MORSI WANTS TO CONTROL THE SINAI PENINSULA

THX TO BEN URIEL FROM ISRAEL 
Israel Jerusalem Filmed in Imax 3D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-4oCyPPxl4&feature=player_embedded

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ISAIAH 33:8
8  The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)

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

Morsi 'to Make Changes in Camp David Accords'

Egyptian strongman intends to change agreement to enable Egypt to achieve "full sovereignty in Sinai."

By Gil Ronen First Publish: 8/14/2012, 3:36 PM

Morsi campain poster

Israel news photo: Flash 90

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi will discuss, in coming days, making changes in the Camp David Accord signed with Israel. The changes will allow Egypt "to implement its full sovereignty over the Sinai Peninsula."Morsi's advisor told an Egyptian newspaper, Al Masri al Youm, that despite the fact that Al Masri dismissed the entire top echelon of Egypt's security mechanism, there is no bad blood between the Military Council and the elected president.The decision regarding whom to appoint as the new Defense Minister and  Chief of Staff was taken by the Morsi, the advisor said, without the intervention of the Military Council.Morsi has appointed Abdul-Fatah al-Sessi as Defense Minister and Lieutenant-General Sidki Sayed Ahmed as Army Chief of Staff.

POISONED WATERS

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

ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3
2  I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3  I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)

REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

MORE DEAD FISH.AGAIN IN TEXAS.

Hundreds of thousands of dead fish wash ashore near Galveston, Tx in massive fish kill

Posted on August 14, 2012

August 14, 2012 – GALVESTON, TX – Hundreds of thousands of dead fish have washed up on the beach in Galveston, where crews went to work Monday to remove the dead fish. Peter Davis of the Galveston Island Beach Patrol said Sunday the small shad fish likely were killed by low oxygen levels in the Gulf of Mexico. Davis estimated hundreds of thousands of fish have died. Galveston County health officials said the water is fine for beachgoers. Biologist Steven Mitchell with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said calm conditions and summer heat may have contributed to the fish kill. He said there’s a possibility of a dead zone in the water off Galveston. Though testing is expected this week, some officials are already blaming the fish kill on red tide. –KWTX

contribution by Lisa

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

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(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PX-vW4VccY&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/indexes/

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE AUGUST 14,2012

09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +24.97
10:30 AM +26.16
11:00 AM +31.70
11:30 AM +32.52
12:00 PM +42.29
12:30 PM +33.16
01:00 PM +20.79
01:30 PM +18.67
02:00 PM +21.29
02:30 PM +14.63
03:00 PM +20.91
03:30 PM +8.83
04:00 PM +2.71 13,172.14

S&P 500 1403.93 -0.18

NASDAQ 3016.98 -5.54

GOLD 1,601.50 -11.50

OIL 93.46 +0.75

TSE 300 11,853.81 +15.28

CDNX 1197.01 -0.36

S&P/TSX/60 677.29 +1.70

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +50 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +52 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,601.30.OIL opens at $93.46 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +52 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +52 points at high today.

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

EARTHQUAKES

ISAIAH 42:15
15  I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

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

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

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

MAP	2.5	2012/08/14 12:41:48	32.040	-116.365	14.9	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	4.6	2012/08/14 12:31:23	39.219	-29.535	10.1	AZORES ISLANDS, PORTUGAL
MAP	5.2	2012/08/14 12:06:16	28.726	142.562	43.5	BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP	5.1	2012/08/14 10:55:43	23.956	121.620	20.3	TAIWAN
MAP	4.4	2012/08/14 10:08:59	-15.368	-173.338	14.5	TONGA
MAP	4.2	2012/08/14 08:55:05	39.505	15.331	271.1	SOUTHERN ITALY
MAP	2.9	2012/08/14 08:40:05	19.175	-66.794	27.0	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	3.1	2012/08/14 07:17:36	38.723	-112.535	0.3	UTAH
MAP	4.6	2012/08/14 07:09:29	33.824	141.693	24.4	OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP	2.7	2012/08/14 04:48:32	40.299	-124.454	20.3	OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	7.7	2012/08/14 02:59:42	49.784	145.126	625.9	SEA OF OKHOTSK
MAP	4.5	2012/08/14 02:39:30	36.546	70.966	197.5	HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN
MAP	5.2	2012/08/14 02:14:00	-59.162	-26.167	88.0	SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.8	2012/08/14 02:06:48	23.885	122.607	25.4	TAIWAN REGION
MAP	4.1	2012/08/14 00:45:51	36.538	70.094	211.4	HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN

New German complaint aims to further delay bailout fund

Today @ 09:21 AUG 14,12 By Valentina Pop

BRUSSELS - A new legal challenge filed with the German Constitutional Court on Monday (13 August) calls on judges to further delay their ruling on the eurozone's permanent bailout fund, pending a verdict by the EU's top court.The Karlsruhe-based court had already said it would rule on 12 September on six legal challenges lodged against both the permanent, yet-to-be-set-up European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the treaty on fiscal discipline signed by 25 EU countries.But a group of plaintiffs led by German professor Markus Kerber, who already had challenged the Greek, Portuguese and Irish bailouts for allegedly being in breach of EU law, on Monday asked the court to further delay its verdict because a similar complaint has been filed with the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice."As long as the European Court of Justice [ECJ] hasn't taken a final decision on the incompatibility of these treaties, neither the Federal Constitutional Court nor the Federal President must take a decision," Kerber's group, Europolis, said in a statement on its website.The court on Monday confirmed it had received the complaint, but refrained from commenting on whether it would accept it or not, Die Welt reports.The prospect of a further delay on the €500-billion-strong ESM fund is already spooking investors, with the German Dax index falling on the news on Monday evening.But legal experts are sceptical whether Karlsruhe will postpone its 12 September ruling."It is not likely that the Constitutional Court changes its schedule just because of a similar case in the European Court of Justice, because the ECJ is not a 'higher instance' (for the German court)," Joachim Wieland, a constitutional expert, told Handelsblatt Online."Both decisions are from a legal point of view on parallel tracks and are independent from one another," he addedThe case in Luxembourg was filed by Thomas Pringle, an Irish MP, who challenged the ESM in Irish courts for being in breach of EU law.The Irish Supreme Court, for its part, asked the ECJ for legal advice.If accepted, the Luxembourg court would take at least "a few months" to rule on the matter, an ECJ spokesman told Financial Times.The paper also noted that it would be for the first time if the German judges took the ECJ ruling into account, as they have never before asked this court for an opinion on EU-related matters.

EU referendum idea gains momentum in Germany

13.08.12 @ 09:27 By Valentina Pop

BRUSSELS - German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle on Sunday (12 August) became the latest in a line of politicians calling for a referendum on handing over more powers to Brussels as part of a new EU constitution."I hope that we have a real European constitution and that there will also be a referendum on it," he told the Sunday edition of Germany's biggest-circulation newspaper, Bild.The idea to hold a referendum on what Chancellor Angela Merkel sees as the only way out of the crisis - the formation of a true "political union" - has gained momentum in Germany."We need a political union. That means we have to give up further competencies to Europe, step by step, in an ongoing process," she told ARD public television earlier this month.Politicians both in the ruling coalition and in the opposition in recent weeks have said this is the only way to legitimise new transfers of power to EU institutions, which would go beyond what the current German constitution allows.German finance minister Wolfgang Schauble, from Merkel's own Christian-Democratic Union was the first to float the idea in June. He was followed by Bavarian Conservatives and now members of the liberal Free Democratic Party, Merkel's junior coalition member.For his part, Horst Seehofer, the leader of the Bavarian sister party to Merkel's CDU, on Sunday also said in an interview with Welt am Sonntag that there are "three [legal] areas where one must ask the German people about it [power transfers]."Meanwhile, the leader of the centre-left SPD party, Sigmar Gabriel, last week said the only way out of the crisis is to pool debt and sovereignty.He also endorsed a recent essay written by German philosopher Jurgen Habermas along with an economist and another SPD member, which called for a referendum and for giving the European Parliament more powers so that there is no "taxation without representation."Leading German magazine Spiegel Online has outlined forward three scenarios for a possible referendum.It said one option is a voluntary poll on changing the German charter. A second scenario is a referendum forced by German ratification of a new EU treaty on power transfers, while a final option is a pan-European referendum on EU treaty changes.The German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe is due to rule on 12 September on the legal compatibility with German law of the European pact on budget discipline - the "fiscal compact" - and the eurozone's permanent bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism.
In line with previous rulings, it is likely to ask for a bigger say for the German Parliament and point to the limits of the current German constitution as part of the eurozone architecture-in-the-making.

FAMINE

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

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

Drought relief but no bonanza for U.S. crops

By Sam Nelson | Reuters – 23 hours ago AUG 14,12

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Light showers and cooler temperatures forecast for the next week will bring welcome relief to drought-stressed corn and soybean crops in the U.S. Midwest but serious damage has already been done to crops, an agricultural meteorologist said on Monday."It's an improvement and will probably slow deterioration but I don't see any huge improvement either," said John Dee, meteorologist for Global Weather Monitoring.Dee said from 0.20 inch to 0.60 inch of rain with isolated heavier amounts fell over the weekend in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. Similar rainfall is expected on Monday in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio and from late Wednesday into Friday about 85 percent of the Midwest can expect from 0.30 inch to 0.80 inch of rain."Temperatures will be more comfortable with highs in the 80s (degrees Fahrenheit) in the north and the low 90s F in the south," Dee said.Dee and other crop experts said the U.S. corn crop was already harmed beyond by the summer's heat but some of the late planted soy may be helped. "It will allow some of the filling or pod setting soybeans to develop but the damage has been done to the corn crop," he said.Commodity Weather Group (CWG) on Monday said nearly one-third of the Midwest soybean crop remained under stress from lack of moisture and the soybean area stressed by drought may expand slightly over the next 10 days.Parts of central Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, western Iowa, southern Wisconsin, southwestern Minnesota and southern South Dakota will be most prone to stress, CWG said.Also, nearly half of the Delta in the lower Mississippi crop region remains unfavorably dry for late growth in dryland areas, but rains are expected to expand from late this week into late August and will ease moisture deficits, according to CWG.As the worst drought in over a half century took its toll, investors went on a buying spree, boosting corn prices by more than 50 percent from late May to record highs above $8 per bushel. The U.S. government on Friday released fresh crop data showing deep cuts for this year's corn and oilseed output as the drought spread through America's breadbasket.Now, an early autumn cool down is coming following the summer of relentless heat that brought almost daily 100 F-plus readings to much of the crop belt and harming everything from corn to cattle.The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Friday released a shocking report showing just how bad the corn and soybean crops have been hurt during the historic drought that some were beginning to compare with the dust bowl days of the 1930's.USDA said this year's corn crop would fall below 11.0 billion bushels for the first time in six years and the number of bushels yielded per acre was a 17-year low. Soybean production was forecast at a five year low and soy yield per acre nearly a 10-year low.The sharp cuts in crop output even filtered into the precious metals markets, boosting gold as worries about higher food prices enhanced its allure as an inflation hedge.
Analysts and crop experts said further cuts may be seen in future reports.(Reporting By Sam Nelson; Editing by Alden Bentley)

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

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

Progress made on Calif. wildfire threatening town

Associated Press – 21 hours ago AUG 14,12

CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Crews made progress overnight against a Northern California wildfire that has grown to more than 4 1/2 square miles and forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes.

The blaze in Lake County was 25 percent contained early Monday and threatens 480 homes in Spring Valley. The fire destroyed three buildings after erupting Sunday but it's unclear whether those were homes.
A second Lake County wildfire has burned more than three square miles and forced evacuations.
Meanwhile, two fires sparked by lightning from Sunday thunderstorms are burning out of control in Southern California wilderness areas but no homes are nearby.A 220-acre blaze is near Vallecito in San Diego County and a 300-acre fire is burning in Joshua Tree National Park east of Palm Springs.More thunderstorms are possible Monday afternoon.

MUSLIM NATIONS

JEREMIAH 30:10-11
10  Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob,(ISRAEL) saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob (ISRAEL) shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
11  For I am with thee,(ISRAEL-JERUSALEM) saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee:(GOD-JESUS ALWAYS PROTECTS ISRAEL-JERUSALEM)

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)

JEREMIAH 4:6-8
6  Set up the standard toward Zion:(JERUSALEM) retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north,(RUSSIA/MUSLIMS) and a great destruction.(WITH NUKES)
7  The lion is come up from his thicket,(RUSSIA/MUSLIMS) and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
8  For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.(AMERICA-NY AND OTHER CITIES)

EZEKIEL 5:15-17
15  So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the (ARAB/MUSLIM) nations that are round about thee,(ISRAEL) when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
16  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
17  So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts,(WHEN RUSSIA/MUSLIMS GET DEFEATED THIER BODIES GET EATEN BY BIRDS,ANIMALS IN ISRAEL MIGRATION SEASON) and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee;(NUKES) and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

EZEKIEL 28:25-26
25  Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered,(WORLD NATIONS) and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.(ISRAEL)
26  And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them;(ARAB/MUSLIMS LEAD BY RUSSIA) and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.

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,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
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.

JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37  For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)

ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12  Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13  The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14  And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.

JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23  Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24  Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25  How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27  And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)

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)

JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2  Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3  At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4  Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5  Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6  O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7  How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.

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,(5/6TH OR 750 MILLION DEAD I BELIEVE) 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-MUSLIMS) 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,ARAB,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.

Russia: New US Sanctions Against Iran 'Overt Blackmail'

Russia criticized new US sanctions against Iran, calling them “undisguised blackmail” and a "crude contradiction of international law."By Rachel Hirshfeld First Publish: 8/14/2012, 10:45 AM

President Obama

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Russia harshly criticized new U.S. sanctions against Iran on Monday, calling them “overt blackmail” and a "crude contradiction of international law," warning that relations between Washington and Moscow could significantly soar if Russian companies are affected.President Barack Obama signed into law new sanctions on Iran’s energy, shipping and financial industries on Friday that would harm foreign companies that mine uranium with Iran or help the regime export oil by providing tankers, insurance or banking services.
"We are talking about restrictive measures not only against Iran but also affecting foreign companies and individuals working with it, including in the hydrocarbon extraction and transport, petrochemicals, finance and insurance industries," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement."We consider efforts to ... impose internal American legislation on the entire world completely unacceptable," it said. "We reject methods of overt blackmail that the United States resorts to in relation to the companies and banks of other countries."
"Those in Washington should take into account that our bilateral relations will suffer seriously if Russian operators ... come under the effects of the American restrictions."Russia reiterated its stance that unilateral sanctions, as opposed to those approved by the Security Council, are counterproductive, arguing that the "constant increase of pressure on Tehran" undermines unity among the six nations leading diplomatic efforts to rein in Iran's nuclear program and impairs the chances of success, Rueters repoted.Talks between Iran and the six powers in Moscow in June failed to yield desired results over Tehran's nuclear activities including the enrichment of uranium which Western nations fear is part of a bid for weapons capability.

Iran confident Israel won't launch 'stupid' attack

AFP – 3 hrs ago AUG 14,12

Iran on Tuesday said it is dismissing Israeli threats of an imminent attack against it, explaining that even some Israeli officials realised such a "stupid" act would provoke "very severe consequences.""In our calculations, we aren't taking these claims very seriously because we see them as hollow and baseless," foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters in a weekly briefing.
[Slideshow: Iran test fires long-range missile]
"Even if some officials in the illegitimate regime (Israel) want to carry out such a stupid action, there are those inside (the Israeli government) who won't allow it because they know they would suffer very severe consequences from such an act," he said.Iran's defence minister, General Ahmad Vahidi, was quoted by the ISNA news agency saying that Israel "definitely doesn't have what it takes to endure Iran's might and will."
He called the Israeli threats "a sign of weakness" by "brainless leaders."The comments were a response to bellicose rhetoric from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak in recent days suggesting they were thinking more seriously of military action against Iranian nuclear facilities.
"We are determined to prevent Iran from becoming nuclear (armed), and all the options are on the table. When we say it, we mean it," Barak told Israeli radio last Thursday.Israeli media have underlined the threat, reporting that a decision could be made within weeks. They have also highlighted opposition to the idea by current and former Israeli military officials.The United States has recently multiplied visits by top officials to Israel in what appears to be an attempt to dissuade the Jewish state from targeting the Islamic republic.
[Related: To attack or not to attack?]

"We continue to believe there is time and space for diplomacy," White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Monday.Israel insists that Iran is on the point of developing nuclear weapons, and says it reserves the right to act to prevent that.The Jewish state has in the past launched air strikes to destroy nuclear facilities in Iraq and, reportedly, in Syria to protect its own regional nuclear weapons monopoly, whose existence it refuses to officially confirm.Iran says its nuclear programme is exclusively for peaceful, civilian uses.In the past couple of years it has ramped up uranium enrichment to a level just a few steps short of military-grade fissile material, saying those stocks are needed to create medical isotopes. It has also refused UN nuclear inspectors access to suspect military installations.Renewed negotiations between Iran and the five top UN Security Council powers, plus Germany, have taken place this year. They have been downgraded after it became clear they were in an impasse, but not ended.In the meantime, Iran is suffering from increasingly tough US and EU economic sanctions that have crippled its all-important oil exports.

Israel plunged into unprecedented debate about war

By AMY TEIBEL | Associated Press – 18 hrs ago AUG 14,12

JERUSALEM (AP) — To attack or not to attack? With Israeli politicians warning repeatedly that Iran is secretly pursuing nuclear weapons, this question has spawned an unprecedented amount of agonizing even in a country accustomed to war and incessant debate.The teeth gnashing plays out everywhere from the halls of parliament to news talk shows to people's living rooms. Should Israel undertake a risky mission to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities? Should it trust the United States to do the job if necessary? Can it live with a nuclear Iran? Should politicians even be talking about this in public?"A country that is debating whether to attack or not to attack usually doesn't spill its guts," said veteran Israeli journalist Motti Kirshenbaum. He noted that Israel's usual pattern is to dissect a military offensive after it happens — not discuss it beforehand.The public appears to be largely taking the furor in stride, in part because some suspect Israel's leaders are essentially bluffing in order to compel the world to get serious about the issue. But there is a growing sense of foreboding: Even Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who is believed to favor an attack, says hundreds will die in the counterstrike, and there is awareness of the global security and economic mayhem that war with Iran could unleash.Never in Israel's history has there been so much talk about an impending war, security affairs analyst and Iran expert Yossi Melman wrote in a column on the Walla! news website on Monday."It's one thing for the media to blather about it, but why are leaders and senior officials chattering themselves to death?" he asked.Although Israel's leaders frequently lament about all the Iran "chitchat," make no mistake: It's they who are fueling the discussion.The Iranian threat, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday, "dwarfs any challenge the Israeli home front faces."True, no Israeli leader has explicitly threatened to attack Iran. Netanyahu and Barak — considered here the main champions of a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities — have said no decision has yet been made. But they sometimes seem at pains to make sure the message is not missed.Netanyahu has been warning about an Iranian nuclear threat since the 1990s, invoking comparisons with the Holocaust and sidelining all other foreign policy issues during his latest tenure as prime minister.In recent months, amid the intensity of economic sanctions and boycotts against Iran, there have been hints of self-congratulation related to the theory that only Israeli saber-rattling could have pushed a world eager to mollify Israel and prevent an attack in this fortunate direction.But of late the media here has filled with leaked reports attributable to "senior officials" projecting a sense that patience is growing thin: The sanctions don't go far enough, and although they have fueled inflation and hammered the standard of living in Iran, they fall short, especially because Russia and China notably refuse to fall into line.Hints dropped privately by senior officials and multiple warnings by Israeli leaders about time growing short have created the impression here that Netanyahu and Barak have given up on the idea of pressuring Iran through economic and diplomatic sanctions, and are out to attack by early fall unless Iran abandons its uranium enrichment program, a key element in making atomic weapons."The hot topic on the Israeli street is when will the war break out and where to take cover in the event of a missile attack," Melman wrote.Talks between Iran and world powers are effectively stalled with no firm date to restart following June's session in Moscow.At the heart of the talks is how much the West is willing to allow Iran to enrich uranium, which at low levels creates fuel to power reactors but can be boosted to weapons grade material. Iran insists it will never surrender its ability to make nuclear fuel, but says it seeks reactors only for energy and medical applications.Israelis scoff at Tehran's insistence that its nuclear program is peaceful, and many believe a nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat to Israel's survival. They cite Iran's repeated calls for Israel's downfall, support for anti-Israel militant groups and development of sophisticated missiles capable of striking Israel.
This may constitute an existential threat, but it also makes good copy.On Monday, each of the country's five daily newspapers carried a front-page story on a potential attack even though there were no major developments the day before."The United States will be dragged into an Israeli attack on Iran," trumpeted Maariv."Ehud Barak's atomic mistake," blared Yediot Ahronot, alongside a column on Iran.Fueling the debate has been extraordinary public criticism of Netanyahu and Barak coming from an unlikely quarter: All of Israel's recently retired security chiefs oppose an attack, and several have come out swinging against Barak and Netanyahu personally. It's a shocking public rift between the political and defense establishments.
"This unprecedented debate more than anything else reflects profound distrust of the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu by the Israeli military and defense establishment," said Yaron Ezrahi, a political scientist and former analyst in the Israeli military.Skeptics note that the risks of a strike are monumental. Israel could become entangled in harsh, long-term consequences, ranging from an ongoing war with Iran and its proxies in Lebanon and Gaza, to a diplomatic rift with the U.S., which has urged Israel to give sanctions more time while promising not to let Iran go nuclear.Also, Israeli air strikes could deliver a debilitating but not necessarily fatal blow to Iran's nuclear program. They would mostly serve to destroy uranium-enriching centrifuges, which can be purchased by friendly states such as North Korea or possibly rebuilt by Iranian technicians.After the security officials opposed an attack, Israel's leaders turned to the public in an attempt to drum up support, Kirshenbaum said."They're doing it because they want partners to the decision, because they understand it's a very dangerous risk," he said. But he added that the discussion may serve the public good: "You have a situation that is so complicated and so dangerous, that in a democratic society, you might need a debate over whether to do it because so much hangs in the balance."A poll released Sunday suggested the public, normally hawkish on security matters, has big qualms about a solo Israeli strike on Iran that does not have Washington's blessing. The survey, conducted by Israel's Dialog Institute, showed 46 percent oppose such an attack as opposed to 32 percent who support it and 22 percent who have no opinion. A total of 504 people took part in the survey, which had a margin of error of 4.3 percentage points.

Ezrahi, the political scientist, applauds the public debate."Every democracy should discuss the issue of going to war with such potentially fateful results," he said.But Nachman Shai, a lawmaker with the opposition Kadima Party and a former military spokesman, thinks drawing in the public was a "bad idea.""It frightens people to live in a country that is talking about war all the time," he said. "What does it do to us as a country, a society? Even though we're a society that is familiar with this, it's a very heavy dose."___AP correspondent Karin Laub contributed to this report from Ramallah, West Bank.

THIS IS JUST REDICULAS.16,000 CITIZENS KILLED IN SYRIA AND NO ACTION TAKEN BY THE USELESS U.N.IF THIS HAPPENED IN ISRAEL.THE WORLD WOULD BE CALLING FOR AN ATTACK TO STOP ISRAELIS FROM DEFENDING THEMSELVES.AND ACCUSING ISRAEL OF GENOCIDE.BUT LET A COMPLETE MURDERER LIKE ASSAD JUST OFF THE INNOCENT CITIZENS WITH GENOCIDE.HOW HYPOCRITICAL IS THE U.N AND THE WORLD IS MY QUESTION?

More than 23,000 people killed in Syria: NGO

AFP – 13 hrs ago AUG 14,12

More than 23,000 people have been killed in violence in Syria since the outbreak of a revolt in March last year, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday."As of August 13, 23,002 people were killed, including 16,142 civilians, 1,018 defectors and 5,842 soldiers," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP, adding that 2,409 people have been killed in the past 13 days alone.

The civilian toll includes those who have taken up arms against the regime.The conflict became even bloodier after fierce fighting erupted in Damascus and Syria's second city of Aleppo in July."The total count does not include the shabiha (pro-government militiamen), thousands of detainees whose fate is unknown, or those who have been killed but whose identities have not been verified," Abdel Rahman added.It is impossible to independently verify death counts out of Syria, and the UN has stopped keeping its own toll.

President shifts Egypt's balance of power

By HAMZA HENDAWI and SARAH EL DEEB | Associated Press – 15 hrs ago AUG 14,12

CAIRO (AP) — In retaking key powers and shaking up the military brass, President Mohammed Morsi has sharply shifted Egypt's balance of power overnight and transformed his public image from a weak leader to a savvy politician.If unchallenged, the moves could end six decades of de facto military rule in Egypt. But they also raise a new concern at home and abroad — the concentration of power in the hands of Islamists.

With the military as the backbone of the Egyptian state for the past 60 years, the country's first civilian and freely elected president must have closely coordinated his moves with top members of the military establishment to ensure their execution, according to analysts who closely monitor Egypt's military.That reality underlines how much care a civilian president must take if he wants to assert his authority over a military accustomed to having one of its own filling the land's highest office.The military sent a message of reassurance Monday about Morsi's surprise decision to retire the defense minister and chief of staff and retake powers the generals grabbed from his office days before his June 30 inauguration.A posting on a Facebook page known to be close to the generals said the changes, announced by Morsi Sunday, amounted to the "natural" handing over of leadership to a younger generation. "The armed forces is a prestigious institution with a doctrine of full discipline and commitment to legitimacy," it said.Morsi's move has redrawn the political map of post-Hosni Mubarak Egypt, with Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, a fundamentalist Islamist group, gaining considerable stature from a battle not many thought it could survive, let alone win."With the military stripped of legislative authority, and in the absence of parliament, the president holds imperial powers," Egypt's top reform leader, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, wrote on his Twitter account Monday.Morsi has been locked in a power struggle with the military since he took office. But after militants killed 16 Egyptian soldiers a week ago at a border post with Israel in Sinai — the worst attack on troops in living memory — he has more aggressively sought to assert his authority over the top generals.

He fired the nation's intelligence chief a few days after the Sinai attack and made two highly publicized visits to Sinai in the company of top commanders. He also chaired several meetings with the military leadership and made a point of calling himself the supreme commander of the armed forces in televised speeches while seeking to project an image of himself as the army's patron and foremost supporter.The long-term goal of the Brotherhood is to Islamize Egypt, the most populous Arab nation. Outlawed for most of its 84 years, the group will draw much confidence from Morsi's latest victory in his power struggle with the military as it prepares for new parliamentary elections expected before the end of the year.Morsi, a conservative Muslim, has been careful not to push that agenda since his election, worried that he could alienate secular Egyptians, women and minority Christians. However, he made it clear while campaigning ahead in May that Islamic Shariah law must be implemented in Egypt.The Brotherhood won both parliamentary and presidential elections in the first free and fair votes in Egypt's modern history, following Mubarak's ouster in a popular uprising last year. However, the military rulers who took power from Mubarak dissolved the Brotherhood-dominated parliament in June after a court ruled that a third of its members were illegally elected.Morsi hand-picked his first prime minister last month, a devout Muslim who denies any link to the Brotherhood. On Sunday, he named Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, also known to be a devout Muslim, as defense minister, replacing Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi.How he pulled off Sunday's stunning coup, is the subject of intense speculation, with all parties concerned keeping mum on the details.Analysts say the shake-up could have been part of a "safe exit" deal negotiated by Morsi and the generals to shield them against prosecution for alleged crimes during the time they ruled the country. They cite the appointment of Tantawi, the outgoing defense minister, and Gen. Sami Annan, the ousted chief of staff, as presidential advisers as evidence to support their theory.Three top generals retired by Morsi on Sunday — the chiefs of the air force, air defense and the navy— were also given senior government jobs.Morsi may also have tapped into divisions and the generation gap within the top echelons of the military. Tantawi, for example, is 76 and was in that job for more than 20 years. His replacement, El-Sissi, is 58.Omar Ashour, a visiting Scholar at the Brookings Doha Center who has interviewed Egypt's post-Mubarak military rulers over the past year, said the shake-up was forced by the current balance of power, which dictates coordination between a popularly elected president and a military whose mandate for ruling expired with Morsi's election."The issue that is significant is to have a civilian elected president overruling the military, trying to assert the civilian superiority over the military," he said. "But the military establishment has a minimum demand, and that is a veto on key policies and national security."Morsi would be ill-advised to treat the military as a vanquished enemy after Sunday's shake-up. It would be just as unwise, however, to underestimate the powers of the presidency, which has traditionally lent strength to its occupants no matter how weak or hesitant they were when they first took office.For Morsi to take on a military establishment that has been dominant in Egypt since army officers seized power in a 1952 coup shows how far he was willing to go to assert his authority, even with the help of some of the generals.

Still, he knew his limitations, sailing in what is in effect uncharted waters as Egypt's first civilian president. He knew these boundaries well enough not to appoint a civilian defense minister and to realize that the military will continue to play a key role in how Egypt is run.The United States, Egypt's main foreign backer of 30 years, said it had expected the changes, and expressed a desire to see the military and the government working well together."We had expected President Morsi at some point to coordinate changes in the military leadership, to name a new team," U.S. Defense Department press secretary George Little said in Washington.U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland added: "What's important to us is that the civilian leadership and the military keep working well together to advance the goals of the democratic transition in Egypt."Morsi appears to have timed his moves at a time when the military was humiliated by a major security failure with the Sinai attack on Aug. 5, just days after Israel warned an assault was imminent.
The incident led to rare media criticism of the military's combat readiness — something that had not been seen in Egypt since its disastrous 1967 defeat by Israel — and charges that its generals were distracted by politics when they should have been paying attention to troop protection.But the military, in the eyes of most Egyptians, remains the nation's most powerful institution, a defender of a nation that fought four wars with Israel between 1948 and 1973, and which is obsessed about foreign threats, real or imaginary, to its security.
"We are entering a new phase, where the military returns to the barracks and all authorities go to the president," said Abdullah el-Sinawi, a prominent analyst who has for years been close to the military.

"But the political role of the military will stay with us for at least 20 more years. A diminishing political role for the military is a delusion."___Associated Press correspondents Matthew Pennington and Pauline Jelinek in Washington contributed to this report.

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Central banks

The twilight of the central banker

Jun 26th 2012, 17:28 by R.A. | WASHINGTON-THE ECONOMIST

THE Bank for International Settlements is known as the central bank to central banks. It shouldn't be surprising, then, if the misjudgments common to central bankers are occasionally distilled in BIS analysis into a somewhat curious view of the global economy: one in which heroic, blameless central banks have done their utmost to keep the world economy afloat, in the face of ceaseless governmental incompetence and despite a constant bombardment of baseless outsider criticism. The ability of central bankers to bandage over the harm inflicted by bumbling politicians is limited, warns the BIS in its latest annual report. Unless the world embraces the sober leadership of the wise central banker disaster looms.The annual report is a remarkable document, one which might well come to serve as the epitaph for an era of central banking spanning the Volcker disinflation and the Great Recession—the epoch of the central banker as oracle, guru, maestro. If the end of this era is upon us, we can credit a series of revelations: that central bankers learned the lessons of economic history less well than they'd thought, that they displayed an unfortunate tendency to set aside economic rigour in favour of an obsessive focus on price stability, and (perhaps most importantly) that they are in more need of democratic accountability than is often assumed. Above all, the report captures what may be the most critical error of the modern central banker: eschewing a focus on his proper domain—demand stabilisation—in favour of an arena in which he has no business sticking his nose—the economy's supply side.
Briefly, a dime summary of the report. Nearly half a decade on from the financial crisis, many troubling weaknesses in the global economy remain unaddressed. Deleveraging is occuring dreadfully slowly in many rich countries. "Imbalances" have scarcely been diminished. Monetary policy has propped up economic growth, temporarily buying time for broader structural reforms that governments have failed to deliver. The scope for central banks to do more is limited and the risks of further action are rising. Meanwhile, government debt is a huge threat, particularly given continued problems of undercapitalised banks in some economies. Somehow, governments must return to budget surplus in order to maintain market confidence and create room for future bank rescues, while remaining conscious of the potential blow to growth from dramatic short-term austerity. The immediate future is all sackcloth and ashes.
The overarching theme is quite simple: central banks have done what the economic situation has called for and then some, and they should not and cannot be expected to do much more. Instead, other economic policymakers must finally heed central bankers' recommendations for how to clean up their messes, fiscal, structural, and otherwise. It strikes me as a deeply mistaken view of the state of the world economy and the proper role of the central banker.
At the heart of the BIS' flawed thinking are a number of key misconceptions:
Low interest rates represent accommodative monetary policy. This is a venerable error, also popular during the 1930s. Central banks change the cost of money—the interest rate—in order to clear labour markets. Policy is accommodative not when interest rates are low in absolute terms, but when they are low relative to the market-clearing rate. Economist estimates (including some by Federal Reserve economists using Taylor rules) indicate that for much or all of the period from late 2008 to now the market-clearing interest rate in advanced economies has been negative, substantially so in some cases. Near-zero nominal interest rates (and even moderately negative real interest rates) may therefore represent too-tight monetary policy: money too costly to encourage the spending and investment necessary to achieve full employment.
The BIS argues instead that low rates, taken on their own, are evidence of accommodative monetary policy. In support of the point, it marshals a Taylor-rule analysis that utterly fails the smell test. According to its framework, advanced-economy central banks ought to have raised interest rates steadily from early 2010; on average, benchmark rates should now be above 3%—a recipe for macroeconomic disaster.
"Imbalances" take the onus of macroeconomic stabilisation off central banks. The BIS indulges in this misconception in two ways. First, it deploys the balance-sheet recession argument that overindebted consumers and firms are immune to low interest rates. This is obviously true of many households and businesses but clearly isn't true of all of them. The job of monetary policy is set the policy rate such that cash-flush entities pick up the slack from those paying down their debts. Central banks are there to clear the market, and the statement that there is excess saving in an economy is equivalent to the statement that policy is too tight.
Secondly, the BIS takes the distressingly Hayekian (or Mellonist) view that "malinvestment" during the boom must somehow be paid for in slower growth now:

Because labour and capital do not easily shift across industries, the misallocation of resources during the boom tends to work against recovery in the aftermath of a crisis. Hence, countries where the sectoral imbalances were most apparent are facing higher and more protracted unemployment as their industrial structure only slowly adjusts.

Exhibits A and B for this argument—Spain and Ireland—are fairly lousy examples given the absence in those countries of an independent monetary policy (the BIS might as well argue that countries with no central bank can't rely on a competent central bank to stabilise the macroeconomy). America, the BIS' Exhibit C, reveals the weakness of the argument. America's housing crash began in earnest in 2006, at which point sales, construction, and real-estate employment all commenced plummeting. GDP growth continued, however, and unemployment remained at normal levels until mid-2008, two years later, at which point nominal output began to fall well short of trend and falling employment affected nearly every major industry. Labour and capital shift easily enough when demand follows expectations—when central banks do their job.
Central banks can't do more without confronting unacceptable risks. The BIS cites imbalances as obstacles to effective monetary policy while acknowledging that by pushing unconventional monetary policy further central banks can impact aggregate demand. A host of accompanying risks to such policy suggests they should not, however. What sort of risks?

First, prolonged unusually accommodative monetary conditions mask underlying balance sheet problems and reduce incentives to address them head-on. Necessary fiscal consolidation and structural reform to restore fiscal sustainability could be delayed.

If the central bank does its job, in other words, politicians may not do the things central bankers think they ought to do. Implied in this assessment is that it is the central banker's job to hold elected governments accountable for public finances and supply-side policies rather than the electorate's. This represents both a dereliction of the central bank's duty and an astounding policy overreach. In a similar vein:

[L]arge-scale asset purchases and unconditional liquidity support together with very low interest rates can undermine the perceived need to deal with banks' impaired assets.

In other words, neglect of the central bank's primary duty may be appropriate in order to focus the minds of bank executives and politicians on potential asset losses. Translated, this is effectively the liquidationist view of recovery; if interest rates were higher, advanced economies would be forced into wholesale default, the end result of which would be (assuming society survives the ensuing depression) clean balance sheets.
Other risks of low rates include lower returns for banks and large institutional investors, which may in turn be encouraged to take more risk. Of course, a very low natural rate of interest is the result of excess saving; the central bank's goal is to move its policy rate toward the natural rate in order to mobilise that saving and clear markets. These "risks" are symptomatic of the broader macroeconomic situation and of appropriate central bank efforts to rectify it. True, "financial vulnerabilities" or excesses could result from low rates, but interest-rate policy is an extraordinarily blunt and costly way to rule out such threats, essentially amounting to engineered recession in order to prevent bubbles. Better to use central banks' ample regulatory tools.
Strikingly, the BIS also frets about emerging-market spillovers from rich-world monetary policy. These spillovers are easily overstated. Inasmuch as China has acted as their conduit, by resisting currency appreciation in order to maintain growth (and thereby supporting global commodity demand and prices), spillovers are a key means through which to address those feared imbalances. Chinese inflation has facilitated a real exchange rate adjustment which is chipping away at its chronic current-account surplus and others' chronic deficits. Of course, the BIS also says:

Loose global monetary policy has probably also contributed to the strength of commodity prices since 2009...Commodity prices are set in global auction markets and are very sensitive to global demand conditions, which are in turn shaped by the global monetary policy stance.

This is a nice echo of its exhortation in last year's report that global economic growth must slow. Prices for scarce commodities can't be allowed to clear markets, suggests the BIS. Central bankers should instead engineer a global demand shortfall in order to keep them in check.
(Worries about huge emerging-market capital inflows also look a bit quaint against the backdrop of large outflows from many emerging economies associated with euro-area financial turmoil and the global flight to safety, which troubles are themselves encouraged by inadequate rich-world monetary policy.)
Regrettably absent from this discussion is any attempt at an actual cost-benefit calculation. The BIS seems to acknowledge that central banks remain able to boost aggregate demand. They should not do much more, it is argued, because of the above risks. There are substantial risks to not doing more, however, the most significant of which are the enormous costs of prolonged high unemployment and the eventual structural impairment of an economy suffering from a chronic output gap. One could easily begin with the proposition that central banks aren't out of firepower and craft an entire report on the massive risks of large, persistent output gaps, which demand an overwhelming central-bank response. The BIS behaves as if this dynamic doesn't exist.
Something something fiscal policy. Central bankers have strong views on what governments ought to be doing with their budgets, many of which make most sense when given the least scrutiny. The BIS knows what it wants to say: that fiscal consolidation is almost universally necessary and the only real question is how to pursue it. Picking a path toward this argument that doesn't immediately cave in under the weight of self-contradiction proves to be a difficult task.
The BIS fails to wrestle with the fact that borrowing costs for sovereigns without central banks have risen while those elsewhere have not; it finds itself relying on discredited ratings agencies for assessments of non-euro-zone sovereign creditworthiness rather than market prices. The BIS also dances around a parallel, uncomfortable fact: that austerity within the euro-zone has often enough been associated with falling market confidence and not the other way around. In other words, where markets are least frightened of sovereigns austerity is most easily tolerated, precisely because central banks are free to pick up the slack. And where markets are most reluctant to lend, austerity is almost entirely self-defeating thanks to the absence of a flexible central bank. Over the long-term (which is not the central bank's concern) governments must indeed engage in fiscal consolidation with a particular focus on long-run growth in spending. Over the short- to medium-term, which is the central bank's arena, the story the BIS would like to tell falls apart amid complicating factors. The central bank's best approach is to do its job and let markets and voters hold governments accountable.
Attention is paid in the report to the problem of a safe-asset shortage, but here, too, the recommended action is too simplistic by far. The way to solve the safe-asset problem, the BIS suggests, is through broad austerity sufficient to return many sovereigns to creditworthiness. As noted above, austerity might well prove counterproductive. But it's also critical to recognise that creditworthiness alone is not sufficient to make an asset safe. Market size and liquidity also matter, which limits the pool of sufficiently safe assets to a handful of large economies with deep debt markets backed by independent central banks managing global reserve currencies. And here is the rub, a version of the Triffin dilemma: if those countries begin pursuing austerity they will restrict the supply of new, safe debt, thereby exacerbating the safe-asset shortage. Of course, if they move in the other direction and rapidly raise their annual borrowing, a marginal subset of these economies could move from safe to unsafe status. The broader point is that worldwide fiscal consolidation is not obviously the right choice, and that these fiscal questions are generally more complicated than the BIS lets on.
And then there is this chestnut:

It would be a mistake to think that central bankers can use their balance sheets to solve every economic and financial problem: they cannot induce deleveraging, they cannot correct sectoral imbalances, and they cannot address solvency problems.

This is problematic across the board, but let's just focus on the last bit. Solvency, it is very important to remember, is state-contingent. In a protracted liquidity crisis, the solvent become insolvent. If central banks begin holding nominal growth at levels well below those expected when large debts were incurred, borrowers with a reasonable expectation of solvency ex ante will find themselves insolvent ex post. A central bank is not reponsible for solvency problems that emerge while it keeps to an expected, stable demand path. It does bear responsibility for insolvency that emerges as a result of persistent, preventable demand shortfalls. (And whether a central bank is responsible or not, its decision to provide unlimited liquidity can bail insolvent institutions out of insolvency, potentially leaving the economy as a whole better off provided that moral hazard concerns are subsequently addressed.)
It is entirely understandable that central banks maintain a close interest in fiscal policy. Central bankers would always prefer not to act, and fiscal mismanagement may force them to take corrective steps. That's life, however; the job of the central banker is not to make the central banker feel comfortable. In the extreme, of course, massive government borrowing may force a central bank to act as a lender of last resort on an ongoing basis, with associated loss of control over inflation. I would argue that it is not the central bank's job to prevent such an outcome; accountability must ultimately rest with voters. The euro zone represents a challenge to this rule given the absence of euro-zone-wide democracy. But in general central banks have been entrusted with demand management. Failures of elected officials must be dealt with through the political process, and central bank intervention in such matters represents a dangerous and unwarranted overreach. The BIS does not agree:

Although central banks in many advanced economies may have no choice but to keep monetary policy relatively accommodative for now, they should use every opportunity to raise the pressure for deleveraging, balance sheet repair and structural adjustment by other means.

No. They should not. Central banks—small, elite, technocratic groups given as much independence from political pressure as is institutionally possible—should absolutely not use every opportunity to raise the pressure for structural adjustment. Central bankers have been given a phenomenal amount of economic power: relatively untrammeled control over the unit of exchange and, by extension, over the demand side of the economy. Use of that phenomenal power to influence control over other aspects of the economy—including budget decisions, labour-market regulations, and the benefit structure of old-age pensions—is wildly outside the purview of the central bank and sure to prove corrosive to the independence of the central bank and the democratic process.
Central bankers will inevitably face limits on what they can achieve. These limits will occasionally be due to political choices and will often be uncomfortable or unpleasant for those central bankers. For a central bank to neglect its primary responsibilities in an effort to circumvent those limits is the height of folly and hubris. If the world is lucky, central bankers will discount the recommendations of the BIS, will instead engage in a bit of self-examination, and will go back to figuring out how best to use their tools to shepherd demand toward potential. If the world is unlucky, central bankers will embrace the BIS' excuse-making and opt instead to place unnecessary pressure on politicians that are already facing plenty of it. In that event, tough times indeed are ahead, the advent of which may usher in a regime change in thinking about central bank structure, governance, and policy.