US,ARABS PRESS RUSSIA ON SYRIA

OBAMA SCAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V1nmn2zRMc&feature=player_embedded
PHIL BERG - OBAMA CRIMES
http://obamacrimes.com/
PROTECT OUR LIBERTY
http://protectourliberty.org/
MARIO APUZZO
http://puzo1.blogspot.com/
LAURIE ROTH SHOW
http://therothshow.com/
DOUG HAGMANN
http://homelandsecurityus.com/
CANADA FREE PRESS-JUDI MCLEOD
http://www.canadafreepress.com/

OBAMA ELIGIBILTY MARCH VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTbUPs8b7bY&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csM_VjVrgws&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qe2BH9DFsc&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU62aC0CrO0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgtmQGUg62c&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYlF17_twVI&feature=player_embedded

AND THE OTHER ISSUE WE MUST KEEP ON THE TABLE AND IN PEOPLES MEMORY IS THAT BARRY SOETORO IS REALLY BARACK OBAMAS REAL NAME AND HE WAS BORN IN KENYA NOT AMERICA.BARRY SOETORO AKA BARACK OBAMA IS NOT ELLIGABLE TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA GOVERNMENT.EVERYTHING HE SIGNS IN BARACK OBAMA IS ILLEGEL,BECAUCE HIS REAL NAME IS BARRY SOETORO.AMERICAS CONSTITUTION WILL BE IN SHAMBLES ONCE THIS SCAM IS FINALLY REVEALED TO THE WORLD.

BY THE TIMELINE IN OBAMAS OWN BOOKS-OBAMA WENT TO PAKISTAN ON HIS INDONESIAN PASSPORT.ANOTHER ISSUE OUT OF 400 PEOPLE AT COLUMBIA THAT GRADUATED THE YEAR OBAMA OR BARRY SOETORO DID,NO ONE COMES FORWARD TO SAY THEY KNEW HIM.HOW COME AT HAWAII HOSPITAL WERE OBAMA CLAIMS HE WAS BORN,NO NURSES OR ANYBODY CAME FORWARD TO SAY THEY WITNESSED OR TOOK PART IN THE BIRTH.THIS BARRY SOETORO OR AKA BARACK OBAMAS LIFE IS A COMPLETE FRAUD.AND AMERICA IS CONNED TO BELIEVE THE LIE.WHY WOULD SOETORO AKA OBAMA SPEND 2 MILLION DOLLARS TO STOP ALL THESE LAWSUITS IF THERES NO COVERUP.HE WOULD JUST SHOW THE PROOF OF EACH EVENT-PLACE OF BIRTH,CERTIFICATE AND REAL NAME BARRY SOETORO INDONESIAN PASSPORT.

The proof is everywhere from statements and affidavits from Government parliament sources and Obama’s own Grandmother who says she saw him born in a hospital in Mombassa Kenya. The former ambassador to Kenya says Obama was born in Mombassa Kenya, so do others.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-735722?ref=feeds/latest Obama Blocked From Registering For Alabama State Primary Until Eligibility Is Validated By Court.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DtDTHIG2ps

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.
LORD MONCKTON ON WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHyMYEzRyf8&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUUcb36a_4I&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA0xEM1KwG4&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7o1S4m5mCw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieC7HYC5cto&feature=player_embedded

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,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

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

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

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

Elites Pushing Class Warfare is Just Another False Paradigm Eric Blair Infowars.com January 25, 2012

Why is it when the rich super class speaks about class warfare, the downtrodden applaud? When billionaire Warren Buffett said, There’s class warfare all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning, the struggling middle class treated him like one of them, as if he’s on their side.More recently, billionaire investor George Soros warned of a coming class war in the U.S. as reported by the Daily Beast, where he proudly points out that his prediction of riots in the streets has already begun.With the Occupy movement’s beginnings having ties to funding by Soros, many believe him to be stoking this so-called class warfare. Although Soros denies directly funding the movement’s beginnings, his vast philanthropic contributions have far-reaching tentacles into many revolutions around the globe.Even if we are to naively take Soros’ word that he was not involved in spurring these global revolutions, despite the evidence to the contrary, he clearly promotes the idea of class warfare with the political left cheering him as a crusader for good.

Conveniently, the Occupy movement has adopted the catchy but brainless us versus the 1% mantra as the rallying call for everyone in the 99% to blame their problems on the so-called rich 1%. It sounds a lot like stoking class warfare to me.However, in order to instigate warfare there must be a crisis to cause enough pain to force people to arms, and the sides of good and evil must be defined. Soros does just that in the Daily Beast article where he says people have reason to be frustrated and angry at the cost of bailing out the financial system, and that the world faces one of the most dangerous periods of modern history—a period of evil.Of course, those statements are hard to argue with and calling the ruling class evil will resonate with the masses. But again, Soros is clearly in the ruling class 1%, so why would he, like Buffett, pretend they’re outsiders while stoking hatred toward themselves? It seems they are using the crisis and class warfare paradigm to move the masses to support what the global elite have been striving for all along: less competition and more consolidation of power.In the crisis period, the impossible becomes possible.And by impossible he explains the Occupy movement has put on the agenda issues that the institutional left has failed to put on the agenda for a quarter of a century.To further explain the nature of unintended evil in the financial markets, Soros is quoted as saying in the same Daily Beast article Unrestrained competition can drive people into actions that they would otherwise regret.

To many people, this echoes John D. Rockefeller’s infamous quote Competition is a sin.Rockefeller ran the monopoly oil company Standard Oil, which still exists to this day but goes by different names:- Standard Oil of New Jersey became Esso, later to be renamed Exxon – which became a key part of ExxonMobil, currently the most profitable company in the world — earning 30 billion, 460 million dollars.
- Standard Oil of California became Chevron – currently the third most profitable company in the world at 19 billion, 24 million dollars per year.
- Continental Oil Company became Conoco, now a part of ConocoPhillips – currently the sixteenth most profitable company in the world at 11 billion, 358 million dollars.
- BP Amoco is a conglomerate of several Standard Oil splinter companies. Yahoo Finance currently lists BP Amoco’s gross profit at 16 billion, 28 million dollars.
- Therefore, four out of the six supermajors in the oil industry are direct Rockefeller spinoffs – BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips. (Source)

Competition has been replaced by the appearance of competition. And this includes the apparent differences between Soros and Buffett on the left versus the Koch brothers on the right. Those stuck in the left-right paradigm love to hate them, while they all seek to eliminate genuine competition hidden behind their respective brands of ideology.Additionally, Soros promotes a single European Treasury with the authority to impose and collect taxes from all member nations as the solution to the Eurozone crisis. In America, he agrees with Buffett that the rich should pay more in taxes to strengthen the institution of government, as if it hasn’t given enough power to itself despite its failings.Furthermore, the notion that taxing the rich will solve any of America’s or Europe’s financial problems may be the biggest false paradigm of all. America officially has a national debt of around $15 Trillion with another $26 Trillion in financial bailout costs and double that amount in upcoming liabilities. There is literally not enough wealth in the world to fix that problem.

What’s more, the real elite will never have to pay taxes as they move their money globally and play on loopholes within the borders. Anyone remember General Electric paying no taxes on $14.2 billion in profits; in fact they got a $3.2 billion tax credit from Americans? Need I say more about the silliness of this ever working in the current political environment? So what does Soros say will be the next immediate battle of this rising class war? As anger rises, riots on the streets of American cities are inevitable. Yes, yes, yes, he (Soros) says, almost gleefully. The response to the unrest could be more damaging than the violence itself.It will be an excuse for cracking down and using strong-arm tactics to maintain law and order, which, carried to an extreme, could bring about a repressive political system, a society where individual liberty is much more constrained, which would be a break with the tradition of the United States.As he says gleefully.Still want class warfare? How about supporting the opposite: decentralization, competition, supporting local commerce, local governance, and local self-sufficiency? Eric Blair’s post originally appeared on Activist Post.
http://www.infowars.com/helicopters-to-buzz-downtown-la-in-urban-warfare-drill/
http://www.infowars.com/rational-tariffs-lower-irrational-trade-deficits/

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-10 WORLD REGIONS) 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).

Strategic Importance of Iran for Russia and China: Eurasian Triple Alliance Post Categories: Head Stories Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 13:04 Beijing -CONFRONTATION BETWEEN MILITARY BLOCS: The Eurasian Triple Alliance
http://www.4thmedia.org/2012/01/24/the-strategic-importance-of-iran-for-russia-and-china/

Despite areas of difference and rivalries between Moscow and Tehran, ties between the two countries, based on common interests, have developed significantly.Both Russia and Iran are both major energy exporters, they have deeply seated interests in the South Caucasus. They are both firmly opposed to NATO’s missile shield, with a view to preventing the U.S. and E.U. from controlling the energy corridors around the Caspian Sea Basin.Moscow and Tehran’s bilateral ties are also part of a broader and overlapping alliance involving Armenia, Tajikistan, Belarus, Syria, and Venezuela. Yet, above all things, both republics are also two of Washington’s main geo-strategic targets.

The Eurasian Triple Alliance: The Strategic Importance of Iran for Russia and China

China, the Russian Federation, and Iran are widely considered to be allies and partners. Together the Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China, and the Islamic Republic of Iran form a strategic barrier directed against U.S. expansionism. The three countries form a triple alliance, which constitutes the core of a Eurasian coalition directed against U.S. encroachment into Eurasia and its quest for global hegemony.While China confronts U.S. encroachment in East Asia and the Pacific, Iran and Russia respectively confront the U.S. led coalition in Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. All three countries are threatened in Central Asia and are wary of the U.S. and NATO military presence in Afghanistan.Iran can be characterized as a geo-strategic pivot. The geo-political equation in Eurasia very much hinges on the structure of Iran’s political alliances. Were Iran to become an ally of the United States, this would seriously hamper or even destabilize Russia and China. This also pertains to Iran’s ethno-cultural, linguistic, economic, religious, and geo-political links to the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Moreover, were the structure of political alliances to shift in favor of the U.S., Iran could also become the greatest conduit for U.S. influence and expansion in the Caucasus and Central Asia. This has to do with the fact that Iran is the gateway to Russia’s soft southern underbelly (or Near Abroad) in the Caucasus and Central Asia.

In such a scenario, Russia as an energy corridor would be weakened as Washington would unlock Iran’s potential as a primary energy corridor for the Caspian Sea Basin, implying de facto U.S. geopolitical control over Iranian pipeline routes. In this regard, part of Russia’s success as an energy transit route has been due to U.S. efforts to weaken Iran by preventing energy from transiting through Iranian territory.If Iran were to change camps and enter the U.S. sphere of influence, China’s economy and national security would also be held hostage on two counts. Chinese energy security would be threatened directly because Iranian energy reserves would no longer be secure and would be subject to U.S. geo-political interests. Additionally, Central Asia could also re-orient its orbit should Washington open a direct and enforced conduit from the open seas via Iran. Thus, both Russia and China want a strategic alliance with Iran as a means of screening them from the geo-political encroachment of the United States. Fortress Eurasia would be left exposed without Iran. This is why neither Russia nor China could ever accept a war against Iran. Should Washington transform Iran into a client then Russia and China would be under threat.Misreading the Support of China and Russia for U.N. Security Council Sanctions

There is a major misreading of past Russian and Chinese support of U.N. sanctions against Iran. Even though Beijing and Moscow allowed U.N. Security Council sanctions to be passed against their Iranian ally, they did it for strategic reasons, namely with a view to keeping Iran out of Washington’s orbit.In reality, the United States would much rather co-opt Tehran as a satellite or junior partner than take the unnecessary risk and gamble of an all-out war with the Iranians. What Russian and Chinese support for past sanctions did was to allow for the development of a wider rift between Tehran and Washington. In this regard, realpolitik is at work. As American-Iranian tensions broaden, Iranian relations with Russia and China become closer and Iran becomes more and more entrenched in its relationship with Moscow and Beijing.Russia and China, however, would never support crippling sanctions or any form of economic embargo that would threaten Iranian national security. This is why both China and Russia have refused to be coerced by Washington into joining its new 2012 unilateral sanctions. The Russians have also warned the European Union to stop being Washington’s pawns, because they are hurting themselves by playing along with the schemes of the United States. In this regard Russia commented on the impractical and virtually unworkable E.U. plans for an oil embargo against Iran. Tehran has also made similar warnings and has dismissed the E.U. oil embargo as a psychological tactic that is bound to fail.

Russo-Iranian Security Cooperation and Strategic Coordination

In August 2011, the head of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, Secretary-General Saaed (Said) Jalili, and the head of the National Security Council of the Russian Federation, Secretary Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev met in Tehran to discuss the Iranian nuclear energy program as well as bilateral cooperation. Russia wanted to help Iran rebuff the new wave of accusations by Washington directed against Iran. Soon after Patrushev and his Russian team arrived in Tehran, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, flew to Moscow. Both Jalili and Patrushev met again in September 2011, but this time in Russia. Jalili went to Moscow first and then crossed the Urals to the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.The Iran-Russia Yekaterinburg meeting took place on the sidelines of an international security summit. Moreover, at this venue, it was announced that the highest bodies of national security in Moscow and Tehran would henceforth coordinate by holding regular meetings. A protocol between the two countries was was signed at Yekaterinburg.During this important gathering, both Jalili and Patrushev held meetings with their Chinese counterpart, Meng Jianzhu. As a result of these meetings, a similar process of bilateral consultation between the national security councils of Iran and China was established. Moreover, the parties also discussed the formation of a supranational security council within the Shanghai Cooperation Council to confront threats directed against Beijing, Tehran, Moscow and their Eurasian allies. Also in September 2011, Dmitry Rogozin, the Russian envoy to NATO, announced that he would be visiting Tehran in the near future to discuss the NATO missile shield project, which both the Moscow and Tehran oppose.Reports claiming that Russia, Iran, and China were planning on creating a joint missile shield started to surface. Rogozin, who had warned in August 2011 that Syria and Yemen would be attacked as stepping stones in the broader confrontation directed against Tehran, responded by publicly refuting the reports pertaining to the establishment of a joint Sino-Russo-Iranian missile shield project.

The following month, in October 2011, Russia and Iran announced that they would be expanding ties in all fields. Soon after, in November 2011, Iran and Russia signed a strategic cooperation and partnership agreement between their highest security bodies covering economics, politics, security, and intelligence. This was a long anticipated document on which both Russia and Iran had been working on. The agreement was signed in Moscow by the Deputy Secretary-General of the Supreme Security Council of Iran, Ali Bagheri (Baqeri), and the Under-Secretary of the National Security Council of Russia, Yevgeny Lukyanov.In November 2011, the head of the Committee for International Affairs in the Russian Duma, Konstantin Kosachev, also announced that Russia must do everything it can to prevent an attack on neighbouring Iran. At the end of November 2011 it was announced that Dmitry Rogozin would definitely visit both Tehran and Beijing in 2012, together with a team of Russian officials to hold strategic discussions on collective strategies against common threats.Left and right photos: Secretary-General Jalili and Secretary Patrushev in Tehran, Iran holding Iranian-Russian national security talks during August 2011.

Russian National Security and Iranian National Security are Attached

On January 12, 2012, Nikolai Patrushev told Interfax he feared that a major war was imminent and that Tel Aviv was pushing the U.S. to attack Iran. He dismissed the claims that Iran was secretly manufacturing nuclear weapons and said that for years the world had continuously heard that Iran would have an atomic bomb by next week ad nauseum. His comments were followed by a dire warning from Dmitry Rogozin.On January 13, 2012, Rogozin, who had been appointed deputy prime minister, declared that any attempted military intervention against Iran would be a threat to Russia’s national security. In other words, an attack on Tehran is an attack on Moscow. In 2007, Vladimir Putin essentially mentioned the same thing when he was in Tehran for a Caspian Sea summit, which resulted in George W. Bush Jr. warning that World War III could erupt over Iran. Rogozin’s statement is merely a declaration of what has been the position of Russia all along: should Iran fall, Russia would be in danger.Iran is a target of U.S. hostility not just for its vast energy reserves and natural resources, but because of major geo-strategic considerations that make it a strategic springboard against Russia and China. The roads to Moscow and Beijing also go through Tehran, just as the road to Tehran goes through Damascus, Baghdad, and Beirut. Nor does the U.S. want to merely control Iranian oil and natural gas for consumption or economic reasons. Washington wants to put a muzzle around China by controlling Chinese energy security and wants Iranian energy exports to be traded in U.S. dollars to insure the continued use of the U.S. dollar in international transactions.Moreover, Iran has been making agreements with several trade partners, including China and India, whereby business transactions will not be conducted in euros or U.S. dollars. In January 2012, both Russia and Iran replaced the U.S. dollar with their national currencies, respectively the Russian rouble and the Iranian rial, in their bilateral trade. This was an economic and financial blow to the United States.

Syria and the National Security Concerns of Iran and Russia

Russia and China with Iran are all staunchly supporting Syria. The diplomatic and economic siege against Syria is tied to the geo-political stakes to control Eurasia. The instability in Syria is tied to the objective of combating Iran and ultimately turning it into a U.S. partner against Russia and China.The cancelled or delayed deployment of thousands of U.S. troops to Israel for Austere Challenge 2012 was tied to ratcheting up the pressure against Syria. On the basis of a Voice of Russia report, segments of the Russian media erroneously reported that Austere Challenge 2012 was going to be held in the Persian Gulf, which was mistakenly picked up by news outlets in other parts of the world. This helped highlight the Iranian link at the expense of the Syrian and Lebanese links. The deployment of U.S. troops was aimed predominately at Syria as a means of isolating and combating Iran. The cancelled or delayed Israeli-U.S. missile exercises most probably envisaged preparations for missile and rocket attacks not only from Iran, but also from Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Territories.Aside from its naval ports in Syria, Russia does not want to see Syria used to re-route the energy corridors in the Caspian Basin and the Mediterranean Basin. If Syria were to fall, these routes would be re-synchronized to reflect a new geo-political reality. At the expense of Iran, energy from the Persian Gulf could also be re-routed to the Mediterranean through both Lebanon and Syria.

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,(WORLD SOCIALISM) 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/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED JANUARY 25,2012

09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM -93.34
10:30 AM -78.07
11:00 AM -61.16
11:30 AM -44.25
12:00 PM -49.50
12:30 PM -38.36
01:00 PM -3.45
01:30 PM +51.61
02:00 PM +52.75
02:30 PM +37.50
03:00 PM +50.45
03:30 PM +76.29
04:00 PM +83.10 12,758.75

S&P 500 1326.06 +11.61

NASDAQ 2818.31 +31.67

GOLD 1,710.90 +46.10

OIL 99.72 +0.77

TSE 300 12,539.21 +143.97

CDNX 1604.05 +27.76

S&P/TSX/60 716.08 +8.09

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -48 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -93 points at low today.
Dow 93 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,650.90.OIL opens at $97.81 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -93 points at low today so far.
Dow +83 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -93 points at low today.
Dow +83 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)

CRUDE OIL +3.6 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE -400,000 BARRELS
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES -2.5 MILLION BARRELS

Posted at 08:50 AM ET, 01/25/2012-The Circuit: European privacy rules, Google’s privacy changes, Facebook Timeline By Hayley Tsukayama

LEADING THE DAY: The European Commission on Wednesday proposed new privacy rules that would place more responsibility on companies to protect user data. Those who breach user data can be fined up to 2 percent of their annual global turnover.The BBC reported that the new rules include a right to be forgotten and will require that data breaches must be reported as soon as possible.Many of the rules emphasize data portability and accessibility, trying to ensure that users have more control over their own information. They also require that companies with 250 or more employees appoint a data officer.Facebook’s Sandberg warns about strict privacy rules: Ahead of the European Commission’s release of its privacy rules, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg warned that strict privacy rules could hurt innovation.In a speech at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich, Sandberg said that the U.S. and Europe need to have the right regulatory environment — a regulatory environment that promotes innovation and economic growth,the New York Times reported.Google’s privacy changes: Google announced Tuesday that it plans to follow the activities of users across nearly all of its ubiquitous sites, including YouTube, Gmail and its leading search engine, The Washington Post reported.

Google has already been collecting some of this information. But for the first time, it is combining data across its Web sites to stitch together a fuller portrait of users.Consumers won’t be able to opt out of the changes, which take effect March 1. And experts say the policy shift will invite greater scrutiny from federal regulators of the company’s privacy and competitive practices.Facebook Timeline: Facebook said Wednesday that, as announced, it will require all users to transition to the Timeline format in the next few weeks, giving the social network’s users seven days to review their information before converting all of its users to the new format.Timeline, a scrapbook-like layout that highlights big events in users’ lives, has the capability to display all Facebook activity.Apple earnings: Apple blew away already-high expectations with its first-quarter earnings results, buoyed by strong sales of the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2. In the first full fiscal quarter the company faced without its late co-founder, Steve Jobs, Apple posted a quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and announced it had sold 37 million iPhones and 15 million iPads. Analysts had predicted iPhone sales of around 30 million and iPad sales at a more conservative 13 million.

Google faces backlash over privacy changes By Hayley Tsukayama, Wednesday, January 25, 10:51 AM

Google’s announcement that it is sharing more user data across its services has already raised the hackles of privacy advocates, technology writers and caught the attention of at least one national data-protection agency.On Tuesday, the search giant announced that it was placing 60 of its Web services under a unified privacy policy that would allow the company to share data between any of those services. (Google Books, Google Wallet and Google Chrome are excluded due to different regulatory and technical issues.) Any user with a Google account — used to sign in to services such as Gmail, YouTube and personalized search — must agree to the policy. Users who don’t want to have their data shared have the option to close their accounts with Google.

FAQ: What exactly are the changes Google is making and how will they affect me?

Some praised the company for being so open about the changes, including European Commissioner for Justice Vivian Reding. Reding, vice president of the EC, is the continent’s leading advocate for laws on Internet privacy and data protection, and said Google’s move was a step in the right direction.Google was quick. Even before the Commission decided on the new European law, Google made the first step in the direction of new privacy rules. I can only applaud the direction, she said in a statement.But not having the right to choose what information is shared between services is the source of a great deal of criticism. In remarks to The Washington Post’s Cecilia Kang, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said that he thinks it is imperative that users have control over what information they want to have shared between the services Google offers.Others saw the decision as a sign that there’s been a shift in the company culture at Google. Danny Sullivan, a technology blogger and expert in search, said that the change is just a logical step in Google’s move toward becoming a Web portal.

“It’s similar to how you sign up for Facebook, rather than individual products within Facebook,” he said.

That change, however, isn’t sitting well with parts of the Web community. Google competitors such as Twitter had already pointed out that Google’s integration of information from its social networking site, Google+, into its search results was a sign that the company was moving away from neutral search. These changes appear to take that shift even further. Search engine blogger Danny Sullivan said that Gizmodo’s Mat Honan took the bull by the horns, churning out a piece Thursday night headlined, Google’s Broken promise: The End of Don’t Be Evil.Google built its reputation, and its multibillion-dollar business, on the promise of its don’t be evil’ philosophy,Honan wrote. And now it’s pulling the stakes out, collapsing it. It gives you a few weeks to pull your data out, using its data-liberation service, but if you want to use Google services, you have to agree to these rules.At least one regulatory body, Ireland’s data-protection agency, has said it will be looking into the implications of the changes now that they are launched to users,Bloomberg reported. Under sweeping new privacy rules proposed for Europe on Wednesday, the Irish agency would become the EU’s one-stop shop on Google privacy regulation because Dublin is the site of the search giant’s European operations.

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-10 WORLD REGIONS) 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).

EU ministers agree new bail-out fund, criticise Greece 24.01.12 @ 10:22By Valentina Pop

BRUSSELS - EU finance ministers have overcome Finnish objections to a permanent bail-out fund for the eurozone, access to which will be made conditional on signing a new treaty on fiscal discipline.We were able to agree on a text of the revised treaty concerning the European Stability Mechanism,Chair of the meeting Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker told a press conference late Monday night (23 January).The revised text provides for the ESM, the permanent bail-out fund for the eurozone, to be advanced by one year and to come into being on 1 July.The breakthrough came after Finland agreed to lift its objection concerning an emergency voting procedure which Helsinki says favours big countries such as Germany and France. The provision - allowing countries representing 85 percent of the fund's capital to take decisions instead of unanimity among the eurozone 17 - will only apply to authorise ESM loans from existing funds, the Finnish finance ministry said in a statement.The ESM agreement will also allow for the creation of an emergency reserve fund when a majority decision is taken, the ministry said.Meanwhile, access to ESM money will be made conditional on countries signing up to a new intergovernmental treaty on fiscal discipline requiring binding legislation on governments to implement a balanced budget rule.

There is a clear link in the recitals of the ESM treaty between the fiscal compact treaty and the ESM,Juncker said.Germany pushed for the fiscal discipline pact in return for agreeing that the fund comes into being one year earlier and that it possibly gets more firepower than its current €500 billion.Today we reinforced both pillars - solidarity through the ESM and fiscal discipline through the fiscal treaty,French finance minister Francois Baroin told journalists after the meeting. He conceded that there is no support in parliament for the legal changes needed to transpose the balanced budget rule into French law before the April presidential elections, however.A deal on the final wording of the fiscal treaty has not been achieved yet. Participation of non-euro leaders in eurozone summits remains an open issue that will have to be agreed by EU leaders when they meet on 30 January, he added.

Greece still far from second bail-out

As for Greece - which had been hoping to get some positive signs about its second, €130 billion bail-out - ministers made it clear that no assistance can be granted unless more reforms are undertaken and until talks with bankers on voluntary debt restructuring conclude.It is obvious the Greek programme is off track. Action has to be taken before we can seriously envisage a new programme,Juncker said.The government of Lucas Papademos has been struggling to liberalise the labour market and go after tax offenders. According to the Greek finance ministry, 4,151 citizens owe €14.9 billion to the state – more than the €14.5 billion bond repayment Athens has to make in March.In another pre-condition for the second, badly-needed bail-out, Greecec has to agree on a 50 percent debt cut with existing bondholders. But the bondholder talks, which should have been wrapped up by Monday, are still ongoing.

Juncker told journalists that ministers asked Greece not to agree on an interest rate above 3.5 percent for the new bonds that will be issued once banks agree to take a 50 percent loss on old ones. Investors from the Institute of International Finance negotiating in Athens have so far pressed for an interest rate above four percent.Meanwhile, state prosecutors in Athens have launched an investigation into allegations that the country's statistical office, Elstat, in 2009 rigged the state deficit figures so as to be able to convince the EU and the International Monteray Fund it needed a bail-out.The head of Elstat, Andreas Georgiou, told Dutch media his office was under pressure from the government, but claims he resisted and that the final figures were accurate.

New cloud strategy to reform EU online market
Today JAN 25,12 @ 09:25 By Benjamin Fox

BRUSSELS - Digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes has promised to present a European cloud strategy this summer, as part of a plan to reform the online market in the EU.Speaking at a meeting of the IP Forum in the European Parliament on Tuesday (24th January), she said that a harmonised EU digital market would offer creators the opportunity to make a decent living from their art and consumers, and offer an open place for innovation.She cited the iPhone application Angry Birds, created by Finnish video game developer Rovio Mobile, as an example of how cloud technologies could generate huge revenues, noting that its $100 million turnover was enough to fund The King's Speech [a successful film] eight times over.The market for cloud, or Internet, computing in which software and information is available on demand, has surged in recent years. The US market was worth an estimated $68 billion in 2011, while the European market is growing by 20 percent a year according to French marketing company Nexima.Kroes also told the audience that she would present legislation on collective rights management licensing and multi-sector licensing, which would radically change the way royalties are sold, alongside a paper on 'Connected TV' looking at ways to bring together television on demand and gaming to European consumers. She noted that within the next two or three years 90 percent of TVs will be connected to the Internet.She added that most Europeans were already regularly watching television on demand.

The IP Forum event, hosted by French centre-right MEP Marielle Gallo, focused on the online distribution of audiovisual and music works in the EU. Gallo said that a common but flexible legal framework was needed to contribute to a true pan-European demand for online content, complaining about what she described as a fragmentation of the digital content market in Europe.Speaking about huge potential revenues, she noted that 170 million song titles had been downloaded legally in the first six months of 2011. According to the 2011 annual digital music report published by the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), 3.6 billion downloads were purchased around the world in 2011, an increase of 17 percent.Meanwhile, fellow French centre-right MEP Jean-Marie Cavada on Monday (23 January) opened the parliament's debate on a discussion paper by the European Commission on the online distribution of audiovisual works.Cavada promised that his report, which is non-legislative, would focus on authorship rights and how to ensure equal treatment for authors between digital and non-digital content.

Tainted official brought back to raise money for EU bail-outs 24.01.12 @ 13:00 By Honor Mahony

BRUSSELS - Jacques Santer - a ghost from the most ignominious time in the European Commission's history - was on Monday (23 January) evening appointed to head fund-raising for the EU's new bail-out fund.A former Luxembourg prime minister, Jacques Santer gained notoriety for presiding over a weak commission, which resigned en masse in 1999 amid allegations of corruption.An independent panel at the time noted that it is difficult to find anyone who has even the slightest sense of responsibility in his institution.Fellow Luxembourger Jean-Claude Juncker, who chaired the meeting of finance ministers which announced the decision, said that Santer had served both Europe and his country the best way possible.Santer's job will be to head up a Special Purpose Investment Vehicle (Spiv), designed to boost the firepower of the EU €440 billion temporary bail-out fund, the EFSF, in case big economies like Italy or Spain go down the path of Greece.The Spiv is to sell debt to private firms and sovereign wealth funds and the proceeds are to be funnelled to struggling EU countries.The whole set-up already has an image problem - EU efforts to get countries like Brazil and China on board have attracted little interest.

But Juncker on Monday dismissed the idea that Santer's background will make matters worse, asking journalists to revisit the notes [they] may have about Santer's work as commission president.For his part, economic affairs commissioner Olli Rehn ventured a soccer-based joke.If you refer to the fall of the Santer commission in March 1999, I can take full responsibility for that. I was then head of cabinet for [Finnish] commissioner Liikkanen and I recall that in September 1998 the cabinets dared to beat the journalists in the final of the commission football tournament. Three to One. The journalists never forgave us and that led to the fall of the Santer commission in the winter of 1998/1999. I take full responsibility for this, he said.The Santer appointment is already proving to be a gift to EU critics.Putting Jacques Santer in charge of fundraising is like putting Dracula in charge of the blood bank,British Conservative MEP Martin Callanan said in an emailed statement.The Santer affair was prompted by a commission whistleblower who sent a report to MEPs.

A so-called Committee of Independent Experts later questioned the general culture in the commission. It doled out the harshest criticism on science commissioner Edith Cresson, a French woman who hired her dentist as an advisor. The dentist earned over €100,000 for two years' work during which he produced 24 pages of notes deemed to be of no value.Santer's refusal to take responsibility and to resign along with Cresson escalated the crisis, ending in the mass resignation of all 20 commissioners - also including Italy's current leader Mario Monti - shortly afterward.

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.

U.S., Arab states press Russia on Syria
By Laura Rozen | The Envoy – JAN 25,12

A top American Middle East diplomat visited Moscow Tuesday as part of an international effort to get Russia to support a UN Security Council resolution demanding an end to the violence in Syria, which has killed well over 5,000 people since last spring.Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs Jeff Feltman was in Moscow as part of an increasingly frantic international effort to intervene in the troubled Middle Eastern country, American officials said.Issue number one on [Feltman's] agenda there is Syria and our interest in being able to move forward in the UN Security Council and talking about how the situation looks after the Arab League report over the weekend, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told journalists at a press briefing Monday.Feltman's trip came as five Persian Gulf states on Tuesday joined Saudi Arabia in announcing they are withdrawing from a month-old Arab League monitoring mission to Syria because of the observers' inability to curb Bashar al-Assad's brutal crackdown, and instead are turning their hopes for intervention to the United Nations.The Syrian regime did not implement the Arab plan under existing Arab pressure, so there was no other way except to approach the Security Council,one Arab League ambassador told Reuters, speaking anonymously to explain the decision to withdraw some 55 members of the 165-member Arab League team.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was also due to fly to Moscow Wednesday to urge Russia not to veto a UN Security Council Syria resolution, Turkey's Today Zaman reported Mahir Zeynalov reported.American officials are also expected to ask Moscow about media reports that it has inked a deal to sell combat jets to the Assad regime, the State Department said.Obviously, if [the media reports are] accurate, it would be quite concerning, Nuland said Tuesday.But as we've been saying for months, our firm belief is that any country that is still trading in weapons and armaments with Syria really needs to think twice, because they are on the wrong side of history and those weapons can be used against innocents, and have been.Over the weekend, the State Department said it is considering closing the U.S. embassy in Syria due to continued security concerns, but it had not yet decided whether to do so. On Monday, it again issued a warning urging American citizens to leave Syria.

EU sanctions on Iran peppered with exemptions
24.01.12 @ 09:28 By Andrew Rettman

BRUSSELS - New sanctions on Iran could prove hard to enforce after EU countries peppered them with derogations to help Greece find alternate suppliers, to protect trade in non-oil sectors and to give Tehran-based embassies access to cash.Details of the measures - designed to stop an alleged nuclear weapons programme - came out in the bloc's Official Journal on Tuesday (24 January).The sanctions ban buying or shipping of crude oil, petrol and petro-chemical products, as well as supply of financial services, insurance, equipment and training for Iranian energy companies or the buying of new shares in energy firms.They blacklist the central bank of Iran, the state-owned Bank Tejarat and 10 shipping firms said to be involved in nuclear procurment or the illegal arms trade - Tidewater, Turbine Engineering Manufacturing, Sad Export Import Company, Rosmachin, Behnam Sahriyari Trading Company, Darya Delalan Sefid Khazar Shipping Company, the Dubai-based Oasis Freight Agency, the Germany-based Hanseatic Trade Trust & Shipping and the Malta-registered BIIS Maritime.They prohibit EU-Iran trade in precious metals and diamonds and supply of newly-made Iranian banknotes and coinage to the central bank. They also say junior members of the Revolutionary Guard corps can in future be targeted, adding three more names to the existing, hundreds-long register.The EU's legal text allows several temporary and more permanent exemptions, however.

The oil and petroleum ban will not affect existing contracts until 1 July. Contracts on petro-chemcial products are allowed to run until 1 May. Some deals on financial services, equipment and joint ventures will be exempt only if they were signed before 26 July 2010, while others only if before 23 January this year.Member states can still do business with the central bank if it relates to trade in other areas, such as food or textiles and if they make sure the money does not go to any people on the EU's blacklist - not easy to prove given the opaque nature of the administration.Gold and diamonds can still be bought and sold on the same terms.
Meanwhile, with several EU countries and international bodies using Bank Tejarat to finance their offices in Tehran, the bank can still handle their money in so far as such payments are intended to be used for official purposes of the diplomatic or consular mission or international organisation.

Syria sanctions expanded

The EU on Tuesday also published sanctions on eight more firms and 22 people said to be helping Syrian leader Bashar Assad - Iran's main ally in the region - put down the uprising.Most of the companies - Industrial Bank, Popular Credit Bank, Savings Bank, Agricultural Co-operative Bank, Deir ez-Zur Petroleum Company, Ebla Petroleum Company and Dijla Petroleum Company - are based in Damascus. But one - the Syrian Lebanese Commercial Bank - is in UN Security Council member Lebanon.The 22 people are junior army officers or other security personnel, with the litany of allegations helping to support the Western narrative of state-sponsored mass-murder.The majority are cited for [giving] orders to shoot at protesters or torture of detainees.Brigadier general Ahmed Yousef Jarad is said to have authorised the use of machine guns and anti-aircraft guns against people in Deraa. Major general Bader Aqel gave orders to pick up bodies and hand them over to the secret service, presumably for concealment.

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.

THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.

Thunderstorms pound Texas; tornado threat looms
ReutersBy Jim Forsyth | Reuters – JAN 25,12

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Thunderstorms pounded the San Antonio area with drenching rains and destructive winds early Wednesday as Texas braced for possible flooding and the threat of isolated tornados throughout the morning.Some three inches of rain drenched San Antonio by early morning and Austin took more than 4 inches, according to AccuWeather.com.Although most of the region is still gripped in severe drought and very much needs the rain,too much, too fast was menacing, AccuWeather.com said.

The storms knocked out power for tens of thousands and closed dozens of flooded streets in San Antonio.Forecasts called for powerful thunderstorms to push eastward into Louisiana.Flash flood warnings were issued early for areas surrounding San Antonio and Austin while a tornado watch was in effect through the morning for parts of south central and southeast Texas.The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for parts of Louisiana through the afternoon.The severe weather in Texas follows damaging storms and tornadoes that swept through Arkansas and Alabama earlier in the week.CPS Energy, the South Texas electric utility, reported more than 30,000 customers without power as wind snapped electric power lines and knocked out traffic signals during the morning rush hour.Lightning hit an apartment complex on the city's north side as storms blew through early on Wednesday, sparking a fire that forced people into the driving rain and destroyed four apartments, fire officials said.There were no reports of injuries.(Additional reporting by Lauren Keiper; Editing by Daniel Trotta)

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)

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.

HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

Landslide hits Papua New Guinea, deaths reported
Associated PressAssociated Press – JAN 25,12

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) — A landslide struck villages in mountainous central Papua New Guinea, and local media reported Wednesday that 40 bodies have been recovered and 20 people are still missing.The South Pacific island nation's National Disaster Center director Martin Mosi said several villages are close to where the landslide occurred near the town of Mendi early Tuesday and that fatalities are likely but unconfirmed.Three National Disaster Center officials were headed to Mendi on Wednesday, where they will be flown by helicopter to join police at the disaster site.Most likely lives have been lost. We cannot tell how many, Mosi said.Local lawmaker Francis Potape told Radio Australia's indigenous language service that the landslide completely covered two villages while people slept.There are people buried underneath and a number of them are, from what I have heard, children,The National newspaper reported Potape as saying.The Post Courier newspaper reported that Prime Minister Peter O'Neill would fly to the state later Wednesday.
Local media reports that the destruction extended more than one mile (2 kilometers), leaving roads to villages cut off.

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

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).

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 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

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

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

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

Palestinian leader: Talks with Israel over
Associated PressBy KARIN LAUB | Associated Press – JAN 25,12

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Exploratory peace talks with Israel have ended with nothing to show for them, the Palestinian president said Wednesday, pledging to consult with the Arab League about the next moves and leaving open the possibility of an extension.After a total break of more than a year, international mediators persuaded the sides to send their negotiators to Jordan to explore the possibility of resuming peace talks. Reflecting the depth of their differences, they could not even agree on when to submit proposals.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he would discuss the prospects with the Arab League next week, Israel wants to keep talking, and Abbas is under mounting international pressure not to walk away.Visiting EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is scheduled to meet separately over the next two days with Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Two officials involved in the contacts said she is trying to put together a package of Israeli incentives that would keep the Palestinians in the talks.In the Jordanian-mediated exploratory talks, Israeli and Palestinian envoys met several times over the past month, including on Wednesday. The Quartet of international mediators — the U.S., the U.N., the EU and Russia — said last fall that it expected both sides to submit detailed proposals on borders and security arrangements, in hopes the dialogue would evolve into full-fledged peace talks.Palestinian officials said they submitted their proposals, but that Israel did not. If we demarcate the borders, we can return to negotiations, but Israel does not want to do that,Abbas said Wednesday, after talks in Jordan with Jordan's King Abdullah II.

Israel says it has submitted a document outlining the areas that need to be discussed, but it was not characterized as a proposal.Abbas said he would consult with the Arab League — which usually rubber stamps his decisions — on Feb. 4. This would allow for an additional nine days of diplomatic maneuvers to save the talks.A walkout could cost the Palestinians international sympathy at a time when they seek global support for U.N. membership for a state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, the territories Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war.Israel is eager to keep talking and to try to achieve a historic agreement before the end of the year,an Israeli government official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters.We hope that the Palestinians aren't looking for an excuse to walk away from the table.Ashton said during a visit to Gaza on Wednesday that we need to keep talks going and increase the potential of these talks to become genuine negotiations.The two sides disagreed on how much time was set aside for the exploratory talks.The Palestinians said the deadline is Thursday, or three months after the Quartet issued its marching orders, while Israel believes it has until early April, or three months after the start of meetings.Underlying the impasse is Abbas' conviction that it's impossible to reach an acceptable border deal with the hard-line Netanyahu.The Palestinians are ready for minor adjustments in the lines of the West Bank through land swaps, but Israel has not submitted a proposal. Netanyahu has not endorsed the land-swap concept and insists that east Jerusalem belongs to Israel.

Netanyahu has also rejected Palestinian demands that he halt construction in Jewish settlements on occupied lands or recognize the pre-1967 war's cease-fire line as a baseline for border talks.Abbas argues that without such assurances, there is no point in returning to negotiations. He fears Israel will use continued negotiations as a diplomatic cover for seizing more land, through settlements, that the Palestinians want for their state. Israel counters that the Palestinians have not made a halt to settlement construction a condition for peace talks in the past.The Palestinians reluctantly agreed to the Jordanian-mediated talks because they did not want to turn down a request by the Jordanian monarch. Strong ties with Jordan, which neighbors the West Bank and is home to millions of Palestinians, are a pillar of Abbas' foreign policy.Additional reporting by Associated Press writer Jamal Halaby in Amman, Jordan, and Ibrahim Barzak in Gaza City, Gaza Strip.

Palestinian leader Barghuti demands 1967 borders
AFPBy Majeda El Batsh | AFP – JAN 25,12

The Middle East conflict will end only when Israel withdraws to the pre-1967 lines and a Palestinian state is established, jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghuti said Wednesday in a rare court appearance.The conflict will be finished the moment the Israeli occupation ends, and there is a full withdrawal to the 1967 borders and a Palestinian state is established,he said in Hebrew at Jerusalem Magistrates Court.

Barghuti, who is serving five life sentences for his involvement in several deadly anti-Israeli attacks, was called to testify as part of a US civil lawsuit against the Palestinian leadership in connection with bloodshed during the second intifada (2000-2005).On entering the courtroom, Barghuti, a senior official within the ruling Fatah party of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, immediately raised his hands to flash his trademark victory V-sign.I call on the great Palestinian people to embrace unity and cohesion and to establish a national unity government and also to embrace popular, peaceful resistance to end the occupation, he said in Arabic.Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah last year pledged to work quickly towards elections and to form a unity government under the terms of a reconciliation deal which has yet to be implemented.Peace cannot happen without ending the occupation, he said, adding a salute to those behind the popular revolutions in Tunisia and Libya, as well as in Egypt, which on Thursday marked the first anniversary since its uprising began.I don't recognise this court, Barghuti shouted to AFP as he was led out of the courthouse.I call on the Palestinian people to continue their popular struggle.Before Barghuti entered the room, his lawyer Elias Sabbagh had told the court he would not be testifying.

We are talking about a US lawsuit against the Palestinian Authority and not against Mr Barghuti. Mr Barghuti is not part of this lawsuit, that is why he is not going to say anything about this case or any other case,he said.The case is against the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, Sabbagh told AFP, referring to the Palestine Liberation Organisation.They brought Barghuti as a witness because he was in the PA and he refused to say anything in the court about this issue.An influential leader with widespread support among the Palestinian public, Barghuti is known for being a lifelong activist who supported the Oslo peace process in the 1990s.But Israel has accused him of masterminding the second intifada, or Palestinian uprising, which erupted in 2000.

SOLAR FLARES (STORMS) TO HIT EARTH TODAY

OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN

ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

http://www.space.com/14319-huge-solar-eruption-sparks-radiation-storm.html

Biggest solar storm since 2005 hits Earth
January 24, 2012

WASHINGTON: A potent solar flare has unleashed the biggest radiation storm since 2005 and could disrupt some satellite communications in the polar regions, US space weather monitors say.The event started late on Sunday with a moderate-sized solar flare that erupted right near the centre of the Sun, said Doug Biesecker, a physicist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Prediction Centre.The flare itself was nothing spectacular, but it sent off a very fast coronal mass ejection travelling four million miles per hour [6.4 million kilometres per hour], he said on Monday in the US.

This January 19, 2012 image provided by NASA shows an M3.2 solar flare captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). An earth-directed coronal mass ejection was associated with the solar flare. NASA's Space Weather Services estimated that it traveled at over 630 miles per second and reached the Earth on January 21, when strong geomagnetic storms and aurora were observed.A rush of radiation in the form of solar protons already has begun bombarding the Earth and is likely to continue through Wednesday.The radiation storm is the largest of its kind since 2005 but still ranks only a three on the scale of one to five, enough to be considered strong but not severe, he added.NOAA said on its website the S3 ranking means it could, e.g., cause isolated reboots of computers onboard Earth-orbiting satellites and interfere with polar radio communications.Biesecker said that when it comes to radiation storms, the polar regions are affected most. For instance, the storm could spell disruptions to airline flights, oil operations, Arctic exploration and space satellites, he said.Night-sky viewers in Asia and Europe may be able to witness the aurora, or Northern Lights, late on Tuesday as a result of the storm.We don't expect major impacts from an event like this, Biesecker said.It's the people who need GPS [global positioning system] accuracy of centimetres who have to worry, not people who want to know if you're going to turn the car 30 metres ahead.AFP Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/biggest-solar-storm-since-2005-hits-earth-20120124-1qejz.html#ixzz1kOPNiSce

Strongest solar storm since 2005 hitting Earth
Associated PressBy SETH BORENSTEIN | Associated Press – JAN 24,12

WASHINGTON (AP) — The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years with more to come from the fast-moving eruption.The solar flare occurred at about 11 p.m. EST Sunday and will hit Earth with three different effects at three different times. The biggest issue is radiation, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado.The radiation is mostly a concern for satellite disruptions and astronauts in space. It can cause communication problems for polar-traveling airplanes, said space weather center physicist Doug Biesecker.Radiation from Sunday's flare arrived at Earth an hour later and will likely continue through Wednesday. Levels are considered strong but other storms have been more severe. There are two higher levels of radiation on NOAA's storm scale — severe and extreme — Biesecker said. Still, this storm is the strongest for radiation since May 2005.

The radiation — in the form of protons — came flying out of the sun at 93 million miles per hour.The whole volume of space between here and Jupiter is just filled with protons and you just don't get rid of them like that, Biesecker said. That's why the effects will stick around for a couple days.NASA's flight surgeons and solar experts examined the solar flare's expected effects and decided that the six astronauts on the International Space Station do not have to do anything to protect themselves from the radiation, spokesman Rob Navias said.A solar eruption is followed by a one-two-three punch, said Antti Pulkkinen, a physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and Catholic University.First comes electromagnetic radiation, followed by radiation in the form of protons.Then, finally the coronal mass ejection — that's the plasma from the sun itself — hits. Usually that travels at about 1 or 2 million miles per hour, but this storm is particularly speedy and is shooting out at 4 million miles per hour, Biesecker said.
It's the plasma that causes much of the noticeable problems on Earth, such as electrical grid outages. In 1989, a solar storm caused a massive blackout in Quebec. It can also pull the northern lights further south.But this coronal mass ejection seems likely to be only moderate, with a chance for becoming strong, Biesecker said. The worst of the storm is likely to go north of Earth.And unlike last October, when a freak solar storm caused auroras to be seen as far south as Alabama, the northern lights aren't likely to dip too far south this time, Biesecker said. Parts of New England, upstate New York, northern Michigan, Montana and the Pacific Northwest could see an aurora but not until Tuesday evening, he said.For the past several years the sun had been quiet, almost too quiet. Part of that was the normal calm part of the sun's 11-year cycle of activity. Last year, scientists started to speculate that the sun was going into an unusually quiet cycle that seems to happen maybe once a century or so.

Now that super-quiet cycle doesn't seem as likely, Biesecker said.Scientists watching the sun with a new NASA satellite launched in 2010 — during the sun's quiet period — are excited.We haven't had anything like this for a number of years, Pulkkinen said. It's kind of special.
NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/

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.

Magnitude-6.3 quake hits Pacific; no tsunami alert
Associated Press – JAN 24,12

SUVA, Fiji (AP) — A magnitude-6.3 earthquake has shaken the Pacific region south of the Fiji islands.There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue any alerts or warnings after the quake.
The United States Geological Survey reported the earthquake struck Tuesday afternoon 472 miles (759 kilometers) south of Fiji, at a depth of 362 miles (583 kilometers).

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

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).

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 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

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

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

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

EU wants bold peace bids by Palestinians, Israel
ReutersBy Jihan Abdalla | Reuters – JAN 24,12

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders over the next two days to try to push exploratory peace talks beyond a Thursday deadline and back to full negotiations.Negotiators from the two sides have held four meetings in Amman, Jordan, this month, but so far there has been no breakthrough that would permit resumption of the top level talks that were suspended in late 2010.A fifth meeting is scheduled for Wednesday and without compromise, the initiative could grind to a halt.The European Union wants Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to set aside his 2010 demand that Israel call a total halt to Jewish settlement building in the occupied West Bank before full talks resume.Israel is being urged to make confidence-building moves, which could include the release of long-term prisoners and easier conditions for Palestinians in Israeli army-controlled areas of the West Bank.The fact that negotiators are talking to each other face-to-face is encouraging,Ashton said in a statement.I'll be looking for positive signs from both sides that they are prepared to turn this progress into real gestures and negotiations.Israel has signaled it is willing to carry on with the talks, meaning the pressure is on the Palestinians.The so-called Quartet on Middle East peace diplomacy, which comprises the United States, the EU, Russia and the United Nations, said last September it wanted to see direct talks resumed by January 26, and completed in a year.But Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday that January 26 is not a sacred date and that he believed the Quartet shared that view and that talks should go on.

NEW APPROACH NEEDED

Some analysts doubt whether Washington will be prepared to exercise its influence during a presidential election year. U.S. Republicans are eager to make inroads with Jewish voters, whose traditional loyalty to the Democratic Party has been tested by doubts about President Barack Obama's policies on Israel.Other leaders have also expressed grave doubts about the peace process and urged a new approach.Should we accept a complete freeze between the Palestinians and Israelis, when the rest of the region is moving? We have to change the method, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in an annual address to ambassadors on Jan 20.The Quartet has failed. Let's stop kidding ourselves. We have to widen the circle of negotiations and involve everybody who can help resolve the conflict.Former Palestinian peace negotiator Nabil Shaath predicted failure for the latest talks, which are intended to set out the terms of negotiation on the borders of a future Palestinian state and its security arrangements with Israel.The government in Israel feels totally safe and they know that neither the Quartet nor any of its parties will put any pressure on them. Therefore, they are making fun of them and of us as well,he told Reuters.

He said a 21-point proposal presented by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lacked any detail and was rather a composition about peace done by a high school student.Israeli officials are quoted as saying Abbas is preparing to let the process collapse again and play the blame game.(Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi, Ori Lewis and John Irish. Writing by Douglas Hamilton)

ETHNIC TENSIONS TEARING RUSSIA APART-PUTIN

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Israel to Give Obama 12 Hours Notice on Attacking Iran’-Israel told visiting US Gen. Dempsey that Obama would get no more than 12 hours notice before an attack on Iran, the London Times reports.By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu First Publish: 1/22/2012, 10:19 AM

Israeli officials told visiting USS Chief Joint of Staffs Martin Dempsey that it would give President Barack Obama no more than 12 hours notice if and when it attacks Iran, The London Times reported Sunday.The Netanyahu government also will not coordinate with the United States an attack on the Islamic Republic, according to the report, the latest in a number of suposed scenarios concerning cooperation or lack of it between Jerusalem and Washington.It is left to speculation whether the rumors are based on facts or are leaked by officials to mask the possibility of secret military coordination.The London Times said its sources explained that that Israel fears that President Obama would try to torpedo an Israel attack if more notice were given because he is concerned that Iran will respond by blocking the Strait of Hormuz, sparking a rise in the price of oil that could cripple Western economies. If the attack were to occur in the next 10 months, it would put President Obama in a tight spot on the eve of his bid for re-election.President Shimon Peres told Dempsey, I am sure that in this fight [against Iran] we will emerge victorious. It is a fight that does not belong exclusively to the United States or Israel, but a global struggle to create a safe world for all peoples.Dempsey, on his first official visit to Israel, was wined and dined by Defense Minister Ehud Barak and IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gants, who went so far as to arrange an IDF orchestra rendition of song made famous by Frank Sinatra, one of Dempsey’s favorite singers.

Dempsey tried to play down the postponement of what was billed as the largest-ever joint military drill between the Israeli and American armies, involving thousands of U.S. Army soldiers.Published reasons for the delay have ranged from budgetary constraints, logistical problems to a signal from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that he distrusts President Obama’s commitment to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.Dempsey maintained that the delay, which was announced by Israel, will give both countries more time to prepare and achieve a better outcome.The top American general left Israel on Friday, before the Sabbath began.

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

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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE JANUARY 24,2012

09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM -90.25
10:30 AM -56.08
11:00 AM -40.70
11:30 AM -29.52
12:00 PM -41.70
12:30 PM -43.14
01:00 PM -36.43
01:30 PM -57.37
02:00 PM -50.70
02:30 PM -43.52
03:00 PM -45.56
03:30 PM -38.90
04:00 PM -33.07 12,675.75

S&P 500314.63 -1.37

NASDAQ 2786.64 +2.47

GOLD 1,665.20 -12.10

OIL 99.10 -.048

TSE 300 12,395.24 -126.46

CDNX 1576.29 -12.62

S&P/TSX/60 708.09 -8.28

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -66 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -90 points at low today.
Dow -1 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,664.90.OIL opens at $98.52 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -90 points at low today so far.
Dow -1 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -90 points at low today.
Dow -1 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)

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-10 WORLD REGIONS) 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).

EU calls Iran's bluff on military threats
23.01.12 @ 18:41 By Andrew Rettman

BRUSSELS - EU foreign ministers have set the clock ticking on an Iran oil embargo in six months time despite fresh threats it will retaliate with naval action.Ministers in Brussels on Monday (23 January) agreed the Union will from 1 July no longer buy Iranian oil or petroleum products - worth about 20 percent of its exports - in order to stop an alleged nuclear weapons programme. It also blacklisted the Iranian central bank and banned trade in gold and diamonds.The time-lag is designed to help Greece, Italy and Spain sign new oil contracts with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. In other softeners, the oil ban could be scrapped in a review in May and Iran's central bank will be allowed to facilitate trade in other areas, such as food and textiles.Two Iranian MPs the same day repeated the country's threats to block the Strait of Hormuz - a conduit for Saudi oil - in return, creating a major energy crisis. [It] would definitely be closed if the sale of Iranian oil is violated in any way,Mohammad Ismail Kowsari told the Associated Press.Iran has three attack submarines, a fleet of mine-laying mini-submarines and batteries of anti-ship missiles in the area.Nothing happened in the Arabian Gulf immediately after the EU announcement, however. Oil markets also stayed calm, with prices going up by just $1-or-so per barrel.The US and EU member states' navies have overwhelming force in the Bahrain-stationed Combined Maritime Forces fleet. Apart from two US aircraft carriers, the UK also has two frigates, a surveillance vessel, four anti-mine ships, three support ships and a nuclear-powered attack submarine.

A French anti-submarine frigate, one of the US carriers and a British vessel sailed through the strait on Monday.A French defence ministry spokesman told EUobserver: There is nothing exceptional about the situation down there.A British defence ministry spokesman said: We do this sort of thing all the time.Speaking to press in Brussels, British foreign minister William Hague noted: Any attempt to close the Strait of Hormuz would be illegal and I also believe it would be unsuccessful.An Israeli defence analyst was more blunt.They won't go that far because the US has enough force in the Gulf to dismantle the Iranian regime if it wants to ... The Iranians know that the US would not absorb a big increase in oil prices in an election year and that there would be a devastating response,Alon Ben-David, an expert for Israel's Channel 10 TV station told this website.He noted that Iran will still be able to sell oil, but that Chinese companies will use the EU embargo to haggle down prices.Amid world reactions to the EU move, Russia criticised the bloc for bypassing the UN.Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov's remarks were mild compared to his statement last week however, when he accused the US and the EU of trying to foment a revolution in Iran and to start a war with its main regional ally, Syria (also hit with new EU sanctions on Monday).For his part, French foreign minister Alain Juppe told reporters in Brussels the sanctions are an alternative to war.

They mean paralysing economic activity in the country and cutting off revenues from its natural resources. I know there are sceptics who say the sanctions are good for nothing [in terms of stopping uranium enrichment]. But they are better than waging war, he said.The leaders of France, Germany and the UK followed-up the EU decision with a joint statement: Our message is clear. We have no quarrel with the Iranian people. But ... we will not accept Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon.

EU becoming less tolerant, NGO says
Today JAN 23,12 @ 10:52 By Andrew Rettman

BRUSSELS - Racist mobs in Greece and Hungary, mistreatment of Roma, Arab migrants and Muslim terrorist suspects and a feeble reaction by EU institutions point to a worrying right-wing shift inside the European Union, according to US-based NGO Human Rights Watch.The most shocking racist attack in Europe last year saw Norwegian Anders Breivik kill 77 people in what he called a campaign to stop the continent being taken over by Islam.In less-well documented incidents, a far-right mob in Greece in May stormed a Pakistani suburb hospitalising 25 people, some with stab wounds. In April in Hungary, the Red Cross evacuated 277 Roma because right-wing vigilantes held military-type drills beside their homes.The Human Rights Watch report pulls no punches in linking the extreme cases to bad leadership by EU governments.It said the Breivik attack [echoed] what has increasingly become mainstream debate in Europe and highlighted the dangers of unchecked intolerance in countries such as France, which banned the Muslim veil, and the Netherlands, whose courts gave far-right politician Geert Wilders special latitude to voice anti-Islamic ideas.The report named and shamed nine EU member states - France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK - as displaying a swing toward right-wing politics on issues ranging from asylum seekers to gay rights.France and Italy continued to expel Roma in a campaign of discriminatory targeting accompanied by racist and xenophobic political discourse.

Greece and Italy failed on several counts in their reaction to the sharp increase in mostly African and Arab migrants.Greece is still holding migrants and asylum seekers, including women and families with children ... in inhumane conditions and has done little to clear a backlog of 38,000 asylum appeals. Italy kicked out some 60 percent of the Tunisians who came to seek shelter from the Arab Spring. In once incident the Italian navy intercepted a boat carrying 100 people and put them back on a Tunisian vessel in what appeared to be an unlawful pushback.The NGO also raised the alarm over the culture of policing inside the Union.It noted reports of excessive and indiscriminate police violence in Greece and Spain's handling of anti-austerity protests and in Spain's dispersal of an anti-Vatican rally. It also highlighted the way France, Germany, Spain and the UK hold mostly Muslim terrorist suspects without trial, deny them normal access to lawyers and send or try to send them back to countries where they risk torture.It accused the EU institutions of not doing enough to stop the trend.The European Commission failed to pursue vigorously its duty to enforce fundamental rights, dropping proceedings against Hungary over its media law and France over Roma expulsions, and suspending proceedings against Greece on its dysfunctional asylum and migration system despite continuing problems, it said.Unless the commission finds more courage, the downward slide on rights inside the EU looks set to continue,the NGO's Benjamin Ward added in a statement.The net result of human rights developments in Europe causes great concern ... Without concerted government action, the next generation of Europeans may see human rights as an optional extra rather than a core value.

No consensus on sanctions under fiscal pact, says Denmark 23.01.12 @ 18:42 By Valentina Pop

BRUSSELS - Two issues are to extend discussions on the new fiscal treaty beyond the finance ministers' meeting on Monday (23 January): financial sanctions and the participation of non-euro members in eurozone summits, the Danish economy minister told this website.We support the participation of non-euro countries in the eurozone summits. It is one of the questions that will be worked on in the last week before the meeting of heads of state on 30 January,said Margrethe Vestager, who chairs the meeting of 27 finance ministers on behalf of the Danish EU presidency.The issue has become a make-or-break deal for Poland, whose prime minister has threatened not to sign up to the new inter-governmental treaty on fiscal discipline unless the so-called outs are allowed to attend the eurozone summits. In the latest text, a concession has been made allowing leaders from these countries to be invited in order to discuss specific issues concerning the implementation of this treaty,when appropriate and at least once a year.But Vestager remains sceptical this wording will be enough. It is a sensitive question, if countries that are now outside the euro but may become part of the eurozone in the years to come, it's in their obvious interest to participate in meetings where these issues will be discussed,she said.

Poland is not the only country to make this claim, she noted, just the most vocal ambassador.We have stated the same in the negotiations, Vestager said, even though her country, unlike the other eight 'outs' that have signed up to the fiscal treaty, is under no legal obligation to join the euro.The other thorny issue likely to remain unsettled before the EU leaders' meeting next Monday is the controversial idea of having the European Court of Justice impose fines of up to 0.1 percent of a country's gross domestic product if it doesn't properly apply the so-called balanced budget rule into national law, prohibiting a structural deficit of more than 0.5 percent of GDP.In the latest draft, this fine would be transferred directly to the European Stability Mechanism, the eurozone's permanent bail-out fund to be created this summer.This is a proposal on which there is no consensus yet. From a strictly Danish point of view, it's hard to see your fines going to the ESM, which is a eurozone fine-box. In that respect, there is a special Danish issue, but I think this will be debated in the days to come, not only tonight,Vestager said.To the Danish Liberal, the mere fact that leaders from 26 EU countries - except Britain - have agreed to enshrine the balanced budget rule in their binding national legislation is enough of a token of appreciation that they are committed to this new approach in public finances.

The fiscally disciplined Scandinavian country supports this new treaty - essentially a German pre-condition for future eurozone bail-outs - as a measure to boost market confidence in the soundness of state budgets.We need not only the markets, but also businesses and citizens to trust our fiscal policies. That is our most important thing. It's one of the Danish EU presidency's high priorities to make sure that the implementation of the economic reform is going well and remains very focused,she said.

Commission tells EU institutions to cut costs
23.01.12 @ 19:09 By Nikolaj Nielsen

BRUSSELS - Without signalling out any one EU institution in particular, the European Commission has requested they all refrain from bloating 2013 expenditure budgets as a response to the austerity measures netted out upon the rest of Europe.Commission asks EU institutions to refrain from increasing expenditure budgets (Photo: Domiriel)

The EU budget commissioner Janusz Lewandowski sent a letter to all respective EU chiefs stating that they should make all possible efforts towards limiting expenditure in preparing their own estimates for the draft budget 2013.Among the letter's recipients was EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton of the European External Action Service (EEAS). When it was launched in December 2010, the diplomatic service quickly buckled under considerable budgetary constraints.The original budget of the EEAS in year one was insufficient to meet the running costs, EEAS spokesperson Michael Mann wrote this website in an email. The EEAS had to increase its budget by €26.9 million for 2012 to help pay staff and run its daily operational activities.For its part, the commission intends to reduce its staff by 1 percent in 2013 with an estimated saving of around €20 million.It is of the utmost importance to continue to demonstrate that the EU institutions are acting responsibly in the current climate of austerity,the commissioner told reporters on Monday (23 January). Lewandowski had made a similar statement in February last year urging the EU institutions to cut IT, publication and travel among other costs.

The commission froze its expenditure increases in 2011 and aims to do same for the 2012, while other institutions either increased or even dropped their own expenditure budgets.Indeed, the European Council went from €563 million in 2011 to €538 million for this year. The European Parliament, on the other hand, increased its budget expenditure from €1.68 billion to €1.72 billion due in part to translation costs and the addition of Croatia as a new member state.The EEAS, however, represents a tiny fraction of the overall EU budget but is mandated to set EU foreign policy through joint-missions with non-EU states and its 136 over-sea delegations.Understaffed and widely criticized for failing to achieve EU foreign policy coherence, the service even struggled to fill vacant positions amid reports that around 60 had quit only months into their contracts.I would not want to be dragged into extrapolating on the possible consequences of what possible measures some institutions might take. It is for each of them to decide how best to show the message to the EU taxpayers that the EU institutions do not act in a business as usual way, that they voluntarily show savings as is the case in many member states, responded Lewandowski’s spokesperson in an email when asked if the announcement was a veiled slight at the increased expenditure budgets of the European Parliament and the EEAS.In 2011, the EEAS pocketed €464 million and divided the budget between its headquarters in Brussels and its numerous delegations. The EEAS also managed € 253 million on behalf of the commission for administrative expenses linked to commission staff in delegations.We are aiming to make the EEAS as cost-efficient as possible. We have made efficiency gains from the merging of the services, and are currently doing a review of mission expenditure for our delegations,wrote the EEAS spokesperson adding that the service is making every effort to maximise efficiency.

Around six percent of the EU’s total €129 billion is spent on EU institutional administrative matters. The council, the commission, and the European parliament eat up the greatest share of the expenditure budgets.The remaining 94 percent of the EU total budget is spent on EU citizens, farmers, businesses, regions and cities.

Deal sought on delayed EU derivatives law
Today JAN 23,12 @ 09:24 By Valentina Pop

BRUSSELS - Finance ministers meeting in Brussels on Tuesday (24 January) may agree on a compromise deal put forward by the Danish EU presidency on a delayed EU bill regulating trading in derivatives, the sticking point being how much power to give to the responsible new EU authority.The draft law was initially tabled by the European Commission in 2010, two years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the bail-out of AIG - financial institutions which had been at the forefront of derivatives trading, essentially guaranteeing bets on mortgages and loans that went bust once the housing bubble in the US burst.Once agreed by member states and the European Parliament, the law would make direct trading in derivatives more transparent and traceable, as it would require databases registering every such transaction to be set up in clearing houses that ensure their validity.MEPs are pushing for the newly appointed EU body, the Paris-based European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma), to have a key role in the process.London, home to 75 percent of the European derivatives market, has so far opposed Esma being given too many powers, especially when it comes to authorising or rejecting the establishment of clearing houses in a member state - something currently being approved by national authorities.At a meeting in October, British finance minister George Osborne obtained a concession virtually making it impossible for other countries or Esma to block the establishment of clearing houses in a member state - by requiring unanimity among all except the host country.

Germany, where most of the second type of derivatives - traded through the stock exchange - are taking place, had initially teamed up with Britain but has meanwhile changed course and is pushing for Esma to get a bigger mediation role.According to a Danish compromise text, seen by EUobserver, the unanimity minus one rule has been kept, but a second option is foreseen so that when a three-quarters majority of states have a negative opinion, they can refer the matter to Esma.That decision shall state in writing the full and detailed reasons why the concerned members of the college consider that the requirements of this Regulation or other parts of EU law are not met. In that case the competent authority of the member state where the CCP is established shall defer its decision on the authorisation and await any decision that Esma may take,the text reads.A meeting scheduled Monday with MEPs dealing with this file has been postponed until the following Monday, pending an agreement among finance ministers.As for clearing houses themselves, no common position has agreed either. Those acting primarily at a national level - British, German or Italian - prefer the supervision of national authorities whom they know well, says one market source.But national authorities can also be politically biased. A Greek authority may reject the application of a Turkish clearing house, whereas Esma would be more neutral,the source said.

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.

THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.

Strong storms hit Alabama, kill two
ReutersBy Verna Gates and Peggy Gargis | Reuters – JAN 23,12

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Search and rescue team combed through debris in Alabama after powerful thunderstorms pummeled the state early on Monday, killing at least two people and leaving heavy damage just hours after tornadoes struck portions of Arkansas.Alabama Governor Robert Bentley declared a state of emergency after the predawn storms hit the Birmingham area, with the towns of Center Point and Trussville just to the northeast of the city hit particularly hard.Two people were confirmed dead, according to Pat Curry, Jefferson County's chief deputy coroner; one in Clay, a city of roughly 10,000 people, and another in the western part of the county.Earlier, an emergency management official had reported three deaths.We have major, major damage, said Bob Ammons, a Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) official, referring to Center Point, Trussville and some unincorporated areas of the county.About 100 people were treated for injuries, said Jefferson County EMA spokesman Mark Kelly.Last April, massive tornadoes tore through Alabama killing more than 240 people, including 64 in the Jefferson and Tuscaloosa areas.On Monday, in St. Clair County, Alabama, spokeswoman Katie Reese said a local fire department estimated some 36 homes had been damaged, and some of them destroyed.The possibility for sporadic thunderstorms in the region lingered, according to AccuWeather.com senior meteorologist Henry Margusity, but overall the severe weather was calming down.

THOUSANDS WITHOUT POWER

Clean-up and recovery efforts were under way across Alabama on Monday afternoon.
Food safety inspectors had been dispatched to assess damage and power outages at retail food establishments, state officials said, adding that any compromised products would be taken off shelves.Search and rescue efforts were ongoing, according to Matt Angelo of the Center Point fire department. The injury count in that area northeast of Birmingham remained at about 12, he said.At nearby Parkway Veterinary Clinic animals were being transported to a safe location after the structure sustained a direct hit during the storm, a spokeswoman said.Earlier, rescue crews were dispatched to investigate reports of an overturned mobile home with people trapped inside, said Debbie Orange, city clerk for the city of Clanton, about midway between Birmingham and Montgomery. No injuries could be confirmed.A preliminary report from the weather service's storm prediction center indicated a radio station in Clanton, Alabama was destroyed and a 302-foot (92-meter) transmission tower toppled due to the severe weather.A tornado is suspected, but not yet confirmed, in the radio station destruction, according to the National Weather Service.In Tennessee, the worst storm damage was in the middle of the state, with downed trees and power lines. In western Tennessee, structural damage resulted from winds whipping up to 65 mph, meteorologists said.

These were the latest in a series of powerful January storms to have torn through the Southeast.On Sunday, twisters downed trees and powerlines in Arkansas leaving thousands without power.A tornado ripped into an area outside of Fordyce, some 70 miles south of state capital Little Rock, damaging houses and felling trees and power lines as it moved, according to Accuweather.com.

The National Weather Service in Little Rock rated the Fordyce area tornado as an EF2, on a scale that ranges from EF0 to EF5, the most severe. The town of just under 5,000 people was one of the hardest hit areas in a series of storms that struck Arkansas on Sunday night.Significant damage occurred to houses northwest of the small town, the city's country club and a set of transmission towers, it said in a statement.The weather service has reported as many as eight possible tornadoes may have touched down on Sunday night in Arkansas, which was pelted by soft-ball sized hailstones and buffeted by winds gusting up to 70 miles per hour.By Monday, almost 8,000 customers across Arkansas were still without power, according to utility provider Entergy Arkansas, Inc.(Additional reporting by Tim Ghianni in Nashville, Suzi Parker in Little Rock and Kelli Dugan in Mobile, Alabama; Writing by Dan Burns and Lauren Keiper; Editing by Greg McCune and Sandra Maler)

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.

Putin warns ethnic tensions risk tearing Russia apart
ReutersBy Alissa de Carbonnel and Gleb Bryanski | Reuters – JAN 23,12

MOSCOW/KISLOVODSK, Russia (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, warning ethnic tensions could tear Russia apart, said on Monday he would toughen migration rules and keep a tight rein on Russia's regions to prevent it following the Soviet Union into oblivion.In a newspaper article and an address in southern Russia, Putin used the danger of ethnic discord to call for limits on electoral reforms.With the collapse of the country (the Soviet Union), we were on the edge -- and in some regions over the edge -- of civil war, Putin wrote in Nezavisimaya Gazeta.With great effort, with great sacrifice we were able to douse these fires. But that doesn't mean that the problem is gone,he wrote in the second of a series of articles promoting his leadership goals ahead of a March 4 presidential election.Putin, in power since 2000 and favored to win a six-year presidential term in March, described a Soviet-style vision of a country in which the rights of ethnic minorities would be respected but Russian language and culture would dominate.The Russian people, the Russian culture is the glue holding together the unique fabric of this civilization, Putin wrote.

Putin is steering a fine line between Orthodox Christian ethnic Russians, some of whom fear labor migration and higher birth rates among Russia's Muslims, and ethnic tensions which could challenge his vision of a centralized, united, Russia.Thousands of nationalists have protested in Moscow over migration and state subsidies to the mostly Muslim North Caucasus, where an Islamist insurgency rooted in the Chechen wars persists.Comparing nationalism to a disease, Putin took aim at ethnic Russian nationalists, who have been among the 59-year-old prime minister's most vociferous critics.If a multiethnic society is infected by nationalism, it loses its strength and durability, Putin wrote.We need to understand what far-reaching effects can be caused by attempts to inflame national enmity and hatred.He said minorities must live under the umbrella of Russian culture, and migrants must pass exams in Russian language and history. Authorities should be given more power to vet migrants' professional skills and students should read some 100 national classics.But he also said the best way to stem migration was by creating favorable conditions for citizens to work in their native regions.Without naming names, he took aim at the idea of cutting federal subsidies for the North Caucasus, promoted by anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny.The goals of such activists are clear and they have nothing in common with the real attempts to solve ethnic problems, with Russia's development and interests of its citizens,Putin told the conference of Peoples of Russia's South in Kislovodsk.In the article, he plugged his plan for a Eurasian Union linking Russia with other ex-Soviet republics including those in Central Asia -- the source of millions of labor migrants in Russia -- saying closer ties would help curb migration by helping to develop their economies.

Yet in a sign he will not reverse a consolidation of power in Moscow, Putin said he could not allow regional political parties because some could be created on ethnic lines, calling it a direct path to separatism.What is omitted is even more important than what is included (in the article), said Nikolai Petrov, a political analyst with the Moscow Carnegie Center, told Reuters.There is no mention of federalism here and the idea here is that a centralized state should be stronger in order to prevent disintegration, he said.President Dmitry Medvedev submitted a bill this month that would restore popular elections for Russia's regional governors. But Putin suggested on Monday that potential governors may need presidential approval to run.We need to tune this mechanism properly, he said.(Additional reporting by Thomas Grove; Editing by Myra MacDonald)

Russia: We Can Do No More for Syria-Moscow has reached its limit and says it can do no more to help Syria's President Bashar al-Assad remain in power.By Chana Ya'ar First Publish: 1/24/2012, 12:15 AM

Moscow has reached its limit and says it can do no more to help Syria's President Bashar al-Assad remain in power.Senior Russian lawmaker Mikhail Margelov said Moscow's veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Assad's savage crackdown on dissidents, together with China, with the last instrument possible to keep Assad in office.This veto has exhausted our arsenal of such resources, Margelov was quoted as saying Monday by Russia's Itar-Tass news agency. However, Russia signed an arms deal with Damascus the same day, agreeing to supply 36 fighter jets to the Assad regime.Apparently also rapidly reaching its limit, the Arab League on Sunday called on the Syrian president to step down and form a unity government in the face of ongoing protests by thousands of demonstrators. The Cairo-based entity recommended that Assad transfer power to a deputy until elections could be scheduled.But a Syrian official told the state-run SANA news agency in response, Syria rejects the decisions of the Arab League ministerial council... and considers them a violation of its national sovereignty and a flagrant interference in its internal affairs.Tens of thousands of protesters turned out Monday in the Damascus suburb of Duma alone, protected by the opposition Free Syrian Army, to express their grief after 11 more civilians were murdered by government troops, activists said.Nevertheless, with the exception of a one-month extension of the Arab League observer mission, no direct intervention has been approved by any Arab nation, nor has the United Nations made any decision as to what it will do, if anything, to stop the slaughter of Syrian civilians by the Assad regime.

Between five and six thousand Syrians have been killed by government forces in the past ten months, and thousands more have been injured in detention, and many tortured, after being arbitrarily arrested, including many women and children. Some have disappeared.The Assad regime claims that approximately 2,000 security troops have also died in clashes with terrorists and armed gangs as a result of the anti-government uprising ignited by last year's Arab Spring.

Iran slams EU oil embargo, warns could hit U.S.
ReutersBy Hossein Jaseb and Justyna Pawlak | Reuters – JAN23,12

TEHRAN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Iran accused Europeans on Monday of waging psychological warfare after the EU banned imports of Iranian oil, and President Barack Obama said Washington would impose more sanctions to address the serious threat presented by Iran's nuclear program.The Islamic Republic, which denies trying to build a nuclear bomb, scoffed at efforts to choke its oil exports, as Asia lines up to buy what Europe scorns.Some Iranians also renewed threats to stop Arab oil from leaving the Gulf and warned they might strike U.S. targets worldwide if Washington used force to break any Iranian blockade of a strategically vital shipping route.Yet in three decades of confrontation between Tehran and the West, bellicose rhetoric and the undependable armory of sanctions have become so familiar that the benchmark Brent crude oil price edged only 0.8 percent higher, and some of that was due to unrelated currency factors.If any disruption happens regarding the sale of Iranian oil, the Strait of Hormuz will definitely be closed,Mohammad Kossari, deputy head of parliament's foreign affairs and national security committee, told Fars news agency a day after U.S., French and British warships sailed back into the Gulf.

If America seeks adventures after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran will make the world unsafe for Americans in the shortest possible time, Kossari added, referring to an earlier U.S. pledge to use its fleet to keep the passage open.In Washington, Obama said in a statement that the EU sanctions underlined the strength of the international community's commitment to addressing the serious threat presented by Iran's nuclear program.The United States will continue to impose new sanctions to increase the pressure on Iran,Obama said.The United States imposed its own sanctions against Iran's oil trade and central bank on December 31. On Monday it imposed sanctions on the country's third-largest bank, state-owned Bank Tejarat and a Belarus-based affiliate, for allegedly helping Tehran develop its nuclear program.

The EU sanctions were also welcomed by Israel, which has warned it might attack Iran if sanctions do not deflect Tehran from a course that some analysts say could potentially give Iran a nuclear bomb next year.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: This new, concerted pressure will sharpen the choice for Iran's leaders and increase their cost of defiance of basic international obligations.U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, reiterated Washington's commitment to freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. I think that Iran has undoubtedly heard that message and would be well advised to heed it,she said at a meeting of the board of governors of the American Jewish Committee in New York.

CALLS FOR TALKS

Germany, France and Britain used the EU sanctions as a cue for a joint call to Tehran to renew long-suspended negotiations on its nuclear program. Russia, like China a powerful critic of the Western approach, said talks might soon be on the cards.Iran, however, said new sanctions made that less likely. It is a view shared by some in the West who caution that such tactics risk hardening Iranian support for a nuclear program that also seems to be subject to a covert war of sabotage and assassinations widely blamed on Israeli and Western agents.The European Union embargo will not take full effect until July 1 because the foreign ministers who agreed the anticipated ban on imports of Iranian crude at a meeting in Brussels were anxious not to penalize the ailing economies of Greece, Italy and others to whom Iran is a major oil supplier. The strategy will be reviewed in May to see if it should go ahead.Curbing Iran's oil exports is a double-edged sword, as Tehran's own response to the embargo clearly showed.Loss of revenue is painful for a clerical establishment that faces an awkward electoral test at a time of galloping inflation which is hurting ordinary people. But since Iran's Western-allied Arab neighbors are struggling to raise their own output to compensate, the curbs on Tehran's exports have driven up oil prices and raised costs for recession-hit Western industries.

A member of Iran's influential Assembly of Experts, former Intelligence Minister Ali Fallahian, said Tehran should respond to the delayed-action EU sanctions by stopping sales to the bloc immediately, denying the Europeans time to arrange alternative supplies and damaging their economies with higher oil prices.The best way is to stop exporting oil ourselves before the end of this six months and before the implementation of the plan,the semi-official Fars news agency quoted him as saying.

PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE

European Union sanctions on Iranian oil is psychological warfare, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said. Imposing economic sanctions is illogical and unfair but will not stop our nation from obtaining its rights.Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told the official IRNA news agency that the more sanctions were imposed on Tehran the more obstacles there will be to solve the issue.Iran's Oil Ministry issued a statement saying the sanctions did not come as a shock. The oil ministry has from long ago thought about it and has come up with measures to deal with any challenges,it said, according to IRNA.Mehmanparast said:The European countries and those who are under American pressure, should think about their own interests. Any country that deprives itself from Iran's energy market, will soon see that it has been replaced by others.China, Iran's biggest customer, has resisted U.S. pressure to cut back its oil imports, as have other Asian economies to varying degrees. India's oil minister said on Monday sanctions were forcing Iran to sell more cheaply and that India planned to take full advantage of that to buy as much as it could.The EU measures include an immediate ban on all new contracts to import, purchase or transport Iranian crude and petroleum products. However, EU countries with existing contracts can honor them up to July 1.EU officials said they also agreed to freeze the assets of Iran's central bank and ban trade in gold and other precious metals with the bank and state bodies.EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said: I want the pressure of these sanctions to result in negotiations.I want to see Iran come back to the table and either pick up all the ideas that we left on the table ... last year ... or to come forward with its own ideas.Iran has said it is willing to hold talks with Western powers, though there have been mixed signals on whether conditions imposed by both sides make new negotiations likely.

IAEA INSPECTORS VISIT

The Islamic Republic says it is enriching uranium only for producing electricity and other civilian uses. The start this month of a potentially bomb-proof - and once secret - enrichment plant has deepened skepticism abroad, however.The United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, confirmed plans for a visit next week by senior inspectors to try to clear up questions raised about the purpose of Iran's nuclear activities. Tehran is banned by international treaty from developing nuclear weaponry.The Agency team is going to Iran in a constructive spirit, and we trust that Iran will work with us in that same spirit,IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said in a statement announcing the January 29-31 visit.Iran, whose regional policies face a setback from the difficulties of its Arab ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has powerful defenders in the form of Russia, which has built Iran a reactor, and China. Both permanent U.N. Security Council members argue that Western sanctions are counter-productive.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, classifying the EU embargo among aggravating factors, said Moscow believed there was a good chance that talks between six global powers and Iran could resume soon and that Russia would try to steer both Iran and the West away from further confrontation.His ministry issued an official statement expressing regret and alarm: What is happening here is open pressure and diktat, an attempt to punish Iran for its intractable behavior.This is a deeply mistaken approach, as we have told our European partners more than once. Under such pressure Iran will not agree to any concessions or any changes in its policy.But that argument cuts no ice with the U.S. administration, for which Iran - and Israel's stated willingness to consider unilateral military action against it - is a major challenge as Obama campaigns for re-election against Republican opponents who say he has been too soft on Tehran.
(Additional reporting by Robin Pomeroy and Mitra Amiri in Tehran, David Brunnstrom in Brussels, Adrian Croft in London, John Irish in Paris, Alexei Anishchuk in Sochi, Ari Rabinovitch and Jeffrey Heller in Jerusalem, Nidhi Verma in New Delhi, Steve Gutterman in Moscow, Rachelle Younglai and Andrew Quinn in Washington, Fredrik Dahl in Vienna and Patrick Worsnip at the United Nations; writing by Alastair Macdonald; editing by Robert Woodward and Mohammad Zargham)

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.

Earthquake shakes northern Dominican Republic
Associated PressAssociated Press – JAN 23,12

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A moderate earthquake struck Monday in the northern Dominican Republic but there were no reports of damage or injuries.The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 5.1. The epicenter was in the coastal town of Rio San Juan, about 155 miles (250 kilometers) north of the capital and 22 miles (35 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco de Macoris.A seismology institute at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo said its equipment recorded a magnitude of 5.4.Juan Manuel Mendez, director of the country's Emergency Operations Center, said emergency workers had fanned out in communities along the northern coast to check for damage or injuries but had so far found none.Tremors were felt as far away as Cap Haitien in northern Haiti and along the west coast of Puerto Rico.

Intifada is Back, Says Guard Who was Stabbed-Security man says events like Sunday's attempted stabbing at Kalandiya are becoming more frequent By Gil Ronen First Publish: 1/22/2012, 7:39 PM

A security guard who works at the Shuafat checkpoint told Arutz Sheva Sunday that attacks like the one thwarted earlier in the day at Kalandiya are becoming more and more frequent. The Intifada is back, he said.The guard – who requested anonymity, and will be referred to by the pseudonym Yisrael – was witness to a similar attack 20 days ago at the Shuafat checkpoint in northern Jerusalem. In that event, an Arab woman with Israeli citizenship brazenly refused the guards' instructions to proceed through the pedestrian lane. She got close to the guards and said, in Hebrew, that she refuses to pass through that lane.A guard walked up to her and she then tried to pull out a knife and stab him. He saw that she was about to attack him and was able to overpower her.A Border Policeman was stabbed in the neck at the same checkpoint on Saturday and suffered light injuries.Yisrael said that the events at the checkpoints are all connected, and that Israeli forces are not equipped to handle the new wave of violence. The danger is always present, he said, and one never knows where the next attack will come from. An Arab worker who is upset about something that happened to him during the day can take out his frustration in an attack on soldiers, he said: We trust them daily, and one day they can stab us in the back.The guards have the authority to arrest suspects, added Yisrael, but this authority is only partial and requires the presence of a police officer. In addition – the guards are not equipped with nonlethal weapons like electric shockers, pepper spray and the like. Poor conditions also make the guards less alert: not enough food, a shortage of personnel and lack of air conditioning are all problems that could lead to a tragedy, he explained.