JERUSALEM CONFERENCE DAY 2 2009

JERUSALEM CONFERENCE DAY 2 TODAY IN ISRAEL

JERUSALEM CONFERENCE DAY 1 2008 - AUDIO
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JURUSALEM CONFERENCE INTERVIEWS 2009 DAY 1 - AUDIO
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JERUSALEM CONFERENCE 2009 DAY 2 TODAY
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JERUSALEM CONFERENCE 2009 ISRAEL NATIONAL RADIO
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CHRISTIAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL
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ONE JERUSALEM
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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.

Fresh warnings after storm kills 26 in southern Europe by Hugo Di Zazzo – Mon Jan 26, 5:05 pm ET

BORDEAUX, France (AFP) – Weather forecasters warned Monday of flooding and more gales to come after hurricane-force winds killed 26 people across southern Europe and left hundreds of thousands without electricity.The storm caused several hundreds of millions of euros (dollars) in damage to homes, farms, businesses and infrastructure in France alone, insurance companies said.As families buried four children killed when a sports hall collapsed in northeastern Spain, the French prime minister called a crisis meeting for a briefing on recovery efforts underway in the country's southwest.The death toll continued to rise as a 70-year-old woman was reported dead of hypothermia after fleeing her home near Bordeaux after tiles were blown off her roof by winds that in places reached 180 kilometres (110 miles) an hour.Local authorities declared a state of alert because of the risk of flooding in eight departments in southwestern France, which along with northeastern Spain bore the brunt of the weekend's violent storms.The tempest blew in from the Atlantic on Saturday, ripping roofs off houses, pulling down power lines and flattening countless trees -- many onto roads and rail lines -- before heading across the Mediterranean to batter Italy.France's agriculture ministry said late Monday that five million euros had been set aside to address the problem of fallen trees across woodlands and the country's infrastructure.There's nothing left standing around here, said Pierre Darmante, the mayor of Arjuzanx village in the heavily-forested Landes department on the French Atlantic coast.The devastation was described as like a war zone by the head of the SNCF state rail operator, Guillaume Pepy, after he visited the area.

Pepy told France Info radio later that it would take up to two weeks for rail transport across the country's network to get completely back to normal.Both France and Spain deployed hundreds of soldiers to join the thousands of workers and technicians engaged in the massive recovery effort after the worst storm to hit southwestern France and northern Spain in a decade.The storm plunged 1.7 million homes into darkness and by Monday night 427,000 of them were still without power.

Some 410,000 mobile telephone subscribers were also unable to access their networks as a result of the loss of power, according to the SFR and Bouygues Telecom providers.Nine people were killed in France, including four who inhaled carbon monoxide from electricity generators they used during power outages in two separate incidents.Two drivers were killed by falling trees Saturday in the Landes department, while flying debris killed a 78-year-old outside his home. A 73-year-old woman died in the Gironde department when a power cut halted her breathing machine.

But most of the deaths were in Spain, where more strong winds were forecast.The four children died in the town of Sant Boi de Llobregat , near Barcelona, when strong winds brought the roof and wall of a sports hall crashing down on their heads.Two more deaths were reported in Spain on Monday. Two people were found dead in the northwestern Galicia region apparently from carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator they set up after a power cut, officials said. Fourteen died in total in Spain, including a woman crushed by a wall, another who died after a door lifted by the wind slammed into her, and a police sergeant killed by a falling tree as he was directing traffic. The storm also claimed lives in Italy in two separate incidents near the southern city of Naples. A young woman was swept to her death Sunday by a wave as she walked on a beach, while torrential rain triggered a mudslide on the main highway south of Naples, killing two people and injuring five. French Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said authorities would likely soon declare the storms to have been a natural catastrophe, which would let homeowners claim back home repair costs from their insurance firms.

France, Spain still shaken by deadly storms By JAMEY KEATEN, Asssociated Press Writer – Sun Jan 25, 4:02 pm ET

PARIS – French authorities deployed 10,000 cleanup and recovery workers and Spain let evacuated villagers return home Sunday a day after deadly storms pounded southwest France and northeast Spain.Authorities in Spain reported at least 12 deaths linked to the storm, including four children crushed as a sports facility buckled in high winds in Barcelona. In France, at least eight people died — including two couples who died of carbon-monoxide poisoning from generators they had turned on as power outages swept the region, officials said.Chain saws buzzed and clearing crews fanned out on both sides of the French-Spanish border as workers cut through felled trees on homes, power lines, rail tracks and roadways and took away debris Sunday.The issue today is to restore electricity as quickly as possible, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told reporters at a crisis response center in Bordeaux, adding that 10,000 people including rescue teams, state officials, civil security workers and others had been deployed in France.ERDF, an Electricite de France subsidiary, said that it had managed to restore power to 900,000 customers among 1.7 million who initially were hit with the blackout Saturday. Tens o f thousands of homes in Spain were without electricity.In France, rail operator SNCF said service was gradually returning in the region after 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) of rail had been affected by the storm.In Spain, the bullet-train link between Madrid and Barcelona was restored as debris was cleared off the track, but services into France won't resume Sunday, state rail operator Renfe said.In Spain, aircraft battled forest fires near the eastern town of La Nucia that the town's mayor said was caused when winds blew down a high-tension power pylon in a wooded area.

Around 14,000 people that had been evacuated from several villages near the burning hills were being allowed to return to their homes, regional government counselor Serafin Castellano said.Leisure park Terra Natura, south of Valencia, said staffers evacuated some of its animals — which include jaguars, elephants, armadillos and monkeys — from their enclosures, and hailed firefighters who helped keep away flames that had surrounded the safari park on Saturday.Associated Press Writer Pierre Sauvey in Bordeaux, France, and Harold Heckle in Madrid, Spain, contributed to this report.

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

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

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

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

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

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

CARTER,ITS TIME FOR YOU TO PUT A TOWEL ON YOUR HEAD AND TURN MUSLIM,BECAUSE YOU ARE STUCK TO THEM LIKE GLUE AND HATE ISRAEL....CARTER GET A LIFE.

Carter: If no Palestine, Israel sees catastrophe By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN, Associated Press Writer JAN 26,09

NEW YORK – Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday that Israel will face a catastrophe unless it revives the Mideast peace process and establishes an independent Palestinian state.In an interview with The Associated Press, he said Arabs will outnumber Jews in the Holy Land in the foreseeable future.If we look toward a one-state solution, which seems to be the trend — I hope not inexorable — it would be a catastrophe for Israel, because there would be only three options in that case, Carter said.One would be to expel large numbers of Palestinians, which he said would amount to ethnic cleansing.The second would be to deprive the Palestinians of equal voting rights, which he said would amount to apartheid.The third would be to give the Palestinians equal voting rights, and therefore the majority, he said.And you would no longer have a Jewish state, Carter said. The basic decisions would be made by the Palestinians, who would almost very likely vote in a bloc, whereas you would have some sharp divisions among the Israelis, because the Israelis always have different points of view.Carter spoke to The Associated Press as his new book, We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land, was released.

His wording on Israel's options was not new. His 2006 book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, provoked a hail of criticism, particularly from Jewish-Americans who felt it unfairly compared Israeli treatment of Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza to the legalized racial oppression that once existed in South Africa.Carter still believes a two-state solution is the best option, with all of Israel's Arab neighbors recognizing its right to exist in peace, and Israel withdrawing from most of the land it captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War to create an independent Palestine.

Carter brokered the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt 30 years ago, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.During Monday's interview, Carter also criticized the refusal of British Broadcasting Corp. and Rupert Murdoch's Sky News to broadcast a charity appeal to help Palestinian victims in Gaza.The two major broadcasters maintain they must protect their journalistic impartiality.When asked whether the appeal might lead to donations being co-opted by Gaza's ruling Hamas militants, Carter responded, Not necessarily.You have to remember that about 70 percent of the total population of Gaza are refugees, and their extreme concerns are administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, he said. So the funds could be channeled through United Nations agencies, or through some other objective agencies, not through Hamas political leaders.The Carter Center: http://www.cartercenter.org/homepage.html

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU U.S. to let Hamas patrol Gaza smuggling routes?
Washington negotiating agreement that could grant legitimacy to terrorist group
January 26, 2009 10:02 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2009 WorldNetDaily

TEL AVIV – An official document being negotiated by the U.S., Israel, Egypt and other players currently grants Hamas a role in patrolling the Gaza Strip's borders, according to an Egyptian intelligence official familiar with the draft document.

The stated purpose of the future patrols, set to follow Israel's recent offensive in Gaza, are to ensure against Hamas rearming in the territory. The document is set to be issued by Egypt, but the U.S., Israel and the European Union are heavily involved in the draft text, which would likely grant legitimacy to Hamas' role in Gaza. Both the U.S. and EU officially classify Hamas as a terrorist organization. Hamas' charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of Israel. The group is responsible for scores of suicide bombings, rocket attacks against Jewish population centers, shootings, knifings and cross-border raids. There is an understanding of all powers involved that Hamas must play a role, that without Hamas there can be no cross-border agreement, the Egyptian intelligence official told WND. So, yes, indirectly the U.S. and Israel admit that Hamas is a player and must be taken into consideration in any political arrangement. It will be an Egyptian paper. The U.S. and Israel can then say it's just Egypt that recognizes Hamas, but this is not true, the official said. The document seeks to establish an international monitoring system to prevent Hamas from rearming along the Egypt-Gaza border. According to the Egyptian intelligence official, the monitoring contingent is set to include Egyptian and European monitors as well as representatives from Hamas and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party. Hamas has strenuously objected to any Israeli presence along the Egypt-Gaza border. The Egyptian official said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently arrived in the Egyptian Sinai desert, which borders Gaza, bringing with them advanced machinery to aid Egyptian troops in detecting Hamas smuggling tunnels. One of Israel's main goals for its offensive was to halt Hamas' ability to smuggle weapons across the Egypt-Gaza border. Israel is negotiating an international monitoring mechanism it hopes will stop Hamas from smuggling weapons from neighboring Egypt into Gaza. But previous international monitors stationed along the Egypt-Gaza border fled their duty and repeatedly failed to stem Hamas' weapons smuggling. The monitors were stationed at the border following Israel's 2005 evacuation of the Gaza Strip.

Although the U.S. classifies Hamas as a terrorist group, there have been some reports of American contacts with the organization. Ahmed Yousef, Hamas' chief political adviser in Gaza, claimed to WND last month his group has held talks with U.S. officials, including members of both Democratic and Republican parties. He said he believed the incoming administration of Barack Obama will favor dialogue with his group. He also said Hamas is in talks with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who serves as the main envoy for the Quartet of Russia, the U.S., the EU and the U.N. In November, Yousef sparked controversy after he claimed Hamas held a meeting in the Gaza Strip several months prior with aides to Obama. He claimed the terror group was asked to keep the contacts secret until after November's elections. The charge was denied by Obama's transition team. Some trace Hamas' claim of newfound international dialogue to Jimmy Carter's visit in April, when the former president met with top Hamas officials. Immediately after Carter's meeting, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner confirmed Paris held talks with Hamas, and Norway's deputy foreign minister, Raymond Johansan, admitted meeting with Hamas leader Ismail Haniya. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum confirmed to WND that Hamas this year met a delegation from the European Parliament, from France, and from Italy, and Norway, and from the EU parliament and from Carter.All of these are supporting Hamas, and they have a plan to support Palestinian rights and interests, Barhoum said, speaking from Gaza.

FITNA ISLAM
VIDEO - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7961200236915885171&ei=Unl3SYqPApPSjgKmzbilDw&q=fitna

PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH
http://www.pmw.org.il/

YAHOO NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video

MIDEAST CONFLICT NEWS
http://news.yahoo.com/video/1874;_ylt=A0wNcxFdg6xIgbkAwD6z174F

ABC NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2461

FOX NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/3074

FOX BUSINESS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/3045

AP NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2529

BBC NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2918

REUTERS VIDEO NEWS
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2704

AFP NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/3091

CNBC NEWS VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/video/3245

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

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/

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE JAN 27,2009

09:30 AM +7.73
10:00 AM +28.25
10:30 AM -2.70
11:00 AM +10.52
11:30 AM +63.40
12:00 PM +44.53
12:30 PM +96.78
01:00 PM +83.73
01:30 PM +52.01
02:00 PM +37.20
02:30 PM +33.69
03:00 PM +67.23
03:30 PM +72.96
04:00 PM +58.70 8174.73

S&P 500 845.70 +9.13

NASDAQ 1504.90 +15.44

GOLD 897.70 -11.10

OIL 41.67 -4.03

TSE 300 8754.41 +97.90

CDNX 867.87 +0.71

S&P/TSX/60 527.40 +7.14

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

Dow +31 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +78 points high today.
Dow -6 points at low today.

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -7.52%
S&P -7.38%
Nasdaq -5.55%
TSX Advances 623,declines 547,unchanged 210,Volume 629,451,184.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 398,Declines 306,Unchanged 289,Volume 137,874,302.

A RECORD 72,300 JOBS LOST YESTERDAY IN THE USA.
Senate Banking committee holds hearings on alleged Madoff scam this morning.
Oil opens at $44.30 today,Gold opens at $898.80 in trading today.

OBAMA TALKS TO MUSLIMS ON AL-ARABYA TV LAST NIGHT - VIDEO
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=dD3P99bxwXg

http://www.shallownation.com/2009/01/27/obama-interview-al-arabiya-video-
obama-arab-interview-1-26-09/

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS

Dow +105 points at high today.
Dow -31 points at low today.
12:30PM TSX STATS
Advances 507,declines 497,unchanged 220 Volume 324,558,678.
12:30PM TSX VENTURE
Advances 278,declines 243,unchanged 254 Volume 63,213,743.
Missing fund manager Arthur Nadel arrested in Florida.
California Woman gives birth to 8 children.
FEDEX cargo plane crashes,pilots survive.
Investors shrug off Record low consumer confidence.
Stocks rebound after brief selloff.
Record drop in Home prices.
Credit Card losses rise to 7.2% (DEC)from 4.8% a year earlier.
Dow Utilities +2.4% for 2009.
Nasdaq,S&P 500 up for 6th time in 8 sessions.
Nasdaq has best 3 day gain since JANUARY 6,2009.

GERALD CELENTE TIP -GOVERNMENT IS SETTING US UP FOR A FALL,BE PREPARED,GOLD COULD BE CONFISCATED.WATCH OUT FOR ISRAEL TO ATTACK IRAN,CLINTON GAVE ISRAEL PERMISSION LAST WEEK TO GO FOR IT.
http://www.trendsresearch.com/
http://www.trendsresearch.com/institut.htm

GERALD CELENTE PREDICTIONS 2007-08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqvZwo2qhIo&eurl=http://israndjer.blogspot.com/&feature=player_embedded

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS

Dow -31 points at low.
Dow +109 points at high.
Dow +0.72% today Volume 246,174,905.
Nasdaq +1.04% today Volume 1,685,931,545.
S&P 500 +1.09% Volume N/A

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

NOTICE ITS TREATIES THAT THE RUSSIAN,ARAB,MUSLIMS MAKE AGAINST ISRAEL BEFORE THEY MARCH TO TRY TO ELIMINATE ISRAEL FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.

HERES THE RUSSIA,IRAN,MUSLIMS,LIBYA CONNECTION - OIL.

LIBYA FACTS.
Dictator Moammar Gadhafi took over Libya in 1969.
Libya is a little bit larger than Alaska.
90% of Libya is dessrt or semidessert.
Libya Energy Industries want to earn $80 BILLION by 2012.
Libya relies on Oil for 95% of its exports.
Occidential is Lbys largest Oil and Gas acreage holder.
Libyas oil output is 1.8 MILLION barrels a day.
Libya has over 40 BILLION barrels of Oil.
Libya is hoping to attract 10 MILLION tourists by 2015.

HERES ALL THE COUNTRIES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL.LIBYA INCLUDED and also EGYPT INCLUDED.NOTICE LAST WEEK ISRAEL JUST DISCOVERED MULITUDES OF GAS IN ISRAEL,THIS WILL BE WHY THE RUSSIAN,MUSLIM,ARABS,LIBYANS,EGYPTIANS MARCH AS THIS WILL BE THE HOOK IN THE JAWS GOD USES TO DECIEVE THEM TO MARCH TO ISRAEL BEFORE THEY GET DESTROYED.

EZEKIEL 38:1-7
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

HERES THE MARCH TO GET ISRAEL GAS RESERVES IN THE FUTURE.

EZEKIEL 38:8-12
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

AND HERES THE RESULTS IN FAVOR OF ISRAEL AND AGAINST ALL THE MARCHERS IN WAVE 1 OF WW3. 5/6th of them destroyed including the whole countries of Libya,Egypt,Ethiopia,Syria and others,these we know for sure will be destroyed.

DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

Zimbabwean economy's dollarisation a quick fix to crisis: analysts by Godfrey Marawanyika JAN 26,09

HARARE (AFP) – Zimbabwe has become a de facto dollar state as its tottering economy battles chronic hyper-inflation that has eroded the local currency, but analysts say that the dollarisation is merely a quick fix. Most monetary transactions in Zimbabwe are now conducted in US dollars, British pounds, South African rand and Botswana pulas since businesses were licenced by the central bank to trade in foreign currency some four months ago.A passport now costs 670 US dollars (516 euros), state-run newspapers are sold for a dollar, telephone calls are billed at 0.29 cents a minute, and transport operators charge one dollar per trip.But Professor Anthony Hawkins, an economics lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, said that although the dollarisation was a logical move, it will not end the country's woes.This is an exercise which does not solve anything, now everyone has to be paid in foreign currency. Not everyone has foreign currency. The only solution to the country's crisis is a political one, he told AFP.In a bid to discourage payments in local currency, the national carrier Air Zimbabwe charges 19 quintillion Zimbabwean dollars for a return flight from Harare to Bulawayo. The same trip costs 215 dollars.

The country's world record hyperinflationary environment has led the central bank to slash 13 zeros from the local unit over the past three years in a bid to make the currency more manageable.Earlier this month, the bank indicated it would introduce a 100 trillion dollar note, in its latest attempt to keep pace with conditions that has left its once-vibrant economy in tatters.Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions acting secretary general Gideon Shoko told AFP that since most goods and services are now being charged in foreign currency, workers must also be paid in hard currency.Everyone is charging in foreign currency, even vegetables vendors are selling their goods in foreign currency, Shoko said.However, most employees were not going to work as they could not afford the transport fees, he said, raising questions of where ordinary Zimbabweans still being paid in local money were to source hard currency.Banks are now competing for clients to open foreign currency accounts, but despite the proliferation of the US dollar, consumers are short-changed at stores as shops do not have small coins in stock.Independent Harare based economist, Charles Tichaona said the dollarisation of the economy was only good for the short term.The local unit has lost attributes of being a currency as evidenced by the fact that almost every corner of the country is now trading foreign currency, he said.The economy has shrunk by nearly 40 percent over the past six years, with the last official inflation estimate of 231 million percent in July believed to be many times higher.Adding to the Zimbabwe's problems are consecutive years of drought.

Zimbabwe's economic crisis has also worsened under a protracted political deadlock between President Robert Mugabe and rival Morgan Tsvangirai.

Job-killing recession racks up more layoff victims By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer job JAN 26,09

WASHINGTON – The recession is killing jobs at an alarming pace, with tens of thousands of new layoffs announced Monday by some of the biggest names in American business — Pfizer, Caterpillar and Home Depot.More pink slips, pay freezes and other hits are expected to slam workers in the months ahead as companies desperately look for ways to survive.We're just seeing the tip of the iceberg — the big firms, said Rebecca Braeu, economist at John Hancock Financial Services. There's certainly other firms beneath them that will lay off workers as quickly or even quicker.Looking ahead, economists predicted a net loss of at least 2 million jobs — possibly more — this year even if President Barack Obama's $825 billion package of increased government spending and tax cuts is enacted. Last year, the economy lost a net 2.6 million jobs, the most since 1945, though the labor force has grown significantly since then.The unemployment rate, now at a 16-year high of 7.2 percent, could hit 10 percent or higher later this year or early next year, under some analysts' projections.Obama called on Congress Monday to speedily enact his recovery plan, warning that the nation can't afford distractions or delays.With the recession expected to drag on through much of this year, more damage will be inflicted on both companies and workers.The mounting toll was visible Monday as roughly 40,000 more U.S. workers got the grim news.Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc., which is buying rival drugmaker Wyeth in a $68 billion deal, and Sprint Nextel Corp., the country's third-largest wireless provider, said they each will slash 8,000 jobs.Home Depot Inc., the biggest home improvement retailer in the U.S., will get rid of 7,000 jobs, and General Motors Corp. said it will cut 2,000 jobs at plants in Michigan and Ohio because of slow sales.We are seeing no improvement in labor market conditions, said Sal Guatieri, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets Economics. This year could be as bad as last year in terms of layoffs.In response to deteriorating business conditions, Caterpillar Inc., the world's largest maker of mining and construction equipment, disclosed nearly 20,000 job cuts, most of which already have been made. They include 5,000 new layoffs of white collar workers, which will occur globally by the end of March.

Earlier actions included the elimination of 2,500 Caterpillar workers through a buyout offer announced in December, the termination of about 8,000 contract and temp agency workers, and the reduction of 4,000 full-time factory workers through firings and buyouts.Texas Instruments Inc., which makes chips for cell phones and other gadgets, will cut 3,400 jobs due to slumping demand. The Dallas-based company said Monday it will slash 12 percent of its work force — 1,800 jobs through layoffs and another 1,600 through voluntary retirements and departures. And Brooks Automation Inc. said it plans to get rid of 350 jobs, or 20 percent of its work force. It will be the second round of cuts for Brooks, which makes software and equipment for chip manufacturers.Oilfield services provider Halliburton Co. said it will eliminate jobs in markets particularly hard hit by the recession, though it didn't provide details. Its larger rival Schlumberger Ltd. said last week it will cut up to 5,000 jobs worldwide in the first half of 2009 and consider further reductions this spring.The flurry of layoffs comes on the heels of similar action by big-name companies just last week.Microsoft Corp. said it will slash up to 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months. Intel Corp. said it will cut up to 6,000 manufacturing jobs. And United Airlines parent UAL Corp. said it would get rid of 1,000 jobs, on top of 1,500 axed late last year.And there's no end in sight. In a survey by the National Association for Business Economics, 39 percent of forecasters predicted job reductions through attrition or significant layoffs over the next six months, up from 32 percent in the previous survey in October. Around 45 percent in the current survey anticipated no change in hiring plans. About 17 percent thought hiring would increase. A new report by the placement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas found that companies are often turning to a creative combination of measures to cut costs — beyond layoffs. Those measures include pay freezes or reductions, forced vacations, travel cutbacks and the elimination of year-end bonuses. Many companies cannot cut their payrolls as deeply as they have in previous downturns, simply because they did not do as much hiring during the most recent expansion, said John Challenger, president of the firm. As a result, they are forced to find alternative ways to keep costs down. Not all the economic news was as grim Monday. Sales of previously owned homes and a separate barometer of economic activity each logged unexpected gains in December. But economists didn't view them as signs of improvement. Keep the party hats in boxes and the Champagne in the cellar, said Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at the Economic Outlook Group. It's one month's set of data and they tell us little about the future.

Economists said the uptick in home sales was due to sinking prices spurring buyers. In the other report, a government-influenced balloon in the nation's money supply largely affected the outcome. Wall Street closed moderately higher. The Dow Jones industrials rose 38.47,or 0.48 percent, to 8,116.03, after briefly moving into negative territory. The National Association of Realtors said sales of existing homes rose 6.5 percent to an annual rate of 4.74 million last month. Buyers took advantage of dramatically lower prices, especially in distressed states like California, Florida and Nevada, where foreclosures are soaring. The nationwide median sales price sank to $175,400, down 15.3 percent from a year ago. That marked the biggest annual drop on records going back to 1968. The median is the middle point, where half the homes sell for more and half for less. For all of last year, existing-home sales totaled 4.9 million, down more than 13 percent from the previous year, and the lowest since 1997. Meanwhile, the Conference Board's monthly forecast of economic activity rose 0.3 percent in December. But that pickup was influenced mainly by federal efforts to ease the credit crisis, which caused the supply of money to expand. If the jump in the money supply were excluded, the board's index would have dropped sharply, economists said. The national economy, meanwhile, is continuing to backslide. Many analysts predict the economy will have contracted at a pace of 5.4 percent in the fourth quarter when the government releases that report Friday. If they are correct, that would mark the worst performance since a 6.4 percent drop in the first quarter of 1982. The economy is still contracting now — at a pace of around 4 percent, according to some projections. AP Business Writers Ellen Simon and Alan Zibel contributed to this report.

World stocks end higher; bank shares boost Europe By CARLO PIOVANO, Associated Press Writer – Mon Jan 26, 5:30 pm ET

LONDON – World stock markets closed higher Monday following an upbeat performance on Wall Street and reassuring news from Europe's battered banking sector.Bucking the trend were shares in Japan, the only major Asian market open Monday amid a slew of regional holidays. Shares there dipped as investors braced for key earning results this week from Sony, Honda and other major names.Britain's Barclays bank surprised by releasing a statement showing it had made a solid profit for 2008 and that it did not need any cash bailouts to stay in business. Its shares rose an astonishing 73.2 percent.Dutch bank ING rose 27.75 percent. It announced a loss and said it would shed 7,000 jobs and get a government backstop for 80 percent of a 27.7 billion euro ($36.4 billion) portfolio of risky assets.Markets had sold off banking stocks in recent days over fears of more heavy losses and nationalizations.Britain's FTSE 100 closed 3.9 percent higher at 4,209.01, while Germany's DAX was up 3.5 percent at 4,326.87 and the French CAC-40 climbed 3.7 percent at 2,955.37.On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrials rose 38.47, or 0.48 percent, to 8,116.03, after briefly moving into negative territory. Stocks rise in response to Pfizer Inc.'s $68 billion planned acquisition of Wyeth, a deal that reassured investors that mergers could still take place in a recession.In Europe, financial and energy stocks were the best-performing shares.The dust has settled after last week's heavy losses, so we're seeing a bit of a bounce, supported by some bargain-hunting, said Paul Chesterton, analyst at CMC Markets.Chesterton noted Goldman Sachs had upgraded oil stocks, such as BP, which helped buoy the wider indexes, but financial stocks led the charge on Barclay's good news.Barclays shares skyrocketed after it said it expects pretax profits of over 5.3 billion pounds ($7.3 billion) for the full year 2008 despite writing down 8 billion pounds on bad assets. The bank also said it would not need any bailouts beyond some guarantees on toxic assets — dispelling fears it was set to be part-nationalized.

The news was a breath of fresh air for the banking sector, which was braced for the worst in Britain. Separate news also showed that banks are taking measures to fix their balance sheets and boost lending to the economy.Meanwhile, electronics giant Philips reported a fourth-quarter loss of 1.47 billion euros ($1.9 billion) and said it would cut 6,000 jobs, but saw its shares rise 8.25 percent on relief the news was not worse.Latin American shares echoed the gains on Wall Street. Brazil's Ibovespa index finished up 1 percent at 38,509, Mexico's IPC gained 1.2 percent to 19,583, Chile's IPSA tacked on 0.8 percent to 2,515, while Argentina's Merval inched up 0.1 percent to 1,068.In Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 closed 0.8 percent lower at 7,682.14. Markets in Hong Kong, mainland China, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan were closed for the Lunar New Year holidays. Australian and Indian markets were also closed for national holidays.In Tokyo, investors were nervous ahead of the expected flurry of dismal quarterly results and a worsening outlook, said Masayoshi Okamoto, head of dealing at Jujiya Securities in Tokyo.They're hanging back and trying to figure out what to do next, he said. (Earnings) will likely be worse than anyone imagined, and investors know that the situation will deteriorate even further in the January-March quarter.Sony Corp., which last week projected its first annual net loss in 14 years, fell 3.1 percent and will report third quarter results on Thursday, followed by Honda Motor Co. Friday. Nomura Holdings Inc., which reports Tuesday, managed to edge up 0.5 percent on hopes it had finished writing off costs related to its purchase of Lehman Brothers' operations in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Australia's market, closed for Australia Day, will reopen Tuesday, as will trading in India, which was observing Republic Day. Markets in Singapore and South Korea will reopen Wednesday, and Hong Kong's markets will reopen Thursday. Trading in mainland China and Taiwan will be closed all week and resume Feb. 2. Oil prices fell Monday as investors weighed early gains in the equity markets against signs of a deepening recession that could further eat away at energy demand. Light, sweet crude for March delivery fell 74 cents to settle at $45.73 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In currencies, the euro jumped to $1.3137 in late trading Monday from $1.2974 late Friday, while the British pound rose to $1.3938 from $1.3768. Meanwhile, the dollar gained to 89.02 Japanese yen from 88.76 yen. AP Business Writer Tomoki A. Hosaka in Tokyo contributed to this report.

65 hospitalised for toxic fumes at French church: officials JAN 26,09

PHALEMPIN, France (AFP) – Sixty-five people were hospitalised for carbon monoxide poisoning after breathing toxic fumes at a church concert near the northern French city of Lille, officials said.Among those hospitalised were 16 children including choir singers, a regional administration official said.No one was in serious condition. Most of those hospitalised suffered from headaches and vomiting.

Emergency services were called to the scene when a couple members of the audience became ill, and after determining there were very elevated carbon monoxide levels in the air, evacuated the 250 people from the church in the town of Phalempin.Peope were immediately directed towards a reception room where they underwent medical exams on a case-by-case basis, said the chief of staff for the regional prefecture, Gisele Rossat-Mignod.Some 20 paramedics provided people oxygen and examined them for symptoms of poisoning from the colourless and odourless yet highly toxic gas, which can also cause confusion, tiredness, and fainting.Officials suspect the heating system released the gas into the poorly ventilated church, although they said the furnace had been inspected Friday.Looking back, I think if the two people hadn't become ill, then in a few more minutes some people could have had much more serious problems, said Thierry Lazaro, the deputy mayor of the town, who attended the concert.Carbon monoxide poisoning, which blocks the absorption of oxygen in the blood, can lead to death in less than one hour.Regional officials first said 24 people had been hospitalised.

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

WHO says no evidence of China bird flu epidemic JAN 26,09

BEIJING (AFP) – The World Health Organisation said Tuesday there was no evidence of a bird flu epidemic in China after a fifth person died of the disease this month, but urged caution in the Lunar New Year holiday.An 18-year-old man succumbed to the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus Monday, bringing to five the number of fatalities from the disease so far this year in China, compared to just three in the whole of 2008.The number of cases has sparked fears of an epidemic, particularly during this week's Lunar New Year, as hundreds of millions of families across China reunite around huge feasts that include poultry.Peter Cordingley, WHO spokesman for the Western Pacific Region, said there was no need for undue alarm.What we are seeing is so far within our expectations and broadly matches previous years, he told AFP. There is no evidence of an epidemic.Also, the China cases are geographically scattered and sporadic, with no sign of any connection between them.Cordingley urged caution during the biggest holiday of the year in China, saying the mass movement of people and poultry brought a heightened risk of humans mingling with chickens.

(This) is not a situation we are comfortable with, and the increase in consumption of chicken meat presents dangers of people unknowingly handling infected meat, he said.Members of the public should take every precaution when preparing chicken meat for the table.China is considered one of the nations most at risk of bird flu epidemics because it has the world's biggest poultry population and many chickens in rural areas are kept close to humans.The H5N1 virus typically spreads from birds to humans via direct contact, but experts fear that it could mutate into a form easily transmissible between humans, with the potential to kill millions in a pandemic.

Cold weather also encourages the spread of the virus and large swathes of China have been hit by sub-zero temperatures in recent days. All three of last year's deaths occurred in the first two months of the year.The first fatality in 2009 occurred on January 5 when a 19-year-old woman died in Beijing.Then a 27-year-old woman died away in the eastern province of Shandong, and a 16-year-old boy died last week in the central province of Hunan, although he had initially fallen ill in neighbouring Guizhou.A 31-year-old woman succumbed to the disease Friday in northwest China's Xinjiang region.Some of the victims had come into contact with dead or sick poultry before falling ill, according to previous health ministry statements.Cordingley said this indicated there was a problem with animal surveillance in China.At least two other people in China have fallen ill to avian influenza this month, including a two-year-old girl in the northern province of Shanxi who is now out of danger, the official Xinhua news agency reported last week. The agency said Monday the other patient, a 29-year-old who had contracted the disease in Guizhou, was now in a stable condition. So far, 25 people have died from avian influenza in China since the disease re-emerged in 2003, according to World Health Organisation figures.

No indication Canada bird flu outbreak has spread Mon Jan 26, 7:55 pm ET

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) – There is no indication an outbreak of bird flu in Canada has spread beyond the turkey farm near Vancouver where the disease was discovered last week but testing continues, officials said on Monday.Crews began killing the 60,000 turkeys at the farm in Abbotsford, British Columbia that were ordered destroyed after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed several of the birds had contracted the virus.Officials say the disease was H5 avian influenza but were awaiting test results to determine the exact virus strain and it pathogenicity, a measure of how severe the illness is to birds. Initial tests indicate it was a less severe strain.There were no human illnesses associated with the outbreak and Canadian officials said the health threat to people in this case was very low.The H5N1 strain of the virus can infect people and is responsible for 252 human deaths since 2003, according to the World Health Organization.Farms within a 3 km (2 mile) radius of the initial outbreak have been quarantined for further monitoring but preliminary tests on birds from 10 of the 23 farms found no sign of the disease, a provincial agriculture official said.A farm outside the quarantined zone is also being monitored because there may have been human contact, such as a traveling worker, between it and the farm where the outbreak was discovered, CFIA said.The farms are in the Fraser Valley east of Vancouver, which also suffered avian influenza outbreaks in 2004 and 2005.It was not yet known how the turkeys in this case caught the flu but officials have speculated they may have contracted it from wild waterfowl in the area. Wild birds often carry the avian influenza virus.
(Reporting Allan Dowd; Editing by John O'Callaghan)

SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.

GENESIS 1:5,14
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)

SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Indonesians among the few to witness solar eclipse By ZAKKI HAKIM, Associated Press Writer – Mon Jan 26, 7:20 am ET

ANYER, Indonesia – Indonesians were among the few worldwide to witness an eclipse of the sun Monday, some cheering and banging on drums as the moon slowly crossed its path, blocking out everything but a thin, blazing rim of fire.Dozens gathered in the western coastal town of Anyer to see the spectacle, which peaked at 4:40 p.m. and lasted for about four minutes.I'm old, but I still think this is magical, said Roanna Makmur, 66, who drove several hours with eight friends to witness the sight, known as an annular eclipse, because it does not completely black out the sun.I can't help but feel the greatness of God, she said, as fellow onlookers applauded and then fell silent. Anyone who passed up this opportunity, really missed out.

Annular eclipses, which are considered far less important to astronomers than total eclipses of the sun, occur about 66 times a century and can only be viewed by people in the narrow band along its path.Aside from several regions in Indonesia — from Sumatra island in the west to Kalimantan in the east — only villagers on a tiny South Pacific island group known as the Cocos could see Monday's eclipse, said Jay Pasachoff, professor of astronomy at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He is also a chair of the International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Eclipses.But a partial eclipse — with coverage ranging from 1 percent to 84 percent of the sun's diameter — was to visible in the southern third of Africa, in southeastern India, and Southeast Asia, as well as the western part of Australia.

Hundreds turned out in Indonesia's Samarinda, the capital of East Kalimantan province, where more than 90 percent of the sun's diameter was covered. Some ignored danger warnings and looked directly at the sun. Others wore sunglasses to protect their eyes or looked at its reflection in buckets of water.We are so happy we were able to see this, said Fauziah Sulaiman, a mother of two, who was standing outside her house. It's great for the children, especially after learning about it in school.
The last total eclipse of the sun was Aug. 1, 2008, and was visible in Canada, across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia and China.The next total eclipse will be July 22, 2009, and will be visible in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, China and some Japanese islands.On the Net:Path details: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OHfigures/OH2009-Fig01.pdf

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

HERE WE GO OBAMA IS TALKIN TO MUSLIMS INSTEAD OF BOMBING THEM,GET READY AMERICA THE MUSLIMS WILL BE COMING TO AMERICA NOW WITH TERRORISM LOOKOUT. AMERICA YOU ARE TURNING INTO A CHICKEN COUP IN WITH WOLVES AND FOXES.

US envoy predicts direct diplomacy with Iran By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer John Heilprin, Associated Press Writer – Mon Jan 26, 5:53 pm ET

UNITED NATIONS – President Barack Obama's administration will engage in direct diplomacy with Iran, the newly installed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Monday.Not since before the 1979 Iranian revolution are U.S. officials believed to have conducted wide-ranging direct diplomacy with Iranian officials. But U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice warned that Iran must meet U.N. Security Council demands to suspend uranium enrichment before any talks on its nuclear program.The dialogue and diplomacy must go hand in hand with a very firm message from the United States and the international community that Iran needs to meet its obligations as defined by the Security Council. And its continuing refusal to do so will only cause pressure to increase, she told reporters during a brief question-and-answer session.Her comments, reflecting Obama's signals for improved relations with America's foes after eight years under President George W. Bush, came shortly after meeting with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on her first day in her new job.Iran still considers the U.S. the Great Satan, but a day after Obama was sworn in, said it was ready for new approaches by the United States. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said his country would study the idea of allowing the U.S. to open a diplomatic office in Tehran, the first since 1979.

Rice said the U.S. remains deeply concerned about the threat that Iran's nuclear program poses to the region, indeed to the United States and the entire international community.We look forward to engaging in vigorous diplomacy that includes direct diplomacy with Iran, as well as continued collaboration and partnership with the other four permanent members of the Security Council — Britain, China, France and Russia — plus Germany, Rice said.And we will look at what is necessary and appropriate with respect to maintaining pressure toward that goal of ending Iran's nuclear program, she said.In recent years, Iranian and American officials have negotiated in the same room on talks about Afghanistan that involved other countries' diplomats. They also talked face to face in Baghdad but the agenda was limited to Iraqi security.But the differences between Washington and Tehran run deep. They include U.S. suspicions about Iran's nuclear program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threats to annihilate Israel, and Tehran's support for Hamas.Rice met with Ban in the morning to present her credentials. She said they spent 45 minutes discussing climate change, poverty reduction, U.N. peacekeeping, nonproliferation, Sudan and the Middle East.She told reporters that putting the United States at the center of international efforts to support poverty reduction, development, fighting disease and achieving the (U.N.) Millennium Development Goals, which President Obama has said repeatedly, will now be America's goals as well.Rice said the U.S. will address the Gaza conflict on Tuesday in the Security Council, seeking ways to support efforts to ensure that that cease-fire is lasting, and in that context for border crossings to open and be available for humanitarian as well as day-to-day economic development imperatives.Rice, who was a key Africa adviser to the Clinton administration during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, also said the Obama administation remains very deeply concerned about the ongoing genocide in Darfur.The priority at this point has to be effective protection for civilians, she said, adding that she had discussed ways to fully deploy the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Darfur so that there is the capacity on the ground to begin to effect that civilian protection.

In Washington, Obama's top spokesman said that Rice was merely restating the president's policy on Iran.Asked about Rice's comments to reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York, Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, that what Rice did was simply to restate the message that the administration is going to use all elements of our national power to address concerns about Iran's nuclear program.

NATO's secretary-general, Japp de Hoop Scheffer, also said Monday that NATO must engage with Iran to secure regional support for the escalating war in neighboring Afghanistan. The surprise call from the head of the Western alliance comes as the new U.S. administration prepares to send 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan, where Taliban militants are regrouping and violence is on the rise. They will reinforce the 62,000-strong NATO and U.S. force already operating there. We need a discussion that brings in all the relevant players: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, China, Russia — and yes, Iran. We need a pragmatic approach to solve this very real challenge, de Hoop Scheffer said in a speech to the Security and Defense Agenda, a Brussels-based think tank. Until now, the United States has sought to isolate the clerical regime in Iran from meddling in Afghanistan, although the Shiite nation has a long history of opposing Taliban rule there. De Hoop Scheffer said what's required is a broader approach that includes all of Afghanistan's neighbors, but he was not sure at this stage how to constructively bring Iran into Afghanistan diplomacy.

Obama calls leaders of Russia, France, Germany JAN 26,09

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama telephoned the leaders of Russia, France and Germany as he entered his first full week in office, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.Obama spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Gibbs said, promising further details later in the day.In a statement, Sarkozy's office said the French president and Obama discussed Afghanistan, the global economic crisis, and the new US leader's promise to shut down the Guantanamo war on terror detainment camp.Sarkozy and Obama agreed during their warm, 30-minute conversation to work together in a resolute fashion on the economic emergency as world leaders prepare to meet in London in April, the statement said.Sarkozy also restated France's offer of cooperation on closing down Guantanamo and on Obama's pledge to renew the NATO offensive in Afghanistan, and congratulated his commitment to Middle East peace, it said.Merkel has been less forthright on Guantanamo and on Afghanistan, while Medvedev last week said Russia was ready to cooperate with Obama on Afghanistan and help with the transit of supplies and in the fight against terror.But the Russian president, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, have also made clear that they expect Obama's fledgling administration to work harder on US-Russia ties after prickly relations under president George W. Bush.Germany's embassy in Washington said Merkel and Obama had an in-depth and friendly conversation focusing on the economic crisis, Afghanistan, the Middle East and climate change.

Obama and Medvedev both agreed on the importance of stopping the drift in US-Russia relations and the need to meet to discuss shared challengers, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said.The presidents agreed, that as they were both new leaders from a post-Cold War generation, they have a unique opportunity to establish a fundamentally different kind of relationship between our two countries.A day after taking office last Tuesday, Obama underlined his pledge to revive Middle East peace efforts by making his first foreign phone calls to the leaders of Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories.On Friday he telephoned the British and Canadian prime ministers as well as Saudi King Abdullah, the White House said.

Iran condemns EU for taking group off terror list Mon Jan 26, 1:48 pm ET

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran is condemning a decision by the European Union to remove an Iranian opposition group from its terror list and lift restrictions on its funds. The country says the EU decision encourages terrorism.Iran's Foreign Ministry says the hands of the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran are stained with the blood of thousands of Iranian and non-Iranian people. It also says the group has never renounced violence and has resorted to terrorism. The ministry statement was read on state television Monday night.Monday's decision by the 27 foreign ministers of the EU means that as of Tuesday the assets of the group will be unfrozen. It is the first time an organization has been de-listed by the EU.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — The European Union decided Monday to remove an Iranian opposition group from the EU's terror list and lift the restrictions on its funds, a move likely to further damage relations strained over Tehran's nuclear program.The decision by the 27-nation bloc's foreign ministers means that as of Tuesday, the assets of the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, or PMOI, will be unfrozen. It is the first time an organization has been de-listed by the EU.Shahin Gobadi, a spokesman for the group said $9 million (euro7 million) had been frozen in France alone, with tens of millions of dollars worth of assets also locked away in other EU countries.The group had been blacklisted as a terror organization by the EU since 2002, but waged a long legal battle in the EU's court of justice to reverse that decision. Several EU court decisions went in the group's favor, concluding the EU had failed to properly explain why it froze the assets of the Paris-based group.

The group however, remains on the United States terror list. It was blacklisted by Washington in 1997.What we are doing today is abiding by the decision of the court, there is nothing we can do about the decision, said Javier Solana, the EU's foreign policy chief.Czech European Affairs Minister Alexandr Vondra said that if new evidence comes to light linking the group to terror activities, the EU could decide to re-include the group on a list that includes 60 groups and individuals, such as Osama bin Laden, Hamas and al-Qaida.The People's Mujahedeen, also known as the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, is the military wing of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which is based in Paris. The council said it is dedicated to a democratic, secular government in Iran.However, it maintains a camp of disarmed fighters in Iraq, north of Baghdad. Iraqi officials on Saturday called for the group to shut down the camp and move to another country.Iraq's Shiite-led government has long sought to get rid of the People's Mujahedeen, which fought alongside Saddam Hussein's forces during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. At the same time, many Iraqi Shiites fled to Shiite-dominated Iran and fought against Iraq.The PMOI was founded in Iran in the 1960s and helped followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini overthrow U.S.-backed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in 1979.But the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq fell out with Khomeini, and thousands of its followers were killed, imprisoned or forced into exile. It launched a campaign of assassinations and bombings against Iran's government as a result.The PMOI has long tried to shed its terrorist tag, despite a series of bloody anti-Western attacks in the 1970s — and nearly 30 years of violent struggle against Iran's Islamic establishment.The group said however, it has renounced violence in 2001 and hasn't kept any arms since 2003. Maryam Rajavi, who heads the Paris-based National Council of Resistance, the political wing of the PMOI, said Monday's decision was a crushing defeat to Europe's policy of appeasement with Iran.

The blacklisting of the Iranian Resistance contributed to the prolongation of the rule of religious fascism in Iran, she said in a statement. The Iranian regime did not refrain from using all political and diplomatic pressures to maintain the PMOI on the list.Rajavi said her group would now focus its attention on getting the United States to drop the PMOI from its terror list. Mohammad Safaei, a spokesman at the Iranian Embassy in Brussels, said he could not comment on the decision because it had not yet been officially relayed to Tehran. The court-mandated move is likely to complicate difficult ties with Tehran just as the EU is trying to negotiate over Iran's nuclear program. The EU and the United States fear Iran is building atomic weapons. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband appealed to Iran to return to talks with European nations and the United States over its nuclear program. During 2009 there will and should be significant focus on this issue, Miliband said. The group had established a camp for about 3,500 members in Iraq, which its forces used to launch cross-border attacks into Iran. After U.S.-led forces overthrew Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003, American troops removed the Iranian group's weapons and confined its fighters to the camp.

Reports: Russia planning Abkhazia naval base Mon Jan 26, 12:30 pm ET

MOSCOW – Russian news agencies report that Moscow is planning to build a naval base in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region and could start construction this year.Basing warships in the province would heighten tension following Russia's war with Georgia in the summer.It would also deepen Western concerns about Moscow's growing military presence in Abkhazia, which Russia recognized after the war.The state-connected ITAR-Tass news agency quoted an unidentified naval official as saying Monday that work would begin on a naval base in Abkhazia this year. Interfax quoted Abkhazia's president as saying agreement on the plan had been reached in principle.The reports could not immediately be confirmed independently. But Russian officials frequently use such reports to get information out.

Kremlin: Obama, Medvedev vow to seek better ties Mon Jan 26, 5:37 pm ET

MOSCOW – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and President Barack Obama spoke by phone Monday and vowed to try their best to improve the strained relationship between Moscow and Washington, the Kremlin said.Medvedev and Obama each expressed their intention to apply all efforts to restring the potential of Russian-American relations and to take a constructive approach to resolving disputes, a Kremlin statement said.It said the two presidents plan to meet in the near future, but gave no date.Relations have been badly strained amid vocal Kremlin criticism of U.S. foreign policy during the administration of George W. Bush, and Russia's war with ex-Soviet Georgia in August brought ties to a post-Cold War low.Medvedev and other senior Russian officials have expressed hope for warmer ties under Obama. But they have placed conditions on a potential thaw, urging Obama to scrap U.S. efforts to expand NATO further eastward and place missile-defense facilities in central Europe.

The Kremlin said both presidents spoke of the need to work together on common tasks such as overcoming the global financial crisis, averting the spread of weapons of mass destruction and battling terrorism. They said cooperation is needed on the Middle East and Afghanistan, according to the statement.

NKorea criticizes SKorea's Lee for worsening ties Sun Jan 25, 4:11 am ET

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea criticized South Korea's president Sunday for nominating a conservative security expert to handle relations between the two sides, warning the move will further heighten tensions on the divided peninsula.Relations between the Koreas have been frayed since South Korean President Lee Myung-bak took office 11 months ago. Unhappy with Lee's failure to reaffirm pacts forged under previous administrations, Pyongyang cut off all ties last year, halted cooperation on key joint projects and vilified Lee as human scum.Last week Lee tapped Hyun In-taek, a professor at Seoul's Korea University who helped shape the president's policy on the North, as his new unification minister in a Cabinet reshuffle.The North's state-run Minju Joson newspaper on Sunday called the appointment an open provocation and accused the South Korean leader of seeking to push the inter-Korean relations deeper into the abyss of confrontation and ruin.No one can predict what catastrophic consequences will be entailed in the North-South relations because of Hyun's appointment, the paper said in a commentary carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.The UCLA-educated international diplomacy expert is known to be critical of the reconciliatory Sunshine Policy espoused by Seoul's previous liberal leadership, noting that pouring aid into the North unconditionally did not stop the regime from testing a nuclear bomb in 2006.

Anxious to dismantle the country's atomic program, five regional powers hashed out a 2007 deal promising energy and other aid to Pyongyang in exchange for nuclear disarmament, but the agreement has been hindered by a disagreement with the United States over how to verify its past nuclear activities.Earlier this month, Pyongyang accused Lee's government of plotting an invasion of the North and warned of a strong military response. South Korea denied it was planning to attack the North and put its military on alert.The two Koreas have been separated one of the world's most heavily armed borders since a three-year war ended in a truce in 1953.Lee's presidential Blue House and the Unification Ministry were not immediately available for comment Sunday.

AU force warns of more suicide attacks in Somalia Mon Jan 26, 4:56 am ET

MOGADISHU (AFP) – The African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia warned Monday that extremist Islamist militia were plotting more suicide attacks in Mogadishu after a weekend car bomb killed 22 people.We have information indicating that two more cars full of explosives were prepared by the hardliners to target the African peacekeepers' positions. We warn civilians to be cautious, an AU force spokesman, Major Bahuko Baridgye, told AFP.On Saturday 17 civilians were killed when an explosives-laden car aimed at the AU peacekeepers in southern Mogadishu missed its target and hit a bus. Five others killed in the ensuing gunbattles.Separately, Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, the spokesman of the Shebab militia, said they would seize the provincial town of Baidoa where the parliament sits after Ethiopian forces withdrew.

Ethiopian troops who rolled into the country in late 2006 to back a weak transitional government against an Islamist insurgency completely pulled out of Somalia at the weekend.We are going to take control of that town (Baidoa) because it was the only place that the holy fighters were defeated in 2006, he said, referring to their militia.If the armed people inside the town decide not fight we will not fight them, but if they resist, we will crush them.Baidoa resident Mohamed Haji Abdullahi said there was tension in the town and government soldiers were partrolling in armed vehicles.They are prepared to fight. I'm not sure they can resist the Shebab, he said.The Ethiopian pull-out has sparked security concerns in the war-ravaged country already suffering a leadership crisis.

OBAMA TALKS TO MUSLIMS FIRST TV INTERVIEW ON AL-ARABYA TV JAN 26,2009
January 27, 2009, 12:18 AM Obama's Interview On Arab Television
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(Al Arabiya)President Obama reached out to the Muslim world Monday in an exclusive interview on Arab television network Al Arabiya.

In all my travels throughout the Muslim world, what I've come to understand is that regardless of your faith – and America is a country of Muslims, Jews, Christians, non-believers – regardless of your faith, people all have certain common hopes and common dreams, Obama said in the wide ranging interview, a transcript of which can be found below.

The freshly-minted president spoke about the prospects for peace in the Middle East, the nuclear threat posed by Iran and the stake that America has in the overall well-being of the Arab world. Mr. Obama praised the people of Iran, but chided their government for stirring up trouble in the region.

Iran has acted in ways that's not conducive to peace and prosperity in the region: their threats against Israel; their pursuit of a nuclear weapon which could potentially set off an arms race in the region that would make everybody less safe; their support of terrorist organizations in the past – none of these things have been helpful, Obama said.

The following is a transcript of President Obama's interview with Al Arabiya News Channel by Hisham Melhem.

AL ARABIYA: Mr. President, thank you for this opportunity, we really appreciate it.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you so much.

AL ARABIYA: Sir, you just met with your personal envoy to the Middle East, Senator (George) Mitchell. Obviously, his first task is to consolidate the cease-fire, but, beyond that, you've been saying that you want to pursue actively and aggressively peacemaking between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Tell us a little bit about how do you see your personal role, because, you know, if the President of the United States is not involved, nothing happens – as the history of peacemaking shows. Will you be proposing ideas, pitching proposals, parameters, as one of your predecessors did? Or just urging the parties to come up with their own resolutions, as your immediate predecessor did?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, I think the most important thing is for the United States to get engaged right away, and George Mitchell is somebody of enormous stature. He is one of the few people who have international experience brokering peace deals.

And so what I told him is start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating - in the past on some of these issues - and we don't always know all the factors that are involved. So let's listen. He's going to be speaking to all the major parties involved, and he will then report back to me. From there we will formulate a specific response.

Ultimately, we cannot tell either the Israelis or the Palestinians what's best for them. They're going to have to make some decisions. But I do believe that the moment is ripe for both sides to realize that the path that they are on is one that is not going to result in prosperity and security for their people, and that instead, it's time to return to the negotiating table.

And it's going to be difficult, it's going to take time. I don't want to prejudge many of these issues, and I want to make sure that expectations are not raised so that we think that this is going to be resolved in a few months. But if we start the steady progress on these issues, I'm absolutely confident that the United States – working in tandem with the European Union, with Russia, with all the Arab states in the region - I'm absolutely certain that we can make significant progress.

AL ARABIYA: You've been saying essentially that we should not look at these issues - like the Palestinian-Israeli track and separation from the border region - you've been talking about a kind of holistic approach to the region. Are we expecting a different paradigm in the sense that in the past one of the critiques - at least from the Arab side, the Muslim side - is that everything the Americans always tested with the Israelis, if it works. Now there is an Arab peace plan, there is a regional aspect to it, and you've indicated that. Would there be any shift, a paradigm shift?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, here's what I think is important. Look at the proposal that was put forth by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia…

AL ARABIYA: Right.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: I might not agree with every aspect of the proposal, but it took great courage...

AL ARABIYA: Absolutely.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: ...To put forward something that is as significant as that. I think that there are ideas across the region of how we might pursue peace.

I do think that it is impossible for us to think only in terms of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not think in terms of what's happening with Syria or Iran or Lebanon or Afghanistan and Pakistan. These things are interrelated. And what I've said, and I think Hillary Clinton has expressed this in her confirmation, is that if we are looking at the region as a whole and communicating a message to the Arab world and the Muslim world, that we are ready to initiate a new partnership based on mutual respect and mutual interest, then I think that we can make significant progress.

Now, Israel is a strong ally of the United States. They will not stop being a strong ally of the United States. And I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount. But I also believe that there are Israelis who recognize that it is important to achieve peace. They will be willing to make sacrifices if the time is appropriate and if there is serious partnership on the other side.

And so what we want to do is to listen, set aside some of the preconceptions that have existed and have built up over the last several years. And I think if we do that, then there's a possibility at least of achieving some breakthroughs.

AL ARABIYA: I want to ask you about the broader Muslim world, but let me – one final thing about the Palestinian-Israeli theater; There are many Palestinians and Israelis who are very frustrated now with the current conditions and they are losing hope, they are disillusioned, and they believe that time is running out on the two-state solution because, mainly because of the settlement activities in Palestinian-occupied territories. Will it still be possible to see a Palestinian state – and you know the contours of it – within the first Obama administration?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: I think it is possible for us to see a Palestinian state - I'm not going to put a time frame on it - that is contiguous, that allows freedom of movement for its people, that allows for trade with other countries, that allows the creation of businesses and commerce so that people have a better life.

And, look, I think anybody who has studied the region recognizes that the situation for the ordinary Palestinian in many cases has not improved. And the bottom line in all these talks and all these conversations is, is a child in the Palestinian Territories going to be better off? Do they have a future for themselves? And is the child in Israel going to feel confident about his or her safety and security? And if we can keep our focus on making their lives better and look forward, and not simply think about all the conflicts and tragedies of the past, then I think that we have an opportunity to make real progress.

But it is not going to be easy, and that's why we've got George Mitchell going there. This is somebody with extraordinary patience as well as extraordinary skill, and that's what's going to be necessary.

AL ARABIYA: Absolutely. Let me take a broader look at the whole region. You are planning to address the Muslim world in your first 100 days from a Muslim capital. And everybody is speculating about the capital. (Laughter.) If you have anything further, that would be great.

How concerned are you – because, let me tell you, honestly, when I see certain things about America – in some parts, I don't want to exaggerate – there is a demonization of America.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Absolutely.

AL ARABIYA: It's become like a new religion, and like a new religion it has new converts - like a new religion has its own high priests.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Right.

AL ARABIYA:It's only a religious text.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Right.

AL ARABIYA: And in the last – since 9/11 and because of Iraq, that alienation is wider between the Americans and - and in generations past, the United States was held high. It was the only Western power with no colonial legacy.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Right.

AL ARABIYA: How concerned are you and – because people sense that you have a different political discourse. And I think, judging by (inaudible) and Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden and all these, you know – a chorus.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Yes, I noticed this. They seem nervous.

AL ARABIYA: They seem very nervous, exactly. Now, tell me why they should be more nervous?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, I think that when you look at the rhetoric that they've been using against me before I even took office .

AL ARABIYA:I know, I know.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: ...What that tells me is that their ideas are bankrupt. There's no actions that they've taken that say a child in the Muslim world is getting a better education because of them, or has better health care because of them.

In my inauguration speech, I spoke about: You will be judged on what you've built, not what you've destroyed. And what they've been doing is destroying things. And over time, I think the Muslim world has recognized that that path is leading no place, except more death and destruction.

Now, my job is to communicate the fact that the United States has a stake in the well-being of the Muslim world, that the language we use has to be a language of respect. I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

AL ARABIYA:The largest one.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: The largest one, Indonesia. And so what I want to communicate is the fact that in all my travels throughout the Muslim world, what I've come to understand is that regardless of your faith – and America is a country of Muslims, Jews, Christians, non-believers – regardless of your faith, people all have certain common hopes and common dreams.

And my job is to communicate to the American people that the Muslim world is filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live their lives and see their children live better lives. My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect. But if you look at the track record, as you say, America was not born as a colonial power, and that the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago, there's no reason why we can't restore that. And that I think is going to be an important task.

But ultimately, people are going to judge me not by my words but by my actions and my administration's actions. And I think that what you will see over the next several years is that I'm not going to agree with everything that some Muslim leader may say, or what's on a television station in the Arab world - but I think that what you'll see is somebody who is listening, who is respectful, and who is trying to promote the interests not just of the United States, but also ordinary people who right now are suffering from poverty and a lack of opportunity. I want to make sure that I'm speaking to them, as well.

AL ARABIYA: Tell me, time is running out, any decision on from where you will be visiting the Muslim world?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, I'm not going to break the news right here.

AL ARABIYA: Afghanistan?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: But maybe next time. But it is something that is going to be important. I want people to recognize, though, that we are going to be making a series of initiatives. Sending George Mitchell to the Middle East is fulfilling my campaign promise that we're not going to wait until the end of my administration to deal with Palestinian and Israeli peace, we're going to start now. It may take a long time to do, but we're going to do it now. We're going to follow through on our commitment for me to address the Muslim world from a Muslim capital. We are going to follow through on many of my commitments to do a more effective job of reaching out, listening, as well as speaking to the Muslim world.

And you're going to see me following through with dealing with a drawdown of troops in Iraq, so that Iraqis can start taking more responsibility. And finally, I think you've already seen a commitment in terms of closing Guantanamo, and making clear that even as we are decisive in going after terrorist organizations that would kill innocent civilians, that we're going to do so on our terms, and we're going to do so respecting the rule of law that I think makes America great.

AL ARABIYA: President Bush framed the war on terror conceptually in a way that was very broad, war on terror, and used sometimes certain terminology that the many people - Islamic fascism. You've always framed it in a different way, specifically against one group called al Qaeda and their collaborators. And is this one way of...

PRESIDENT OBAMA: I think that you're making a very important point. And that is that the language we use matters. And what we need to understand is, is that there are extremist organizations – whether Muslim or any other faith in the past – that will use faith as a justification for violence. We cannot paint with a broad brush a faith as a consequence of the violence that is done in that faith's name.

And so you will, I think, see our administration be very clear in distinguishing between organizations like al Qaeda – that espouse violence, espouse terror and act on it – and people who may disagree with my administration and certain actions, or may have a particular viewpoint in terms of how their countries should develop. We can have legitimate disagreements but still be respectful. I cannot respect terrorist organizations that would kill innocent civilians and we will hunt them down.

But to the broader Muslim world what we are going to be offering is a hand of friendship.

AL ARABIYA:Can I end with a question on Iran and Iraq then quickly?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: It's up to the team...

AL ARABIYA: Will the United States ever live with a nuclear Iran? And if not, how far are you going in the direction of preventing it?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: You know, I said during the campaign that it is very important for us to make sure that we are using all the tools of U.S. power, including diplomacy, in our relationship with Iran.

Now, the Iranian people are a great people, and Persian civilization is a great civilization. Iran has acted in ways that's not conducive to peace and prosperity in the region: their threats against Israel; their pursuit of a nuclear weapon which could potentially set off an arms race in the region that would make everybody less safe; their support of terrorist organizations in the past – none of these things have been helpful.

But I do think that it is important for us to be willing to talk to Iran, to express very clearly where our differences are, but where there are potential avenues for progress. And we will, over the next several months, be laying out our general framework and approach. And as I said during my inauguration speech, if countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us.

60,000 TURKEYS DESTROYED IN BC

ITS ABOUT TIME A STORY CAME OUT HOW THE COWARDS HAMAS HIDE BEHIND WOMEN,CHILDREN,MOSQUES. THESE ARE REALLY HEROS EARNING 72 VIRGINS IN 72 BEDS IN PARADISE! WOULD ANYONE FROM ISLAM AGREE. A WAR & MURDER & SEX FOR SALVATION CULT LIKE HAMAS AND RADICAL ISLAM IS NOT WORTH ANYTHING AT ALL.

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU Hamas slammed for monstrous use of civilians
Reports emerging of women, children placed in line of Israeli fire January 22, 2009
2:14 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2009 WorldNetDaily

HERZLIYA, Israel – In the aftermath of Israel's three-week offensive targeting Hamas in the Gaza Strip, reports are emerging of how the terrorists used civilians during the conflict. Entire families in Gaza lived on top of a barrel of explosives for months without knowing, stated Israel Defense Forces Brig. Gen. Eyal Eisenberg.

Eisenberg charged Hamas sent civilians, including women and children, to transfer weapons to gunmen engaged in battles with Israeli forces, and he accused Hamas of booby-trapping many of the civilians' homes. He labeled Hamas' alleged use of civilians as monstrous and inhumane.Similar reports were provided to WND during previous Israeli battles with Hamas. During one battle focusing largely on the Hamas infrastructure in the city of Jabaliya, about one mile into the Gaza Strip, an Israeli commander said Hamas drew Israeli forces into populated civilian areas, shooting at Jewish fighters from occupied civilian homes while women and children were inside. In another case, Israel's Haaretz daily quoted an Israeli commander describing how Hamas sent a 10-year-old boy into the battlefield in full view of the Israeli military to remove a gun from a felled terrorist and then pass the weapon to another terrorist. The commander at the scene said he ordered his troops to halt their fire as the Israeli military watched. Another commander speaking to WND said Hamas snipers used the windows of a Jabaliya house that was clearly occupied by women and children to shoot at his unit.

The aim is to draw us into killing civilians to bring about international pressure to end our operation, the commander said. The international community and much of the world media constantly berated Israel for purportedly killing more than 1,250 Palestinians during the conflict. Many media members claimed those numbers were mostly civilians. WND reported the media was parroting Hamas casualty counts with no independent verification. Now the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera quoted what it said was a Palestinian doctor at Gaza City's main Shifa Hospital disputing the Hamas casualty numbers. It's possible that the death toll in Gaza was 500 or 600 at the most, mainly youths aged 17 to 23 who were enlisted by Hamas – who sent them to their deaths, he said. The IDF's own estimate, which is not based on verification of deaths, puts the toll at about 1,000, two-thirds of which it says were gunmen. The Gaza doctor continued: Perhaps it is like Jenin in 2002. At the beginning they (Palestinians) spoke about 1,500 dead, and at the end it turned out to be only 54 – of whom 45 were militants.The doctor was referring to a 2002 Israeli anti-terror raid in the northern West Bank town of Jenin after which Hamas and the PA claimed hundreds of Palestinian civilians were murdered.Chief PA negotiator Saeb Erekat claimed on CNN that more than 500 people were killed. He repeated the charge on CNN a day later, adding that 300 Palestinians were being buried in mass graves.It was later determined 54 Palestinians were killed, mostly terrorists, while the IDF lost 23 troops while they engaged in house-to-house combat instead of massive air raids in order to limit civilian casualties.

Hamas Under Fire from EU, Human Rights Groups
by Maayana Miskin JAN 26,2009

(IsraelNN.com) Senior European Union official Louis Michel said Monday that Hamas bears responsibility for provoking the recent three-week war in Gaza. Speaking from the city of Jabaliya in northern Gaza, Michel said Hamas is a terrorist movement and should be denounced.Michel, the European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, told journalists that the international community is sick of seeing the projects it funded being destroyed due to Hamas. Public opinion is fed up to see that we are paying over and over again — be it the commission, the member states or the major donors [of the EU -ed.] — for infrastructure that will be systematically destroyed, he explained.Despite his criticism, Michel announced that the EU would grant $41.7 million in emergency aid for Gaza. The money will be used for food, water, medical supplies and other basics that are in short supply due to the war.The EU will also donate $26 million to development projects in the Palestinian Authority-controlled regions of Judea and Samaria, and $7.8 million to refugee camps in Lebanon housing the descendants of Arabs who fled pre-state Israel during the War of Independence.

ICHR: Hamas Must End Killings
The Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) in Gaza has also criticized Hamas, according to the Bethlehem-based Maan news agency. The group slammed Hamas for the recent killings of Fatah members and those suspected of helping Israel during recent fighting in Gaza.ICHR workers said they had evidence of several extra-judicial killings and other crimes, including beatings, shootings and threats against civilians. The group refrained from accusing Hamas forces of committing the attacks, but said Hamas was responsible to stop them.Fatah officials in Judea and Samaria recently reported that 16 Fatah members in Gaza were killed by Hamas during the fighting.

Hamas Executed B'Tselem Collaborator
The ICHR's announcement was made shortly after Hamas announced the execution of a Gaza journalist who worked with the Israeli group B'Tselem. Prosecutors claimed that the journalist, Haidar Ghanem, had worked with B'Tselem as a cover-up for his counterterrorist activities.Ghanem was accused of causing the death of four Fatah terrorists by providing the IDF with information regarding their activities and whereabouts. He plead guilty to providing Israel with information but said he was not involved in the assassination of the four terrorists. Ghanem was sentenced to death in 2002, but his execution was delayed following pressure from his fellow activists and journalists. The sentence was carried out on January 7 of this year, according to Hamas.

JERUSALEM CONFERENCE DAY 1 TODAY IN ISRAEL

JERUSALEM CONFERENCE DAY 1 2008 - AUDIO
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125328

JERUSALEM CONFERENCE 2009 DAY 1 TODAY
http://www.jerusalemconference.com/eng/

JERUSALEM CONFERENCE 2009 ISRAEL NATIONAL RADIO
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/

INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS
http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/eng/about/

CHRISTIANS UNITED FOR ISRAEL
http://www.cufi.org/site/PageServer

CHRISTIAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL
http://www.cfijerusalem.org/default.asp

ONE JERUSALEM
http://www.onejerusalem.org/2006/10/audio-bloggers-conference-call-3.php

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

WATCH APOCALYSE HOW FROM THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL WHEN ITS ON VIDEO,AT LEAST 4 OF THE PREDICTIONS HAPPEN DURING THE TRIBULATION. VOLCANOES,NUKE,MICROBS AND ASTEROIDS HITTING EARTH.
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IMPACT EARTH - ASTEROID HIT
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ASTEROID TRACKERS
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STORM CHASERS
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Sunday, 25 January 2009 H5 avian influenza found on turkey farm in Canada

viewed as low pathogenic strain Canadian authorities have discovered strains of bird flu on a turkey farm in western Canada, and officials say that 60,000 birds will have to be euthanized. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Saturday tests indicate that the H5 avian influenza virus found on a turkey farm in the Fraser Valley east of Vancouver, British Columbia, is low pathogenic. That means the severity of the illness it causes in birds is relatively low. Even so, agency officials said that along with euthanizing all birds on the premises, food inspectors are also restricting the movement of poultry and poultry products within three kilometers of the farm, about two miles.

CFIA confirms avian flu outbreak on B.C. farm
Updated Sun. Jan. 25 2009 1:05 AM ET CTV.ca News Staff

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed an H5 avian influenza outbreak on a turkey farm in B.C.'s Fraser Valley. CFIA says the strain in this case is of low pathogenicity, and further tests will be done to determine the precise subtype and stain of the virus. Pathogenicity refers to the severity of the bird's illness. All birds on the farm will be humanely euthanized, the CFIA said in a news release. There are as many as 60,000 birds on the farm. Afterwards, the organization will oversea the cleaning and disinfection of the farm. Several other farms in a three-kilometre radius of the infected farm have been quarantined. Avian viruses are not a risk to food safety providing poultry products are properly cooked. Avian influenza rarely affects humans, unless they have been in close contact with the infected birds, the CFIA says. CTV British Columbia's Maria Weisgarber told CTV Newsnet Saturday afternoon that one man in close contact with the infected birds is under close medical watch in case anything develops. She added that no recalls of any meat products from the farm are expected. Weisgarber said that other farms in the area will have their birds extensively tested before they can put their product to market. Testing was done at the infected farm after some birds showed signs of respiratory distress. Dr. Neil Rau an infectious disease specialist told CTV Newsnet that the infected birds could have been contracted the virus from migratory birds.

It may not be that the virus will cause disease in the migratory birds that fly in and out and drop their stools in various areas, but then if you have farm-raised poultry they may be much more susceptible and then it spreads like wildfire in that population of domestic poultry, he said. CFIA is notifying the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health of the incident as per regulations. There are multiple subtypes of the H5 avian flu. Additionally testing is being done to determine the virus's neuraminidase subtype -- the N in a flu virus's name. Low path viruses, usually only lead to drop in egg production. However, a high path virus can wipe out an entire poultry operation as birds must be culled to extinguish the outbreak. In 2005, the Fraser Valley suffered an outbreak of H5N2 avian influenza. In Feb. 2004, 17 million birds were slaughtered in the Fraser Valley following an outbreak of H7N3, a different subtype of avian influenza. Seventeen million birds were slaughtered in the Fraser Valley in February 2004 following an outbreak of H7N3, a different avian influenza subtype.

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.

ITS COOOOOOLD OVER HERE IN ONTARIO CANADA.

Extreme cold weather alert issued
Posted JAN 25,09

An extreme cold weather alert was issued at 10 a.m. on Saturday for the next 24 hours by the Elgin Street Mission on behalf of the Homelessness Network of Sudbury.
This Alert will put into action a short-term emergency plan to increase services for people who are especially vulnerable to intensely cold weather conditions. People on the street will be encouraged to voluntarily access shelters and services. Individuals who may be at risk due to low temperatures in their homes are also eligible for these services. Emergency Warming Centre: The Elgin Street Mission will become an emergency warming centre. In addition to the regular services it provides, it will remain open 24 hours a day during the cold weather. As part of its emergency response, it will also provide hot meals around the clock. Shelters: Foyer Notre Dame and the Salvation Army Centre will increase their shelter capacity where possible and exercise leniency in curfews. Outreach: L’Association des jeunes de la rue (Community Outreach Program) will provide overnight services to make contact with people on the street and to transport individuals to shelters. Outreach workers will be equipped with extra clothing, blankets and coffee for those who choose not to access shelters. Hot Line: 675-6422: L’Association des jeunes de la rue will operate an overnight phone line to direct callers to appropriate services and to take calls from concerned citizens.Article ID# 1403866

France and Spain pick up pieces after deadly storm By Nicolas Fichot JAN 25,09

MURET, France (Reuters) – Millions of people in southwest France and northern Spain struggled on Sunday with destroyed roofs, fallen trees, power cuts and phone outages in the aftermath of a storm that killed 15 people.Saturday's winds of up to 190 km (118 miles) an hour, which killed 11 people in Spain and four in France as trees crashed onto roads and walls collapsed, faded on Sunday but the death toll rose again.An elderly French couple with no power in their house in the Dordogne area died, poisoned by carbon monoxide from their back-up generator, authorities said, adding that 30 others were in hospital after being poisoned in similar circumstances.

The weekend was also deadly in the French Alps, where five people died in three separate avalanches, police said. Three were young people who were skiing outside the authorized slopes, two were a couple in their fifties on a snow shoe excursion.In the southwest, French electrical engineers, backed up by colleagues from Britain, Germany and Portugal and by 12 helicopters, struggled to restore power to 1.7 million homes that were cut off from the grid during the storm.By nightfall on Sunday, they had reconnected 700,000 homes but the grid manager warned it could take several days to restore power to the 800,000 others still in the dark.It was the worst storm in France since December 1999, when a huge storm killed 88 people. After that, the weather forecast agency had set up an early warning system that helped keep the death toll relatively low on Saturday as people stayed indoors.I am satisfied that the lessons of 1999 were learnt, said President Nicolas Sarkozy during a visit to the affected area.Sarkozy said the army would help thousands of workers from the electricity, phone, water and railway companies struggling to restore battered infrastructure.

EVERYTHING WAS FLYING

In the town of Muret, south of Toulouse, residents were aghast at the scale of the devastation. The secondary school there, the biggest in the Midi-Pyrenees region with 2,100 pupils, had its roof ripped off and was a scene of chaos.Everything was flying everywhere, it was astonishing, the school principal Amedee Collin told Reuters.A nearby house was completely flooded when a tree fell onto an inflatable swimming pool that was sitting on the roof.A third of my roof flew off. The rain drenched everything. It's going to be another battle with the insurers, said Gilberte Marie, a resident of Muret, sighing among the debris.In Spain, troops helped emergency services fight a forest fire in La Nucia, north of Benidorm in Alicante province, and by evening it was nearly under control, local authorities said.The fire started on Saturday when a tree felled an electricity pylon, prompting the evacuation of thousands of people from nearby houses. They spent Saturday night in libraries or sports centers but were now back home.There were no forest fires in France but the impact of the storm was devastating in the huge Landes forest, south of Bordeaux, one of Europe's largest, where tens of thousands of timber businesses are based.Footage filmed from helicopters and broadcast on France 2 state television showed vast areas where there were more trees lying on the ground than standing. All forest officers are unhappy today, but they are on the ground, working to repair the damage, Pierre-Olivier Drege, head of the French forestry commission, told France Info radio. (Additional reporting by Paris and Madrid bureau, Claude Canellas in Bordeaux, Alexis de La Fontaine in Lyon, writing by Estelle Shirbon, editing by Katie Nguyen)

Storm leaves 15 dead in S Europe Rescue workers at the sports hall in Sant Boi de Llobregat JAN 25,09

Hurricane-force winds lashed northern Spain on Saturday, bringing down the roof of a sports hall near Barcelona, killing four children, officials said. Eleven people died in separate incidents in Spain and south-western France as the fiercest storm in a decade blew in from the Atlantic. Torrential rains and winds of up to 184km/h (114mph) were reported. It is now tracking across central Italy, bringing rain and winds of 80-95km/h (50-60mph), forecasters say. Some 1.3 million homes in France suffered power cuts while road and rail links were blocked and airports closed.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy will visit the region on Sunday. The impact of the storm was felt from the Channel Isles to Barcelona, but the strongest winds and heaviest rain were concentrated on south-western France. Although this type of active low pressure system is fairly common in winter, BBC meteorologist Alex Deakin says Saturday's storm has been described as the most damaging since that of December 1999, which killed 88 people and uprooted millions of trees. The storm tracked south-eastwards and cleared the south-east coast of France during Saturday evening. The Mediterranean islands of Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily have also been affected.

Children killed

The sports hall partially collapsed in the town of Sant Boi de Llobregat, Catalonia, with between 20 and 30 youngsters inside, officials said. It started at around 0330 with a really wild wind ,The youngsters had gathered to play baseball but the fierce winds drove them to take shelter in a small covered area for spectators, made of concrete, with a corrugated iron roof. It seems that the roof shifted and brought down part of the wall, a regional government spokeswoman said. Local people and fire-fighters helped free the survivors from the rubble but three children aged between nine and 12 died at the scene, and a fourth child died later in hospital. More than a dozen others received treatment for injures.

In other incidents:

In the Landes region of south-western France, near Bordeaux, a driver was killed by a falling tree, a 78-year-old man was killed by flying debris and a third man, 75, was crushed by a tree A woman, 73, died in France's Gironde region when the storm cut electricity powering her breathing machine A woman was crushed by a door in Burgos, Spain A collapsing wall killed a woman and a falling tree killed a male park employee in the Barcelona area; a man, 60, was killed elsewhere in the Catalonia region In Galicia, a policeman was killed by a falling tree as he directed traffic in Burela and a sailor from a cargo ship died when the vessel got in trouble off the coast A falling wall crushed a man in Aigues de Busot, near Alicante in the south-east of Spain Tens of thousands of homes have been left without power in Spain.

Ghost town

French weather agencies had forecast the storm but it affected a wider area than expected. A state of red alert was declared in nine departments, but lifted by the end of Saturday. People were screaming on the street below, and bits of masonry and scaffolding continued to fall Simon Ritchie BBC News website reader in Rodez, France
The storm caused havoc from the Dordogne area to the Pyrenees. Torrential rains caused flooding in some areas prompting thousands of calls to the emergency services. The force of the storm also led to the closure of airports in Bordeaux, Pau, Biarritz and Toulouse, and train services also ground to a halt, leaving several hundred passengers stranded in stations. Many roads were also blocked. Mark Richardson, a BBC News website reader visiting Bordeaux from the UK, said the city ground to a standstill following the storm overnight and felt like a ghost town.

Another reader, Simon Ritchie, witnessed the damage wrought by the storm in the French town of Rodez. This morning, I awoke to the sound of very strong winds and lashing rain or hail, he said. I looked out of my kitchen's skylight window to see scaffolding and sheets or corrugated iron blowing of the adjacent cathedral. One such sheet blew about 50 yards from the tower and landed on a car below, smashing it in completely.People were screaming on the street below, and bits of masonry and scaffolding continued to fall, he added.

Philadelphia suburb stunned by a series of arsons JAN 26,09

Philadelphia COATESVILLE, Pa. – Authorities are urging residents in this Philadelphia suburb to remove flammable materials from their porches and to keep porch lights on at night following a string of suspicious fires.The latest fire tore through a block of row houses Saturday, damaging 15 homes, leaving several dozen people homeless and prompting city officials to declare a state of emergency.At least 30 arsons have been reported since the beginning of 2008, about half of them in the last three weeks. Police said the blazes may be part of a gang initiation, but there was no clear information who was committing the crimes or why.This is an arson, no question about it, City Manager Harry Walker said Sunday. Coatesville is about 45 miles west of Philadelphia.The emergency declaration gives the city powers to deal with the situation without worrying about the budget, such as boarding up the buildings, assigning police to protect them and helping the families involved, Walker said.The newest fire came despite stepped-up police patrols and investigative help from county, state and federal agencies.A lot of people are scared, resident Marissa Martinez said as she watched smoke rise from the rubble. I never thought things could come to this point.Fifteen homes were damaged and some may have to be demolished, Walker said. Damage was estimated at $1.2 million, bringing the total fire damage since last summer to $3 million.The southeastern Pennsylvania chapter of the American Red Cross was helping 14 families, a total of 50 people — 32 adults and 18 children, spokeswoman Denise Venuti Free said in a statement Sunday.

One of the homes destroyed belonged to City Councilwoman Robin Scott, who said she and her family got out safely after police officers knocked on doors to alert residents.To see it all happen the way that it did was devastating and I wouldn't wish that on anyone, Scott said through tears to a gathering of citizens and city officials Sunday night. She urged residents to be vigilant in their neighborhoods.

Police Chief William Matthews said more than one person appears to be involved because of the number of fires and the fact that many have occurred within minutes of each other. He urged residents to remove any potential fuel for the fires and keep their porch lights on.It costs 76 cents a week to keep your porch light on, the police chief said Sunday. That 76 cents should be considered a down payment on the safety of your family and friends in the neighborhood.Walker said authorities fear that the latest blazes were copycats, since they had already arrested three people in December believed to have been responsible for 15 fires.The more we caught them, the more fires were set, he said.

Religious-Zionists Comment on Netanyahu’s National Unity Gov’t
by Hillel Fendel JAN 25,09

(IsraelNN.com) The Likud’s Moshe Feiglin says the nationalist public must vote for the Likud in order to thwart Netanyahu’s centrist government plans, while National Union leader Ketzaleh says a strong National Union means a more right-wing Likud.

Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu, favored to win the upcoming elections and form the next government, continues to say that he plans to form a unity government with Kadima and/or Labor. Such a government would lean heavily towards the center and towards land-ceding diplomatic agreements - in stark contrast to the extremist right-wing government he declares he will not form.Arutz-7 asked Moshe Feiglin, leader of the Likud’s Jewish Leadership faction, to comment on Netanyahu’s latest remarks regarding a unity government. Netanyahu has been saying this for a while, Feiglin said. Our job is to make sure that within the party faction there are enough nationalist MKs who will prevent Netanyahu from carrying out dangerous moves.

Q. Which dangerous moves are you referring to – forming a national unity government, or giving away land afterwards? A. Both. If there is a majority within the Likud against forming a government with Kadima or Likud, then Netanyahu won’t be able to [form a unity government with them]. The Likud is going to get at least 30 seats, but if they get a few more, then the balance of power in the party changes, because from places 31 through 40, there are 8 who would fight against a national unity government. Therefore, religious-Zionist voters must understand: Whether or not the National Union or Jewish Home parties make it into the Knesset, they will not be in the government – and even if they are, they won’t make much of a difference either way. But if they vote for the Likud, they have a chance to bring in candidates who can really make a difference.As we have been saying for years, Feiglin concluded, the only way to influence is from within the Likud – and that’s why Netanyahu fights against me so hard.

Ketzaleh Responds
Ketzaleh – National Union party leader Yaakov Katz - said that the way to ensure that the Likud remains nationalistically-oriented is by voting for a party to the right of it: The fight is not over the Likud candidates in places 31-40, but rather those in the places before those - many of whom are not nationalist candidates. The polls show that the Likud will only get 30 candidates. If the religious-Zionist voters who are now supporting the Likud would vote for the National Union, then many left-wing Likud candidates [particularly in the upper 20's - ed.] will not get into the Knesset - while the National Union could get 10 seats! We must not let Feiglin steal away national-religious votes for people like Dan Meridor, Assaf Chefetz, and others.In addition, Katz said, all our strength comes from the Torah, from rabbis who are totally involved in the challenges facing our nation today. There are rabbis who say to vote for the Jewish Home, and many who endorse the National Union - but none endorse the Likud! How can Feiglin act on his own in this manner? Is the religious-Zionist camp bereft of spiritual leadership?! None of them say to vote for the Likud!

Israel Prepares to Overhaul Air Safety Operations
by Hana Levi Julian JAN 25,09

(IsraelNN.com) The State of Israel is beginning a massive overhaul of its air safety operations in the wake of a downgrade in its rating to Category 2 last month by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.The downgrade dropped Israel’s airports into the same classification as airports in Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Ukraine, Honduras and Bulgaria, among others. The FAA cited severe security shortcomings in Israel’s Civil Aviation Authority in its decision to downgrade Israel’s largest airport.The Israel Airports Authority said in a statement Friday that it would allocate an unprecedented NIS 9.5 million toward a training program for its flight controllers as part of the rehabilitation effort toward regaining its former Category 1 standing. The course, to begin next month, will include a simulator module to be carried out in Canada as well as computerized refreshers in operational competency and a quality assurance seminar in safety systems.The Israel Airports Authority has embarked on a new road in the realm of flight-control training, announced IAA Chairman of the Board of Directors, Ovadia Eli. He added that the main task would be to upgrade safety in Israeli air space by massive investment in this area.Among the staff to be trained are all IAA flight controllers and operations specialists, as well as flight-control shift leaders, unit heads and quality control supervisory personnel. On-the-job training for the flight controllers at their own work stations will also be conducted, in accordance with FAA training regulations. The IAA also plans to compile a new manual of flight-control procedures as well, to be submitted to the Civil Aviation Authority for approval. Eli said the Authority will also invest NIS 3.7 billion to upgrade the infrastructure, security and safety systems at Ben Gurion International Airport.It was not clear when the upgrades at Ben Gurion Airport would begin, however.

US Navy Interception of Iranian Ship Probably Covert Operation
by Avraham Zuroff JAN 25,09

(IsraelNN.com) A U.S. Naval vessel in the Gulf of Aden has been ordered to search for suspicious Iranian ships containing weaponry heading for Gaza. Combined Task Force 151, which is keeping pirates at bay in the Gulf of Aden, has been ordered to track Iranian arms shipments, the Sunday Times reports.Naval officers from the USS San Antonio, an amphibious transport dockship that serves as the headquarters for the taskforce, last week boarded a cargo vessel registered in Limassol and flying a Cypriot flag.Upon boarding the ship in the Red Sea, the naval officers discovered numerous crates with the inscription hazardous materials. The naval officers asked Egyptian authorities to order the Iranian ship to proceed to an Egyptian port for a detailed search before allowing it to travel through the Suez Canal. According to unconfirmed reports, the navy found armaments. However, the U.S. has not confirmed the media reports.

Probably Covert Operation

Prof. Raymond Tanter, president of the Washington-based Iran Policy Committee, told The Jerusalem Post, It is not surprising that the U.S. Navy is reluctant to acknowledge the operation, which may have been covert, adding that legal challenges are present when intercepting ships flying flags of a sovereign country. In last week’s seizure, the Iranian-owned ship was flying a Cypriot flag, and the maritime law is less able to justify stop and search operations against such ships, Tanter clarified.Tanter said he feels that intelligence provided by friendly nations, such as Egypt, helped the U.S. intercept the Iranian boat. Due to concern in intelligence circles that Iran is attempting to ship a dirty bomb to Gaza, the U.S. has taken strong measures to prevent the arms from reaching Hamas. Nonetheless, due to legal wranglings, the U.S. has covertly performed the operation, Tanter implied.In recent weeks, at least two Iranian warships have entered the Gulf of Aden, officially as a means of fighting Somali piracy. Israel nevertheless claims that Iran is attempting to rearm the Hamas-run Palestinian Authority in Gaza.Israel and the U.S. signed a political-military memorandum of understanding on January 16 regarding the joint tracking of arms smuggling from Iran into Gaza. The agreement includes the American obligation to act together with NATO and other agents in order to prevent arms smuggling into Gaza via the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, and eastern Africa.Although one of the IDF’s objectives in the Operation Cast Lead was to eliminate smuggling tunnels from Egypt to Gaza, Arab sources estimate that 20 percent of the pre-war total, or 100 tunnels remain open as a possible means to rearm the Hamas terrorist entity.

EU calls for Palestinian unity government
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today JAN 26,09 @ 09:28 CET

The European Union late on Sunday (25 January) called for the divided Palestinian leadership to unite to support the opening of border crossings to allow humanitarian aid and other goods into the Gaza Strip.We believe that Palestinian reconciliation behind president Mahmud Abbas is fundamental to progress, Czech foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg told reporters after the meeting. Prague currently holds the EU's six-month rotating presidency.Foreign ministers from the 27-state bloc held discussions with Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and Turkey. Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Store was also at the meeting. Norway is not a member of the EU but has maintained some relations with the Hamas government in Gaza, while the EU has since 2003 ended all contact with the militant group, classifying it as a terrorist organisation.EU member states have said they will aid efforts to halt arms trafficking via Egypt by relaunching and strengthening its monitoring presence at the Rafah border crossing, while France, Germany and the UK have offered to send naval patrols to guard against weapons shipments.The reunification of the Palestinian people with a single voice to speak to them, to speak for the West Bank and for Gaza is absolutely essential, UK foreign secretary David Miliband said after the meeting.

Governance of the two occupied Palestinian territories has been split between Islamist Hamas and its secular rival Fatah since June 2007.The Fatah-controlled Palestinian National Authority welcomed what it sees as EU endorsement of its leadership.Today we have heard very clearly the statement of support unanimously by all the EU members that the PNA is the only legitimate authority, and has representation not only in the West Bank but also in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Authority foreign minister Riad al-Malki said.Separately on Sunday, a delegation of Hamas representatives met with Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman to discuss a long-term truce with Israel.During the discussions, Hamas proposed a one-year truce in return for a lifting of Israel's blockade of Gaza. Tel Aviv, for its part, is looking for an 18-month truce and is offering a partial reopening of the border.

Israel is permitting the delivery of some food and medicine, but rejects a full opening of the border at the moment.Around 125 trucks are allowed into the territory per day, according to the Israel Defense Forces. On Friday, international aid group Oxfam said for sufficient supplies to enter Gaza, 500 trucks were required.Human rights and aid groups will be disappointed with the result of the meeting. In Brussels also on Friday, Lotte Leicht of Human Rights Watch said her organisation was looking to hear from EU foreign ministers an urgent signal calling on Israel to end the blockade.The International Crisis Group also said ending the blockade was key to moving forward.Any continuation of the blockade would constitute a breach of international law, said Alain Deletroz of the ICG at a press conference. Europeans should be leading. Obama hasn't sent any strong message yet, which leaves Europe to take the lead - if it wants it.

FITNA ISLAM
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PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH
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YAHOO NEWS VIDEO
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MIDEAST CONFLICT NEWS
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FOX NEWS VIDEO
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HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

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/

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON JAN 26,2009

09:30 AM -5.45
10:00 AM +32.34
10:30 AM +139.94
11:00 AM +121.31
11:30 AM +105.38
12:00 PM +75.75
12:30 PM +109.28
01:00 PM +89.93
01:30 PM +62.93
02:00 PM +10.36
02:30 PM -27.10
03:00 PM +30.03
03:30 PM +71.61
04:00 PM +38.47 8116.03

S&P 500 836.57 +4.62

NASDAQ 1489.46 +12.17

GOLD 903.50 +7.70

OIL 45.69 -0.78

TSE 300 8659.97 +32.00

CDNX 866.66 +6.97

S&P/TSX/60 520.44 +1.79

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

Dow -2 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -18 points at low today.
Dow +126 points at high today.

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -7.965%
S&P -7.89%
Nasdaq -6.32%
TSX Advances 603,declines 560,unchanged 231,Volume 859,337,394.
TSX Venture Exchange Advances 369,Declines 345,Unchanged 341,Volume 108,424,161.

Caterpillar to cut 20,000 jobs,
Caterpillar Q4 revenue +6% to $12.9 BILLION.
Caterpillar Q4 EPS $1.08 Vs $1.28 EST.
Oil opens at $45.97,Gold opens at $913.50.
Dow on pace for 5th consecutive losing month.
Leading Indicaters +0.3 (DEC)Vs -0.4 (NOV)
Existing Home Sales +6.5% (DEC)to 4.74 M annual rate.
Existing Home Supply 9.3 months (DEC)Vs 11.2 months (NOV
Median Home Price (DEC)$175,400 -15.3% from DEC 2007.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS

Dow -18 points at low.
Dow +154 points at high.
NYSE STATS 10:30AM
Advances 2501,Declines 368,Unchanged 72,New Highs 1,New Lows 11.
NASDAQ STATS 10:30AM
Advances 1909,Declines 400,Unchanged 194.
TSX STATS 11:30AM
Advances 630,Declines 346,Unchanged 194 Volume 278,120,876.
TSX VENTURE STATS 11:30AM
Advances 316,Declines 193,Unchanged 202 Volume 64,888,519.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS

Dow -53 points at Low today.
Dow +154 points at high today.

Dow +0.48% today Volume 315,569,668.
S&P 500 +0.5% today Volume N/A
Nasdaq +0.82% today Volume 1,686,224,635.

CANADAS WEEK ENDING STATS
TSX Advances 604,Declines 563,Unchanged 227 Volume 856,957,969.
TSX Venture Advances 370,Declines 344,Unchanged 342 Volume 108,281,323.

European stocks rise, led by banks By CARLO PIOVANO, Associated Press Writer JAN 26,09

LONDON – European markets rose Monday despite a drop in Asia, with an upbeat trading report by Barclays sending its shares up a stunning 65 percent and boosting investors' confidence in the ailing banking sector.Barclays surprised by releasing a statement showing it had made a good profit for 2008 and that it did not need any cash bailouts to stay in business. Markets had feared the bank would be next to be rescued by the state and have to give up a stake to the government.In European morning trading, Britain's FTSE 100 was 1.5 percent higher at 4,115.04. France's CAC-40 gained 1.1 percent at 2,880.06, while Germany's DAX added 1.0 percent to 4,221.89.

Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 0.8 percent at 7,682.14 as investors braced for earnings this week from Sony, Honda and other major names. Japan was the only major Asian market open amid a slew of regional holidays.In Europe, financial and energy stocks were the best-performing shares.The dust has settled after last week's heavy losses, so we're seeing a bit of a bounce, supported by some bargain-hunting, said Paul Chesterton, analyst at CMC Markets.Chesterton noted Goldman Sachs had upgraded oil stocks, such as BP, which helped buoy the wider indexes, but financial stocks led the charge on Barclay's good news.Barclays shares skyrocketed after it said it expects pretax profits of over 5.3 billion pounds ($7.3 billion) for the full year 2008 despite writing down 8 billion pounds on bad assets. The bank also said it would not need any bailouts beyond some guarantees on toxic assets — dispelling fears it was set to be part-nationalized.The news was a breath of fresh air for the banking sector, which was braced for the worst in Britain. Also helping the sector was the news that France's Societe General SA and Credit Agricole SA will merge their asset management businesses.

Other statements by financials were less upbeat, however.

Dutch ING announced 7,000 job cuts, the resignation of its CEO and a euro3.3 billion ($4.22 billion) loss for the fourth quarter. It also said the state would take on 80 percent of a euro27.7 billion portfolio of mortgage assets in exchange for a nominal sum of euro600 million. Its shares were down 2.9 percent.In France, BNP Paribas SA said it expects to report a euro1.4 billion net loss in the fourth quarter due to weaker investment banking, but predicts a net profit of around euro3 billion for the full year thanks to the good performance of retail banking and asset management. Its shares were up 11 percent.Europe's gains looked fragile with more earnings due across all industries.Electronics giant Philips reported a fourth-quarter loss of euro1.47 billion and said it would cut 6,000 jobs, sending its shares down 3.4 percent.U.S. stock index futures suggested Wall Street would bounce back from Friday's losses to open higher. Dow Jones futures rose 46 points to 8,019 after the index fell 0.6 percent on Friday. The Standard & Poor's 500 futures added 4.9 points to 828.40.In Asia, markets in Hong Kong, mainland China, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan were closed for the Lunar New Year holidays. Australian and Indian markets were also closed for national holidays.In Tokyo, nervous investors were in no mood to buy ahead of the expected flurry of dismal third quarter results and a worsening outlook, said Masayoshi Okamoto, head of dealing at Jujiya Securities in Tokyo.

They're hanging back and trying to figure out what to do next, he said. (Earnings) will likely be worse than anyone imagined, and investors know that the situation will deteriorate even further in the January-March quarter.Sony Corp., which last week projected its first annual net loss in 14 years, fell 3.1 percent. The Japanese electronics giant reports fiscal third quarter results Thursday, followed by Honda Motor Co. on Friday. But Nomura Holdings Inc., which reports Tuesday, managed to edge up 0.5 percent on hopes that Japan's top brokerage had finished writing off costs related to its purchase of Lehman Brothers' operations in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The stock rose despite weekend news reports that Nomura's October-December losses could total a worse-than-expected 300 billion yen ($3.4 billion).

Among the few stock markets open in the region, Thailand's benchmark index rose 0.7 percent and the Philippines' key index was also up 0.7 percent. New Zealand's market ended flat. Australia's market, closed for Australia Day, will reopen Tuesday, as will trading in India, which was observing Republic Day. Markets in Singapore and South Korea will reopen Wednesday, and Hong Kong's markets will reopen Thursday. Trading in mainland China and Taiwan will be closed all week and resume Feb. 2. In foreign exchange, the euro traded at $1.2899 in morning European trading, down from $1.2974 in late New York trading on Friday. The dollar was also higher against the Japanese yen, at 89.28 yen from 88.76 yen Friday. AP Business Writer Tomoki A. Hosaka in Tokyo contributed to this report.

Pfizer seals $68bn Wyeth purchase By Julie MacIntosh in New York and Lina Saigol and Andrew Jack in London January 26 2009 11:39

Pfizer on Monday confirmed a deal to buy Wyeth, a rival US drug maker, for about $68bn in a move that will reshape the global drug industry.Pfizer will pay the equivalent of $50.19 a share in cash and stock for Wyeth as it attempts to address concerns over its ability to offset upcoming patent expirations on its blockbuster drugs, including cholesterol-fighting drug Lipitor.The two companies spent Sunday hammering out that exchange ratio and other final terms of the deal, including details on who would fill a few remaining seats on the combined companies’ board of directors.Pfizer, which expects to raise $22.5bn to help fund the deal, has lined up financing commitments from Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs and remains in talks to bring other banks into the group. Jeffrey Kindler, Pfizer chief executive, who approached Wyeth months ago about a potential merger, is poised to be be chief executive of the combined company.

The new company will be an industry leader in human, animal and consumer health. With our combined biopharmaceuticals business, it will lead in primary and specialty care as well as in small and large molecules. Its geographic presence in most of the world’s developed and developing countries will be unrivaled,” Mr Kindler said in a statement.Pfizer said it expected the Wyeth deal to be accretive to adjusted diluted earnings per share in the second full year after closing, and anticipated cost savings of approximately $4bn by the third year after closing.Like Pfizer, Wyeth is facing patent expirations on several key drugs. But it has strong vaccines and biotech businesses, and the two companies could save billions of dollars in costs by combining.Pfizer may not be the only drugmaker with an interest in Wyeth, and the drug sector has been a rare area in which corporate buyers have shown aggression in the past six months despite the downtrodden economy. Bristol-Myers Squibb recently lost out in an effort to buy ImClone after Eli Lilly came forward with a higher offer.Given the tight credit markets, however, Pfizer may face a diminished interloper threat for a deal of this size. Rival drug giant Roche, for example, is mired in an attempt to take over Genentech, and Novartis is thought to be building up its coffers to acquire a greater stake in Alcon. Pfizer has been receiving advice on the deal from Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, while Morgan Stanley and Evercore have been advising Wyeth. Meanwhile, shares in Dutch vaccine maker Crucell plunged on Monday after it said that Wyeth had withdrawn from talks over a friendly takeover deal.The Financial Times Limited 2009.

States may gain power over emissions standards By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer JAN 26,09

WASHINGTON – Plunging into energy policy, President Barack Obama is poised to give states a freer hand in curbing emissions from cars, and to get his government moving on fuel-efficiency standards that could remake the auto industry.Obama will announce his plans Monday at the White House, according to officials familiar with the details who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid pre-empting the president.The attention to energy comes as Obama heads into his first full week as president, with an agenda dominated by economic woes and a push to get a huge stimulus plan through Congress.In one key move, Obama is aiming toward letting California and other states set their own tailpipe emission standards, a tool for reducing the gases that contribute to global warming.And in the other, Obama will order the Transportation Department to enact short-term rules on how automakers can improve fuel efficiency of their new models based on a 2007 law.On car emissions, California needed a waiver from the Clean Air Act to pursue its own course; the Bush administration's Environmental Protection Agency denied that permission, which affected at least 13 other states that have followed California's lead.Last week, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, sent a letter to Obama asking him to give California and other states permission to implement tough tailpipe-emission standards. Schwarzenegger said Obama has a unique opportunity to both support the pioneering leadership of these states and move America toward global leadership on addressing climate change.

Obama will direct EPA regulators to re-examine California's case. The formal process will take time but is expected to end up in the states' favor. The Bush administration had rejected the request on grounds that a national fuel-efficiency strategy would work better.As a candidate for president, Obama pledged to overturn the EPA's denial.By beginning this process and directing EPA to review the Bush administration's lack of action, President Obama is turning the federal government into a force for positive change instead of a roadblock, said the Sierra Club's executive director, Carl Pope.Obama is also expected to order new guidelines on fuel economy. The law requires that by 2020, new cars and trucks meet a standard of 35 miles per gallon, a 40 percent increase over the status quo. But the Bush administration did not set regulations in support of that law.The president on Monday is also expected to tout proposals that he says would boost clean energy supplies while also producing badly needed jobs in so-called green industries.
Associated Press writer Erica Werner contributed to this story.

Downturn hits national oil groups’ shares
By Carola Hoyos in London January 25 2009 23:37

The global downturn has hit national oil company share prices much harder than their international oil company counterparts, according to a study.Research by PFC Energy, a US consulting group, warns that the sharp decline in share prices could lead to a perilous shortfall in investment for some of the world’s oil and gas-rich nations.
The share prices of companies part-owned by the governments of Russia and China have been particularly affected by the downturn as have those of Petrobras, Brazil’s national oil company.National oil companies’ shares have declined 64 per cent over the year as investors who had been attracted by their potential value started to favour companies with a sure cash flow, said Antonia Bullard, lead author of the study.Their losses will affect the long-term capacity and ability of the industry to respond to any pick-up in demand as the economy recovers.The International Energy Agency, the consuming countries’ watchdog, believes the industry will need to invest $350bn each year to maintain oil and gas supplies.It has already warned that national oil companies, in particular, may not invest adequately, especially as they face a deteriorating economic environment. PFC’s study paints a stark picture of the loss of dominance by the national oil companies.Not only has ExxonMobil of the US regained the top slot from PetroChina, but no fewer than three national oil companies – Petrobras, Gazprom and Sinopec – have slipped out of the top six. They now occupy ranks nine, 11 and 12, respectively.Overall, international oil companies, which have the most varied portfolio of the industry – dabbling in refining and petrochemicals, liquefied natural gas, and alternative energy, among other sectors – averaged losses of 34 per cent.ExxonMobil’s shares dropped 15 per cent, while Gazprom’s dropped 74 per cent, giving it a market cap of $83bn, compared with $332bn at the end of 2007.Exclusive graphic: Which energy companies release the most emissions? US president Barack Obama has promised to tackle climate change at home and abroad. How could this affect the world’s biggest energy groups? (Gazprom’s emissions are in fact far larger than they appear here because PFC’s data does not include gas leaking from its pipelines. Also, gas producers tend to emit less greenhouse gas because natural gas and its production yields less CO2 than oil).The Financial Times Limited 2009.

Iceland government in trouble over finance crisis
ANDREW WILLIS Today JAN 26,09 @ 09:21 CET

Iceland's commerce minister, Bjorgvin Sigurdsson, stepped down Sunday (25 January), just three days after prime minister Geir Haarde said he would not be seeking re-appointment while simultaneously calling for early elections in May.The north Atlantic island has witnessed rolling protests in recent weeks as angry citizens demanded the government resign over the country's failing economy sparked by a collapse of the nation's banks last October. Mr Sigurdsson is the first top-level official to resign as a result of the crisis, creating doubts as to whether the government will last until May. I realised last night that for me at least there is no going back, the anger and distrust of the public is too deep for me to be able to regain their trust, Mr Sigurdsson said.Despite citing poor health as the main reason the prime minister will not seek re-election, most believe the economic situation was instrumental in Mr Haarde's announcement. Speaking to reporters over the weekend, Mr Haarde said he believed the current situation would get worse if the current government did not continue until May.

EU doubts over bail-out plans

As Iceland comes to terms with the news, the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper reports Monday that the EU is concerned that member state bank bail-outs will fail to achieve the desired effect. Referring to an internal analysis paper prepared by the Czech EU presidency, the newspaper notes that EU officials are concerned that money given to the banks is not being leant to businesses to get the economy moving again.EU monetary affairs commissioner Joaquin Almunia reportedly wants national governments to put pressure on credit institutions to begin lending again.In a further sign that credit is not getting through to businesses, the French government is to provide €5 billion directly in credit guarantees to aeroplane manufacturers Airbus, as the company's clients fail to secure the funding needed for new orders.

Under the deal, the Societe Financement de l'Economie Française, which was set up in November to stabilise the banking system, will provide an extra €5 billion in state guarantees to French banks, which in turn will provide the money to businesses. Only last week, the French government offered €6 billion to the state's ailing car industry.

Britain enters recession

Meanwhile, the Office for National Statistics in Britain announced last Friday that the country was officially in recession, as new data showed negative growth for the fourth quarter of 2008, making it two in a row. The data shows that the British economy shrank by 1.5 percent in the last three months of 2008, a bigger drop than economists had predicted. Growth contracted by 0.6 percent in the preceding three-month period. The news of the first British recession since 1991 has increased pressure on Prime Minister Gordon Brown to sort out the country's economic problems.

A second bank rescue package announced last week failed to arrest a fall in share prices as investors fear a collapse in the country's banking system similar to that in Iceland. Announcing an interim economic report last week, the EU's economy commissioner, Joaquin Almunia, said he considered Britain's financial sector to be one of the most exposed to the credit shortage.Separately, record numbers of world leaders and business executives are to meet this week in the Swiss town of Davos where the World Economic Forum will start on Wednesday. The crisis will undoubtedly be the main topic of discussion.The optimistic title for this year's event is Shaping a post-crisis world.

WORLD BANK - CLIMATE CHANGE
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What the World Bank is Doing JAN 26,2009

The World Bank Group created a new $1.2 billion rapid financing facility—the Global Food Response Program (GFRP)—in May 2008 to speed assistance to the neediest countries. GFRP has disbursed $494.4 million out of $866 million in 30 countries as of January 22, 2009 . An additional $ 292 million is being earmarked for programs in nine countries.GFRP is disbursing funds to Afghanistan ($8 million), Bangladesh ($130 million), Benin ($9 million), Burundi ($10 million), Central African Republic ($7 million), Djibouti ($5 million), Ethiopia ($275 million), Guinea ($10 million), Guinea-Bissau ($5 million), Haiti ($10 million), Honduras ($10 million), Kyrgyz ($10 million), Laos ($3 million), Liberia ($10 million), Madagascar ($10 million, $12 million), Mali ($5 million), Moldova ($7 million), Mozambique ($20 million), Nicaragua ($7 million), Nepal ($36 million), Niger ($7 million), Philippines ($200 million), Rwanda ($10 million), Sierra Leone ($7 million), Somalia ($7 million), Southern Sudan ($5 million), Tajikistan ($9 million), Togo ($7 million), Yemen ($10 million), and West Bank and Gaza ($5 million). The money is used to feed poor children and other vulnerable groups, provide for nutritional supplements to pregnant women, lactating mothers, infants and small children, to meet additional expenses of food imports or to buy seeds for the new season.GFRP is part of the World Bank Group's New Deal on Global Food Policy has been endorsed by 150 countries. The New Deal embraces short, medium and long-term responses, including safety nets such as school feeding, food for work, and conditional cash transfers; increased agricultural production; a better understanding of the impact of biofuels; and action on the trade front to reduce distorting subsidies and trade barriers.

Volatile food crisis hurts poor most: World Bank
Agence France-Presse | 01/26/2009 9:27 AM

WASHINGTON - On the eve of a UN-sponsored summit in Spain on the global food crisis, the World Bank said Sunday that millions around the world continue to suffer from volatility in food prices.Representatives from 95 countries gather in Spain Monday for a two-day follow-up meeting to the UN-sponsored summit held last year in Rome to tackle the global food crisis.The international community needs to increase efforts to help the poor of the world, World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said in a statement.Food prices are now volatile and that factor, combined with the impact of the financial crisis, only serves to heighten the challenges confronting the developing world, Okonjo-Iweala said.Bank economists expect high price volatility to continue and it will hit the poorest the most, as they spend half their income on food, she said.More needs to be done as we must ensure those who are vulnerable get the assistance they need.Okonjo-Iweala is leading the World Bank's delegation to the meeting in Madrid.Member states of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization agreed at the summit in Rome to reduce the number of people who live in hunger by 2015, but this goal is accompanied by limited financial donations.Over the past seven months, the Bank, through its Global Food Crisis Response Program, reached over 13 million people directly through food distribution systems, cash for work initiatives, and seed and fertilizer distribution to small holder farmers, the statement read.

The Bank said that it was disturbing that poor countries, especially in Africa, did not have matching drops in their food prices. They gave as an example maize prices dropping 32 percent over the past quarter, but dropping only by one percent in Mombasa, Kenya.UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero will preside over the closure of the Madrid conference, which is expected to end with a statement outlining specific measures to be adopted to fight hunger around the world.The World Bank worked with UN agencies to help the world's neediest when food prices soared in 2008, the statement said.

France keen for EU mission to Guantanamo
VALENTINA POP Today JAN 26,09 @ 09:23 CET

France is pushing for an EU fact-finding mission to Guantanamo Bay and for the bloc to take in 60 inmates after the camp closes, with EU foreign ministers to discuss the issue on Monday (26 January).EU justice commissioner Jacques Barrot and anti-terrorism chief Gilles de Kerckhove are to lead the fact-finding trip to the Cuban prison which is to be shut down within a year following the decision by new US President Barack Obama, diplomats told Financial Times Deutschland.The proposal is just one of many floated by France, which chaired the rotating EU presidency until 1 January before the Czech Republic took over. France is also pushing for a centralised, EU-level check on the prisoners' background.The 60 inmates in question will not face criminal charges in the US, but cannot be returned to their home countries in the Middle East and China because they risk torture and ill treatment.

The Czech EU presidency is suggesting a more limited response, under which every EU country is to decide on its own if it wants to take prisoners. Some EU co-ordination would still be required, as most EU countries are part of the Schengen border-free travel area.Portugal, France, and Switzerland have already said they might take inmates on a case-by-case basis, while Italy is open to the idea but wants a common EU position.A total of eight EU member states have thus far offered to take Guantanamo prisoners: Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK.Austria is against taking any prisoners. The conservatives in Germany's ruling coalition are also opposed. Finland has said it is open to taking people, but its parliament is split on the issue.

TORAH PORTION FROM JAN 25 - 31 2009

SINCE WHAT ISRAEL READS WILL BE FULFILLED IN THAT WEEK I WILL BE PUTTING THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTION ON FOR ALL OF US TO KEEP TRACK OF ISRAEL HAPPENINGS.

TORAH PORTION FROM JAN 25 2009 6PM - JAN 31 6PM 2009

EXODUS 10:1 - 13:16
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him:
2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.
3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:
6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve the LORD your God: but who are they that shall go?
9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.
10 And he said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.
11 Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.
13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.
18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.
21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you.
25 And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.
26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.
27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.
28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in that day thou seest my face thou shalt die.
29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face again no more.

EXODUS 11:1-10
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.
2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.
3 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.
4 And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:
5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.
7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.
9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

EXODUS 12:1-51
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
42 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

EXODUS 13:1-16
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
4 This day came ye out in the month Abib.
5 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.
8 And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.
9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.
10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.
11 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,
12 That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD'S.
13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.
14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.

PROPHETS PORTION

JEREMIAH 46:13-28
13 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.
14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.
15 Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.
16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
18 As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:
26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.
27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

NEW TESTAMENT PORTION

LUKE 2:22-24
22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
23 (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
24 And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.

JOHN 19:31-37
31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
35 And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

ACTS 13:16-17
16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
17 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.

REVELATION 8:6-9:12
6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels,which are yet to sound!

REVELATION 9:1-12
1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

REVELATION 16:1-12
1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.