny Elon's Israel Initiative
A more detailed plan along these lines has long been promoted by former MK and Moledet party leader Benny Elon. Known as the Israel Initiative, the program calls for the rehabilitation of the Arab refugees and the dismantling of their camps and of UNRWA; replacing the ineffectual Palestinian Authority partner with Jordan - a reliable partner interested in stability; and replacing the Israeli occupation in Judea and Samaria with full Israeli sovereignty, which will prevent Hamas and other terrorist organizations from taking control and will grant security to Israel and neighboring countries. Whether or not the plan meets with immediate acceptance does not much concern Orlev, who said, With or without us, Jordan will one day become a Palestinian state, as a large majority there has Palestinian roots.Orlev feels that it is not too late to combat the left-wing success in placing the two-state option on the table: The final borders will not be determined on the battle field, but rather in the schools. If we teach the dangers of a Palestinian state, and that the Land of Israel is ours, and that Jordan is theirs, then we will succeed.
Unity in the Ranks
Orlev mentioned that if the religious-nationalist camp were united in one party, we would be a strong political force that could have a strong influence on the diplomatic solution. I have been pushing for unity for a long time, but unfortunately there are those who would rather remain in their own camp…A bid to unite what are now the Jewish Home and National Union parties in late 2008, before the last elections, failed after the latter felt that it was being marginalized in the new list of Knesset candidates. National Union leader MK Yaakov Katz (Ketzaleh), who joined the party after the split was announced, has been insistent of late on the importance of unity between the two parties.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
ANGEL 2 TO DR DOCTORIAN
SECOND ANGEL
Then I saw that the second angel had a sickle in his hand, such as is used in harvesting. The second angel said, Harvest time has come in Israel and the countries all the way to Iran. I saw those countries in a few split seconds. All of Turkey and those [inaudible;] countries that have refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill one another. I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the Middle East countries.I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of Georgia - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor - full of blood. I saw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; Nuclear weapons used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from everywhere. Sudden destruction - men destroying one another.I heard these words, Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come.
Iran Heads for Stunning Punch Against West
by Hillel Fendel FEB 9,10
(sraelNN.com) Iran has announced it will more than quintuple its enrichment level of uranium for atomic weapons – and Ayatollah Khamenei says Iran will deliver a stunning blow to the West this week. Iran has taken a series of steps over the past few days that leads experts such as former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton to conclude that military force against Iran is the only option. On Friday, Iran’s Foreign Minister announced that his country would export its enriched uranium to the West, but just two days later, this plan was withdrawn. Instead, Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmedinajad ordered a major step-up in the processing of uranium, enriching it at a 20 percent level, instead of the current 3.5 percent.In addition, on Monday, Supreme Islamic Iranian leader and commander-in-chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Iran is set to deliver a stunning punch during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.The Iranian nation, with its unity and the grace of Allah, will punch the arrogance [Western powers] on the 22nd of Bahman [Thursday, February 11] in a way that will leave them stunned," Khamenei told a gathering of air force personnel.The anniversary marks the date that Iran's air force gave its support to revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini, leading to the toppling of the US-backed shah in 1979.
Iran also successfully tested this week a new radar-evading drone aircraft.
Former U.S. Ambassador Bolton told FoxNews this week, The question is whether the West will finally realize that Iran has no intention of shipping the uranium out, or will it continue to try to negotiate [with Iran]… I think Iran is counting on being able to play the West as it has in the past. It has no intention of being talked out of its plans, and even very strong sanctions – which do not appear likely – are not likely to work.Bolton said that cutting off all refined gas products to Iran isa great idea [that] may have worked five years ago… It’s an idea whose time has come and gone.Asked if military force will have to be employed against Iran, Bolton said, There are two options: either Iran gets nuclear weapons, or else Israel or someone else uses military force to stop them; that’s where we are.
Defiant Iran accelerates nuclear program ByNasser Karimi, Associated Press Writer – FEB 9,10
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran began enriching uranium to a higher level Tuesday over the vociferous objections of the U.S. and its allies who fear the process could eventually be used to give the Islamic republic nuclear weapons.State television announced that the process began in the presence of inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency. Uranium has to be enriched to fuel nuclear power plants and Iran needs the 20 percent enriched fuel for a research reactor producing medical isotopes.
Enriching uranium to 90 percent, however, creates the material for nuclear weapons, which many countries are afraid Iran is seeking. Iran denies the charge.France and the U.S. said Monday Iran's action left no choice but to push harder for a fourth set of U.N. Security Council sanctions to punish Iran's nuclear defiance. Russia, which has close ties to Iran and has opposed new sanctions, appeared to edge closer to Washington's position, saying the new enrichment plans show the suspicions about Iran's intentions are well-founded.In effort to defuse the crisis, the International Atomic Energy Agency brokered a deal last year in which Iran would ship out its low enriched uranium to be processed abroad and returned a year later.Iran initially rejected the deal, then later said that if an acceptable alternative could be reached, it would not continue the high level enriching process.Ali Akbar Salehi, a vice president as well as the head of the country's nuclear program, said the further enrichment would be unnecessary if the West found a way to provide Iran with the needed fuel.Whenever they provide the fuel, we will halt production of 20 percent, he told state TV late Monday.Iran has so far enriched uranium to a level of 3.5 percent, which is suitable for use in fueling nuclear power plants.On Tuesday, the spokesman of Iran's Foreign Ministry, Ramin Mehmanparast said any plan by the West to impose new Security Council resolutions would not be helpful.If they attempt another resolution, they are making a mistake. It is not helpful in resolving the nuclear dispute between Iran and the West, he said. They are completely wrong if they think our people will back down even a single step.
Salehi said Iran has been trying to buy the higher enriched fuel for its research reactor for the past several months, but the West made providing the fuel conditional on Iran's acceptance of the U.N.-drafted agreement to ship its uranium stockpile abroad first.That plan would come with some safeguards, because the enriched fuel provided to Iran would be in a form that would be difficult to further process to make weapons.According to the report on state TV, the higher level enrichment began after Iranian scientists injected 25 kilograms of 3.5 percent enriched UF6, or Uranium hexafluoride, gas into a cascade of 164 centrifuge machines at a laboratory in central town of Natanz, some 150 miles south of Tehran.The machines are expected to produce some 2.5 kilograms of 20 percent enriched uranium out of 25 kilograms of gas every month, according to the report.It said inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency were present during the injection.When asked about the enrichment process, Gill Tudor of the IAEA only said that the agency had inspectors at the site already.The agency continues to have inspectors in Iran conducting normal safeguard operations, Tudor said. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates believed the United Nations should slap new sanctions on Iran in weeks, not months.Morrell said Gates believes a U.N. resolution would lay the legal groundwork countries need to impose sanctions independently and pressure Iran to abandon its nuclear program. No new U.N. Security Council sanctions can be passed, however, without unanimous agreement from all members, including China, which has been reluctant to impose new punitive measures on Iran.
China called for more talks on Tuesday, with Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu, saying I hope the relevant parties will step up efforts and push for progress in the dialogue and negotiations.Russia, another Security Council member, has also been reluctant to back new sanctions. The nation's security chief said on Tuesday, however, that Iran's decision to enrich uranium to higher levels has added to doubts about its nuclear program. Iran says it doesn't want to have nuclear weapons. But its actions, including its decision to enrich uranium to 20 percent, have raised doubts among other nations, and these doubts are quite well-founded, Nikolai Patrushev was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies. Iran says it needs the 20 percent enriched fuel for a research reactor producing radio isotopes to treat cancer and manufacture radiography materials. Iran says more than 850,000 people need the products for their illnesses. Associated Press Writer Veronika Oleksyn contributed to this report from Vienna.
UN envoy arrives in North Korea to spur nuke talksBy KWANG-TAE KIM, Associated Press Writer – FEB 9,10
SEOUL, South Korea – A senior U.N. envoy arrived in North Korea on Tuesday, the world body's highest-level visit to the reclusive state in nearly six years, amid an international push to get it back to the nuclear negotiating table.North Korea's top nuclear envoy, Kim Kye Gwan, flew to Beijing earlier in the day to discuss nuclear talks with Chinese officials.The flurry of diplomacy heightened speculation that there could be a breakthrough to jump-start the stalled talks to rid Pyongyang of its nuclear programs.This is a sign that the resumption of the six-party talks is imminent, said Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul. Kim Kye Gwan is expected to tell Chinese officials about North Korea's disarmament plan in a more concrete manner — probably in return for aid from Beijing, he said.U.N. political chief B. Lynn Pascoe was greeted by North Korean officials at an airport on the outskirts of the capital Pyongyang, according to footage broadcast by APTN in Pyongyang.Pascoe said the aim of his visit was to find ways we can cooperate better, according to the footage. So it should be quite useful we hope.Pascoe's trip was the first there by a high-level U.N. official since 2004, according to Seoul's Foreign Ministry. The envoy is reportedly bearing a letter from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.The four-day visit came a day after North Korean leader Kim Jong Il renewed his country's commitment to a nuclear-free Korean peninsula during a meeting with top Chinese Communist Party official Wang Jiarui.
North Korea walked away from the talks last year during a standoff over its nuclear and missile programs. The disarmament process includes the two Koreas, China, Russia, Japan and the United States.Pyongyang, however, has been reaching out to Washington, Seoul and Beijing in recent months, and has taken tentative steps toward discussing how to get the process going again. Analysts say the about-face shows the regime is feeling the pinch from sanctions taken after its May nuclear test.The sincerity of relevant parties to resume the six-party talks is very important, Kim said during a meeting with Wang on Monday, China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday from Pyongyang. Kim reiterated his country's persistent stance to realize the denuclearization of the peninsula, it said.Wang delivered to Kim a letter from Chinese President Hu Jintao that said Beijing also was ready to enhance cooperation and work with North Korea to maintain peace and stability on the peninsula, Xinhua said. Hu also invited Kim to visit China, the report said.Later Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu confirmed Kim's denuclearization pledge, saying the leader expressed the view that (North Korea) remains in favor of realizing the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.Ma said he had no information on the North Korean nuclear envoy's reported trip to Beijing.
Repeated calls to the North Korean Embassy in Beijing seeking comment went unanswered Tuesday.North Korea has made clear it wants U.N. sanctions lifted and a peace treaty with Washington formally ending the 1950-1953 Korean War before it returns to the disarmament talks. Pyongyang cites the U.S. military presence in South Korea as its main reason for building up its nuclear weapons program.
Washington says Pyongyang must come back to the talks first before any discussion about political and economic concessions.Paik predicted that North Korea and the U.S. would meet soon for final coordination to reopen the six-party talks that involve the two Koreas, the U.S., China, Russia and Japan. Associated Press writers Hyung-jin Kim, Hongkeun Jeon in Seoul, South Korea, and Alexa Olesen in Beijing contributed to this report.
PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS
JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME
PSALMS 14:1
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.
JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).
WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
CHRISTIAN SPEECH TRGETED AS HATE
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CZAR WARS VanJones was honored by Jimmy Carter, RFK daughter
Obama's communist former green-jobs chief feted as human rights defender
February 08, 2010 9:36pm EasternBy Aaron Klein 10 WorldNetDaily
Kerry Kennedy
While leading a communist revolutionary organization that opposed the U.S. government, President Obama's controversial former green jobs czar, Van Jones, was honored by and maintained a working relationship with Mary Kerry Kennedy, the activist daughter of Robert F. Kennedy. Jones also received an award during his communist leadership period from a group on which former President Jimmy Carter served as an adviser. In the 1990s, Jones was the leader and founder of a radical group, the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. The group's official manifesto, Reclaiming Revolution, boasted we also saw our brand of Marxism as, in some ways, a reclamation.
In 1998, both Carter and Kerry Kennedy were on the board of the Reebok Human Rights Awards, which selected Jones as one of four activists from around the world to receive its annual award. In 2000, Jones was honored by Kennedy again when the activist gave him the Kerry Kennedy Cuomo Human Rights Defender award. In 2004, Court TV aired RFK: Our Children, Our Future, a documentary on the legacy of Robert F. Kennedy's commitment to human rights, which featured Jones as a commentator alongside Kerry Kennedy.
WND also found that in 2004, Jones spoke at a human rights event in Puerto Rico at which Kennedy was the motivational speaker. At a 2005 event televised by PBS, Jones was asked about his relationship with Kennedy. It's really because of the issue of police brutality in the United States has moved from the margins of public consciences to the center of moral concern – because of what the police are doing and what they are getting away with, said Jones. Kerry Kennedy Cuomo was a part of that process and she has been really working very hard to make sure that if she speaks about human rights she is not just talking about somebody else's country or somebody else's problem, he said. In 2006, Kennedy and Jones appeared together at other events.
We agreed with Lenin
Jones' communist group STORM was founded in 1994 and disbanded in 2003. We agreed with Lenin's analysis of the state and the party, read STORM's manifesto.And we found inspiration in the revolutionary strategies developed by Third World revolutionaries like Mao Zedong and Amilcar Cabral.Cabral is the late Marxist revolutionary leader of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands. WND previously reported Jones named his son after Cabral and reportedly concludes every e-mail with a quote from the communist leader. STORM's newsletter boasted we also saw our brand of Marxism as, in some ways, a reclamation.STORM worked with known communist leaders. It led the charge in black protests against various issues, including a local attempt to pass Proposition 21, a ballot initiative that sought to increase the penalties for violent crimes and require more juvenile offenders to be tried as adults. Speaking to the East Bay Express in 2005, Jones said he first became radicalized in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots, during which time he was arrested. I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th, he said.By August, I was a communist. In the early 1990s, Jones also founded and led Bay Area Cop Watch, which has been accused of anti-police activities. WND previously reported Jones signed a petition calling for nationwide resistance against police. Jones went on to found the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, named after a little-known civil rights firebrand and socialist activist.
Jones served as Obama's green jobs czar until he resigned in September after it was exposed he founded a communist revolutionary organization and signed a statement that accused the Bush administration of possible involvement in the 9/11 attacks. Jones also called for resistance against the U.S. Succeeding revelations about Jones by WND included:Jones previously served on the board of an environmental activist group at which a founder of the Weather Underground terrorist organization is a top director. Jones was co-founder of a black activist organization that has led a campaign prompting major advertisers to withdraw from Glenn Beck's top-rated Fox News Channel program. The revelation followed Beck's reports on WND's story about Jones' communist background. Jones and other White House appointees may have been screened by an ACORN associate. One day after the 9/11 attacks, Jones led a vigil that expressed solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans as well as what he called the victims of U.S. imperialism around the world. Just days before his White House appointment, Jones used a forum at a major youth convention to push for a radical agenda that included spreading the wealth and changing the whole system.Jones' Maoist manifesto while leading the group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, was scrubbed from the Internet after being revealed by WND. Jones was the main speaker at an anti-war rally that urged resistance against the U.S. government – a demonstration sponsored by an organization associated with the Revolutionary Communist Party. In a 2005 conference, Jones characterized the U.S. as an apartheid regime that civil rights workers helped turn into a struggling, fledgling democracy.Jones signed a petition calling for nationwide resistance against police, accusing them of using the 9/11 attacks to carry out policies of torture.With additional research by Brenda J. Elliott.
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH-personhoodbattle moves into courtroom
Effort seeks to establish constitutional rights for unborn February 08, 2010
9:37 pm Eastern 2010 WorldNetDaily
The battle over constitutional amendments across dozens of states that could sink the abortion industry by establishing constitutional rights for the unborn is heating up months in advance of the November elections with a detour into a Mississippi courtroom .WNDas reported how the move is exploding among pro-life activists and that as many as 32 states are expected to address some sort of personhood vote this year – whether through a constitutional amendment or law. Now a lawsuit has been filed in Mississippi over regulations limiting the amount of time that petition signature collectors have to gather names. The suit was filed by Liberty Counsel on behalf of Personhood Mississippi, an organization supporting Initiative No. 26, proposed for the fall election ballot. The group already has gathered more than 85,000 signatures in support of a state constitutional amendment to include the unborn in the definition of a person. But Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, a defendant along with Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, has interpreted the state's law to shorten the time frame in which the signatures can be gathered.
The state constitution and Mississippi law give individuals a full year to gather signatures, and estimates are that 89,285 valid names are needed this year to place the amendment on the ballot.
That one-year periods ends Saturday.
But the law also provides that the deadline for filing the petition with the secretary of state is 90 days before the start of the next legislative session. Thus, Personhood Mississippi should have until October 2010 to file its petition, the lawsuit argues. Hood arbitrarily shortened the filing deadline thereby forcing the petitioners to rush to persuade the clerks to hasten their certification and inevitably causing hundreds of valid signatures to be left out of the final count, the claim states. This strained interpretation of the law may cause Personhood Mississippi to fall short of the required number of signatures and prevent the measure from being on the ballot. It will undoubtedly result in many voters being denied the right to have their voices heard on the crucial issue of protection of the lives of innocent unborn children,it said. It is unfortunate that the attorney general has chosen to usurp the role of the legislature and rewrite the deadline for filing petitions to amend the state constitution, said Steve Crampton, vice president of legal affairs for Liberty Counsel. His actions have violated the constitutional rights of Personhood Mississippi and untold hundreds of Mississippi citizens whose voices will not be heard, much as the silent screams of the unborn that this effort seeks to protect have gone unheard for so many years.The civil rights case explains that the signature-gathering activities constitute core political speech protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.WND previously has reported the effort ultimately could be the key to nullifying the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court ruling from 1973 in which justices discovered a right to abortion in the Constitution. Gualberto Garcia Jones is director of Personhood Colorado and a legal analyst for Personhood USA, a grass-roots Christian organization that seeks to legally define every unborn baby as a person protected by God-given and constitutionally protected rights, including the right to life. We're trying to end abortion right now, Garcia Jones told WND. All of our laws that we're promoting are direct challenges to Roe v. Wade. If we can get a challenge up to the Supreme Court, then that's the ideal thing. That's what we're trying to do. The personhood approach within the pro-life movement was sparked by a statement in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that opened the doors for legal abortion in the U.S.
Justice Harry Blackmun wrote in the majority opinion for Roe v. Wade, The appellee and certain amici [pro-lifers] argue that the fetus is a person within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. In support of this, they outline at length and in detail the well-known facts of fetal development. If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.
According to the movement, if every unborn baby is defined as a person, each baby will be legally guaranteed the same right to life as all Americans. We believe – and a lot of the justices on the Supreme Court agree with us – that there is no right to privacy that would allow abortion, Garcia Jones said. Since it's not mentioned directly in the 14th Amendment, we could use the 10th Amendment and the states' rights to police themselves and to pass laws regulating morality and health and safety to regulate abortion so it's not permitted. Basically it would be treated the same way as a homicide, where a state can regulate how they punish it and how they try to prevent it, but they could never allow it.He continued, We believe respect for life is in the Constitution, so therefore a state could never say you can kill a person.He said citizens in 32 states are now seeking sponsors to put personhood statutes or constitutional amendments on 2010 ballots. It's taken off so much that we're having trouble keeping up with it, he said. Colorado, Montana, Missouri, Mississippi and California are all in the process of getting signatures.The Los Angeles Times reported Sept. 28 that while personhood measures failed in Montana and North Dakota legislatures last year, the close votes alarmed supporters of legal abortion.According to WND columnist Jill Stanek, pro-life legislators in Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana and Texas have also signaled their intent to introduce personhood statutes. Personhood USA co-founder Keith Mason told WND The grass-roots personhood movement is exploding.The Personhood USA website lists states involved in the personhood movement and allows citizens to register with groups in their respective states.
EU searches for way out of debt crisis By Aoife White, Ap Business Writer – FEB 9,10
BRUSSELS – Markets somehow expect the European Union to backstop Greece's sagging finances. But with officials denying one is needed, the precise path out of the crisis for the EU's incoming new leadership remains fogged with uncertainty.The European Union's own government-backed lender said Tuesday that it cannot bail out Greece or any other European country that can't pay its debts.The European Investment Bank said in a statement that it could only finance economically viable projects and that its rules would not allow it help an EU nation cover a budget deficit.That narrowed the options as Europe's currency union faces an unprecedented crisis as financial markets and the euro currency have tumbled in recent weeks — with the euro now trading near an eight-month low against the U.S. dollar — on worries that Greece might need financial rescue to cope with its soaring debt and deficit.European stocks inched up on Tuesday, and the euro rose by three-quarters of a cent to $1.3725, on speculation that heads of state and government will have to announce some measure to help Greece when they meet at a summit in Brussels on Thursday.Fears about Greece's financial stability have hiked the cost of Greek borrowings and upped the pressure on other countries in the 16-nation eurozone that are running massive deficits, such as Portugal, Spain and Ireland.Jittery markets are piling the pressure on EU nations to state clearly what they would do if a euro member is likely to default. Officials have not managed to calm these market worries with repeated assurances from both the EU and the Greek government that Greece can pull itself out of its debt crisis with a harsh austerity program of cuts to public spending that have already triggered strikes and protests.
The crisis shows one of the vulnerabilities of the 10-year old currency union, in that it lacks an effective central authority to enforce limits budget spending. With budgets in the hands of 16 separate governments, the euro relies on a set of rules limiting deficits to 3 percent of gross domestic product — rules that have been
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou held government talks Tuesday on accelerating those cuts with reforms to pensions and wages — an effort to prove to markets that Greece can and will make long-term spending reductions and won't need a bailout.The EU's executive commission has backed the Greek program and says no bailout will be needed. European Union nations say the same, rejecting reports that they are talking about possible bailout plans.European Central Bank member Juergen Stark even said last month that markets are deluding themselves if they think that member states will open their wallets to save Greece.But they may have to if the crisis proves contagious and markets see defaults as likely for other eurozone nations.EU leaders meet Thursday to talk about ways to speed up economic growth — but Greece is not officially on the agenda.
The bailout options are limited — but not impossible.
European Union agencies — such as the European Commission — can't take on debt for governments. Neither can the EIB, it said. It has euro75 billion ($103 billion) to lend for infrastructure and economy projects, usually in poorer EU nations.Three EU members that don't use the euro — Hungary, Latvia and Romania — have secured bailouts from the International Monetary Fund and the EU. But EU officials say that IMF help won't be needed for a euro country.That leaves the ball in the court of EU governments. Legally, governments can do it if a member state is seriously threatened with severe difficulties caused by ... exceptional occurrences beyond its control.What remains is deciding how to do it — and what taking on Greek debt could do to richer nations. EU governments could cut the costs of Greek spreads overnight by agreeing to jointly underwrite Greece's debt — but this could hike the cost of their own borrowings. They could also provide a loan to Greece — but it is uncertain that they could or would provide enough to give Greece some long-term relief. Greece is looking to borrow some euro51 billion from bond markets to pledge its budget gap this year. Another option would be bonds, issued jointly by European governments to raise money from markets. EU and ECB officials have talked this down but European socialists are keen — including Greece's current government — because it could ease harsh spending cuts. What is clear is that EU governments do not want to let Greece off the hook — and that any option would force Greece to make long-delayed reforms to rife tax evasion, rigid labor market rules and an inefficient and high-spending pension and health care system.
European stocks up cautiously on hopes for GreeceBy CARLO PIOVANO, AP Business Writer – FEB 9,10
LONDON – European stocks rose cautiously Tuesday on hopes that EU officials will provide Greece with some form of support to handle its mountain of debt and keep the market crisis from spreading to other vulnerable countries.Although the European Investment Bank said Tuesday it would not be able, according to its own rules, to offer Greece or any other country a bailout, investors are betting that a meeting on Thursday of EU heads of state will address the market's worry about sovereign debt.
Britain's FTSE 100 index was up 0.5 percent at 5,116.17 and Germany's DAX gained 0.3 percent to 5,499.81. France's CAC-40 rose 0.1 percent to 3,610.95.Asian indexes were mixed at the close, drawn between losses on Wall Street overnight and the improvement in confidence in Europe. In the U.S., a rise was expected on the open, with Dow Jones industrials futures up 56 points at 9,951.00 and Standard & Poor's 500 futures rising 7.8 points to 1,063.70.This meeting of EU leaders is set to discuss the economic roadmap of the eurozone for the next 10 years; however it is difficult to see how the problems of Greece and other vulnerable indebted nations won't overshadow the summit, said Michael Hewson, analyst at CMC Markets.Greece's government is currently discussing wage and pension reform in an effort to gain credibility in its plan to drive down its debt load. However, nationwide strikes were planned for Wednesday, possibly undercutting any confidence in the country's plan.It would appear that these countries still don't get it, and this starkly highlights the problems ahead for the politicians as they seek to find a resolution to a problem that threatens to undermine the entire concept of the single currency, Hewson said.He said a bailout would be very problematic, since that would urge other heavily-indebted countries to seek the same treatment — most governments piled on debt in the wake of the financial crisis.Some experts believe the European Central Bank may come up with a form of support which would not require a bailout, such as guarantees for debt. It was reported that ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet left a seminar in Australia early in order to attend to EU leaders' summit — a move that has increased speculation that the EU maybe on the verge of providing some support for its high yielding economies, said Stuart Bennett, analyst at Calyon. High yields are a symptom of falling bond prices and increased perception of risk.
However, worries that confidence in Greece's debt will erode and spread to other countries with weak public finances — such as Portugal or Spain — has kept investors on edge, pushing global markets lower overnight.Tokyo's Nikkei 225 stock average lost 0.2 percent to 9,932.90 while Sydney's S&P-ASX 200 declined 0.4 percent to 4,505.1 after the Dow closed below 10,000 for the first time in three months.Chinese markets fared better, but trading has been listless as investors hunker down ahead of a weeklong closure of mainland exchanges for next week's Lunar New Year holiday. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index gained 0.5 percent to 2,948.84 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng index advanced 1.2 percent to 19,790.28. Seoul's Kospi rose 1.1 percent to 1,570.49.Elsewhere, benchmarks in Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines fell. Markets in Singapore, Taiwan and India posted solid gains.Asian stocks are so sensitive to the health of Western export markets that analysts say even regional developments as severe as Toyota Motor Corp.'s struggles with a spate of safety problems have little impact.The Dow fell 103.84, or 1 percent, to 9,908.39. On Thursday, the Dow traded below the symbolic barrier of 10,000 for the first time since November. It hadn't closed below that mark since Nov. 4.Oil prices rose above $72 a barrel in Europe with benchmark crude for March delivery up 50 cents at $72.39.
The dollar rose to 89.70 yen from 89.17 yen and the euro gained to $1.3729 from $1.3650.AP Business Writer Joe McDonald in Beijing contributed to this report.
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
Deficit concerns continue ahead of EU summit-Euro banknotes: the year 2010 has been a testing time for the single currency so far (Photo: gilderic)ANDREW WILLIS
Today FEB 9,10 @ 09:16 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Just days before EU leaders meet in Brussels to discuss measures to increase the region's competitiveness, market concerns over public finances continue to rattle national governments and hog the media limelight.Spain continued its public relations offensive on Monday (8 February), after concerns over Greece's deficit and debt levels recently spread to the Iberian state and its neighbour, Portugal. The country's finance minister, Elena Salgado, together with her deputy, Jose Manuel Campa, flew to London to meet bondholders and outline recently announced austerity measures. Repeating promises to cut its budget deficit to 3 per cent of gross domestic product by 2013 from 11.4 per cent last year, Mr Campa insisted the government would make the adjustment that's necessary.But their disclosure that the Spanish treasury intends to raise €76.8 billion through debt issuance this year lead to renewed market doubts, sending the country's bond yields higher. Writing last week in the New York Times, Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman said Spain's difficulties were an an object lesson in the problems of having monetary union without fiscal and labour market integration.After a decade-long boom, the 2008 implosion of Spain's housing bubble has left the country with excessive labour costs, spiraling unemployment and a large budget deficit. If Spain had its own currency, this would be a good time to devalue; but it doesn't,said Mr Krugman.
Single currency
The eurozone deficit crisis has also taken its toll on the area's common currency. Last Friday the euro plunged to an eight-month low of $1.3583, recovering slightly on Monday. Markets are also increasingly gambling against the single currency. Driven by fears of a eurozone debt crisis, traders and hedge funds have bet nearly $8bn (€5.9bn) on a falling euro, reports the Financial Times.Credit ratings agency Fitch insisted on Monday however that other eurozone countries face no risk of contagion from the debt and deficit crises afflicting Greece, Portugal and Spain.
The agency's chairman, Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere, told French radio that France and Germany still enjoy sufficient credibility with investors who are the deciders and the masters of the game.Some analysts argue that fiscal problems in the euro area peripheral states are affecting core members such as France, however. In Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right UMP party, calls are increasing to adopt a German-style medium-term budgetary balance law. We can no longer spend as we did in the past,Xavier Bertrand, UMP leader, said over the weekend.And as EU leaders prepare to meet for an informal summit in Brussels this week to discuss ways to increase the bloc's competitiveness, the issue of deficits is slowly edging its way onto the agenda. With a new long-term economic strategy still the main topic for discussion, EU president Herman Van Rompuy conceded in a recent letter to leaders that some aspects of the present economic situation will also need to be looked at.
Out of Hiding: Rabbi is First Hidden Jew to Serve in Spain
by IsraelNN Staff FEB 9,10
(IsraelNN.com) For the first time since the expulsion of Spain's Jews in 1492, a descendant of forcibly-converted Spanish Jews who immigrated to Israel, returned to Judaism and received rabbinical ordination will return to Spain to serve as a rabbi. Rabbi Nissan Ben-Avraham, a resident of Shiloh, has been appointed as Shavei Israel’s new emissary to the Bnei Anousim (whom historians refer to as Marranos) in Spain.Shavei Israel is a non-profit organization that strengthens ties between the State of Israel and descendants of Jews around the world, including the Bnei Menashe of India, the Bnei Anousim in Spain, the Subbotnik Jews of Russia, the Jewish community of Kaifeng in China, the Hidden Jews of Poland from the Holocaust era and others. Rabbi Ben-Avraham was born in 1957 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain and was named Nicolau Aguilo. He immigrated to Israel in 1978, formally returned to Judaism and Hebraicized his name. He later married, was ordained as a rabbi, and became a father of 12 children.As Shavei Israel's emissary in Spain, Rabbi Ben-Avraham will teach Torah, Jewish culture and tradition to Bnei Anousim, and will assist those seeking to learn more about their Jewish roots.
This is a very moving and historic development, said Michael Freund (pictured at left), founder and chairman of Shavei Israel.It marks the first time that a member of the Bnei Anousim is returning to Spain, where he was born and raised, in order to help his fellow Bnei Anousim learn more about their Jewish roots.According to Freund, there are tens of thousands – and maybe even more – of Bnei Anousim in Spain, who are conscious of their special connection to the Jewish people.We owe it to them and to their ancestors to reach out to them, embrace them and welcome them back home, he said.Rabbi Ben-Avraham is a descendant of Mallorca's Jews who were forcibly converted to Catholicism in the 14th and 15th centuries. They were never fully accepted by their Catholic neighbors, who referred to them as Chuetas, which means pigs,and rejected them. They suffered from centuries of discrimination, which reinforced their identity and communal cohesiveness. The Chuetas were forced to marry only among themselves and faced various social and professional restrictions up until the modern era. An estimated 15,000-20,000 still live in Mallorca, though many have assimilated in recent years.
In the early Middle Ages, Spanish Jewry was one of the oldest and most successful Diaspora Jewish communities. But from 1391 onwards, a series of terrible disturbances and great tribulations befell the Jews of Iberia, resulting in unprecedented waves of expulsion, persecution and forced conversions. These tragic events culminated in 1492, when the remaining Jews were formally expelled by the Spanish monarchs. Many of those who had been compelled to convert to Catholicism – known by the Hebrew term Bnei Anousim – remained behind, where they nonetheless continued to preserve their Jewish identity and to practice Jewish tradition covertly, away from the prying eyes of the Inquisition and its enforcers.
Barroso team set for parliament approval after lengthy delay-Barroso: The vote will put an end to a virtual paralysis in Brussels politics since the June European elections (Photo: ec.europa.eu)HONOR MAHONY 08.02.2010 @ 22:19 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The new European Commission team is set to win a confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday (9 February) after a three month delay and a prolonged period of infighting between the EU's two main institutions.The 27-member college, headed for a second time running by Portugal's centre-right Jose Manuel Barroso, looks certain to achieve the majority needed at the early afternoon vote to finally allow it to take up office for the next five years.The vote will put an end to a virtual paralysis in Brussels politics since the June European elections, which kicked off a very public dispute between Mr Barroso's mainly conservative supporters and his vocal left-wing and green critics.The dispute meant that Mr Barroso, who laid out his cards on the table about wanting a second term as commission president already two years ago, was denied a quick re-nomination as president as his opponents sought to delay his confirmation vote and extract concessions.The vote, a secret ballot, eventually took place in September securing Mr Barroso his second term. But the nomination of the rest of the commission only occurred in November after drawn-out ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, the bloc's new institutional rules, which affected the make-up of the commission.With the commission already almost four weeks into caretaker status when he finally announced the new line-up - containing 14 returning commissioners including himself, Mr Barroso's new team still had to run the gauntlet of parliamentary hearings assessing their qualifications for the job.
Several would-be commissioners did not shine in their hearings. Finland's Olli Rehn down for the powerful economic and monetary affairs dossier was seen as too vague. Lithuania's Algirdas Semeta displayed little tax policy knowledge. Catherine Ashton, the EU's top diplomat, was hesitant on several foreign policy issues and Neelie Kroes, from the Netherlands, appeared to have difficultly re-orienting herself from the competition dossier to the digital agenda. But it was Bulgaria's nominee that fell. Rumiana Jeleva's subsequent resignation in late January, after a weak hearing coloured by allegations about her financial interests, delayed the planned commission vote by a further two weeks.In the meantime, MEPs, buoyed by the new rights given to them in the Lisbon Treaty, secured extra political powers from Mr Barroso. A new inter-institutional agreement to be voted on before the investiture of the commission opens the door to parliament forcing individual commissioners to resign - a power not accorded to them in EU law.Over the eight month saga, which has seen Mr Barroso first preoccupied with his re-election and then unable to do much because his institution was in caretaker status, the EU has continued to suffer the fallout from the financial and economic crisis but has lacked clear leadership to deal with it.Meanwhile, critics of the parliament's behaviour during this period suggest MEPs were less motivated by principles but rather by one upmanship among political groups or between parliament and the commission.
AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)
EZEKIEL 39:21
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
ISAIAH 18:1-2
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
JEREMIAH 50:11,37,12
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;(BACKSLIDERS)
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.(A NATION OF MINGLED PEOPLE)
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:(MOTHER ENGLAND) behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
JEREMIAH 51:13,7,53
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
REVELATION 18:3,5,7
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK ON AMERICA)
REVELATION 18:9-11,15-21
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,(NUKE ATTACK I BELIEVE)
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Russia in stand-by mode over US missile plans in Romania
VALENTINA POP 08.02.2010 @ 17:52 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Moscow is concerned and expects proper explanations on US plans to deploy anti-ballistic missile defence systems in Romania, but it is still interested in contributing to a common assessment of threats with Europe and the US, Russia's envoy to Brussels told this website.We took note of President Basescu's statement on his agreement to host those elements. This is a serious issue which we'll be analysing when we receive all the details regarding what exact equipment is meant to be deployed there, Mr Chizhov said in a phone interview on Monday (8 February).Last Thursday, Romanian President Traian Basescu announced that his country had accepted an invitation by the Obama administration to host land-based anti-ballistic missiles as part of US plans to defend Europe against Iranian and other regional threats. The rockets are set to be deployed by 2015, in a second phase of the new version of the US shield, which combines sea and land-based interceptors for short, medium and long-range missiles. The Romanian approval process is at an early stage, as the actual agreement still needs to be negotiated between the two capitals and approved by their respective legislatures.However, the Russian reaction contrasts with its response to similar announcements made in 2007 by the Bush administration on deploying a radar in the Czech Republic and missiles in Poland by 2011. Back then, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned of a new Cold War and threatened to place nuclear missiles in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad bordering EU members Poland and Lithuania if the plans were to go ahead.
Asked why the Russian reaction was milder this time around, Mr Chizhov said that this was a preliminary reaction, pending further clarifications from the American side.It is a source of concern for us, he said, adding that Moscow was also interested to know the reason behind the choice of Romania.One could argue that Romania is somewhat closer to Iran than Poland, but still, according to our information Iran will neither now nor in the foreseeable future posses any missiles capable of reaching Romania. Not to mention Poland, central Europe or the United States, the Russian envoy argued.This view is not shared by Pentagon officials, however, who in a recent review of US' current and planned missile defence architecture note that Iran has developed and acquired ballistic missiles capable of striking deployed forces, allies, and partners in the Middle East and eastern Europe at an increasingly rapid pace.The new system envisaged by Washington would see maritime interceptors deployed in the Mediterranean by 2011 and backed up by a powerful radar whose location has not yet been disclosed.The Romanian interceptors are part of the second phase outlined in the review, which is planned to be put in place around 2015 and to expand the covered area from southern Europe to additional Nato allies,the document reads.A third phase would be operational by 2018 and would have interceptors located in northern Europe. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley last week confirmed that the US was in talks with Poland for the third stage. Warsaw is still on the table after being rebuffed by Mr Obama last year when he decided to scrap the earlier plans tabled by his predecessor. Prague is no longer considered as a potential location, however.
Russia on board?
Mr Chizhov did not rule out a future Russian contribution to the anti-missile defence system.We proposed to start from the beginning, with a joint assessment of risks and challenges in this field. We're ready to discuss that with the Americans and everybody else, he said.Moscow's tempered reaction also comes against the backdrop of Mr Obama's efforts to hit the reset button in US-Russian relations, after they had reached a Cold War era low point during the Bush administration.The revised missile shield should be of no surprise to the Russian side, Nato sources told this website. It was also discussed among European allies, but no decisions on how to integrate that into a Nato architecture had been taken yet, as the upcoming summit in Lisbon this autumn would be a more appropriate occasion for it.As for the EU side, it considered the Romania missile plan a bilateral discussion between a member state and the US, a spokesman for the bloc's foreign policy chief told this website.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
More snow due to hit storm-battered east coast
by Alex Ogle – FEB 9,10
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US east coast was on Tuesday bracing braced for a new major winter storm after record snowfall left thousands shivering in the dark without power, with transportation paralyzed and the federal government shut down.The Wasghington DC remained largely snow-locked, while many local governments, businesses and schools were also closed across the mid-Atlantic region.The National Weather Service issued a 30-hour winter storm warning beginning midday on Tuesday for Washington, Maryland and parts of Virginia, saying it expects another 10 to 20 inches (25-50 cm) of snow to cover the area.The combination of snow and strong winds will make travel very hazardous, said the NWS in its advisory.The extra squall would be on top of more than two feet (0.6 m) of snow around metropolitan Washington and Baltimore, and also comes after the massive December storm that dumped some two feet (61 centimeters) of snow in the area: meaning the region is coming up on the other historic seasonal totals.With this season's total so far at 45 inches (114 cm), according to NWS figures, more snowfall in the coming days could peak out the 1995-96 season's 46 inches (116.8 cm) and the all-time deepest snowfall of 1898-99, at 54.4 inches (138 cm).Washington residents were struggling to get to work, with people slipping on the ice and cars wheel-spinning in the snow as hundreds of emergency personnel battled to clear the roads.This snow is so deep and so heavy that the traditional snow plows can't shovel in some areas. So bulldozers are physically having to lift it up and away, Laura Southard from the Virginia Department of Emergency Management told AFP.In places, the weight of the snow caused roofs to collapse, including at a firehouse in northern Virginia and a hangar for private aircraft at Dulles International Airport.Many of those without power gathered in restaurants and coffee shops on major avenues where power often was restored first. Some residents of suburban Washington spent two days huddled at businesses, unable to go home.
Downtown Washington was not as hard hit by power outages but public transportation remained snarled.Local officials warned that snow plows might not reach many smaller streets before the second storm hits.This is really challenging for us, and will continue to be a challenge for most of the week, said Southard.Even though the blizzard has moved away, unmasking a bright blue sky, it continued to take victims.
Two men were found dead in a car in the town of Bladensburg, Maryland on Sunday, The Washington Post reported. Officials believe they suffered carbon monoxide poisoning as a result of sitting in a closed vehicle without ventilation.Six other people who also appeared to be suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning were rescued from a house in the Washington suburb of Oxon Hill on Sunday, the paper added.The culprit appeared to have been a gasoline generator used inside the house after the power went out.The deepest snow left by Snowmageddon was in the small town of Colesville, central Maryland, which was buried in 40 inches (101 centimeters) of snow, the National Weather Service said. Service slowly resumed on Metro trains, although above-ground rail travel remained suspended, depriving people in the suburbs of their main means of commuting. Cancelled bus services also began operating on a limited schedule. Washington's Reagan National Airport was closed for snow and ice removal, and then reopened. although officials warned many flights may be canceled or delayed. Other local airports were also open. But life was gradually returning to normal as residents dug out cars and cleared driveways. Boris Ruhadze, 24, was stuck at the International House of Pancakes in Rockville, Maryland from Friday afternoon until Monday morning. We slept on the benches in some of the booths, in a part of the restaurant they closed off. The line was out the door on Friday, and even worse on Saturday as people lost power,Ruhadze said.
Afghan floods, avalanches kill 20: official
Mon Feb 8, 12:00 pm ET
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) – At least 20 people have died in floods and avalanches triggered by some of the heaviest rain and snow in Afghanistan for 50 years, an official said Monday.At least six people died and 10 others were missing following heavy rains in the southern province of Kandahar since late Sunday, a provincial spokesman, Zalmai Ayoubi, told AFP.So far we have found six bodies from one car. Two cars with 10 other people in them are missing, he said.We don't know if they are dead or alive, he added.Hundreds of mud-brick houses were damaged and about 1,000 animals killed in the province's Daman district, Ayoubi said.He said dozens of people were stranded by flood waters caused by the heaviest rain seen in the area for half a century, as authorities called on Afghan and foreign troops to airlift people to safety.The floods in Kandahar follow heavy snowfall in central and western parts of the country which has killed at least 14 people in the past week, according to disaster response authorities.The heavy rain and snow comes after winter began without precipitation, sowing concerns about drought in the agrarian country over the coming year.
ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
What’s the Alternative? MK Orlev: Jordan is Palestine
by Hillel Fendel FEB 9,10
(IsraelNN.com) Asked to present his alternative to the two-state Israel-Palestine option, MK Zevulun Orlev (Jewish Home) says, The Arabs of the Palestinian Authority already have a state – Jordan.Speaking with Arutz-7 on Tuesday, Orlev – the Chairman of the Knesset Education Committee – said, The basis for every plan is our right to the Land of Israel, halakhically, historically, etc. In the present situation, however, we must see how we make the most of the situation - and not go for all or nothing. There is no question that we cannot expel all of the Arabs who currently live in Judea and Samaria, and so the question is how do we deal with the given situation.My proposal, or vision, is based on the fact that there is not enough of an expanse in Judea and Samaria for a Palestinian state, and that if one is established, it will not be viable and will have to spread out towards and threaten Israel. Not to mention that such a state would not be stable; we can never know who will rule there – Hamas, Al Qaeda, Iran…The only solution, therefore, is that Jordan, of which 80 percent of its citizens are Palestinian, should be the Palestinian state, with offshoots in the areas that the PA currently controls here in Judea and Samaria. Their national rights, which I believe they deserve, such as a flag, currency, etc., should be manifest in a federation with Jordan - but it must not be an independent state, and Israel must maintain sovereignty and full military control over Judea and Samaria, including the Jordan Valley. In this way, we will maintain our historic rights and our security.
Benny Elon's Israel Initiative
A more detailed plan along these lines has long been promoted by former MK and Moledet party leader Benny Elon. Known as the Israel Initiative, the program calls for the rehabilitation of the Arab refugees and the dismantling of their camps and of UNRWA; replacing the ineffectual Palestinian Authority partner with Jordan - a reliable partner interested in stability; and replacing the Israeli occupation in Judea and Samaria with full Israeli sovereignty, which will prevent Hamas and other terrorist organizations from taking control and will grant security to Israel and neighboring countries. Whether or not the plan meets with immediate acceptance does not much concern Orlev, who said, With or without us, Jordan will one day become a Palestinian state, as a large majority there has Palestinian roots.Orlev feels that it is not too late to combat the left-wing success in placing the two-state option on the table: The final borders will not be determined on the battle field, but rather in the schools. If we teach the dangers of a Palestinian state, and that the Land of Israel is ours, and that Jordan is theirs, then we will succeed.
Unity in the Ranks
Orlev mentioned that if the religious-nationalist camp were united in one party, we would be a strong political force that could have a strong influence on the diplomatic solution. I have been pushing for unity for a long time, but unfortunately there are those who would rather remain in their own camp…A bid to unite what are now the Jewish Home and National Union parties in late 2008, before the last elections, failed after the latter felt that it was being marginalized in the new list of Knesset candidates. National Union leader MK Yaakov Katz (Ketzaleh), who joined the party after the split was announced, has been insistent of late on the importance of unity between the two parties.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
ANGEL 2 TO DR DOCTORIAN
SECOND ANGEL
Then I saw that the second angel had a sickle in his hand, such as is used in harvesting. The second angel said, Harvest time has come in Israel and the countries all the way to Iran. I saw those countries in a few split seconds. All of Turkey and those [inaudible;] countries that have refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill one another. I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the Middle East countries.I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of Georgia - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor - full of blood. I saw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; Nuclear weapons used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from everywhere. Sudden destruction - men destroying one another.I heard these words, Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come.
Iran Heads for Stunning Punch Against West
by Hillel Fendel FEB 9,10
(sraelNN.com) Iran has announced it will more than quintuple its enrichment level of uranium for atomic weapons – and Ayatollah Khamenei says Iran will deliver a stunning blow to the West this week. Iran has taken a series of steps over the past few days that leads experts such as former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton to conclude that military force against Iran is the only option. On Friday, Iran’s Foreign Minister announced that his country would export its enriched uranium to the West, but just two days later, this plan was withdrawn. Instead, Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmedinajad ordered a major step-up in the processing of uranium, enriching it at a 20 percent level, instead of the current 3.5 percent.In addition, on Monday, Supreme Islamic Iranian leader and commander-in-chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Iran is set to deliver a stunning punch during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.The Iranian nation, with its unity and the grace of Allah, will punch the arrogance [Western powers] on the 22nd of Bahman [Thursday, February 11] in a way that will leave them stunned," Khamenei told a gathering of air force personnel.The anniversary marks the date that Iran's air force gave its support to revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini, leading to the toppling of the US-backed shah in 1979.
Iran also successfully tested this week a new radar-evading drone aircraft.
Former U.S. Ambassador Bolton told FoxNews this week, The question is whether the West will finally realize that Iran has no intention of shipping the uranium out, or will it continue to try to negotiate [with Iran]… I think Iran is counting on being able to play the West as it has in the past. It has no intention of being talked out of its plans, and even very strong sanctions – which do not appear likely – are not likely to work.Bolton said that cutting off all refined gas products to Iran isa great idea [that] may have worked five years ago… It’s an idea whose time has come and gone.Asked if military force will have to be employed against Iran, Bolton said, There are two options: either Iran gets nuclear weapons, or else Israel or someone else uses military force to stop them; that’s where we are.
Defiant Iran accelerates nuclear program ByNasser Karimi, Associated Press Writer – FEB 9,10
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran began enriching uranium to a higher level Tuesday over the vociferous objections of the U.S. and its allies who fear the process could eventually be used to give the Islamic republic nuclear weapons.State television announced that the process began in the presence of inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency. Uranium has to be enriched to fuel nuclear power plants and Iran needs the 20 percent enriched fuel for a research reactor producing medical isotopes.
Enriching uranium to 90 percent, however, creates the material for nuclear weapons, which many countries are afraid Iran is seeking. Iran denies the charge.France and the U.S. said Monday Iran's action left no choice but to push harder for a fourth set of U.N. Security Council sanctions to punish Iran's nuclear defiance. Russia, which has close ties to Iran and has opposed new sanctions, appeared to edge closer to Washington's position, saying the new enrichment plans show the suspicions about Iran's intentions are well-founded.In effort to defuse the crisis, the International Atomic Energy Agency brokered a deal last year in which Iran would ship out its low enriched uranium to be processed abroad and returned a year later.Iran initially rejected the deal, then later said that if an acceptable alternative could be reached, it would not continue the high level enriching process.Ali Akbar Salehi, a vice president as well as the head of the country's nuclear program, said the further enrichment would be unnecessary if the West found a way to provide Iran with the needed fuel.Whenever they provide the fuel, we will halt production of 20 percent, he told state TV late Monday.Iran has so far enriched uranium to a level of 3.5 percent, which is suitable for use in fueling nuclear power plants.On Tuesday, the spokesman of Iran's Foreign Ministry, Ramin Mehmanparast said any plan by the West to impose new Security Council resolutions would not be helpful.If they attempt another resolution, they are making a mistake. It is not helpful in resolving the nuclear dispute between Iran and the West, he said. They are completely wrong if they think our people will back down even a single step.
Salehi said Iran has been trying to buy the higher enriched fuel for its research reactor for the past several months, but the West made providing the fuel conditional on Iran's acceptance of the U.N.-drafted agreement to ship its uranium stockpile abroad first.That plan would come with some safeguards, because the enriched fuel provided to Iran would be in a form that would be difficult to further process to make weapons.According to the report on state TV, the higher level enrichment began after Iranian scientists injected 25 kilograms of 3.5 percent enriched UF6, or Uranium hexafluoride, gas into a cascade of 164 centrifuge machines at a laboratory in central town of Natanz, some 150 miles south of Tehran.The machines are expected to produce some 2.5 kilograms of 20 percent enriched uranium out of 25 kilograms of gas every month, according to the report.It said inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency were present during the injection.When asked about the enrichment process, Gill Tudor of the IAEA only said that the agency had inspectors at the site already.The agency continues to have inspectors in Iran conducting normal safeguard operations, Tudor said. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates believed the United Nations should slap new sanctions on Iran in weeks, not months.Morrell said Gates believes a U.N. resolution would lay the legal groundwork countries need to impose sanctions independently and pressure Iran to abandon its nuclear program. No new U.N. Security Council sanctions can be passed, however, without unanimous agreement from all members, including China, which has been reluctant to impose new punitive measures on Iran.
China called for more talks on Tuesday, with Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu, saying I hope the relevant parties will step up efforts and push for progress in the dialogue and negotiations.Russia, another Security Council member, has also been reluctant to back new sanctions. The nation's security chief said on Tuesday, however, that Iran's decision to enrich uranium to higher levels has added to doubts about its nuclear program. Iran says it doesn't want to have nuclear weapons. But its actions, including its decision to enrich uranium to 20 percent, have raised doubts among other nations, and these doubts are quite well-founded, Nikolai Patrushev was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies. Iran says it needs the 20 percent enriched fuel for a research reactor producing radio isotopes to treat cancer and manufacture radiography materials. Iran says more than 850,000 people need the products for their illnesses. Associated Press Writer Veronika Oleksyn contributed to this report from Vienna.
UN envoy arrives in North Korea to spur nuke talksBy KWANG-TAE KIM, Associated Press Writer – FEB 9,10
SEOUL, South Korea – A senior U.N. envoy arrived in North Korea on Tuesday, the world body's highest-level visit to the reclusive state in nearly six years, amid an international push to get it back to the nuclear negotiating table.North Korea's top nuclear envoy, Kim Kye Gwan, flew to Beijing earlier in the day to discuss nuclear talks with Chinese officials.The flurry of diplomacy heightened speculation that there could be a breakthrough to jump-start the stalled talks to rid Pyongyang of its nuclear programs.This is a sign that the resumption of the six-party talks is imminent, said Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul. Kim Kye Gwan is expected to tell Chinese officials about North Korea's disarmament plan in a more concrete manner — probably in return for aid from Beijing, he said.U.N. political chief B. Lynn Pascoe was greeted by North Korean officials at an airport on the outskirts of the capital Pyongyang, according to footage broadcast by APTN in Pyongyang.Pascoe said the aim of his visit was to find ways we can cooperate better, according to the footage. So it should be quite useful we hope.Pascoe's trip was the first there by a high-level U.N. official since 2004, according to Seoul's Foreign Ministry. The envoy is reportedly bearing a letter from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.The four-day visit came a day after North Korean leader Kim Jong Il renewed his country's commitment to a nuclear-free Korean peninsula during a meeting with top Chinese Communist Party official Wang Jiarui.
North Korea walked away from the talks last year during a standoff over its nuclear and missile programs. The disarmament process includes the two Koreas, China, Russia, Japan and the United States.Pyongyang, however, has been reaching out to Washington, Seoul and Beijing in recent months, and has taken tentative steps toward discussing how to get the process going again. Analysts say the about-face shows the regime is feeling the pinch from sanctions taken after its May nuclear test.The sincerity of relevant parties to resume the six-party talks is very important, Kim said during a meeting with Wang on Monday, China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday from Pyongyang. Kim reiterated his country's persistent stance to realize the denuclearization of the peninsula, it said.Wang delivered to Kim a letter from Chinese President Hu Jintao that said Beijing also was ready to enhance cooperation and work with North Korea to maintain peace and stability on the peninsula, Xinhua said. Hu also invited Kim to visit China, the report said.Later Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu confirmed Kim's denuclearization pledge, saying the leader expressed the view that (North Korea) remains in favor of realizing the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.Ma said he had no information on the North Korean nuclear envoy's reported trip to Beijing.
Repeated calls to the North Korean Embassy in Beijing seeking comment went unanswered Tuesday.North Korea has made clear it wants U.N. sanctions lifted and a peace treaty with Washington formally ending the 1950-1953 Korean War before it returns to the disarmament talks. Pyongyang cites the U.S. military presence in South Korea as its main reason for building up its nuclear weapons program.
Washington says Pyongyang must come back to the talks first before any discussion about political and economic concessions.Paik predicted that North Korea and the U.S. would meet soon for final coordination to reopen the six-party talks that involve the two Koreas, the U.S., China, Russia and Japan. Associated Press writers Hyung-jin Kim, Hongkeun Jeon in Seoul, South Korea, and Alexa Olesen in Beijing contributed to this report.
PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS
JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME
PSALMS 14:1
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.
JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).
WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
CHRISTIAN SPEECH TRGETED AS HATE
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CZAR WARS VanJones was honored by Jimmy Carter, RFK daughter
Obama's communist former green-jobs chief feted as human rights defender
February 08, 2010 9:36pm EasternBy Aaron Klein 10 WorldNetDaily
Kerry Kennedy
While leading a communist revolutionary organization that opposed the U.S. government, President Obama's controversial former green jobs czar, Van Jones, was honored by and maintained a working relationship with Mary Kerry Kennedy, the activist daughter of Robert F. Kennedy. Jones also received an award during his communist leadership period from a group on which former President Jimmy Carter served as an adviser. In the 1990s, Jones was the leader and founder of a radical group, the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. The group's official manifesto, Reclaiming Revolution, boasted we also saw our brand of Marxism as, in some ways, a reclamation.
In 1998, both Carter and Kerry Kennedy were on the board of the Reebok Human Rights Awards, which selected Jones as one of four activists from around the world to receive its annual award. In 2000, Jones was honored by Kennedy again when the activist gave him the Kerry Kennedy Cuomo Human Rights Defender award. In 2004, Court TV aired RFK: Our Children, Our Future, a documentary on the legacy of Robert F. Kennedy's commitment to human rights, which featured Jones as a commentator alongside Kerry Kennedy.
WND also found that in 2004, Jones spoke at a human rights event in Puerto Rico at which Kennedy was the motivational speaker. At a 2005 event televised by PBS, Jones was asked about his relationship with Kennedy. It's really because of the issue of police brutality in the United States has moved from the margins of public consciences to the center of moral concern – because of what the police are doing and what they are getting away with, said Jones. Kerry Kennedy Cuomo was a part of that process and she has been really working very hard to make sure that if she speaks about human rights she is not just talking about somebody else's country or somebody else's problem, he said. In 2006, Kennedy and Jones appeared together at other events.
We agreed with Lenin
Jones' communist group STORM was founded in 1994 and disbanded in 2003. We agreed with Lenin's analysis of the state and the party, read STORM's manifesto.And we found inspiration in the revolutionary strategies developed by Third World revolutionaries like Mao Zedong and Amilcar Cabral.Cabral is the late Marxist revolutionary leader of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands. WND previously reported Jones named his son after Cabral and reportedly concludes every e-mail with a quote from the communist leader. STORM's newsletter boasted we also saw our brand of Marxism as, in some ways, a reclamation.STORM worked with known communist leaders. It led the charge in black protests against various issues, including a local attempt to pass Proposition 21, a ballot initiative that sought to increase the penalties for violent crimes and require more juvenile offenders to be tried as adults. Speaking to the East Bay Express in 2005, Jones said he first became radicalized in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots, during which time he was arrested. I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th, he said.By August, I was a communist. In the early 1990s, Jones also founded and led Bay Area Cop Watch, which has been accused of anti-police activities. WND previously reported Jones signed a petition calling for nationwide resistance against police. Jones went on to found the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, named after a little-known civil rights firebrand and socialist activist.
Jones served as Obama's green jobs czar until he resigned in September after it was exposed he founded a communist revolutionary organization and signed a statement that accused the Bush administration of possible involvement in the 9/11 attacks. Jones also called for resistance against the U.S. Succeeding revelations about Jones by WND included:Jones previously served on the board of an environmental activist group at which a founder of the Weather Underground terrorist organization is a top director. Jones was co-founder of a black activist organization that has led a campaign prompting major advertisers to withdraw from Glenn Beck's top-rated Fox News Channel program. The revelation followed Beck's reports on WND's story about Jones' communist background. Jones and other White House appointees may have been screened by an ACORN associate. One day after the 9/11 attacks, Jones led a vigil that expressed solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans as well as what he called the victims of U.S. imperialism around the world. Just days before his White House appointment, Jones used a forum at a major youth convention to push for a radical agenda that included spreading the wealth and changing the whole system.Jones' Maoist manifesto while leading the group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, was scrubbed from the Internet after being revealed by WND. Jones was the main speaker at an anti-war rally that urged resistance against the U.S. government – a demonstration sponsored by an organization associated with the Revolutionary Communist Party. In a 2005 conference, Jones characterized the U.S. as an apartheid regime that civil rights workers helped turn into a struggling, fledgling democracy.Jones signed a petition calling for nationwide resistance against police, accusing them of using the 9/11 attacks to carry out policies of torture.With additional research by Brenda J. Elliott.
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH-personhoodbattle moves into courtroom
Effort seeks to establish constitutional rights for unborn February 08, 2010
9:37 pm Eastern 2010 WorldNetDaily
The battle over constitutional amendments across dozens of states that could sink the abortion industry by establishing constitutional rights for the unborn is heating up months in advance of the November elections with a detour into a Mississippi courtroom .WNDas reported how the move is exploding among pro-life activists and that as many as 32 states are expected to address some sort of personhood vote this year – whether through a constitutional amendment or law. Now a lawsuit has been filed in Mississippi over regulations limiting the amount of time that petition signature collectors have to gather names. The suit was filed by Liberty Counsel on behalf of Personhood Mississippi, an organization supporting Initiative No. 26, proposed for the fall election ballot. The group already has gathered more than 85,000 signatures in support of a state constitutional amendment to include the unborn in the definition of a person. But Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, a defendant along with Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, has interpreted the state's law to shorten the time frame in which the signatures can be gathered.
The state constitution and Mississippi law give individuals a full year to gather signatures, and estimates are that 89,285 valid names are needed this year to place the amendment on the ballot.
That one-year periods ends Saturday.
But the law also provides that the deadline for filing the petition with the secretary of state is 90 days before the start of the next legislative session. Thus, Personhood Mississippi should have until October 2010 to file its petition, the lawsuit argues. Hood arbitrarily shortened the filing deadline thereby forcing the petitioners to rush to persuade the clerks to hasten their certification and inevitably causing hundreds of valid signatures to be left out of the final count, the claim states. This strained interpretation of the law may cause Personhood Mississippi to fall short of the required number of signatures and prevent the measure from being on the ballot. It will undoubtedly result in many voters being denied the right to have their voices heard on the crucial issue of protection of the lives of innocent unborn children,it said. It is unfortunate that the attorney general has chosen to usurp the role of the legislature and rewrite the deadline for filing petitions to amend the state constitution, said Steve Crampton, vice president of legal affairs for Liberty Counsel. His actions have violated the constitutional rights of Personhood Mississippi and untold hundreds of Mississippi citizens whose voices will not be heard, much as the silent screams of the unborn that this effort seeks to protect have gone unheard for so many years.The civil rights case explains that the signature-gathering activities constitute core political speech protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.WND previously has reported the effort ultimately could be the key to nullifying the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court ruling from 1973 in which justices discovered a right to abortion in the Constitution. Gualberto Garcia Jones is director of Personhood Colorado and a legal analyst for Personhood USA, a grass-roots Christian organization that seeks to legally define every unborn baby as a person protected by God-given and constitutionally protected rights, including the right to life. We're trying to end abortion right now, Garcia Jones told WND. All of our laws that we're promoting are direct challenges to Roe v. Wade. If we can get a challenge up to the Supreme Court, then that's the ideal thing. That's what we're trying to do. The personhood approach within the pro-life movement was sparked by a statement in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that opened the doors for legal abortion in the U.S.
Justice Harry Blackmun wrote in the majority opinion for Roe v. Wade, The appellee and certain amici [pro-lifers] argue that the fetus is a person within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. In support of this, they outline at length and in detail the well-known facts of fetal development. If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.
According to the movement, if every unborn baby is defined as a person, each baby will be legally guaranteed the same right to life as all Americans. We believe – and a lot of the justices on the Supreme Court agree with us – that there is no right to privacy that would allow abortion, Garcia Jones said. Since it's not mentioned directly in the 14th Amendment, we could use the 10th Amendment and the states' rights to police themselves and to pass laws regulating morality and health and safety to regulate abortion so it's not permitted. Basically it would be treated the same way as a homicide, where a state can regulate how they punish it and how they try to prevent it, but they could never allow it.He continued, We believe respect for life is in the Constitution, so therefore a state could never say you can kill a person.He said citizens in 32 states are now seeking sponsors to put personhood statutes or constitutional amendments on 2010 ballots. It's taken off so much that we're having trouble keeping up with it, he said. Colorado, Montana, Missouri, Mississippi and California are all in the process of getting signatures.The Los Angeles Times reported Sept. 28 that while personhood measures failed in Montana and North Dakota legislatures last year, the close votes alarmed supporters of legal abortion.According to WND columnist Jill Stanek, pro-life legislators in Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana and Texas have also signaled their intent to introduce personhood statutes. Personhood USA co-founder Keith Mason told WND The grass-roots personhood movement is exploding.The Personhood USA website lists states involved in the personhood movement and allows citizens to register with groups in their respective states.
EU searches for way out of debt crisis By Aoife White, Ap Business Writer – FEB 9,10
BRUSSELS – Markets somehow expect the European Union to backstop Greece's sagging finances. But with officials denying one is needed, the precise path out of the crisis for the EU's incoming new leadership remains fogged with uncertainty.The European Union's own government-backed lender said Tuesday that it cannot bail out Greece or any other European country that can't pay its debts.The European Investment Bank said in a statement that it could only finance economically viable projects and that its rules would not allow it help an EU nation cover a budget deficit.That narrowed the options as Europe's currency union faces an unprecedented crisis as financial markets and the euro currency have tumbled in recent weeks — with the euro now trading near an eight-month low against the U.S. dollar — on worries that Greece might need financial rescue to cope with its soaring debt and deficit.European stocks inched up on Tuesday, and the euro rose by three-quarters of a cent to $1.3725, on speculation that heads of state and government will have to announce some measure to help Greece when they meet at a summit in Brussels on Thursday.Fears about Greece's financial stability have hiked the cost of Greek borrowings and upped the pressure on other countries in the 16-nation eurozone that are running massive deficits, such as Portugal, Spain and Ireland.Jittery markets are piling the pressure on EU nations to state clearly what they would do if a euro member is likely to default. Officials have not managed to calm these market worries with repeated assurances from both the EU and the Greek government that Greece can pull itself out of its debt crisis with a harsh austerity program of cuts to public spending that have already triggered strikes and protests.
The crisis shows one of the vulnerabilities of the 10-year old currency union, in that it lacks an effective central authority to enforce limits budget spending. With budgets in the hands of 16 separate governments, the euro relies on a set of rules limiting deficits to 3 percent of gross domestic product — rules that have been
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou held government talks Tuesday on accelerating those cuts with reforms to pensions and wages — an effort to prove to markets that Greece can and will make long-term spending reductions and won't need a bailout.The EU's executive commission has backed the Greek program and says no bailout will be needed. European Union nations say the same, rejecting reports that they are talking about possible bailout plans.European Central Bank member Juergen Stark even said last month that markets are deluding themselves if they think that member states will open their wallets to save Greece.But they may have to if the crisis proves contagious and markets see defaults as likely for other eurozone nations.EU leaders meet Thursday to talk about ways to speed up economic growth — but Greece is not officially on the agenda.
The bailout options are limited — but not impossible.
European Union agencies — such as the European Commission — can't take on debt for governments. Neither can the EIB, it said. It has euro75 billion ($103 billion) to lend for infrastructure and economy projects, usually in poorer EU nations.Three EU members that don't use the euro — Hungary, Latvia and Romania — have secured bailouts from the International Monetary Fund and the EU. But EU officials say that IMF help won't be needed for a euro country.That leaves the ball in the court of EU governments. Legally, governments can do it if a member state is seriously threatened with severe difficulties caused by ... exceptional occurrences beyond its control.What remains is deciding how to do it — and what taking on Greek debt could do to richer nations. EU governments could cut the costs of Greek spreads overnight by agreeing to jointly underwrite Greece's debt — but this could hike the cost of their own borrowings. They could also provide a loan to Greece — but it is uncertain that they could or would provide enough to give Greece some long-term relief. Greece is looking to borrow some euro51 billion from bond markets to pledge its budget gap this year. Another option would be bonds, issued jointly by European governments to raise money from markets. EU and ECB officials have talked this down but European socialists are keen — including Greece's current government — because it could ease harsh spending cuts. What is clear is that EU governments do not want to let Greece off the hook — and that any option would force Greece to make long-delayed reforms to rife tax evasion, rigid labor market rules and an inefficient and high-spending pension and health care system.
European stocks up cautiously on hopes for GreeceBy CARLO PIOVANO, AP Business Writer – FEB 9,10
LONDON – European stocks rose cautiously Tuesday on hopes that EU officials will provide Greece with some form of support to handle its mountain of debt and keep the market crisis from spreading to other vulnerable countries.Although the European Investment Bank said Tuesday it would not be able, according to its own rules, to offer Greece or any other country a bailout, investors are betting that a meeting on Thursday of EU heads of state will address the market's worry about sovereign debt.
Britain's FTSE 100 index was up 0.5 percent at 5,116.17 and Germany's DAX gained 0.3 percent to 5,499.81. France's CAC-40 rose 0.1 percent to 3,610.95.Asian indexes were mixed at the close, drawn between losses on Wall Street overnight and the improvement in confidence in Europe. In the U.S., a rise was expected on the open, with Dow Jones industrials futures up 56 points at 9,951.00 and Standard & Poor's 500 futures rising 7.8 points to 1,063.70.This meeting of EU leaders is set to discuss the economic roadmap of the eurozone for the next 10 years; however it is difficult to see how the problems of Greece and other vulnerable indebted nations won't overshadow the summit, said Michael Hewson, analyst at CMC Markets.Greece's government is currently discussing wage and pension reform in an effort to gain credibility in its plan to drive down its debt load. However, nationwide strikes were planned for Wednesday, possibly undercutting any confidence in the country's plan.It would appear that these countries still don't get it, and this starkly highlights the problems ahead for the politicians as they seek to find a resolution to a problem that threatens to undermine the entire concept of the single currency, Hewson said.He said a bailout would be very problematic, since that would urge other heavily-indebted countries to seek the same treatment — most governments piled on debt in the wake of the financial crisis.Some experts believe the European Central Bank may come up with a form of support which would not require a bailout, such as guarantees for debt. It was reported that ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet left a seminar in Australia early in order to attend to EU leaders' summit — a move that has increased speculation that the EU maybe on the verge of providing some support for its high yielding economies, said Stuart Bennett, analyst at Calyon. High yields are a symptom of falling bond prices and increased perception of risk.
However, worries that confidence in Greece's debt will erode and spread to other countries with weak public finances — such as Portugal or Spain — has kept investors on edge, pushing global markets lower overnight.Tokyo's Nikkei 225 stock average lost 0.2 percent to 9,932.90 while Sydney's S&P-ASX 200 declined 0.4 percent to 4,505.1 after the Dow closed below 10,000 for the first time in three months.Chinese markets fared better, but trading has been listless as investors hunker down ahead of a weeklong closure of mainland exchanges for next week's Lunar New Year holiday. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index gained 0.5 percent to 2,948.84 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng index advanced 1.2 percent to 19,790.28. Seoul's Kospi rose 1.1 percent to 1,570.49.Elsewhere, benchmarks in Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines fell. Markets in Singapore, Taiwan and India posted solid gains.Asian stocks are so sensitive to the health of Western export markets that analysts say even regional developments as severe as Toyota Motor Corp.'s struggles with a spate of safety problems have little impact.The Dow fell 103.84, or 1 percent, to 9,908.39. On Thursday, the Dow traded below the symbolic barrier of 10,000 for the first time since November. It hadn't closed below that mark since Nov. 4.Oil prices rose above $72 a barrel in Europe with benchmark crude for March delivery up 50 cents at $72.39.
The dollar rose to 89.70 yen from 89.17 yen and the euro gained to $1.3729 from $1.3650.AP Business Writer Joe McDonald in Beijing contributed to this report.
Monday, February 08, 2010
STOCK RESULTS FEB 8,2010
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/site/14081545/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON FEB 08,2010
09:30 AM -1.31
10:00 AM -43.30
10:30 AM -25.20
11:00 AM -4.83
11:30 AM -11.41
12:00 PM -7.25
12:30 PM -12.01
01:00 PM +0.46
01:30 PM -30.53
02:00 PM -41.41
02:30 PM -27.81
03:00 PM -38.92
03:30 PM -66.05
04:00 PM -103.84 9,908.39
S&P 500 1056.74 -9.45
NASDAQ 2126.05 -15.07
GOLD 1,064.50 +11.70
OIL 71.89 +0.70
TSE 300 11,108.70 -114.40
CDNX 1460.60 +5.19
S&P/TSX/60 649.79 -6.71
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -44 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -106 points at low today.
Dow +23 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,065.30.OIL opens at $71.21 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -106 points at low today so far.
Dow +23 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -106 points at low today.
Dow +23 points at high today.
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/site/14081545/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON FEB 08,2010
09:30 AM -1.31
10:00 AM -43.30
10:30 AM -25.20
11:00 AM -4.83
11:30 AM -11.41
12:00 PM -7.25
12:30 PM -12.01
01:00 PM +0.46
01:30 PM -30.53
02:00 PM -41.41
02:30 PM -27.81
03:00 PM -38.92
03:30 PM -66.05
04:00 PM -103.84 9,908.39
S&P 500 1056.74 -9.45
NASDAQ 2126.05 -15.07
GOLD 1,064.50 +11.70
OIL 71.89 +0.70
TSE 300 11,108.70 -114.40
CDNX 1460.60 +5.19
S&P/TSX/60 649.79 -6.71
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -44 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -106 points at low today.
Dow +23 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,065.30.OIL opens at $71.21 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -106 points at low today so far.
Dow +23 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -106 points at low today.
Dow +23 points at high today.
NWO THE FINAL PUSH COMES TOGETHER
EU CALLS FOR WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7D21rPpBrk&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Feuro%2Dmed%2Edk%2F%3Fp%3D1277&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFs99zBTRO0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTfv6uOHgqQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVeMBNB0cII&feature=related
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4291770489472554607&ei=iaRTSrzHAoqUqQL1gMGqDw&q=EU&hl=en
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVeMBNB0cII&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVmtbLc4t6M&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Feuro%2Dmed%2Edk%2F%3Fp%3D1277&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv5cqh26CC0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Feuro%2Dmed%2Edk%2F%3Fp%3D1277&feature=player_embedded
EXCELLENT EU REVIEW - WORLD REGIONS,GLOBAL CURRENCY
http://exposureroom.com/members/cybersilence.aspx/assets/d37a8ebc60694cc98173b8f32cfe898d/
EU-NEW SOVIET UNION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM2Ql3wOGcU&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Cj1b-rp1E&feature=player_embedded
WORLD GOVERNMENT UNDER TREATYS-INTERNATIONAL LAW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_government
TRANSATLANTIC POLICY
http://www.tpnonline.org/
EU COUNCIL
http://video.consilium.europa.eu/index.php?pl=3&sessionno=2579&lang=EN
JOAN VEON ON TAMAR YONAH 2008 (WORLD GOVERNMENT)
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links
GEORGE HUNT-WORLD BANK ,RELIGION&RULERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OvpjRglW9U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFnxNowaaIU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=584x0zkmHgw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsZvQcZ9Mu4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGl3DHrVMFY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg90X7OkEsU&feature=related
INSIDE VIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BANKERS
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=36666041
UNDERSTANDING WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.womensgroup.org/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=504526035342184251
BANK OF INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT PRESS
http://www.bis.org/events/agm2009/pcvideo.htm
HISTORY OF WAR AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1874212534444628577&hl=en
EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnq5cQMiAB8&feature=related
DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)
REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
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.
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.
I HAVE FINALLY FOUND OUT THE SECRET TO OBAMA BEING A MUSLIM,PALESTINIAN SYMPATHIZER AND WANTING JERUSALEM DIVIDED SO BAD.
THERE IS THIS ANTI-SEMITIC PERSON BY THE NAME OF ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI WHO ADVISED JIMMY CARTER IN HIS ADMINISTRATION AND GROOMED OBAMA TO BE THE LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER TODAY. NOW WE KNOW WHY CARTER FIGHTS SO HARD FOR A PALESTINIAN STATE AND THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TO THE PALESTINIANS ALSO.
HENRY KISSINGER THE BIG WIG LEADER IN THE BILDERBERG GROUP IS PROMOTING OBAMA AS THE LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER,COMBINED WITH THE ANTI-SEMITE (ISRAEL HATING) ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI AND CARTER ALL BEING PALESTINIAN MUSLIM SYMPATHIZERS.NOW WE KNOW WHY AMERICA WILL COME TO NAUGHT IN THESE LAST DAYS DUE TO BEING AN ANTICHRIST (GOD-KING JESUS HATER,JEWISH HATER).
HERES WHAT WEBSTER TARPLEY SAYS IN HIS BOOK ,THE MAKING OF A MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE.
OBAMA WAS RECRUITED OVER 25 YEARS AGO BY ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI,AS A STUDENT AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY,TO BE GROOMED AS THE PRESIDENT TO SUCCEED GEORGE W. BUSH IN 2008. IN 1970, ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI HAD RECRUITED JIMMY CARTER,THE THEN UNKNOWN GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA,TO BE PRESIDENT IN 1976,AND FOSTER THE PLANS OF THE ONEWORLDERS;OBAMA IS NOW HIS LATEST RECRUIT FOR THE COMPLETION OF THIS PLAN FOR A WORLD GOVERNMENT.
THE CLUB OF ROME A EUROPEAN UNION THINKTANK HAS THE WORLD IN 10 REGIONS.COMBINED WITH THE BILDERBERGS HENRY KISSINGER AND CARTER AND BRZEZINSKI OF THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION AND THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS HAVE NOW GOTTEN THEIR NWO LEADER OBAMA IN POWER THROUGH THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE AND BANKER TAKEOVER OF THE WORLD. NOW WE KNOW WHY THE BIBLE SAYS THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT WILL BE HEADED BY A GODLESS LEADER FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION WHO WILL BREAK THE WORLD INTO 10 REGIONS AND BY DICTATORSHIP AND MARTIAL LAW WILL CONTROL EVERY CITIZEN ON EARTH. NOW WE KNOW WHY THE BIBLE SAYS ALL WILL BE REQUIRED TO TAKE A MICROCHIP IMPLANT FOR BUYING OR SELLING OR BE KILLED.HERE ARE THE 10 REGIONS THE EU DICTATOR WILL RULE OVER AND BEHIND THE SCENES KISSINGER AND CARTER AND BRZEZINSKI (3 MAIN NEW WORLD ORDER NUTCASES) WILL BE ADVISING THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR.NOW WE KNOW WHY THE WORLD IS CONCENTRATING ON THE EURO LATELY.THESE NWO NUTCASES ARE BRINGING THE EU INTO THE SCENE LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS TO OVERTAKE AMERICA IN POWER AND FINISH OFF WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION BANKERS THE FINAL TAKEOVER OF THE WORLD.
REGION 1 - AMERICA,CANADA,MEXICO
REGION 2 - SOUTH AMERICA
REGION 3 - AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
REGION 4 - WESTERN EUROPE
REGION 5 - EASTERN EUROPE
REGION 6 - JAPAN
REGION 7 - SOUTH ASIA
REGION 8 - CENTRAL ASIA
REGION 9 - NORTH AFRICA AND MIDEAST (INCLUDING ISRAEL)
REGION 10 - REMAINDER OF AFRICA.
THE FINAL STAGE IS SET,THE EU DICTATOR JUST HAS TO COME ON THE SCENE,SIGN THE 7 YEAR ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN AND MANY TREATY FOR THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, CULMINATING IN 3 BILLION PEOPLE DEAD AND JESUS RETURNING TO EARTH TO STOP THE NWO NUTCASES FROM KILLING ALL OF US THROUGH THEIR DICTATORSHIP.LOOKOUT FOLKS WE ARE AT THE END OF THE AGE OF GRACE.
US links EU security partnership to bank data deal
VALENTINA POP Today FEB 8,10 @ 09:29 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – US national security advisor James Jones on Saturday (6 February) reassured Europe that the transatlantic partnership continues to be strong, but underlined the need for the European Parliament to allow American investigators to access EU banking data to track terrorism funding.It has become fashionable in some quarters to suggest that the United States has somehow neglected the trans-Atlantic partnership. But ...Europe today is our indispensable partner, Mr Jones said at the Munich security conference, a yearly forum for high-level officials to air their views on international security and defence matters.He indicated that there were some potential glitches in the relationship. He mentioned a crucial vote due in the European Parliament this Thursday (11 February), which could derail an existing agreement allowing the US to track intra-European banking transactions in the search for terrorism funding. This programme has safeguards. It protects privacy. It has prevented terrorist attacks and saved lives, including here in Europe. And with the European Parliament's support for sustaining this important agreement, the United States looks forward to further co-operation in this area with our European partners to protect our citizens on both sides of the ocean though an agreement called the Terrorist Finance Tracking programme, Mr Jones said.
His public calls come after last week's vote in a key EU parliamentary committee for the deal to be scrapped because of what MEPs consider insufficient data protection safeguards and because of an institutional quarrel with member states, who negotiated the agreement.US foreign policy chief Hillary Clinton has held phone conversations with both the European Parliament's president Jerzy Buzek and her EU counterpart Catherine Ashton on the matter.Ms Clinton also wrote a letter to Mr Buzek together with US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner, in which they convey their hope that the Thursday vote will be positive, parliament sources told EUobserver.The US officials said they supported the view of the parliament in its discussion with the council of ministers, that EU states should disclose all the relevant information to the legislature relating to negotiations for a final agreement on bank data. EU ambassadors in Brussels are set to hold a special meeting on the matter on Monday (8 February). If no concessions were made from the side of the council, parliament sources say, the agreement is likely to be voted down on Thursday.
Spanish bonanza
The state of EU-US relations hit the headlines last week when President Barack Obama indicated he would not attend a bilateral summit due to take place in Madrid in May.
The US State Department said that Mr Obama's decision, widely portrayed as a snub, was partly due to institutional confusion caused by the EU's new Lisbon Treaty.
Spanish foreign minister Angel Miguel Moratinos, also present at the Munich gathering, praised the transatlantic relationship. The new Europe still needs the US, and the US will always have in Europe its most reliable and capable partner,he said.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7D21rPpBrk&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Feuro%2Dmed%2Edk%2F%3Fp%3D1277&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFs99zBTRO0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTfv6uOHgqQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVeMBNB0cII&feature=related
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4291770489472554607&ei=iaRTSrzHAoqUqQL1gMGqDw&q=EU&hl=en
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVeMBNB0cII&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVmtbLc4t6M&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Feuro%2Dmed%2Edk%2F%3Fp%3D1277&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv5cqh26CC0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Feuro%2Dmed%2Edk%2F%3Fp%3D1277&feature=player_embedded
EXCELLENT EU REVIEW - WORLD REGIONS,GLOBAL CURRENCY
http://exposureroom.com/members/cybersilence.aspx/assets/d37a8ebc60694cc98173b8f32cfe898d/
EU-NEW SOVIET UNION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM2Ql3wOGcU&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Cj1b-rp1E&feature=player_embedded
WORLD GOVERNMENT UNDER TREATYS-INTERNATIONAL LAW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_government
TRANSATLANTIC POLICY
http://www.tpnonline.org/
EU COUNCIL
http://video.consilium.europa.eu/index.php?pl=3&sessionno=2579&lang=EN
JOAN VEON ON TAMAR YONAH 2008 (WORLD GOVERNMENT)
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links
GEORGE HUNT-WORLD BANK ,RELIGION&RULERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OvpjRglW9U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFnxNowaaIU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=584x0zkmHgw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsZvQcZ9Mu4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGl3DHrVMFY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg90X7OkEsU&feature=related
INSIDE VIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BANKERS
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=36666041
UNDERSTANDING WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.womensgroup.org/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=504526035342184251
BANK OF INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT PRESS
http://www.bis.org/events/agm2009/pcvideo.htm
HISTORY OF WAR AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1874212534444628577&hl=en
EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnq5cQMiAB8&feature=related
DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)
REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
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.
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.
I HAVE FINALLY FOUND OUT THE SECRET TO OBAMA BEING A MUSLIM,PALESTINIAN SYMPATHIZER AND WANTING JERUSALEM DIVIDED SO BAD.
THERE IS THIS ANTI-SEMITIC PERSON BY THE NAME OF ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI WHO ADVISED JIMMY CARTER IN HIS ADMINISTRATION AND GROOMED OBAMA TO BE THE LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER TODAY. NOW WE KNOW WHY CARTER FIGHTS SO HARD FOR A PALESTINIAN STATE AND THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TO THE PALESTINIANS ALSO.
HENRY KISSINGER THE BIG WIG LEADER IN THE BILDERBERG GROUP IS PROMOTING OBAMA AS THE LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER,COMBINED WITH THE ANTI-SEMITE (ISRAEL HATING) ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI AND CARTER ALL BEING PALESTINIAN MUSLIM SYMPATHIZERS.NOW WE KNOW WHY AMERICA WILL COME TO NAUGHT IN THESE LAST DAYS DUE TO BEING AN ANTICHRIST (GOD-KING JESUS HATER,JEWISH HATER).
HERES WHAT WEBSTER TARPLEY SAYS IN HIS BOOK ,THE MAKING OF A MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE.
OBAMA WAS RECRUITED OVER 25 YEARS AGO BY ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI,AS A STUDENT AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY,TO BE GROOMED AS THE PRESIDENT TO SUCCEED GEORGE W. BUSH IN 2008. IN 1970, ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI HAD RECRUITED JIMMY CARTER,THE THEN UNKNOWN GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA,TO BE PRESIDENT IN 1976,AND FOSTER THE PLANS OF THE ONEWORLDERS;OBAMA IS NOW HIS LATEST RECRUIT FOR THE COMPLETION OF THIS PLAN FOR A WORLD GOVERNMENT.
THE CLUB OF ROME A EUROPEAN UNION THINKTANK HAS THE WORLD IN 10 REGIONS.COMBINED WITH THE BILDERBERGS HENRY KISSINGER AND CARTER AND BRZEZINSKI OF THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION AND THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS HAVE NOW GOTTEN THEIR NWO LEADER OBAMA IN POWER THROUGH THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE AND BANKER TAKEOVER OF THE WORLD. NOW WE KNOW WHY THE BIBLE SAYS THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT WILL BE HEADED BY A GODLESS LEADER FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION WHO WILL BREAK THE WORLD INTO 10 REGIONS AND BY DICTATORSHIP AND MARTIAL LAW WILL CONTROL EVERY CITIZEN ON EARTH. NOW WE KNOW WHY THE BIBLE SAYS ALL WILL BE REQUIRED TO TAKE A MICROCHIP IMPLANT FOR BUYING OR SELLING OR BE KILLED.HERE ARE THE 10 REGIONS THE EU DICTATOR WILL RULE OVER AND BEHIND THE SCENES KISSINGER AND CARTER AND BRZEZINSKI (3 MAIN NEW WORLD ORDER NUTCASES) WILL BE ADVISING THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR.NOW WE KNOW WHY THE WORLD IS CONCENTRATING ON THE EURO LATELY.THESE NWO NUTCASES ARE BRINGING THE EU INTO THE SCENE LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS TO OVERTAKE AMERICA IN POWER AND FINISH OFF WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION BANKERS THE FINAL TAKEOVER OF THE WORLD.
REGION 1 - AMERICA,CANADA,MEXICO
REGION 2 - SOUTH AMERICA
REGION 3 - AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
REGION 4 - WESTERN EUROPE
REGION 5 - EASTERN EUROPE
REGION 6 - JAPAN
REGION 7 - SOUTH ASIA
REGION 8 - CENTRAL ASIA
REGION 9 - NORTH AFRICA AND MIDEAST (INCLUDING ISRAEL)
REGION 10 - REMAINDER OF AFRICA.
THE FINAL STAGE IS SET,THE EU DICTATOR JUST HAS TO COME ON THE SCENE,SIGN THE 7 YEAR ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN AND MANY TREATY FOR THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, CULMINATING IN 3 BILLION PEOPLE DEAD AND JESUS RETURNING TO EARTH TO STOP THE NWO NUTCASES FROM KILLING ALL OF US THROUGH THEIR DICTATORSHIP.LOOKOUT FOLKS WE ARE AT THE END OF THE AGE OF GRACE.
US links EU security partnership to bank data deal
VALENTINA POP Today FEB 8,10 @ 09:29 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – US national security advisor James Jones on Saturday (6 February) reassured Europe that the transatlantic partnership continues to be strong, but underlined the need for the European Parliament to allow American investigators to access EU banking data to track terrorism funding.It has become fashionable in some quarters to suggest that the United States has somehow neglected the trans-Atlantic partnership. But ...Europe today is our indispensable partner, Mr Jones said at the Munich security conference, a yearly forum for high-level officials to air their views on international security and defence matters.He indicated that there were some potential glitches in the relationship. He mentioned a crucial vote due in the European Parliament this Thursday (11 February), which could derail an existing agreement allowing the US to track intra-European banking transactions in the search for terrorism funding. This programme has safeguards. It protects privacy. It has prevented terrorist attacks and saved lives, including here in Europe. And with the European Parliament's support for sustaining this important agreement, the United States looks forward to further co-operation in this area with our European partners to protect our citizens on both sides of the ocean though an agreement called the Terrorist Finance Tracking programme, Mr Jones said.
His public calls come after last week's vote in a key EU parliamentary committee for the deal to be scrapped because of what MEPs consider insufficient data protection safeguards and because of an institutional quarrel with member states, who negotiated the agreement.US foreign policy chief Hillary Clinton has held phone conversations with both the European Parliament's president Jerzy Buzek and her EU counterpart Catherine Ashton on the matter.Ms Clinton also wrote a letter to Mr Buzek together with US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner, in which they convey their hope that the Thursday vote will be positive, parliament sources told EUobserver.The US officials said they supported the view of the parliament in its discussion with the council of ministers, that EU states should disclose all the relevant information to the legislature relating to negotiations for a final agreement on bank data. EU ambassadors in Brussels are set to hold a special meeting on the matter on Monday (8 February). If no concessions were made from the side of the council, parliament sources say, the agreement is likely to be voted down on Thursday.
Spanish bonanza
The state of EU-US relations hit the headlines last week when President Barack Obama indicated he would not attend a bilateral summit due to take place in Madrid in May.
The US State Department said that Mr Obama's decision, widely portrayed as a snub, was partly due to institutional confusion caused by the EU's new Lisbon Treaty.
Spanish foreign minister Angel Miguel Moratinos, also present at the Munich gathering, praised the transatlantic relationship. The new Europe still needs the US, and the US will always have in Europe its most reliable and capable partner,he said.
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