IDF ON ALERT FOLLOWING ATTACKS FROM GAZA

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Google's Safari Tracking Dilemma: Reality Check
By Ian Paul, PCWorld Feb 17, 2012 8:41 AM

Google reportedly breached the privacy of millions of Apple Safari users by fooling the web browser into accepting tracking cookies it normally wouldn't take. Google, however, says this is an unhappy accident and that Google never intended to track its users in this manner.It's a classic case of he said, she said. Here's what's going on.Apple's Safari is more aggressive by default than many browsers about blocking cookies that do not originate from the site you're visiting, such as cookies served by online advertising firms. These are referred to as third-party cookies and are used by most online advertising companies and common on major websites. Google got around Safari's privacy restrictions by exploiting a loophole that allowed the search giant to install a temporary cookie if a user clicked a +1 button embedded in online advertising, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.The matter primarily affects users of iOS and OS X devices where Safari is the default browser, but it potentially affects any system running Safari, which is also available for Windows.

How Google Did it

The trick, according Journal reports, involves sticking a hidden web form inside an online ad with a +1 button, similar to Facebook likes, on it. If the user clicks on the +1 button, the web form tells Safari that the user filled out the phony form when in fact she or he had not, which allowed Google to install the cookie.When a user appears to have explicitly interacted with content on a Website, Safari allows the site to install temporary cookies that are supposed to expire after 12 to 24 hours. As a result of this workaround, Google could ten catalog a user's browsing habits for its DoubleClick advertising business, according to research by Johnathan Mayer, a graduate student at Stanford University who first discovered Google's tracking behavior.For its part, Google says it wasn't tracking people on purpose and only wanted to ascertain when a user was logged into a Google account. We used known Safari functionality to provide features that signed-in Google users had enabled, says Rachel Whetstone, Google's senior vice president of communications and public policy, in a statement to PCWorld. If you were logged in, Google could then deliver personalized advertising and perform other functions, such as sending +1's back to a user's Google+ social networking profile.However, the Safari browser contained functionality that then enabled other Google advertising cookies to be set on the browser,Whetstone says. We didn’t anticipate that this would happen, and we have now started removing these advertising cookies from Safari browsers.Google also emphasizes that its advertising cookies do not collect any personal information.

[Click to enlarge] Google's privacy policy page was edited regarding Safari. (click to enlarge)

Google has also deleted language from one of its privacy policy pages that appeared to contradict its tracking practices as detailed by the Journal. Google allows you to install a browser cookie that tells the search giant not to store your browsing habits for online advertising purposes. But the company does not have a working version of this opt-out program for Safari users.The text on the page used to read: While we don't have a Safari version of the Google advertising cookie opt-out plugin, Safari is set to block all third-party cookies. If you have not changed those settings, this option effectively accomplishes the same thing as setting the opt-out cookie.Google has since removed that language from its site, but PCWorld was able to find the language in a cached version of the page dated February 14.

Common Practice by Default.

Installing third-party tracking cookies on your browser is common practice for online advertising companies. Your browsing information is then mined so the sites serve up targeted advertising that, in theory, you are more likely to click on. Given that Safari is one of the most popular mobile browsers owing to the success of iOS devices such as the iPhone and iPad, Google and other firms were handicapped by Apple's policies of disallowing third-party cookies by default. So Google, along with advertising firms such as Vibrant Media, Media Innovation Group, and PointRoll, used this workaround -- Google called it known functionality.It's not clear when this Safari loophole that enables advertising to circumvent a browser's privacy settings will be closed. Apple is reportedly working to stop this kind of activity, and the loophole has already been closed in WebKit, the open source version of Apple's Safari. The patch was created in August, and the Journal says in a blog post that the fix was made, ironically enough, by two Google engineers.Connect with Ian Paul (@ianpaul) on Twitter and Google+, and with Today@PCWorld on Twitter for the latest tech news and analysis.
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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
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS FRI FEBRUARY 17,2012

09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +30.61
10:30 AM +33.34
11:00 AM +14.16
11:30 AM +25.25
12:00 PM +24.79
12:30 PM +24.60
01:00 PM +27.51
01:30 PM +34.78
02:00 PM +43.03
02:30 PM +42.27
03:00 PM +48.40
03:30 PM +61.53
04:00 PM +45.79 12,949,87

S&P 500 1361.23 +3.19

NASDAQ 2951.78 -8.07

GOLD 1,725.70 -2.70

OIL 103.45 +1.19

TSE 300 12,458.30 -27.29

CDNX 1658.15 +10.04

S&P/TSX/60 708.37 -1.99

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +46 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +47 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,730.60.OIL opens at $103.33 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +61 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +61 points at high today.

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

ITS SEEMS IN ITALY THEY FOUND 6 TRILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF FAKE US BONDS.ITS PROBABLY THE NWO CRUE WORKING TO STEAL CASH FROM EUROPE.FOR THEIR ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT.6 TRILLION COULD BUY OFF MOST OF THE WORLD WITH BRIBES AND THE WORLD GOVERNMENT COULD HAVE CAME ABOUT QUICK.

Trillions in fake US bonds seized From: AP
February 18, 2012 1:38AM

ITALIAN anti-mafia prosecutors have ordered the seizure in Switzerland of fake US Treasury bonds with a face value of $US6 trillion ($A5.6 trillion) - or over a third of US national debt.The bonds were found hidden in false compartments in three safety deposit boxes transferred in 2007 from Hong Kong to Zurich and eight arrests have also been made in Italy as part of the investigation, prosecutors said.Investigators said members of a criminal network had tried to use the bonds in emerging markets or give them to banks in exchange for money.The operation was the biggest for this type of investigation, Giovanni Colangelo, the head of the prosecutor's office in the city of Potenza in southern Italy which is leading the investigation, said.Everything began with an investigation into mafia clans in the Vulture-Melfese area in the southern Basilicata region, Mr Colangelo said.The investigation has allowed detectives to uncover an international network with people implicated in numerous countries.The counterfeiting of bonds, the transfer of the deposit boxes from Hong Kong to Switzerland, the global travel (of the suspects) had an enormous cost and we think that the interests are at a high level,he said.

The seizure was by no means the first of fake US bonds by Italian authorities but by far the one with the highest face value.In September 2009, Italian police seized $US116 billion in phoney bonds and arrested two Filipino nationals carrying them at Milan's airport.In June of the same year police arrested two Japanese nationals on the Italian-Swiss border carrying bonds with a face value of $US134 billion.

IT SEEMS TOEWS GOT PRIVATE INFORMATION SENT OUT BY AN NDP FROM THE GOVERNMENT IP ADDRESS.I'D CALL THAT A LOW SCAM JUST BECAUSE OF THE INTERNET,CELL PHONE PRIVACY BILL.I GUESS THE NDP PERSON THOUGHT,YOU STEAL OUR RIGHTS.I'LL GET A FEW OF YOUR SKELLETONS OUT OF THE CLOSET.TOEWS CALLS IT A COWARDLY ACT AND THAT THE NDP PERSON SHOULD HAVE USED HIS REAL NAME SAYS TOEWS NOT GO BEHIND THE NDP IP ADDRESS.

Vic Toews to request probe into Twitter account
Messages include details on minister's spending habits and divorce
By Laura Payton, CBC News Last Updated: Feb 17, 2012 12:48 PM ET

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is requesting a parliamentary investigation into an anonymous Twitter account leaking alleged details of his divorce following a media report that linked the account's IP address to a Parliament Hill server. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is requesting a parliamentary investigation into an anonymous Twitter account leaking alleged details of his divorce following a media report that linked the account's IP address to a Parliament Hill server. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press.Public Safety Minister Vic Toews will request a parliamentary investigation into a Twitter account that's being used to post his personal information and is linked to an IP address in the House of Commons.In an interview with Evan Solomon, host of CBC Radio's The House, to air Saturday, Toews says he's going to send a letter to Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer to request an investigation.The user account on the social networking site Twitter that's being used to post personal information on Toews has been linked to an IP address on Parliament Hill, the Ottawa Citizen reported Thursday night.An IP address is a unique number that identifies computers in a network, which suggests that someone who works on Parliament Hill may be posting Toews's personal information online.

No proof but allegations fly

The IP address serves anyone who works on Parliament Hill, including MPs and staff from all parties, non-partisan administrative and research staff, MPs' constituency staff accessing the network remotely and journalists. There is no wireless or public access.The newspaper report said employees working off that IP address also visited Paul Simon fan sites and updated Wikipedia articles to give them a pro-NDP bias, leading to a vicious question period Friday in which the Conservatives accused the NDP of being behind the account.Despite the wide range of people who use the IP address, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird took several opportunities to avoid answering questions, instead alleging the NDP were behind the Vikileaks30 Twitter account.Today we learned, Mr. Speaker, that the official NDP opposition have been caught in a nasty, dirty internet trick,Baird said in question period.I call on the NDP to stand up, to take responsibility for these dirty tricks, to apologize, Mr. Speaker, and to identify which one over there is responsible.NDP Whip Chris Charlton demanded Baird retract the allegations. IT staff at the House of Commons confirmed the IP addresses could belong to any member of House administration or any user from any political party, she said, and the Speaker's office is looking into it.I would call on the minister to table in this House any evidence to back up his unfounded claims and if he doesn’t have such evidence, I would like him to immediately apologize and withdraw his statements unconditionally,she said.Conservative House Leader Peter Van Loan refused to apologize, referring again to the media report.

Twitter feed set up Tuesday

The Twitter feed was set up on Feb. 14 and has already garnered more than 8,000 followers. The first tweet said it was in response to Toews's bill C-30, which would require internet service providers to turn over some customer information to police without a warrant.Messages posted on the page include details on topics such as Toews's spending habits and other more personal matters, including his divorce.Toews has faced pointed and personal criticism for leading the federal charge to pass a controversial online surveillance bill that was tabled in the House of Commons earlier this week.On Thursday, the popular social media site featured a deluge of tweets labelled #TellVicEverything.I spend a lot more work hours than I should on Twitter — but you probably already knew that,one user tweeted.With files from The Canadian Press

Germany and Italy confident about Greek bail-out
Today FEB 17,12 @ 17:29 By Valentina Pop

BRUSSELS - Berlin on Friday indicated it will give a green light to the second bail-out deal for Greece, backing down on the idea of postponing parts of the agreement until after Greek elections take place in April.German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and Greek premier Lucas Papademos held a joint phone call on Friday (17 February) in which they said they were confident a long-postponed deal to help Greece avoid bankruptcy will be sealed off at a meeting of eurozone finance ministers on Monday, Monti's office said in a statement.The detailed and constructive phone call took place after Merkel cancelled her planned visit to Rome Friday following the resignation of the German president.EU officials in Brussels also said that the pieces are falling into place ahead of the Monday meeting, with Germany and its triple A rated allies - Finland, Netherlands and Luxembourg - backing off from the idea of a partial deal to keep pressure on Athens after the elections.They realise the two-phased approach would compromise the whole operation, one EU source told this website, as the Greek government has only ten days left to auction new bonds as part of the so-called private sector involvement (PSI) aimed at relieving Athens of some €100bn worth of debt.

Another source said that private bondholders will be discouraged from carrying out the bond swap if governments do not sign up on Monday to their share of the bail-out (€130bn). A number of safeguards will be put in place, however, to ensure that the bail-out money is used primarily to bring down the country's foreign debt.The Franco-German idea of a special account sealed off from the Greek government will be part of the deal, both sources said - a reflection of the lack of trust in the local politicians. The escrow account will also be funded by Greek tax revenues when their tax collection will start working properly so as to pay off the country's debt.
But even with the total aid of €230bn, a gap of several billion euros is emerging. According to a new debt sustainability assessment drawn up by the troika earlier this week, the bail-out will meet the target of reducing Greece's debt to 120 percent of GDP by 2020, but only to 129 percent.That is where the European Central Bank and national central banks holding Greek bonds are expected to jump in. The same assessment suggests that if the ECB was re-distribute the profits on Greek bonds to central banks and if these then decided to give them back to Greece, debt would be cut for another 5.5 percent of GDP. The rest could come by a restructuring of Greek bonds held by the central banks themselves. But all of these elements still depend on the results of the PSI, sources say.

Stronger budgetary surveillance laws up for agreement
Today FEB 17,12 @ 17:45 By Honor Mahony

BRUSSELS - EU finance ministers meeting next week are set to sign off a first agreement on laws that would strongly increase Brussels' power to instruct eurozone countries on how to spend their national budgets.Applying to the 17 members of the single currency only, the two laws require that all national budgets are presented to the commission for assessment at the same - by 15 October latest, suggests a draft of the agreement.The EU executive would have the power to ask for a revision of the budget if it considers it likely to lead a breach of the rules underpinning the euro, which bind member states to keep minimal budget deficits.The 17 would be required to put in place independent bodies and to base their national budgets on independent forecasts, a move to depoliticise the process of drawing up the budget in member states by subjecting it to technocratic eyes.Countries already breaching the budget deficit rules will have to issue regular reports to Brussels and agree a partnership programme on how to get back on the right fiscal track.Those either experiencing or at risk of severe difficulties with their finances or those already in a bailout programme will be subject to far more invasive monitoring.Essentially, they would lose the power for any kind of discretionary spending. The draft rules would entitle the commission to grill them on the content and direction of fiscal policy, while Brussels would be entitled to see sensitive information such as on the financial health of individual banks.

Bailed-out euro members would remain under this hyper-surveillance regime until they have paid back at least three quarters of the money lent to them.Much of the draft, proposed by the commission last November, is to be approved by finance ministers at their Tuesday meeting (21 February) but a clause that would have essentially forced a country to undergo a bailout programme has been removed, said a contact close to the negotiations.The laws come on top of six further budgetary surveillance laws applying to all 27 member states that came into force in December.They form part of the EU's attempt to make sure the current sovereign debt crisis will never happen again, although critics say the laws infringe on national democracy.Following the ministers' green light, the draft will then go to parliament with real negotiations between the two sides expected to come in April after the proposal has made its way through committee.One of the sticky issues will be how much these laws should encompass what is in the fiscal discipline treaty, an intergovernmental document covering much of the same area, due to be signed by EU leaders in March.If the scope of these laws is too wide, it would raise the awkward question - already to be heard sotto voce in Brussels - about the point of having the fiscal treaty at all.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (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.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: 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 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) 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.(3 1/2 YRS)

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

EU firms join gold rush on drones
Today FEB 17,12 @ 09:16 By Andrew Rettman

BRUSSELS - EU firms have joined the gold rush on military and civilian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). But ethical and legal questions dog the technology.The global UAV market is worth $6 billion (€4.6bn) a year and will hit $12 billion by 2018, according to US forecaster Teal Group.It is not a real market. Currently, military-industrial complexes in China, Israel, the EU, Russia and the US make drones for their armed forces and sell them to close allies only. Almost half the spending is government research.But with big money at stake, some analysts predict rapid proliferation.China has made a copy of the predator - the pterodactyl. It's identified a hole in the market for attack UAVs and it plans to sell more widely. This will force everyone to sell more widely ... I've traced 51 countries which are interested in acquiring this kind of technology, but I'm sure there are more out there,Noel Sharkey - a British robotics professor who advises the military - told EUobserver.The predator was made notorious by CIA officers who sit in Nevada and launch rockets at people in Pakistan with no judicial or congressional oversight.The next step on the military side is combat drones (Ucavs) which can fly in dirty theatres of conflict - places with decent anti-aircraft defences. Another step is autonomy - drones which fire weapons based on algorithms because the human operator is too slow or cut off by electronic jamming.

One future Ucav is the Darpa Falcon - the US says it will fly at 21,000 km-per-hour and hit a target anywhere on the planet within 30 minutes of take off. Israel's Harpy already works by hovering in the air and sniffing out radar signals. If it senses one, it cross-checks a database of friendly radars then fires autonomously - even if the enemy radar is sitting on a school or hospital.On the civilian side, British police will use UAVs to observe crowds in the 2012 Olympics, while EU border control agency, Frontex, on 9 February test-flew an Israeli-made surveillance drone in Greece - the main entry-point for asylum seekers.Gunnar Holmberg, a researcher at Swedish arms firm Saab, noted that microchips are getting so light police could fly nano-drones inside buildings. It's free for the imagination, he said, in terms of UAV markets.

Sarkozy's euro-drone

Teal Group notes that US companies last year built about 1,800 drones out of the 2,600 made worldwide. European firms made 200. But almost all the big EU arms companies are building prototypes to meet future demand.The Neuron - a euro-Ucav being made by France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland - will in April do its first test drive on the tarmac. France's Nicolas Sarkozy and the UK's David Cameron in Paris on Friday (17 February) will, among other things, reveal details on Telemos, their joint effort to make a next-generation predator, designed to fly in 2018.The main problem holding back civilian sales is how to make sure UAVs do not bump into normal planes.As things stand, nobody from the European Defence Agency or from the European Commission, which have been tasked with drafting laws on how to share civilian airspace, can give a ball-park date for when they will be ready.
Another problem is that people care about their privacy.Tony Henley, an industry consultant, told this website: One minute a UAV is taking pictures of crops. But what if your wife is sunbathing topless in her garden close by? Who will protect her? The head of research at Frontex, Edgar Beugels, said he is unsure if UAVs will patrol the sky in his lifetime. But if they do, you probably won't see them, he added.The military questions are more acute.Sharkey has attracted ridicule for saying autonomous attack drones should be regulated by an international treaty - like chemical weapons or cluster bombs - because they kill people indiscriminately.

The Pope and the crossbow

Industrialists, such as Yves Robbins, in charge of marketing the Neuron on behalf of French firm Dassault, put the concerns down to fear of the unknown. When they invented the crossbow, the Pope said he would excommunicate any warrior that uses it because it's too barbaric. You get this when a new weapon comes along,he told EUobserver.When asked what he thinks of Sharkey's idea, Saab CEO Hakan Buskhe - whose firm is making Neuron's autonomous systems or brains - wrote back: The MTCR regime already exists (The Missile Technology Control Regime), which is an association of countries that share the goals of non-proliferation on unmanned delivery systems consisting of 34 countries.The MTCR is not legally binding and only covers UAVs which carry 500kg or more of munitions - a class which excludes anything on sale today.Speaking privately, some people working on Neuron do have mixed emotions.I would say thank God that intelligence services in Europe don't have enough money to run their own weapons programmes,an industry contact said, referring to CIA targeted assassinations. I don't think our politicians will let us build drones that fire by themselves,he added.

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.

IDF on Alert Following Attacks from Gaza-The IDF has been placed on high alert, after terrorists fire anti-tank missiles at IDF force and rockets at southern Israel.By Elad Benari, Canada First Publish: 2/17/2012, 8:34 PM

Rocket and missile fire from Gaza put the IDF on high alert on Friday evening, Channel 10 News reported.According to the report, an IDF force on patrol near the border with Gaza heard an explosion heard near the border fence.An IDF statement said the explosion was from an RPG anti-tank missile that was fired at the soldiers. As additional forces arrived on the scene, the statement said, an explosion was heard from within Gaza. No soldiers were hurt. The IDF responded using tank fire.
Earlier on Friday evening, terrorists from Gaza fired two rockets towards Israeli territory, one at the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council and the other at the Eshkol Regional Council. There were no reports of physical injuries or damages.A spokesperson for IDF’s Southern Command told Channel 10 that following the attacks, IDF forces have been instructed to maintain maximum vigilance.If it is proven that this was a terror attack we will respond accordingly, the spokesperson said.Earlier this week, the IAF struck two centers of terrorist activity in northern and central Gaza. The attack came after terrorists from Gaza fired at least four rockets at southern Israel.Last weekend, a barrage of rockets were fired at southern Israel. On Saturday night, Gaza terrorists fired a short-range Qassam rocket at southern Israel. The missile landed in the Eshkol Regional Council district, in an open area.

No one was physically injured and there were no reports of property damage.On Friday night, a Grad missile attack blew open a small crater between two homes in the Hof Ashkelon Coastal Region district.A nearby electric pole was damaged, cutting power to both homes. The shrapnel also penetrated the walls of at least one of the houses as residents were sitting in theliving room enjoying the evening. By a miracle, no one was physically injured in the attack.IAF aircraft later struck three terror tunnels in southern, northern and central Gaza. A weapon manufacturing site in northern Gaza was hit as well.(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)

Security Officials: More Attacks Coming-Israel's Counter-terrorism Bureau warned Friday that it expects more attacks on Israelis travelling abroad, and senior officials.By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 2/17/2012, 3:17 PM

Israeli counterterrorism officials warned Friday that Iran and its terror confederate Hizbullah are plotting more attacks on Israelis abroad.It appears as though Iran and Hezbollah are currently trying to carry out attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets abroad, Israel's Counter-terrorism Bureau said.Officials said they drew these conclusion in light of the findings emerging from the questioning of detainees, arrested in relation to recent attacks.The warning called on Israelis travelling abroad to be alert, avoid taking suspicious objects from strangers, and be responsive to local security guidelines.Iran and Hezbollah are continuing to try to carry out other attacks on targets abroad, one senior official told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. That means asking Israelis abroad to be vigilant.The official did not outline any specific threats or locations, but did say Israel has general information reflecting intent, that more attacks are coming.Noting that Iran had risked disrupting relations with countries it is on good terms with, the official said Tehran had demonstrated high motivation to hit Israeli targets.The warning comes after three separate attempts to target Israeli diplomats for assassination this week.

On Monday, a car bomb critically injured an Israeli diplomat’s wife in Delhi, while authorities in the Georgian capital of Tsbili disarmed a bomb attached to an Israeli embassy car.A botched bombing plot in Bangkok on Tuesday resulted in three Iranian nationals being arrested. One accidentally blew his legs off, one was arrested fleeing Thailand, and a third was arrested in Malaysia.Thai authorities, who have mounted a manhunt for two more Iranian suspects, say Israeli diplomats were the targets. One of the men being sought is believed to be the bomb maker.Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu unambiguously blamed Iran for all three incidents. Israeli officials suspect Lebanon's Hizbullah terror group of having carried them out on Iran's behalf.Tehran denied the report and said Israel had targeted its own diplomats as a part of a psychological warfare campaign it was mounting on Iran.
Meanwhile, Hizbullah chief Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said his group doesn't bother with such small attacks, which led to speculation it has senior Israeli officials in its crosshairs.The Israeli official said Israel took Nasrallah's threats seriously.After Nasrallah's speech, senior officials are a priority target, and that is definitely why we are following everything that points in that direction,he said.

UN General Assembly Condemns Syria-The United Nations passed a non-binding resolution condemning systemic human rights violations in Syria by the Assad regime. By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 2/17/2012, 2:12 PM


The United Nations on Thursday passed a resolution on Syria condemning the brutal government crackdown on dissent by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.The resolution passed the General Assembly - rather than the Security Council where China and Russia have thwarted moves against Syria - with 137 nations in favor and only 12 opposed.Introduced by Egypt on behalf of 27 other countries, including Arab states, Britain and the United States, the resolution condemns systematic human rights violations in Syria.The General Assembly is expected to next demand Syria immediately adopt an Arab League blueprint to calm the uprising, to cease all violence against civilians and return security forces to their barracks.Russia opposed the resolution, saying it fails to equally criticize the armed opposition mounted the Syrian Free Army that has risen up against Assad's regime in recent months.Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said resolution differs little from a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that Russia and China vetoed earlier this month.We can’t vote for that resolution, because it still remains unbalanced, Gatilov told Russian news agencies. It directs all the demands at the government, and says nothing about the opposition.Arab countries, who have called for a UN peacekeeping mission to Syria, have rejected amendments to the resolution proposed by Russia.Gatilov said a UN Security Council resolution would be required to send any UN peacekeepers to Syria.

Russia had warned that it would block any UN resolution calling for Assad to step down over his crackdown on an 11-month uprising estimated to have killed over 5,400 people.Syrian ambassador Bashar Jaafari criticized the Arab bloc during the session as being countries that do not want to help in reaching a peaceful solution for Syria.Arab League resolutions violate the sovereignty of Syria and conflict international laws … The Arab League are competing with enemies of the Arab world with its criticism of Syria, Jaafari added.What is happening in the region does not benefit any country other than Israel … We hope that the United Nations assists Syria in the face of extremism and terrorism.Assad's regime has repeatedly blamed terrorists - specifically naming al-Qaeda - for the violent episodes the country has witnessed since anti-government protests erupted last year.However, while there have been several high profile bombings in Syria that killed hundreds in recent months, the Syrian Free Army is not believed to have carried them out.Critics of Assad's regime say his intelligence forces staged the bombings as false flag operations intended to garner sympathy for the regime and justify the continued crackdown.
General Assembly resolutions cannot be vetoed and are nonbinding, but they can form populist global perceptions on major issues.
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Iran shadow war intensifies, crosses borders ReutersBy Andrew R.C. Marshall and Peter Apps | Reuters – Thu, Feb 16, 2012

BANGKOK/LONDON (Reuters) - The loudest noise that Thongma Danoi had ever heard was followed 20 minutes later by the strangest sight: a dazed and bloodied Iranian carrying two wire-adorned devices through the usually sleepy Bangkok neighborhood.He was losing a lot of blood, said Thongma, 68, who saw the Iranian man, later identified as Saeid Moradi, fleeing a rented house blown apart by a massive explosion on Tuesday. People were shouting, He's got a bomb! I tried not to look at him.Minutes later, he heard another explosion, as 28-year-old Moradi reportedly threw a second bomb at a taxi that wouldn't pick him up. His rampage ended nearby, outside a school, with a third explosion that ripped off one of the bomber's legs and damaged the other so badly it had to be amputated.Israel said the Bangkok blasts were evidence of an attempted terrorist attack and blamed Iran. Tehran denied involvement.As bombings go, this week's trio of apparent attempted attacks on Israeli targets -- which also included an attack on a car carrying the wife of an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi and a bomb found attached to an Israeli diplomatic vehicle in the Georgian capital Tbilisi -- seemed unusually inept.But security experts believe they sent a clear message, the first serious retaliation for a quietly waged but increasingly bloody campaign of sabotage waged against Iran's nuclear program.

At least four Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed in recent years in attacks believed to have been carried out by or for Israel's intelligence services. While Israel invariably refuses to comment, some security analysts also suspect it has been involved in a string of major explosions at military and nuclear facilities in Iran, such as one in November that killed more than a dozen, including a senior Iranian general.Tehran denied any involvement in this week's attacks, accusing Israel of staging them itself. But there are widespread suspicions that the real intent may have been to warn the Jewish state that Iran is prepared to retaliate in kind.I see in what happened a message to the effect of: Anything you can do, I can do too,said Gad Shimron, a former Mossad field officer who writes on intelligence matters.In other words, if Israel uses terror for its security needs, it can expect reprisals from the other side.In an environment of growing tension, paranoia and fear, there is a risk of escalation fuelled by worries over Iran's nuclear program, a potential Israeli strike on Iran and a devastating wider conflict in the Gulf.
There is more and more pressure on all sides,says Anthony Cordesman, a former senior U.S. intelligence and defense official and now chair of strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Washington D.C.-based think tank. All of them are interacting now in ways that make it harder and harder to anticipate the actions of each other.

MIRROR IMAGE ATTACK

While some Western officials say it is too soon to blame Tehran for this week's attacks, security analysts point to growing circumstantial evidence. Thai authorities said similar magnetic bombs were used in New Delhi, Tbilisi and Bangkok.
While they did not blame Iran directly, they said the two other men arrested in relation to the Bangkok blasts -- one in the Thai capital and the other in Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia as he bought a ticket to Tehran after fleeing Thailand -- were also Iranian.The attack in Delhi -- in which a motorcycle attacker attached a magnetic or sticky bomb about the size of an iPad to an Israeli diplomatic vehicle -- appeared to be a virtual mirror image of the lethal January 11 attack on Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan in Tehran traffic.Indian police say they have yet to track down the young man in a leather jacket riding a red motorcycle who eyewitnesses said attached the device before racing away. But they said they were investigating phone calls made to foreign numbers from the immediate area just after the attack, particularly four calls made to Iran, Lebanon and Pakistan.Tal Yehoshua-Koren, the wife of Israel's defense attache to Delhi was injured in the attack. If the bomber had attached the device to the side of the car with the petrol tank, its occupants would have been less likely to survive, police said.Iran has long used proxy groups such as Lebanon's Hezbollah and Hamas in the Palestinian territories to attack its enemies overseas, and intelligence experts believe they may have done so again in this case. Tehran's relationship with Hamas has frayed in recent years, but Iran remains close to Hezbollah.

Other analysts believe the culprits may be members of Tehran's hardline Revolutionary Guard, perhaps from the Quds Force, believed responsible for extraterritorial operations.Conspiracy theories are rife . Some even point to the possibility that Israel itself might have orchestrated the attacks to damage Iran's relationship with key Asian powers particularly India, a current main purchaser of Iran's oil.The situation is getting worse and worse and it of course provides a good excuse for anyone who wishes to engage in real hostilities,said Farhang Jahanpour of Oxford University's Faculty of Oriental Studies.

SHADOWY PROXY GROUPS

For most analysts, however, these attacks plus an alleged plot last year to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States -- which U.S. authorities say they thwarted -- suggest Iran is now taking new risks or has signaled its proxies may do so.We are now seeing evidence of Iranian willingness to go after foreign targets in a way that has not been that much in evidence before, says Nigel Inkster, a former deputy chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), now at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies.Whether we're talking about the Iranians themselves or proxies such as Hezbollah, it is very difficult to know. It's also not clear whether they are acting on direction from the top or have simply been given the impression they (now) have greater flexibility.The relative ineptitude of the attacks suggests Tehran wanted to send a message rather than inflict heavy casualties.The Iranians aren't interested in a truck-bomb-level attack on an Israeli embassy because that could provoke a conflict, said Paul Quaglia, director of security consultancy PSA Asia and a 20-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency.But they're upset about having ... nuclear scientists hit. Farming out these low-level bomb attacks against diplomats is the next best thing.Israel too is also suspected of using a range of shadowy local resistance groups in Iran. Some of their members may not be aware of who they are ultimately working for, a technique known as false flagging.Several reports suggest Israeli agents may have impersonated their US counterparts in recruiting or directing members of the People's Mujahideen of Iran -- often known by its initials MEK -- or Jundallah, a group sometimes linked to al Qaeda that is based largely in the province of Baluchistan.There is some evidence that this has been happening,said former MI6 deputy chief Inkster. It may be one of the things that has soured the relationship between Israel and the US. The false flag issue always makes things more complicated.

LESSONS OF HISTORY

The United States denies any involvement in the lethal attacks within Iran -- even issuing a rare condemnation of the January car bomb killing.One Gulf security source told Reuters he believed U.S. agencies were directly involved in some attacks, working alongside MEK. U.S. officials have denied such suggestions, saying they would never work with the resistance groups partly because they were suspected to have been infiltrated by Iranian intelligence.Former and serving U.S. and other Western officials say the CIA does not have the authorization -- or finding -- from the White House to conduct lethal attacks within Iran, although few doubt they are involved in a wide range of other intelligence operations.While the emerging shadow war might escalate in the months to come, not everyone believes it heightens the risk of a wider conflict that the United States, Iran and Israel are keen to avoid.
But the lesson of history -- particularly 1914, when the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in a Sarajevo sidestreet sparked a world war -- is that mistakes can happen.Everyone here is used to playing the long game," says former U.S. official Cordesman, saying he believed outright war was still likely to be avoided. But you can still have someone on a street corner in the middle of nowhere... who sparks something that changes the course of history." (Additional reporting by Dan Williams in Jerusalem, Mark Hosenball and William Maclean in London, Sinsiri Tiwutanond in Bangkok, John Chalmers and Satarupa Battacharjya in New Delhi)(Reporting By Peter Apps, editing by Rosalind Russell)

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Alex talks with activist, speaker and blogger Rosa Koire about the United Nations' Agenda 21. Koire is a forensic real estate appraiser specializing in eminent domain valuation. She is the co-founder of the Santa Rosa Neighborhood Coalition, Democrats Against UN Agenda 21, and the Post Sustainability Institute. She is the author of Behind the Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21.
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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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GOLD opens at $1,712.60.OIL opens at $101.62 today.

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Iran Threatens West with Heavy Casualties-Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman warns the U.S. and its allies: Hasty steps will lead to heavy casualties.By Elad Benari First Publish: 2/16/2012, 4:15 AM

Just hours after Iran announced it would be expanding centrifuge operations at the underground Fordo nuclear facility near Qoms, the Islamic Republic continued to threaten the West.Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast warned the U.S. and its allies on Wednesday evening that hasty steps will lead to heavy casualties, Channel 2 News reported.The U.S. and its Western allies are unable to carry out any operation against Iran, Mehmanparast was quoted as having said. Any irresponsible response will lead to heavy casualties.He added that the global hegemony against the Islamic Republic is due to its influence on world politics. Referring to the accusations that Tehran was behind the latest wave of terrorist attacks against Israeli targets, Mehmanparast said, Israel commits acts of terrorism, then blames Tehran to divert public opinion.Iran also announced on Wednesday that it activated a new generation of centrifuges at its Natanz nuclear site in order to accelerate its uranium enrichment activities.The United States, however, downplayed Iran's announcement and said it was not terribly new and not terribly impressive.We frankly don't see a lot new here. This is not big news. In fact it seems to have been hyped,State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters.

REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE (THE EU DICTATORS TEMPLE)

ISAIAH 30:10-15
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

DANIEL 9:27
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.

REBUILT 4TH TEMPLE (THE TRUE MESSIAHS TEMPLE)

ZECHARIAH 6:12-13
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

ISAIAH 60:9-10
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.

ISAIAH 2:1-5
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

MARK 11:9-10,15-17
9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

EZEKIEL 40 TO 48 IS THIS 4TH TEMPLE TO BIG FOR THE MOUNT I BELIEVE TO BE BUILT 25 MILES FROM JERUSALEM.

ZOA: End Discrimination Against Jews On Temple Mount Now-The ZOA sent a sharply critical letter to government officials demanding unfettered access for Jews to pray on the Temple Mount-By David Lev First Publish: 2/16/2012, 8:24 AM

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) this week sent a sharply critical letter to Knesset members government ministers, and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, demanding that Jews have the right to unfettered access and freedom to pray on the Temple Mount (Har Habayit). The Mount, the letter says, and not the Western Wall (Kotel) is Judaism's holiest site. More Jews have wanted to visit the Temple Mount in recent years as, increasingly, rabbinic authorities are stating publicly that Jewish law does not prohibit this. Yet, Israeli police and security personnel, hoping to appease Muslim extremists including the Wakf authority on the Temple Mount, have been engaging in blatantly discriminatory and humiliating behavior toward Jewish visitors.This is patently unfair – and constitutes discrimination against Jews.The ZOA's letter was sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Minister of the Interior Eli Yishai, Minister of Internal Security Yitzchak Aharonovitch; Minister of Justice Yaakov Ne’eman, Minister of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Yuli Edelstein, Minister of Religious Affairs Yakov Margi, and Knesset Interior Affairs and Environment Committee Chair MK Amnon Cohen, along with fellow committee members. These are the officials who have the authority to allow free access to Jews to ascend the Mount for prayers, the ZOA said.

Access to holy places is a right guaranteed by Israeli law, but the law is not being implemented,the letter says.When Jerusalem once again became a united city in 1967 as a result of the Six Day War, the Israeli Knesset passed an amendment to the Law and Administration Ordinance, extending Israeli sovereignty to Jerusalem's eastern sector. That includes the Old City, and the Temple Mount in its center.In addition, the ZOA charges, Identifiably Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount are singled out for biased treatment. Unfortunately there is more concern for the extremist demands of the Wakf than regard for the rights of all citizens, including Jewish citizens, under Israeli law. For years, Israeli authorities have been engaging in many discriminatory practices on the Temple Mount directed against openly identifiable Jews,the letter says. For example, Jews wearing overt Jewish symbols or dress have to endure waiting in a special security line before entering the Temple Mount while all others pass them by,showing their IDs before entering the Mount, special ritual item searches” before entering the Mount,and other indignities.The letter also cited numerous examples of discrimination – and worse. A mother of five was arrested for quietly reciting the Hallel prayer on the fifth day of Chanuka last December. On a particularly hot day in September, a 67-year-old man was arrested after he sat down and quietly recited a blessing before taking a sip of water, as required by Jewish law. Another person found his water confiscated at the entrance to prevent the possibility a blessing might be recited.

There have been ten arrests in the past four months alone,the letter continued. Most recently, Yosef Rabin, a Temple Mount activist and Temple Renewal Institute liaison, informed ZOA's Israel Office that Yosef Idan, son of prominent Sephardic rabbi and scholar Rav Tzvi Idan, had been arrested for praying. Allegedly, Idan also was physically struck by the authorities even though, according to reports, he offered no resistance. Identified Jews are shunted to the side to wait separately in what some have come to cynically call the selekzia,alluding to the Nazis' orderly process of deciding which Jews would live and which Jews would go to their demise.Although the ZOA is reluctant to use such a loaded term, the letter said, it is telling that Jews subjected to systematic abuse on the Temple Mount would even contemplate using this term.And it isn't only Jews who are targeted, the ZOA contends. The same oppressive measures are extended to a non-Jew in the company of an identifiable Jew, in which case guilt is suspected by association. And a Christian visiting the Temple Mount alone, then caught reciting a prayer, also faces the consequences: Wakf representatives notify the police with their walkie talkies, who then confiscate IDs and arrest the perpetrator once he/she leaves the Mount.And through it all, police have taken an extremely light view of Arab crimes. The fact is, not one act of desecration or disrespect for Muslim holy places has been committed by Jews on the Temple Mount. No Jews ever have terrorized Muslims there or engaged in rioting. The worst acts of Temple Mount violence and desecrations have been perpetrated by Muslims, such as raining rocks on Jewish worshippers below at the Western Wall. And it is the Wakf that has illegally been digging up and trashing tons of earth laden with First and Second Temple artifacts, thereby devastating a priceless archeological historical record.

The time has come to end the discrimination, the letter says. The ZOA recognizes the need to maintain the highest level of security at a site as sensitive as the Temple Mount. Yet, it has been demonstrated that security threats to date have come from, rather than have been directed toward, the Muslims praying there. And while the ZOA feels it is proper to be attuned to the sensibilities of all religious groups, including Muslims, it objects to the unjustified and unnecessary abrogation of one group's rights, to pray non-provocatively at its holiest site, in order to accommodate another group's enmity.The ZOA, therefore, urges the Government of Israel to take steps to end the discriminatory policy that is applied on the Temple Mount, so that visiting Jews and other non-Muslims may be accorded all of the civil and religious rights taken for granted in the international community,the letter adds. Our co-religionists want to practice a simple act of faith at the ultimate Jewish holy site, they just want to pray quietly and respectfully, and we must advocate for them. For if not here, then where?

Don't bow to the Vatican-Op-ed: State of Israel should not be giving up its sovereignty over holy sites in Jerusalem Giulio Meotti Published:02.04.12, 13:56 / Israel Opinion

Israel reached an historical agreement with the Vatican to give up some sort of sovereignty over the Hall of the Last Supper on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. The Vatican will now have a foothold at the site: Israel agreed to give the Vatican first priority in leasing opportunities and access to it. 
This was the culmination of a long campaign by the Roman Catholic Church to regain religious stewardship over the place where Jesus broke bread and drank wine with his disciples on the eve of his crucifixion, and where the Holy Spirit descended on the disciples at Pentecost.The room is the third-most holy site in Christendom after the Sepulcher in Jerusalem, built over Christ’s tomb, and the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where the birth of Jesus took place.A few months ago, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, head of the Vatican’s Council for Interreligious Dialogue, asked to place the Israeli holy site under Vatican authority. The problem is that the site is also King David’s Tomb, a complex of buildings of some 100,000 square feet where David and Solomon, and Jewish kings of Judea, are buried.That's why the agreement constitutes sad capitulation by Israel to the Vatican’s efforts to Christianize the holy site, like when a Catholic convent was built in Auschwitz. In 1989, US Rabbi Avi Weiss protested against the Catholic decision to build the convent in the death camp. The cloister was a few feet from the barbed wire fence and Nazi guard towers. It also had a 23-foot wooden cross in the middle.Weiss and other Jewish protesters scaled the walls of the convent and blew a shofar. Catholic workers at the site poured paint and water on the Jewish protesters and physically removed them. Will we see the same kind of episodes on the Mount of Zion?

Tell them no
The Diaspora Yeshiva, located in Mount Zion after 1967, says that the Vatican will turn it into a pilgrimage site for hundreds of thousands of Catholics and hold religious services there. In fact, during his visit to Israel in 2000, Pope John Paul II held mass in the Hall of Last Supper. The Pope knew that the site had a strategic location, as it’s just a few hundred yards from the Temple Mount and adjacent to the Old City walls.The Vatican wants Israel to also relinquish sovereignty at the Western Wall and the Temple Mount. The Holy See uses the expression Holy Basin, which refers to the area of the Temple Mount, the Mount of Olives, Mount Zion and a variety of Christian holy sites that many US governments also asked to be administered under a special regime.Israel should no be bowing to the Vatican, as the Jewish State is admirably committed to protecting the holy sites of all religions and guaranteeing the right of worship for all faiths. However, instead of saying keep your hands off Jerusalem, it’s not for sale, the Israeli government accepted the Vatican’s ransom request.In the long term, the gesture will increase tensions between Jews and the tremendously large assets of the Vatican. The Holy See has long been working to reduce Jewish rights in Jerusalem and in the Old City. Now, after the Muslim Waqf authority expelled the Christians from the site and turned it into a mosque, it’s the turn of the Vatican to lay its hands on the Jewish Jerusalem.The goal is to ensure that a Jew will not set foot in the heart of Jerusalem, as was the case before 1967. Israel, tell them no with a capital N. Vatican’t.Giulio Meotti, a journalist with Il Foglio, is the author of the book A New Shoah: The Untold Story of Israel's Victims of Terrorism.

The Pope, St Malachy, war, economy and 2012-Vic ♦ January 10, 2012-Pope Benedict to step down April 15 2012

According to Italian daily newspaper Libero, Pope Benedict XVI is thinking about leaving the papacy next April, when he will turn 85-ANdrea Tornielli Vatican City

There is one front page news story that will certainly not go unnoticed: that is, that the Pope is thinking about resigning during the Spring of 2012. Journalist Antonio Socci has confirmed the same in the Italian daily, Libero.For now, Socci writes, he is saying that this may be true (Joseph Ratzinger’s personal assumption), but I hope the story does not reach the news. But this rumor is circulating high up in the Vatican and therefore deserves close attention. The Pope has not rejected the possibility of his resignation when he turns 85 in April next year.Socci recalls that the assumption he will resign, without any hitches, was the same thing Ratzinger talked about in an interview in the book Luce del mondo (Light of the World), when, in response to a question by interviewer Peter Seewald, he said: When a Pope arrives at a clear awareness that he no longer has the physical, mental, or psychological capacity to carry out the task that has been entrusted to him, then he has the right, and in some cases, even the duty to resign.Furthermore, in another passage, Benedict XVI wondered if he would be able to withstand it all, just from the physical point of view.Next Up is Peter the Roman.(THE FALSE VATICAN POPE)

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.

Israel Complains to UN Chief Over Iranian Terror Campaign-Israel's UN envoy Ron Prosor filed a formal complaint with UN chief Ban Ki-moon over Iran's terror campaign on Israeli diplomats.By Gavriel Queenann First Publish: 2/16/2012, 5:56 PM

Israel on Thursday lodged a complaint with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon over a terror campaign Jerusalem says Iran has mounted against the Jewish state.This week a terror attack seriously wounded the wife of an Israeli diplomat in India, while authorities in Georgia disarmed a bomb on an Israeli diplomatic vehicle, and three Iranian nationals botched a bombing attempt targeting Israeli diplomats in Bangkok
This campaign bears the unmistakable fingerprints of the Iranian regime and the highest echelons of the Hizbullah leadership,Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ron Proser, said in a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Their actions constitute a clear threat to security and stability of Lebanon, to the Middle East, and to many countries that have been targeted, Prosor wrote.In each of these instances, the letter said, Iran and Hizbullah have sought to harm innocent civilians and have flagrantly violated the sovereignty of member states.Iran has long employed international terrorism as a pillar of its foreign policy, often using Hizbullah as a proxy to stage attacks,the letter said.Prosor's letter came on the same day that the Mossad and authorities in Singapore thwarted a terror attack targeting Defense Minister Ehud Barak.In the letter, Prosor chastised the United Nations for failing to immediately condemn this week’s attacks in Bangkok, Delhi, and Tsbili. He also noted terror attacks on Israeli diplomats in Azerbaijan and Bulgaria were also thwarted in recent months.Israel expects it to issue a clear condemnation…without any further delay or equivocation. The Council must also address this threat by considering active steps against Iran, Hizbullah and their terrorist infrastructure worldwide.

Japanese PM Tells Barak: Iran Attack Dangerous-Defense Minister says Assad family will fall within weeks.By Gil Ronen First Publish: 2/16/2012, 6:14 PM

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda told Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday that attacking Iran would be a dangerous move and attempted to dissuade him from it, according to a report by a Japanese news agency.Noda warned that a strike on Iran could escalate the standoff between Iran and the West.On Thursday, Barak met his Japanese counterpart, Naoki Tanaka. The meeting dealt with a wide range of regional matters in the Middle East, as well as Asia-related issues.The international community must join hands and stop Iran from reaching nuclear weapons through crippling sanctions, Barak told Tanaka.A nuclear Iran is a danger to world stability and provides a tailwind for terror organizations worldwide.Barak mentioned the recent series of terror attacks against Israeli diplomatic targets as proof that Iran uses terror to destabilize the world.The Defense Minister said that the Assad family would fall from power in Syria in a few weeks' time. The fall of the Assad family will be a blow to the Iran-Syria-Hizbullah axis,he added.Israel is monitoring with concern the transfer of advanced weapons systems from Syria to Lebanon, Barak said.

Bail-out delay prompts fear of Greek euro exit
Today FEB 16,12 @ 09:30 By Valentina Pop

BRUSSELS - Greece fears it is being pushed out of the euro after eurozone ministers delayed a decision on its second bail-out for another five days.We are continually faced with new terms ... In the euro area, there are plenty who don't want us anymore. There are some playing with fire, domestically and abroad. Some are playing with torches and some are playing with matches. But the risk is equally great, Greek finance minister Evangelos Venizelos told reporters in Athens on Wednesday (15 February) after a three-hour conference call with his 16 counterparts from the eurozone.Greek politicians have pledged not to undo spending cuts after April elections and to find another €325 million of flesh to trim from the budget.Bur eurogroup chief Jean-Claude Juncker said further technical work is needed before the ministers can sign off on the €130 billion bail-out, most likely on Monday.He said in an emailed statement after the Wednesday tele-meeting that ministers want to see detailed list of prior actions together with a timeline for their implementation and specific mechanisms to strengthen the surveillance of programme implementation put in place before the deadline.Germany, Finland and the Netherlands have been at the forefront in demanding stronger reassurances that Athens sticks to its promises.

We just need to be reassured 110 percent, one diplomat told this website after the conference call.In Helsinki, Finnish finance minister Jutta Urpilainen said creditor countries have become very strict after Greece broke promisses on its first bail-out in 2010.Ultimately the question is whether Greece has political will to sort out its economy and fulfill the conditions,she said during a press conference.German finance minister Wolfgang Schauble in the past few days has used harsh language on Athens.On Sunday he told Die Welt we are not going to pour money into a bottomless pit and that if Greece defaults on its debt the eurozone is better prepared now than two years ago. On Monday he said in Der Spiegel that Greece should temporarily relinquish some of its sovereignty if it wants more money.German centre-right MEP Elmar Brok on Wednesday said Greek elections should be postponed for one year to let technocrats stay in power.Such statements have produced strong reactions in Greece.

Greek EU commissioner Maria Damanaki told Tagesspiegel that her country's efforts are being underestimated in certain European capitals.German flags have been burned on the streets of Athens and banners, while some tabloids portrayed German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a Nazi uniform.Meanwhile, President Karolos Papoulias, who recently gave up his salary as a gesture of solidarity, told a meeting of military commanders this week: I cannot accept that my country should be reviled by Schauble. I cannot accept this as a Greek. Who is Schauble to insult Greece? Who are the Dutch? Who are the Finnish?

EU and US roll out gold standard for organic food
Today FEB 16,12 @ 09:28 By Nikolaj Nielsen

BRUSSELS - Organic goods produced in the United States and in Europe will be sold and certified under the same organic label in both markets after a trade deal signed on Wednesday (15 February).Previously, both European and US farmers had to obtain separate certifications. A European farmer, for instance, wishing to sell organic food in the US would have had to obtain a US organic label and vice-versa.Under the new deal, which is to be launched in June, producers on both sides of the Atlantic will have one standard and one certificate issued by existing US or EU national authorities.Meats, cereals, and wines receiving organic certification in one region can be sold as organic in the other.Organic farmers and food producers will benefit from easier access, with less bureaucracy and less costs, to both the US and the EU markets, strengthening the competitiveness of this sector,said EU agriculture commissioner Dacian Ciolos in Nuremberg, Germany where the deal was inked.The organic industry in the US and Europe is worth a combined €40 billion a year.

According to the European Commission, both regions account for 90 percent of global organic consumption. In the EU, the market had a six percent annual growth in the past decade.Ambassador Isi Siddiqui, a senior US trade representative, said the new deal would lead to more jobs in this important sector for both America and Europe.The two sides agreed that each other's standards were almost identical after two years of inspections.But slight variations mean not all organic produce can be freely exported.US organic pears and apples, for instance, do not qualify. Nor do some EU organic meats and fish, which are sometimes exposed to antibiotics - strictly prohibited under the new agreement.All organic products will have a label identifying where they are from and who certified them so that regulators can track compliance with the new regime.

Monti to make Italy driving force of EU integration
15.02.12 @ 18:03 By Valentina Pop

BRUSSELS - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti charmed all major political parties in the European Parliament on Wednesday (15 February), pledging to defend EU institutions at a time when national governments are increasingly blaming Brussels for austerity.Too often in Brussels as a commissioner I saw national governments pointing the finger at EU institutions after they were part and parcel of the decision making process. I made a pledge never to play this dirty trick on the EU, the former EU commissioner, appointed last year as head of the Italian government told MEPs in Strasbourg to warm applause.His speech - one of the rare occasions when Italian was used for over an hour in the assembly - was aimed at restoring his country's standing as one of the founding members of the EU and the euro after years of political penumbra under his controversial predecessor, Silvio Berlusconi.

The new Italy - in the words of Monti, a former banker and economics professor - will be committed not only to austerity, but also to growth and will not just passively transpose EU guidelines, but wants to be a major driver of these guidelines.It is in this spirit that he invited German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Rome on Friday, for talks which will focus on the community method and recognise the priority of EU institutions.He noted that Germany and France, with the complicity of Italy, were the first to water down original eurozone discipline rules, the so-called Stability and Growth Pact.He promised to do everything he can not to further increase the gap between euro and non-euro countries. He also pointedly switched to English when criticising a deeply superficial insular culture that naively might believe EU integration means a superstate after the UK vetoed crisis-related changes to the EU Treaty last December.

His speech had something for everyone - praise for German budget discipline culture, sympathy for Greece for arguably excessive austerity measures, but also a reproach that Athens cooked the books for years and tolerated corruption, nepotism and dodgy public procurements.Monti appeared to push all the right buttons.Centre-right chief Joseph Daul - a Frenchman - said that even though he supports the Franco-German partnership as the engine of Europe, Monti is an example for the EU in his rejection of intergovernmentalism.Socialist leader Hannes Swoboda urged him to return to the European scene so we can elect you as house speaker.Liberal supremo Guy Verhofstadt suggested that Monti be sent to all troubled euro-countries once he has finished reforms in Italy. Even the Greens - usually caustic towards any unelected officials - had words of praise. You are a strong man contributing to EU politics becoming more civilised,said Rebecca Harms, the Green group chief.The only criticism came from the far right and the far left - for being an unelected technocrat and a member of the very same international banking elite that is to blame for the crisis in the first place.

Alaska Bill Would Criminalize Invasive TSA Pat Downs-Rep. Sharon Cissna’s legislation would also ban body scanners that produce naked images Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Thursday, February 16, 2012

A bill introduced by Alaska lawmaker and TSA grope victim Rep. Sharon Cissna would criminalize both invasive pat downs and body scans that produce naked images conducted by the federal agency, setting the stage for another states’ rights battle with the government.When Texas lawmakers tried to pass a similar law last year, the federal government threatened to enforce a no fly zone over the lone star state, and the measure was eventually defeated after a lengthy legislative struggle.Cissna was barred from flying by the TSA after an incident at SEA-TAC International Airport last year during which she refused to undergo an intrusive pat down after she had already passed through a naked body scanner. The scan results showed scars from her breast cancer surgery, prompting TSA officials to insist she underwent secondary screening.Facing the agent I began to remember what my husband and I’d decided after the previous intensive physical search. That I never had to submit to that horror again! she said. It would be difficult, we agreed, but I had the choice to say no, this twisted policy did not have to be the price of flying to Juneau.The bill introduced by Cissna, HB 262, states;

A person commits the offense of interference with access to public buildings or transportation facilities if the person, as a condition for access to a public building or transportation facility, requires another person to consent or otherwise submit to(1) physical contact by any person touching directly or through clothing the genitals, buttocks, or female breast of the person seeking access; or(2) any electronic process that produces an electronic image of the genitals, anus, or female breast or otherwise creates an electronic image of the person seeking access that exposes or reveals a physical characteristic that is normally hidden by clothing and is not normally visible to the public.Cissna’s legislation goes further than the Texas bill in that it bans body scanners that produce naked images. The abuse of such technology was in the news again this week after the TSA forced a woman to go through a body scanner three times at DFW International Airport so TSA screeners in a back room could get a good look at her cute figure.Cissna told the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that rights guaranteed in the constitutions of Alaska and the United States are violated by security measures that require unwanted physical contact or exposure of physical traits usually not visible in public, reports the Associated Press.In a related development, lawmakers in Salt Lake City have introduced a resolution that seeks to put a stop to invasive pat downs and launch a Congressional investigation into the abuses of the TSA itself.

If they can do that, what can’t they do? Rep. Ken Ivory, the sponsor of the resolution asked. Can you imagine George Washington or Thomas Jefferson going to the airport and saying, Go ahead and stick your hand down my pants. I need to get where I’m going? Ivory decries the fact that Americans are being conditioned to just submit to the feds.Our liberties are being conditioned away, he told the Deseret News.The TSA is facing a series of confrontations over the next few months, with Texas State Rep. David Simpson set to resurrect the Traveler Dignity Act, the aforementioned bill that would have made invasive TSA groping a criminal offense in Texas, as well as the passage of a new law which now opens the door for airports to evict the TSA from the security screening process altogether.
http://www.infowars.com/alaska-bill-would-criminalize-invasive-tsa-pat-downs/

Investigation: Media Matters Conspires With White House to Influence News-Progressive government mouthpiece routinely attacks Alex Jones, Ron Paul Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Monday, February 13, 2012

An investigation by the Daily Caller has confirmed that the leftist organization Media Matters, which routinely attacks Alex Jones and Infowars, is an Obama administration front that strategizes with the White House on a weekly basis on how to influence and direct the media.Media Matters has habitually attempted to denigrate and smear Alex Jones and his message of liberty, by dismissing Jones as a crazed conspiracy theorist and then connecting him to other targets of their attacks, people like Ron Paul, Glenn Beck, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Lou Dobbs and the Fox News network.Media Matters also recently defended Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security by impugning an Infowars story about the DHS targeting white middle class Americans as terrorists, and then deriding other media networks for also covering the issue.The organization has also routinely carried smear attacks implying that questioning the official story behind 9/11 is some kind of thought crime, despite the fact that six of the ten 9/11 commissioners have disputed the government’s account.A new investigation into Media Matters by the Daily Caller has revealed that the organization conducts a weekly strategy call with the White House and that an Obama administration representative meets with Media Matters reps at the Common Purpose Project meeting at the Capitol Hilton on 16th Street in Washington every Tuesday evening.

Media Matters has been in regular contact with political operatives in the Obama administration,states the report. According to visitor logs, on June 16, 2010, (David) Brock and then-Media Matters president Eric Burns traveled to the White House for a meeting with Valerie Jarrett, arguably the president’s closest adviser. Recently departed Obama communications director Anita Dunn returned to the White House for the meeting as well.Media Matters brags about how it works with the White House to control big media networks. We were pretty much writing their prime time, a former Media Matters employee said of the cable channel MSNBC. But then virtually all the mainstream media was using our stuff.The group also targets journalists who refuse to be water carriers for Media Matters’ propaganda. If you hit a reporter, say a beat reporter at a regional newspaper,a Media Matters source said, all of a sudden they’d get a thousand hostile emails. Sometimes they’d melt down. It had a real effect on reporters who weren’t used to that kind of scrutiny.The investigation also reveals that current Media Matters head David Brock lives in paranoia that right-wing assassins want to kill him and is regularly surrounded by bodyguards. Brock also carries a gun despite Media Matters’ vehement support for gun control policies.As we have previously reported, Media Matters barely even attempts to hide the fact that it is a mouthpiece for the Obama administration and the political elite.Media Matters is tied at the hip with Think Progress as part of John D. Podesta’s Progressive Media propaganda campaign, described as a war room for promoting the foreign and domestic policies of Barack Obama. Podesta, Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff, also helped found Media Matters. The organization also received a $1 million contribution from billionaire globalist George Soros back in 2010.

Podesta, who headed up Barack Obama’s presidential transition team, founded The Center for American Progress, which is tasked with driving the White House’s message and agenda.According to SourceWatch, CAP’s Progressive Media project emerged as a major communications war room on behalf of Obama’s domestic and foreign policy agenda and CAP became a strong advocate for escalation in Afghanistan. Progressive Media is run through the Center for American Project Action Fund, the more political 501(c)4 arm of CAP. It coordindates closely with the Common Purpose Project, an effort to create message discipline among the pro-Obama organizations, with a direct tie to the White House.Media Matters’ sister organization Think Progress, also founded under the umbrella of Podesta’s Center for American Progress, has aggressively attacked Alex Jones, even blaming him for influencing Richard Poplawski in the 2009 murder of three Pittsburgh police officers, despite the fact that numerous other leftist media organizations were forced to retract the baseless claim.
Media Matters has now been completely exposed as little more than an attack dog for the Obama administration. The fact that Alex Jones is regularly smeared by this organization proves that Infowars is hitting the establishment where it hurts and taking flak from the very top of the power structure.

IMF AUSTERITY COMES TO ONTARIO CANADA

GREECE HAS COME TO ONTARIO CANADA IF THIS IMF AUSTERITY IS DONE HERE IN ONTARIO CANADA.THEY ALSO WANT TO CHARGE TO DRIVE ON SCHOOL BUSES.THEY WANT MORE SLOT MACHINES IN CANADA AND MORE ACCESS TO LOTTERY TICKETS IN MORE STORES AND PLACES.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1119065--star-exclusive-ontario-to-face-sweeping-cost-cutting

Drummond report on Ontario calls for cutbacks CBC News Posted: Feb 15, 2012 5:06 AM ET

The Ontario government must curtail its spending with the kind of cuts not seen since the Mike Harris years, according to a report by former TD Bank chief economist Don Drummond.Released Wednesday, Drummond’s report calls for extensive spending reductions and warns that without his recommended belt-tightening, the province will face a crippling $30-billion deficit by 2017-18.Drummond warns that failing to follow such severe austerity measures could cause Ontario’s debt, which currently stands at $215 billion, to balloon to more than $411 billion in five years.
The long-awaited report from Don Drummond was released Wednesday.The long-awaited report from Don Drummond was released Wednesday.To avoid this and balance the books by 2017-18, Drummond outlines hundreds of recommendations in his 540-page report, which he calls a wrenching reduction from the path that spending is now on.His recommendations include everything from moving more patients away from hospital care to cheaper forms of health care. He also calls for increases in school class sizes, tighter controls over public-sector wages and moves to curtail the underground economy.He said the moves are necessary if Ontario is to escape its recent history of rising public debt that forces the government to spend more than it should on interest payments.

He also admits the cuts will be painful.The government will have to cut program spending more deeply on a real per capita basis and over a much longer period of time than the Harris government did in the 1990s,he writes in the report.Key to meeting the target is capping annual increases in health-care spending at 2.5 per cent, something Drummond said no jurisdiction has achieved in the past 30 years.Health-care spending in Ontario currently rises by almost seven per cent a year.Drummond wants to see more home-based care and a move toward cheaper health-care providers, such as nurse practitioners and personal support workers instead of doctors.In education, Drummond calls for annual spending increases capped at one per cent and says current increases of three to five per cent a year are not sustainable.He calls for cuts to non-teaching positions and suggests school bus service be subject to user fees and be opened up to competitive bidding.Drummond also wants the Ontario Child Benefit held at $1,100 per child, per year, instead of allowing it to rise to the $1,310 called for in the 2011 budget.Other measures call for the province to boost revenue by clamping down on the underground economy, and allowing slot machines in more locations.

He also wants the LCBO to consider expanding locations and wants the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation to fold its two head offices into one while closing one of two casinos in Niagara Falls.Leading up to the release of the report, the government hinted it was free to choose which of Drummond’s recommendations it will adopt.For example, Drummond calls for the elimination of all-day kindergarten, which the Liberals have already said they will not do.Drummond, however, says failing to follow his recommendations means the government will have to find the money elsewhere, either through new taxes or other spending cuts.Our recommendations can deliver the needed degree of spending restraint to balance the budget by 2017-18 only if all are implemented, he writes.We expect that many of our recommendations will be rejected. We accept that, but each rejected recommendation must be replaced not by a vacuum, but by a better idea, one that delivers a similar fiscal benefit.

Gloomy Drummond report calls for overhaul to Ontario health care, education-elizabeth church Globe and Mail Update Published Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 2:28PM EST Last updated Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 2:40PM EST GLOBE AND MAIL.

Get ready for a new reality, Ontario.A sweeping report on the financial health of Canada’s largest province calls for a major rethink of an economy long regarded as the engine of the country’s growth.The highly anticipated report delivered Wednesday by economist Don Drummond warns that Ontario is in the midst of a sea change driven by the decline of its manufacturing sector and shifting demographics.The prescription is a massive cost-cutting plan, a laundry list of austerity measures delivered in a 532-page report, a brick, in Mr. Drummond’s estimation. Its 362 recommendations range from broad reforms such as a culture shift in health care to focus on health promotion from the existing after-the-problem treatment model to nitty-gritty details, such as a call for commuters to pay for parking at GO Transit stations.In total, the work of the four-person panel amounts to a wake-up call to the province and the politicians who govern it – one it concedes could take some time to sink in.Our message will strike many as profoundly gloomy. It is one that Ontarians have not heard, the report cautions at the onset.The days of relying on economic growth to solve the province’s fiscal problems are over, Mr. Drummond warns. We don’t think the previous growth rates, unfortunately, will come back,he told reporters.If left unchecked, Ontario’s deficit will swell to $30.2-billion by 2018, or more than double last year’s figure. In order to correct that course, the report says annual spending growth must be held at 0.8 per cent over seven years – a target that given population growth and inflation actually will require a 16.2 per cent cut in program spending over that period for every man, woman and child in the province.As well as its list of prescriptive measures, the report raises two key themes, the need to make policy decisions based on evidence and the need to integrate public services – everything from social assistance to provincial real estate holdings.

This is not the first time a Canadian government has embarked on such a belt-tightening endeavor, Mr. Drummond said. But this time around the province has told indicated raising taxes is off the table and the report recommends that no cuts be made to social assistance rates, as they were under the Mike Harris government.
With those caveats, Mr. Drummond said his report would sent the province into largely uncharted waters. I think it would be fair to say it would be unprecedented in the post war period in Canada,he said.

The report’s major recommendations include:

Health care

The bulk of the report – like the provincial budget – is devoted to health-care reforms. Health-care spending accounts for more than 40 per cent of the provincial budget.
-capping annual increase to health-care spending at 2.5 per cent.
-shifting treatment from hospitals to clinics and homecare
-shifting services to lower cost caregivers where possible and making more use of nurse practitioners
-favours revamped Local Health Integration Networks, tightly integrated with Community Care Access Centres and with clear accountability structures.
-linking CEO and executive compensation to health outcome targets

Education

-Funding should grow at 1 and 1.5 per cent respectively for primary and postsecondary education, far below the current 3 to 5 per cent
-Full-day kindergarten should be scrapped, but as the government has already refused this advice, its implementation should at least be delayed three years, and staffing trimmed
-Class size caps should be relaxed, to 23 students in primary classes, and an average of 22 to 26 in later years
-Salary increases must be modest, and pensions may need to be jointly managed
-Seventy per cent of 13,800 non-teaching jobs created since 2003 should be scrapped, as should 25 per cent of funds for textbooks and classroom supplies
-Universities should sign individual mandate agreements, tying funding to goals, outcomes and graduation rates, and be forced to differentiate more
-The province needs federal help closing the wide gap in on-reserve education funding, and should join First Nations in forming new entities with powers similar to a school boards Labour
-The report does not recommend wage freezes, calling them ineffective
-More centralized bargaining in the public sector
-More flexibility for the public sector workforce including changes to bumping provisions.

Revenue

-Most of the report focuses on restraint, it estimates $2-billion in new revenue can be found in areas such as contraband tobacco, the underground economy, collections issues, tax expenditures and additional income from Crown agencies.
-It also calls for an honest discussion about revenue solutions such as road tolls, congestion charges, regional gas taxes, parking surcharge and a review of user fees.
With files from Tavia Grant and James Bradshaw

Drummond Report: Higher hydro bills, more user fees urged in sweeping report Published FEB 15,2012STEVE RUSSELL/TORONTO STAR
Robert Benzie Queen’s Park Bureau Chief

Gloom — or doom.

Ontarians could face higher hydro bills, bigger school classes, fewer hospitals, more expensive tuition and user fees to protect the future of provincial public services.That’s the grim message from Don Drummond, chair of the commission on public-service reform.His two-volume, 665-page report delivered Wednesday is so weighty that a table collapsed when Ontario Provincial Police officers unloaded copies in the media lock-up.Ontario faces more severe economic and fiscal challenges than Ontarians realize, Drummond warned.We can no longer assume a resumption of Ontario’s traditional strong economic growth and the continued prosperity on which the province has built its public services, he said.Our message will strike many as profoundly gloomy. It is one that Ontarians have not heard, certainly not in the recent election campaign, but one this commission believes it must deliver.While Premier Dalton McGuinty struck the Drummond commission in the March 2011 budget, the need for drastic cuts was rarely if ever broached by the Liberals, Progressive Conservatives or New Democrats in the Oct. 6 election.All the major parties agreed that the deficit, which sits at $16 billion this year, could be eliminated by 2017-18 relatively painlessly.Not so, warned Drummond, who projected the deficit would balloon to $30.2 billion in 2017-18 unless spending growth is radically curbed.

As first disclosed by the Star, overall increases must be capped at 0.8 per cent per year through 2017-18.Health care spending, up an average of 6.3 per cent annually over the past five years, must be held to 2.5 per cent growth.But Drummond admitted not one jurisdiction in the world over the past 30 years has managed to keep health costs to even that annual rate.Primary and secondary education costs can rise only 1 per cent with colleges and universities going up 1.5 per cent and social programs just 0.5 per cent.Everything else the government funds must be reduced by 2.4 per cent per year.Reform must be pervasive and speedy. The government will need to implement all the reforms we recommend … to restrain the growth of program spending enough to achieve balance by 2017-18, he said.With 362 recommendations — 105 on health alone — there is much for McGuinty’s Liberal government to digest.Senior Liberal officials, speaking before Finance Minister Dwight Duncan was to meet with reporters later Wednesday, confided much of Drummond’s report would be taken under advisement.Some of its tenets will be introduced in Duncan’s budget next month or are already under way with Health Minister Deb Matthews’ reforms announced two weeks ago.But Liberal insiders told the Star that the report presents a worst-case scenario that could give the government political cover when less dramatic cuts are made later this year.

That is not what Drummond wanted to hear.This is not a smorgasbord from which the government can choose only the tastiest morsels and ignore the less palatable, he said.We can all agree that change is disruptive, but the medicine does not go down more easily if it is dragged out over a long period.Although Drummond was not allowed to consider tax hikes, he said he cheated a bit and found $2 billion in enhanced revenues though higher fees and better collection of monies owed the province.But the lion’s share of the savings he identified came from cutting some of the Liberal government’s most treasured achievements, including:
• scrapping or revamping full-day kindergarten;
• raising the 20-student class-size cap in junior grades to 23 children and increasing the average in junior grades from 24.5 to 26 students and from 22 to 24 in secondary school;
• ending the Ontario clean air benefit, the 10 per cent rebate to electricity bills that costs the treasury $1 billion a year;
• cancelling the new 30 per cent Ontario tuition grant for college and university undergraduate students unless the overall post-secondary budget can be kept to a 1.5 per cent rise;
• extending the period municipal social service costs will be uploaded back to Queen’s Park by two years to 2020
• amalgamating some of Ontario’s 151 hospital corporations.

But Drummond urged against across-the-board cuts, wage freezes or targets for civil-service job reduction, though he implored the government to be creative.Do not hang on to public assets or public service delivery when better options exist. Consider privatizing assets and moving to the private delivery of services wherever feasible, he said.That does not mean a fire sale of assets.Do not partially or fully divest any or all of the province’s government enterprises – Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, Liquor Control Board of Ontario, Ontario Power Generation and Hydro One – unless the net long-term benefit to Ontario is considerable and can be clearly demonstrated through comprehensive analysis.Still, he suggested the LCBO improve its purchasing power and open more stores to generate revenue.As well, the gambling agency should close one its two head offices — in Toronto or Sault Ste. Marie — as well as one of the two Niagara casinos and allow more slot machines to be installed beyond just at racetracks or existing gaming facilities.