EU PUSHES 3RD WORLD DEREGULATION

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THIS IS THE CRAZIEST STORY YET FROM THE NEW WORLD ORDER ELITES. RON PAUL AND BARR ARE TERRORISTS.....WOW.
http://www.infowars.com/secret-state-police-report-ron-paul-bob-barr-chuck-baldwin-libertarians-are-terrorists/

Secret State Police Report: Ron Paul, Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin, Libertarians are Terrorists Kurt Nimmo Infowars March 11, 2009

Alex Jones has received a secret report distributed by the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) entitled The Modern Militia Movement and dated February 20, 2009. A footer on the document indicates it is unclassified but law enforcement sensitive,in other words not for public consumption. A copy of the report was sent to Jones by an anonymous Missouri police officer.

The MIAC report specifically describes supporters of presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr as militia influenced terrorists and instructs the Missouri police to be on the lookout for supporters displaying bumper stickers and other paraphernalia associated with the Constitutional, Campaign for Liberty, and Libertarian parties. Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) provides a public safety partnership consisting of local, state and federal agencies, as well as the public sector and private entities that will collect, evaluate, analyze, and disseminate information and intelligence to the agencies tasked with Homeland Security responsibilities in a timely, effective, and secure manner,explains the MIAC website.MIAC is the mechanism to collect incident reports of suspicious activities to be evaluated and analyzed in an effort to identify potential trends or patterns of terrorist or criminal operations within the state of Missouri. MIAC will also function as a vehicle for two-way communication between federal, state and local law enforcement community within our region.MIAC is part of the federal fusion effort now underway around the country.As of February 2009, there were 58 fusion centers around the country. The Department has deployed 31 officers as of December 2008 and plans to have 70 professionals deployed by the end of 2009. The Department has provided more than $254 million from FY 2004-2007 to state and local governments to support the centers,explains the Department of Homeland Security on its website. Missouri is mentioned as a participant in this federal intelligence effort.

Last month, the ACLU issued a news release highlighting the activity of a fusion center in Texas as the latest example of inappropriate police intelligence operations targeting political, religious and social activists for investigation, in particular Muslim civil rights organizations and anti-war protest groups.The MIAC report does not concentrate on Muslim terrorists, but rather on the so-called militia movement and conflates it with supporters of Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, Bob Barr, the so-called patriot movement and other political activist organizations opposed to the North American Union and the New World Order. The MIAC document is a classic guilt by association effort designed to demonize legitimate political activity that stands in opposition to the New World Order and its newly enshrined front man, Barack Obama. In September of 2008, Missouri sheriffs and prosecutors organized truth squads to intimidate people opposed to Obama and threatened to arrest and prosecute anybody who ran misleading television ads.Missouri governor Matt Blunt eventually denounced the use of police state tactics on the part of the Obama-Biden campaign. MIAC claims members of a rightwing militia movement organized in the 1990s — generally in response to the Oklahoma City bombing and the events at Waco — continuously exploit world events in order to increase participation in their movements. Due to the current economical and political situation, a lush environment for militia activity has been created and supposedly exploited by constitutionalists and white supremacists,the latter an oft-employed canard used to demonize activists as dangerous and potentially violent lunatics. MIAC notes many of the political issues cited by the so-called patriot movement — the Ammunition Accountability Act, the impending economic collapse of the government, the possibility of a constitutional convention, the North American Union, Obama’s Universal Service Program, and the implementation of RFID, issues that are not limited to the patriot movement but are shared by a wide array of political activists.

The MIAC document includes a map of the North American Union not dissimilar from one released by NASCO, the North America SuperCorridor Coalition (see the NASCO map here).The MIAC report is similar to one created by the Phoenix Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Joint Terrorism Task Force during the Clinton administration (see page one and page two of the document). The FBI document explicitly designates defenders of the Constitution as right-wing extremists. The MIAC report expands significantly on the earlier document. In order to artificially heighten the perceived threat threshold, MIAC rolls in Christian Identity, white nationalism, militant anti-abortion activists, opposition to illegal immigration, and income tax resistance. MIAC deceptively blurs the lines between these disparate political ideologies and underscores the possibility for violence in a summary of the organizational structure of the militia movement and a section describing how members strive to train in combat readiness.The MIAC effort to characterize Libertarians and Constitutionalists as racists is reminiscent of an attempt by the corporate media in early 2008 to portray Ron Paul as a racist by attempting to link him to a series of vaguely racist newsletters produced in the 1980s. Paul did not exercise editorial control over the newsletters and went so far as to apologize for them, but this did not prevent the corporate media from characterizing him as a racist. According to MIAC, opposition to world government, NAFTA, federalization of the states, and restrictive gun laws are a threat to the police. The militia subscribes to an anti-government and NWO mindset, which creates a threat to law enforcement officers. They view the military, National Guard, and law enforcement as a force that will confiscate their firearms and place them in FEMA concentration camps,the document claims in a section entitled You are the Enemy.

In regard to supposed militia movement literature and media, the MIAC report mentions Aaron Russo’s America: Freedom to Fascism and William Luther Pierce’s The Turner Diaries — the latter was penned by the former leader of the white nationalist organization National Alliance and the former by a Libertarian filmmaker. In order to underscore the absurdity of the MIAC attempt to link Pierce’s novel and Russo’s anti-tax documentary, it should be noted that the late Aaron Russo was Jewish and The Turner Dairies posits a Zionist government in America (or ZOG, the Zionist Occupation Government) run by Jews.The award-winning film Zeitgeist, featuring Alex Jones, is also mentioned as terrorist material.The MIAC report is particularly pernicious because it indoctrinates Missouri law enforcement in the belief that people who oppose confiscatory taxation, believe in the well-documented existence of a New World Order and world government (a Google search of this phrase will pull up numerous references made by scores of establishment political leaders), and are opposed to the obvious expansion of the federal government at the expense of the states as violent extremists who are gunning for the police. It specifically targets supporters of mainstream political candidates and encourages police officers to consider them dangerous terrorists.MIAC is attempting to radicalize the police against political activity guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. If Missouri police indoctrinated by MIAC propaganda overreact to political activists and supporters of Ron Paul in their state and injure or kill people involved in entirely legal and legitimate political activity, MIAC, the governor of Missouri (his name appears on the MIAC document), and the DHS and federal government should be held directly responsible and prosecuted the fullest extent of the law.

Sarkozy: France should rejoin key NATO command By DEBORAH SEWARD, Associated Press Writer – Wed Mar 11, 8:11 pm ET

PARIS – President Nicolas Sarkozy forcefully defended his intention to return France to the heart of NATO's military command after 43 years away and insisted Wednesday that staying outside the alliance's highest echelons any longer would weaken France.

Sarkozy said he would write to other NATO members to announce his decision after a debate next week in the French parliament. The French leader's drive to end the rift with the United States over its participation in NATO has aroused old and fierce passions among both leftist and some conservative lawmakers fearful that a closer relationship with the American-led alliance could limit France's cherished ability to act independently on the world stage.In a speech Wednesday, however, an animated and at times defiant Sarkozy insisted that France's independence will not be in question —a clear message to critics at home — and said France will maintain control over its nuclear arsenal.In 1966, President Charles de Gaulle abruptly pulled France out of the NATO command and evicted all allied troops and bases, including its military headquarters, from France in an effort to assert sovereignty over its own territory.

De Gaulle's blunt assertion of French independence at the height of the Cold War came as a shock at the time and caused a rift with Washington that deepened in 2003 when France kept its troop out of the American-led invasion of Iraq.

The United States and NATO warmly welcomed Sarkozy's comments.

We are delighted that after a 43-year absence France is back where it belongs, in the command structure of the alliance it helped found,U.S. Defense Department spokesman Geoff Morrell said.France is a NATO member, but has remained outside the central decision-making core for four decades.The time has come to put an end to this situation," Sarkozy said, arguing that new threats require greater international military cooperation, not less. It is in France's interest and that of Europe. In concluding this long process, France will be stronger and more influential.Sarkozy lamented that fact that France has no major command in NATO, that it did not participate in defining top-level strategy or military objectives even though it has troops under NATO command.He firmly rejected opposition criticism that France would be forced to follow the alliance's line even on military missions it opposed.Some tell me this choice would be a betrayal of Gen. de Gaulle, an alignment with Washington ... and that after all, if we had been in the military command, we would have been forced to take part in the war against Iraq in 2003. Lie! Lie! Sarkozy has long promised the step and is expected to formalize it with a letter to NATO's leadership before a summit April 3-4 in Strasbourg to celebrate the alliance's 60th anniversary.While Sarkozy does not need parliamentary approval for the move, his government will face a no-confidence vote in parliament next week on the subject after a parliamentary debate.This process of rapprochement with NATO is but a stone in a vaster process that aims to strengthen and develop the nation's independence, he said.After taking note of the result of the debate, I will write to our allies to inform them of my decision.

Socialist Party leader Martine Aubry said Wednesday that nothing justified what she called Sarkozy's hasty quest for closer ties with NATO.Sarkozy spoke at the end of a daylong conference in which French officials staunchly defended the country's anticipated return into NATO's integrated military command.The Americans understand perfectly well that having weak allies serves nothing,he said. NATO's leadership is eager for a greater French role. NATO would welcome this step, alliance spokesman James Appathurai said in Brussels, calling it a win-win situation that would bolster European defense.French troops have been participating in NATO missions since the mid-1990s, including those in Bosnia, Kosovo and now Afghanistan. Today, France is among the top five contributors to allied military operations and the No. 4 benefactor to alliance budgets for NATO operations.Morrell, the U.S. Defense spokesman, said the U.S. was looking forward to even greater French involvement. Although their troops have been bravely fighting alongside ours in Afghanistan, it is welcome news to have them fully re-integrated in all NATO military matters and we look forward to working even more closely with them in the decades to come,he said. Upon returning fully to NATO, France expects to receive two command posts, one in Norfolk, Virginia, responsible for defining the strategic transformation of the alliance and another in Lisbon, Portugal.

MEPs agree top secret category for EU documents
HONOR MAHONY 11.03.2009 @ 17:27 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - MEPs have called on the European Commission to be more ambitious in its transparency proposals while at the same time introducing an 'EU classifed' category protecting top secret documents for up to 30 years.A vote on Wednesday (11 March) saw the European Parliament agree a series of amendments to the EU law governing citizens' access to documents, but the final vote on the reformed legislation was postponed in a bid to put pressure on the commission to make the law more user-friendly.The parliament's overhaul of the 2001 transparency law, drawn up by UK Labour MEP Pat Cashman, extends the legislation to cover electronic data. It also says documents must be processed within two weeks - the commission had suggested a month - and suggests all documents should be placed on one website shared by EU institutions.Eurodeputies also agreed a new top secret category for documents whose unauthorised disclosure could harm the interests of the European Union or its member states.This category could apply for up to three decades and must be justified.EU ombudsman P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, who had criticised the EU commission for presenting a proposal that would result in more secrecy, welcomed the MEPs' move.I am very pleased that the European Parliament has, in effect, asked the commission to rethink and modify its proposals. I very much hope that the Commission will agree to do so.It obliges EU institutions to ensure publication of all legislative documents, the Council to make public how national governments vote and what they propose in EU Council meetings and the commission to keep updated registers of all documents,said Italian Liberal MEP Marco Cappato.

MEPs divided

Transparency and the ease with which citizens can access documents has long been a thorny issue in the EU, and has resulted in several court cases. Statistics show that the Council and Commission turn down one third of applications for information access, while the Parliament refuses around 20 percent.The European Commission has in the past complained about the administrative burden of being transparent, while what constitutes a document and why it may be withheld from the public eye have prompted long-running struggles with the EU ombudsman. One of the most sensitive issues and a major reason for document secrecy is to protect commercial interests - such as when the commission is investigating competition and merger cases. MEPs themselves are split on this.After the vote, centre-right Charlotte Cederschiöld welcomed the fact that amended legislation would now go back to committee to be further debated, speaking about the balance between openness and full protection of sensitive private and commercial data.Reacting to Wednesday's vote, commission spokesman Joe Hennon said the commission had taken note of the amendments and was willing to seek a compromise.He said the commission has concerns about one or two of the amendments raised but refused to go into details until negotiations are taken up again at committee level.The law is likely to be passed under the Swedish EU presidency, starting in July, with agreement needed between MEPs, the commission and member states. Sweden, who will drive the EU agenda as presidency country, has long been one of the most progressive member states on transparency issues.

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/

SPECIAL CONFERENCE MAR 23-24,2009,ALL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS WILL BE THERE,ALL THE EU MEMBERS WILL BE THERE,AND THE G-20 WILL BE THERE.THIS SAME GROUP OF EU,BANKERS,G-20 WILL ALSO BE IN LONDON IN APRIL TO LAY PLANS FOR THE NEW WORLD ORDER,ESPECIALLY THE G-20.https://futurefinance.wsj.com/index.php

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU MAR 12,2009

09:30 AM -4.94
10:00 AM -18.48
10:30 AM +58.44
11:00 AM +102.26
11:30 AM +67.30
12:00 PM +93.42
12:30 PM +123.85
01:00 PM +154.03
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02:00 PM +150.21
02:30 PM +184.86
03:00 PM +201.19
03:30 PM +206.20
04:00 PM +239.66 7170.06

S&P 500 750.74 +29.38

NASDAQ 1426.10 +54.46

GOLD 926.10 +15.40

OIL 46.77 +4.44

TSE 300 8313.26 +302.24

CDNX 843.58 +19.68

S&P/TSX/60 506.64 +18.26

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -21.03%
S&P -20.14%
Nasdaq -13.02%
TSX Advances 888,declines 604,unchanged 309,Volume 2,833,107,394.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 359,Declines 325,Unchanged 355,Volume 160,807,521.

Dow -7 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -60 points at low today.
Dow +111 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $918.40.OIL opens at $43.26 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -60 points at low today so far.
Dow +184 points at high today so far.

DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 2,573,declines 992,unchanged 78,New Highs 4,New Lows 98.
Volume 2,939,252,972.
NASDAQ Advances 1,779,declines 721,unchanged 111,New highs 5,New Lows 90.
Volume 817,432,137.
TSX Advances 750,declines 488,unchanged 269,Volume 1,064,701,518.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 235,Declines 207,Unchanged 241,Volume 81,505,589.

$11.7 TRILLION Financial ROBBERY to the BANKS,plus $787 BILLION Stimulus Bill = Total cost so far $12.5 TRILLION and OBAMA wants even more BILLIONS.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -60 points at low today.
Dow +252 points at high today.
Dow +3.46% today Volume 488,664,635.
Nasdaq +3.97% today Volume 2,147,483,648.
S&P 500 +4.07% today Volume N/A

Dows biggest 3 day rally since late NOVEMBER,08.
Dow gains 9% over last 3 days.
Nasdaqs biggest 3 day rally since late OCTOBER,08.
Nasdaq gains 12% over last 3 days.
S&Ps biggest 3 day rally since late NOVEMBER,08.
S&P gains 10% over last 3 days.
Dow,Nasdaq have not risen for 3 straight days since late JANUARY.
Stocks close near days HIGHS.

RECORD LOWS DOW
-Sept 30,1996 5,882.17
-Oct 30,1996 5,993.23
-Nov 6,1996 6,177.71
-Dec 16,1996 6,268.35
-Apr 15,1997 6,587.16
-Apr 21,1997 6,660.21
-Apr 28,1997 6,783.02
-May 1,1997 6,976.48
-May 7,1997 7,085.65

RECORD LOWS S&P 500
-Sept 5,1996 649.44
-Sept 6,1996 655.68
-Sept 11,1996 667.28
-Sept 12,1996 671.13
-Oct 1,1996 689.08
-Oct 28,1996 697.26
-Nov 4,1996 706.73
-Nov 5,1996 714.14
-Dec 17,1996 726.04

END OF NATIONS-EU TAKEOVER AND THE LISBON TREATY
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4291770489472554607&hl=en

Nobel-prize winner backs world currency correspondents in Astana, Kazakhstan | March 11, 2009 Article from: Agence France-Presse

KAZAKH President Nursultan Nazarbayev has won backing for his plan for a single world currency from an intellectual architect of the euro currency, Nobel-prize winner Professor Robert Mundell.Nazarbayev, speaking at an economic forum in the glitzy new capital he has built on the Kazakh steppe, defended his proposal for the acmetal world currency saying it might look kind of funny but was not. And he received intellectual support from the Canadian economist Prof Mundell, who helped lay the intellectual groundwork for Europe's single currency. I must say that I agree with President Nazarbayev on his statement and many of the things he said in his plan, the project he made for the world currency, and I believe I'm right on track with what he's saying,Prof Mundell said, adding the idea held great promise. Mr Nazarbayev and Prof Mundell urged the Group of 20 leading developed and developing economies to form a working group on the proposal at their summit on the global economic crisis in London on April 2.We should deliver our thoughts and the thoughts of this conference to the leaders of those countries,Mr Nazarbayev said, referring to the G8 and G20 nations.

Mr Nazarbayev, who has held his post since Soviet times and has seen his oil-rich state hit badly by the crisis, unveiled his proposal last month and said yesterday the UN should oversee the currency's introduction. Though a boost for what might seem an other-worldly plan, Prof Mundell has previously suggested single currencies are only appropriate for countries with similar economies. Mr Nazarbayev's coining of acmetal combines the Greek word acme,meaning peak or best, and capital.

Brussels pushing finance deregulation in third world
LEIGH PHILLIPS 11.03.2009 @ 17:27 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - While EU and other global leaders have talked tough about re-regulating the financial sector in the wake of the economic crisis, they remain committed to pushing through banking deregulation in the developing world via trade deals.This strategy is undermining poverty reduction in these countries and is reproducing the same type of circumstances that led to the crisis in the first place, warns a new report published on Wednesday (11 March) by the World Development Movement, an UK-based anti-poverty NGO.Both via the WTO negotiations on a General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and potential EU bilateral or regional trade deals with 34 countries in Latin America, Asia and the Mediterranean, the bloc continues to push for the lifting of restrictions on how Western banks operate in developing countries. The EU In 2002, via GATS global trade talks, requested that 94 countries open up their financial industry, 20 of which were least developed countries and 30 were low income countries. A financial services component of GATS would mean that countries would not be able to introduce new rules that are more restrictive than those already operating, making it difficult to pass laws on risky trading such as short-selling or to limit the numbers of service providers or the number of transactions.All new financial services would also have to be permitted, giving the green light to the very same complex financial products that have been held responsible for the creation of the toxic asset problem in the north. Also under GATS, full ownership by foreign banks would be allowed, which can make it hard for a host country's financial supervisor to monitor the foreign bank's activities and to ensure it is acting in the interests of the host country. Even in the EU, the problem of foreign bank ownership is exacerbating the crisis in the east. The tap of credit to much of eastern Europe - where most of the banks are owned by Austrian, Swedish and other EU parent companies - today has been all but turned off, as the owners focus on provision of credit in their home markets.

After seven years of talks, however, countries are still haggling over a GATS deal, and the EU has sought bilateral and regional trade deals to get over the impasse.The bilateral strategy, known as Global Europe, seeks to remove regulations on European financial service companies, along with other liberalising measures in a range of sectors, in case a deal at the WTO level is not reached.The EU trade deals already signed with Chile and Mexico contain substantial chapters on financial services, while the Caribbean Economic Partnership Agreement with the EU signed in October last year contains many of the financial liberalisation clauses proposed in GATS. Similar pressure on central American nations is being brought to bear to open up their financial sectors.The report reveals that where banking liberalisation has occurred, looking in particular at India and, crucially, Mexico - home to one of the most liberalised financial sectors in the world, with 80 percent foreign ownership, poor people and small businesses see their access to credit, bank accounts and other financial services restricted. At the same time, where such credit does exist, it is in the form of credit cards, car loans or mortgages, boosting spending on consumer items rather than productive sectors of the economy such as farming or manufacturing.

On Monday (9 March), UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown himself spoke out against the do as we say, not as we do attitude of Western countries regarding economic policies promoted to the developing world.At an international development conference in London, he announced that he would push the World Bank and other wealthy nations to create a new fund for developing countries to help the poor through the crisis, although he did not attach any figures to the idea.While there, he criticised the imposition of economic orthodoxy on the developing world.Too often in the past our responses to such crises have been inadequate or misdirected - promoting economic orthodoxies that we ourselves have not followed and that have condemned the world's poorest to a deepening cycle of poverty,he said.The World Development Movement (WDM) however, says that there is an acute contradiction between such leaders' words and deeds in pushing for financial deregulation in the third world.On the one hand, Gordon Brown has developed a mantra of tough talk on the re-regulation of banks, said Benedict Southworth, the director of WDM.On the other, together with other European leaders, he is aggressively pushing free trade deals which demand that developing countries follow a deregulated and liberalised banking model.That model has clearly and spectacularly failed here and has also failed poor people in the developing countries, she added.The study highlights how the presence of European banks in developing countries has resulted in foreign banks cherry-picking the richer customers, resulting in an overall decline in services and credit for others, and notably to rural areas.In urban areas where foreign banks are concentrated, low-income householders and small businesses struggle to meet the criteria to open an account, let alone to receive a loan.In response, WDM is calling for financial services liberalisation to be reoved from from proposed bilateral and multilateral EU trade deals.An official with the European Commission told EUobserver that they were studying the report very closely, but that the report's authors had confused liberalisation with deregulation.Market access for European financial service providers in no way restrains the ability of countries to regulate financial services,the official said.The question is whether such moves become protectionist.

EU banks named in dirty money report
PHILIPPA RUNNER 11.03.2009 @ 10:28 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Europe's biggest banks are happy to do business with corrupt regimes in Africa and Central Asia, according to a new report by UK-based NGO, Global Witness.As late as November 2007, Barclays in Paris held a private account for Teodorin Obiang, the study says. A scion of the ruling family in Equitorial Guinea, Mr Obiang in the past 10 years spent €4.5 million on sports cars even as 20 percent of children die before their fifth birthday due to poverty in the oil-rich country.

Until March 2007, BNP Paribas was involved in billions of euros of syndicated loans to the Angola ruling elite-linked oil firm Sonangol, Global Witness writes.

Deutsche Bank has still not made clear to the NGO what happened to the €2 billion or so of Turkmenistan's natural gas income, which it was holding for the country's notoriously cruel dictator, Saparmurat Niyazov, when he died in January 2007.The international banking system is complicit in helping to perpetuate poverty, corruption, conflict, human suffering and misery,the Global Witness paper says.

Coming ahead of the G20 finance summit in London on 2 April and in a climate of hostility to big bank secrecy caused by the financial crisis, the report calls for regulation of bank dealings with PEPs(politically-exposed persons) and a name-and-shame campaign by FATF (the Financial Action Task Force).The Paris-based FATF is a little-known international anti-money laundering body with 34 members, including 15 of the richest EU states and the European Commission. Of 10 EU states surveyed which are also FATF members, none complied with the body's full set of recommendations on issues such as making money laundering illegal or forcing banks to carry out enhanced due diligence on PEP-type clients.Global Witness' paper, Undue Diligence, reads like a roll call of the most respectable financial institutions in Europe.HSBC and Banco Santander are named in connection to the Obiang family. Credit Lyonnais allegedly helped Gabonese President Omar Bongo place funds abroad. Societe Generale is said to have done similar work for the ruling family of Congo-Brazzaville.Fortis bank is accused of helping the former ruler of Liberia, Charles Taylor, fund conflict in east Africa by processing payments for government-linked timber firms. The list of banks implicated in the Angola loans includes Commerzbank, KBC, the Royal Bank of Scotland, ING and Standard Chartered.If [banks] cannot identify the ultimate beneficial owner of the funds ...and if they cannot identify a natural person (not a legal entity) who does not pose a corruption risk, they must not accept the customer as a client," the NGO said.An article which appeared on 8 March on a Turkmenistan opposition website, the Chronicles of Turkmenistan, broadens the debate.The story points the finger at French construction company Bouygues for allegedly giving current President Gurbanguly Berdymukahemmedov an €80,000 Mitsubishi Evolution X while bidding for contracts for a new airport building and palace complex.

A CHRISTIAN CAN'T COMPLAIN ABOUT GODS INNOCENT CREATED BABBIES BEING MURDERED THROUGH MILLIONS OF ABORTIONS BUT CRAZY ENVIROMENTAL NUTS CAN TRAP EU LEADERS IN A MEETING.......NOW WE SEE HOW OCCULTIC THIS CONTROLLING NEW AGE ENVIRMENTAL MOVEMENT OF NUTS CAN BE,JUST LIKE THE CRAZY TREE HUGGERS AND CRAZY ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS AS WELL.

Eco-activists blockade finance ministers meeting
LEIGH PHILLIPS 10.03.2009 @ 17:17 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Hundreds of activists from Greenpeace, the campaigning environmental NGO, blocked all the exits to the EU Council of Ministers building in Brussels on Tuesday (10 March), trapping inside finance ministers from the 27 member states for several hours.The 340 mostly young protesters from across Europe mounted the direct action, more radical than the many demonstrations that regularly take place outside EU institution buildings in the Belgian capital's European quarter. They were trying to highlight the failure of ministers to commit to funds for carbon emissions reductions and climate change adaptation measures in the developing world.

Finance ministers are giving billions of taxpayers' money to failed banks, but we're here to make sure they also put money on the table to tackle climate change, said Thomas Henningsen, a campaigner with Greenpeace International.If the planet were a bank, they would bail it out.The activists said they were sealing in the finance ministers, in Brussels to discuss both the economic crisis and to consider proposals published in January by the European Commission on what stance to take at the upcoming UN conference in Copenhagen in December. There, a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol - due to expire in two years - is to be negotiated.

Climate finance in the developing world

Climate finance for the third world has become the main focus of discussion in the lead-up to the Copenhagen meeting. If the EU and US stump up significant chunks of cash for cutting emissions and climate adaptation, developing countries may in return commit to considerable CO2 reductions even though it is the industrialised north that is responsible for most of the emissions that caused the problem. Last week, EU environment ministers meeting in Brussels failed to commit funds for climate finance in the developing world. It is not expected that the finance ministers will either, leaving the decision to be taken by premiers and presidents when they meet from 19-20 March at their spring summit in Brussels.The Greenpeace activists marched past security outside the building at its two entrances at 11:00 a.m., and then sat down, blocking the doors until federal Belgian police, local Brussels police and some units from zones beyond the capital handcuffed and dragged the protesters away into a phalanx of paddy wagons two hours later.Three activists were injured as a result of the police actions and are currently in hospital.Agnes de Rooij, a campaigner with Greenpeace International, said that the group had no plans to mount a similar action during the leaders' summit.

Ocean acidification, Netherlands flooded

The action took place as climate scientists meeting this week in Copenhagen ahead of the UN conference later in the year have said that data on global warming shows that earlier predictions were wildly over-optimistic.On Sunday, the scientists warned that previous estimates of sea-level rises due to global warming of around 20 to 60 centimetres by 2100 were too low, and that a rise of about a metre is now more realistic.Such a rise would result in low-lying areas - notably most of the Netherlands, but also Bangladesh, Florida, and the Maldives having disastrous flooding.Worse still, if average global temperatures increase by four degrees, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets would likely entirely melt. A melting of the Greenland sheet would lift sea levels by seven metres. A melting of the Antarctic sheet would lift sea levels by 60 metres. On Tuesday, scientists from Bristol University revealed at the meeting that the world's oceans are undergoing a dangerous acidification process not seen in 65 million years. The gathered experts are this week to publish an update to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report. Many studies issued since 2007 show that carbon emissions are increasing faster than previous projections, meaning that recommended CO2 reduction targets of 25-40 percent by 2020 on 1990 levels are insufficient.The EU has committed itself to CO2 reductions of 20 percent by 2020, and 30 percent by the same date if other wealthy nations agree to similar targets.

Chrysler Canada issues plant closure warning By Randall Palmer MAR 11,09

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Chrysler LLC warned on Wednesday it might close its plants in Canada unless it got sufficient labor concessions, as well as government aid and resolution of a tax dispute.Failure to satisfactorily resolve these three factors -- the labor costs, government assistance and of course the transfer tax -- will place our Canadian manufacturing operations at a significant disadvantage relative to our manufacturing operations in North America and may very well impair our ability to continue to produce in Canada,Chrysler President and Vice Chairman Tom LaSorda said.

He told reporters after his testimony to the House of Commons finance committee that his direct tone was needed to lay out the facts in a serious situation.Bottom line, we needed to be very, very clear, and ambiguity doesn't help the process. These are the things that Chrysler needs, he said. I thought when I came up here today the Canadian government wanted to hear what are the true facts.The biggest sticking point appeared to be the cost of labor. He said Chrysler's labor costs in Canada, all inclusive, were C$75 ($58) an hour, C$20 an hour more than at Canadian transplants such as Toyota and Honda.He said the labor cost gap was being eliminated in the United States but remained high in Canada, and he said the Canadian Auto Workers agreement reached with General Motors Corp over the weekend would not eliminate even half of Chrysler's labor cost gap.The current agreement with GM is unacceptable and we have to break the pattern,LaSorda said.Some analysts have calculated the agreement with GM as yielding C$6 or C$7 in cost savings.Complicating Chrysler's situation is a dispute over back taxes related to transfer pricing, with Canada saying it should have paid more Canadian taxes and less in U.S. taxes for the period 1996-99.LaSorda said Chrysler was asking that no further deposits be required of it until the tax authorities render a final decision but recognized that the government itself could not intervene in that dispute.

On the government aid front, he said Chrysler Canada was seeking $2.3 billion in aid from Canada, representing a quarter of the $9 billion being requested of the United States, and he said the request it made of Canada was denominated in U.S. dollars but the Canadian government had made clear it would be in Canadian dollars -- meaning around C$2.3 billion or $1.8 billion U.S.Chrysler has 9,400 direct employees in Canada, including its financial operations. Another 25,900 work at Chrysler dealerships. Including suppliers and retirees, it said 100,000 Canadians depended directly or indirectly on Chrysler Canada.The Canadian operations make half a million vehicles a year, selling 230,000 in the Canadian market. In 2007 it became the highest seller of vehicles in Canada.(Reporting by Randall Palmer; Editing by Andre Grenon, Bernard Orr)

What If the EU Fractures, China Stagnates, or the U.S. Economy Worsens? Vinod Dar March 11, 2009 | about stocks: ACWI / EEM Vinod Dar

There are no economic and financial seers. No one, as far as we can tell, has access to future facts. At best, we have clever opinions based on imperfect reasoning and partial understanding of even present and past facts. However, we are all obliged to act in some fashion to make or preserve income and wealth. Action entails having some view of the world as it may unfold within an investment horizon. The search for a consensus view is both futile and often most harmful.The paragraph above establishes the context for this essay, which is an exercise in supposal and conjecture. Suppose certain big things happened in the world economy - what consequences would ensue and what investment actions would then be required?

The Supposals
EU Fractures: German money is the EU’s cement. Germany, however, is only a middle sized nation with a second tier economy. Germany’s 80 million people cannot bail out Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Austria, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, as well as finance the $145 billion “Germany Fund” to prop up listed companies and also meet continuing large regular payments to the EU. The German economy is contracting even faster than the US economy. Many Germans feel they have atoned enough for the Nazis and German guilt cannot be monetized endlessly by its neighbors. In the absence of a great deal of German money, the EU will crack, then fracture and perhaps split into a small core with one set of rules and a much larger periphery with another set of rules but no common foreign or defense strategies or even alliances. NATO will become a talking club at best. The Euro will cease to exist as nations seek to regain currency/interest rate control as instruments of economic policy. European unemployment will reach the low teens, with some nations seeing unemployment in the high teens.

China Barely Grows: A heavily export dependent economy cannot be vigorous while global trade is shrinking, domestic fixed investment is falling and consumers are conserving cash. There are no growth drivers. China’s economic growth rate falls to between 1% and 5% per annum for several quarters, resulting in sharply rising rural poverty, urban unemployment, real estate distress and rising violence. This compels the Chinese Communists to turn increasingly and repressively inward, run larger and larger budget deficits, use its SWF and other agents of the State to buy scores of billions of dollars of commodity assets abroad (and use this buying power to further Resource Imperialism) and substantially increase military spending to ensure the loyalty of its military, intimidate neighbors and dominate sea lanes in Asia. The US-China economic nexus frays badly and China becomes increasingly intolerant of US hectoring.US Economy Worsens: from a state of rising unemployment, low interest rates and negligible inflation or mild deflation to a multi-quarter period of unemployment above 10%, high interest rates and high inflation as public policy steadily debases the dollar and chokes innovation.

Consequences
Given the supposals above what might be some of the consequences over the next few years? Those delineated below are illustrative and far from exhaustive.

1. Global Fragmentation: Interference with the free flow of trade, capital and labor increases while global trade compresses significantly. As a result regional, sub-national, linguistic, ethnic, sectarian, cultural and even tribal identities become more attractive for billions of people and several current nation states either become even more decentralized or break up entirely. The number of so called sovereign states grows appreciably as politicians and tribalists exploit fragmentation.European nations most vulnerable to partial or complete fragmentation include Spain (up to 6 sub-nations), Italy (North splits from the rest), UK (Scotland wanders away), Belgium, and Ukraine. In Asia, Pakistan is an obvious candidate for disintegration while separatism will increase in India and China without a formal break up. Russia and its neighbors may see more autonomous regions. In the Middle East, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey will be vulnerable to Kurdish aspirations for more self government and assertion of identity. Lebanon may disappear as a nation. Africa will be subject to more fragmentation since the fracture lines are many and true, long established, nation states are few.In the New World, disunity will also increase from Canada to Argentina, but actual secession may be unlikely. The US will not be immune from people choosing to emphasize regional, linguistic and cultural identification and loyalty over the Nation. The great risk to the US is that fewer people will have reverence or even a correct understanding for the living Constitution, which is what makes the US the exceptional nation it is. The cultural and geographic divisions within the US may become distressingly pronounced.The opportunistic reaction to global fragmentation will be to create or recreate superregional zones of influence. The AngloSphere has been discussed for many years now as a trading, linguistic (English), and military association anchored by the US in the West and India (now the largest English speaking nation in the world) in the East, with English speaking Africa in the middle, incorporating over a third of the global population. The SinoSphere, anchored by China and including Japan and Siberia (where the illegal and legal Chinese immigrants will soon exceed the native population) is a candidate. Less likely candidates include a large RussoSphere (including Iran and its clients), a SunniSphere, and a HispanoSphere, but smaller versions are feasible. There will be no EuroSphere because there is no European nation around which such a sphere of influence can be organized and sustained.

2. Rise of Haven States: These are a corollary of global fragmentation. There will be 2 kinds of haven states: the failed states that are domiciles for Narco and Islamo-terrorists, and the stable states that are the refuge of private capital and corporations. While Africa and East Asia will provide the failed states, the stable states may well be found in the island nations of the Pacific and Caribbean and the small reconstituted mini-nations of Europe.The failed states will elicit repeated local but expensive wars of suppression by large nations or spheres and ensure terrorist attacks all over the world will continue for a generation. The stable states will compete among themselves to provide security and anonymity for private capital. The combination of global fragmentation and haven states will allow very large, well organized and very rich multinational criminal organizations to function. In addition to drugs and weapons, of course, there will be organizations that specialize in human trafficking, counterfeiting, commercial espionage, financial fraud and piracy of both physical and intellectual property.

3. Attempts to Create Private Currencies: Private currencies are neither new nor novel. Many have existed in the past, some niche currencies exist today (e.g loyalty points, frequent traveler bonuses, coupons, vendor credits, IOUs) and no doubt there will be more in the future. The motivation will be to seek shelter from debased currencies. The primary impetus will be to find a store or stores of value and the secondary to find a medium of exchange. Physical resources will be the basis for such currencies. These resources will be large, accessible and intrinsically valuable to people in different cultures, polities and spheres of influence. Candidates include oil, natural gas, coal, uranium, iron ore and the perennial gold and silver. Niche private currencies based on electricity or bandwidth may be attempted in limited geographies A basket of such physical resources may offer the best prospect with symbolic representations of these real things serving as exchange medium.

4. More Divergence in Worldwide Birth Rates: Global fertility rates are falling everywhere and quite rapidly but from quite different levels, which means that demographic momentum is very different in different nations. The divergence in fertility rates will increase. Birth rates will fall even further below replacement rates in Europe, Canada, Russia, Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, Brazil, Turkey and even Iran (whose total fertility rate is now only slightly above France). Of the advanced economies, the US will continue to be the exception with a fertility rate equal to the replacement rate (but with fertility rates in the South, Southwest and Mountain States markedly higher than in the rest of the country) and immigration providing the population boost. In Africa, the Indian Sub-Continent, Iraq, Afghanistan and Indonesia, however, fertility rates will remain well above replacement rates.The demographic winter in Europe, Russia, Japan and South Korea will turn bitterly cold in the next 10 years largely because of pessimistic populations while China, several parts of Latin America, Iran and a few Middle Eastern nations will slide into a deepening demographic Autumn, driven by either national pessimism or public policy. The US will continue to enjoy a demographic late Summer while Africa and the Indian Sub–Continent will provide a hugely disproportionate fraction of the world’s babies. Russia will have the worst demographic profile in the world, followed by China, which will only foster greater nationalism, resentment towards other nations and greater willingness to use force in dealing with real or manufactured threats, internal and external. The demographic winter nations will record longer and longer periods of economic stagnation. Russia’s fortunes will depend almost entirely on the price of energy and minerals .Therefore, Russia will pursue a foreign policy of creating instability in world energy and mineral markets to boost the risk premium of its exports and force the pace of its nuclear technology exports.

5. Global South Will Reject US and EU Energy and Environmental Policies : As the economic, military and moral leverage of the West over the Global South declines while China, India and Brazil assume more power, the Global South will decisively reject the energy and environmental policies and prescriptions of the US, Japan and EU. Energy and food security are the two great imperatives of the Global South. Both require enormous and swift increases in electricity production (this will be explored in a subsequent essay). The only massively scalable generation technologies available in the next two decades are coal, natural gas and nuclear. Therefore, coal and nuclear followed by natural gas generation will be extensively deployed across the Global South, led of course by China and India. Indeed the Global South may well seize technological leadership in coal and nuclear generation and advanced very high voltage transmission systems from the West and hence rapidly gain global market share in power generation and transmission markets and also bid engineering and construction management talent away from the West.

6. In the US, Large Declines in Professional Capacity: Professional capacity will shrink by over 50% in finance and real estate (from peak) and by over 25% in the legal, consulting, accounting, retailing, media, fashion, advertising, non-profits and advocacy, fine dining and high end lodging industries. This shrinkage will be net of newly created solo and small group practices or emerging niche firms or freshly constituted small but very specialized and highly skilled, very lucrative, partnerships and LLCs. Some of the surplus professionals will, of course, move on to other opportunities or start small businesses based on their general competence and relationships. Some will leave the country; a few will disappear into the growing underground economy to facilitate the exodus of people fleeing from unfair taxes and unreasonable regulations (bad and expensive government), but many will face years of grinding downward mobility and only episodic employment.

7. In the US, the Emergence of the Home as the Locus of Many Activities: For millions of American families the residence will again gather up several functions that migrated away from the home about 125 years ago. The home, once more, becomes the domicile for income producing work (the home commercial operation-HCO), healthcare, eldercare/aging in place, childcare, schooling/learning/apprenticeships, entertainment, exercise, and even growing food and making wine, depending on size of the property, electricity and natural gas utility tariffs, and zoning. The extended family also enjoys a revival where the personalities and quality of intergenerational relationships permit. The extended family reduces per capita household costs, increases the range of activities that can be undertaken, improves the quality of care, enhances both personal and neighborhood security and allows fairly sophisticated HCOs to function.

Economic and demographic pressures and advances in multiple technologies, software applications and home oriented professional and logistical services converge to facilitate this rebundling of functions. The increasing power and specialization and fallings unit costs of design, collaborative, supply chain, revenue stream and relationship management software; the increasing power and falling costs of home based computing and communications; affordable and compact high 9s power quality equipment; very potent but compact laser cutting equipment and the impending (3 to 4 years) arrival of practical desktop fabrication makes it possible to undertake a rather large array of high value added commercial and fabrication operations at home while creating quite elaborate and sophisticated but cheap supply, logistics, distribution, marketing and remote work sharing/management networks.In addition, technology platforms and applications will allow many existing but tiny and inefficient home based businesses to expand to critical mass. HCOs with annual revenues of tens of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars become both attractive and practical. The combination of necessity and feasibility will allow hundreds of thousands of HCOs to exist, taking the home based office or business to a much higher level of economic value added and employment in the US, while also fostering cultural changes that cannot really be anticipated.The growth of HCOs will be aided and accompanied by the growth of social network financing, micro lending, micro private equity financing, micro M&A, HCO insurance, community banking (as thousands of new community banks are created in the next several years) and special purpose vendor and distribution/marketing channel financing. Home based schooling will also grow markedly given necessity, the availability of family members to teach and the recent emergence of an extensive advocacy and support service infrastructure, particularly in the South.

Home healthcare, aging in place and eldercare will be facilitated and stimulated by the availability of affordable home based defibrillators, dialysis equipment, sophisticated labs on a chip, life support equipment, and remote bio-medical monitoring, sensing, diagnostics and intervention tools, pressure and movement sensors and very inexpensive, long lived, low power, wireless temperature, vibration, moisture and gas sensor webs that can turn a bedroom into a mini life support/life extension facility. Many specialized home healthcare/eldercare services will emerge to provide support services and advice to families.The home will become an important emerging market for large corporations and HCOs will be diversified and easily accessible sources of supply. In parallel, local community colleges and vocational/technical schools will witness a surge in enrollments while traditional high overhead universities, including elite schools, will see enrollments drop by a fifth to a quarter. Formal, paid, apprenticeship programs will become popular with millions of young people.The author is no better (and likely worse) at trying to divine consequences than the interested reader. Indeed, the reader should view these consequences as an amusing template and conjure his or her own structures and trajectories. The more actionable these consequences the better the reader will be served in making investment choices. Remember, though, the most significant consequence will be the one we did not foresee. Those tempted by linear extrapolation of the most recent past should remind themselves that we are in an economic episode not an economic change of universe. This too will pass in a few (3 to 4?) years. We are sliding into a deep valley but not an abyss. There is another side which we will reach and then climb up and out. Of course, it will look different on the other side but for many shrewd or merely lucky (and the select few who are both shrewd and lucky) investors, innovators and risk takers it will be a much better place.

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After attacks, Europe hurries to tighten gun laws By MATTI HUUHTANEN, Associated Press Writer – Wed Mar 11, 9:36 am

ETHELSINKI – Several European countries have restricted gun laws in the wake of school massacres, gang violence and other gun-related crimes:Finland announced plans Wednesday to impose stricter restrictions on firearms, including raising the minimum age for handgun ownership from 15 to 20. The proposal was prompted by two school massacres within a year in which lone gunmen opened fire on classmates and teachers.

Germany, where a gunman killed at least 11 people Wednesday, raised the legal age for owning recreational firearms from 18 to 21 following a 2002 shooting in Erfurt that killed 16 people, including 12 teachers.Belgian lawmakers passed strict new gun control laws in 2006 in reaction to the racially motivated shooting deaths of a toddler and her black baby sitter in Antwerp.Swiss citizens are demanding a referendum aimed at confining army weapons to military compounds and banning private purchases of pump-action rifles and automatic weapons — following a spate of suicides and homicides.The Portuguese Parliament is currently discussing a government proposal to tighten gun laws, including denying bail to anyone suspected of a gun crime.

Denmark's government said last week it will raise the penalty for illegal gun possession as part of a crackdown on gang violence that has killed three people and injured 25 in recent months.European Union lawmakers proposed tighter gun control across the bloc last year, including guidelines saying that only people over 18 not deemed a threat to public safety could buy and keep guns. EU members have until 2010 to adopt the measures.In addition, some U.S. states have recently tightened gun laws as well:

Colorado, a year after the 1999 Columbine High School shootings, made it a felony to buy a firearm for another person who should know the transaction is illegal, barred anyone from giving a firearm to a juvenile without the consent of the parents; made it illegal for a person not to try to prevent a juvenile from committing a gun crime; and increased the penalty for possession of a weapon by a felon.But three years later, the state expanded gun rights instead, by requiring sheriffs to issue gun permits to people who pass a criminal background check, prohibiting local governments from making gun laws more restrictive than the state's, and abolishing local registries of gun owners.In Virginia, where a student killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in 2007 before committing suicide April 16, 2007, the governor signed an executive order requiring that anyone ordered by a court to get mental health treatment be added to a database of people barred from buying guns.

Teen kills 15 in Germany before taking own life By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press Writer MAR 11,09

WINNENDEN, Germany – A 17-year-old wielding a Beretta 9 mm pistol burst into classrooms at his former high school Wednesday and gunned down students — some of whom died with their pencils still in hand — in a rampage that ended with 15 dead before he took his own life, authorities said.There was no immediate indication of motive, but the gunman's victims were primarily female: eight of nine students killed were girls, and all three teachers were women. Three men were killed later as the suspect, identified by police as Tim K., fled.I heard two shots and then screaming, said a 15-year-old student who gave her name only as Betty. At first I thought it was a joke, but then someone called Run, run! and I saw students jumping out of the windows and took off running.The gunman — dressed in all black — took students in the first classroom completely by surprise, evidenced by the morbid scene that awaited the first officers to arrive, said regional police director Ralf Michelfelder.

Children were sitting at their tables, with pencils still in their hands, their heads fallen over on the table, he said. Most of them had shots in their head — it must have all happened in seconds.The dark-haired teen, shown wearing glasses in pictures on German television, apparently took the weapon from his father's collection of 16 firearms along with a multitude of ammunition, police said. His father was a member of the local gun club and kept the weapons locked away except for the pistol, which was kept in the bedroom.Police said the suspect was a German teen who was a below-average student at the school of about 1,000 pupils, but managed to graduate last year.He was lower than average, and he wasn't engaged in school events,Michelfelder said.

A sister of the suspect attends the school.

Police received an emergency call from the school at 9:33 a.m. The first officers responded about two minutes later, said Baden Wuerttemburg state interior minister Heribert Rech. They heard shots on the second floor and ran upstairs, catching a glimpse of the suspect on a staircase, Rech said.He fired a shot at the police and then fled, killing his last victims in the school — two teachers — on his way out, Rech said.Our officers were very quick, Rech said.Through the immediate police intervention they were able to prevent a further escalation of the crime.After fleeing the school, the suspect ran into downtown Winnenden, a town of 28,000, where he shot two people walking by a psychiatric clinic, killing one and wounding the other, police said.The gunman then hijacked a car and forced the driver to head south while threatening his life from the back seat, triggering a land and air manhunt involving 700 police officers and four helicopters, according to Stuttgart prosecutors.The driver swerved off the road to avoid a police checkpoint and managed to escape, while the suspect fled from the car into an industrial area in the town of Wendlingen, about 24 miles (40 kilometers) from Winnenden.He entered a car dealership, where he shot and killed his final victims — a salesman and a man shopping for a car — and then went back outside, prosecutors said.He opened fire on police swarming the area, who shot back and hit the suspect, who fell wounded to the ground, Michelfelder said.But he got back up, reloaded his weapon, and fled into what turned out to be a dead-end street. Police found him there dead, having apparently shot himself in the head. Two police officers suffered serious, but not life-threatening, injuries.

The death toll was close to that of Germany's worst school shooting.

In the 2002 shooting, 19-year-old Robert Steinhaeuser shot and killed 12 teachers, a secretary, two students and a police officer before turning his gun on himself in the Gutenberg high school in Erfurt, in eastern Germany. Steinhaeuser, who had been expelled for forging a doctor's note, was a gun club member licensed to own weapons. The attack led Germany to raise the age for owning recreational firearms from 18 to 21. German Chancellor Angel Merkel called the shooting a horrific crime.It is hard to put into words what happened today, but our sadness and sympathy goes out to the victims' families,Merkel said. The European Parliament, meeting in Strasbourg, France, stood in silence for a minute, to honor the victims. It is our task as responsible politicians in the European Union and, indeed, all the member states to do our utmost that such deeds can be prevented,said EU assembly president Hans-Gert Pottering, a German.

Ala. gunman left list of those who wronged him By JESSICA GRESKO and DESIREE HUNTER, Associated Press Writers MAR 11,09

SAMSON, Ala. – The gunman who killed 10 people and committed suicide in a rampage across the Alabama countryside had struggled to keep a job and left behind lists of employers and co-workers he believed had wronged him, authorities said Wednesday.The lists found in Michael McLendon's home included a metals plant that had forced him to resign years ago and where he ended up killing himself Tuesday to end the rampage, District Attorney Gary McAliley said. Also on the list were a sausage factory from which he suddenly quit last week and a poultry plant that suspended his mother, McAliley said.The pages torn from a spiral notebook included names of co-workers who he felt had wronged him, including one who reported him for not wearing ear plugs, another who made him clean a meat grinder and a supervisor who didn't like the way he cut pork chops, McAliley said.We found a list of people he worked with, people who had done him wrong, said McAliley in an interview outside the charred house where the rampage began.Investigators offered no immediate explanation for why McLendon targeted relatives and others who weren't on the list as he fired more than 200 rounds in a roughly 20-mile trail of carnage across two counties near the Florida state line.

The district attorney said a piece of paper found in the house he shared with his mother also included the names of nine lawyers in the area. He said McLendon apparently wanted to hire a lawyer in a dispute with members of his family over getting a family Bible returned to him, but details weren't clear.McLendon began his killing spree across three southern Alabama communities by burning down his home, and ended it by taking his own life at Reliable Metals, where he worked until 2003. McAliley said he believes McLendon had planned more violence at the Pilgrim Pride plant in Enterprise, where his mother worked, and the place he recently quit, Kelly Foods in Elba.McLendon's complete work history wasn't immediately known, but he left the metals plant in Geneva in 2003 and apparently worked at Pilgrim's Pride before joining the sausage factory in 2007.Lt. Barry Tucker of Alabama Bureau of Investigations said at a news conference that McLendon was somewhat depressed about job issues but that investigators don't believe the shootings were job-related.

There's no specific indication of This is why I did it,said Tucker who wouldn't release a motive.Federal court records show McLendon and his mother are among Pilgrim Pride employees who filed a lawsuit in 2006 against the Pittsburg, Texas-based poultry firm over claims of unfair compensation. A company spokesman did not immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.The district attorney said records found in the home indicate Lisa McLendon was accused of misstating her hours but was due to resume work March 17. The company wouldn't comment on the reason she was suspended.In the span of about an hour, McLendon, 28, set his home on fire, killed five relatives and five bystanders and committed suicide in a standoff at the plant.

The community's just in disbelief, just how this could happen in our small town, said state Sen. Harri Anne Smith, from the nearby town of Slocomb.This was 20-something miles of terror.At a prayer service at First Baptist Church of Samson, Rev. Steve Sellers made no attempt to explain what would drive someone to commit such an act.

Father, there are times in life when we don't have answers to the question why, Sellers said to several hundred people in the church, where sobs could be heard.I don't know what set a young man off like that, but I too want to pray for his family.

It was not clear how long McLendon had been planning the attack, but authorities said he armed himself with four guns — two assault rifles with high-capacity magazines taped together, a shotgun and a .38-caliber pistol — and may have planned a bigger massacre than he had time to carry out.I'm convinced he went over there to kill more people, said Sheriff Dave Sutton. The shooting was the deadliest attack by a single gunman in Alabama history, and plunged Samson, a community of about 2,000 where McLendon grew up and where most of his victims lived, into mourning. The town is so close-knit that the mayor coached McLendon in T-ball when he was a boy, and the dead included the wife and daughter of one of the sheriff's deputies who was sent to chase McLendon. As word about the killings spread, graduates of the local high school scrambled to find their yearbooks, and many realized they knew the gunman. Something had to snap, said Jerry Hysmith, 35, who worked with McLendon at the metals plant in 2001.Among the dead were some of the very people who might have helped explain what set off McLendon — his grandmother, his mother, an uncle and two cousins. This much is clear: McLendon had a hard time keeping a job over the years, and had been forced to resign from his position at a local Reliable Metals plant in 2003, authorities said. Investigators would not say why.That year, he tried to join the police academy, but lasted only a week before flunking out, authorities said. His next known job came in 2007, at a nearby sausage plant operated by Kelley Foods.The company said he quit last week but was considered a team leader and was well-liked by employees.The rampage started around 3:30 p.m., when McLendon put his mother on an L-shaped couch, piled stuff on top of her and set her ablaze, authorities said. Before he left, he also shot four dogs. Investigators did not immediately say whether the woman was dead or alive when the fire was set.

Inside the charred home, a gun safe was left with its door ajar, and military gear, including a camouflage jacket and green military-style backpack, was found about the home. In another room, remnants of his baseball career, including a 1995 All-Star trophy, were prominently displayed.McLendon then drove a dozen miles and gunned down three other relatives and the deputy's wife and daughter on a porch and shot his grandmother at a house next door, sending panicked bystanders fleeing and ducking behind cars. His uncle's wife, Phyllis White, sought refuge in the house of neighbor Archie Mock.She was just saying, I think my family is dead. I think my family is dead,Mock said.McLendon went inside the house and chased his aunt out before driving off, said Tom Knowles, who was at his son's house nearby and saw the shooting. Knowles said McLendon returned moments later in his car as if looking for the aunt, then turned and looked at Knowles.He had cold eyes. There was nothing. I hollered at him. I said, Look, boy, I ain't done nothing to you,Knowles said. McLendon then left for good.Then, McLendon shot three more people at random as he drove toward the metals plant, firing from his car. At the metals plant, McLendon got out of his car and fired at police with his assault rifle, wounding Geneva Police Chief Frankie Lindsey, authorities said. Then he walked inside and killed himself. The victims included the wife and 18-month-old daughter of sheriff's Deputy Josh Myers, who was sent to chase McLendon. Myers did not know then that his wife and daughter were among the dead. His 4-month-old daughter was wounded in the attack. I cried so much yesterday, I don't have a tear left in me, said Myers, who did not know McLendon.I feel like I should be able to walk in the house and my wife would be there, my baby girl climbing on me.Associated Press Writers Jay Reeves in Samson, Gary Mitchell in Mobile and Bob Johnson and Kate Brumback in Montgomery contributed to this report.

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Egypt hosts stepped-up talks on Mideast prisoner swap by Alain Navarro – Wed Mar 11, 2:03 pm ET

CAIRO (AFP) – Egypt hosted closed-door talks on Wednesday on a prisoner swap between the Islamist movement Hamas and Israel that would set free soldier Gilad Shalit along with hundreds of Palestinians.For a third time in two weeks, Israeli negotiator Ofer Dekel returned to Cairo on Tuesday night in an effort to nail down an elusive deal, that could pave the way for a long-term truce for the Gaza Strip.Intensive and tough negotiations are underway on the names of the Hamas prisoners to be traded for Shalit,a source close to the talks told AFP, asking not to be named.Dekel is now expected to spend a second night in Egypt and will pursue talks, in an apparent sign that things are moving,the source said later on Wednesday.He said the two sides were in a race against the clock to seal a deal before an April 3 time-limit for Israeli right-wing hardliner and prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new government.Israel has insisted that any agreement for a lasting ceasefire in and around the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip depends on the release of Shalit, who was captured by Palestinian guerrillas in June 2006.Dekel is locked in talks with Egypt's intelligence chief General Omar Suleiman, who has been working to mediate a deal in the absence of direct talks between Hamas and Israel -- which boycotts the group as a terrorist outfit.

The negotiations coincide with talks between rival factions including Hamas and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah faction to try to form a unity government that would be acceptable to the international community.The latest prisoner swap efforts coincide with a visit to Cairo by Mussa Abu Marzuk, the deputy head of Hamas's politburo, for the inter-Palestinian talks.I don't have information on Shalit. I don't even know if he is alive or not,the Damascus-based Abu Marzuk told an Arab newspaper.Only the factions holding him know, and such information comes at a price.He said 450 convicted Islamists were up for release as well as 550 other detainees: youths, women and Hamas political figures.According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, Dekel has proposed a deal for the release of 400 prisoners, including 220 with blood on their hands for anti-Israeli attacks.There are some names of terrorists (on the list) whose release would be unacceptable for Israeli public opinion,said the source close to the talks. The question is whether Hamas is flexible enough to remove such names.He said Cairo was preparing a two-stage release: about 300 Palestinians would walk free in return for Shalit's transfer to Egypt, and he would return home once the rest are released.

British lawmaker secretly meets Hamas leader Wed Mar 11, 2:00 pm ET Wednesday, March 11, 2009,

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A renegade British lawmaker who had financial dealings with Saddam Hussein and praised Fidel Castro in Cuba can add this to his resume: an honorary Palestinian passport, awarded during a secret meeting with the prime minister of Hamas.A statement from the militant group that rules Gaza said George Galloway met with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh at an undisclosed location Tuesday. Haniyeh's office released a photo of the two men embracing.Not only are you the prime minister of Palestine, but you are our prime minister, too, Galloway told Haniyeh, on footage shown by Israel's Channel 10 TV.Haniyeh has kept largely out of sight since Israel launched a devastating military offensive against Hamas last December in an effort to stop rocket fire from Gaza.The European Union considers Hamas to be a terrorist organization.Galloway entered Gaza from Egypt on Monday, leading an aid caravan for victims of the Israeli offensive.The lifeline from Britain to Gaza is in," he said. Israel allows daily convoys of aid into Gaza and denies that there are shortages of food, fuel or medicine.

Galloway left Gaza on Wednesday through the Egyptian border.

In recent years, the lawmaker has also been expelled from the Labour Party for urging British soldiers not to fight in Iraq, claimed it would be morally justified for an assassin to target then-Prime Minister Tony Blair in response for Britain's support for the war — and lapped up imaginary milk and purred like a cat during his stint on the reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother.Galloway was suspended in 2007 after an investigation found that a charity he set up was partly funded by the Iraqi dictator. On a visit to Iraq in 1994, he told Hussein, Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability.Galloway later said he had been referring to the Iraqi people.

SOCIALISM LEADS TO NEW WORLD ORDER

Socialism (webster's dictionary)
A system of society in which the means of production and distribution are owned and controled by the government.

Classmates to Socialism:Marxism,Leninism,Communism. They want to divide the World into 10 Regions.

The Formation of Trading Blocs
http://www.bized.co.uk/virtual/dc/trade/theory/th4.htm

Organisations such the World Trade Organisation aim to free up world trade from trade barriers on a global scale. On a regional scale groups of countries or trade blocs have also been trying to lower trade barriers between them and stimulate regional trade. Increasingly the trade creation effect of regional co-operation is being viewed as an important cause of economic growth. However, the impact of trading blocs also has a trade diversion effect.

There are a number of types of trade blocs:

Sovereign countries belonging to the free trade area trade freely amongst them but have individual trade barriers with countries outside the free trade area. All members have most favoured nation status, which means that they are all treated equally.Examples include North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) between the USA, Canada and Mexico; Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and COMESA

Customs Union

The countries are no longer fully sovereign over trade policy. There will be some degree of unification of custom or trade policies. They will have a common external tariff (CET) which is applied to all countries outside the customs union. The countries will be represented at trade negotiations with organisations such as the World Trade Organisation by supra-national organisations e.g. the European Union.

Common Market

This trading bloc is a customs union, which has in addition the free movement of factors of production such as labour and capital between the member countries without restriction. Mercosur is an example of a common market comprising of a number of South American nations.

An Economic Union

This is a common market where the level of integration is more developed. The member states may adopt common economic policies e.g. the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union. They may have a fixed exchange rate regime such as the ERM of the EMU. Indeed, they may have integrated further and have a single common currency. This will involve common monetary policy. The ultimate act of integration is likely to be some form of political integration where the national sovereignty is replaced by some form of over-arching political authority.

10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS.

Adaptive Model of the Global World System
The Club of Rome had its beginnings in April of 1968, when leaders from ten different countries gathered in Rome...The organization claims to have the solutions for world peace and prosperity...The Club of Rome has been charged with the task of overseeing the regionalizaton and unification of the entire world...

The Club's findings and recommendations are published from time to time in special, highly confidential reports, which are sent to the power-elite to be implemented. On 17 September 1973 the Club released one such report, entitled Regionalized and Adaptive Model of the Global World System... The document reveals that the Club has divided the world into ten political/ economic regions, which it refers to as kingdoms.

The Ten Regions of the New World Government

Region 1: Canada and the United States of America
Region 2: European Union - Western Europe
Region 3: Japan
Region 4: Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Israel and Pacific Islands
Region 5: Eastern Europe
Region 6: Latin America - Mexico, Central and South America
Region 7: North Africa and the Middle East (Moslems)
Region 8: Central Africa
Region 9: South and Southeast Asia
Region 10: Central Asia

TRADE AREA STORIES
http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/nafta-alena/busin.aspx?lang=en
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/mercosur/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/africa/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/asia/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/development/geographical/regionscountries/eucaribbean_en.cfm?CFID=2728312&CFTOKEN=26857737&jsessionid=0806c5bf3a672e547055
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/central_asia/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/la/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/mideast/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/na/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/pacific/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/we/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/countries/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/enp/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/world/index_en.htm
http://www.officialtrades.com/Middle_East_Free_Trade_Area/videos.htm
http://www.export.gov.il/Eng/_Articles/Article.asp?ArticleID=2885&CategoryID=798
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/us-exporters-meet-trading-partners-in-israel-kuwait-and-iran-on-foreigntradex-83065.php
http://business.inquirer.net/money/breakingnews/view/20080620-143856/Japan-ASEAN-free-trade-pact-set-for-ratification

note:Rome is known as the City on Seven Hills.

Daniel 7:7-8 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

Daniel 7:24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.

Revelation 12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

Revelation 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

Revelation 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

Revelation 17:7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.

Revelation 17:12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

Revelation 17:16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

75 years ago Dr Harry Ironside said we will have a New World Order a one World Government and it will be socialist. We are heading that way rapidly.

The Originator of the new World Order was Adam Weisoff in May 1,1776, 65 days before the birth of America:Said we are going to create a New World Order. Out of that group sprang another 6 New World Order Organizations.

1-The Council on Foreign relations.
2-The Bilderbergs.
3-The club of Rome.
4-The Trilateral Commission.
5-The United Nations.
6-The New Age Movement (Enviromental Movement)

The Bilderbergs created the idea of the EUROPEAN UNION in 1954 in HOLLAND. In the Book of Daniel there are 2 legs on the statue,1st you got the one leg centered in ROME and the second leg centered in Constantinople(Turkey).

The first rome group is the european leg group. the Turkey 2nd leg group are Muslim Nations from the Mediterreanean Sea and North African Nations. All the 25+ countries are part of the 2nd Leg of the Revived Roman Empire also.

The Bible says it will come out as a grouping of 10 in Daniel 7:7-8,20,24 Revelation 12:3,13:1,17:3,7,12,16.

6 nations joined he European Economic Community by 1957 and the TREATY OF ROME was signed(THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE)was reborn. By 1981 Greece was the 10th member to join the EUROPEAN UNION,but thats not the end,the Bible says it will become Global.

DANIEL 8:23 A FEIRCE KING ARISES
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
DANIEL 7:23 HE TAKES WORLD CONTROL
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)
REVELATION 13:1,7-8
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

The EU will go from the original 10 countries to world control,so the EU will break the world into 10 REGIONAL BLOCS. In 1973 the CLUB OF ROME divided the world into 10 regional blocs and unity. They planned out what is about to happen in the world right now.

2,000 years ago Rabbi Hagion said. All of our JEWISH RABBIS and all the Old TESTAMENT PROPHETS believed that theres going to come a powerful Gentile Monarchy who shall create a 10 division EMPIRE. And that will be the announcement to the WORLD that our MESSIAH is about to come and rule for 1,000 years.
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Saint Iranius in 140 said it also on the Christian side of it.

ACTS 1:10-11
10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

ZECHARIAH 14:4
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

REVELATION 19:11-16
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

JUDE 14-16
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

OBAMA IS AN EU BOUGHT OUT NEW WORLD ORDER GOVERNMENT PUPPET AS WE SEE IN HIS GERMANY SPEECH JULY 24,2008.

-I am a fellow citizen of the WORLD.
-In this NEW WORLD we'll have a GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP.
-We will join in a new GLOBAL partnership.
-We must come together to SAVE THE PLANET.
-We need a GLOBALIZED WORLD.
-People of the WORLD this is our time.
-We must answer OUR DESTINY and remake the WORLD once again.

THIS IS THE LAST SIGN THAT HAPPENS BEFORE JESUS COMES. St Jerome of the Catholic Church said when the world is put in regions,JESUS comes back bodily to set up his KINGDOM for ever.

DANIEL 2:44-45
44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter:
and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

DANIEL 7:26-27
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

LISBON TREATY OR DEATH

EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)

REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)

REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

MEPs see restricted role for future EU president
HONOR MAHONY 10.03.2009 @ 17:31 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - MEPs have approved a report calling for a narrow role for the future EU president, in stark contrast to the broad flag-carrying post that some member states have envisioned.Deputies in the constitutional affairs committee on Monday (9 March) agreed that the president of the European Council - a new maximum five-year post foreseen under the Lisbon Treaty - should not speak for the EU as a whole on political issues.Instead the person should be restricted to representing the EU at leader level on common foreign and security (CSFP) issues. The EU's planned foreign minister would deal with CFSP issues at ministerial level and should be allowed to conduct political negotiations in the name of the Union.MEPs foresee a strong role for the European Commission president saying that this person would assume the representation of the Union at the highest level in relation to the whole of the external relations of the Union, including specific areas such as foreign trade.The delicate carving of power is the European Parliament's answer to what is a nebulous part of the Lisbon Treaty - the exact interplay of the EU's future three main political players.Past discussions have seen countries split on whether to stay true to the largely administrative role foreseen by the treaty for the president or to expand the post - something most MEPs fear would leave undermine community-level politics in favour of intergovernmentalism.Some member states, particularly smaller ones, fear that the EU president post could be used by big countries to push their own agenda with the treaty description saying that the president should ensure the external representation of the EU on CFSP issues but also drive forward the work of the European Council - the forum for EU leaders.Their fears were not helped by the recent French presidency of the EU. French leader Nicolas Sarkozy put the EU on the political map during his six-month stint in the second half of 2008 but the presidency was notable for its abrasive style.Admitting that the treaty's solutions for representation of the Union are complex the report indicates that whether it will succeed will be largely due to the political trust that the foreign ministers and presidents of the European Council and Commission manage to attain.

Budgetary powers

The report, due to be voted on in plenary in the coming weeks, also warns that the parliament will use its budgetary powers to get its way on issues such as the composition of the diplomatic service, meant to back up the foreign minister.The report speaks of the intention to fully exercise its budgetary powers in relation to the setting-up of the EEAS [European External Action Service].Threatening the purse-string veto is a way for MEPs to ensure that the diplomatic service is not dominated by member state officials and run by national governments.

Timetable for commission president

The parliament is also suggesting a timetable for nominating the next commission president – a process complicated by the fact that the commission's composition will depend on the outcome of the Irish referendum – set for autumn - on the Lisbon Treaty.

MEPs suggest the next president should be chosen directly after the June European elections but that nomination of the team of commissioners only be done after the Irish result is clear.The current Nice Treaty foresees less commissioners than the number of member states from 2009 while EU leaders have agreed to maintain one commissioner per member state if the Lisbon Treaty is approved.

Weaken Iran to help Mideast peace: Israel PM designate by Ron Bousso – Tue Mar 10, 2:14 pm ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu believes that weakening Iran is key to ending the Middle East conflict as it would in turn weaken Hamas, a senior aide said on Tuesday.Iran's growing power and intransigence give great advantage to the radical elements among Palestinians and in Lebanon, the aide said, when asked about talks Netanyahu held with outgoing Defence Minister Ehud Barak earlier in the day.Any progress in the Middle East peace talks will require Hamas's weakening which can be achieved only if Iran is seen as weakened,he said.Israel accuses Iran of supplying weapons to both the Islamist rulers of Gaza and Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah, which fought a devastating war with Israel in 2006.

Netanyahu, a hawkish former premier who heads the right-wing Likud party, said at the meeting, which was also attended by chief of staff Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi, that he intends to focus his efforts on ending Iran's nuclear programme.Israel, which is widely believed to have the Middle East's sole if undeclared nuclear arsenal, suspects that the Iranian programme is cover for a weapons drive but Iran insists it is solely for peaceful purposes.It will be very difficult to stablilise the situation in Lebanon or to hold negotiations with the Palestinians as long as Iran's power is on the rise,the aide quoted Netanyahu as saying.The Likud leader, who is expected to form a narrow right-wing coalition next week, has rejected establishing a Palestinian state and has advocated what he calls an economic peace with the Palestinians.This could lead to tension with the new US administration after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week announced that Washington intends an aggressive pursuit of Middle East peace.

While expressing support for international efforts to resolve the standoff over Iran's nuclear programme by diplomatic means, Israel has repeatedly refused to rule out military action to prevent any possibility of Iran developing a bomb.The military option remains on the table because it gives more chance for dialogue that will lead to a compromise with Iran,the aide said.US President Barack Obama has vowed to engage in dialogue with Iran in an effort to end the nuclear standoff, in a policy break with the administration of George W. Bush which refuse to deal with Tehran without a prior agreement to suspend nuclear enrichment.US intelligence chief Dennis Blair warned on Tuesday that it would be difficult to convince Iran to give up its quest for nuclear technology.Although we do not know whether Iran currently intends to develop nuclear weapons, we assess Tehran at a minimum is keeping open the option to develop them, said Blair.

Pope to visit Muslim, Jewish sites in Mideast trip By DIAA HADID, Associated Press Writer – Tue Mar 10, 12:55 pm ET

JERUSALEM – Pope Benedict XVI will show solidarity with Jews and Muslims during his first papal trip to the Holy Land with visits to Jerusalem's Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, the papal envoy in Jerusalem said Tuesday.Benedict announced this week that he would visit in May. His presence could help ease the sometimes rocky relations between the Vatican and Israel, and between the Vatican and Muslims.It will be his first official visit to the region since he became pope in 2005.Archbishop Antonio Franco, the papal nuncio in Jerusalem, said visits to key Jewish and Muslim holy sites would be on the pope's agenda. The Dome of the Rock is one of Islam's most sacred shrines, and the nearby Western Wall is the holiest site where Jews are allowed to pray.The intent of the Holy Father's visit is to express his solidarity and closeness to the people of Israel and Palestine, and through them all the people of this region,Franco said.Benedict will also visit Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, meet with top Palestinian and Israeli leaders and make a stop in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, the traditional birthplace of Jesus. The pope will end his visit by celebrating Mass in Galilee — the area in northern Israel where Jesus lived and preached.Franco said the Vatican has asked Israeli authorities to ease movement restrictions on Palestinian Christians from the blockaded Gaza Strip to allow them to attend parts of the pope's visit.The papal envoy said Benedict's tour will be a religious pilgrimage, not a political mission. Still, the visit could help mend strained relations between Israel and the Roman Catholic Church.Ties were rattled recently when Benedict tried to reinstate an excommunicated bishop who denied the Holocaust. Benedict condemned the bishop's remarks, spoke out against anti-Semitism and called off the reinstatement until the bishop satisfies his demands.The controversy came shortly after a senior Vatican Cardinal, Renato Martino, described the Gaza Strip as a big concentration camp during Israel's fierce military assault on the blockaded territory in January. The offensive was meant to halt rocket fire into Israel.The two sides also disagree over the legacy of the wartime pontiff Pius XII, who some historians say did not do everything in his power to prevent the Holocaust or limit its scope.

We are trying to clarify the issues,Franco said.Benedict will also meet the top Muslim official in the Holy Land, Grand Mufti Mohammed Hussein, who will accompany the pope into the Dome of the Rock shrine.Vatican-Muslim ties were strained by a 2006 speech in which Benedict linked Islam to violence. Amid angry reactions from the Muslim world, he expressed regret for any offense caused by his remarks.Franco said they asked Israeli authorities allow two busloads of Palestinian Christians from Gaza to attend the pope's Mass in Bethlehem.Local Christian officials said they expected at least 40,000 people to attend the Galilee Mass, which will take place on a hilltop outside the northern Israeli city of Nazareth.Palestinian Christians are a tiny, diminishing minority in the Holy Land, their community whittled away by low birthrates and emigration.

HAROLD HOFFMAN WARNS WHATS COMING,ON TAMAR,TOVIA.
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/03/all-that-can-be-done-is-pass-message.html#links

Threats to Our National Sovereignty Speech Given at CPAC 2009
by Iain Murray February 28, 2009

Ladies and gentlemen, I am a refugee from socialism. I left Britain soon after Tony Blair's election and have watched my native country decline from afar as managerial socialism and the regulatory state took hold.But I am also a refugee from transnationalism. A good part of my native country's decline has been due not just to the disastrous Obama-like policies of Tony Blair and his hapless successor Gordon Brown, but to the gradual, almost invisible cession of sovereignty from the once-proud United Kingdom to the vainglorious European Union. In the few minutes I have to address you today, I would like to describe how this happened and how it can happen to the United States, constitution and all, if we are not vigilant. In the early 1970s, the British Prime Minister Ted Heath decided that the United Kingdom needed a entry to the common market that France and Germany had formed with a couple of other countries in an effort to end the German habit of deciding to hold a military parade down the Champs d'Elysees every twenty years or so. He therefore arranged Britain's entry into the Common Market, as it was then known, or the European Economic Community (the EEC). A huge free trade zone, he reckoned, would be immensely beneficial to Britain's ailing economy. He was probably right about the benefits, but he never considered the costs. The first inkling should have come when the other EEC countries demanded a price for Britain's entry – full access to Britain's territorial waters and the massive fish stocks they held, all to be managed under an environmentally rapacious common ownership regime called the Common Fisheries Program. It was the shape of things to come. Being opposed to free trade, the Labour party opposed Britain's entry to the EEC and when they came to power, granted the people Britain's first and only country-wide referendum on membership. Conservatives, loving free trade, campaigned for membership, including the blessed leaderene herself, Margaret Thatcher. The socialists opposed it.Conservatives won the day, to their eternal regret.

After Mrs Thatcher gained the premiership, we saw the ratchet begin to tighten. A series of intergovernmental treaties gradually but inexorably tightened the noose, granting more power to the European Commission in Brussels and chipping away at British sovereignty. Mrs Thatcher gained some important concessions, swinging her handbag and connecting with a few European skulls, but they were too little in retrospect. By signing the treaties and incorporating them into UK law, the groundwork was set for a disastrous decade. Under John Major and Tony Blair, Britain gave away power after power. It lost its veto in several areas and was subject to the racket called qualified majority voting – a way to ensure the Franco-German alliance carries the day – in others. The result is horrifying. Today, eighty percent of British Laws are actually made in Brussels, and the Mother of Parliaments, home to the Pitts, Palmerston, Salisbury and Churchill, such great champions of British sovereignty, has no power to reject or even amend them. The most hated reforms in Britain today – closure of post offices, the ridiculous Home Information Packs whose costs prevent people selling their homes in this housing crisis, and a reduction in garbage collections to once every fourteen days – all are the result of European directives, made in Brussels. What about free trade? The fact that the EEC became the EU should answer that question for you. As a result of directive after directive, trade is probably more heavily regulated than before Britain joined. And the only reason why the horrid European Constitution was defeated in France was because it wasn't socialist enough. So, in the way these things work, the EU is gradually integrating all the socialist elements of the Constitution into existing and forthcoming treaties, and leaving out the few good things. There is no wonder that several polls have found majorities of Britons in favor of leaving the EU. In Charles Krauthammer's words yesterday, the EU is a regulation-bound, economically sclerotic, socially stagnant, nanny state. Such are the goals of transnationalism.

Doubtless, many of you are saying, it could never happen here, our constitution protects us. Don't be so sure. Let me read a brief section from the US Constitution itself, Article VI: This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.How did the EU erode British sovereignty? By governments agreeing treaties, and then Parliament codifying them into British law. Ratification of a Treaty has the same effect here. Now are there any treaties out there which could severely degrade American sovereignty? Indeed there are, and many of them are in the environmental arena, as Chris has described. An agreement to reduce greenhouse gases, once ratified by America, puts an international body in control of our economy, in a way it does no other. There are few other countries that allow citizen lawsuits to enforce the law, which is why other signatories to the treaty will quite happily ignore it, when we cannot. As the great British satire Yes Minister put it about the introduction of an identity card by the EU, the Germans will love it, the French will ignore it and the Italians and the Irish will be too chaotic to enforce it. Only the British will resent it.There are many other environmental treaties sitting there like traps, just waiting for an environmentally-friendly administration to walk right into them. The Law of the Sea Treaty, for instance, will cede sovereignty to our seabed resources. The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants still awaits ratification, but because of the way it works – chemicals to be banned are listed on a schedule to the treaty that can be altered by bureaucrats – it could easily ban the manufacture and use of the chemicals that have made our lives wealthier and healthier, all in the name of the environment.Together, these might seem irritants, but the transnationalists will not stop there. French officials have floated the idea of a World Environment Organization, and British foreign secretary David Miliband has explicitly called for the European Union to become the Environmental Union, echoing Al Gore's sentiment in Earth in the Balance, that environmental protection should become the central organizing principle of mankind. It is therefore not too outlandish to suggest that some form of international body, set up to unify and harmonize the fluffy-sounding environmental treaties we seem all too willing to rush to sign in this new era of hope and change, could become America's version of European Union. A few more treaties and it is possible to see permits for new power plants not being decided by governors, but by international bureaucrats. The environment is such a catch-all that it is possible to see responsibility for all sorts of areas of policy being transferred to this new organization: environment and energy obviously, increasing amounts of economic policy via mechanisms such as carbon taxes, agricultural and fisheries policy will be next. What about education, to ensure every child is aware of their responsibilities to the planet? Labor policy, to regulate green jobs, of course. Defense policy, because of the environmental impact of war. And so on.

If this depresses you, let me finish with another quote from Yes Minister. The urbane and brilliant civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby explains how his colleagues hoped to derail the European Union by British involvement: Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years: to create a disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians. Divide and rule, you see. Why should we change now when it's worked so well?...It's called diplomacy, minister.I can only hope that our diplomats change, and begin to have American interests at heart. Otherwise, I'm running out of places to be a refugee in.

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Central system brings blizzard, severe storms Mark Avery – Tue Mar 10, 12:05 pm ET

AccuWeather A storm system in the Central U.S. will bring severe weather to the Mid-Mississippi and Ohio Valleys today, as well as blizzard or near blizzard conditions over the Upper Midwest. Gusty winds are expected over most of the Central U.S., with winds increasing as the surface low deepens later today and tonight. Wind advisories and high wind watches are posted in portions of the Upper Midwest. The heaviest snow is expected over the eastern Dakotas and northern Minnesota, where between 10 to 15 inches of new snow is expected. Lighter snowfall amounts are expected further south, but the gusty winds blowing around the snow will lead to the potential for near blizzard conditions. Further south, heavy rain and severe storms are expected. The risk of severe storms stretches from the Red River Valley to the Mid-Mississippi Valley into the Ohio Valley and central Great Lakes today and tonight. The severe threats will be damaging winds, large hail, and a few tornadoes. The frontal boundary will begin to move into the Northeast tonight and tomorrow bringing a chance of rain, snow, and a wintry mix over the Northeast tomorrow. Rain chances will extend southwestward to the Rio Grande Valley. Some snow is possible over the Upper Midwest again tomorrow near the surface low. Ahead of the frontal boundary, near record warmth is possible in the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys today; behind the front, very cold temperatures are expected. The combination of cold and gusty winds have lead to a wind chill advisory for most of today in northern Montana and North Dakota.

Snow closes businesses, highways in upper Midwest By DAVE KOLPACK, Associated Press Writer MAR 10,09

FARGO, N.D. – Heavy snow driven by wind gusting to 40 mph brought parts of the upper Midwest to a halt Tuesday, closing courts, schools, businesses and two major highways.

Up to a foot of snow was forecast Tuesday for parts of eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota.The National Weather Service posted blizzard warnings and winter storm warnings for wide areas of North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota. All three states reported school closings.North Dakota officials closed Interstate 29 from the Canadian border to the South Dakota state line. Earlier, Minnesota and North Dakota authorities shut down a 130-mile stretch of Interstate 94 from Jamestown, N.D., to Fergus Falls, Minn.There's all kinds of people out there, despite the warnings, and many of them were stuck on roadways, Al Weigel, Fargo's director of operations, said late afternoon.Those drivers would be picking up the tab for towing, Weigel said.

Truck driver Kyle Kraft had planned a quick trip from Princeville, Ill., to Fargo and back on Tuesday but had to pull into a hotel parking after I-94 was closed.The truck stops are jammed-packed with no place to park,Kraft said.Kraft had packed only his shaving kit. He said he was relieved to discover a shopping mall across the street from his parking place — but it was shut down because of the storm. I guess you have to take it all in stride. I don't get paid enough to get upset about it, he said.It was the worst storm of the winter, said Clay County, Minn., Sheriff Bill Bergquist. He said plows were pulled off most county roads because visibility was zero.The storm even shut down a popular hangout known for its trademark frozen desserts, the Moorhead Dairy Queen. It must be bad. No one wants their Blizzard today,Bergquist said.Fargo snowplow crews could not keep up with drifting snow, public works maintenance supervisor Lee Anderson said. It's not pretty,he said.

Fargo residents were advised to just stay home.

I would say it's a pretty good idea to be stocking up on groceries right now, Fargo resident Mark Walker said as he stopped to use an ATM machine.Today would be a great day for people to enjoy maybe a movie at home, West Fargo Police Chief Arland Rasmussen said.Rasmussen said most businesses in the area did not open Tuesday or closed early, and even North Dakota State University shut down.That really made a difference. NDSU usually doesn't close,Rasmussen said.The weather service said wind was blowing at 30 mph at Fargo, with gusts to 40 mph. The late afternoon temperature was zero with a wind chill factor of 24 below. Police in South Dakota said icy pavement likely caused an accident Tuesday that killed one man on a rural road. On Monday, an ambulance rolled over on an icy stretch of I-94 west of Fargo, killing the patient it was carrying.

PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS

JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME

PSALMS 14:1
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.

JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?

PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).

WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Lisbon Treaty: Disagree, and You’re Dead
Compiled by Henrik Palmgren March 8, 2009

Professor Schachtschneider pointed out that the European Union reform treaty (aka the Lisbon Treaty) reintroduces the death penalty in Europe, which is very important, especially knowing that, for instance, Italy was recently trying to abandon the death penalty through the United Nations forever and everywhere.The death penalty cause is not even in the treaty, but in a footnote, because with the European Union reform treaty, we accept also the European Union Charter, which says that there is no death penalty, but then, and also in a footnote, it says: except in the case of war, riots, upheaval — then the death penalty is possible. Schachtschneider points to the fact that this is an outrage, because they put it in a footnote of a footnote, and you have to read it really like a super-expert to find out!

So how would this work for countries that have ratified the Lisbon Treaty?

The Summer of Rage could be Lethal
On 20th February 2008 a caucus meeting was held at the German Parliament in Munich to discuss the Lisbon Treaty. At this meeting a previously unmentioned paragraph was brought to light by Professor Schachtschneider, Humanities Faculty, University of Nuremberg.Professor Schachtschneider, explained that the undisclosed paragraph means that on ratification of the Lisbon Treaty the DEATH PENALTY will be reintroduced to Europe. The death penalty will be applicable for the crimes of RIOTING, CIVIL UPHEAVAL and DURING WAR. Professor Schachtschneider made the point that this clause is particularly outrageous as it had been cleverly hidden in a footnote of a footnote and would not have been detected by anyone other than an exceptional expert reader.

[WAR IS CRIME NOTE: There is actually no war in Europe. But it would be enough if some crazy politician said, as Dubya did in the U.S., that we are in a permanent state of war on terror, and here it is! As for riots and upheaval — governments in Europe are already doing their best to create them.

CONCLUSION: Transformation of the European Union into fascist superstate is no more a possibility — it is REALITY clearly stated in the footnotes to the Lisbon Treaty. Those who wrote, edited and signed this outrageous document have by doing so committed a crime against humanity! But it's on the persons who haven't signed it yet depends whether or not the European Holocaust will take place. These persons should think twice or thrice before signing, because if they later change their minds, they risk to be executed by their own masters!]

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/

SPECIAL CONFERENCE MAR 23-24,2009,ALL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS WILL BE THERE,ALL THE EU MEMBERS WILL BE THERE,AND THE G-20 WILL BE THERE.THIS SAME GROUP OF EU,BANKERS,G-20 WILL ALSO BE IN LONDON IN APRIL TO LAY PLANS FOR THE NEW WORLD ORDER,ESPECIALLY THE G-20.https://futurefinance.wsj.com/index.php

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED MAR 11,2009

09:30 AM +10.18
10:00 AM +65.31
10:30 AM +60.62
11:00 AM +45.80
11:30 AM +24.46
12:00 PM +20.79
12:30 PM +9.40
01:00 PM -30.44
01:30 PM -24.77
02:00 PM +10.20
02:30 PM -51.28
03:00 PM -3.34
03:30 PM +22.62
04:00 PM +3.91 6930.40

S&P 500 721.36 +1.76

NASDAQ 1371.64 +13.36

GOLD 906.50 +10.60

OIL 42.75 -2.95

TSE 300 8011.02 +130.61

CDNX 823.90 +5.35

S&P/TSX/60 488.38 +8.73

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -21.08%
S&P -20.33%
Nasdaq -13.87%
TSX Advances 909,declines 634,unchanged 268,Volume 3,137,394,879.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 315,Declines 379,Unchanged 381,Volume 153,925,807.

Dow +1 point at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -30 points at low today.
Dow +75 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $901.60.OIL opens at $44.65 today.
Crude Oil Inventories +700,000 Barrels.
Gasoline Inventories -3 MILLION Barrels.
Distillate Inventories +2.1 MILLION Barrels.
Refinery Utlization -0.4% to 82.7%

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -56 points at low today so far.
Dow +92 points at high today so far.

DAY TODAY PERFORMANCE - 12:30PM STATS
NYSE Advances 2,139,declines 1,534,unchanged 98,New Highs 5,New Lows 93.
Volume 781,241,942.
NASDAQ Advances 1,392,declines 1,260,unchanged 134,New highs 4,New Lows 81.
Volume 1,214,484,363.
TSX Advances 810,declines 528,unchanged 295,Volume 1,838,453,593.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 285,Declines 254,Unchanged 316,Volume 100,860,754.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -56 points at low today.
Dow +92 points at high today.
Dow +0.06% today Volume 523,896,561.
Nasdaq +0.98% today Volume 2,047,304,439.
S&P 500 +0.24% today Volume N/A
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RECORD LOWS DOW
-Sept 30,1996 5,882.17
-Oct 30,1996 5,993.23
-Nov 6,1996 6,177.71
-Dec 16,1996 6,268.35
-Apr 15,1997 6,587.16
-Apr 21,1997 6,660.21
-Apr 28,1997 6,783.02
-May 1,1997 6,976.48
-May 7,1997 7,085.65

RECORD LOWS S&P 500
-Sept 5,1996 649.44
-Sept 6,1996 655.68
-Sept 11,1996 667.28
-Sept 12,1996 671.13
-Oct 1,1996 689.08
-Oct 28,1996 697.26
-Nov 4,1996 706.73
-Nov 5,1996 714.14
-Dec 17,1996 726.04

EU set for bruising G20 encounter with US
ANDREW WILLIS 10.03.2009 @ 06:49 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A new policy divide appears to be opening up between the EU and the US over the extent stimulus spending programmes should be used to combat the current global recession.Speaking late on Monday evening following a three hour meeting of eurozone finance ministers, the group's president, Jean-Claude Juncker, signalled that the recent US call for a global spending boost in 2009 was in direct contrast to what eurozone finance ministers considered appropriate. The 16 euro area ministers agreed that recent American appeals insisting that the Europeans make an additional budgetary effort to combat the effects of the crisis was not to our liking,said Mr Juncker, evincing European government concerns that rising public debt is fuelling market concern over a possible sovereign default. We would not want to give the impression that we were considering implementing further recovery packages. Europe and the eurogroup have done what they needed to do.Instead, member states intend to take a wait-and-see approach in 2009 before possibly embarking on further spending programmes in 2010 if necessary. Mr Juncker's comments come a day after Barack Obama's top economic advisor, Larry Summers, told the Financial Times that the correct response to fight the recession was a co-ordinated global spending initiative.

There's no place that should be reducing its contribution to global demand right now, he said.The right macro-economic focus for the G20 is on global demand and the world needs more global demand.The striking divergence between governments either side of the Atlantic is likely to mean heated debate when the two sides meet on 14 March for a meeting of G20 finance ministers and on 2 April at the G20 leaders summit.

The gloom continues

Both Mr Juncker and economy commissioner Joaquin Almunia, who also attended the euro group meeting, were pessimistic about the immediate economic forecast.There is no obvious indication that gives us any reason to believe that the situation is turning around, said Mr Juncker. All the forecasts that we have available are extremely gloomy so this is a deep recession that we are going through.For his part, Mr Almunia said that external demand from the United States and Japan had weakened considerably, meaning any recovery will take longer than previously anticipated. Initial estimates provided by Eurostat last week indicate a fall in GDP for the euro area of 1.5 percent in the last quarter of 2008 compared to the preceding quarter, brought on by falling world trade volumes and a decline in domestic demand.

Euro group offers little prospect of accelerated entry

Despite the lack of good news coming from the eurozone these days, a number of central and eastern EU states, whose currencies have been buffeted by the economic downturn, have made calls in recent weeks for accelerated access to the monetary union.But euro group finance ministers signalled their unwillingness to bend current accession stipulations that include a budget deficit below three per cent of national GDP and a stable currency exchange rate relative to the euro for two years prior to accession.There is no question of reducing the rules for joining nor is there any question of reducing ERM-II from two years to one year,said Mr Juncker. Romania is keen to join the euro area in 2014 but the extent of the state's financial difficulties were made apparent on Monday when the IMF announced representatives would fly to Bucharest in the coming days to discuss a possible joint funding package together with the EU. Once we have received the letter from the Romanian authorities asking us to negotiate the use of the balance of payments facility we will start these conversations together with the IMF, said Mr Almunia after the eurogroup meeting.He added that any talks with the new Latvian government to renegotiate the terms of its EU/IMF loan would result in difficult negotiations.

Bernanke says regulatory overhaul needed By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer – Tue Mar 10, 12:17 pm ET

WASHINGTON – The nation's financial rule book must be rewritten to prevent a repeat of the global economic crisis now gripping the United States and other countries, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday.We must have a strategy that regulates the financial system as a whole ... not just its individual components, Bernanke said in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations.Bernanke offered new details on how to bolster mutual funds and a program that insures bank deposits. He also stressed the need for regulators to make sure financial companies have a sufficient capital cushion against potential losses.The Fed chief's remarks come as the Obama administration and Congress are crafting their overhaul strategies. For the administration, critical work will be carried out among global finance officials this weekend in London ahead of next month's meeting of leaders from the world's 20 major economic powers.The patchwork of U.S. financial rules dates to the Civil War. Congress, the administration and the Fed want to strengthen the system to avoid any future financial crises from plunging the U.S. economy and many others into recession.

Bernanke said there's a good chance the U.S. recession could end this year if the government is successful in getting financial markets to operate more normally again. The recession, now in its second year and already the longest in a quarter-century, has turned out to be more severe than anticipated, he acknowledged after his speech.

To guide the regulatory overhaul, Bernanke laid out four key elements. One is for Congress to enact legislation so the failure of a huge financial institution can be handled in such a way to minimize fallout to the national economy — similar to how the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. deals with bank failures. Such too big to fail companies must be subject to more rigorous supervision to prevent them from taking excessive risk, he said.The bailouts of insurance giant American International Group Inc., Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp., and mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have put billions of taxpayers' dollars at risk over the past year and angered the American public.Policymakers also should consider ways to bolster money market mutual funds that are susceptible to runs by investors, Bernanke said. That could be done by imposing tighter restrictions on the financial instruments that money markets can invest in or through a limited system of insurance for certain funds.Bernanke also called for a review of regulatory policies and accounting rules, suggesting a larger financial buffer for the FDIC's insurance program for bank deposits that could be used when conditions worsen. Capital regulations for banks and other financial institutions also must be appropriately forward-looking to ensure sufficient money is set aside against potential losses.

Finally, the government should consider creating an authority specifically responsible for monitoring financial risks and protecting the country from crises like the current one. Some in Congress — and the previous Bush administration — have proposed the Fed, which already serves as the lender of last resort to troubled financial companies, take on this super financial cop role.Asked whether he ever has second thoughts about taking the job as Fed chief, Bernanke said he couldn't deny there's been some dark days, some difficult nights, difficult weekends, but I don't regret it.

EU reaches agreement on reduced VAT rates
ANDREW WILLIS 10.03.2009 @ 21:47 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU finance ministers reached a political agreement on Tuesday (10 March), enabling member state governments to reduce Value Added Tax in a number of energy intensive service sectors. Under the current EU directive controlling the sales tax, member states are not allowed to reduce VAT below 15 percent. Following Monday's decision, governments will be able to reduce the tax to as low as 5.5 percent in a number of areas, including the restaurant sector. Some of the issues we solved today have been on the agenda for over ten years, said taxation commissioner Laszlo Kovacs, who attended the meeting.The French government has pushed hard for reduced VAT rates, especially in the restaurant sector, but up until today it has faced considerable opposition from the German government over concerns of reduced tax revenue.Fears also existed that variable VAT rates amongst member states could cause considerable price differences throughout the European Union. The agreement will allow service areas where reduced VAT levels already exist to maintain the derogation beyond the previous deadline of 2010. These service areas include bicycle repairs, hairdressing, renovation of private dwellings and window-cleaning. Domestic care services for children, the elderly, sick, and disabled are also eligible for reduced VAT rates. Mr Kovacs stressed that member states were not being forced to reduce the sales tax. I want to underline that reduced rates are not an obligation, it's an option,he said. So while EU citizens may now pay less for a plat du jour in Paris, there is no guarantee this will be the case in other capital cities. Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Germany and Lithuania attached a statement to the ministers' agreement saying they do not wish to make use of the extended scope of VAT rates.

There was praise for Czech finance minister Miroslav Kalousek, who chaired the meeting, that ran over time by more than four hours as member states insisted on numerous amendments to the negotiating text provided by the Czech presidency.

Speaking after the meeting, Mr Miroslav said ministers had also reached an agreement on the main document on the economic situation to be submitted for adoption by EU leaders at a summit on 19-20 March.He also said they had agreed on a common EU position for the G20 finance ministers' meeting this coming Saturday and the leaders summit on 2 April in London. Economy commissioner Joaquin Almunia expressed his satisfaction that finance ministers had adopted the stability and convergence programmes for 21 EU states, documents that outline government taxation and spending plans for the next few years.

YOUR FUTURE NOW PART 1 TO 12 AGENTINA 2001 COLLAPSE (WHAT TO EXPECT)
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OBAMA IS DESTROYING AMERICAS ECONOMY
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Czech president blames crisis on world leaders Published: Monday 9 March 2009

Czech President Václav Klaus last week blamed world leaders for making the current global economic crisis worse. In an article published last Thursday (5 March) in the Czech daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD), Klaus complained about the populist steps taken by politicians in tackling the banking crisis. EurActiv Czech Republic reports.

Governments have raised distrust through their pseudo-activities and rash attempts at demonstrating their preparedness, good will and in particular indispensability, Klaus wrote for MfD.The Czech president also met last week with Eurosceptic MEPs from the European Parliament's Independence/Democracy (ID) group to discuss the economic downturn, though the meeting primarily focused on the Lisbon Treaty and different scenarios for European integration, reported EurActiv Czech Republic. Among the participants in the meeting was Vladimír Železný, the founder of Libertas.cz (a sister party of Declan Ganley's anti-Lisbon Treaty party Libertas.eu).Prague analysts perceive the informal gathering as Klaus's quid pro quo to Eurosceptic MEPs following their praise of his speech at the European Parliament in February (EurActiv 20/02/09). Klaus's controversial address, which caused a minor uproar in the EU assembly's hemicycle, featured criticism of the Lisbon Treaty and proposed reform of the EU institutions, as well as criticism of the current course of the European economy.The Czech president has strongly condemned European politicians, primarily French and German, for the gravity of the current crisis, because they compete over who will pump more money into the system. Such behaviour is in line with their populist policies, Klaus said. Železný commended Klaus's discourse, stating that we consider it [Klaus's speech] the most qualified and the most fundamental contribution to the criticism of the development in the EU in the past few years.

The ID group is comprised of 22 MEPs (out of 785). They are Eurosceptic, although they themselves prefer the label eurorealist,as does President Klaus. It is possible that Klaus, by receiving the ID group, is seeking to indirectly influence the outcome of the Parliament elections in favour of Eurosceptic parties, which have found a friendly environment in the Czech Republic.Besides Libertas.cz, there is Petr Mach's Party of Free Citizens and a new coalition of parties (whose name has yet to be revealed) founded by Železný's close colleague, MEP Jana Bobošíková. Bobošíková, who has founded her own political party, Politika 21(Policy 21), intends to run in June's European elections. She shares the anti-Lisbon views of other Eurosceptic parties.

Madoff to plead guilty, could face up to 150 years By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS, Associated Press Writers MAR 10,09

NEW YORK – In a courtroom surprise, it was revealed Tuesday that Bernard Madoff will plead guilty Thursday to securities fraud, perjury and other crimes, knowing that he could face up to 150 years in prison for one of the largest frauds in history. The revelation came as prosecutors unveiled an 11-count charging document against the 70-year-old former Nasdaq chairman, and as his lawyer, Ira Sorkin, told a judge that Madoff planned to plead guilty this week without a plea deal.Madoff has been under house arrest in his $7 million Manhattan penthouse since he was arrested in early December after authorities said he confessed to his family that he had carried out a $50 billion fraud. In court documents filed Tuesday, prosecutors raised the size of the fraud to $64.8 billion, an amount recounted in apparently false statements from November 2008.Authorities reviewing the finances of Madoff's business say the actual loss was more likely much less and that higher numbers reflect false profits he promised investors. So far, authorities have located about $1 billion for jilted investors.Sorkin, prosecutors and U.S. District Judge Denny Chin presaged the drama likely to unfold Thursday as Madoff, wearing a gray suitcoat over a black tie, sat quietly beside his lawyers.Madoff, who wears a bulletproof vest, arrived at court more than three hours before the hearing as authorities tried to diminish the chance he would face a confrontation with investors. Several lawyers for investors showed up as spectators, but the courtroom was largely packed with members of the media.Asked by the judge if Madoff would plead guilty Thursday, Sorkin said: I think that's a fair expectation. Chin asked Sorkin if Madoff would plead guilty to all 11 counts.

Yes your honor,Sorkin answered.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Marc Litt said there was no plea deal and that Madoff could be exposed to the maximum penalty under sentencing guidelines: 150 years.Chin said he would not sentence Madoff on Thursday, and he would limit investors who want to speak at the hearing to those challenging whether the plea should be accepted or whether Madoff should be allowed to remain on bail pending sentencing.There is no plea bargain here. Those victims who objected to a plea bargain no longer have a reason to object,Chin said.At least 25 Madoff investors have asked to speak Thursday under provisions allowing victims of crime to appear at a plea hearing.Attorney Jerry Reisman, who represents more than a dozen Madoff investors, predicted that the plea hearing would be a zoo.I will tell you my clients are outraged by his being able to escape with a guilty plea, he said.But Chin told prosecutors to limit the number of victims who will speak in court and make sure they conduct themselves in a respectful and dignified manner.U.S. Attorney Lev L. Dassin said in a release that the charges reflect an extraordinary array of crimes committed by Bernard Madoff for over 20 years. While the alleged crimes are not novel, the size and scope of Mr. Madoff's fraud are unprecedented.He said Madoff faces 150 years in prison, mandatory restitution to victims, forfeiture of ill-gotten gains and criminal fines.

He also noted that the government has not entered into any agreement with Madoff about his plea or sentencing and that the filing of the charges do not end the matter.Our investigation is continuing,Dassin said. In court documents, prosecutors revealed some details of how the fraud was carried out, saying Madoff hired numerous employees to serve as a back office for his investment advisory business. The government said many of the employees hired to perform those functions had little or no prior training or experience in the securities industry. Prosecutors said Madoff caused those employees to, among other things, communicate with clients and generate false and fraudulent documents including, but not limited to, monthly client account statements and trade confirmations that purportedly reflected the purchases and sales of securities that Madoff claimed had been conducted on behalf of (his) clients.

Prosecutors say Madoff operated a massive Ponzi scheme in which his clients' funds were misappropriated and converted to the use of Madoff, his business and others. Chin said he will not sentence Madoff for several months after Thursday's proceedings. Sorkin complained that federal authorities have not let lawyers for Madoff study the financial records of his company so he can show that some individuals or financial funds actually received more in payouts over the years than they are claiming they lost.Chin said he understood that Madoff was not agreeing to the extent of the losses.The revelations about Thursday's plea came at a hearing that was supposed to center on Madoff's agreement to waive any potential conflicts of interest involving Sorkin.Madoff, speaking softly, acknowledged that Sorkin might be conflicted in his loyalties if his case ever went to trial because Sorkin's family had invested more than $900,000 with Madoff and because Sorkin once represented two accountants linked to Madoff in a securities action.Madoff was charged with securities, investment adviser, mail and wire frauds along with money laundering, making false statements, perjury, making a false filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, theft from an Employee Benefit Plan and two counts of international money laundering.In its court papers, prosecutors reserved the right to pursue up to $170 billion in criminal forfeiture. However, the amount bares little relation to how much Madoff is believed to have stolen or lost. Instead, it represents the total amount of money that could be connected to the fraud.

Dow ends up nearly 380 on Citigroup profit news By SARA LEPRO and TIM PARADIS, AP Business Writers MAR 10,09

NEW YORK – Wall Street snapped out of its stupor and posted its best performance of the year Tuesday, finding a badly needed glimmer of optimism in the most unlikely of places: Citigroup is actually managing to turn a profit. The 379-point gain for the Dow Jones industrials, a rally of almost 6 percent, was a welcome break from almost uninterrupted selling. But just as almost nobody expects the banks to snap back to health, almost nobody thinks the market has hit its bottom.One day isn't going to make a trend, said Kurt Karl, chief U.S. economist at Swiss Re.Citigroup Chief Executive Vikram Pandit said in a letter to employees that the bank had operated at a profit for the first two months of this year and was on track, based on historical trends, to make $8.3 billion for the quarter.Pandit said the bank has had its best performance since the third quarter of 2007, the last time it booked a quarterly profit.The news broke a months-long torrent of bad news from the banking industry — particularly for Citi, which had grown so shaky the federal government had to take a 36 percent ownership stake.Banking stocks led the markets higher all day. The Dow finished at 6,926.49, its highest close since late February. All 30 of the Dow industrial stocks gained ground.Citi itself finished at $1.45, a gain of 40 cents. Last week, its stock fell below $1, a level so stunning it left the bank at the mercy of late-night comedians.A gain on Wednesday would give the Dow its first two-day winning streak since early February. But Wall Street is used to false starts. The Dow had gained 200 points in a single day five times in 2009 before Tuesday. Each time, it lost ground in the next session, twice by triple digits.And after they hit their lowest points last year, both the Dow and the Standard & Poor's 500 jumped about 20 percent. But those lows didn't last, and Wall Street is now trading well below those levels.

On Tuesday, the S&P closed at 719.60, still less than half of its value at the market peak in October 2007.I would be surprised to see us trade back over 800 in the near term, said Ben Halliburton, chief investment officer of Tradition Capital Management in Summit, N.J.The news coming out on the economic front will continue to be rather gloomy.Analysts also suggested that the market's gains, especially among financial stocks, could be attributed in part to covering by short-sellers — investors who bet stocks will fall, and are forced to buy to limit their losses when the market rallies.

Among banking stocks, Bank of America gained 28 percent, JPMorgan Chase gained 23 percent and Wells Fargo & Co. gained 18 percent.Jon Merriman, chief executive of brokerage Merriman Curhan Ford in San Francisco, said the letter from Citi's CEO shows the bank is lending. Government officials and market analysts alike have said more lending is key to an economic recovery.Maybe Citibank is not going to zero, that means it's going to lend again and then the economy will turn, he said. People today in the stock market are connecting those dots. And the market is up broadly, it's not just the banks.Reports also surfaced Tuesday that federal regulators are considering a proposal to reinstate the uptick rule, which proponents say helps protect companies from excessive short-selling, when investors bet a stock will drop. The rule expired in 2007.And investors were encouraged by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's call for an overhaul of the country's financial regulatory system. Speaking before the Council on Foreign Relations, Bernanke said companies deemed too big to fail must be subject to more rigorous supervision to prevent them from taking on excessive risk.

Bernanke's remarks come as the Obama administration and Congress begin to devise their overhaul strategies.The combination of good news was enough to propel the Dow to its best day since Thanksgiving week, when it notched back-to-back gains of 494 and 397 points. But there will still plenty of pessimism on Wall Street. There's nothing that anybody can do to turn the market around, said Harry Rady, chief executive of Rady Asset Management.This is just a little bear market blip.Halliburton was hesitant even to put much stock in the Citigroup announcement for fear that rising losses on loans could eat away at the bank's operating profit. As long as housing prices are falling and loan defaults are rising, They are going to have to take asset write-downs,he said.I don't think this is a game-changer.Late last month, in its third attempt to rescue the bank from collapse, the Treasury Department took a 36 percent stake in Citi. The bank has already received $45 billion in bailout money.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY

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)

Biden asks Europeans for help in Afghanistan
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EUOBSERVER/BRUSSELS – US vice-president Joseph Biden on Tuesday (10 March) renewed pleas for more European involvement in Afghanistan, with EU counterparts relieved he was not insisting so much on troops, but civilian assistance.I know the people of Europe, like the people of my country, are tired of war, and they are tired of this war [in Afghanistan],he said at a press conference following his meeting with Nato ambassadors.But we know that it was from the space that joins Afghanistan and Pakistan that the attacks of 9/11 occurred. We know that it was from the very same area that extremists planned virtually every major terrorist attack on Europe since 9/11, and the attack on Mumbai,Mr Biden continued.The 55,100-strong Nato mission in Afghanistan faces a major shift of policy with President Barack Obama expected to mount a review and produce new proposals ready for the alliance's summit on 2-4 April.

Mr Biden's meeting with European and Canadian ambassadors to Nato was mostly designed to mark the start of a consultation process for the review.I heard from our allies. I heard the concerns and they listed their priorities. And I pledged to them, as I pledge to all Europeans now, that we will build their ideas into our review, which we expect to present to President Obama before the end of this month, in preparation of the Nato summit in April,Mr Biden said.The US is adding 17,000 troops to Afghanistan as it withdraws soldiers from Iraq. But with most European allies already having stretched their military commitment to Afghanistan to the maximum, ambassadors were relieved to hear that Mr Biden was counting on the civilian surge, with the increase in troops to come mostly from the US side, diplomatic sources told EUobserver. The EU is to increase its police training mission from 180 to 400, with member states also expected to send more police trainers, judges and other judicial experts to improve the rule of law in Afghanistan.

Talking to the Taliban

Asked to clarify President Obama's statement that Nato was not winning the war in Afghanistan, Mr Biden said: We are not winning the war, but the war is not lost.He also explained that the US might engage in talks with the moderate elements within the Taliban, who are not sure of their commitment or only do it for the money. He suggested that only five percent of the Taliban were really committed to insurgency.

Mr Biden also met EU top diplomat Javier Solana and the representatives of the current Czech EU presidency and the upcoming Swedish one. A non-Nato member, Sweden nevertheless also actively contributes to the military mission in Afghanistan, and is planning to increase its troop strength in the country from 375 to 500 by the end of this year.Mr Biden gave us food for thought, but also food for action. It is an important year, with elections coming up in Afghanistan, with deliverables needed to be presented at the Nato summit – a trust fund to secure the financial sustainability of the Afghan army, training, electoral monitoring,Nato secretary-general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer concluded at the press conference.

Palestinian rivals begin reconciliation talks By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI, Associated Press Writer MAR 10,09

CAIRO – Rival Palestinian factions opened talks aimed at coming up with a power-sharing agreement Tuesday, hearing a call to forget their contentious and sometimes bloody past.The first day of reconciliation talks involving Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, and the Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, which dominates the West Bank, produced no concrete results.But one of the participants at the Cairo-hosted discussions, Bilal Qassim of the Palestinian Liberation Front, said the sides would continue Wednesday to try to solve the issues that divide them. The meetings are expected to last about 10 days.Omar Suleiman, Egypt's intelligence chief and the mediator of the talks, urged all to forget their recent clashes and focus on future.The Palestinian people are watching the results of these talks, so please do not let them down, Suleiman said. We are only looking toward the future and your meeting today is the beginning of that path.The Palestinians are divided between the two groups. Hamas' violent takeover of Gaza in 2007 led to a deep split between the internationally backed Fatah and the widely shunned Hamas.Overcoming the distrust between the factions is seen as key to moving ahead with reconstruction in Gaza after Israel's recent offensive there.Abbas said this week that any new unity government must accept past Palestinian agreements. That would include recognizing Israel's right to exist — which Hamas rejects.The Palestinian representatives in Cairo are working in five committees, deliberating specific issues — from forming a unity government, holding new elections, reforming the security services, carrying out confidence-building measures and finding a role for Hamas in the Palestine Liberation Organization. Other Palestinian factions are also present.Previous unity accords have collapsed in mistrust and infighting, but this time both sides appear to have a strong incentive to reach an accord.Hamas needs Fatah's international respectability to help end the devastating blockade of Gaza imposed by Egypt and Israel and obtain foreign funding to rebuild Gaza.Fatah and Abbas, whose popularity took a beating due to his perceived lack of decisiveness during the Gaza war, need to find a way to blunt the challenges from Hamas.

JOHN 1:1,14
1 In the beginning was the Word,(JESUS) and the Word (JESUS) was with God, and the Word (JESUS) was God.
14 And the Word (JESUS) was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD (NOT ALLAH,ALLAH IS A MOON GOD)JESUS IS GOD.

Malaysia Christians battle with Muslims over Allah By Niluksi Koswanage MAR 10,09

KENINGAU, Malaysia (Reuters) – Reciting the Catholic Creed, the 1,800-strong congregation attending mass at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral on Borneo island intones in Malay: We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of Allah.These Malaysian Catholics, like their brethren in Indonesia, have used the word Allah in place of God since converting to Christianity in the 19th century.But now the government in this mostly Muslim Southeast Asian nation of 27 million people wants to prevent Allah being used by Christians, saying it is subversive and aims to convert Muslims.

Christians fear this is just the thin edge of the wedge.

The government of West Malaysia has an infection of religious hatred. We have to fight back so it does not spread, said Bishop Cornelius Piong after Sunday Mass at the cathedral in the heart of a rice-growing district in eastern Sabah state.

Christianity is practiced by 9.1 percent of the Malaysian population, according to the 2000 census, the most recently available figures. Many of them, like Bishop Piong, come from ethnic groups such as the Kadazandusun, Dayaks, Ibans and Bidayuh who live in the Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak.Our worship of Allah is so natural, it is part and parcel of the Kadazandusun people here, Piong said.The row over the use of Allah to describe the Christian God feeds into a long-running feud over conversions between the government of a country where all Malays must be Muslims and other faiths, such as Hinduism and Buddhism that are practiced by ethnic Indians and Chinese.

MALAYS FRET OVER CONVERSION

It is illegal in Malaysia to convert from Islam to any other religion although conversions to Islam are allowed.One of the biggest cases involved Lina Joy, a woman who wanted to convert to Christianity to marry her partner, who was baptized and applied to have her conversion legally recognized by the Malaysian state.She lost a court battle two years ago to have the word Islam removed from her identity card. All Malaysian identity cards carry a person's race and religion.It is cases such as these that worry Malaysian Muslim activists and officials and they see using the word Allah in Christian publications including bibles as attempts to proselytize.Those concerns led to the ban on the Catholic Herald newspaper's use of Allah to denote God. The Herald is now suing the government to overturn the ruling, made after it appeared the paper would be allowed to use Allah provided it stamped For Christians on the front page of the paper.Allowing Christians to use the word is dangerous because it's attacking the sole religion of the Malays, said Yusri Mohamad, president of the influential Muslim Youth Movement.We have to question Christians' motive for wanting to use this obviously Muslim word. It appears to be for conversions. All Muslim Malays in Malaysia are against this.Some leading Muslim scholars here say the issue is being blown out of proportion and that the risk of conversions among the 60 percent Muslim population is tiny.They see it as an attempt by the government that has ruled Malaysia uninterrupted for 51 years since independence from Britain to hold on to power by identifying ethnicity with religion. The main ruling party in Malaysia is called the United Malay National Organization, and like its allies from Chinese and Indian parties, it is ethnically based. It is an irrational fear (of conversions) but a very powerful one, said Osman Bakar, the deputy head of the International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies Malaysia. Now the government has moved to setting up demarcations around the national language.

SPILLING INTO POLITICS

While the Kadazandusun and other indigenous people on Borneo hold the same privileges as Malays in preferential access to areas such education, loans and housing, the resource-rich states of Sabah and Sarawak are far poorer than peninsular Malaysia.

Sabah and Sarawak have voted solidly for parties from the governing National Front coalition since the start of democratic rule in Malaysia. That hegemony is now under threat after the opposition scored its best-ever election result in 2008 when it deprived the government of its two-thirds parliamentary majority and ended up in control of five of Malaysia's 13 states. Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is now targeting the voters of Borneo in an effort to keep up pressure on the government and the first test will come in a state assembly by-election in Sarawak in early April.

There may also be a chance for voters in a constituency near to St Francis Xavier to flex their muscles depending on a court decision on whether a move to disqualify three non-government parliamentary candidates was valid. For the people of Bishop Piong's congregation what happens in the battle over the use of Allah will certainly be an issue if the election is re-run. If the government wants to be nasty and stop people from using Allah, it can. But it may not work here. It's God's country here, said 28-year-old Teresa Palikat, a tailor, after attending Sunday Mass in Keningau district.If the elections happen, we will show them (the government) we are serious about Allah.(Editing by David Chance and Bill Tarrant)