EVENTS IN TIME (BIBLE PROPHECY LITERALLY FULFILLED)(BY GOD)

I WRITE NEWS ABOUT AND PUT NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM PERTAINING TO BIBLE PROPHESY HAPPENINGS.JOEL 3:20 But Judah (ISRAEL) shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.(THATS ISRAEL-JERUSALEM WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED AGAIN)-WE CHRISTIANS ARE ALL WAITING PATIENTLY FOR THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE TO OCCUR.SO WE CAN GO TO JESUS AND GET OUR NEVER DYING BODIES.SO WE CAN RULE OVER CITIES OURSELVES.WHILE JESUS RULES FROM DAVIDS THRONE FOREVER IN JERUSALEM.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

STOCK RESULTS JAN 13,2010

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/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/site/14081545/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED JAN 13,2010

09:30 AM +0.83
10:00 AM +24.34
10:30 AM -7.40
11:00 AM +6.73
11:30 AM +26.68
12:00 PM +32.80
12:30 PM +44.06
01:00 PM +46.10
01:30 PM +44.82
02:00 PM +34.69
02:30 PM +40.21
03:00 PM +58.80
03:30 PM +60.46
04:00 PM +53.51 10,680.77

S&P 500 1145.68 +9.46

NASDAQ 2307.90 +25.59

GOLD 1,138.20 +8.80

OIL 79.76 -1.01

TSE 300 11,853.60 +33.40

CDNX 1592.66 +15.49

S&P/TSX/60 694.71 +1.23

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +40 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -14 points at low today.
Dow +81 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,132.30.OIL opens at $80.20 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -14 points at low today so far.
Dow +81 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -14 points at low today.
Dow +81 points at high today.

CRUDE OIL +3.7 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE +3.8 MILLION BARRELS
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES +1.4 MILLION BARRELS
REFINERY UTILIZATION +1.4% TO 81.3%

GEORGE HUNT ON NWO OCCULTNESS
http://www.infowars.com/the-inner-workings-of-a-one-world-new-age-government-alex-interviews-george-hunt/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRDVwQL-mzg&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=309pwMqh7hA&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXozg2ioWdw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQWpe-U-aek&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAELZwYKxJY&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGmMm5Ej23M&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ53cNw5K5E&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmQt40GMY_w&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuGNJF4FSyU&feature=player_embedded

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

EARTHQUAKES

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

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

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

100,000 PEOPLE MAY BE DEAD IN THIS DEVASTATING QUAKE.

ESTIMATES FROM QUAKE AREA PLUS AFTERSCHOCKS

# OF DEAD
1 - 10,000 GOOD CHANCE OF DEATH FROM THIS QUAKE.
10,000 - 100,000 REASONABLE CHANCE OF DEATH FROM THIS QUAKE.

THE QUAKE OCURRED ON JAN 12,10. JAN (1)GOD,(12)(3)TRINITY,IN CONTROL OF WORLD EVENTS 2010(3),INTERESTING THE 3 ADD UP TO 7(COMPLETION).SAD BUT NOTHING CAN HAPPEN WITHOUT GOD LETTING IT HAPPEN.

Timeline of Haiti's natural disasters By The Associated Press – JAN 13,10

Some of the worst natural disasters to batter Haiti:

- 1770: Strong earthquake devastates Port-au-Prince in then French colony.

- 1842: Earthquake destroys Cap-Haitien and other cities in northern Haiti and Dominican Republic.

- 1935: Unnamed storm kills more than 2,000 in Haiti before moving on to Florida as hurricane, where 400 die.

- 1946: Magnitude-8.1 quake strikes Dominican Republic and Haiti, causing tsunami that kills 1,790 people.

- 1954: Hurricane Hazel kills hundreds in Haiti.

- 1963: Hurricane Flora leaves more than 6,000 dead in Haiti and Cuba.

- 1994: Hurricane Gordon blamed for hundreds of deaths in Haiti.

- 1998: Hurricane Georges destroys 80 percent of Haiti's crops while killing more than 400.

- May 2004: Three days of heavy rains cause floods that kill more than 2,600.

- September 2004: Tropical Storm Jeanne causes flooding and landslides that kill 1,900 and leave 200,000 homeless in Gonaives, Haiti's third-largest city.

- October 2007: Tropical Storm Noel triggers mudslides and floods, killing at least 57 Haitians.

- August and September 2008: Three hurricanes and tropical storm kill some 800 in Haiti, devastate crops and cause $1 billion in damage.

- Jan. 12, 2010: Magnitude-7.0 quake levels buildings in Port-Au-Prince, raising fears of tens of thousands of deaths.Sources: Associated Press archives, U.S. Geological Survey.

Panic, looting and triage after major Haiti quake By JONATHAN M. KATZ, Associated Press Writer – 6:45PM JAN 13,10

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The tiny bodies of children lay in piles next to the ruins of their collapsed school. People with faces covered by white dust and the blood of open wounds roamed the streets. Frantic doctors wrapped heads and stitched up sliced limbs in a hotel parking lot.The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, still struggling to recover from the relentless strikes of four catastrophic storms in 2008, was a picture of heartbreaking devastation Wednesday after a magnitude-7 earthquake.Tuesday's quake left a landscape of collapsed buildings — hospitals, schools, churches, ramshackle homes, even the gleaming national palace — the rubble sending up a white cloud that shrouded the entire capital.On Wednesday, ambulances weaved in and out of crowds, swerving to miss the bodies lying in street and the men on foot who lugged stretchers bearing some of the injured.Shocked survivors wandered about in a daze, some wailing the names of loved ones, praying or calling for help. Others with injuries fast growing into infections sat by the roadside, waiting for doctors who were not sure to come.Search-and-rescue helicopters buzzed over the bodies of partially clothed victims who lay face-down in mounds of rubble and twisted steel.

Everywhere, there was panic, urgency, pleas for help.Thousands of people poured out into the streets, crying, carrying bloody bodies, looking for anyone who could help them, Bob Poff, divisional director of disaster services in Haiti for the Salvation Army, said in a posting on the agency's Web site.Poff wrote that he was driving down the mountain from Petionville, a hillside city bordering the capital, when the earthquake struck.Our truck was being tossed to and fro like a toy, and when it stopped, I looked out the windows to see buildings pancaking down, he wrote.Poff said he and others piled bodies into the back of his truck and took them down the hill, hoping to get them medical attention.There was no reliable count, but officials feared thousands, maybe tens of thousands, had died in the quake. Some Haitian leaders suggested the figure could be higher than 100,000. In the chaos, doctors rushed to tend to the countless injured.The parking lot of Port-au-Prince's Hotel Villa Creole became a triage center. Under tents fashioned from bloody sheets, dozens lay moaning from the pain of cuts in their heads, broken bones and crushed ribs.I can't take it any more. My back hurts too much, said Alex Georges, 28, who had lain on the parking lot's sloping blacktop for more than a day waiting for help. Just a few feet away lay the dead body of another man who appeared to be about his age.

When the quake struck just before 5 p.m. Tuesday, Georges he was in a meeting with about 30 other students at a school in the neighborhood of Morne Hercule. The roof fell in, he said, killing 11 of his classmates instantly and critically injuring him and others.Several thousand Haitian police and international peacekeepers poured into the streets Wednesday to clear debris, direct traffic and maintain security. But there was only so much they could do: Looters prowled through shops, then blended into crowds of desperate refugees lugging salvaged possessions. The main prison in the capital fell, and there were reports of escaped inmates, U.N. humanitarian spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said in Geneva.Haitians who could still walk were streaming out of the capital by the hundreds, many of them balancing suitcases and other belongings on their heads as they headed down one of the capital's main streets. Police shouted orders to keep traffic moving at congested intersections as ambulances and United Nations trucks raced toward downtown Port-au-Prince.In Petionville, people used sledgehammers and their bare hands to excavate a collapsed commercial center, scampering across the rubble as they tossed aside mattresses and office supplies. More than a dozen cars and a U.N. truck were buried underneath. Up the hill, about 200 victims, including many small children, huddled together in a theater parking lot and rigged tarps out of bed sheets to protect themselves from the scorching sun. The immediate need is to rescue people trapped in the rubble, then to get people food and water, Sophie Perez, Haiti director of the U.S.-based humanitarian organization CARE, told her colleagues in an e-mail. Everything is urgent.

Thousands feared dead after powerful Haiti quake By JONATHAN M. KATZ, Associated Press Writer – 3:30PM WED JAN 13,10

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after a powerful earthquake flattened the president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods. Officials feared thousands — perhaps more than 100,000 — may have perished but there was no firm count.Death was everywhere in Port-au-Prince. Bodies of tiny children were piled next to schools. Corpses of women lay on the street with stunned expressions frozen on their faces as flies began to gather. Bodies of men were covered with plastic tarps or cotton sheets.President Rene Preval said he believes thousands were killed in Tuesday afternoon's magnitude-7.0 quake, and the scope of the destruction prompted other officials to give even higher estimates. Leading Sen. Youri Latortue told The Associated Press that 500,000 could be dead, although he acknowledged that nobody really knows.Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed, Preval told the Miami Herald.There are a lot of schools that have a lot of dead people in them.Even the main prison in the capital fell down, and there are reports of escaped inmates, U.N. humanitarian spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said in Geneva.The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission was missing and the Roman Catholic archbishop of Port-au-Prince was dead.The cathedral, the archbishop's office, all the big churches, the seminaries have been reduced to rubble, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the apostolic envoy to Haiti, told the Vatican news agency FIDES.The parking lot of the Hotel Villa Creole was a triage center. People sat with injuries and growing infections by the side of rubble-strewn roads, hoping that doctors and aid would come.The international Red Cross said a third of Haiti's 9 million people may need emergency aid and that it would take a day or two for a clear picture of the damage to emerge.At first light Wednesday, a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter evacuated four critically injured U.S. Embassy staff to the hospital on the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the military has been detaining suspected terrorists.President Barack Obama promised an all-out rescue and humanitarian effort, adding that the U.S. commitment to its hemispheric neighbor will be unwavering.

We have to be there for them in their hour of need, Obama said.A small contingent of U.S. ground troops could be on their way soon, although it was unclear whether they would be used for security operations or humanitarian efforts. Gen. Douglas Fraser, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, said roughly 2,000 Marines as part of an expeditionary unit might be deployed aboard a large-deck amphibious ship. Fraser said the ship could provide medical help.Other nations — from Iceland to Venezuela — said they would start sending in aid workers and rescue teams. Cuba said its existing field hospitals in Haiti had already treated hundreds of victims. The United Nations said Port-au-Prince's main airport was fully operational and open to relief flights.The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson, is under way and expected to arrive off the coast of Haiti Thursday. Additional U.S. Navy ships are under way to Haiti, a statement from the Southern Command said.Aftershocks continued to rattle the capital of 2 million people as women covered in dust clawed out of debris, wailing. Stunned people wandered the streets holding hands. Thousands gathered in public squares to sing hymns.U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes said it was possible that the death toll will be in the thousands.Initial reports suggest a high number of casualties and, of course, widespread damage but I don't have any figure that I can give you with any reliability of what the number of casualties will be, Holmes said. People pulled bodies from collapsed homes, covering them with sheets by the side of the road. Passers-by lifted the sheets to see if loved ones were underneath. Outside a crumbled building, the bodies of five children and three adults lay in a pile. The prominent died along with the poor: the body of Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot, 63, was found in the ruins of his office, said the Rev. Pierre Le Beller of the Saint Jacques Missionary Center in Landivisiau, France. He told The Associated Press by telephone that fellow missionaries in Haiti had told him they found Miot's body. Preval told the Herald that Haiti's Senate president was among those trapped alive inside the Parliament building. Much of the National Palace pancaked on itself. The international Red Cross and other aid groups announced plans for major relief operations in the Western Hemisphere's poorest country. Many will have to help their own staff as well as stricken Haitians. Taiwan said its embassy was destroyed and the ambassador hospitalized. Spain said its embassy was badly damaged and France said its embassy also suffered damage. Tens of thousands of people lost their homes as buildings that were flimsy and dangerous even under normal conditions collapsed. Nobody offered an estimate of the dead, but the numbers were clearly enormous.

The hospitals cannot handle all these victims, said Dr. Louis-Gerard Gilles. Medical experts say disasters such as an earthquake generally do not lead to new outbreaks of infectious diseases, but they do tend to worsen existing health problems. Haiti's quake refugees likely will face an increased risk of dengue fever, malaria and measles — problems that plagued the impoverished country before, said Kimberley Shoaf, associate director of the UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters. Some of the biggest immediate health threats include respiratory disease from inhaling dust from collapsed buildings and diarrhea from drinking contaminated water. With hospitals and clinics severely damaged, Haiti will also face risks of secondary infections. People seeking medical attention for broken bones and other injuries may not be able to get the help they need and may develop complications. Dead bodies piled on the streets typically don't pose a public health risk. But for a country wracked by violence, seeing the dead will exact a psychological toll. An American aid worker was trapped for about 10 hours under the rubble of her mission house before she was rescued by her husband, who told CBS' Early Show that he drove 100 miles (160 kilometers) to Port-au-Prince to find her. Frank Thorp said he dug for more than an hour to free his wife, Jillian, and a co-worker, from under about a foot of concrete. An estimated 40,000-45,000 Americans live in Haiti, and the U.S. Embassy had no confirmed reports of deaths among its citizens. All but one American employed by the embassy have been accounted for, State Department officials said.

Even relatively wealthy neighborhoods were devastated.

An AP videographer saw a wrecked hospital where people screamed for help in Petionville, a hillside district that is home to many diplomats and wealthy Haitians as well as the poor. At a destroyed four-story apartment building, a girl of about 16 stood atop a car, trying to see inside while several men pulled at a foot sticking from rubble. She said her family was inside. A school near here collapsed totally, Petionville resident Ken Michel said after surveying the damage. We don't know if there were any children inside. He said many seemingly sturdy homes nearby were split apart. The U.N.'s 9,000 peacekeepers in Haiti, many of whom are from Brazil, were distracted from aid efforts by their own tragedy: Many spent the night hunting for survivors in the ruins of their headquarters. It would appear that everyone who was in the building, including my friend Hedi Annabi, the United Nations' secretary-general's special envoy, and everyone with him and around him, are dead, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on RTL radio. But U.N. peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy would not confirm that Annabi was dead, saying he was among more than 100 people missing in its wrecked headquarters. He said only about 10 people had been pulled out, many of them badly injured. Fewer than five bodies had been removed, he said. U.N. peacekeeping forces in Port-au-Prince are securing the airport, the port, main buildings and patrolling the streets, Le Roy said. Brazil's army said at least 11 of its peacekeepers were killed, while Jordan's official news agency said three of its peacekeepers were killed. A state newspaper in China said eight Chinese peacekeepers were known dead and 10 were missing — though officials later said the information was not confirmed. The quake struck at 4:53 p.m., and was centered 10 miles (15 kilometers) west of Port-au-Prince at a depth of only 5 miles (8 kilometers), the U.S. Geological Survey said. USGS geophysicist Kristin Marano called it the strongest earthquake since 1770 in what is now Haiti. Video obtained by the AP showed a huge dust cloud rising over Port-au-Prince shortly after the quake as buildings collapsed.

Most Haitians are desperately poor, and after years of political instability the country has no real construction standards. In November 2008, following the collapse of a school in Petionville, the mayor of Port-au-Prince estimated about 60 percent of buildings were shoddily built and unsafe normally. The quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, and in eastern Cuba, but no major damage was reported in either place. With electricity out in many places and phone service erratic, it was nearly impossible for Haitian or foreign officials to get full details of the devastation. Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken, said Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official in Port-au-Prince.The sky is just gray with dust.Edwidge Danticat, an award-winning Haitian-American author was unable to contact relatives in Haiti. She sat with family and friends at her home in Miami, looking for news on the Internet and watching TV news reports. You want to go there, but you just have to wait, she said. Life is already so fragile in Haiti, and to have this on such a massive scale, it's unimaginable how the country will be able to recover from this. Associated Press contributors to this story: videographer Pierre Richard Luxama in Port-au-Prince; and writers David Koop and Olga R. Rodriguez in Mexico City; David McFadden and Danica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Matthew Lee and Julie Pace in Washington; Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations; Tamara Lush in Tampa, Fla.; and Jennifer Kay and Christine Armario in Miami.

Over 100 missing after UN office collapse in Haiti By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer – JAN 13,10

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. says more than 100 people are missing in the rubble of the collapsed U.N. headquarters building in Haiti, including the mission chief, and nearly 40 other U.N. staff are also unaccounted for in other damaged buildings.U.N. peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy said less than 10 people have been pulled out, and he could confirm less than five deaths.He would not confirm French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner's report that everyone in the U.N. building, including mission head Hedi Annabi, appeared to have died in the earthquake.Le Roy also refused to confirm reports that Brazilian, Jordanian and Chinese peacekeepers were killed, saying the U.N. thinks only a very small number of peacekeepers were killed because their buildings did not collapse.In Port au Prince we have now 3,000 forces. They are there to secure the airport, the port and the main buildings, and patrolling. That is already happening, Le Roy said.Brazil's army said at least 11 Brazilian soldiers were killed, nine injured and seven were missing, and Jordan's official news agency said three of its peacekeepers were killed and 21 were injured.A state newspaper in China said eight Chinese peacekeepers were known dead and 10 were missing — though officials later said the information was not confirmed.The U.N.'s Haitian mission — spread across the country — includes 7,000 peacekeeping troops, 2,000 international police, 490 international civilian staffers, 1,200 local civilian staffers and 200 U.N. volunteers, he said. The force was brought in after a bloody 2004 rebellion following decades of violence and poverty in the nation.

Le Roy said one good piece of news is that an early morning assessment found that the airport is fully operational which means planes carrying desperately needed relief can start arriving quickly.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday's catastrophic earthquake has devastated the capital of the Western hemisphere's poorest country and the death toll may be in the hundreds or even thousands.Initial reconnaissance and aerial assessments have been undertaken,he said. Buildings and infrastructure were heavily damaged throughout the capital. Basic services such as water and electricity have collapsed almost entirely. ... Medical facilities have been inundated with injured.Ban said U.N. troops worked through the night to reach those trapped under the rubble at the U.N. headquarters building and have begun clearing some of the main roads in Port au Prince which will allow assistance and rescuers to reach those in need.The secretary-general urged the international community to come to Haiti's aid in this hour of need and announced that the U.N. would provide $10 million for relief from its emergency fund. A U.N. emergency response team will start arriving in Haiti later Wednesday to coordinate humanitarian relief efforts, the U.N. said.Ban said he has been in urgent contact with the U.S. government and requested logistical support, heavy equipment and trained rescue and assistance teams.The U.N. chief said Annabi was meeting with a Chinese delegation at the time of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake and all are still unaccounted for.The secretary-general said he was sending Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Edmond Mulet, who previously headed the Haiti mission, to Port au Prince as soon as possible to oversee the U.N. rescue operation and help manage the mission.Helen Clark, head of the U.N. Development Program, said the building adjacent to its office collapsed and 38 of its staff members are unaccounted for.Le Roy said the Hotel Montana, the main hotel where some U.N. staff were living, also collapsed. Mulet said the U.N. headquarters building had been constructed in the 1960s with reinforced concrete, and was previously the Christopher Hotel.

OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN

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

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

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

THE NWO DOESNOT HAVE TO POISON US WITH THESE CHEMICALS BEING SPRAYED BECAUSE GOD WILL SEND METEORITES ON THE EARTH TO BLOCK THE SUN SO ISRAEL WILL SURVIVE FOREVER.REMEMBER PEOPLE GOD PROMISED THE MIDEAST TO ISRAEL SO HE WILL FULFILL ALL THE PROMISES AND PROPHECIES IN THE BIBLE TO FULFILL HIS PROMISES TO ISRAEL WHO WILL LIVE ON EARTH FOREVER AND JERUSALEM WILL BE THE WORLD CAPITAL FOREVER.

Geoengineering Conference To Discuss Blocking Sun
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, January 13, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okB-489l6MI&feature=player_embedded

As hundreds of people die worldwide as a result of record low temperatures in the midst of a savage winter, scientists are preparing for a conference in which they will discuss measures to use geoengineering to block out the sun.The summit of climate scientists, to be held in California in March, will examine drastic techniques for slowing climate change that are controversial and have been described as geo-piracy, reports the Telegraph.Most techniques focus on ways of reducing the sun’s rays by blocking them using mirrors orbiting in space or by spraying sulphur compounds into the high atmosphere to reflect sunlight away from earth.Another proposal involves sending spaceships into the upper atmosphere to spray seawater into the sky and reflect sunlight back into space, an idea that would seem more at home in the context of some bizarre alien invasion movie.Most of the talk about these geo-engineering techniques say they should be saved until we get to an emergency situation. Well, the people of the Arctic might say they are in an emergency situation now,said conference organizer Mike MacCracken.In actual fact, a recent expedition to an East Antarctic ice shelf showed no sign of higher temperatures despite fears of a thaw linked to global warming. In addition, Arctic sea ice expanded over an area bigger than the size of Germany during the year of 2008, a 30 per cent increase, after global warming alarmists had claimed that it would be ice-free for the first time ever.With areas all over the planet experiencing record snowfall and plunging temperatures, some scientists are warning that we are now entering into a mini ice age, with 30 years of global cooling predicted.

Governments are already geoengineering the planet in the form of cloud seeding and similar techniques to both cause and prevent rainfall. Many would argue that the upper atmosphere is already being seeded with chemical compounds in the form of chemtrails, which differ from normal contrails emitted by airplanes as they hang in the air for hours and produce criss-cross patterns.A 2008 KSLA news investigation found that a substance that fell to earth from a high altitude chemtrail contained high levels of Barium (6.8 ppm) and Lead (8.2 ppm) as well as trace amounts of other chemicals including arsenic, chromium, cadmium, selenium and silver. Of these, all but one are metals, some are toxic while several are rarely or never found in nature. The newscast focuses on Barium, which its research shows is a hallmark of chemtrails. KSLA found Barium levels in its samples at 6.8 ppm or more than six times the toxic level set by the EPA.KSLA also asked Mark Ryan, Director of the Poison Control Center, about the effects of Barium on the human body. Ryan commented that short term exposure can lead to anything from stomach to chest pains and that long term exposure causes blood pressure problems. The Poison Control Center further reported that long-term exposure, as with any harmful substance, would contribute to weakening the immune system, which many speculate is the purpose of such man-made chemical trails.As we have previously highlighted, a prominent supporter of geoengineering proposals is none other than White House science czar John P. Holdren, a key Obama advisor who infamously co-authored a book in which he called for a planetary regime to enforce draconian population control measures such as forced abortion, infanticide and mandatory sterilization.In April last year, Holdren revealed that high-level talks had already taken place to explore the possibility of geoengineering the environment by shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays.It’s got to be looked at, Holdren was quoted as saying,We don’t have the luxury of taking any approach off the table.The AP also reported that Holdren said he had raised the concept in administration discussions.

Letting modern day eugenicists like Holdren mess with the planet would be like handing Dr. Josef Mengele control of the health care system. Holdren has proven himself to be a barbarian and a control freak, promoting a brand of bloodthirsty eugenics even more depraved than anything Hitler proposed in his drive for a super race.Allowing scientists who have been completely exposed as agenda-promoting quacks by the Climategate scandal to experiment with the environment on a mass scale in the name of stopping the increasingly debunked premise of man-made global warming is absolute lunacy and should be stopped at all costs.

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

Google threat a rare show of defiance in China By JOE McDONALD, AP Business Writer – Wed Jan 13, 5:46 am ET

BEIJING – Google's threat to pull out of China over censorship is a rare display of defiance in a system where foreign companies have long accepted intrusive controls to gain access to a huge and growing market.Dismayed by the prospect of a China without Google, visitors left flowers at its Beijing headquarters Wednesday as Web sites buzzed with words of support and appeals to stay.I felt it's a pity and hope it will not withdraw from the Chinese market, said a man who left flowers at the building in the high-tech Haidian district and would give only his surname, Chang. Google played a key role in the growth of our generation. The control (of the Internet) is excessive.In industries from automaking to fast food, companies have been forced to allow communist authorities to influence — and sometimes dictate — their choice of local partners, where to operate and what products to sell.Web companies have endured criticism for cooperating with a communist system that tightly controls information. Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and others have acceded to pressure to block access to politically sensitive material.The Internet is like media, and the media are under tight government control, so that poses additional challenges for foreign Internet companies compared with, say, manufacturers of TV sets, mobile phones or autos, said Edward Yu, president of Analysys International, an Internet research firm in Beijing.Google's decision even to talk publicly was rare in a system where Chinese officials react angrily to criticism. Officials have wide regulatory discretion and companies avoid saying anything that might prompt retaliation.

China's foreign ministry and Ministry of Industry and Information Technology did not respond to requests for comment but the state Xinhua News Agency cited an unidentified official as saying the government was seeking more information from Google. Phone calls to Google spokespeople in Beijing and Hong Kong were not answered.Comments left on Chinese Internet bulletin boards praised Google's stance and appealed to the Mountainview, California-based search giant not to leave.Google is a great soldier of freedom. You don't bend to the devils, said a note on the site Tianya.cn.A posting on http://www.mop.com pleaded, Google please don't go. We can't let you go. Real man, we support you.A photo on a Chinese Web site showed a visitor outside the Google building bowing in a traditional gesture of respect.China's growing consumer market is especially important to many companies at a time when global demand has plunged. The government is forecasting 8.3 percent economic growth for 2009 and China is on track to overtake Japan as the second-largest economy.

China has the world's most-populous Internet market, with 338 million people online as of June, and foreign Internet companies eager for a share of that.But despite risking damage to their reputations by cooperating with the government, they have struggled to make headway against intense competition from Chinese rivals. Yahoo, eBay Inc. and others have given up and turned over control of their China operations to local partners. Google is the last global Internet company to manage its own China arm.Google trails local competitor Baidu Inc. but has gained market share at the expense of smaller competitors. Google had 31.8 percent of search revenues in 2009, versus 60.9 percent for Baidu, according to Analysys.Google created its China-based Google.cn site in 2006, agreeing to censor results by excluding sites to which access was blocked by government filters, popularly known as the Great Firewall of China.Despite that cooperation, Beijing accused Google last year of spreading pornography and access to the site was temporarily blocked. The company's video site, YouTube.com, is unavailable to users in China. Google said Tuesday it would stop censoring search results on Google.cn. That would allow users to find politically sensitive photos and Web sites abroad, though downloading them might still be barred by government filters. It also said it had discovered that computer hackers had tricked human-rights activists into exposing their e-mail accounts to outsiders. On Wednesday, Google.cn said its top search term of the day was Tiananmen, possibly due to Web surfers looking for material on the government's violent crackdown on 1989 pro-democracy protests. The No. 2 search topic was Google leaving China.Google.cn appeared to be still censoring results. A search for the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement returned a message saying the browser could not open the page. A notice on the site says some results were deleted in line with regulations.

Google managers told employees to go home and they did not know whether to come back Thursday, said an employee who spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to talk to reporters. Google is a sought-after employer and has long had its pick of China's brightest university graduates. Ran Yunfei, a magazine editor and blogger in Sichuan province in China's southwest who is known for his liberal views, likened Google's threatened departure to that of a dissident leaving China for freedom. I don't support the departure of all dissidents. Only those obedient to the officials would remain. That would too well suit the taste of the dictatorial regime,Ran wrote on his blog, which is hosted outside China. Associated Press Writers Alexa Olesen, Chi-chi Zhang, Vincent Thian and Charles Hutzler and AP researchers Yu Bing and Bonnie Cao contributed to this report.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

WORST QUAKE IN HAITIS HISTORY OCCURS

EARTHQUAKES

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

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

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

REVELATION 6:12-17
12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

9 OR 10 MILLION OF HAITIS POPULATION HAS FELT THE WORST EVER QUAKE IN HISTORY IN THIS REGION.2 OTHER 5.9 AND 5.5 AFTERSCHOCKS OCURRED ALSO.UPDATES ON THE DEAD LATER.A FOOT TSUNAMI OCURRED BUT THE WARNING HAS BEEN STOPPED.

1.8 MILLION PEOPLE IN HAITI AND AREA WERE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY THE STRONG VIOLENCE FROM THE INITIAL QUAKE AND ITS EFFECTS.DUST FROM THE CONCRETE IN THE AIR WAS CHOCKING PEOPLE.THE MOUNTAINS HAVE FALLEN AS WELL AS MUDSLIDES ONTO THE ROADS AND IS BLOCKING EVACTUATIONS AS WELL AS A LOT OF CUMMUNICATIONS ARE OUT.

7:35PM EST WITNESS:building shook for 35 seconds.The quake was centered 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince.

HAITI HAS 7,000 U.N TROOPS AND 2,000 POLICE TO CONTROL THE SITUATION IF THEY SURVIVED.A WITNESS WAS IN A GOVERNMENT BUILDING WHEN THE QUAKE OCURRED,THERE WERE DEAD BODIES AROUND HER AND BLOOD FROM SOMEONE ACTUALLY WENT ON HER BUT SHE ESCAPED WITH HER LIFE.WE CAN EXPECT THOUSANDS DEAD FROM THIS POOR COUNTRY.

UPDATE AT 6:30AM JAN 13,10 UP TO 3 MILLION PEOPLE IN HAITI HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THE QUAKE.ITS STARTING TO GET DAYLIGHT OVER THERE SO THE DEATH COUNTS WILL SOON BE COMING IN.AT LEAST 20 PLUS AFTERSCHOCKS HAVE OCURRED,THE BIGGEST BEING A 5.9 AND 4 OTHERS WERE IN THE 5 RANGE AND 15 IN THE 4 RANGE.THE QUAKE WAS A STRIKE/SLIP -S-(SURFACE)WAVE,6 MILES DEEP,10 MILES FROM PORT-AU-PRINCE.

Haiti's capital shattered by powerful earthquake By JONATHAN M. KATZ, Associated Press Writer – 6:30AM JAN 13,10

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Dazed and injured Haitians sat on darkened streets pleading for help Wednesday and untold numbers were trapped in tons of rubble brought down by the strongest earthquake to hit this poor Caribbean nation in more than 200 years.
Destroyed communications made it impossible to tell the extent of destruction from Tuesday afternoon's 7.0-magnitude tremor — or to estimate the number of dead lying among thousands of collapsed buildings in Haiti's capital of about 2 million people.
The ornate National Palace crumbled into itself, the headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission collapsed and swaths of rickety shacks lay in shambles. Clouds of dust thrown up by falling buildings choked Port-au-Prince for hours.The United States and other nations began organizing aid efforts, alerting search teams and gathering supplies that will be badly needed in Haiti, the Western Hemisphere's poorest country. The international Red Cross and other aid groups announced plans for major relief operations.Associated Press journalists found the damage staggering even for a country long accustomed to tragedy and disaster.Aftershocks rattled the city as women covered in dust clawed out of debris, wailing. Stunned people wandered the streets holding hands. Thousands gathered in public squares long after nightfall, singing hymns.

It was clear tens of thousands lost their homes and many perished in collapsed buildings flimsy and dangerous even under normal conditions.The hospitals cannot handle all these victims, Dr. Louis-Gerard Gilles, a former senator, said as he helped survivors.Haiti needs to pray. We all need to pray together.An Associated Press videographer saw a wrecked hospital where people screamed for help in Petionville, a hillside Port-au-Prince district that is home to many diplomats and wealthy Haitians as well as the poor.At a destroyed four-story apartment building, a girl of about 16 stood atop a car, trying to peer inside while several men pulled at a foot sticking from rubble. The girl said her family was inside.U.N. peacekeepers, most of whom are from Brazil, looked for survivors in the ruins of what had been their five-story headquarters. U.N. peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy said late Tuesday that as we speak no one has been rescued.Le Roy said many U.N. personnel were missing, including mission chief Hedi Annabi, who was in the building when the quake struck. Some 9,000 peacekeepers have been in Haiti since a 2004 rebellion ousted the president.A state newspaper in China said eight Chinese peacekeepers serving in Haiti were known dead and 10 were missing — though officials later said the information was not confirmed. Jordan's official news agency said three of its peacekeepers were killed and 21 others injured.Much of the National Palace pancaked on itself, but Haiti's ambassador to Mexico, Robert Manuel, said President Rene Preval and his wife survived the earthquake. He had no details.The quake struck at 4:53 p.m., centered just 10 miles (15 kilometers) west of Port-au-Prince at a depth of only 5 miles (8 kilometers), the U.S. Geological Survey said. USGS geophysicist Kristin Marano called it the strongest earthquake since 1770 in what is now Haiti.

The temblor appeared to have occurred along a strike-slip fault, where one side of a vertical fault slips horizontally past the other, said Tom Jordan, a quake expert at the University of Southern California.Most of Haiti's 9 million people are desperately poor, and after years of political instability the country has no real construction standards. In November 2008, following the collapse of a school in Petionville, the mayor of Port-au-Prince estimated about 60 percent of buildings were shoddily built and unsafe in normal circumstances.Tuesday's quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, but no major damage was reported there. In eastern Cuba, houses shook but no significant damage was reported. With electricity knocked out in many places and phone service erratic, it was nearly impossible for Haitian or foreign officials to get full details of the devastation. In Washington, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said that U.S. Embassy personnel were literally in the dark after power failed. They reported structures down. They reported a lot of walls down. They did see a number of bodies in the street and on the sidewalk that had been hit by debris. So clearly, there's going to be serious loss of life in this, he said. The Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut, said at least two Americans working at its Haitian aid mission were believed trapped in rubble. Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken,said Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official visiting Port-au-Prince.The sky is just gray with dust.President Barack Obama offered prayers for the people of Haiti and said the U.S. stood ready to help. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. was offering full assistance — civilian and military — and a national organization of registered nurses called for nurse volunteers to provide care in Haiti. Elizabeth Byrs, a spokeswoman for the U.N.'s humanitarian office, said it was working with independent aid agency Telecoms Sans Frontieres to get phone lines working again — a key element in organizing relief efforts. Venezuela's government said it would send a military plane with canned foods, medicine and drinking water and provide 50 rescue workers. Mexico, which suffered an earthquake in 1985 that killed some 10,000 people, planned to send doctors, search and rescue dogs and infrastructure damage experts. Italy said it was sending a C-130 cargo plane Wednesday with a field hospital and emergency medical personnel as well as a team to assess aid needs. France said 65 clearing specialists, with six sniffer dogs, and two doctors and two nurses were leaving.

Edwidge Danticat, an award-winning Haitian-American author was unable to contact relatives in Haiti. She sat with family and friends at her home in Miami, looking for news on the Internet and watching TV news reports. You want to go there, but you just have to wait, she said.Life is already so fragile in Haiti, and to have this on such a massive scale, it's unimaginable how the country will be able to recover from this.Associated Press videographer Pierre Richard Luxama in Haiti and AP writers David Koop and Olga R. Rodriguez in Mexico City; David McFadden and Danica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Matthew Lee in Washington; Alicia Chang in Los Angeles; Andrea Rodriguez in Havana; Tamara Lush in Tampa, Fla.; and Jennifer Kay and Christine Armario in Miami contributed to this report.

7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Haiti – Tsunami Warning Issued
by Colby Hall | 5:45 pm, January 12th, 2010

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AP reports: The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake has rocked Haiti. The quake at 1:53 p.m. PST was centered about 10 miles from the capital of Port-au-Prince. The Associated Press reported that a hospital has collapsed. A local tsunami watch was issued for that part of the Caribbean, but the warning from the Pacific Tsunami Watch Center said a widespread threat does not exist based on historical earthquake and tsunami data.More news as it develops.

Fears of major catastrophe as 7.0 quake rocks Haiti by Clarence Renois – JAN 12,10 6PM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) – A huge quake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti Tuesday toppling buildings and causing widespread damage and panic, officials and AFP witnesses said.A tsunami alert was immediately issued for the Caribbean region after the earthquake struck at 2153 GMT.An AFP correspondent said the ground shook for more than a minute. Just minutes later two aftershocks measuring both 5.9 and 5.5 on the moment magnitude scale hit, US officials said.I think it's really a catastrophe of major proportions, the country's ambassador to the United States, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN television.The US Geological Survey said the powerful quake was initially measured at 7.3 on the scale and struck 16 kilometers (ten miles) from the capital Port-Au-Prince, and 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Petionville.An AFP correspondent in Petionville said one three-story building, housing two offices, was toppled, and a tractor was already at the scene trying to dig out victims as people fled onto the streets in panic.The up-scale area is home to many foreign diplomats and members of a major United Nations mission to the country.

The temblor struck at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), the USGS said.

A tsunami warning was in place for Haiti, Cuba, the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic, with the first waves predicted to hit Haiti shortly.The ambassador told CNN he was heartbroken as he had just spoken by telephone with a senior presidential aide who described scenes of chaos and devastation.He had to stop his car just about half an hour ago, and take to the streets, start walking, but he said houses were crumbling on the right side of the street and the left side of the street, Joseph said.He does not know whether he would reach his home, not knowing what he would find, because he had a bridge to cross to get there.A US Coast Guard spokeswoman Jennifer Johnson in Florida said they did not have much information yet, saying they had not yet been able to contact their office in Haiti.We haven't taken any measure in the area so far. We don't have any information rather that what we got from the news, she told AFP.We couldn't contact our officer there yet, so we are waiting to have more information in a couple of hours.Already the poorest nation in the Americas, Haiti has been hit by a series of disasters recently and was battered by hurricanes in 2008.The country was also gripped by a tense political standoff in April 2008 amid riots over skyrocketing food prices.Seventy percent of Haiti's population lives on less than two dollars per day and half of its 8.5 million people are unemployed.

According to official figures, food insecurity already affects more than a quarter of Haiti's population, some 1.9 million people, with women and children the worst affected. The Food and Agriculture Organization has designated Haiti as one of the world's most economically vulnerable countries. The WFP serves one meal a day to more than 500,000 Haitian schoolchildren, providing them with what is often their only meal of the day. The organization also feeds 100,000 women who are pregnant or breastfeeding and 50,000 children under the age of five. Since mid-2004, the Brazilian-led MINUSTAH has been keeping the peace in the impoverished Caribbean island nation.

Major quake hits Haiti; many casualties expected By JONATHAN M. KATZ, Associated Press Writer Jonathan M. Katz, Associated Press Writer – 6:28PM JAN 12,10

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The largest earthquake ever recorded in the area shook Haiti on Tuesday, collapsing a hospital where people screamed for help. Other buildings also were damaged and scientists said they expected substantial damage and casualties.With communications disrupted there were no reports of deaths or injuries soon after the quake, as powerful aftershocks shook the country.The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 and was centered about 10 miles (15 kilometers) west of the capital of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It had a depth of 5 miles (8 kilometers). It was the largest quake recorded in the area, said USGS analyst Dale Grant, and the last major one since a magnitude-6.7 temblor in 1984.An Associated Press videographer saw the wrecked hospital in Petionville, a hillside Port-au-Prince district that is home to many diplomats and wealthy Haitians. Elsewhere, a U.S. government official reported seeing houses that had tumbled into a ravine.Haiti's ambassador to the U.S., Raymond Joseph, said from his Washington office that he spoke to President Rene Preval's chief of staff, Fritz Longchamp, just after the quake hit. He said Longchamp told him that buildings were crumbling right and left near the national palace. He said he has not gotten through by phone to Haiti since.Don Blakeman, an analyst at the USGS in Golden, Colorado, said such a strong quake carried the potential for widespread damage.

I think we are going to see substantial damage and casualties, he said.The quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares a border with Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. Some panicked residents in the capital of Santo Domingo fled from their shaking homes.In eastern Cuba, houses shook but no major damage was immediately reported.We felt it very strongly and I would say for a long time. We had time to evacuate,said Monsignor Dionisio Garcia, archbishop of Santiago.In Haiti, the extent of the damage was unclear.Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken, said Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official visiting Haiti. The sky is just gray with dust.

Bahn said he was walking to his hotel room when the ground began to shake.I just held on and bounced across the wall, he said. I just hear a tremendous amount of noise and shouting and screaming in the distance.Bahn said there were rocks strewn about and he saw a ravine where several homes had stood: It's just full of collapsed walls and rubble and barbed wire.The U.S. National Weather Service issued a tsunami watch for Haiti, the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas, but said historically the region has seen few destructive tsunamis.In Washington, State Department spokesman Gordon Duguid said U.S. officials were holding emergency meetings.We need to gather what information we can quickly. We will of course assist in any way we can, he said. Felix Augustin, Haiti's consul general in New York, said he was concerned about everyone in Haiti, including his relatives. Communication is absolutely impossible, he said. I've been trying to call my ministry and I cannot get through. ... It's mind-boggling.Associated Press writers David Koop in Mexico City, Matthew Lee in Washington and Andrea Rodriguez in Havana contributed to this report.

STOCK RESULTS JAN 12,2010

SARAH SKIPS CPAC - GOES TEA PARTY ROOT

MADISON ON GEITHNER - BANK ROBBERS - NWO
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Obama Expands Federal Power Over the States with Executive Order
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com January 12, 2010
http://www.infowars.com/obama-expands-federal-power-over-the-states-with-executive-order/

Contrary to his election campaign promises, Obama has issued dozens of signing statements.Obama has issued another executive order, this time establishing a so-called Council of Governors.The order, signed on January 11, further diminishes the sovereignty of the states and builds on a framework for possible martial law. The executive order was completely ignored by the corporate media.By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1822 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-181), and in order to strengthen further the partnership between the Federal Government and State governments to protect our Nation and its people and property, the order reads.The Council shall meet at the call of the Secretary of Defense or the Co-Chairs of the Council to exchange views, information, or advice with the Secretary of Defense; the Secretary of Homeland Security; the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism; the Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement; the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas’ Security Affairs; the Commander, United States Northern Command; the Chief, National Guard Bureau; the Commandant of the Coast Guard; and other appropriate officials of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, and appropriate officials of other executive departments or agencies as may be designated by the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of Homeland Security.In other words, the Pentagon and Homeland Security will give hand-picked governors their marching orders under the guise of synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities in the United States,a direct violation of Posse Comitatus.

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Obama’s TSA Nominee Targets Anti-Government Christians
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, January 12, 2010

President Obama’s nominee to head the TSA and boss the naked body scanners now being installed at airports across the country says that white Christian anti-government types will be the primary target of suspicion for authorities.Former FBI agent Erroll Southers has been under scrutiny following Republican efforts to block his confirmation after it emerged Southers had abused his power to run a database check on his ex-wife’s new boyfriend.Back in October, Southers told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, both of whom voted on his confirmation, that he carried out the search because he was concerned for his wife and son. However, after the committees had approved him, Southers admitted that he had lied under oath by failing to reveal that he had personally conducted the search and had done so on more than one occasion, as well as sharing the information with the police (so they could harass the target of the search, according to the Ace of Spades blog).Given that the potential future head of the TSA has abused his power in the past and then lied about it to Congress while under oath, how can we have any confidence that he will change the climate of corruption and thuggishness that pervades the TSA, as stories of innocent people being terrorized and harassed continue to appear on an almost daily basis?

In a video interview posted to You Tube yesterday, Southers states the the government and the TSA has to pay attention not to Muslim terrorists but to anti-government, anti-abortion, survivalist types who are christian identity oriented, before he links such individuals with neo-nazi white supremacists and people like Buford Furrow, a former Aryan Nations member who killed one and injured three during a shooting at the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center in August 1999.Southers subsequently throws in Ben Smith, a spree killer who targeted members of racial and ethnic minorities in random drive-by shootings in Illinois and Indiana in July 1999.

Those groups are groups that claim to be extremely anti-government and christian identity oriented, added Southers.As we have exhaustively documented for years, even if there were hordes of Muslim terrorists planning to bomb airliners, the federal government is far more concerned with what politically active conservative and libertarian Americans are up to.An infamous leaked report distributed by the Missouri Information Analysis Center last year listed Ron Paul supporters, libertarians, people who display bumper stickers, people who own gold, or even people who fly a U.S. flag and equated them with radical race hate groups and terrorists.The 2009 Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment, produced by the Virginia Fusion Center, smeared anyone who is anti-government,anti-abortion, as potential terrorists, equated people who enjoy rifle shooting practice and hunting with terrorists, and demonized the use of the Internet and websites like You Tube, Fark and Slashdot as terrorist tools. The use of e-protests is also talked about in the context of terrorism.The document also discusses special interest groups who incorporate a political message in its section about domestic terrorists, which could be defined as any mildly political organization whatsoever.

These are just two of a plethora of similar police and federal government reports stretching back well over a decade that identify politically active Americans as domestic terrorists and a target of domestic authorities.Unless Southers’ ambitions to head up the TSA are stopped, incidents of TSA thugs harassing libertarians and conservatives at airports, such as the case where a Ron Paul treasurer was interrogated for carrying cash and campaign information, will only become more prevalent.

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H1N1-GATE: Big Pharma, WHO crafted organized panic, European health head claims
- Investigation to follow Council of Europe Health Committee Chairman’s accusations that WHO officials re-defined pandemics to deliberately create demand for the ’swine flu’ vaccine in spite of insufficient testing on its safety or effectiveness
Aaron Dykes Infowars.com January 11, 2010

Wolfgang Wodarg, Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Health Committee. Drug firms collaborated with WHO officials to deliberately create a campaign of panic and a false disaster over swine flu pandemic fears when one was not evident, top European health official Wolfgang Wodarg has indicated.Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, claims that the threshold for alert was deliberately lowered at the WHO, allowing a pandemic to be declared despite the mildness of the swine flu.That designation would force a demand for the vaccine, which was subsequently purchased by governments or health facilities and pushed on the public through a full-scale fear campaign in the media.

Wodarg told Al Jazeera that:The WHO in collaboration with some big pharmaceutical companies and their scientists, re-defined pandemics and lowered the alarm-threshold. Those new standards forced politicians in most states to react immediately and sign marketing commitments for additional and new vaccines against swine-flu and spend billions of dollars to catch up.Never before the search for traces of a virus was carried out so broadly and intensively, besides, many cases of death that happen to coincide with seropositive H1N1 lab-findings were simply attributed to swine-flu and used to foster fear.Wodarg is focusing on the motives for profit, as well as the ties between the World Health Organization (WHO), the pharmaceutical-industrial complex and research scientists, a nexus which Canada Free Press points out is eerily similar to the Climategate revelations that CRU research scientists fudged data to hide the decline in proxy temperatures in order to support global warming claims. Wodarg stated: A group of people in the WHO is associated very closely with the pharmaceutical industry.The great campaign of panic we have seen provided a golden opportunity for representatives from labs who knew they would hit the jackpot in the case of a pandemic being declared.Now, Wodarg has been backed by members in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) who voted unanimously on his resolution to investigate the matter. An emergency debate has been scheduled to begin later this month.

The Council’s resolution states: In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies have influenced scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards, to alarm governments worldwide. They have made them squander tight healthcare resources for inefficient vaccine strategies and needlessly exposed millions of healthy people to the risk of unknown side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines.Wodarg also raised concerns about the safety of swine flu vaccines in an interview with France’s L’Humanite. He highlighted the intentional deception, which subjected innocent people to an experimental and untested formula.The vaccines were developed too quickly. Some ingredients were insufficiently tested, he said.But there is worse to come. The vaccine developed by Novartis was produced in a bioreactor from cancerous cells, a technique that had never been used until now.In April when the first alarm came from Mexico I was very surprised at the figures furnished by the World Health Organization (WHO) to justify the declaration of a pandemic. I was immediately suspicious: the numbers were very low and the alarm level very high. There were not even into a thousand patients when there was already talk of the pandemic of the century.In reality there was no reason to sound the alarm at this level. This was only possible because in early May the WHO changed its definition of a pandemic. Before that date there had to be not only a disease which had broke out in several countries at once but also one that had very serious consequences with the number of deaths above the usual average. This aspect was removed from the new definition, to retain the rate of spread of disease as the only criteria.Among the things that aroused my suspicions there was therefore on one side this determination to sound the alarm. And on the other side, some curious facts. Such as, for example, the recommendation by WHO to carry out two injections for vaccines. That had never been done before. There was no scientific justification for this. There was also the recommendation to use only special patented vaccines… that major laboratories had designed and manufactured to be ready in case of a pandemic developing. And by proceeding in this way they did not hesitate to endanger the persons vaccinated.

Wodarg emphasized the need to find the source of corruption and restore trustworthiness on the part of health authorities in nations across the world, most of which helped to fan the flames of panic while neglecting the need for safety among the public it is meant to protect: We want to clarify everything that brought about this massive operation of disinformation. We want to know who made decisions, on the basis of what evidence, and precisely how the influence of the pharmaceutical industry came to bear on the decision-making.Dr. Wodarg suggested that,The Council of Europe and its member-states should ask for immediate investigations and consequences, on their national levels, as well as on the international level.We must make sure people can rely on the analysis and the expertise of national and international public institutions. The latter are now discredited, because millions of people have been vaccinated with products with inherent possible health risks.

Infowars.com and many other alternative news sites have warned since day one that the swine flu scare was hoax. Though media outlets across the country bombarded the airwaves with scary stories meant to sell the public on another inoculation, far fewer deaths have been caused by the virus than by the seasonal flu.Wodarg likewise points out this fact: It’s just a normal kind of flu. It does not cause a tenth of deaths caused by the classic seasonal flu.Many people refused to take the vaccine and governments in the U.S. and U.K. now have stockpiles of unused shots.

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EU's new top diplomat remains cool under fire-Ms Ashton: The EU parliament grilling went on for a solid three hours (Photo: ec.europa.eu)ANDREW RETTMAN 11.01.2010 @ 17:37 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU's new foreign relations chief, Catherine Ashton, was tough on Iran but cautious on Israel and Russia in a lively hearing with MEPs on Monday (11 January).

The three-hour-long event at the European Parliament in Brussels began a series of 26hearings with commission nominees that is to culminate in a plenary vote later this month on the new EU executive as a whole.Around 60 deputies fired questions at Ms Ashton in a meeting marked by intense media attention, heckling on nuclear disarmament and applause for Ms Ashton's promises to work closely with parliament in future. The questions ranged from the big foreign policy topics of the day to the niceties of EU institutional infighting and brain teasers designed to test her knowledge on details such as funding for EU projects in Afghanistan.Ms Ashton highlighted Iran, Israel, Russia, the EU mission in Afghanistan, nation-building in Bosnia and support for human rights abroad as priorities.She hinted she would back further sanctions against Iran if the country continues to ignore international calls to open its nuclear programme to scrutiny.If we don't have the rules kept to, then we have to take action in some form, she said.She reiterated her support for a two-state solution on Israel and Palestine. But she did not criticise Israel's occupation of the West Bank, as in her previous speech to MEPs, and underlined the importance of Israeli security alongside Palestinian rights.On the question of whether Russia uses gas and oil exports to bully neighbouring states, Ms Ashton said she intends to put pressure on Russia to make sure they see these issues in an economic way not a political one.But the EU's top diplomat also said the bloc must have a strategic relationship with Russia, while pointing to an upcoming meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow as an opportunity to start off on a new footing. With a large chunk of MEPs' queries devoted to how Ms Ashton will work with parliament and the EU commission in future, Ms Ashton drew a line in the sand about her independence.

Happy to disappoint

She declined MEPs' requests to submit her senior officials to job interview-type hearings in parliament and envisaged the new EU diplomatic service as a unique institution separate from the EU commission, giving parliament less power over its budget.Occasionally, I will have to disappoint the parliament, she said.I don't want this [her internal appointments] to become a long, protracted process.In a glimpse into how she sees the new body ahead of her formal proposal on its structure to EU states in April, Ms Ashton said she will take care of foreign policy strategy while three commissioners - on aid, development and enlargement-neighbourhood policy - will implement projects on the ground.She added that her proposal may include a special training centre for EU diplomats in order to foster her new institution's own culture.This is a unique body and we will need to have training for our diplomats so that they recognise it is a different service to the one they came from, Ms Ashton said. The commissioner designate failed to answer some of the deputies' brain teasers, such as how much the EU spends yearly on its mission in Afghanistan. She also appeared poorly-informed on the UN security council and on Russia's arrest of one of the laureates of the EU's 2009 human rights award, the Sakharov prize. She showed a command of detail in other areas however, such as the date of the next meeting of the Geneva group on the Georgia conflict and the date of the second round of Ukrainian presidential elections.

Cool under fire

The liveliest part of the hearing saw British Conservative MEPs attack Ms Ashton, who hails from the British centre-left, for her past as an activist in the anti-nuclear pressure group, CND, with one member calling for her to apologise to former Communist states for her bad judgment. Amid bays and heckles reminiscent of the more rowdy lower chamber in London, Ms Ashton smiled and kept her cool. I have never hidden what I did and I am not ashamed of it, she said.When I was a young person I marched because I believed we should get rid of nuclear weapons. You can disagree with how I did it but not with why I did it.

Rehn talks tough on public deficits
ANDREW WILLIS Today JAN 12,10 @ 09:28 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU commissioner-designate for economic and monetary affairs, Olli Rehn, successfully batted off questions from MEPs on Monday evening (11 January), with debate on public finances and the EU's new economic strategy making up much of the exchange. A packed audience attended the session in front of deputies from the European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee, although a downbeat atmosphere prevailed, in part as a result of Mr Rehn's apparent comfort in the portfolio and his phlegmatic speaking style. I think he dealt with the issues very well,the commission's director-general for economic affairs, Marco Buti, told EUobserver after the event, conceding that the Finnish politician was clearly a different character to outgoing Spanish economy commissioner, Joaquin Almunia. Hailing from Europe's liberal political family, Mr Rehn identified a strengthening of economic policies, a return to healthy public finances, and more unified EU representation in international fora as the means to set Europe on the right path again. Stimulus packages are still necessary ...but further developments of public debt have become untenable, especially in light of Europe's ageing population,said Mr Rehn, who has held the post of EU enlargement commissioner for the past five years and is also a former MEP with an extensive education in economics. With the vast majority of EU governments breaching one or more of the budgetary limits laid down by the bloc's Stability and Growth Pact, MEPs queried whether Mr Rehn had the backbone to haul national executives back into line.I ensure you that I will use all the tools at my disposal to make sure member states get public finances in order, he said, adding that Greece should not be kicked out of the eurozone but that fines against Athens could not be ruled out.

Greece drew strong criticism last autumn after a change of government resulted in a considerable upward deficit revision, with the country due to present plans to the commission in coming weeks on how it intends to rectify its fiscal problem. The commissioner-designate also indicated that he would use all the provisions under the Treaty of Lisbon to help put greater rigor into the pact and protect the stability of the euro, adding that he was intrinsically inclined to support obligatory budget surpluses during good years. Questioned on the idea of a common bond for eurozone countries, Mr Rehn said the idea merited a fresh look, but added that new instruments to help embattled euro area members risked creating a situation in which governments behave badly because they know they will be bailed out.On a potential fast-tracking of eastern states' entry into the euro area he was insistent on any given candidates' need to comply with all the accession criteria first, adding that Estonia is the closest next entrant, with the commission set to re-examine its application in the spring.

2020 Strategy

MEPs were also keen to know where the Finnish politician stood on the issue of stronger surveillance mechanisms under the EU's new economic growth plan, the 2020 Strategy, following a recent proposal by the Spanish EU presidency that Brussels should sanction capitals which fall out of line.Citing a lack of ownership as a chief cause behind the failure of the bloc's current economic plan, which expires this year, Mr Rehn said the key to achieving the 2020 aims would be the setting of realistic objectives, subsequently broken up into clear targets for individual states.We then need to make sure that we have the necessary surveillance and funding to carry out the plan, he said, prompting the thorny question of whether the EU should have a greater common budget to promote economic co-ordination.We have a chance to discuss this thoroughly at the budgetary mid-term review, said Mr Rehn. In my view the goals of the EU 2020 Strategy will have to be emphasised in light of the review.The commission is set to propose a communication on the 2020 Strategy in the coming weeks that will look at the issue of binding mechanisms, amongst other things, with EU leaders scheduled to examine the document at an informal summit on 11February.

Lobbyists and dinners

With time running down, non-aligned MEP Hans-Peter Martin asked whether the commission-designate would be able to withstand the extensive lobbying he was likely to face, allowing for a rare moment of humour. I prefer a quiet dinner at home with my family rather than an extravagant dinner with a lobbyist in [the famous restaurant] Maison de Cygne,he said, quickly adding although it does provide good cuisine.With three more commissioner-designates scheduled to present themselves before the parliament's economic committee, MEPs were keeping their views on how Mr Rehn performed under their hat on Monday night, although committee chair MEP Sharon Bowles suggested to journalists that post-mortem discussion had focussed more on the hearing process.Possibly he could have said more but maybe he was restrained by the public forum,she said, pointing to sensitive topics such as Greece's deficit.

Spain sets date for next EU-Russia summit
Today JAN 12,10 @ 16:31 CET

Spanish foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos on a visit to Moscow on Tuesday (12 January) said Madrid will in the next six months try to draw up a roadmap for visa-free travel with Russia and that the next bilateral summit should take place on 30 May in the Russian capital.

EU trade nominee attacks yuan and EU carbon border tax idea
ANDREW WILLIS Today JAN 12,10 @ 17:19 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - With MEPs on the lookout for overly vague responses during the ongoing European Parliamentary hearings, trade commissioner-designate Karel De Gucht was crystal clear on two matters on Tuesday (12 January).The Belgian politician candidly told euro deputies that he is not in favour of a EU border carbon tax, adding that he saw an undervalued Chinese currency as a major problem for the European Union. France has led European calls for an EU border tax on products manufactured in external countries with weaker environmental standards, but Mr De Gucht said the measure risked triggering an international trade war. In terms of border adjustments, I'm against it,said the Liberal politician in response to a question. I don't see that as the right approach, it's one that will lead to lots of practical problems,continued the former foreign minister and current European commissioner for development and humanitarian aid. We've seen it in the past. The big risk is that it will also lead to an escalating trade war on a global level, he said. While the blunt statements may disappoint some who favour the proposed border tax, pro-environment MEPs are likely to be buoyed by Mr De Gucht's strong support for an abolishment of tariffs on environmental goods, such as wind turbines and solar panels.

Yuan threat

Turning his attention to China, Mr De Gucht reiterated the European line that the Asian powerhouse should revalue its currency to ease global trade imbalances.Fresh export data for 2009 released by Chinese customs authorities on Sunday suggest the country is set to strip Germany of its leading exporter title in terms of gross volume. With the yuan essentially pegged to the dollar for more than a year, despite the US currency's protracted slide, European manufacturers have increasingly pointed to their diminishing price competitiveness.China has shrugged off repeated calls by European policy makers to allow the yuan to rise, saying the currency's stability is in everybody's best interest.The Chinese administration must show its responsibility by being able to address thorny questions such as currency misalignment, Mr De Gucht told the hearing, adding that European antidumping duties against Chinese firms were only a very partial solution to ongoing problem.

Semeta

In a nearby room to the trade discussion, Lithuanian commissioner-desiginate Algirdas Semeta also fielded questions from MEPs on Tuesday morning.Currently serving as the commission's budgetary chief, the centre-right politician is hoping to take over in a beefed up portfolio responsible for taxation and customs union, audit and anti-fraud.It will be an essentially new economic portfolio of especially high responsibility, Mr Semeta said before the hearing, He stressed to MEPs the importance of pushing through new rules on energy taxation within the EU, amongst other issues.The energy taxation directive will be one of my first priorities in my future job,Semeta said.I think in the future if we would move forward with green taxation it would allow us to decrease taxation on labour.

Europe not ready for EU tax, says incoming budget chief
VALENTINA POP Today JAN 12,10 @ 09:53 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The idea of an EU-wide tax is still politically too controversial to fly, but could not be ruled out in future, budget commissioner designate Janusz Lewandowski said Monday during his parliamentary hearings.Europe is probably not ready yet for a European tax. It could prove detrimental for our links with the citizens, the Polish economist and ex-MEP told his former colleagues dealing with budgetary issues.A proposal for such a scheme, put forward by French centre-right MEP Alain Lamassoure, now chairing the budget committee, had to be taken into account when negotiating EU's new multi-annual budget to start 2014, Mr Lewandowski added.But in his view, the time was not ripe for a purely fiscal revenue. Currently, the bulk of the EU budget is made of national contributions, representing 1.24 percent of the gross national income (GNI). Import taxes and VAT make out the remaining 23 percent of the bloc's revenues.He stressed that any decision to increase EU's own revenues had to be taken unanimously by member states. If we introduce this, it has to be in line with simplicity, fiscal neutrality and the cost of collecting. There are different ways of taxing with an aim of increasing own recourses. I am not against the idea.Mr Lewandowski's cautious line stands in contrast to the bolder wording of EU commission president Jose Manuel Barroso in his policy guidelines for the next commission, dating back to September last year, before he secured the vote of the parliament for his nomination. The commission president at the time spoke out against shirking the issue of EU's own resources and criticised a system of EU financing that has evolved piecemeal into a confusing and opaque mix of contributions and rebates.

Mr Lamassoure at one point stressed that realism should not lead Mr Lewandowski to give up on all such ambitions.The presumptive commissioner replied that he was personally not against all the proposals put on the table, including a Tobin tax on financial transactions. One the length of EU's next budget framework, Mr Lewandowski said he was in favour of reducing it from seven to five years, to match the mandate of the European Parliament.

Non-existing budget draft

A highly controversial draft proposal from the EU commission's budget services first leaked in October that suggested a radical overhaul of the EU budget to focus more on jobs, climate change and foreign policy rather than agriculture and regional aid was now in fact non-existent, Mr Lewandowski said, when pressed by MEPs dealing with agricultural and regional policy.He said it was unlikely that common agricultural policy (CAP) spending would be reduced further than the agreed 33 percent of the total EU budget, stressing that contrary to popular belief, the agricultural lobby is quite well organised.The Polish politician pointed at the 20-odd agriculture ministers gathered in Paris last month for a pro-CAP showcase meeting. Mr Lewandowski also had a brief crossing of swords with his Polish predecessor in the EU commission, Danuta Hubner, in charge of regional policy. She criticised him for allegedly supposing that the policy needed new spending priorities, stressing that she already had started this reform. This is not quite right, he countered.I said we need to strike a balance between innovation and the traditional approach, keeping what tradition has proved to be wise.The Polish ex-MEP is widely seen as a safe bet in terms of getting the thumbs up to join the commission from his former colleagues in parliament.

Barroso forced to defend Bulgarian nominee ahead of hearing
HONOR MAHONY Today JAN 12,10 @ 09:34 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European commission president Jose Manuel Barroso has sent a letter to MEPs telling them that any accusations levelled against the Bulgarian EU commissioner nominee during what is widely expected to be a tough hearing later today must be backed up by proof.Anyone accusing anyone of any wrongdoing should of course present corresponding evidence, as in our democratic societies the rule of law implies that the accuser should prove accusations, he said in a letter sent out on Monday (11 January).Mr Barroso was replying to the Greens group, which had asked him about allegations in the press concerning Rumiana Jeleva, the Bulgarian foreign minister and a former MEP.Some of the allegations have suggested that her husband has connections with organised crime.German paper Die Welt notably ran an article whose title referred to the gangster bride.Ms Jeleva has long been seen as a weak link in the commission line up, with officials admitting that if one would-be commissioner will be forced to go by the parliament, it is likely to be her, pointing to a lack of policy experience and language skills although her CV says she is fluent in German, English and Russian.

Mr Barroso, who is keen to get his commission up and running after over two months of delay due to institutional problems, has suggested Ms Jeleva be given the entirely new portfolio of International Co-operation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response. However, the dossier is seen as one of the least important among the 26 commissioners.With some MEPs keen to delve into the commissioners' declarations of interest, a document each one has already submitted to parliament, Mr Barroso was careful in his letter to underline that Ms Jeleva, and not the commission president, is responsible for her statement: All the commissioner-designates' declarations of interest have been looked at carefully in terms of respect for the terms of the Code of Conduct. Ms Jeleva confirmed to me that her declaration, like those of other commissioners, respects the Code.The code of conduct is an internal set of rules governing how commissioners should present their past and current interests. Speaking ahead of the hearings on Monday, UK liberal MEP Andrew Duff said:We are all conscious of the press speculation, especially in the German press, on the family's business concerns. And I am certain that the hearing of her is to be focussed upon some of those issues.Mr Duff, in charge of overseeing how the hearings are carried out, also suggested MEPs would not hesitate to ask Mr Barroso for more information if they felt that a candidate was not forthcoming enough.I think, if at the end of a hearing the committee responsible discovers that it requires further information from president Barroso as to the competences or probity of a commissioner designate then it can ask him for that and if there is a problem then I think that that is the course that will take place.MEPs cannot veto a single candidate but they can threaten to vote against the entire commission if they do not get their way, with the plenary ballot due on 26 January. In 2004, two candidates were withdrawn and one portfolio swap was made in the face of pressure from deputies.

East European criminals and politicians taking libel tourism trips to UK
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today JAN 12,10 @ 17:42 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Organised criminals, businessmen and politicians, particularly from eastern Europe, are flocking to the UK courts to file libel cases to punish and scare off journalists who ask too many awkward questions, threatening the very existence of publications in the east that engage in investigative journalism.English and Welsh courts, where the burden of proof is borne by the accused rather than the complainant, have become the jurisdiction of choice for oligarchs and mafiosi. Saudi billionaires and even totalitarian governments regularly take advantage of UK laws that say that a journalist is guilty until proven innocent, according to a report by an editor with the Center for Investigative Reporting in Bosnia-Herzegovina (CIN), Drew Sullivan.The report, published last week by the US-based Center for International Media Assistance, says that while the problem of libel tourism is an old one, in recent years as daily newspapers, which to a greater or lesser extent had the funds to stand up for their reporters in court, have abandoned investigative reporting, the baton has been taken up by smaller, non-profit web-publishing outfits that are in a much more precarious situation.By publishing online, a media organisation faces the risk of libel and defamation suits in just about every jurisdiction in the world, the report says.

[The UK's] plaintiff-friendly laws, high defamation awards, strong willingness of British courts to accept jurisdiction, and exorbitant cost of legal fees make the United Kingdom perfect for oligarchs, organised crime figures, and wealthy businessmen.Ireland and France too are increasingly popular stopovers on the libel tourism trail, although Paris is attractive not because of the size of the awards (which are capped at €12,000), but because libel is still considered a criminal case. A journalist branded a criminal sometimes serves a complainant's interests much more than bankrupting him or her.In one example from June, 2008, Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov sued Ukraine's Kyiv Post newspaper and Obozrevatel, a news website, over stories about him. The Kyiv Post only had around 100 subscribers in Britain, but fears were such that the Post rapidly settled and apologised.

Obozrevatel, which had almost no visitors from the United Kingdom and published only in Ukrainian, could not afford to defend itself and so Mr Akhmetov won a a default judgment of £50,000.From press accounts and parliamentary testimony, we know that in the UK, there are even lawyers who will read the newspapers just to identify possible cases, call the people involved and suggest a suit in order to drum up business,Mr Sullivan told EUobserver.It's a sort of libel ambulance chasing.Mr Sullivan's own civil society start-up at the CIN, the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, regularly feels the heat from the subjects of its investigations, requiring the publication to have a British lawyer kept on retainer.For our work, we are investigating organised crime figures, politicians, businessmen of fairly high standing in the community. In the 1990s in Russia, say, they would just send some guys to beat us up, but this is a bit harder to do now, so they are using the legal route to do basically the same thing. It's been very effective in eastern Europe.He said that the OCCRP is considering shutting off access to the UK to put an end to the lawsuits: We have maybe two percent of our readership there, but the UK is causing 97 percent of our risk.Media lawyer Mark Stephens, who specialises in battling the libel tourists, explained to this website how things have accelerated in the last few years. It really started off [in the 1950s], with Liberace suing over accusations that he was a homosexual, which he won. This opened the floodgates to a large number of celebrities doing the same thing for many years. This died away more recently when they began to realise that it was cheaper and more effective to spend a million on a PR man than a team of lawyers, and with much less reputational damage,The claimant lawyers then moved on to Russian oligarchs, Gulf billionaires, multinationals and heads of totalitarian states, making London in recent years the libel capital of the world.

But the problem is not limited to the east. In 2007, the Icelandic investment bank Kaupthing sued Ekstra Bladet, a Danish newspaper, after a reporter wrote articles critical of the bank's handling of tax shelters for the wealthy. While Ekstra Bladet stories were republished in English on a Danish website that gets few or no visitors from the UK, British courts accepted jurisdiction after the bank argued that London was a major banking centre and Kaupthing's chief executive resided in Britain. Fearing the huge costs of the case, the paper sought a settlement from the beginning and eventually paid Kaupthing's legal fees and additional damages, apologising to the bank.One of the institutions at the heart of the collapse of the Icelandic economy, Kaupthing nevertheless in December 2009 became the subject of a investigation into the bank's practices by the UK's Serious Fraud Office.

HOMELAND INSECURITY Judge rules against CAIR-D.C.-based Islamic group trying to quash book exposing terror ties January 09, 2010 12:00 am Eastern
By Art Moore 2010 WorldNetDaily

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly

A federal judge ruled against the Council on American-Islamic Relations today in its lawsuit against a father and son who carried out a six-month undercover investigation of the D.C.-based Muslim group, denying a request to conduct discovery – an examination of its opponent's witnesses, facts and documents – prior to hearing a motion to dismiss the case.CAIR is suing P. David Gaubatz and his son, Chris Gaubatz, for allegedly stealing sensitive internal documents and making recordings of officials without consent. Chris Gaubatz, who posed as a Muslim in an internship with CAIR's national office in Washington, took some 12,000 pages of documents destined for a shredder in an attempt, he said, to expose the group's ties to Islamic jihad and terrorism. His father is a former Air Force special agent with extensive Middle East experience who researches the spread of radical Islam in the U.S. and its threat to national security. Get blockbuster of the year, Muslim Mafia, for just $4.95 – today only – from WND's Superstore!

In her ruling today, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., canceled a court hearing scheduled for Tuesday and gave CAIR until Jan. 15 to reply to the Gaubatz's motion to dismiss the case. The motion filed last month by Gaubatz lawyer Daniel Horowitz asserts CAIR has no claim because it does not legally exist. Horowitz explains that just two weeks after CAIR was named by the Justice Department in May 2007 as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorist finance case in U.S. history, the organization changed its name to the Council on American-Islamic Relations Action Network. CAIR is not a valid entity and even if it were, the exposure of its inner workings is part of the price it pays for being a controversial group in a hotly contested arena, Horowitz declares in his reply to CAIR's lawsuit. The FBI produced evidence at the trial of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation in 2008 that CAIR was established as a front for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.The material obtained by the Gaubatzes is featured in the book Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America,published by WND Books, an affiliate of WorldNetDaily.com. The book asserts CAIR is acting as a front for a conspiracy of the Muslim Brotherhood – the parent of al-Qaida and Hamas – to infiltrate the U.S. and help pave the way for Saudi-style Islamic law to rule the nation. Horowitz said CAIR had hoped to draw WND Books into the legal battle so it could pull the book off the shelves. But the federal judge's ruling today prevents the group from any legal investigation of the Gabautzes or WND Books under the court's authority before the motion to dismiss the case is heard. In its lawsuit, CAIR sought to stop the Gaubatzes and their associates from posting, publishing, disclosing, or in any way using any documents, recordings, or other information obtained from CAIR, either directly or indirectly.That means pull the book,Horowitz explained.Since CAIR doesn't even exist, what right do they have to question the publisher of the book or anyone else?

Horowitz asked further, if Kollar-Kotelly throws out the case because CAIR filed under a false name, what is the real name that they can use if they refile?In my opinion, the only real name that they can use, that is not a fraud on the court, is Hamas,he said. Horowitz says if CAIR responds to his brief by filing an amendment to change its registered name back to Council on American Islamic-Relations, he will seek an evidentiary hearing to establish whether there is a genuine corporate entity that is CAIR or whether CAIR is a moniker used to represent the activities of a ruling group that oversees (in some way) the operations of other CAIR related groups.
The reply to CAIR also contends the Gaubatzes' actions to expose the group are protected by the First Amendment. Kollar-Kotelly issued a restraining order Nov. 3 barring the Gaubtazes from further use or publication of the material and demanding that they return it to the Muslim group's lawyers. But the FBI also has shown interest in the material, stepping in with a warrant Nov. 23 to examine the papers and recordings, apparently as part of its concern about CAIR and its terrorist links to Hamas.The FBI cut off ties to CAIR one year ago in response to the group's terrorist ties. Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York and other senators have called for a government-wide ban on CAIR.Horowitz, a frequent TV legal analyst based in the San Francisco Bay area, represented talk-radio host Michael Savage in his lawsuit against CAIR. Renowned First Amendment lawyer Martin Garbus, who represented Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers case during the Vietnam War, also is defending the Gaubatzes. A third high-profile advocate, Bernard Grimm of Washington, D.C., also is a member of the legal team.

CAIR claims the Gaubatzes used CAIR property and personal information of CAIR's employees and donors to cast the group in a negative, inaccurate light. The group claims it had an expectation of confidentiality that was breached, causing injury to the organization and causing it and its officials and employees to suffer unwarranted harassment up to and including threats of violence.But Horowitz says CAIR's pleading does not make it clear that the documents taken from CAIR were consigned to the shredder. Muslim Mafia, he points out, describes Chris Gaubatz's internship at CAIR as a six-month counterintelligence operation during which he routinely load[ed] the trunk of his car with boxes of sensitive documents and deliver[ed] them into the custody of investigative project leader P. David Gaubatz who in turn stockpiled them at his office in Richmond, Virginia.Chris Gaubatz says CAIR's office manager had asked interns to destroy whole boxes of documents in the basement with a commercial shredder. The other interns didn't want to take on the mundane task, leaving Gaubatz virtually alone in the basement, where he would sometimes spend hours going through boxes and putting together one box that was good stuff and shredding the rest. And then at the end of the day I would just walk down there (to the basement), pick the good box up, and walk out of the building with it,he said.

The Gaubatzes' legal reply to CAIR argues the damages claimed are not specific and, in any case, are related to conduct protected by the First Amendment. The reply says CAIR, which contends it is simply a civil rights group, is trying to bring a debate into the courtroom that actually belongs in the public arena. In contrast to CAIR's description of itself, Horowitz notes, the authors of Muslim Mafia describe CAIR as a full-service terror support group.CAIR's lawsuit tries to bring the debate into the courtroom by confusing its version of how the material was obtained with a claim for damages due to the effects of publication, the brief states. Horowitz calls CAIR's action an impermissible end run around First Amendment protections. He notes that ironically, in CAIR's case against Savage, the group decried this same tactic, alleging that 'fair use' protected CAIR's right to use six minutes of a radio talk show and post it on CAIR's website to illustrate a point.The fact that CAIR is upset or that members may have been threatened does not weaken the First Amendment protections, Horowitz argues.

IMPORTANT NOTE: WND needs your help in supporting the defense of Muslim Mafia co-author P. David Gaubatz and his son Chris against CAIR's ongoing legal attack. Already, the book's revelations have led to formal congressional demands for three different federal investigations of CAIR. In the meantime, however, someone has to defend these two courageous investigators who have, at great personal risk, revealed so much about this dangerous group. Although WND has procured the best First Amendment attorneys in the country for their defense, we can't do it without your help. Please donate to WND's Legal Defense Fund now. Thank you.

FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN Intel agents: 20 bombers ready to strike
Yemen bases producing Muslims prepared to blow up jets January 11, 2010
8:49 pm Eastern 2010 WorldNetDaily

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LONDON – Suspected Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab reportedly has told authorities there are others like him prepared to strike against the United States, and now agents from the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, have confirmed 20 more young Muslims are in Yemen in the final stages of attack preparations, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. Some are believed to be female students, chosen because al-Qaida believes it is easier for them to avoid detection. Under interrogation in his high-security cell, Abdulmuttalab gave his FBI interrogators sufficient details over the weekend to enable the Secret Intelligence Service to track how the bombers are being trained in the desert east of Yemen's capital, Sana, before heading out to the U.K. and the U.S. In a video, Nasser al-Wahayshi, the leader of al-Qaida's Yemeni and Saudi branches, has urged followers to attack all countries involved in opposing the Islamic faith.We will attack from directions you can't imagine, he says. Around him in the video stood dozens of fighters, cradling rocket launchers and machine guns. Keep in touch with the most important breaking news stories about critical developments around the globe with Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, the premium, online intelligence news source edited and published by the founder of WND. But it is the method the used by the Detroit bomber that has launched the biggest manhunt to catch the other bombers before they can try to replicate the Christmas Day plan to destroy Northwest Flight 253.

The MI6 officers based in Yemen say Sana is a fertile ground for recruiting terrorists. Many people have lost their jobs. … They meet members of al-Qaida and are quickly convinced to join the organization,said one intelligence officer. In the depths of a training camp in the desert that was once a route for trafficking in frankincense and myrrh, recruits are taught new ways to launch deadly weapons. Al-Qaida has claimed the killing of a senior Yemeni official, Bassem Tarboush, the head of the country's intelligence service. Shortly afterwards several senior Yemeni officers were murdered. Meanwhile, domestic terrorist recruits have been joined by recruits from Somalia, just across the Red Sea.

SOMETHING IN THE AIR Sarah Palin skips CPAC, accepts tea-party offer
Going Rogue author marches to her own drumbeat January 11, 2010 9:01 pm Eastern
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Sarah Palin

In step with the title of her No. 1 best-seller Going Rogue, former GOP vice-presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin is skipping the traditional summit for conservatives this year, the Conservative Political Action Conference, while planning to speak at a tea party event. Palin was not in attendance at the 2009 CPAC and now is not expected at the 2010 meetings in the nation's capital, Feb. 18-20. She initially was listed on the CPAC website as an invited guest. According to a Politico report, a source said Palin does not want to be affiliated with David Keene, the head of the American Conservative Union, which organizes CPAC. Keene recently was in the news for accepting a sponsorship for the conference from GOProud, a homosexual activist group. Politico explained an additional controversy came up over reports Keene asked FedEx for a donation to get the group's support in a bitter legislative battle with rival UPS.The report said a Palin camp source explained Keene's actions led to her decision to stay away from the coming CPAC event, calling it a forum that will place special interests over core beliefs' and pocketbook over policy.That's not what CPAC should be about, and people are tiring, the source told Politico. Palin is taking a stance against this just as she did in Alaska.Learn the secret to reclaiming the nation. Get Taking America Back, Joseph Farah's manifesto for sovereignty, self-reliance and moral renewal

In the report, Keene said the group's relationship with the Palin staff "has always been very cordial and respectful. Gov. Palin has our admiration and we are disappointed that she will not be able to attend CPAC this year, but hope she will attend in the future.Meanwhile, Palin is planning to speak at an event Feb. 4-6 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tenn., organized by the Tea Party Nation.
Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips, named one of Tennessee's top 25 political players in 2009, was one of the original tea-party organizers in last February following CNBC anchor Rick Santelli's now famous outburst from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He has helped organize numerous tea parties and mobilized Tennessee taxpayers in the last year with rallies reaching crowds of more than 10,000.

WND founder Joseph Farah

Palin has been confirmed as a speaker at the events, as has WND founder Joseph Farah. To say we are thrilled Joseph Farah is speaking is an understatement, Phillips told WND. He was a tea partier before there was a tea party movement. We're excited that he will be speaking because a major goal of this convention is to inspire people. Joseph is a tremendously inspirational person and speaker, and he will really fire people up and get them excited about going back to their home states and cities and taking this advocacy to the next level.The event also will feature Rep Michele Bachmann, R- Minn.; Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.; WND columnist Judge Roy Moore; Phil Valentine, popular radio talk-show host and author of The Conservative Handbook; and Fox News Political Analyst Angela McGlowan. The Tea Party Express will arrive in Nashville for the convention. Additional sponsors of the conference include American Liberty Alliance, Tea Party Emporium, the Leadership Institute, National Taxpayers Union, American Majority, Surge USA and Eagle Forum.

Phillips outlined three main goals of the national convention:

1. Organizers plan to equip attendees with information, effective tools and techniques they can bring back to their groups.
2. The convention will help tea party leaders from across the nation network and make connections with people in the movement.
3. The event is intended to provide some unity within the tea party movement so leaders may work together toward a common goal.

Tea Party Nation doesn't claim to be the leader of the tea party movement; we're just a part of the movement, Phillips said.We've got to work together in 2010 because if we want to beat Obama, Pelosi and Reid this year, we cannot be divided. That's the biggest thing I want to see come out of this convention – folks getting to know one another and working together, as opposed to some of the regrettable splits we've seen over the last few months.Palin also had a run-in with CPAC last year. She already had been announced as a speaker then when she later said she would not come, explaining her staff never confirmed the appearance. In addition to the tea party event, Palin also has accepted an opportunity to speak to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans in April. The CPAC website lists other planned speakers, including Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum. Palin continues to step outside the boundaries to which political personalities normally are bound. The New York Times reported today she has signed a multi-year deal to become a regular contributor to the Fox News Channel. The report said a source familiar with the deal said Palin will not have her own program but will act as hostess for an occasional series.

Doomsday Clock to Change This Week LiveScience.com livescience Staff– Mon Jan 11, 7:40 pm ET

The minute hand of the famous Doomsday Clock is set to move this Thursday, and for the first time, anyone with Internet access can watch. Which way the hand will move and by how much have not been made public. The event will take place at 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT) on Jan. 14 at the New York Academy of Sciences Building in New York City. While the actual clock is housed at the Bulletin of Atomic Sciences offices in Chicago, Ill., a representation of the clock will be changed at Thursday's news conference. (You can watch the live Web feed at www.TurnBackTheClock.org.) The last time the Doomsday Clock minute hand moved was in January 2007, when it was pushed forward by two minutes, from seven to five minutes before midnight. The change was meant to reflect two major sources of potential catastrophe that could bring us closer to doomsday, according to the board of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a magazine focused on warning the world of the dangers that the invention of the atomic bomb helped to unleash. According to the board, the looming dangers included: the perils of 27,000 nuclear weapons, 2,000 of them ready to launch within minutes; and the destruction of human habitats from climate change. The factors influencing the latest Doomsday Clock change include international negotiations on nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, expansion of civilian nuclear power, the possibilities of nuclear terrorism, and climate change.

In December 1945, University of Chicago scientists who had helped to develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project created The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.The Bulletin's board of directors then in 1947 came up with the idea of a Doomsday Clock to symbolize these threats. The message is that humans are a few minutes to midnight,where midnight represents destruction by nuclear weapons, climate change and emerging technologies in the life sciences. The hands of the clock move in response to changing world events, marching forward or back depending on the state of the world and the prospects of nuclear war.When the Doomsday Clock debuted in 1947, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was occurring, with the time showing seven minutes to midnight. The time has since changed 18 times.The closest approach to Doomsday occurred in 1953, when the clock was changed to two minutes to midnight after the United States and the Soviet Union each tested thermonuclear devices within nine months of one another.

Mexico opens 2010 with one of its deadliest days By MARTHA MENDOZA, Associated Press Writer – Tue Jan 12, 9:12 am ET

MEXICO CITY – Mexico opened the new year with what could be its most dubious distinction yet in the 3-year-old battle against drug trafficking — 69 murders in one day.The country resembled a grim, statistical dart board Saturday as law enforcement and media reported the deaths from various regions, including 26 in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, 13 in and around Mexico City and 10 in the northern city of Chihuahua.More than 6,500 drug-related killings made 2009 the bloodiest year since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the cartels in late 2006 and deployed 45,000 soldiers to fight organized crime, according to death tallies by San Diego's Trans-Border Institute.Two weeks into 2010, gang bloodshed is becoming more grotesque as drug lords ramp up their attempts at intimidation. Last week a victim's face was peeled from his skull and sewn onto a soccer ball. On Monday, prosecutors in Culiacan identified the remains of 41-year-old former police officer divided into two separate ice chests.You wonder how this will end, and it seems impossible, said Daniel Vega, an architect in the northern city of Monterrey.I doubt Mexico can override drug use, especially since demand for the drugs, as well as all the money and weapons, come from the United States.Using their so-called Narcobarometer, researchers at the University of San Diego's Trans-Border Institute track and analyze murders in Mexico, hoping to find ways to quell the violence. Their tally? More than 20,000 murders since 2001, more than half in the past two years.It does appear that the violence has grown exponentially, but it's not clear that it's necessarily a slippery downward slope from here, institute director David Shirk said, noting that government operations — including a December raid that killed cartel boss Arturo Beltran Leyva — have hit seven of Mexico's eight significant cartels.

Shirk said the remaining, mostly unscathed Sinaloa cartel headed by billionaire gang boss Joaquin El Chapo Guzman may now become dominant, reducing the deadly power struggles.If that happens, it's quite possible that six months from now things will be much calmer, Shirk said.Though almost all of drug-violence victims are somehow involved with cartels, the impact is felt well beyond law enforcement and organized crime.I'm afraid to take to the streets every day because of the violence, and I no longer want to excel economically because it could make me an easy target for a kidnapping, said Silvana Cervantes, a Monterrey nurse.Tijuana resident Fernando Escobedo said he used to spend his evenings at a vibrant strip of clubs in the border city until a recent massacre at one of his hangouts.Now I prefer socializing at houses or parties, with family or lifetime friends, he said.As Mexico tries to develop both politically and economically, the killings jeopardize its international reputation, said Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington.The figures in Mexico are so scary that it has produced a subliminal sense that Mexico is a dangerous place and you'd better keep away, he said.

Calderon said last week he would shift focus to job creation and reducing poverty and move the fight against drug cartels that dominated the first half of his presidency to No. 3.Monterrey police officer Delfino Ramos, who grapples with the violence in his daily work, said economic issues are at the root of the problems.So much unemployment pushes people toward crime,he said. Associated Press writers Mariana Martinez in Tijuana and Mark Walsh in Monterrey contributed to this report.