2 JOHN 1:7-11
7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ,(HIS DEATH,BURIAL,RESSURRECTION,THAT HES GOD,HE WAS VIRGIN BORN)he hath both the Father and the Son.
10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:(TELL THEM TAKE A HIKE)
11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
SPEAKING OF HYPOCRITES:OBAMA SAYS THERES MANY WAYS TO SALVATION AND HEAVEN.I DON'T BELIEVE IN HELL WERE GOD WOULD SEND HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION INTO ETERNITY LOST.
IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT OBAMA THE LYING HYPOCRITE SAYS,IT MATTERS WHAT GOD SAYS.AND GOD SAYS HEAVEN AND HELL ARE REAL IN THESE 2 VERSES.
LUKE 16:22-23
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom:(HEAVEN SIDE) the rich man also died, and was buried;(HELL,TORMENT SIDE)
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.(ABRAHAM IN PEACE WITH GOD AND FELLOW SAVED MEN AND WOMEN)
JOB 8:10-14
10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
JOB 13:7-16
7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
1 PETER 2:1-3
1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
MATTHEW 6:5-8
5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
MATTHEW 13:24-30
24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
THIS PARABLE IS LIKE THE FLIPFLOP HYPPOCRITES GLENN BECK AND DEBRA MEDINA AND ALL THE REST OF THE GOVERNMENT AND WORLD HYPOCRITES. THEY GET IN TO A SPECIFIC GROUP OR GOVERNMENT PARTY.BUT SINCE THEIR NOT GROUNDED IN TRUTH,THEIR TRUTH BLOWS LIKE THE WIND.THEY AGREE WITH ANYTHING TO GET TO THEIR GOAL.THEY TALK FROM BOTH SIDES OF THEIR MOUTHS AND THEY WILL AGREE IF ITS AN INSTANT LUST TO FULFUL THEIR THRILL OR GOAL.
THESE VERSES BELOW ARE RIGHT FROM GODS(KING JESUS') MOUTH.
MATTHEW 13:13-36
13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
20 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
Glenn Beck Supporters, Not 9/11 Truthers, Are Advocating Violence
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, February 24, 2010
http://www.infowars.com/glenn-beck-supporters-not-911-truthers-are-advocating-violence/
While Fox News host Glenn Beck propagandizes almost on a daily basis about how 9/11 truthers represent a dangerous extremist fringe who are planning on killing the President, it turns out that the only violence being espoused is coming from Beck’s own viewers.On his October 22 2007 broadcast, Beck suggested that people who associate themselves with the 9/11 truth movement include the kind of group that Timothy McVeigh would come from, making reference to the man convicted of blowing up the Alfred P. Murrah building in April 1995, an attack that killed 168 people and injured hundreds more.During his June 10th 2009 broadcast, Beck again smeared people who question the official 9/11 story by comparing them with the Holocaust Museum murderer James von Brunn.During his January 20 radio show last month, Beck implied that 9/11 truth activists in the White House (of which there are none) were a threat to the President and that the secret service should pay close attention because truthers were planning on assassinating Obama.Beck constantly harangues the establishment media for smearing Tea Party activists as violent racists by pointing out that not so much as a window gets broken at Tea Party rallies. Beck is right of course, but then he pulls the same stunt by labeling 9/11 truthers as violent radicals when there is not one instance of a truther committing an act of violence or any crime in pursuit of their ideals.
Beck is constantly implying that 9/11 truthers are potentially violent and even domestic terrorists, however, according to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, Glenn Beck’s fans are the most likely to threaten violence in pursuit of their political beliefs.
I get hate mail from all sort of conservatives,Maddow commented, but it is the hate mail from self-proclaimed fans of Mr. Beck that is most likely to contain death threats and threats of violence against me.He has made a lot of people afraid about a lot of things,she continued,and that tried and true strategy has reaped big financial rewards for him and for Fox News. I think it’s between you and your God or you and your conscience as to how much you’re willing to stir up Americans’ fear and prejudice for profit,she added, alluding to Beck’s $50 million dollar contract with Fox News.Indeed, as Darryl Mason highlights, the danger of people who demand truth, conspiracy theorists as Beck labels them, who Beck constantly demonizes as violent radicals, cannot even begin to compare to the threat posed by people like Beck, Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, and the corporate media, who constantly lobby for a military attack on Iran, which if it happened could kick-start world war three.I don’t believe, or subscribe, to everything I read or hear on alleged conspiracy sites’ like the ones run by Alex Jones or Mike Rivero’s WhatReallyHappened.com, nor does anyone there demand I do so,writes Mason.I don’t see columnists or commenters, anyone in fact, at those sites demanding my country go to war against people on the other side of the planet who have never done me or my family harm, based on the flimsiest of evidence, or flat-out fearmongery.But when I go to The Washington Post, or the New York Times, I see columnists demanding Iran be bombed, now. Again and again. It’s no coincidence of course that is it usually the exact same people who in 2002 filled column after column in those newspapers demanding Iraq be bombed, then invaded.
Who Are Their Prey? All of Us: From the Left and Right
J. Speer-Williams Infowars.com Feburary 24, 2010
Our knee-jerk, tunnel-visioned, democratic and republican voters must develop some peripheral vision, or they will be taught some lessons of life that could more more easily be learned by viewing outside of the central areas of corporate media focus. And perhaps, the best place to begin seeing on the edges of one’s usual visual field is the corporate media itself.Andrew Jackson: The bold effort of the present bank had made to control the government, the distress it had wantonly produced are premonitions of the fate that awaits the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.Let us begin by asking ourselves, Who owns the corporate-mainstream media? And of course, the answer is large, very large, corporations own the corporate media.But, who owns the controlling stock of these large corporations, and controls their news and aired content? The answer is the foreign, privately owned International Monetary/Banking Cartel, that controls the money and credit of the world. Make sense? Now, if one will study the long and infamous track record of this private Cartel, and correlate its activities with the corresponding news of the day, one will soon see the reciprocal relationship between that news and the subsequent national and international events.You see, the corporate media does not so much reports on news events, as it prepares the stage to justify the various covert actions then taken by the Cartel.So now, let us learn a bit more about this monolith called the International Monetary/Banking Cartel, and how they came to control their corporate media and their fascistic/socialist police states down through much of recorded history.Did Jesus give us a blanket condemnation of financial oligarchs, monopoly capitalists, and money-changers? Creating a whip from some cords, Jesus – in his only recorded incidence of violence – drove the money-changers out of the Temple of Jerusalem; it was a moment of spiritual enlightenment, described in all four gospels.
The Temple of Jerusalem was used for animal sacrifices, and a collection plate, where Jewish people were encouraged to bring in their “sin offerings.” Even then, like today, organized spirituality was perverted and debased with extortion, money, blood, and slaughter.Do you see a resemblance between the money-changers of Biblical times and those of today? Are today’s monopoly oligarchs of the same blood-thirsty tribe of thieves as were the money-changers Jesus whipped out of the Temple? Did Jesus tell us to shine the light of truth and justice on all secret priesthoods and hierarchies? Our once great nation struggled as a mere thirteen colonies under the British coin of the realm, that is until they issued their own currency, they called Colonial Script. This helped the Colonies to enjoy an envious prosperity, until the European Banking Cartel, under the direction of the Rothschild clan, demanded that England’s King George III outlaw the Colonies from printing their own money, and go back to the currency of the Bank of England, which was owned by the International Banking Cartel.Almost immediately, the Colonies fell into an economic decline, so severe that Benjamin Franklin wrote, In one year, the conditions were so reversed that the era of prosperity ended, and a depression set in, to such an extent that the streets of the Colonies were filled with unemployed.
King George’s prohibition on the Colonies printing their own money was the main reason the Colonies revolted. Franklin wrote in his autobiography,The Colonies would have gladly borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the Colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction. The inability to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of King George III and the international bankers was the prime reason for the Revolutionary War.The Horsemen of the Apocalypse came early to our newly formed country, fronted by Lt. Col. Alexander Hamilton, who had served his country well as General Washington’s aid-de-camp, during the Revolutionary War. But once Hamilton was appointed, by President Washington, to be our first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander turned traitor.Hamilton formed a political party that came to be known as the Federalists, who wanted to abnegate the young nation’s financial needs and responsibilities to the same European bankers who had caused the earlier depression, over the more responsible founding fathers, led by Thomas Jefferson, who had their own political party called the Democratic-Republicans.Unfortunately, the Federalists held sway, and the First Bank of the United States, owned and controlled by the International Banking Cartel, was formed in 1791.After such a defeat for our country, Thomas Jefferson, who believed the US government, itself, should issue its own currency and credit, thereby not incurring large national debts, with usury interest rates, and inflations wrote, I believe bank institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. They have set up a money aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. They should take the power of issuing money from the bankers and restore it to Congress and the people to who it properly belongs.Before he died, Jefferson lamented, I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution – taking from the federal government their power of borrowing.Our fourth president, James Madison wrote, History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.Andrew Jackson, our seventh president, vetoed the bill from Congress that would have extended the charter of the Cartel’s Bank of the United states, and gave his reasons why:It concentrated an excessive amount of the nation’s financial strength in a single institution;
It exposed the government to control by foreign interests;It served mainly to make the rich richer;It exercised too much control over the members of congress.It favored Northeast states over Southern and Western states.Additionally, President Jackson wrote,The bold effort of the present bank had made to control the government, the distress it had wantonly produced are premonitions of the fate that awaits the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.In an angrier tone, Jackson said to the bankers, mincing no words,You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.Jackson’s administration was the first and only in US history to have eliminated our national debt, by routing out the pit vipers of the International Banking Cartel, thus avoiding the distresses of deflations and the horrors of hyper-inflation, that invariably follow the borrowing money from the Banking Cartel.At least two attempts were made upon the life of President Jackson, as were made on three other of our presidents, who tried to take back the control of our money and credit from the Banking Cartel, or were even critical of them: Lincoln, Garfield, and Kennedy.President Abe Lincoln, and his Treasury Secretary, Salmon Portland Chase, were both outraged by what they estimated the Banking Cartel would charge American citizens in interest on loans to pursue the Civil War. As a result Lincoln by-passed the Cartel by convincing the US Congress to enact legislation authorizing the printing of dollars that carried the full legal tender of US Treasury notes, that came to be called Greenbacks.The European Banking Cartel was not pleased with Lincoln’s Greenbacks, and said so in their flagship newspaper of that era, The London Times: “If this mischievous financial policy should become endurated down to a fixture, then that government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without debts. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the world. The brains and wealth of all countries will go to America. That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.Destroy every monarchy? No! But, Lincoln could have severely damaged the International Banking Cartel, had he lived. But on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Old Abe’s administration ended prematurely, when the President was fatally shot, in the Ford Theatre, while watching the British play, Our American Cousin.Shortly after becoming our 20th president, James Garfield said, Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. And when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.On July 2, 1881, a few weeks after President Garfield made the above statement, he too was assassinated.In June of 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order (EO) 11110, which would have divested the Cartel’s central bank in America, the Federal Reserve System, of its power in the United States, had President Kennedy lived to implement his EO.But, on the 22nd of November 1963, scarcely six months after Kennedy had signed the most momentous document since Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.As commanded to do, the major media of the world virtually ignored Kennedy’s EO 11110, which should have been the most surprising news to have erupted from the United States, since Andrew Jackson vetoed the renewal charter of the Second Bank of the United States.
And of course, EO 11110 was rendered null and void by the Cartel’s next president, Lyndon Baines Johnson.Throughout the 1970s, and part of the 1980s, Georgia Republican Congressman Dr. Larry P. MacDonald worked tirelessly to expose the hidden holdings, influence, and intentions of the Banking Cartel. But on the 31st of August 1983, Dr. MacDonald’s good work came to a fiery end: The Korean Airlines 007, carrying Dr. MacDonald was shot down over Russian air space.Please pray for the lives of Congressmen Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich, who are both currently fighting the Banking Cartel, and fighting for all of us, and the real American way of life.We are their prey. All of us, from the left and right. But if a majority of Americans, no matter where they reside on the political spectrum, joined hands and hearts against the alien Monetary/Banking Cartel, we could take back our country, and in time restore the American Dream, and make the United States the best example of a sovereign nation the world has ever seen.
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
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
ANNEX ALL JEWISH TOWNS-GOVERNMENT
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By Jennifer Harper INSIDE THE BELTWAY FEB 24,10
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A lingering technical question about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks still haunts some, and it has political implications: How did 200,000 tons of steel disintegrate and drop in 11 seconds? A thousand architects and engineers want to know, and are calling on Congress to order a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center. In order to bring down this kind of mass in such a short period of time, the material must have been artificially, exploded outwards,says Richard Gage, a San Francisco architect and founder of the nonprofit Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. Mr. Gage, who is a member of the American Institute of Architects, managed to persuade more than 1,000 of his peers to sign a new petition requesting a formal inquiry. The official Federal Emergency Management [Agency] and National Institute of Standards and Technology reports provide insufficient, contradictory and fraudulent accounts of the circumstances of the towers' destruction. We are therefore calling for a grand jury investigation of NIST officials,Mr. Gage adds. The technical issues surrounding the collapse of the towers has prompted years of debate, rebuttal and ridicule. He is particularly disturbed by Building 7, a 47-story skyscraper, which was not hit by an aircraft, yet came down in pure free-fall acceleration.He also says that more than 100 first-responders reported explosions and flashes as the towers were falling and cited evidence of multi-ton steel sections ejected laterally 600 ft. at 60 mph and the mid-air pulverization of 90,000 tons of concrete & metal decking.
There is also evidence of advanced explosive nano-thermitic composite material found in the World Trade Center dust,Mr. Gage says. The group's petition at www. ae911truth.org is already on its way to members of Congress. Government officials will be notified that Misprision of Treason,U.S. Code 18 (Sec. 2382), is a serious federal offense, which requires those with evidence of treason to act,Mr. Gage says. The implications are enormous and may have profound impact on the forthcoming Khalid Shaikh Mohammed trial.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
EU privacy watchdog hammers secret anti-piracy talks
LEIGH PHILLIPS 23.02.2010 @ 09:23 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Union's data privacy watchdog has hammered the European Commission for engaging in secret international negotiations over the enforcement of intellectual property rights.The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), Peter Hustinx, on Monday (22 February) issued a formal opinion concluding that the EU executive was endangering EU data protection rules and even internet users' fundamental rights by engaging in talks with the US, Canada, Japan and other powers on a new multilateral agreement to combat counterfeiting and piracy - the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta). The EDPS regrets that he was not consulted by the European Commission on the content of an agreement that raises significant issues as regards individuals' fundamental rights, and in particular their right to privacy and data protection,Mr Hustinx' office said in a statement.He views with concern the fact that little information is publicly made available about current negotiations.Leaks about the negotiations have been dripfed to the media by sources close to the talks. The latest one, the most recent negotiating text, was leaked to IDG News Service, a technology news outlet, on Friday.In response to the new text, Mr Hustinx assessed there to be a potential incompatibility between envisaged measures and data protection requirements,and raised fears that the Acta legal framework could result in large scale monitoring of internet users and the international imposition of three strikes laws, such as that recently passed in France, which cuts off internet access of people accused of illegal downloading.
Whereas intellectual property is important to society and must be protected, it should not be placed above individuals' fundamental rights to privacy and data protection,he said.Mr Hustinx added that less instrusive means should be found to fight piracy and that the EU should implement appropriate safeguards to all data transfers" between itself and other recipients outside the bloc.He also wants the EU to proceed more openly with negotiations over Acta, suggesting a public consultation.
Although MEPs have requested access to the documents, the commission has failed to do so because it would require the prior approval of all nine other partners to the talks: the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Singapore, Jordan, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.The EDPS opinion comes just as the UK government announced it is to back away from three strikes-style legislation, first proposed last year.London said in a statement on Monday that: We will not terminate the accounts of infringers - it is very hard to see how this could be deemed proportionate except in the most extreme and therefore probably criminal cases.
Protests roll out across crisis-hit EU states
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today FEB 24,10 @ 09:28 CET
Tens of thousands of Spaniards protested on Tuesday (23 February) evening across the country in anger at the government's plans to raise the retirement age.Some 70,000 took part in the demonstration in Madrid and 50,000 in Barcelona, according to organisers. Police estimated the crowd to be much less. The protests are the first of a wave of rolling demonstrations planned for other towns and cities lasting until 6 March, with similar action expected in some of the EU's worst crisis-hit economies - Portugal, Ireland and Greece - which, together with Spain are collectively known by the acronym PIGS. Called by the UGT and CCOO trade unions, the Spanish demonstrators focussed their anger on the Socialist government's announced raising of the retirement age from 65 to 67, along with cuts to the public sector of €50 billion phased in over three years and a civil service hiring freeze.The austerity measures, announced by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in January, are aimed at bringing down the state's public deficit, which exploded as a result of the economic crisis to some 11.4 percent of GDP, well above the 3 percent limit imposed by Eurozone rules.Protesters for their part say that it is unfair that they bear the burden of a crisis caused not by them but by banks and other financial institutions. The cuts are massively unpopular, with some 84 percent of the population opposed, according to a poll by Spanish centre-left daily El Pais.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, in Spain, which currently chairs the EU's six-month rotating presidency, for a joint meeting of the commission and the Spanish cabinet, offered Mr Zapatero moral support ahead of the protests, and called on all EU member states to make similar changes to their pension systems.
There is in fact a problem and reforms must be made to pension systems in general, he told reporters in Madrid alongside the Spanish prime minister, as citizens are living longer lives and having fewer children.The protests also came as Greece steeled itself for a general strike against its own socialist government's austerity programme.Some 2 million people, opposed to the centre-left Pasok administration's planned cuts to government spending, are expected to down tools. Athens is under heavy pressure from financial markets and the EU itself to reduce its public deficit of 12.7 percent. The government has pledged to chop it down to 8.7 percent this year.
On Tuesday, ahead of the strike, the Athens Stock Exchange was blockaded by workers from the PAME union. The main entrances were barricaded although remote trading was able to continue.Separately, Portuguese unions announced a general strike scheduled for 4 March against yet another centre-left government's cutbacks aimed at getting public finances under control.
EU climate chief: No climate deal likely before 2012 LEIGH PHILLIPS
23.02.2010 @ 20:31 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Global divisions on climate are so acute that a binding UN deal is unlikely for almost another two years, Europe's new climate commissioner believes.Speaking to a meeting of the foreign ministers of EU member states in Brussels on Monday, commissioner Connie Hedegaard warned that while she very much hoped for a legally binding deal to be reached as soon as possible, this was most likely not achievable before the Cop 17 - shorthand for the meeting of the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is to take place in December 2011 in South Africa.As talks ahead of the Copenhagen climate conference last December began to become ensnarled with mistrust between rich and poor countries, the European Commission had predicted that if an agreement could not be reached in the Danish capital, this could at least be achieved within the first three to six months of 2010, while Sweden, then holding the rotating chairmanship of the EU, had more pessimistically said that a binding accord could take up to another year.
But now the pessimism has taken further hold.
According to a source close to the closed-door discussion by foreign ministers, Ms Hedegaard said that an agreement would have to wait for the South African meeting because this would finally be hosted by one of the so-called Basic (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) countries, the most powerful of the globe's developing nations and to a contested extent the leaders of the southern position in climate talks,As a result, said Ms Hedegaard, the EU would have to take a step-wise approach, meaning a more realistic focus on what gains could be achieved and built upon each step of the way in anticipation of a more comprehensive international deal won at some point down the road.As she later told reporters: We need to know what the deliverables are in Bonn [the next international meeting], and then in Mexico [the Cop 16], and we need to sort that out very explicitly.
EU climate exec committee
The meeting of foreign ministers, gathered in Monday in the guise of the EU's General Affairs Council(referred to in Brussels circles as the Gac), supported a Spanish EU presidency proposal that the Gac take on the role of a sort of executive committee of the EU's climate strategy, co-ordinating the climate change actions of each of the various other Council of Ministers formations.A work plan of actions to be executed by the different councils was agreed. The next council of environment ministers would perform three tasks: implement the Copenhagen Accord - the climate document crafted in Denmark but outside the UN process and the subject of much suspicion in the developing world; investigate ways to boost the negotiating process; and identify ways to achieve leverage against countries whose opinions differed to those of the EU.The council of economy and finance ministers is to co-ordinate the development of fast-track climate funds for developing countries, the short-term monies promised at Copenhagen to help poor nations cope with the effects of climate change and start to mitigate their carbon emissions.The aim is to use the fast-start funding as a trust-building measure, to show how serious the EU is in actually stumping up the cash.The competitiveness council will work on green business opportunities in the different member states and consider the implications of the Copenhagen Accord for industry. The key concern here are worries on the part of some companies about what has come to be known as carbon leakage - that they will lose out to foreign businesses that do not have to abide by climate legislation that is as strict as that of the EU.France is pushing strongly for a carbon tariff to be implemented at the EU's border, while other states, apart from Poland, so far seem to be lukewarm on the idea or opposed out of worries of sparking trade wars.The transport, energy and telecoms council for its part is to work on investments in low-carbon technologies such as solar power, wind energy, bio-energy, carbon capture and storage, nuclear fission and hydrogen-based transport.The task of the foreign affairs council meanwhile - in which the same foreign ministers that meet as the Gac focus on issues external to the EU rather than within the bloc - is more opaque, but will look at how to deploy external relations to support European climate strategy.
Outreach and fresh alliances
Mr Moratinos told reporters after the Gac meeting: What was missing [at Copenhagen] was a strategy of alliances to advance the goals of the EU.We do need to improve our negotiating skills. We need to seek out possible allies on the international scene to counter opposition.In this regard, Ms Hedegaard is soon to set out on a ‘goodwill' climate tour of the world and visit China, Brazil, and the United States, as well as attempt to reach out to African nations and small-island states.
The next Gac is to prepare a summary report of the work of the different councils and then feed the result of this into the next European Council - the meeting of heads of state and government from 25-26 March - whose main two topics will be climate strategy and the EU's next ten-year economic plan.Last week, the president of the European Commission wrote to the premiers and presidents of EU countries, arguing for Europe-wide unity in climate negotiations and informing them that he had asked the climate commissioner to consult with other countries in order to re-invigorate the international process. The result of this, President Barroso would then feed as his first assessment into the spring European Council.He also asked the leaders for their own reflections on the direction of the thinking of foreign powers.
In the wake of the Copenhagen debacle, European commentators, officials and politicians widely agreed that the bloc should speak with one voice on climate issues in the future. But whether this one voice is that of the European Commission or the European Council has yet to be settled.
MEPs lay down marker on financial supervision
ANDREW WILLIS Today FEB 24,10 @ 08:47 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - MEPs have laid down a tough marker for national capitals, with a series of reports on financial supervision seen as going much further than an EU leaders' agreement last December. We are not going to surrender. We are going to go into battle to convince the council [representing member states],said centre-right MEP José Manuel Garcia-Mergallo y Marfil during a meeting of parliament's economy committee on Tuesday (23 February). Mr Mergallo y Marfil, from Spain, is the author of the parliament's report on the proposed European Banking Authority, with the combined package of documents likely to play a key role in shaping the legislature's position on the future shape of Europe's financial supervisory framework. In the wake of the financial crisis, the European Commission proposed draft legislation to step up supervision of the sector last September, including proposals to create three new authorities in the banking, pension and securities sectors.But concerns that the new bodies, together with an overarching risk board to monitor Europe's financial sector as a whole, could overly infringe on member state decision-making led national capitals to agree on a watered-down version of the proposals. Now the co-legislating MEPs are looking to reset the balance, their beliefs on the need for greater supervision galvanised by recent events in Greece.
Amongst other proposals, Mr Garcia-Mergallo y Marfil's is calling for technical banking guidelines to be as binding as possible, in order to give them bite, and a central fund into which banks would have to contribute in order to pay for future bailouts.The ethos underpinning this report is more supervision, increased Europe and reduced risk for the taxpayer,he told colleagues.
Pensions, markets
Green MEP Sven Giegold presented his report on the European Securities and Markets Authority. Referring to the member state agreement that includes a complex appeals mechanism in case national capitals do not agree with the Authority's decisions, Mr Giegold said the quasi veto really is taking European legislation to the ridiculous.
Pointing to recent speculative attacks on Greece, he said the Markets Authority should have the power to restrict certain financial practices such as short-selling - betting on a fall in value of a particular asset - as it has very little to do with the real economy. Centre-left MEP Peter Skinner, author of the parliament's report on the proposed European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, said greater checks and balances needed to be added to the commission's original proposal in this area, but indicated it was preferable to the council's compromise agreement. The strong divergences in opinion between the reports and member state views, and the ongoing power struggle between EU institutions to gain influence over the proposed new bodies, could threaten to delay European plans to overhaul its supervisory framework. As we all know, there is competition between all the [EU] institutions to see how these babies grow up,said Mr Skinner. Parliament has said it hopes to vote on the financial package as a whole before the summer recess in mid-July, with both MEPs and member states keen to see the new bodies up and running by the end of 2010.
Afghanistan envoy flies the flag for new EU states
ANDREW RETTMAN Today FEB 24,10 @ 09:28 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU's new envoy to Afghanistan, Lithuanian diplomat Vygaudas Usackas, has said he aims to demonstrate that new member states are up to handling the bloc's top overseas postings.This appointment will be closely followed in Brussels. I feel an additional responsibility to prove to some hesitant colleagues in the EU community that the new member states can carry a heavy weight, he told EUobserver in a phone interview on Tuesday (23 February).By taking such a high profile job in one of the hotspots in terms of global security, I can show that a small country such as Lithuania can be a responsible international player.Mr Usackas, a 45-year-old father of two, will in April leave behind his family to go to Kabul, where he will take charge of around 80 staff as the EU Special Representative to Afghanistan and the head of the EU delegation in the Afghan capital.The move will see him become the second ever person from a new EU member state to lead one of the EU's 136 foreign missions, six years after the 2004 round of enlargement. The first was by a Hungarian diplomat in Norway. But the Afghanistan job is of a different magnitude.Afghanistan is a theatre of war for over 110,000 foreign troops including armed forces from 25 EU states. Lithuania itself has around 200 soldiers on the ground. But unlike in Lithuania, where public opinion supports the war, other EU countries are starting to pull out.It is also a huge recipient of EU aid, with around €8 billion pumped in by the European Commission and member states over the past eight years, and hosts one of the union's fastest-growing police missions.
Mr Usackas' job will be to advise President Hamid Karzai on the conduct of parliamentary elections in autumn, to help build Afghan government structures in pacified territories, oversee the influx of aid and speak on behalf of the EU. Of course, it's Nato and the US who are the main players in terms of security, but the EU also has unique capabilities in the area of soft security,he said.It's going to be up to the Afghan government to reach out to all parts of the country. I support the reconciliation and inclusion of all members of Afghan society who are ready to give up violence and armed conflict, and that may include moderate Taliban members.
The new EU envoy warned that Nato-caused civilian deaths, such as the incident in Uruzgan last Sunday which saw 27 casualties, are generating opposition to the international presence both inside Afghanistan and in Europe.In the EU people are becoming tired of this continuous engagement. It's of critical importance to address this issue, to emphasise again and again the indivisibility of European security from Afghan security and stability, not just in terms of terrorism, but also in terms of the war on drugs, he said.Mr Usackas earlier this month himself faced media allegations of helping to cover up a secret CIA prison in his time as Lithuania's foreign minister. He rejected the allegations as utterly groundless and said they did not come up in his interviews with top EU officials for the new posting. Mr Usackas also promised to blow the whistle if he discovers any abuses in Afghanistan by the EU or US side: From a personal point of view, and as a citizen of the EU, I would never tolerate violation of human rights,he told this website.
World trade falls by 12 percent in 2009
ANDREW WILLIS Today FEB 24,10 @ 17:19 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - World Trade Organisation director-general Pascal Lamy has said international trade fell by 12 percent in 2009, a marked deterioration on previous estimates which put the drop closer to 10 percent. Completion of the stalled Doha round of multilateral trade talks is therefore more necessary than ever, said Mr Lamy at an event organised by the European Policy Centre in Brussels on Wednesday (24 February).If there was a geopolitical consensus in launching the Doha development round in 2001 ...it is today economically imperative to complete it,he said. Originally designed to reduce barriers to trade for the world's poorer nations, the talks have become bogged down over the issue of US and EU farm subsidies and access to developing markets such as China and India. The round's slow progress, coupled with a breakdown in UN climate talks in Copenhagen last December, have led some analysts and policy-makers to question the future of multilateral negotiations. Questioned on his expectations for this year, Mr Lamy said he expected there would be pick-up in trade levels. Whether is short-term due to restocking, or long-term due to sustained demand ...it is too soon to say,he cautioned. Addressing EU concerns over a rise in non-tariff barriers in countries such as China, the former EU trade commissioner said this was an inevitable result of development in these countries, citing increased demand in product labeling by Chinese consumers as an example.
But he added that regional requirements must be justified and based on real science, and not an excuse to introduce protectionism by the backdoor. Certain European businesses have increasingly complained that they are being shut out from the Chinese market by an ever growing list of certification requirements, with technology companies in particular feeling the squeeze. Attention was drawn to the sector last month after Google said the cost of doing business in China may have become too high, leading the US giant to speculate on a possible pullout.
Van Rompuy insulted in parliament
HONOR MAHONY Today FEB 24,10 @ 17:32 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Herman Van Rompuy was subjected to a series of personal insults on Wednesday (24 February) spoiling his maiden appearance in the European Parliament as president of the European Council.Mid-way through a fairly tame exchange of views on EU policy, Mr Van Rompuy was visibly shocked and uncomfortable when comments by British eurosceptic MEP Nigel Farage took a personal turn.Speaking about Mr Van Rompuy's 15 minute introductory speech, Mr Farage said he had the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk.I have never heard of you. Nobody in Europe had ever heard of you,the British politician continued, referring to the former Belgian prime minister's surprise appointment late last year to chair the regular meetings of EU leaders. Virtually unknown outside Belgium, Mr Van Rompuy's low-key manner coupled with not having any pretensions to limelight-stealing were widely seen as key to him securing the job - a new post created by the Lisbon Treaty, in place since 1 December.Since then he has maintained the background approach but has started to make his presence felt by calling an informal economic summit earlier this month, suggesting EU leaders meet every month and making it clear that he intends to be a visible presence at the G20 meeting later this year. Mr Farage's outburst, which was rounded off with a back-handed compliment that Mr Van Rompuy was also competent and capable and dangerous, was immediately criticised by his colleagues.Joseph Daul, head of the centre-right EPP party, suggested the UK should leave the EU as it is apparently not pleased to be in the union.
Socialist leader Martin Schulz said it would be better for Mr Farage to resign." Mr Schulz also rounded on parliament chief Jerzy Buzek, who did not intervene during Mr Farage's speech.I am very disappointed with you Mr Buzek. I expected you as president to call this person to order.Mr Buzek, who indicated he had his own behind-the-scenes way of dealing with such incidents, said character assassinations are inadmissible in the European parliament.Later in the debate, Mr Van Rompuy dismissed Mr Farage's comments.There was one contribution that i can only hold in contempt but I'm not going to comment on that further,he said.
Beefed up border control agency to respect rights
VALENTINA POP Today FEB 24,10 @ 17:36 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The European Commission on Wednesday (24 February) proposed to strengthen the capabilities and the human rights training of the bloc's border control agency Frontex, a body criticised by watchdogs for its tolerance to some countries' abusive procedures against migrants.Under the proposals, the budget for Frontex will remain unchanged – €80 million a year. But unlike the past, member states who pledge to contribute with staff or equipment to the Warsaw-based body will have to stick to their promises, otherwise facing legal cases from the European Commission, home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said during a press conference. In her first press conference as EU commissioner, the former Swedish MEP who had always been an outspoken of human rights and transparency, pledged to keep a strong focus on the respect of fundamental rights of migrants. The proposals she tabled include an explicit requirement for all border guards taking part in operations to have been trained in fundamental rights, so that no migrants are sent from Europe before establishing if they are legitimate refugees or asylum seekers.
Return flights carried out by member states in co-operation with Frontex will have a member of a non-governmental organisation, such as the Red Cross, on board in order to ensure that no violation of human rights takes place.She said this first initiative was just one of a broader package of policy proposals dealing with asylum and migration. Interior ministers meeting on Wednesday in Brussels will have a first look at this blueprint, which also needs the approval of the European Parliament before being enacted.Pressed about the controversial role of Frontex last year in Italy's returning policy of migrants crossing the Mediterranean, Ms Malmstrom admitted that mistakes may have been made in the past.I don't exclude at all that errors were committed in the past, that's why I'm so keen to really reinforce that all the people involved in Frontex operations have the adequate education and know exactly what to do. Because of course, these people [the migrants] are not criminals, they are in the search for a better life and they have the right to be treated in a dignified way,she said.In a report published last year, human rights watchdog Amnesty International said that Frontex was helping Italian authorities in their forced return policy taking migrants directly back to Libya, where they face detention and blackmail.Civil groups have slammed as shameful the attitude from other EU member states who kept silence over Italy's gross violation of international conventions on refugees, stipulating that nobody should be sent back to countries where they may face inhuman treatment.
Ever since Rome signed a bilateral agreement with Tripoli last summer, migrant flows on the Mediterranean have decreased considerably. But the price to pay, according to several groups, is that legitimate asylum seekers and refugees from conflict zones such as Darfur are being imprisoned in poor conditions in African countries, even before they attempt to travel to Europe.Bjarte Vandvik, from the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, an umbrella group advocating for the rights of asylum seekers stressed that most of the scaremongering done by politicians in respect to irregular migrants had no factual basis.It was also quite embarrassing that in 2009 most refugees who landed in Malta, an EU member state in the middle of the Mediterranean, were resettled by the United States, not by any other European country, he told journalists in a briefing on Wednesday. The US is also the biggest resettler worldwide, with some two thirds of the 30-40,000 refugees registered yearly by the United Nations. Europe, on the other hand, only accounts for seven percent of that figure.European governments brag about their success in fighting irregular migration but refugees who are prevented from arriving to the European territory are paying the price of this success,said Alfredo Abad from Spanish Commission for Refugees, also present at the briefing organised by the human rights groups.
MEPs attack current plans for 2020 strategy
ANDREW WILLIS Today FEB 24,10 @ 19:44 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Current EU proposals for the bloc's new 10-year economic plan merely represent more of the same failed policies witnessed throughout the past decade, say MEPs. The accusation was leveled at European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso and European Council president Herman Van Rompuy when they attended parliament's plenary session in Brussels on Wednesday (22 February). Both men presented papers to EU leaders at an informal summit in Brussels earlier this month, stressing the need for a smaller number of EU economic objectives in the new strategy, but shying away from sanctions for member states that fail to meet national targets.I hope that the commission comes forward with a much more ambitious document on the 3 March than the disappointing [informal European] council conclusions,said Liberal leader Guy Verhofstadt. The commission's communication on the EU2020 strategy - as the new plan is currently referred to - will feed into a EU leaders' summit at the end of March. Instead of sanctions for member states, the EU's current economic plan that expires at the end of 2010 - the Lisbon Strategy - has relied on a peer review system known as the open method of co-ordination. The weak enforcement mechanism has been widely blamed for Europe's failure to meet ambitious goals set out in 2000. Mr Verhofstadt called on Mr Van Rompuy to come forward with a new paper for the next EU summit in March, saying his current ideas merely represented a better version of the failed OMC method. Green co-president Rebecca Harms accused Mr Barroso of failing to address the flaws in the Lisbon Strategy, while Socialist MEP Stephen Hughes said the 2020 plan must incorporate an ambitious social market agenda.He also cautioned that the tight EU budget consolidation timetables set out by the commission risked hampering the region's economic recovery.
Greece
The need for greater European economic co-ordination and effective measures to deal with the ongoing debt crisis in Greece were also repeatedly stressed by deputies in the packed chamber.Centre-right EPP leader Joseph Daul welcomed a recent EU declaration of 'solidarity' with the Greek administration, diplomatic language for a potential bailout if needed, but questioned whether Europe was equal to it. A number of EU states such as Germany are concerned that a bailout of one member state could potentially lead to several more. Greater economic co-ordination is being increasingly touted as a means of dealing with the eurozone's current economic woes. Former centre-right French prime minister Edouard Balladur last week launched a proposal for eurozone members to submit their annual budgets to the 16-country bloc for majority approval.Mr Daul called on the commission and European Council to look into the idea.
Netanyahu: Israel Renovating Muslim Side of Machpelah Cave
by Gil Ronen FEB 24,10
(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu fought back Wednesday against Arab accusations over a decision to place two Jewish holy sites in Judea on a list of Israel's national heritage sites. He noted that renovation work is currently being carried out on the Muslim side of the Cave of Machpelah, also known as the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron.Israel is committed to freedom of worship for adherents of all religions in all of the holy sites, Netanyahu stated. This policy is implemented in the Cave of Machpelah, too, where the state is always working to ensure proper conditions for worship for both Jews and Muslims.Inside Cave of Machpelah (Tomb of the Patriarchs) / Flash 90
Evidence of this is, for example, the renovation work that is currently being completed at the entrance plaza and the road that leads to the Muslim prayer area at the site.Any attempt to claim otherwise, he said, is an artificial attempt to twist reality and provoke strife.MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union), chairman of the newly established Land of Israel Lobby in the Knesset, told Arutz Sheva that the decision to include the Cave of Machpelah and Rachel's Tomb in the list of heritage sites was the lobby's first success.The roots of the Nation of Israel are in the heritage sites of Judea and Samaria,he said.We will act to include additional sites like Joseph's Tomb and Tel Shiloh to the list of heritage sites.
Son of Hamas Leader was Top Spy for Israel
by Gil Ronen FEB 24,10
(IsraelNN.com) Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of jailed Hamas terrorist leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, operated undercover in the service of Israel's intelligence agency for a decade. Yousef reveals this information in an upcoming book, and in an interview with Israeli newspaper Haaretz to be published this weekend.According to the newspaper, the intelligence Yousef supplied led to the arrests of several high-ranking terrorists including Ibrahim Hamid, a Hamas terror commander in Judea and Samaria, as well as Fatah strongman Marwan Barghouti and Hamas bomb-maker Abdullah Barghouti.Mosab Hassan Yousef converted to Christianity and moved to the U.S. in 2007, where the book he co-wrote, Son of Hamas, is due to be published shortly. He said that after he converted to Christianity, he decided he had to escape and live my life away from violence, because I couldn't coexist with that situation as a Christian.He provided very important information [as did] hundreds of others fighting against terror, MK Gideon Ezra (Kadima), formerly deputy chief of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), told BBC World Service. Haaretz said that Yousef was considered Shin Bet's most reliable source in the Hamas leadership. The amazing thing is that none of his actions were done for money,said his ISA handler, who is named in the book as Captain Loai.Yousef's father, who has great influence within Hamas, was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council in January 2006 from his prison cell.
Appalled by Torture
Yousef has said that from an early age he was appalled by the brutality of the Hamas movement. Hamas, they are using civilians' lives, they are using children, they are using the suffering of people every day to achieve their goals. And this is what I hate,he said. In an interview with Fox News in 2008, Yousef said that when he was 18 years old, he was arrested and placed in an Israeli jail.Hamas had control of its members inside the jail and I saw their torture; [they were] torturing people in a very, very bad way... Hamas leaders that we see on TV now, and big leaders, [were] responsible for torturing their own members. They didn't torture me, but that was a shock for me, to see them torturing people: putting needles under their nails, burning their bodies. And they killed lots of them... I was a witness for about a year for this torture. So that was a huge change in my life.
Islam is the Problem
The problem is not Hamas, the problem is not people. The root of the problem is Islam itself as an idea,he added. He said he saw no chance for Israel and the PA to make peace.
Knesset Proposal: Annex All Jewish Towns in Land of Israel
by Hillel Fendel FEB 24,10
(IsraelNN.com) The Ministerial Committee for Legislation will consider a bill proposed by MK Yaakov Katz (Ketzaleh) on the annexation of Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria (Yesha). The bill was supported last year by Prime Minister Netanyahu himself.The legislation committee is charged with deciding whether or not the government will back proposed legislation – often the critical factor in whether a given bill will be passed or defeated. It will vote on Katz’s new bill at its next weekly meeting, this coming Tuesday (after the Purim holiday).The bill proposes that the Jewish towns of Judea and Samaria be annexed to Israel, just as eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights have been annexed in the past.The bill was proposed in the previous Knesset by former MK Benny Elon, whom Katz succeeded, in many respects, in the Knesset. The bill was co-signed at the time by many MKs, among them Binyamin Netanyahu and other current Likud party Cabinet ministers such as Limor Livnat, Silvan Shalom, Yisrael Katz, Gideon Saar, Michael Eitan, Gilad Erdan, Yuval Steinitz, and more. MKs from other parties also signed at the time.Explaining the proposed law, Katz said, Following the liberation of parts of our national homeland in the 1967 Six Day War, Israeli law was applied to the areas in which 300,000 Jews live in the liberated neighborhoods of Jerusalem, and to those in which reside 20,000 Jews in the Golan. The time has now come to create a similar situation to the 350,000 Jews of Judea and Samaria. I am sure that the ministers, who co-signed the law last year, will now reaffirm their support and their signatures.
Only Jewish towns annexed
Some 26 MKs are currently co-signed on the bill. No ministers or deputy ministers are among them, in keeping with the requirement that legislation sponsors not serve in those positions. Among the co-signers are MKs Levine, Hotovely, Elkin, Danon and Shama of the Likud; Rotem, Michaeli and Miller of Israel Our Home; Orbach of the Jewish Home; Ariel, Eldad, and Ben-Ari of the National Union; Moses and Maklev of United Torah Judaism, and Ze’ev, Vaknin, and Amsalem of Shas.The legislation states: The law, jurisdiction and administration of the State shall apply in the following cities, regional councils, and local councils, and the communities therein, followed by a list of the Jewish cities and councils in Judea and Samaria: Oranit, Alfei Menashe, Elkanah, Efrat, Ariel, Beit El, Beit Aryeh-Ofarim, Beitar Illit, Mateh Binyamin, Jordan Valley, Givat Ze’ev, Gush Etzion, Har Adar, Mt. Hevron, Dead Sea Scrolls, Modiin Illit, Maaleh Adumim, Maaleh Ephraim, Emanuel, Kedumim, Kiryat Arba, Karnei Shomron, and Shomron.The proposal emphasizes that it does not call for the annexation of all of Judea and Samaria to the State of Israel, but only of the Jewish towns there and their residents. Acknowledging that most or all of the Arabs in Judea and Samaria are now subject to Palestinian Authority law, it states,The current situation creates an absurdity, in that the only citizens who are discriminated against are the Israelis – who must pay income tax and various fees, but do not receive all the rights of citizens; they are tried [in certain cases] in military courts, not civilian ones.The Knesset has already passed several measures applying parts of Israeli law to the Jewish towns in Yesha [Judea and Samaria],the proposal continues, but not in a uniform, systematic manner. As [former Meretz party MK] Prof. Amnon Rubenstein has written in his book entitled Constitutional Law: From a logical standpoint, it would be simpler if the Army administration [that officially governs Judea and Samaria] would apply Israel law in totality on all the Jewish local councils, instead of this patch-up job the government currently utilizes.This legislation is hereby proposed in order to stop the discrimination against the Israeli citizens and in order to create uniformity in the law.
The Birth of the World' Musical at Emunah College in Jerusalem
by Rachel Sylvetsky FEB 24,10
(IsraelNN.com) An original musical play for women only was performed this week to sold-out audiences at the Emunah College of Arts and Technology in Jerusalem. Called Today is the Birth of the World, an expression taken from the prayers recited on the Jewish New Year, Rosh HaShanah, the musical takes place in the obstetrics ward of a hospital whose patients are mainly observant women. This setting is the vehicle for the chance meeting of younger and older characters representing the many variants of the religious woman’s world. They include hareidi women who head the hospital’s volunteers and a Sephardi do gooder; the daughter of one of them who is undergoing fertility treatments and tries to do good deeds to merit a child; a newly religious woman who is faced with a choice of aborting a child with possible birth defects; and her career woman neo-Orthodox sister. The cast also includes a hareidi lawyer who runs her life by cell phone while under pre-natal care, a Chabad emissary’s wife, an unmarried doctor who has to find a path between the scientific and her patients’ spiritual approach to problems, a Russian cleaning woman and a medical clown. All of the women deal with the roles of daughter, wife and mother, finding a mutual language over a period of two days in the hospital ward, where the emotions of childbirth, motherly love, ongoing family relationships and, above all, the yearning for a child, are daily experiences. Stories of the Baal Shem Tov and other Chassidic tales on these topics are woven into the fabric of the play, subconsciously influencing the women’s lives as part of their heritage.
The Emunah College of Arts and Technology for Women is an Academic Teachers College for Women in Jerusalem. It includes a Drama Department, the first in religious Jewish higher education for women, where young women are trained to teach and use drama to enrich the teaching of other subjects such as Bible, as well as studying the many professional skills used in dramatic productions. The College is a project of Emunah of America, founded in the early 1970s and also includes prize-winning Graphic and Fine Arts among its departments.The script was written by director and playwright Iris Shavit and the music by composer and singer Michal Lotan. Rabbi Chaim Fogel and Rabbi Yehoshua Vider were the Halakhic consultants for the production.
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IDF Supervises Replanting Olive Trees at Separation Barrier
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu FEB 24,10
(IsraelNN.com) The IDF has coordinated with Arabs for the planting of approximately 200 olive trees, as ordered by the High Court, following the re-location of the security barrier near Bilin, not far from Ben Gurion International Airport. The new route of the fence gives Arabs 40 percent of the land that had originally been expropriated.The planting work was carried our by a civilian company on behalf of the Defense Ministry, according to the IDF Spokesman's office. Workers replanted the trees on the eastern, Arab-controlled side of the fence after removing them from the western side. Construction on the new route began two weeks ago.The High Court ruled two and a half years ago that the fence's route must be changed, in order to leave nearly 175 acres adjacent to the town of Bilin. Arabs and anarchists, however, have continued weekly and violent demonstrations there, arguing against the very existence of the fence. The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) reported that international activists worked with Arabs on Monday to plant almond and olive trees. It also claimed that a soldier fired a warning shot in the air after activists tried to plant immediately adjacent to the fence, which is kept clear on both sides to allow trackers to spot terrorists.The ISM said it has organized the weekly protests, which have resulted in hundreds of injuries to soldiers and Arabs. Its website called the protests non-violent.
By Jennifer Harper INSIDE THE BELTWAY FEB 24,10
EXPLOSIVE NEWS
A lingering technical question about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks still haunts some, and it has political implications: How did 200,000 tons of steel disintegrate and drop in 11 seconds? A thousand architects and engineers want to know, and are calling on Congress to order a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center. In order to bring down this kind of mass in such a short period of time, the material must have been artificially, exploded outwards,says Richard Gage, a San Francisco architect and founder of the nonprofit Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. Mr. Gage, who is a member of the American Institute of Architects, managed to persuade more than 1,000 of his peers to sign a new petition requesting a formal inquiry. The official Federal Emergency Management [Agency] and National Institute of Standards and Technology reports provide insufficient, contradictory and fraudulent accounts of the circumstances of the towers' destruction. We are therefore calling for a grand jury investigation of NIST officials,Mr. Gage adds. The technical issues surrounding the collapse of the towers has prompted years of debate, rebuttal and ridicule. He is particularly disturbed by Building 7, a 47-story skyscraper, which was not hit by an aircraft, yet came down in pure free-fall acceleration.He also says that more than 100 first-responders reported explosions and flashes as the towers were falling and cited evidence of multi-ton steel sections ejected laterally 600 ft. at 60 mph and the mid-air pulverization of 90,000 tons of concrete & metal decking.
There is also evidence of advanced explosive nano-thermitic composite material found in the World Trade Center dust,Mr. Gage says. The group's petition at www. ae911truth.org is already on its way to members of Congress. Government officials will be notified that Misprision of Treason,U.S. Code 18 (Sec. 2382), is a serious federal offense, which requires those with evidence of treason to act,Mr. Gage says. The implications are enormous and may have profound impact on the forthcoming Khalid Shaikh Mohammed trial.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
EU privacy watchdog hammers secret anti-piracy talks
LEIGH PHILLIPS 23.02.2010 @ 09:23 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Union's data privacy watchdog has hammered the European Commission for engaging in secret international negotiations over the enforcement of intellectual property rights.The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), Peter Hustinx, on Monday (22 February) issued a formal opinion concluding that the EU executive was endangering EU data protection rules and even internet users' fundamental rights by engaging in talks with the US, Canada, Japan and other powers on a new multilateral agreement to combat counterfeiting and piracy - the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta). The EDPS regrets that he was not consulted by the European Commission on the content of an agreement that raises significant issues as regards individuals' fundamental rights, and in particular their right to privacy and data protection,Mr Hustinx' office said in a statement.He views with concern the fact that little information is publicly made available about current negotiations.Leaks about the negotiations have been dripfed to the media by sources close to the talks. The latest one, the most recent negotiating text, was leaked to IDG News Service, a technology news outlet, on Friday.In response to the new text, Mr Hustinx assessed there to be a potential incompatibility between envisaged measures and data protection requirements,and raised fears that the Acta legal framework could result in large scale monitoring of internet users and the international imposition of three strikes laws, such as that recently passed in France, which cuts off internet access of people accused of illegal downloading.
Whereas intellectual property is important to society and must be protected, it should not be placed above individuals' fundamental rights to privacy and data protection,he said.Mr Hustinx added that less instrusive means should be found to fight piracy and that the EU should implement appropriate safeguards to all data transfers" between itself and other recipients outside the bloc.He also wants the EU to proceed more openly with negotiations over Acta, suggesting a public consultation.
Although MEPs have requested access to the documents, the commission has failed to do so because it would require the prior approval of all nine other partners to the talks: the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Singapore, Jordan, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.The EDPS opinion comes just as the UK government announced it is to back away from three strikes-style legislation, first proposed last year.London said in a statement on Monday that: We will not terminate the accounts of infringers - it is very hard to see how this could be deemed proportionate except in the most extreme and therefore probably criminal cases.
Protests roll out across crisis-hit EU states
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today FEB 24,10 @ 09:28 CET
Tens of thousands of Spaniards protested on Tuesday (23 February) evening across the country in anger at the government's plans to raise the retirement age.Some 70,000 took part in the demonstration in Madrid and 50,000 in Barcelona, according to organisers. Police estimated the crowd to be much less. The protests are the first of a wave of rolling demonstrations planned for other towns and cities lasting until 6 March, with similar action expected in some of the EU's worst crisis-hit economies - Portugal, Ireland and Greece - which, together with Spain are collectively known by the acronym PIGS. Called by the UGT and CCOO trade unions, the Spanish demonstrators focussed their anger on the Socialist government's announced raising of the retirement age from 65 to 67, along with cuts to the public sector of €50 billion phased in over three years and a civil service hiring freeze.The austerity measures, announced by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in January, are aimed at bringing down the state's public deficit, which exploded as a result of the economic crisis to some 11.4 percent of GDP, well above the 3 percent limit imposed by Eurozone rules.Protesters for their part say that it is unfair that they bear the burden of a crisis caused not by them but by banks and other financial institutions. The cuts are massively unpopular, with some 84 percent of the population opposed, according to a poll by Spanish centre-left daily El Pais.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, in Spain, which currently chairs the EU's six-month rotating presidency, for a joint meeting of the commission and the Spanish cabinet, offered Mr Zapatero moral support ahead of the protests, and called on all EU member states to make similar changes to their pension systems.
There is in fact a problem and reforms must be made to pension systems in general, he told reporters in Madrid alongside the Spanish prime minister, as citizens are living longer lives and having fewer children.The protests also came as Greece steeled itself for a general strike against its own socialist government's austerity programme.Some 2 million people, opposed to the centre-left Pasok administration's planned cuts to government spending, are expected to down tools. Athens is under heavy pressure from financial markets and the EU itself to reduce its public deficit of 12.7 percent. The government has pledged to chop it down to 8.7 percent this year.
On Tuesday, ahead of the strike, the Athens Stock Exchange was blockaded by workers from the PAME union. The main entrances were barricaded although remote trading was able to continue.Separately, Portuguese unions announced a general strike scheduled for 4 March against yet another centre-left government's cutbacks aimed at getting public finances under control.
EU climate chief: No climate deal likely before 2012 LEIGH PHILLIPS
23.02.2010 @ 20:31 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Global divisions on climate are so acute that a binding UN deal is unlikely for almost another two years, Europe's new climate commissioner believes.Speaking to a meeting of the foreign ministers of EU member states in Brussels on Monday, commissioner Connie Hedegaard warned that while she very much hoped for a legally binding deal to be reached as soon as possible, this was most likely not achievable before the Cop 17 - shorthand for the meeting of the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is to take place in December 2011 in South Africa.As talks ahead of the Copenhagen climate conference last December began to become ensnarled with mistrust between rich and poor countries, the European Commission had predicted that if an agreement could not be reached in the Danish capital, this could at least be achieved within the first three to six months of 2010, while Sweden, then holding the rotating chairmanship of the EU, had more pessimistically said that a binding accord could take up to another year.
But now the pessimism has taken further hold.
According to a source close to the closed-door discussion by foreign ministers, Ms Hedegaard said that an agreement would have to wait for the South African meeting because this would finally be hosted by one of the so-called Basic (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) countries, the most powerful of the globe's developing nations and to a contested extent the leaders of the southern position in climate talks,As a result, said Ms Hedegaard, the EU would have to take a step-wise approach, meaning a more realistic focus on what gains could be achieved and built upon each step of the way in anticipation of a more comprehensive international deal won at some point down the road.As she later told reporters: We need to know what the deliverables are in Bonn [the next international meeting], and then in Mexico [the Cop 16], and we need to sort that out very explicitly.
EU climate exec committee
The meeting of foreign ministers, gathered in Monday in the guise of the EU's General Affairs Council(referred to in Brussels circles as the Gac), supported a Spanish EU presidency proposal that the Gac take on the role of a sort of executive committee of the EU's climate strategy, co-ordinating the climate change actions of each of the various other Council of Ministers formations.A work plan of actions to be executed by the different councils was agreed. The next council of environment ministers would perform three tasks: implement the Copenhagen Accord - the climate document crafted in Denmark but outside the UN process and the subject of much suspicion in the developing world; investigate ways to boost the negotiating process; and identify ways to achieve leverage against countries whose opinions differed to those of the EU.The council of economy and finance ministers is to co-ordinate the development of fast-track climate funds for developing countries, the short-term monies promised at Copenhagen to help poor nations cope with the effects of climate change and start to mitigate their carbon emissions.The aim is to use the fast-start funding as a trust-building measure, to show how serious the EU is in actually stumping up the cash.The competitiveness council will work on green business opportunities in the different member states and consider the implications of the Copenhagen Accord for industry. The key concern here are worries on the part of some companies about what has come to be known as carbon leakage - that they will lose out to foreign businesses that do not have to abide by climate legislation that is as strict as that of the EU.France is pushing strongly for a carbon tariff to be implemented at the EU's border, while other states, apart from Poland, so far seem to be lukewarm on the idea or opposed out of worries of sparking trade wars.The transport, energy and telecoms council for its part is to work on investments in low-carbon technologies such as solar power, wind energy, bio-energy, carbon capture and storage, nuclear fission and hydrogen-based transport.The task of the foreign affairs council meanwhile - in which the same foreign ministers that meet as the Gac focus on issues external to the EU rather than within the bloc - is more opaque, but will look at how to deploy external relations to support European climate strategy.
Outreach and fresh alliances
Mr Moratinos told reporters after the Gac meeting: What was missing [at Copenhagen] was a strategy of alliances to advance the goals of the EU.We do need to improve our negotiating skills. We need to seek out possible allies on the international scene to counter opposition.In this regard, Ms Hedegaard is soon to set out on a ‘goodwill' climate tour of the world and visit China, Brazil, and the United States, as well as attempt to reach out to African nations and small-island states.
The next Gac is to prepare a summary report of the work of the different councils and then feed the result of this into the next European Council - the meeting of heads of state and government from 25-26 March - whose main two topics will be climate strategy and the EU's next ten-year economic plan.Last week, the president of the European Commission wrote to the premiers and presidents of EU countries, arguing for Europe-wide unity in climate negotiations and informing them that he had asked the climate commissioner to consult with other countries in order to re-invigorate the international process. The result of this, President Barroso would then feed as his first assessment into the spring European Council.He also asked the leaders for their own reflections on the direction of the thinking of foreign powers.
In the wake of the Copenhagen debacle, European commentators, officials and politicians widely agreed that the bloc should speak with one voice on climate issues in the future. But whether this one voice is that of the European Commission or the European Council has yet to be settled.
MEPs lay down marker on financial supervision
ANDREW WILLIS Today FEB 24,10 @ 08:47 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - MEPs have laid down a tough marker for national capitals, with a series of reports on financial supervision seen as going much further than an EU leaders' agreement last December. We are not going to surrender. We are going to go into battle to convince the council [representing member states],said centre-right MEP José Manuel Garcia-Mergallo y Marfil during a meeting of parliament's economy committee on Tuesday (23 February). Mr Mergallo y Marfil, from Spain, is the author of the parliament's report on the proposed European Banking Authority, with the combined package of documents likely to play a key role in shaping the legislature's position on the future shape of Europe's financial supervisory framework. In the wake of the financial crisis, the European Commission proposed draft legislation to step up supervision of the sector last September, including proposals to create three new authorities in the banking, pension and securities sectors.But concerns that the new bodies, together with an overarching risk board to monitor Europe's financial sector as a whole, could overly infringe on member state decision-making led national capitals to agree on a watered-down version of the proposals. Now the co-legislating MEPs are looking to reset the balance, their beliefs on the need for greater supervision galvanised by recent events in Greece.
Amongst other proposals, Mr Garcia-Mergallo y Marfil's is calling for technical banking guidelines to be as binding as possible, in order to give them bite, and a central fund into which banks would have to contribute in order to pay for future bailouts.The ethos underpinning this report is more supervision, increased Europe and reduced risk for the taxpayer,he told colleagues.
Pensions, markets
Green MEP Sven Giegold presented his report on the European Securities and Markets Authority. Referring to the member state agreement that includes a complex appeals mechanism in case national capitals do not agree with the Authority's decisions, Mr Giegold said the quasi veto really is taking European legislation to the ridiculous.
Pointing to recent speculative attacks on Greece, he said the Markets Authority should have the power to restrict certain financial practices such as short-selling - betting on a fall in value of a particular asset - as it has very little to do with the real economy. Centre-left MEP Peter Skinner, author of the parliament's report on the proposed European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, said greater checks and balances needed to be added to the commission's original proposal in this area, but indicated it was preferable to the council's compromise agreement. The strong divergences in opinion between the reports and member state views, and the ongoing power struggle between EU institutions to gain influence over the proposed new bodies, could threaten to delay European plans to overhaul its supervisory framework. As we all know, there is competition between all the [EU] institutions to see how these babies grow up,said Mr Skinner. Parliament has said it hopes to vote on the financial package as a whole before the summer recess in mid-July, with both MEPs and member states keen to see the new bodies up and running by the end of 2010.
Afghanistan envoy flies the flag for new EU states
ANDREW RETTMAN Today FEB 24,10 @ 09:28 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU's new envoy to Afghanistan, Lithuanian diplomat Vygaudas Usackas, has said he aims to demonstrate that new member states are up to handling the bloc's top overseas postings.This appointment will be closely followed in Brussels. I feel an additional responsibility to prove to some hesitant colleagues in the EU community that the new member states can carry a heavy weight, he told EUobserver in a phone interview on Tuesday (23 February).By taking such a high profile job in one of the hotspots in terms of global security, I can show that a small country such as Lithuania can be a responsible international player.Mr Usackas, a 45-year-old father of two, will in April leave behind his family to go to Kabul, where he will take charge of around 80 staff as the EU Special Representative to Afghanistan and the head of the EU delegation in the Afghan capital.The move will see him become the second ever person from a new EU member state to lead one of the EU's 136 foreign missions, six years after the 2004 round of enlargement. The first was by a Hungarian diplomat in Norway. But the Afghanistan job is of a different magnitude.Afghanistan is a theatre of war for over 110,000 foreign troops including armed forces from 25 EU states. Lithuania itself has around 200 soldiers on the ground. But unlike in Lithuania, where public opinion supports the war, other EU countries are starting to pull out.It is also a huge recipient of EU aid, with around €8 billion pumped in by the European Commission and member states over the past eight years, and hosts one of the union's fastest-growing police missions.
Mr Usackas' job will be to advise President Hamid Karzai on the conduct of parliamentary elections in autumn, to help build Afghan government structures in pacified territories, oversee the influx of aid and speak on behalf of the EU. Of course, it's Nato and the US who are the main players in terms of security, but the EU also has unique capabilities in the area of soft security,he said.It's going to be up to the Afghan government to reach out to all parts of the country. I support the reconciliation and inclusion of all members of Afghan society who are ready to give up violence and armed conflict, and that may include moderate Taliban members.
The new EU envoy warned that Nato-caused civilian deaths, such as the incident in Uruzgan last Sunday which saw 27 casualties, are generating opposition to the international presence both inside Afghanistan and in Europe.In the EU people are becoming tired of this continuous engagement. It's of critical importance to address this issue, to emphasise again and again the indivisibility of European security from Afghan security and stability, not just in terms of terrorism, but also in terms of the war on drugs, he said.Mr Usackas earlier this month himself faced media allegations of helping to cover up a secret CIA prison in his time as Lithuania's foreign minister. He rejected the allegations as utterly groundless and said they did not come up in his interviews with top EU officials for the new posting. Mr Usackas also promised to blow the whistle if he discovers any abuses in Afghanistan by the EU or US side: From a personal point of view, and as a citizen of the EU, I would never tolerate violation of human rights,he told this website.
World trade falls by 12 percent in 2009
ANDREW WILLIS Today FEB 24,10 @ 17:19 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - World Trade Organisation director-general Pascal Lamy has said international trade fell by 12 percent in 2009, a marked deterioration on previous estimates which put the drop closer to 10 percent. Completion of the stalled Doha round of multilateral trade talks is therefore more necessary than ever, said Mr Lamy at an event organised by the European Policy Centre in Brussels on Wednesday (24 February).If there was a geopolitical consensus in launching the Doha development round in 2001 ...it is today economically imperative to complete it,he said. Originally designed to reduce barriers to trade for the world's poorer nations, the talks have become bogged down over the issue of US and EU farm subsidies and access to developing markets such as China and India. The round's slow progress, coupled with a breakdown in UN climate talks in Copenhagen last December, have led some analysts and policy-makers to question the future of multilateral negotiations. Questioned on his expectations for this year, Mr Lamy said he expected there would be pick-up in trade levels. Whether is short-term due to restocking, or long-term due to sustained demand ...it is too soon to say,he cautioned. Addressing EU concerns over a rise in non-tariff barriers in countries such as China, the former EU trade commissioner said this was an inevitable result of development in these countries, citing increased demand in product labeling by Chinese consumers as an example.
But he added that regional requirements must be justified and based on real science, and not an excuse to introduce protectionism by the backdoor. Certain European businesses have increasingly complained that they are being shut out from the Chinese market by an ever growing list of certification requirements, with technology companies in particular feeling the squeeze. Attention was drawn to the sector last month after Google said the cost of doing business in China may have become too high, leading the US giant to speculate on a possible pullout.
Van Rompuy insulted in parliament
HONOR MAHONY Today FEB 24,10 @ 17:32 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Herman Van Rompuy was subjected to a series of personal insults on Wednesday (24 February) spoiling his maiden appearance in the European Parliament as president of the European Council.Mid-way through a fairly tame exchange of views on EU policy, Mr Van Rompuy was visibly shocked and uncomfortable when comments by British eurosceptic MEP Nigel Farage took a personal turn.Speaking about Mr Van Rompuy's 15 minute introductory speech, Mr Farage said he had the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk.I have never heard of you. Nobody in Europe had ever heard of you,the British politician continued, referring to the former Belgian prime minister's surprise appointment late last year to chair the regular meetings of EU leaders. Virtually unknown outside Belgium, Mr Van Rompuy's low-key manner coupled with not having any pretensions to limelight-stealing were widely seen as key to him securing the job - a new post created by the Lisbon Treaty, in place since 1 December.Since then he has maintained the background approach but has started to make his presence felt by calling an informal economic summit earlier this month, suggesting EU leaders meet every month and making it clear that he intends to be a visible presence at the G20 meeting later this year. Mr Farage's outburst, which was rounded off with a back-handed compliment that Mr Van Rompuy was also competent and capable and dangerous, was immediately criticised by his colleagues.Joseph Daul, head of the centre-right EPP party, suggested the UK should leave the EU as it is apparently not pleased to be in the union.
Socialist leader Martin Schulz said it would be better for Mr Farage to resign." Mr Schulz also rounded on parliament chief Jerzy Buzek, who did not intervene during Mr Farage's speech.I am very disappointed with you Mr Buzek. I expected you as president to call this person to order.Mr Buzek, who indicated he had his own behind-the-scenes way of dealing with such incidents, said character assassinations are inadmissible in the European parliament.Later in the debate, Mr Van Rompuy dismissed Mr Farage's comments.There was one contribution that i can only hold in contempt but I'm not going to comment on that further,he said.
Beefed up border control agency to respect rights
VALENTINA POP Today FEB 24,10 @ 17:36 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The European Commission on Wednesday (24 February) proposed to strengthen the capabilities and the human rights training of the bloc's border control agency Frontex, a body criticised by watchdogs for its tolerance to some countries' abusive procedures against migrants.Under the proposals, the budget for Frontex will remain unchanged – €80 million a year. But unlike the past, member states who pledge to contribute with staff or equipment to the Warsaw-based body will have to stick to their promises, otherwise facing legal cases from the European Commission, home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said during a press conference. In her first press conference as EU commissioner, the former Swedish MEP who had always been an outspoken of human rights and transparency, pledged to keep a strong focus on the respect of fundamental rights of migrants. The proposals she tabled include an explicit requirement for all border guards taking part in operations to have been trained in fundamental rights, so that no migrants are sent from Europe before establishing if they are legitimate refugees or asylum seekers.
Return flights carried out by member states in co-operation with Frontex will have a member of a non-governmental organisation, such as the Red Cross, on board in order to ensure that no violation of human rights takes place.She said this first initiative was just one of a broader package of policy proposals dealing with asylum and migration. Interior ministers meeting on Wednesday in Brussels will have a first look at this blueprint, which also needs the approval of the European Parliament before being enacted.Pressed about the controversial role of Frontex last year in Italy's returning policy of migrants crossing the Mediterranean, Ms Malmstrom admitted that mistakes may have been made in the past.I don't exclude at all that errors were committed in the past, that's why I'm so keen to really reinforce that all the people involved in Frontex operations have the adequate education and know exactly what to do. Because of course, these people [the migrants] are not criminals, they are in the search for a better life and they have the right to be treated in a dignified way,she said.In a report published last year, human rights watchdog Amnesty International said that Frontex was helping Italian authorities in their forced return policy taking migrants directly back to Libya, where they face detention and blackmail.Civil groups have slammed as shameful the attitude from other EU member states who kept silence over Italy's gross violation of international conventions on refugees, stipulating that nobody should be sent back to countries where they may face inhuman treatment.
Ever since Rome signed a bilateral agreement with Tripoli last summer, migrant flows on the Mediterranean have decreased considerably. But the price to pay, according to several groups, is that legitimate asylum seekers and refugees from conflict zones such as Darfur are being imprisoned in poor conditions in African countries, even before they attempt to travel to Europe.Bjarte Vandvik, from the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, an umbrella group advocating for the rights of asylum seekers stressed that most of the scaremongering done by politicians in respect to irregular migrants had no factual basis.It was also quite embarrassing that in 2009 most refugees who landed in Malta, an EU member state in the middle of the Mediterranean, were resettled by the United States, not by any other European country, he told journalists in a briefing on Wednesday. The US is also the biggest resettler worldwide, with some two thirds of the 30-40,000 refugees registered yearly by the United Nations. Europe, on the other hand, only accounts for seven percent of that figure.European governments brag about their success in fighting irregular migration but refugees who are prevented from arriving to the European territory are paying the price of this success,said Alfredo Abad from Spanish Commission for Refugees, also present at the briefing organised by the human rights groups.
MEPs attack current plans for 2020 strategy
ANDREW WILLIS Today FEB 24,10 @ 19:44 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Current EU proposals for the bloc's new 10-year economic plan merely represent more of the same failed policies witnessed throughout the past decade, say MEPs. The accusation was leveled at European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso and European Council president Herman Van Rompuy when they attended parliament's plenary session in Brussels on Wednesday (22 February). Both men presented papers to EU leaders at an informal summit in Brussels earlier this month, stressing the need for a smaller number of EU economic objectives in the new strategy, but shying away from sanctions for member states that fail to meet national targets.I hope that the commission comes forward with a much more ambitious document on the 3 March than the disappointing [informal European] council conclusions,said Liberal leader Guy Verhofstadt. The commission's communication on the EU2020 strategy - as the new plan is currently referred to - will feed into a EU leaders' summit at the end of March. Instead of sanctions for member states, the EU's current economic plan that expires at the end of 2010 - the Lisbon Strategy - has relied on a peer review system known as the open method of co-ordination. The weak enforcement mechanism has been widely blamed for Europe's failure to meet ambitious goals set out in 2000. Mr Verhofstadt called on Mr Van Rompuy to come forward with a new paper for the next EU summit in March, saying his current ideas merely represented a better version of the failed OMC method. Green co-president Rebecca Harms accused Mr Barroso of failing to address the flaws in the Lisbon Strategy, while Socialist MEP Stephen Hughes said the 2020 plan must incorporate an ambitious social market agenda.He also cautioned that the tight EU budget consolidation timetables set out by the commission risked hampering the region's economic recovery.
Greece
The need for greater European economic co-ordination and effective measures to deal with the ongoing debt crisis in Greece were also repeatedly stressed by deputies in the packed chamber.Centre-right EPP leader Joseph Daul welcomed a recent EU declaration of 'solidarity' with the Greek administration, diplomatic language for a potential bailout if needed, but questioned whether Europe was equal to it. A number of EU states such as Germany are concerned that a bailout of one member state could potentially lead to several more. Greater economic co-ordination is being increasingly touted as a means of dealing with the eurozone's current economic woes. Former centre-right French prime minister Edouard Balladur last week launched a proposal for eurozone members to submit their annual budgets to the 16-country bloc for majority approval.Mr Daul called on the commission and European Council to look into the idea.
Netanyahu: Israel Renovating Muslim Side of Machpelah Cave
by Gil Ronen FEB 24,10
(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu fought back Wednesday against Arab accusations over a decision to place two Jewish holy sites in Judea on a list of Israel's national heritage sites. He noted that renovation work is currently being carried out on the Muslim side of the Cave of Machpelah, also known as the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron.Israel is committed to freedom of worship for adherents of all religions in all of the holy sites, Netanyahu stated. This policy is implemented in the Cave of Machpelah, too, where the state is always working to ensure proper conditions for worship for both Jews and Muslims.Inside Cave of Machpelah (Tomb of the Patriarchs) / Flash 90
Evidence of this is, for example, the renovation work that is currently being completed at the entrance plaza and the road that leads to the Muslim prayer area at the site.Any attempt to claim otherwise, he said, is an artificial attempt to twist reality and provoke strife.MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union), chairman of the newly established Land of Israel Lobby in the Knesset, told Arutz Sheva that the decision to include the Cave of Machpelah and Rachel's Tomb in the list of heritage sites was the lobby's first success.The roots of the Nation of Israel are in the heritage sites of Judea and Samaria,he said.We will act to include additional sites like Joseph's Tomb and Tel Shiloh to the list of heritage sites.
Son of Hamas Leader was Top Spy for Israel
by Gil Ronen FEB 24,10
(IsraelNN.com) Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of jailed Hamas terrorist leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, operated undercover in the service of Israel's intelligence agency for a decade. Yousef reveals this information in an upcoming book, and in an interview with Israeli newspaper Haaretz to be published this weekend.According to the newspaper, the intelligence Yousef supplied led to the arrests of several high-ranking terrorists including Ibrahim Hamid, a Hamas terror commander in Judea and Samaria, as well as Fatah strongman Marwan Barghouti and Hamas bomb-maker Abdullah Barghouti.Mosab Hassan Yousef converted to Christianity and moved to the U.S. in 2007, where the book he co-wrote, Son of Hamas, is due to be published shortly. He said that after he converted to Christianity, he decided he had to escape and live my life away from violence, because I couldn't coexist with that situation as a Christian.He provided very important information [as did] hundreds of others fighting against terror, MK Gideon Ezra (Kadima), formerly deputy chief of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), told BBC World Service. Haaretz said that Yousef was considered Shin Bet's most reliable source in the Hamas leadership. The amazing thing is that none of his actions were done for money,said his ISA handler, who is named in the book as Captain Loai.Yousef's father, who has great influence within Hamas, was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council in January 2006 from his prison cell.
Appalled by Torture
Yousef has said that from an early age he was appalled by the brutality of the Hamas movement. Hamas, they are using civilians' lives, they are using children, they are using the suffering of people every day to achieve their goals. And this is what I hate,he said. In an interview with Fox News in 2008, Yousef said that when he was 18 years old, he was arrested and placed in an Israeli jail.Hamas had control of its members inside the jail and I saw their torture; [they were] torturing people in a very, very bad way... Hamas leaders that we see on TV now, and big leaders, [were] responsible for torturing their own members. They didn't torture me, but that was a shock for me, to see them torturing people: putting needles under their nails, burning their bodies. And they killed lots of them... I was a witness for about a year for this torture. So that was a huge change in my life.
Islam is the Problem
The problem is not Hamas, the problem is not people. The root of the problem is Islam itself as an idea,he added. He said he saw no chance for Israel and the PA to make peace.
Knesset Proposal: Annex All Jewish Towns in Land of Israel
by Hillel Fendel FEB 24,10
(IsraelNN.com) The Ministerial Committee for Legislation will consider a bill proposed by MK Yaakov Katz (Ketzaleh) on the annexation of Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria (Yesha). The bill was supported last year by Prime Minister Netanyahu himself.The legislation committee is charged with deciding whether or not the government will back proposed legislation – often the critical factor in whether a given bill will be passed or defeated. It will vote on Katz’s new bill at its next weekly meeting, this coming Tuesday (after the Purim holiday).The bill proposes that the Jewish towns of Judea and Samaria be annexed to Israel, just as eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights have been annexed in the past.The bill was proposed in the previous Knesset by former MK Benny Elon, whom Katz succeeded, in many respects, in the Knesset. The bill was co-signed at the time by many MKs, among them Binyamin Netanyahu and other current Likud party Cabinet ministers such as Limor Livnat, Silvan Shalom, Yisrael Katz, Gideon Saar, Michael Eitan, Gilad Erdan, Yuval Steinitz, and more. MKs from other parties also signed at the time.Explaining the proposed law, Katz said, Following the liberation of parts of our national homeland in the 1967 Six Day War, Israeli law was applied to the areas in which 300,000 Jews live in the liberated neighborhoods of Jerusalem, and to those in which reside 20,000 Jews in the Golan. The time has now come to create a similar situation to the 350,000 Jews of Judea and Samaria. I am sure that the ministers, who co-signed the law last year, will now reaffirm their support and their signatures.
Only Jewish towns annexed
Some 26 MKs are currently co-signed on the bill. No ministers or deputy ministers are among them, in keeping with the requirement that legislation sponsors not serve in those positions. Among the co-signers are MKs Levine, Hotovely, Elkin, Danon and Shama of the Likud; Rotem, Michaeli and Miller of Israel Our Home; Orbach of the Jewish Home; Ariel, Eldad, and Ben-Ari of the National Union; Moses and Maklev of United Torah Judaism, and Ze’ev, Vaknin, and Amsalem of Shas.The legislation states: The law, jurisdiction and administration of the State shall apply in the following cities, regional councils, and local councils, and the communities therein, followed by a list of the Jewish cities and councils in Judea and Samaria: Oranit, Alfei Menashe, Elkanah, Efrat, Ariel, Beit El, Beit Aryeh-Ofarim, Beitar Illit, Mateh Binyamin, Jordan Valley, Givat Ze’ev, Gush Etzion, Har Adar, Mt. Hevron, Dead Sea Scrolls, Modiin Illit, Maaleh Adumim, Maaleh Ephraim, Emanuel, Kedumim, Kiryat Arba, Karnei Shomron, and Shomron.The proposal emphasizes that it does not call for the annexation of all of Judea and Samaria to the State of Israel, but only of the Jewish towns there and their residents. Acknowledging that most or all of the Arabs in Judea and Samaria are now subject to Palestinian Authority law, it states,The current situation creates an absurdity, in that the only citizens who are discriminated against are the Israelis – who must pay income tax and various fees, but do not receive all the rights of citizens; they are tried [in certain cases] in military courts, not civilian ones.The Knesset has already passed several measures applying parts of Israeli law to the Jewish towns in Yesha [Judea and Samaria],the proposal continues, but not in a uniform, systematic manner. As [former Meretz party MK] Prof. Amnon Rubenstein has written in his book entitled Constitutional Law: From a logical standpoint, it would be simpler if the Army administration [that officially governs Judea and Samaria] would apply Israel law in totality on all the Jewish local councils, instead of this patch-up job the government currently utilizes.This legislation is hereby proposed in order to stop the discrimination against the Israeli citizens and in order to create uniformity in the law.
The Birth of the World' Musical at Emunah College in Jerusalem
by Rachel Sylvetsky FEB 24,10
(IsraelNN.com) An original musical play for women only was performed this week to sold-out audiences at the Emunah College of Arts and Technology in Jerusalem. Called Today is the Birth of the World, an expression taken from the prayers recited on the Jewish New Year, Rosh HaShanah, the musical takes place in the obstetrics ward of a hospital whose patients are mainly observant women. This setting is the vehicle for the chance meeting of younger and older characters representing the many variants of the religious woman’s world. They include hareidi women who head the hospital’s volunteers and a Sephardi do gooder; the daughter of one of them who is undergoing fertility treatments and tries to do good deeds to merit a child; a newly religious woman who is faced with a choice of aborting a child with possible birth defects; and her career woman neo-Orthodox sister. The cast also includes a hareidi lawyer who runs her life by cell phone while under pre-natal care, a Chabad emissary’s wife, an unmarried doctor who has to find a path between the scientific and her patients’ spiritual approach to problems, a Russian cleaning woman and a medical clown. All of the women deal with the roles of daughter, wife and mother, finding a mutual language over a period of two days in the hospital ward, where the emotions of childbirth, motherly love, ongoing family relationships and, above all, the yearning for a child, are daily experiences. Stories of the Baal Shem Tov and other Chassidic tales on these topics are woven into the fabric of the play, subconsciously influencing the women’s lives as part of their heritage.
The Emunah College of Arts and Technology for Women is an Academic Teachers College for Women in Jerusalem. It includes a Drama Department, the first in religious Jewish higher education for women, where young women are trained to teach and use drama to enrich the teaching of other subjects such as Bible, as well as studying the many professional skills used in dramatic productions. The College is a project of Emunah of America, founded in the early 1970s and also includes prize-winning Graphic and Fine Arts among its departments.The script was written by director and playwright Iris Shavit and the music by composer and singer Michal Lotan. Rabbi Chaim Fogel and Rabbi Yehoshua Vider were the Halakhic consultants for the production.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/1981
IDF Supervises Replanting Olive Trees at Separation Barrier
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu FEB 24,10
(IsraelNN.com) The IDF has coordinated with Arabs for the planting of approximately 200 olive trees, as ordered by the High Court, following the re-location of the security barrier near Bilin, not far from Ben Gurion International Airport. The new route of the fence gives Arabs 40 percent of the land that had originally been expropriated.The planting work was carried our by a civilian company on behalf of the Defense Ministry, according to the IDF Spokesman's office. Workers replanted the trees on the eastern, Arab-controlled side of the fence after removing them from the western side. Construction on the new route began two weeks ago.The High Court ruled two and a half years ago that the fence's route must be changed, in order to leave nearly 175 acres adjacent to the town of Bilin. Arabs and anarchists, however, have continued weekly and violent demonstrations there, arguing against the very existence of the fence. The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) reported that international activists worked with Arabs on Monday to plant almond and olive trees. It also claimed that a soldier fired a warning shot in the air after activists tried to plant immediately adjacent to the fence, which is kept clear on both sides to allow trackers to spot terrorists.The ISM said it has organized the weekly protests, which have resulted in hundreds of injuries to soldiers and Arabs. Its website called the protests non-violent.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
STOCK RESULTS FEB 23,2010
WELL DEBRA MEDINA HAS TURNED ON THE 911 TRUTH MOVEMENT AND BACKSTABED THEM.ALEX JONES WAS HOPPIN MAD ABOUT NOW HOW HIS GIRL MEDINA CALLS HERSELF A NON BELIEVER IN 911 TRUTH AND CALLS TRUTHERS DISPICABLE BAD PEOPLE.WOW ANOTHER HYPOCRITE FOR TEXAS GOVERNOR.GLENN BECK AND MEDINA FLIPFLOP HYPOCRITES.
AE-911 TRUTH PRESS CONFERENCE
http://www.infowars.com/a-e-for-911-truth-press-conference/
OH MAN WE MIGHT HAVE A GOVERNMENT FALSE FLAG MINI 911 HERE BY THE READ OF IT.JOE WAS CONNECTED TO GOVERNMENT,DRONE PLANES......INTERESTING NEW INFORMATION.JUST WHEN OBAMAS POLLS WERE AT AN ALL TIME LOW.IT DOES NOT MATTER IF PEOPLE THINK YOUR NUTS LIKE THE NEW AGE,ENVIROMENTAL,NWO NUTCASES,FACTS ABOUT OBAMA ADMINISTRATION INVOLVMENT SPEAK LOUD IN THESE FACTS.THE TRUTH WILL COME OUT NOW OR AT THE JUDGEMENT,EVERYONE WHO WAS EVER ON EARTH STANDS IN FRONT OF JESUS AND GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR WORDS,DEEDS AND EVEN THOUGHTS AND MOTIVES.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/joe-stacks-intriguing-connections-with-defense-contractors-intelligence-agencies.html(READ LINKS)
Joe Stack’s Intriguing Connections With Defense Contractors, Intelligence Agencies -Austin suicide pilot jointly leased hanger with manager of air defense systems manager Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Austin suicide pilot Joe Stack kept some very interesting company as far as the client list for his software programming company is concerned, including a defense contractor with NSA and Homeland Security connections that ironically dealt with air defense systems.The Georgetown Airport hanger in which Stack’s ill-fated Piper Cherokee was kept was jointly leased by Stack and a man called John Podolak, records show.The Of Goats and Men blog highlights the fact that Podolak was appointed in 2004to manage L-3 Avisys’ Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Counter-MANPADS (Man-Portable Air Defense Systems) initiative.L-3 Avisys is a defense contractor with its main headquarters based in Austin Texas which sells products and works closely with the Department of Defense and unnamed U.S. Government intelligence agencies.Podolak was hired to oversee a strong team of more than 10 IRCM defense suppliers who will perform research studies and lead the transition of the team’s proposed CAPS (Commercial Airliner Protection System) technology to the airline industry.L-3 was also a key client for Stack’s software programming business. Stack helped develop a GPS-based Fight Management System for IEC, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of L-3.
L-3 was also investigated by the SEC for its role in the suspicious number of put options on United and American Airlines, speculation that a company’s stock will fall, in the days before 9/11.Indeed, former NSA official Wayne Madsen wrote in September 2008 that, A long-time L-3 Communications consultant for the National Security Agency (NSA) was, according to our source, one of the very few recipients of the live video stream that caught the first plane hitting the North Tower.Other clients on the list such as DMC Stratex Networks and Sorrento Electronics also are defense contractors and probably a closer examination of these and other corporations on Stack’s client list will reveal more interesting details,notes the blog.The blog also highlights transponder flight tracking records of Stack’s plane which show that its last journey took place on August 6, 2009, and not on February 18last week when the aircraft was slammed into the Echelon building.One poster on the Prison Planet forum speculates, This plane may still be in a hanger at GTU.Could Stack’s lightweight Piper Cherokee really have caused such drastic damage to the facade of the Echelon building when compared with other small planes that have crashed into buildings like that of New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle? The huge fireball reported by eyewitnesses could well have been as a result of extra fuel canisters Stack had loaded onto the plane to inflict maximum damage, but this has yet to be confirmed by authorities.Intimate ties with defense contractors, not just through his software company, but on a personal level with L-3’s John Podolak will only serve to deepen the intrigue surrounding the motivation behind Stack’s attack on the IRS building, with scant details having emerged since the tragic incident last week.Another startling contradiction comes in the form of Stack’s last words, which were reported by the media and apparently confirmed by audio from air traffic control tapes to be, Thanks for your help, have a good day.However, audio taken from radio scanners who also recorded Stack’s last words is slightly different from that being forwarded as the official version. The second version of the audio, Stack’s final words are, I’m definitely checking out, have a good day.
A comparison of the two clips can be heard at this link.While one eyewitness described seeing no pilot in the cockpit, another told WeAreAustin.com,The pilot looked like he was in a comatose state; leaning back and going on in.Another interesting discrepancy to have emerged is the fact that Stack’s daughter told the Associated Press that Stack’s suicide note did not sound like it was written by him.
It’s not him. The letter itself sounds like it’s coming from a different person. It didn’t sound like it came from him,Samantha Dawn Bell told the AP.
http://www.infowars.com/controlled-geithner-press-conference-shuts-out-infowars-ignores-real-questions/
VIDEOS TO THIS STORY(FAKE NEWS CONFERENCE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq61CzUS3dY&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td2np6xrulA&feature=player_embedded
Geithner stages press conference, censors real questions
Aaron Dykes Infowars.com February 23, 2010
Thanks to fellow patriot David Barrow for the photo and second video. See more photos of the event here.Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner made an appearance alongside IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman at the Joe Stack crash site in Austin, Texas. Their purpose was straightforward– to grandstand over an attack on a government agency and to set the scene for demonizing anti-government beliefs.The event was tightly controlled. Despite Geithner’s being a public figure, and setting the location along a public roadway, real media outlets were kept away on the premise that is was a private event by invitation only. This meant that only trusted network news stations were welcomed through. The Treasury Department, who ran the event, placed further restrictions on media access by setting a registration deadline:Due to security concerns surrounding the site, media wishing to attend must RSVP to Clay Sanford at 214-914-2037 by 12:00 p.m. CST. This message was sent only to major stations, and did not come in time for Infowars to register. The first wave of the Infowars team showed up more than two hours early to the press conference only to be denied access and told to move to a public viewing area more than 100 yards away from the scene of action. Other Infowars reporters avoided detection and found entrance. However, Geithner’s appearance was destined to be little more than a glorified photo-op. Treasury Dept. handlers prepared the press crowd for the fact that only two questions would be allowed. What’s more, the fix was already in. Event gatekeepers appeared to have selected two reporters (seen in the video) to field the only questions. Phony TV reporters can be relied on to ask only softball questions.
The reason for such control is obvious– Tim Geithner knows that everything he represents is hated by the general public, and that the less light shed on the bailout operation or his personal activities, the better. Though the public was told the bailout cost only $700 Billion, the real cost has now surpassed $23.7 Trillion (and beyond). Even Congress has been refused information about where that money has gone. Questions abound about what really happened on Wall Street during the financial crisis, and Secretary Geithner has been at the heart of it. After the press waited for hours and the press time was moved back once, then again, the Treasury Secretary finally arrived. Geithner, Shulman and their entourage pulled up in a motorcade and spent perhaps five minutes looking at the damage to the Echelon building where one IRS employee was killed. Geithner nodded as parts of the burned out building were shown to him. Finally, he approached the press for a conference that would also last only minutes.Despite a careful attempt to plan the event and maximize its political impact, Infowarriors and real journalists everywhere cannot be stopped. Geithner and Shulman had a surprise when I blurted out a real question. The real bailout cost is $23 Trillion…, I started, before Geithner cut me off.Just a minute,he said, restarting on his canned statement of sympathy for the deceased.
While Geithner spoke, Shulman showed his annoyance. Only a few feet away, the IRS Commissioner stared hatefully into my eyes. Everything was supposed to be controlled. Had other rogue journalists infiltrated the crowd as well? Shulman began scanning the press corp with his eyes, looking for other deviant behavior. It was like a scene in They Live where they realize they have one that can see.As soon as Geithner’s brief statements were concluded, they cut quickly to the pre-arranged reporter, ignoring my repeated attempt to ask a question. The softball question put them safely back on script. A simple answer, then one more question (and a quick follow-up) to the second pre-arranged reporter. Others in the crowd started asking about the real bailout numbers as well. Someone else asked about whether holds had been placed on the banks. There were dozens of other important and intriguing questions to raise, but they would fall on deaf ears this time.The Treasury Dept. handler whisked away Geithner and Shulman while questions were still being put forward. As quickly as they appeared, two top money men were gone back into the shadows where questions are hardly ever raised about the real looting of the country. Tim Geithner hardly ever makes press appearances, and he did little to expose himself to inquiry here either.Tim Geithner Tours Damage to Echelon Bldg. in Austin After Joe Stack’s Airplane Attack (Video by David Barrow)
THESE NWO NUTCASES WANT 2/3RDS OF US DEAD.THE BIBLE SAYS ONLY HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE IN WW3 (3 BILLION).
Bill Gates Calls for Population Reduction
Stephen P. Fuller Infowars.com February 22, 2010
In a recent TED Talk, Bill Gates has put forward the theory that mankind can reach zero carbon emissions by reducing our population, services, energy and carbon output. And yes, he’s even suggested a trendy, yet totally absurd, equation to legitimatize his eugenicist viewpoint. All I can say is, What a crackpot! Maybe it’s because he hasn’t noticed the systematic fraud exposed in the climate-gate debacle or maybe it’s because the mathematics of his equation are so blatantly imbecilic but I can’t help myself from truncated laughter. This guy is a genius? Really? Bill Gates is suggesting tried and tested Malthusian population manipulation to achieve the new world order’s nominal depopulation agenda.First and foremost, the summation equation is immeasurably misleading. No one, and especially not a world renowned computer programmer, should make the mistake of multiplying the variables of a summation. And even if you could overlook that magnitude of an inaccuracy, the number of variables that lead to a reasonable projection of a true change in any chaotic system are far more varied and complex than the four presented by Mr. Gates’ second grade presentation. Yet in typical fashion one TED attendee, Laura Trice, stated, Bills Gates reduced the environmental CO2 issue to a simple math equation I could understand.
So, assuming you are among the lemurs that have bought into the CO2 bogeyman storyline (during a carbon starved period of history); you still must concede that anything times zero is zero and therefore Bill Gates, even if inadvertently, called for zero human population. And though one could try to fool themselves into believing that he wouldn’t call for the expansion of the depopulation agenda, you didn’t need to wait very long to hear that directly from his own mouth. Soon into his talk he states that the world’s population is rapidly heading toward a staggering 9 billion and that, if we do a good job on new vaccines, healthcare, and reproductive health services we could lower that by 10-15%.Yes, you guessed it; Bill Gates is suggesting tried and tested Malthusian population manipulation to achieve the new world order’s nominal depopulation agenda.He later states that if they can’t achieve the kind of carbon reduction necessary by their standards; then they will consider using current geo-engineering methods to change weather patterns and extend their timeline. But the ultimate fumble of the speech came when Gates was asked what he would say to climate deniers. After clumsily attempting to make a point for what seems like an eternity, Gates exclaims,if we can make the alternatives cheaper then they won’t care anymore.Well I for one disagree with Mr. Gates’ assertations. For one, reproductive health services is an obvious code phrase for sterilization and abortion services, as so cunningly detailed by Obama Science Czar John Holdren in his government eugenics handbook Ecoscience. And secondly, I refuse to take anyone serious that still considers CO2 emission standardization to be anything less than the introduction of a new highly mercenary financial exchange instrument.
However, in the typical fashion of a seasoned professional pitchman, Bill Gates does deliver one singular great point that struggles to lend credibility to all of the previously presented non-sense. The productive use of depleted uranium in a newly designed slow-burn reactor is an idea that has been long overdue. After the egregious use of DU on the battle fields of Iraq, it almost sounds like a fairytale to have the potential to steer the toxic psychosis permeated elite war mongers towards a use for DU that may actually benefit mankind. And once the perpetrators of similar War and State crimes (illegal wiretaps, illegal preemptive war, torture, etc) have been tried and sentenced; DU reactors are surly at the top of the to-do-list.
http://www.infowars.com/big-brother-not-just-spying-on-schoolchildren-through-their-laptops/
Big Brother Not Just Spying On Schoolchildren Through Their Laptops
Steve Watson & Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Sunday, February 22, 2010
The scandal surrounding kids being spied on at home via webcams in laptops provided by schools extends further than just schoolchildren – four years ago Google admitted that it was implementing similar invasive surveillance technologies that would target all Americans.A school district in Philadelphia faces a class action lawsuit after it allegedly issued laptop computers to 1,800 students across two high schools and then used concealed cameras within the machines to spy on students and their parents without their knowledge or consent.Lower Merion School District in the suburbs of Philadelphia faces charges of invasion of privacy, theft of private information, and unlawful interception for providing computers with webcams that were remotely and covertly turned on by administrators.The suit was brought on behalf of all the students and their parents after it was revealed that the computers had been used to monitor students both at school and at home.The story harks back to revelations of how private industry and eventually government are implementing plans to use microphones in the computers of hundreds of millions of Internet active Americans to spy on their lifestyle choices and build psychological profiles which will be used for surveillance and minority report style invasive advertising and data mining.In 2006, Google announced that they would use in-built microphones to listen in on user’s background noise, be it television, music or radio – and then direct advertising at them based on their preferences.The idea is to use the existing PC microphone to listen to whatever is heard in the background, be it music, your phone going off or the TV turned down. The PC then identifies it, using fingerprinting, and then shows you relevant content, whether that’s adverts or search results, or a chat room on the subject,reported the Register.Hundreds of millions of Internet-active Americans will all be potential targets for secret surveillance and the subsequent sell-off of all their information to unscrupulous data mining corporations and government agencies.The report cites the inevitability that the use and abuse of this technology will eventually be taken over by the state.
Pretty soon the security industry is going to find a way to hijack the Google feed and use it for full on espionage, states the article.Google’s recent announcement that it will work with America’s most well-known spy agency, the NSA, which was embroiled in the warrantless surveillance scandal during the Bush administration, only heightens concerns that big brother will have a virtual wiretap in every home that has a computer.The laptop spying case, Blake J. Robbins v. Lower Merion School District (PDF), was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Tuesday, February 16, 2010.According to the filing, the actions of the school district were exposed when one of the school’s vice principals disciplined Mr Robbins’ son for improper behavior in his home,and used a photo taken from the computer camera as evidence.Michael Robbins thereafter verified, through Ms. Matsko, (an assistant principal) that the school district in fact has the ability to remotely activate the webcam contained in a student’s personal laptop computer issued by the school district at any time it chose and to view and capture whatever images were in front of the webcam, all without the knowledge, permission or authorization of any persons then and there using the laptop computer. the complaint states.Additionally, by virtue of the fact that the webcam can be remotely activated at any time by the school district, the webcam will capture anything happening in the room in which the laptop computer is located, regardless of whether the student is sitting at the computer and using it.it continues.Nowhere in any written documentation accompanying the laptop, or in any documentation appearing on any Web site or handed out to students or parents concerning the use of the laptop, was any reference made to the fact that the school district has the ability to remotely activate the embedded webcam at any time the school district wished to intercept images from that webcam of anyone or anything appearing in front of the camera,the complaint also states.
The computers were provided via an initiative funded by state and federal grants to the students at Harriton High School in Rosemont, PA and Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, PA.According to comments by the district’s Superintendent, Christopher McGinley, the initiative enhances opportunities for ongoing collaboration, and ensures that all students have 24/7 access to school based resources and the ability to seamlessly work on projects and research at school and at home.What McGinley failed to add was that it also provided the school with 24/7 access to the students and their families.The plaintiffs also note in their complaint that the laptops at issue were routinely used by students and family members while at home, and that many of the images captured and intercepted may consist of images of minors and their parents or friends in compromising or embarrassing positions, including, but not limited to, in various stage of dress or undress.The plaintiffs are seeking damages in respect of not only a violation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution, but also a host of other federal and state privacy laws, including the Electronic Communication Privacy Act, the Computer Fraud Abuse Act, the Stored Communications Act, the Civil Rights Act, the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act, and Pennsylvania common law.The laptop spying case is just another example of how surveillance technologies have been used for methods that amount to child abuse for years. We have reported on numerous cases of school officials installing cameras in school bathrooms which allow perverts to spy on children in various stages of undress.
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 TUE FEB 23,2010
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MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -13 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -110 points at low today.
Dow +28 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,111.20.OIL opens at $79.34 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -110 points at low today so far.
Dow +28 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -110 points at low today.
Dow +28 points at high today.
AE-911 TRUTH PRESS CONFERENCE
http://www.infowars.com/a-e-for-911-truth-press-conference/
OH MAN WE MIGHT HAVE A GOVERNMENT FALSE FLAG MINI 911 HERE BY THE READ OF IT.JOE WAS CONNECTED TO GOVERNMENT,DRONE PLANES......INTERESTING NEW INFORMATION.JUST WHEN OBAMAS POLLS WERE AT AN ALL TIME LOW.IT DOES NOT MATTER IF PEOPLE THINK YOUR NUTS LIKE THE NEW AGE,ENVIROMENTAL,NWO NUTCASES,FACTS ABOUT OBAMA ADMINISTRATION INVOLVMENT SPEAK LOUD IN THESE FACTS.THE TRUTH WILL COME OUT NOW OR AT THE JUDGEMENT,EVERYONE WHO WAS EVER ON EARTH STANDS IN FRONT OF JESUS AND GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR WORDS,DEEDS AND EVEN THOUGHTS AND MOTIVES.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/joe-stacks-intriguing-connections-with-defense-contractors-intelligence-agencies.html(READ LINKS)
Joe Stack’s Intriguing Connections With Defense Contractors, Intelligence Agencies -Austin suicide pilot jointly leased hanger with manager of air defense systems manager Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Austin suicide pilot Joe Stack kept some very interesting company as far as the client list for his software programming company is concerned, including a defense contractor with NSA and Homeland Security connections that ironically dealt with air defense systems.The Georgetown Airport hanger in which Stack’s ill-fated Piper Cherokee was kept was jointly leased by Stack and a man called John Podolak, records show.The Of Goats and Men blog highlights the fact that Podolak was appointed in 2004to manage L-3 Avisys’ Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Counter-MANPADS (Man-Portable Air Defense Systems) initiative.L-3 Avisys is a defense contractor with its main headquarters based in Austin Texas which sells products and works closely with the Department of Defense and unnamed U.S. Government intelligence agencies.Podolak was hired to oversee a strong team of more than 10 IRCM defense suppliers who will perform research studies and lead the transition of the team’s proposed CAPS (Commercial Airliner Protection System) technology to the airline industry.L-3 was also a key client for Stack’s software programming business. Stack helped develop a GPS-based Fight Management System for IEC, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of L-3.
L-3 was also investigated by the SEC for its role in the suspicious number of put options on United and American Airlines, speculation that a company’s stock will fall, in the days before 9/11.Indeed, former NSA official Wayne Madsen wrote in September 2008 that, A long-time L-3 Communications consultant for the National Security Agency (NSA) was, according to our source, one of the very few recipients of the live video stream that caught the first plane hitting the North Tower.Other clients on the list such as DMC Stratex Networks and Sorrento Electronics also are defense contractors and probably a closer examination of these and other corporations on Stack’s client list will reveal more interesting details,notes the blog.The blog also highlights transponder flight tracking records of Stack’s plane which show that its last journey took place on August 6, 2009, and not on February 18last week when the aircraft was slammed into the Echelon building.One poster on the Prison Planet forum speculates, This plane may still be in a hanger at GTU.Could Stack’s lightweight Piper Cherokee really have caused such drastic damage to the facade of the Echelon building when compared with other small planes that have crashed into buildings like that of New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle? The huge fireball reported by eyewitnesses could well have been as a result of extra fuel canisters Stack had loaded onto the plane to inflict maximum damage, but this has yet to be confirmed by authorities.Intimate ties with defense contractors, not just through his software company, but on a personal level with L-3’s John Podolak will only serve to deepen the intrigue surrounding the motivation behind Stack’s attack on the IRS building, with scant details having emerged since the tragic incident last week.Another startling contradiction comes in the form of Stack’s last words, which were reported by the media and apparently confirmed by audio from air traffic control tapes to be, Thanks for your help, have a good day.However, audio taken from radio scanners who also recorded Stack’s last words is slightly different from that being forwarded as the official version. The second version of the audio, Stack’s final words are, I’m definitely checking out, have a good day.
A comparison of the two clips can be heard at this link.While one eyewitness described seeing no pilot in the cockpit, another told WeAreAustin.com,The pilot looked like he was in a comatose state; leaning back and going on in.Another interesting discrepancy to have emerged is the fact that Stack’s daughter told the Associated Press that Stack’s suicide note did not sound like it was written by him.
It’s not him. The letter itself sounds like it’s coming from a different person. It didn’t sound like it came from him,Samantha Dawn Bell told the AP.
http://www.infowars.com/controlled-geithner-press-conference-shuts-out-infowars-ignores-real-questions/
VIDEOS TO THIS STORY(FAKE NEWS CONFERENCE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq61CzUS3dY&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td2np6xrulA&feature=player_embedded
Geithner stages press conference, censors real questions
Aaron Dykes Infowars.com February 23, 2010
Thanks to fellow patriot David Barrow for the photo and second video. See more photos of the event here.Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner made an appearance alongside IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman at the Joe Stack crash site in Austin, Texas. Their purpose was straightforward– to grandstand over an attack on a government agency and to set the scene for demonizing anti-government beliefs.The event was tightly controlled. Despite Geithner’s being a public figure, and setting the location along a public roadway, real media outlets were kept away on the premise that is was a private event by invitation only. This meant that only trusted network news stations were welcomed through. The Treasury Department, who ran the event, placed further restrictions on media access by setting a registration deadline:Due to security concerns surrounding the site, media wishing to attend must RSVP to Clay Sanford at 214-914-2037 by 12:00 p.m. CST. This message was sent only to major stations, and did not come in time for Infowars to register. The first wave of the Infowars team showed up more than two hours early to the press conference only to be denied access and told to move to a public viewing area more than 100 yards away from the scene of action. Other Infowars reporters avoided detection and found entrance. However, Geithner’s appearance was destined to be little more than a glorified photo-op. Treasury Dept. handlers prepared the press crowd for the fact that only two questions would be allowed. What’s more, the fix was already in. Event gatekeepers appeared to have selected two reporters (seen in the video) to field the only questions. Phony TV reporters can be relied on to ask only softball questions.
The reason for such control is obvious– Tim Geithner knows that everything he represents is hated by the general public, and that the less light shed on the bailout operation or his personal activities, the better. Though the public was told the bailout cost only $700 Billion, the real cost has now surpassed $23.7 Trillion (and beyond). Even Congress has been refused information about where that money has gone. Questions abound about what really happened on Wall Street during the financial crisis, and Secretary Geithner has been at the heart of it. After the press waited for hours and the press time was moved back once, then again, the Treasury Secretary finally arrived. Geithner, Shulman and their entourage pulled up in a motorcade and spent perhaps five minutes looking at the damage to the Echelon building where one IRS employee was killed. Geithner nodded as parts of the burned out building were shown to him. Finally, he approached the press for a conference that would also last only minutes.Despite a careful attempt to plan the event and maximize its political impact, Infowarriors and real journalists everywhere cannot be stopped. Geithner and Shulman had a surprise when I blurted out a real question. The real bailout cost is $23 Trillion…, I started, before Geithner cut me off.Just a minute,he said, restarting on his canned statement of sympathy for the deceased.
While Geithner spoke, Shulman showed his annoyance. Only a few feet away, the IRS Commissioner stared hatefully into my eyes. Everything was supposed to be controlled. Had other rogue journalists infiltrated the crowd as well? Shulman began scanning the press corp with his eyes, looking for other deviant behavior. It was like a scene in They Live where they realize they have one that can see.As soon as Geithner’s brief statements were concluded, they cut quickly to the pre-arranged reporter, ignoring my repeated attempt to ask a question. The softball question put them safely back on script. A simple answer, then one more question (and a quick follow-up) to the second pre-arranged reporter. Others in the crowd started asking about the real bailout numbers as well. Someone else asked about whether holds had been placed on the banks. There were dozens of other important and intriguing questions to raise, but they would fall on deaf ears this time.The Treasury Dept. handler whisked away Geithner and Shulman while questions were still being put forward. As quickly as they appeared, two top money men were gone back into the shadows where questions are hardly ever raised about the real looting of the country. Tim Geithner hardly ever makes press appearances, and he did little to expose himself to inquiry here either.Tim Geithner Tours Damage to Echelon Bldg. in Austin After Joe Stack’s Airplane Attack (Video by David Barrow)
THESE NWO NUTCASES WANT 2/3RDS OF US DEAD.THE BIBLE SAYS ONLY HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE IN WW3 (3 BILLION).
Bill Gates Calls for Population Reduction
Stephen P. Fuller Infowars.com February 22, 2010
In a recent TED Talk, Bill Gates has put forward the theory that mankind can reach zero carbon emissions by reducing our population, services, energy and carbon output. And yes, he’s even suggested a trendy, yet totally absurd, equation to legitimatize his eugenicist viewpoint. All I can say is, What a crackpot! Maybe it’s because he hasn’t noticed the systematic fraud exposed in the climate-gate debacle or maybe it’s because the mathematics of his equation are so blatantly imbecilic but I can’t help myself from truncated laughter. This guy is a genius? Really? Bill Gates is suggesting tried and tested Malthusian population manipulation to achieve the new world order’s nominal depopulation agenda.First and foremost, the summation equation is immeasurably misleading. No one, and especially not a world renowned computer programmer, should make the mistake of multiplying the variables of a summation. And even if you could overlook that magnitude of an inaccuracy, the number of variables that lead to a reasonable projection of a true change in any chaotic system are far more varied and complex than the four presented by Mr. Gates’ second grade presentation. Yet in typical fashion one TED attendee, Laura Trice, stated, Bills Gates reduced the environmental CO2 issue to a simple math equation I could understand.
So, assuming you are among the lemurs that have bought into the CO2 bogeyman storyline (during a carbon starved period of history); you still must concede that anything times zero is zero and therefore Bill Gates, even if inadvertently, called for zero human population. And though one could try to fool themselves into believing that he wouldn’t call for the expansion of the depopulation agenda, you didn’t need to wait very long to hear that directly from his own mouth. Soon into his talk he states that the world’s population is rapidly heading toward a staggering 9 billion and that, if we do a good job on new vaccines, healthcare, and reproductive health services we could lower that by 10-15%.Yes, you guessed it; Bill Gates is suggesting tried and tested Malthusian population manipulation to achieve the new world order’s nominal depopulation agenda.He later states that if they can’t achieve the kind of carbon reduction necessary by their standards; then they will consider using current geo-engineering methods to change weather patterns and extend their timeline. But the ultimate fumble of the speech came when Gates was asked what he would say to climate deniers. After clumsily attempting to make a point for what seems like an eternity, Gates exclaims,if we can make the alternatives cheaper then they won’t care anymore.Well I for one disagree with Mr. Gates’ assertations. For one, reproductive health services is an obvious code phrase for sterilization and abortion services, as so cunningly detailed by Obama Science Czar John Holdren in his government eugenics handbook Ecoscience. And secondly, I refuse to take anyone serious that still considers CO2 emission standardization to be anything less than the introduction of a new highly mercenary financial exchange instrument.
However, in the typical fashion of a seasoned professional pitchman, Bill Gates does deliver one singular great point that struggles to lend credibility to all of the previously presented non-sense. The productive use of depleted uranium in a newly designed slow-burn reactor is an idea that has been long overdue. After the egregious use of DU on the battle fields of Iraq, it almost sounds like a fairytale to have the potential to steer the toxic psychosis permeated elite war mongers towards a use for DU that may actually benefit mankind. And once the perpetrators of similar War and State crimes (illegal wiretaps, illegal preemptive war, torture, etc) have been tried and sentenced; DU reactors are surly at the top of the to-do-list.
http://www.infowars.com/big-brother-not-just-spying-on-schoolchildren-through-their-laptops/
Big Brother Not Just Spying On Schoolchildren Through Their Laptops
Steve Watson & Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Sunday, February 22, 2010
The scandal surrounding kids being spied on at home via webcams in laptops provided by schools extends further than just schoolchildren – four years ago Google admitted that it was implementing similar invasive surveillance technologies that would target all Americans.A school district in Philadelphia faces a class action lawsuit after it allegedly issued laptop computers to 1,800 students across two high schools and then used concealed cameras within the machines to spy on students and their parents without their knowledge or consent.Lower Merion School District in the suburbs of Philadelphia faces charges of invasion of privacy, theft of private information, and unlawful interception for providing computers with webcams that were remotely and covertly turned on by administrators.The suit was brought on behalf of all the students and their parents after it was revealed that the computers had been used to monitor students both at school and at home.The story harks back to revelations of how private industry and eventually government are implementing plans to use microphones in the computers of hundreds of millions of Internet active Americans to spy on their lifestyle choices and build psychological profiles which will be used for surveillance and minority report style invasive advertising and data mining.In 2006, Google announced that they would use in-built microphones to listen in on user’s background noise, be it television, music or radio – and then direct advertising at them based on their preferences.The idea is to use the existing PC microphone to listen to whatever is heard in the background, be it music, your phone going off or the TV turned down. The PC then identifies it, using fingerprinting, and then shows you relevant content, whether that’s adverts or search results, or a chat room on the subject,reported the Register.Hundreds of millions of Internet-active Americans will all be potential targets for secret surveillance and the subsequent sell-off of all their information to unscrupulous data mining corporations and government agencies.The report cites the inevitability that the use and abuse of this technology will eventually be taken over by the state.
Pretty soon the security industry is going to find a way to hijack the Google feed and use it for full on espionage, states the article.Google’s recent announcement that it will work with America’s most well-known spy agency, the NSA, which was embroiled in the warrantless surveillance scandal during the Bush administration, only heightens concerns that big brother will have a virtual wiretap in every home that has a computer.The laptop spying case, Blake J. Robbins v. Lower Merion School District (PDF), was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Tuesday, February 16, 2010.According to the filing, the actions of the school district were exposed when one of the school’s vice principals disciplined Mr Robbins’ son for improper behavior in his home,and used a photo taken from the computer camera as evidence.Michael Robbins thereafter verified, through Ms. Matsko, (an assistant principal) that the school district in fact has the ability to remotely activate the webcam contained in a student’s personal laptop computer issued by the school district at any time it chose and to view and capture whatever images were in front of the webcam, all without the knowledge, permission or authorization of any persons then and there using the laptop computer. the complaint states.Additionally, by virtue of the fact that the webcam can be remotely activated at any time by the school district, the webcam will capture anything happening in the room in which the laptop computer is located, regardless of whether the student is sitting at the computer and using it.it continues.Nowhere in any written documentation accompanying the laptop, or in any documentation appearing on any Web site or handed out to students or parents concerning the use of the laptop, was any reference made to the fact that the school district has the ability to remotely activate the embedded webcam at any time the school district wished to intercept images from that webcam of anyone or anything appearing in front of the camera,the complaint also states.
The computers were provided via an initiative funded by state and federal grants to the students at Harriton High School in Rosemont, PA and Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, PA.According to comments by the district’s Superintendent, Christopher McGinley, the initiative enhances opportunities for ongoing collaboration, and ensures that all students have 24/7 access to school based resources and the ability to seamlessly work on projects and research at school and at home.What McGinley failed to add was that it also provided the school with 24/7 access to the students and their families.The plaintiffs also note in their complaint that the laptops at issue were routinely used by students and family members while at home, and that many of the images captured and intercepted may consist of images of minors and their parents or friends in compromising or embarrassing positions, including, but not limited to, in various stage of dress or undress.The plaintiffs are seeking damages in respect of not only a violation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution, but also a host of other federal and state privacy laws, including the Electronic Communication Privacy Act, the Computer Fraud Abuse Act, the Stored Communications Act, the Civil Rights Act, the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act, and Pennsylvania common law.The laptop spying case is just another example of how surveillance technologies have been used for methods that amount to child abuse for years. We have reported on numerous cases of school officials installing cameras in school bathrooms which allow perverts to spy on children in various stages of undress.
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 TUE FEB 23,2010
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MORNING,NEWS,STATS
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Dow -13 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -110 points at low today.
Dow +28 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,111.20.OIL opens at $79.34 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
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Dow +28 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -110 points at low today.
Dow +28 points at high today.
IMF BANK OF WORLD INTERVINES IN GREECE
THE WORLD TO BE PUT IN 10 WORLD REGIONS BY THE EUROPEAN UNION TO CONTROL THE ECONOMIES OF THE WORLD.
New Latin America group likely to emerge at summit
Sun Feb 21, 7:41 pm ET
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico – Latin American foreign ministers say their nations are close to forming a new regional organization that would not include the U.S. or Canada.Representatives of 32 countries are gathering on Mexico's Caribbean coast for the Unity Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean starting Monday.Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said Sunday the new group has yet to be named, but is envisioned as the premier political forum for Latin American nations. It would be launched next year.Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has urged the region to create a counterweight to what he calls excessive U.S. influence. The Organization of America States, headquartered in Washington, has many of the same member countries.
SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.
GENESIS 1:5,14
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)
DIG SUPPORTS KING SOLOMONS ACCOUNT
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136130
Pre-Purim Safety Alerts
by Maayana Miskin FEB 22,10
(IsraelNN.com) With the holiday of Purim rapidly approaching, doctors and paramedics are warning celebrants to avoid common dangers. In particular, parents are warned not to allow their children to play with firecrackers or sparklers, and to ensure that children's costumes are not flammable.Children and teens often play with firecrackers and sparklers on Purim, and paramedics are often called on to treat an unusually high number of burn victims. Last year a 14-year-old was injured when a firecracker exploded in his hand, tearing off all five fingers and leaving him with facial injuries as well.The year before, a young boy suffered serious burns when a package of small noisemakers, of the type used in pop guns, exploded in his pocket. The child's horrified parent later made and circulated a short video illustrating the dangers of pop guns.Children's costumes can also pose a danger. Costumes that include cotton wool, natural feathers, or other flammable materials should be avoided.The website BeOK issued a warning regarding makeup as well. Makeup should be treated like other personal hygiene products, and should not be shared. Before purchasing makeup, buyers should check the expiration date. In addition, the site advises doing a spot test with any new makeup product before applying the product to the face.The Hatzalah emergency response group has issued warning regarding road safety. On Purim, there are many children outdoors, and drivers should take extra care in case children walk into the road unexpectedly.
Archaeologist sees proof for Bible in ancient wall By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer – Mon Feb 22, 8:07 pm ET
JERUSALEM – An Israeli archaeologist said Monday that ancient fortifications recently excavated in Jerusalem date back 3,000 years to the time of King Solomon and support the biblical narrative about the era.If the age of the wall is correct, the finding would be an indication that Jerusalem was home to a strong central government that had the resources and manpower needed to build massive fortifications in the 10th century B.C.That's a key point of dispute among scholars, because it would match the Bible's account that the Hebrew kings David and Solomon ruled from Jerusalem around that time.While some Holy Land archaeologists support that version of history — including the archaeologist behind the dig, Eilat Mazar — others posit that David's monarchy was largely mythical and that there was no strong government to speak of in that era.Speaking to reporters at the site Monday, Mazar, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, called her find the most significant construction we have from First Temple days in Israel.It means that at that time, the 10th century, in Jerusalem there was a regime capable of carrying out such construction, she said.Based on what she believes to be the age of the fortifications and their location, she suggested it was built by Solomon, David's son, and mentioned in the Book of Kings.The fortifications, including a monumental gatehouse and a 77-yard (70-meter) long section of an ancient wall, are located just outside the present-day walls of Jerusalem's Old City, next to the holy compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. According to the Old Testament, it was Solomon who built the first Jewish Temple on the site.
That temple was destroyed by Babylonians, rebuilt, renovated by King Herod 2,000 years ago and then destroyed again by Roman legions in 70 A.D. The compound now houses two important Islamic buildings, the golden-capped Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosque.Archaeologists have excavated the fortifications in the past, first in the 1860s and most recently in the 1980s. But Mazar claimed her dig was the first complete excavation and the first to turn up strong evidence for the wall's age: a large number of pottery shards, which archaeologists often use to figure out the age of findings.Aren Maeir, an archaeology professor at Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv, said he has yet to see evidence that the fortifications are as old as Mazar claims. There are remains from the 10th century in Jerusalem, he said, but proof of a strong, centralized kingdom at that time remains tenuous.While some see the biblical account of the kingdom of David and Solomon as accurate and others reject it entirely, Maeir said the truth was likely somewhere in the middle.There's a kernel of historicity in the story of the kingdom of David, he said.
FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU Russia to deliver missile defense to Iran-Foreign minister confirms deal despite reports of cancellation, delay February 22, 2010 12:51 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2010 WorldNetDaily
S-300 anti-aircraft missile system displayed at military parade in Moscow (Photo: www.kremlin.ru)Russia intends to fulfill a contract to supply its S-300 advanced air-defense missiles to Iran, the Interfax news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying over the weekend. There is a contract to supply these systems to Iran, and we will fulfill it, Ryabkov told Interfax in an interview. Delays (with deliveries) are linked to technical problems with adjusting these systems,he added. Ryabkov also cautioned against politicizing Russia's arms exports to Iran. It is absolutely incorrect to put the emphasis on the issue of S-300supplies ... and to turn it into a major problem, to say nothing of linking it to the discussion on restoring trust in the purely peaceful character of Iran's nuclear program,Ryabkov said. Last week, WND quoted a senior Egyptian security official stating despite announcements to the contrary, Russia still plans to deliver to Iran the S-300. The Egyptian official said Russia also intends to see the system delivered to Syria, from which it can also be transferred to the Hezbollah militia operating in Lebanon. Last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Moscow, where he reportedly asked the Russians to cancel a contract with Iran to deliver and install the S-300 system. Israeli newspapers quoted sources in Netanyahu's entourage stating Russia agreed to cancel the sale. The S-300PMU1 is a mobile system designed to shoot down aircraft and cruise missiles. Analysts say the S-300 system would make any Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear facilities more difficult.
Just after Netanyahu's visit, the Interfax news agency quoted a senior Russian official as saying the delivery to Iran of the S-300 had been delayed for technical reasons. The delay is due to technical problems. The delivery will be carried out when they are resolved,said Alexander Fomin, deputy head of Russia's Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation. However, the Egyptian official speaking to WND said Russia still intends to deliver the system to Iran within the next month. The official said there are also plans to see the system deployed in Syria, where Russia maintains a large naval fleet unseen since the Cold War days. The official said Syria intends to transfer the S-300 to Hezbollah in Lebanon. An Israeli security official said Israel is monitoring the situation. Russia has not announced the specific terms of its agreement with Iran, but Interfax reported the deal calls for Moscow to sell Tehran five batteries of S-300PMU1 missiles for around $800 million.
Iran has expressed frustration over the continued delay in the delivery of the S-300 system. Last week a top Iranian military commander claimed his country would build its own air-defense missiles that would be even better than the S-300.
GLOBAL JIHAD-Iran steps up training of Hamas retaliation force-Tehran fears Israeli raid against nuke sites this year February 21, 2010 8:53 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2010 WorldNetDaily
Iranian Revolutionary Guard
JERUSALEM – Iran has increased exponentially its training of Hamas gunmen both in the Gaza Strip and abroad, a senior Egyptian security official told WND. The official said Iran believes there will be a confrontation with Israel this year over Tehran's nuclear facilities and has thus stepped up training of Hamas, whose gunmen will be instrumental in carrying out retaliatory attacks against the Jewish state during any future war. The official said the training is taking place both in Gaza, where Iran has militants stationed, and in other countries, particularly in Lebanon and Iran itself. He said an explosion in Lebanon last month that the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group blamed on Israel actually was part of a work accident during training exercises between Hezbollah and Hamas. Two Hamas members were killed in that attack, which Hamas claimed was targeting Hamas's representative in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan. Last month, WND published early reports that, according to a senior Egyptian intelligence official, Iranian Revolutionary Guard units were actively working to train Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip. The official also said Egypt is concerned that neighboring Gaza could become a major center of al-Qaida activity in the region. The Egyptian official said those factors were central in his country's decision to build a steel wall under the Egypt-Gaza border as part of efforts to isolate Hamas and stem weapons smuggling into Gaza. The official also said Egypt has information that Hamas and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group for the first time formed a joint operations room from which the two groups exchange knowledge, coordinate efforts and work on obtaining weapons. The Egyptian intelligence official said recent information as well as interrogations of arrested suspects in Egypt indicate Iranian-backed groups are working with al-Qaida in the Gaza Strip even though the two groups have different points of view and conflicting religious ideology. The official pointed to similar cooperation in Yemen, where he said Iranian agents and al-Qaida have been working against the Yemeni government.
Reports that Iranian agents have been operating in Gaza are not new. In 2007, WND first reported security forces associated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party captured seven Iranian military trainers – including a general of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard – at a purported Hamas training facility in the Gaza Strip. During Israel's military incursion in Gaza last year, Israeli newspapers reported an Iranian Unit of Hamas – members of the group's military wing trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard – had been destroyed.
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.
FROM JEROME CORSI'S RED ALERT-Dead on ice: Obama losing climate war
EPA challenged on ruling that CO2 is harmful chemical February 22, 2010
12:36 pm Eastern 2010 WorldNetDaily
In yet another indication that the Obama administration is losing the global-warming war, Texas and several national industry groups have filed separate motions in federal court challenging the government's authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports. In December, the Environmental Protection Agency, acting under the authority of the Clean Air Act, took steps to control carbon emissions blamed for global warming from power plants, factories and refineries without waiting for Congress to act on cap-and-trade. The EPA ruled that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide endanger human health under the Clean Air Act,Corsi noted,despite the fact human beings exhale carbon dioxide that trees and other plants absorb.The EPA decision opened the door for the Obama administration to impose restrictions on the use of carbon-based fuels in the United States, even if Congress never passes the administration's proposed cap-and-trade legislation. The agency seeks to require industrial plants that emit 25,000 tons of greenhouses gases a year or more to install technology to improve energy efficiency whenever a facility is changed or built, according to the Associated Press. Red Alert reported that the EPA has also delayed 79 coal-mining permits in four states, arguing the planned coal mining operations would cause significant damage to water quality and the environment under the specifications of the Clean Water Act. Texas, a leading carbon-dioxide emitter because of its heavy concentration of oil refining and other industries, stands to suffer a major economic impact if the EPA mandatory regulations on carbon dioxide are allowed to take effect,Corsi noted.
The National Association of Manufacturers, the America Petroleum Institute and the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association announced that they filed a petition in federal appeals court challenging the EPA's carbon-dioxide ruling. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and various U.S. iron and steel makers have also threatened to file similar petitions. These challenges signal that the White House has lost control of the global-warming message to such an extent that the end-run around Congress seems to be hitting a dead end as these lawsuits force the EPA to prove carbon dioxide is a chemical harmful to people, Corsi wrote. Last year, cap-and-trade legislation passed the U.S. House but stalled in the Senate. Red Alert continues to predict that the Obama administration's cap-and-trade legislation will fail to pass Congress this year, joining Obamacare and a new attempt to pass comprehensive immigration reform as failed pillars of President Obama's first-year legislative agenda. Red Alert's author, whose books The Obama Nation and Unfit for Command have topped the New York Times best-sellers list, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972. For nearly 25 years, beginning in 1981, he worked with banks throughout the U.S. and around the world to develop financial services marketing companies to assist banks in establishing broker/dealers and insurance subsidiaries to provide financial planning products and services to their retail customers. In this career, Corsi developed three different third-party financial services marketing firms that reached gross sales levels of $1 billion in annuities and equal volume in mutual funds. In 1999, he began developing Internet-based financial marketing firms, also adapted to work in conjunction with banks. In his 25-year financial services career, Corsi has been a noted financial services speaker and writer, publishing three books and numerous articles in professional financial services journals and magazines.
MEDIA MATTERS-Meet kinder, gentler Glenn Beck: New global warming believer
Finds common ground with George Clooney, his publicist is Democratic Party power player February 22, 2010 9:00 pm Eastern 2010 WorldNetDaily
Glenn Beck
While polls show more people drifting away from acceptance of global warming, the newest superstar among conservatives – Glenn Beck – is embracing it. You'd be an idiot not to notice the temperature change,he says. He also thinks it could be caused by man's activity. At home, he's going green by using energy-saving products.
I'm willing to do anything but use the CFLs, he says of compact fluorescent light bulbs.I put them in once and couldn't stand the way they lit up the room.The kinder, gentler, greener and warmer side of Beck, known as a firebrand conservative, came to light in an interview in USA Weekend. Let them know what you really think. Get Global Warming Is A Hoax Magnetic/Easy-Off Adhesive Bumper Sticker.
Beck also has lots of friends on the other side of the political spectrum, he reveals. He calls George Clooney a good, honest man.Beck says the two of them had an extended conversation about the genocide in Darfur. We came to an immediate, completely wholehearted agreement about the situation,Beck says.That is, to put aside the politics and give troops what they need to protect people over there. He's a good, honest man who believes passionately about doing something about it.Beck's personal publicist, Matt Hiltzik, is a Democratic power player who helped get Hillary Rodham Clinton elected to the U.S. Senate, says the magazine report. And let me tell you about Liz Julis, the editor of my magazine, Fusion,he says. Every year, I match charitable donations that my employees make. She ends up giving her money away to some hippie hemp farm somewhere, and she loves to rub it in that I'm writing a check for something like that. She's one of my favorite people because we hardly agree on anything, but we challenge each other.Beck also explains how he chose Mormonism as his religion. He was raised Catholic and wasn't practicing any faith when he met his current wife, Tania, says the report. When she insisted that a church needed to be a part of their family's life, they began church shopping. We tried em all,Beck says. Unitarian, Episcopalian, Baptist, even a synagogue. We ended up with the Church of Latter-day Saints because I took my daughters from my first marriage there, and they said, Dad, this place makes us feel warm and welcome inside. Can we come back? Beck also reveals he's no fan of Ronald Reagan whom he blames for driving up the deficits. Republicans sold the American people out, Beck says.I've always said I was a Reagan-style conservative. But I don't think Reagan was a real Republican. He just maintained some shared values.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
Stocks close lower on caution about economy By STEPHEN BERNARD, AP Business Writer – Mon Feb 22, 5:57 pm ET
NEW YORK – The stock market paused from a four-day rally Monday and closed modestly lower after big consumer companies gave a cautious outlook for economic growth.The market, which has advanced on stronger economic signs, fluctuated after Lowe's Cos. and Campbell Soup Co. reported higher earnings but reminded investors that a recovery among consumers is expected to be slow. Stocks drew some support from news that oil field services company Schlumberger Ltd. agreed to buy Smith International Inc.Corporate America is being cautious with their earnings predictions, said Roy Williams, CEO at Prestige Wealth Management Group. A recovery in consumer spending hasn't happened as fast as executives have hoped, he said.Trading was also fragmented as investors hunted for deals following last week's big rally. The Dow Jones industrial average posted its best weekly gain since November on strong earnings and economic reports.I wouldn't read too much into this, Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at Standard & Poor's, said of Monday's trading. There could be some minor profit-taking.Financial stocks were among the day's winners after a federal judge approved a settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Bank of America Corp. over the acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co.The Dow fell 18.97, or 0.2 percent, to 10,383.38. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 1.16, or 0.1 percent, to 1,108.01, while the Nasdaq composite index fell 1.84, or 0.1 percent, to 2,242.03.Rising stocks were about even with losers on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to a light 3.84 billion shares, compared with 3.95 billion on Friday
Lowe's said Monday its fourth-quarter profit rose 27 percent as it cut costs and saw a slight increase in sales. The home improvement retailer's results beat analyst projections and Lowe's said it anticipates sales to grow as the housing market recovers. However, its first-quarter earnings forecast was below expectations.
Campbell Soup's fiscal second-quarter profit met forecasts as lower costs helped offset a slowdown in U.S. sales.Right now, they're trying to heal, Steven Goldman, chief market strategist at Weeden & Co., said of consumers.Consumers are holding off on big purchases like home renovations because employment is still a concern, Goldman said. That hurts companies like Lowe's that rely on big spending from U.S. customers. But they're also being choosy when it comes to staples including food. Campbell's report reflected that caution.Lowe's fell 6 cents to $23.07. Campbell Soup dipped 43 cents to $33.50.The National Association for Business Economics echoed a similar tone that the economy is getting better, but at a sluggish pace. It reaffirmed in its latest outlook that an economic recovery remains on track, though it will be slow. The group of economists expects to see job growth later this quarter, but unemployment is expected to stay above 9 percent throughout the year.
High unemployment — the rate currently stands at 9.7 percent — remains a major obstacle for a strong, sustained recovery. It has also dragged down consumer spending and confidence, which hurts companies like Lowe's and Campbell Soup.Other major retailers, including Macy's Inc., Target Corp., Home Depot Inc. and Gap Inc., release quarterly results this week. The reports should provide further clues about whether consumers are more confident in the recovery.Schlumberger is buying Smith International for $11 billion in stock in a move to diversify its product offerings and better compete with rival Halliburton Co. Investors viewed the deal as a sign that demand is likely to grow for fuel as the global economy recovers.Energy and material companies were mixed on the day following the deal. Falling commodity prices dragged down the sector. Schlumberger shares fell $2.33, or 3.7 percent, to $61.57. Smith International rose $3.33, or 8.8 percent, to $41.03. Healthcare shares were also mixed after President Barack Obama renewed his push for insurance reform and a Senate report said drug maker GlaxoSmithKline has known about possible heart attack risks tied to its diabetes medication Avandia. GlaxoSmithKline shares fell 94 cents, or 2.5 percent, to $37.32. Bank of America rose 33 cents to $16.21 after U.S. District Court Judge Jed S. Rakoff approved the settlement of charges that the bank had misled shareholders about the Merrill Lynch deal. Meanwhile, bond prices also traded in a tight range. Long-term bonds fell slightly, while short-term rates increased — a sign that investors might expect the Federal Reserve to raise its benchmark rates in the coming months. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to give his semiannual report on the economy and interest rates to Congress later this week. Last week the Fed started to remove its extraordinary stimulus measures put in place during the recession. It increased the rate it charges banks for emergency loans. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 3.80 percent, from 3.78 percent late Friday. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 0.63, or 0.1 percent, to 632.25. Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average rose 2.7 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.1 percent, Germany's DAX index fell 0.6 percent, and France's CAC-40 fell 0.3 percent.
TSX falls with mixed banks, softer golds By Ka Yan Ng – Mon Feb 22, 11:11 am ET
TORONTO (Reuters) – Toronto's main stock index eased on Monday as early support from firm oil and gold prices faded, while financials came under pressure after their recent run-up.Some profit-taking was overdue, analysts said, after the TSX index had risen for eight straight sessions.Financials were a mixed group. Some were among the top heavyweight decliners, including Royal Bank of Canada, down 0.7 percent at C$56.70, and Bank of Nova Scotia, down 0.13 percent at C$47.74. But Bank of Montreal and Sun Life Financial headed the other way, with each rising about 0.4 percent.The financials were also in the spotlight as first-quarter results for the banks will start being published later this week, kicking off with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce on Thursday.Having weathered the global financial crisis better than most lenders, Canada's big banks are expected to report unimpressive profits in their first quarter, due to the lingering effects of the recession and consequent loan losses.At 10:48 a.m., the Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index was down 16.78 points, or 0.14 percent, at 11,692.51, after opening slightly higher.There's certainly an element of profit-taking. I think that this has been such a skittish market that we are seeing some people at the margins trading a little bit more aggressively and taking profits early when they can,said Michael Sprung, president at Sprung & Co Investment Counsel.
Gold stocks were also among the weak issues on Monday as the price of gold retreated from one-month highs. Barrick Gold was off 1.5 percent at C$40.38, while Goldcorp skidded 0.6 percent to C$40.09.A big deal in the oilfield services industry in the United States shone the spotlight on the TSX's resource group, but the declining price of oil limited the sector's advance.Canadian Natural Resources rose 0.87 percent to C$73.15, but Suncor Energy fell 0.4 percent to C$31.81.Market players were also still assessing the implications of the Federal Reserve's move to hike its discount rate, which has raised speculation that the U.S. central bank might raise its key fed funds rate earlier than expected. Greece's unresolved debt woes also remained on investors' radar.(Reporting by Ka Yan Ng; editing by Rob Wilson)
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
THE BANK OF THE WORLD THE IMF THE NEW WORLD ORDER CONTROLLED-EUROPEAN UNION CONTROLLED FOR EVERYONE TO PAY TAXES TO-TO KEEP FAT THE NEW WORLD ORDER-ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT.
IMF aide assists EU in Greece Mon Feb 22, 3:27 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund said Monday it sent a staff member to Athens to assist a European Union team working to help Greece deal with its debt crisis.At the request of the EU Commission and at the invitation of the Greek authorities, a fund staff member is in Athens this week to provide assistance to an EU Commission team, an IMF official said.Greece has vowed to reduce its budget deficit from an estimated 12.7 percent of gross domestic product in 2009 (GDP) -- by far the highest budget deficit in the eurozone -- to below the EU limit of 3.0 percent by 2012 and has warned major cuts in public spending will be needed.Under heavy pressure from its eurozone partners to bring order to its public finances, Greece's Socialist government is weighing cuts to benefits, a rise in the retirement age and other measures that have sparked union resistance.The EU has pledged political support for Greece and has hinted at more concrete financial assistance in the future but it has also imposed strict deadlines and monitoring for Greece's deficit-cutting program.A European Commission spokesman said Monday that Greece had missed a deadline from the commission to give a full account of financial operations allegedly used by Athens to hide the true extent of its budget deficit.Greek authorities failed to meet the Friday deadline, telling European Commission officials that the delay was due to a four-day strike at the country's finance ministry.
The European Commission's data office Eurostat has received some information, but not all the information needed from Greek authorities,said a spokesman for the commission, the EU's executive arm.Brussels is hoping to receive the documents very soon as this would be to the advantage of all parties concerned,he said.Eurostat's inquiry focuses on allegations in the New York Times and Financial Times that major Wall Street banks helped Greece hide the holes in its budget through complex operations, facilitating the country's accession to the eurozone.Greece's finance minister has said the schemes were legal at the time.News of the IMF and EU presence in the Greek capital came as Greece braces for a nationwide strike scheduled for Wednesday, called by unions to protest austerity measures, and reports that it may attempt a bond issue this week.Highlighting the country's critical need for more financing, Greece on Monday said it had asked Abu Dhabi, the richest of the seven states making up the United Arab Emirates, to invest in a Greek development fund.A crucial test of market confidence in Greece could come as early as this week with the government attempting a multibillion-euro (dollar) bond issue, the Financial Times reported earlier, citing bankers in Athens.Prime Minister George Papandreou added further urgency in an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr Programme on Sunday in which he said that Greece's borrowing needs were only covered through the middle of March.
Our borrowing needs are covered till mid-March, Papandreou said, adding that Greece needs EU support so that we can borrow at the same rate as other countries, not at high rates that undermine the country's reform efforts.The yield on 10-year Greek bonds -- the interest rate that Greece must pay on bonds it issues to borrow money in the markets -- was at 6.411 percent during trading on Monday, compared to 3.281 percent for German 10-year bonds.
Canada's deficit plan will target public spending By Louise Egan – Mon Feb 22, 4:52 pm ET
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada's plan to reduce its record deficit will center on slowing the growth in government spending, with the exception of health care, pensions and education, a senior government official said on Monday.The March 4 federal budget will lay out the Conservative government's plans to execute the second year of its economic stimulus efforts, the official said. The spending plan will focus on jobs and growth, he said.But Ottawa will not bow to pressure to extend even the most popular temporary measures, such as a two-year freeze on employment insurance premiums or a home renovation tax credit.The stimulus taps will be turned off at the end of the 2010-11 fiscal year, as originally planned, he said.As you know, we've always said that reducing the deficit and returning to fiscal balance will happen through slowing the rate of growth in federal spending, and that still applies, the official told reporters in a background briefing, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Having said that, I don't anticipate that to occur for pensions, for health care or for education.he said.He declined to comment on whether Ottawa would introduce new fiscal targets, either in the short term or over a longer horizon.Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has repeatedly said he will balance the books in the medium term, without raising taxes or cutting the federal government's transfer payments to the provinces. The budget will simply be a plan for staying the course, he has said.In fact, there will be no significant new measures of any kind in the upcoming budget, the official said.Prime Minister Stephen Harper is under some pressure to satisfy some of his opponents' demands in the budget, otherwise he could face an election. His minority government needs the support of at least one of the three opposition parties to stay in power.The legislative vote on the budget is always considered a motion of confidence in the government, so its defeat could force a spring election although no party has appeared intent on pushing for one in recent weeks.
All three opposition parties have called for some extra measures in the budget either to protect the unemployed, provide incentives for businesses that create new jobs, or extend special support to specific industries hard-hit by the recession.The main opposition Liberals want to see changes to the public pension system to allow contributors to top up their savings during good times, and reforms to bankruptcy laws to protect dismissed workers' pensions.The left-leaning New Democrats have also proposed the cancellation of corporate tax cuts already legislated by the Conservatives, with reductions planned in 2011 and 2012.But the Conservatives argue that low taxes are the best formula for spurring growth and jobs, and will also push for more free trade deals.We will create optimal economic conditions for job growth by maintaining competitive tax rates and reducing the deficit once the economy has recovered,the senior official said.And we will also seek to open new markets, allowing Canadians to compete and succeed in the global economy and we will tackle barriers to growth and job creation.(Reporting by Louise Egan; editing by Frank McGurty)
Asian stocks fall after losses on Wall Street By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ, AP Business Writer – FEB 23,10
HONG KONG – Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday, with Japan's benchmark off nearly 1 percent, following overnight losses on Wall Street.
After rising strongly the day before, regional markets gave back some of their gains amid few new reports to guide investors. The dollar slipped moderately against the yen and the euro. Oil prices drifted below $80 a barrel.European and U.S. market declines weighed on investors. Wall Street paused after a four-day rally as cautious outlooks from major consumer companies reminded traders America's economic recovery would be subdued.Nagging worries about U.S. growth and interest rates, along with uncertainty about China's recent steps to curb extravagant lending, continue to hold investors back, said Belle Liang, head of research at Core Pacific-Yamaichi International in Hong Kong.These two things have been bothering investors a lot the last few days, said Liang.She predicted Asian markets would attract new buying in coming weeks as investors shift their attention to company earnings when Chinese companies begin reporting year-end results.In the meantime, investors were awaiting testimony from U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday and Thursday that could provide more clarity about the bank's plan to unwind its emergency economic support measures and raise consumer borrowing rates. The Fed's surprise decision to hike its emergency lending rates to banks rattled global markets last week.In Japan, the Nikkei 225 stock average fell 68.96 points, or 0.7 percent, to 10,331.51 Shares of Toyota Motor Corp. lost about 1 percent, in line with the broader market's losses, a day after disclosing it was the target of U.S. criminal and regulatory investigations in connection with its recent safety problems.
Shanghai was Asia's worst performing market, dropping 1.8 percent to 2,950.30. South Korea's index shed 0.2 percent and Australia's index was down 0.4 percent.Among rising markets, Hong Kong reversed an early retreat to gain 0.4 percent to 20,455.75. Indian and Singaporean shares were up slightly.In the U.S. Monday, the Dow fell 18.97, or 0.2 percent, to 10,383.38.The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 1.16, or 0.1 percent, to 1,108.01, while the Nasdaq composite index fell 1.84, or 0.1 percent, to 2,242.03.In oil, the benchmark contract was down 37 cents at $79.94 barrel after adding 35 cents overnight.The dollar fell 91.02 yen 91.15 yen. The euro gained to $1.3603 from $1.3593.
Oil drops below $80 after 3-week rally By Alex Kennedy, Associated Press Writer – FEB 23,10
SINGAPORE – Oil prices retreated below $80 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as investors mulled whether sluggish U.S. crude demand justified a 14 percent rally over the last three weeks.Benchmark crude for April delivery was down 34 cents to $79.97 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract added 25 cents to settle at $80.31 on Monday.Oil has jumped from $69.59 a barrel on Feb. 5 on investor optimism that the global economy will rebound strongly from recession last year. Yet growing inventories of crude, gasoline and diesel fuel suggest demand in the U.S. remains weak.Some analysts expect crude demand in the U.S. and Japan will gradually follow overall economic growth and lift prices. Goldman Sachs expects crude to trade between $85 and $95 for most of this year.Continuing growth in the two largest developed market economies suggests that the economic recovery is still on track. Goldman Sachs said in a report. We expect that Japanese oil demand will break the trend of the past decade and grow in 2010.In other Nymex trading in March contracts, heating oil fell 0.2 cent to $2.077 a gallon while gasoline rose 0.1 cent to $2.1168 a gallon. Natural gas gained 2.4 cents to $4.919 per 1,000 cubic feet.In London, Brent crude was down 43 cents at $78.18 on the ICE futures exchange.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Iran to build enrichment sites inside mountains By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer – Mon Feb 22, 7:08 pm ET
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran said Monday it plans to build two new uranium enrichment facilities deep inside mountains to protect them from attack, a new challenge to Western powers trying to curb Tehran's nuclear program for fear it is aimed at making weapons.Ali Akbar Salehi, who is also Iran's vice president, said Tehran intends to use its more advanced centrifuges at the new sites, a decision that could add to growing concerns in the West over Tehran's program because the technology would allow Iran to accelerate the pace of its program.The two plants are among 10 industrial scale uranium enrichment facilities Iran approved the construction of in November, a dramatic expansion of the program in defiance of U.N. demands it halt enrichment.Hopefully, we may begin construction of two new enrichment sites in the next Iranian year as ordered by the president, the semiofficial ISNA quoted Salehi as saying Monday. The Iranian calendar year begins March 21.As of now, our enrichment sites ... will be built inside mountains, Salehi added, according to ISNA.
The decision appears to be aimed at shielding the facilities from potential military attack.Israel considers Iran's nuclear program a strategic threat, and has hinted at the possibility of airstrikes against Iran if world pressure does not halt Tehran's nuclear efforts.The Israelis have launched such strikes in the past. In 1981, an Israeli air attack destroyed an unfinished nuclear reactor in Iraq. Israel also hit a suspected nuclear facility in Syria in September 2007.Iran's enrichment of uranium is the central concern of the United States and other nations negotiating with the country over its disputed nuclear program. The technology can be used to generate fuel for power plants and isotopes for medical purposes, but it can also be used to make weapons-grade uranium for atomic bombs.Tehran insists its enrichment work is only meant for peaceful purposes, but Washington and its allies worry the program masks efforts to build a nuclear weapon.Tehran has already said it may install its more advanced centrifuges at its small enrichment site near the holy city of Qom, which was made public last September. The new centrifuges are more advanced than the decades-old P-1 type centrifuges in use at the country's main enrichment facility at Natanz, in central Iran.Centrifuges are machines used to enrich uranium — a technology that can produce fuel for power plants or materials for a nuclear weapon. Uranium enriched to a low level is used to produce fuel, but further enrichment makes it suitable for use in building nuclear arms.The new models will be able to enrich uranium much faster than the old ones — which means Iran could amass more material in a shorter space of time that could be turned into the fissile core of missiles, should Tehran choose to do so.Salehi said the new enrichment sites will be equal to that of Natanz in terms of production capacity but smaller in geographical size, another indication that more advanced centrifuges will be installed, requiring less space to churn out the same enriched uranium.
More than 8,600 centrifuges have been set up in Natanz, but only about 3,800 are actively enriching uranium, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The facility will eventually house 54,000 centrifuges.Tehran produced its first batch of uranium enriched to a higher level earlier this month, prompting the U.S. and its allies to seek new U.N. Security Council sanctions.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
South Africa says intercepted North Korea arms shipment By Louis Charbonneau – Mon Feb 22, 7:57 pm ET
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – South Africa has told a U.N. Security Council committee it intercepted a North Korean weapons shipment bound for Central Africa, which diplomats said was a violation of a U.N. ban on arms sales by Pyongyang.The seizure took place in November, when South African authorities received information that a ship headed for Congo Republic was carrying containers with suspicious cargo, according to a letter sent by South Africa to the Security Council's North Korea sanctions committee.Several Western diplomats described the incident as a clear-cut violation of Security Council resolution 1874, which bans all North Korean arms exports and most weapons-related imports in response to its nuclear program.The letter, parts of which were seen by Reuters on Monday, said a North Korean company was the shipping agent and the cargo was first loaded onto a ship in China, then transferred to a vessel owned by French shipping firm CMA CGM in Malaysia.Diplomats said the French company alerted authorities to the fact it had suspicious cargo on board and was not believed to have done anything wrong. The South Africans intercepted the vessel and seized the containers, which held tank parts.
The letter, which the committee received last week, said the South Africans discovered that the contents fell within the definition of conventional arms in that the contents consisted of components of a military tank T-54/T-55.The letter said the documentation for the containers described the cargo as spare parts of bulldozer.T-54 and T-55 tanks were designed and produced in the Soviet Union in the 1940s and 1950s but were later upgraded and made in other countries.Neither the French company nor the countries involved had any immediate comment.Congo Republic, which borders Democratic Republic of Congo, has suffered a wave of violence in the Pool region between the capital Brazzaville and the oil port town of Pointe Noire that has broken a period of calm after a decade of instability.
COMMITTEE TO DECIDE
The diplomats said the committee was planning to send letters to countries involved in the case -- such as North Korea, Republic of Congo, Malaysia and France -- seeking more information so it can decide whether the North Koreans or any other nations were in breach of U.N. sanctions.Resolution 1874, approved in June 2009, was passed in response to Pyongyang's second nuclear test in May 2009 and expanded the punitive measures the Security Council had imposed on North Korea after its first atomic test in October 2006.Last year's resolution also authorized countries to inspect suspicious North Korean air, land and sea cargo and to seize any banned goods.The latest incident shows that the sanctions are working, one Western diplomat told Reuters.But it also shows that we have to be vigilant. The DPRK (North Korea) is still trying to violate the sanctions.This is not the only seizure of its kind. Thai authorities confiscated over 35 tons of arms from a cargo plane they said had come from North Korea after the aircraft made an emergency landing at a Bangkok airport in December 2009.Last's year's expanded sanctions against North Korea were aimed at cutting off its arms sales, a vital export estimated to earn the destitute state more than $1 billion a year.North Korea's biggest weapons sales come from ballistic missiles, with Iran and other Middle Eastern states as customers, according to U.S. government officials.The U.N. sanctions and the cut-off of handouts from South Korea have dealt a heavy blow to the North, which has an estimated gross domestic product of $17 billion, and may force it back to nuclear disarmament talks in the hopes of winning aid, analysts say. (Editing by John O'Callaghan)
EZEKIEL 38:5(WW3 WAVE 1 MARCH TO ISRAEL)
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:(LEADER OF THESE-RUSSIA)
Iran warns airlines over not calling Gulf Persian
Mon Feb 22, 2:46 pm ET
TEHRAN, Iran – Airlines not referring to the waterway between Iran and the Arabian peninsula as the Persian Gulf will be banned from Iranian airspace, the transport minister told local media Monday.The warning was directed specifically toward the airlines of neighboring Gulf Arab countries who have a history of referring to the body of water as the Arabian Gulf.The airlines of the southern Persian gulf countries flying to Iran must use Persian Gulf on their flight monitors, Hamid Behbahani told the IRAN daily.Airlines ignoring the warning would be banned from Iranian airspace, while repeat offenders would have their planes grounded in Iran and the companies' flight permits to Iran canceled.The report said Iran expelled a Greek flight attendant from the private Iranian airline, Kish Air, for using Arabian Gulf on a monitor over the weekend.Iranians are traditionally sensitive over the historic name of the waterway between Iran and seven Arab nations.
Last month the Saudi-based Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation said it canceled the Islamic Solidarity Games in April because its Iranian host planned to use Persian Gulf on banners and medals.In 2004, Iran banned American National Geographic for using Arabian Gulf instead of the Persian Gulf. In 2005, National Geographic revised its world atlas use Persian.
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.
Haiti leader says quake toll could reach 300,000
Sun Feb 21, 8:49 pm ET
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico – The president of Haiti said Sunday the death toll from his country's earthquake could reach 300,000 once all the bodies are recovered from wrecked buildings.Speaking after arriving in Mexico for regional meetings that will include discussion of Haitian aid needs, Preval gave no indication of how he reached the figure.You have seen the pictures, you know the numbers, more than 200,000 bodies picked up in the streets, counting those that are still underneath the rubble, perhaps we could arrive at 300,000 deaths, Preval said at a meeting between Mexican officials and the countries of the Caribbean trade bloc.Haiti's government has placed the death toll at between 170,000 and 230,000. It depends on which official is talking and none have explained in detail the methodology used to arrive at the numbers.The country's chief epidemiologist has said he believes the government is making a lot of estimates.Preval will also attend the Unity Summit of Latin American and Caribbean nations convened by the Rio Group starting Monday. Aid for Haiti in the wake of the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake is expected to be discussed.Arriving Sunday aboard a Mexican government plane, Preval thanked Mexico for all the aid it has sent to his country since the quake.I want to thank the Mexican people with all my heart, he said.
Homeless Haitians: aid halted to force them out By FRANK BAJAK, Associated Press Writer – Mon Feb 22, 5:33 pm ET
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Homeless victims of Haiti's earthquake said Monday that police are halting deliveries of food and water to try to force them to leave their camp on the grounds of the prime minister's office.Police padlocked the main gate to the hillside camp, where about 2,500 homeless people live under bed sheets and tarps propped on sticks on the sloping hill leading to the office. Stinking garbage with swarms of flies was being allowed to pile up and portable latrines were filled, camp residents complained.Witnesses said police beat 22-year-old Dalida Jeanty after she picked up a broom to sweep around her tent. They called her and she did not come so they beat her,said her cousin, Alix Jeanty.He was among the friends and relatives who carried the woman down the hill, where U.N. peacekeepers from Chile and India arranged for her to be taken to the hospital.A police officer guarding the gate to the prime minister's office refused to give his name or comment on the alleged beating. Nor would he discuss accusations they have been turning away trucks carrying food and water for the past 10 days.Calls to the Information Ministry on Monday were unanswered, as was an e-mail to the prime minister's chief aide.We've been here for a month and we were being treated well, but for the past two weeks we have been mistreated,said Markinson Midey, a 22-year-old student. Anytime they bring food or water, the police make the trucks leave.Midey and other residents, some of them shouting angrily and banging pans when they saw reporters, said they believe the government wants to make the camp conditions so bad that people will be forced to leave, even though they have nowhere else to go.After reporters arrived, police opened the gate they'd locked.
Many government buildings were damaged in the Jan. 12 quake and Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive is working out of the same office as President Rene Preval at a temporary government headquarters set up in the headquarters of the judicial police, near the airport.The Jan. 12 earthquake killed about 200,000 people and left 1.2 million homeless, according to the government.More than half a million people fled devastated Port-au-Prince, but 700,000 are living in every available piece of open land, from public squares and school yards to sidewalks, their only protection makeshift tents of sheets propped up by sticks.There has been no evidence of any concerted government policy to forcibly remove the homeless from the many spontaneous settlements, however authorities have made it clear they plan to resettle the refugees as soon as more permanent camps can be established outside town.Many inhabitants of the capital's miserable tent camps got soaked by an overnight downpour. Doctors say many children — half the population of Haiti is under 15 years — are suffering from colds, coughs and diarrhea.Bellerive told The Associated Press last week that the government will be forced to appropriate private land to build better tent camps with tarpaulins.But aid agencies taking part in a massive international effort to help victims say the government is dragging its feet even as the rainy season approaches and the need to get people out of congested camps that pose health risks and under proper cover becomes more urgent.
AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)
EZEKIEL 39:21
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
ISAIAH 18:1-2
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
JEREMIAH 50:11,37,12
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;(BACKSLIDERS)
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.(A NATION OF MINGLED PEOPLE)
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:(MOTHER ENGLAND) behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
JEREMIAH 51:13,7,53
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
REVELATION 18:3,5,7
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK ON AMERICA)
REVELATION 18:9-11,15-21
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,(NUKE ATTACK I BELIEVE)
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.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
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,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
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.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Any strike against Iran would not be decisive: US military chief
Mon Feb 22, 4:50 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The top US military officer warned on Monday that any strike against Iran would not be decisive in countering Tehran's nuclear program.Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he supported using diplomatic and economic pressure against Iran and repeated his view that military action could carry unintended consequences.No strike, however effective, will be in and of itself decisive, Mullen told a press conference after recently returning from a visit to the Middle East.But he said the US military stood ready with plans for possible action if necessary.Let me be clear: We owe the (defense) secretary and the president a range of options for this threat. We owe the American people our readiness.Mullen's comments came as the United States pushed for fresh sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program and before Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak visits Washington this week.The admiral said he believed Iran was on a path to achieve nuclear weaponization and that the effort "further destabilizes the region.
He said there was widespread concern in the Middle East about Iran's role and its nuclear ambitions.He said that it isn't just a nuclear capable Iranian military our friends worry about, it's an Iran with hegemonic ambitions and a desire to dominate its neighbors.Mullen and other top US officials have said previously military action against Iran cannot be ruled out.But, as I have said many times, I worry a lot about the unintended consequences of any sort of military action.For now, the diplomatic and the economic levers of international power are and ought to be, the levers first pulled,Mullen said.Iran meanwhile said on Monday it is considering plans to build two new uranium enrichment plants concealed inside mountains to avert possible air strikes.Last November, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Iran would build 10 new uranium enrichment plants, after Tehran was strongly rebuked by world powers for building a second enrichment plant near the Shiite holy city of Qom.Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi said the enrichment capacities of the new sites would be similar to the existing facility in the central city of Natanz, where a defiant Tehran is refining uranium despite three sets of UN sanctions.According to the latest UN nuclear watchdog report, Iran has installed in Natanz 8,610 centrifuges, the device which rotates at supersonic speed to enrich uranium.Of these, 3,772 centrifuges are actively enriching uranium under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Salehi said the new plants will be equipped with new generation centrifuges and the facilities would be hidden in mountains so as to protect them from any attacks.
World powers suspect Iran is enriching uranium to make nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran denies. Enriched uranium can be used as fuel to power nuclear reactors or in highly refined form to produce the fissile core of an atom bomb. Iran is at loggerheads with world powers for not accepting an IAEA-drafted deal which would supply it with nuclear fuel for a Tehran research reactor in return for the transfer of the bulk of its low-enriched uranium. Mullen returned last week from a trip to Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries (DRUGS), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Marijuana use by seniors goes up as boomers age By MATT SEDENSKY, Associated Press Writer – Mon Feb 22, 4:08 pm ET
MIAMI – In her 88 years, Florence Siegel has learned how to relax: A glass of red wine. A crisp copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Some classical music, preferably Bach. And every night like clockwork, she lifts a pipe to her lips and smokes marijuana.Long a fixture among young people, use of the country's most popular illicit drug is now growing among the AARP set, as the massive generation of baby boomers who came of age in the 1960s and '70s grows older.
The number of people aged 50 and older reporting marijuana use in the prior year went up from 1.9 percent to 2.9 percent from 2002 to 2008, according to surveys from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.The rise was most dramatic among 55- to 59-year-olds, whose reported marijuana use more than tripled from 1.6 percent in 2002 to 5.1 percent.Observers expect further increases as 78 million boomers born between 1945 and 1964 age. For many boomers, the drug never held the stigma it did for previous generations, and they tried it decades ago.
Some have used it ever since, while others are revisiting the habit in retirement, either for recreation or as a way to cope with the aches and pains of aging.Siegel walks with a cane and has arthritis in her back and legs. She finds marijuana has helped her sleep better than pills ever did. And she can't figure out why everyone her age isn't sharing a joint, too.They're missing a lot of fun and a lot of relief, she said.Politically, advocates for legalizing marijuana say the number of older users could represent an important shift in their decades-long push to change the laws.For the longest time, our political opponents were older Americans who were not familiar with marijuana and had lived through the Reefer Madness mentality and they considered marijuana a very dangerous drug,said Keith Stroup, the founder and lawyer of NORML, a marijuana advocacy group.Now, whether they resume the habit of smoking or whether they simply understand that it's no big deal and that it shouldn't be a crime, in large numbers they're on our side of the issue.Each night, 66-year-old Stroup says he sits down to the evening news, pours himself a glass of wine and rolls a joint. He's used the drug since he was a freshman at Georgetown, but many older adults are revisiting marijuana after years away.The kids are grown, they're out of school, you've got time on your hands and frankly it's a time when you can really enjoy marijuana, Stroup said. Food tastes better, music sounds better, sex is more enjoyable.The drug is credited with relieving many problems of aging: aches and pains, glaucoma, macular degeneration, and so on. Patients in 14 states enjoy medical marijuana laws, but those elsewhere buy or grow the drug illegally to ease their conditions.
Among them is Perry Parks, 67, of Rockingham, N.C., a retired Army pilot who suffered crippling pain from degenerative disc disease and arthritis. He had tried all sorts of drugs, from Vioxx to epidural steroids, but found little success. About two years ago he turned to marijuana, which he first had tried in college, and was amazed how well it worked for the pain.I realized I could get by without the narcotics,Parks said, referring to prescription painkillers. I am essentially pain free.But there's also the risk that health problems already faced by older people can be exacerbated by regular marijuana use.Older users could be at risk for falls if they become dizzy, smoking it increases the risk of heart disease and it can cause cognitive impairment, said Dr. William Dale, chief of geriatrics and palliative medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He said he'd caution against using it even if a patient cites benefits. There are other better ways to achieve the same effects,he said. Pete Delany, director of applied studies at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, said boomers' drug use defied stereotypes, but is important to address. When you think about people who are 50 and older you don't generally think of them as using illicit drugs — the occasional Hunter Thompson or the kind of hippie dippie guy that gets a lot of press maybe,he said. As a nation, it's important to us to say,It's not just young people using drugs it's older people using drugs.In conversations, older marijuana users often say they smoke in less social settings than when they were younger, frequently preferring to enjoy the drug privately. They say the quality (and price) of the drug has increased substantially since their youth and they aren't as paranoid about using it.
Dennis Day, a 61-year-old attorney in Columbus, Ohio, said when he used to get high, he wore dark glasses to disguise his red eyes, feared talking to people on the street and worried about encountering police. With age, he says, any drawbacks to the drug have disappeared. My eyes no longer turn red, I no longer get the munchies, Day said.The primary drawbacks to me now are legal.Siegel bucks the trend as someone who was well into her 50s before she tried pot for the first time. She can muster only one frustration with the drug. I never learned how to roll a joint, she said. It's just a big nuisance. It's much easier to fill a pipe.
New Latin America group likely to emerge at summit
Sun Feb 21, 7:41 pm ET
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico – Latin American foreign ministers say their nations are close to forming a new regional organization that would not include the U.S. or Canada.Representatives of 32 countries are gathering on Mexico's Caribbean coast for the Unity Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean starting Monday.Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said Sunday the new group has yet to be named, but is envisioned as the premier political forum for Latin American nations. It would be launched next year.Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has urged the region to create a counterweight to what he calls excessive U.S. influence. The Organization of America States, headquartered in Washington, has many of the same member countries.
SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.
GENESIS 1:5,14
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)
DIG SUPPORTS KING SOLOMONS ACCOUNT
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Pre-Purim Safety Alerts
by Maayana Miskin FEB 22,10
(IsraelNN.com) With the holiday of Purim rapidly approaching, doctors and paramedics are warning celebrants to avoid common dangers. In particular, parents are warned not to allow their children to play with firecrackers or sparklers, and to ensure that children's costumes are not flammable.Children and teens often play with firecrackers and sparklers on Purim, and paramedics are often called on to treat an unusually high number of burn victims. Last year a 14-year-old was injured when a firecracker exploded in his hand, tearing off all five fingers and leaving him with facial injuries as well.The year before, a young boy suffered serious burns when a package of small noisemakers, of the type used in pop guns, exploded in his pocket. The child's horrified parent later made and circulated a short video illustrating the dangers of pop guns.Children's costumes can also pose a danger. Costumes that include cotton wool, natural feathers, or other flammable materials should be avoided.The website BeOK issued a warning regarding makeup as well. Makeup should be treated like other personal hygiene products, and should not be shared. Before purchasing makeup, buyers should check the expiration date. In addition, the site advises doing a spot test with any new makeup product before applying the product to the face.The Hatzalah emergency response group has issued warning regarding road safety. On Purim, there are many children outdoors, and drivers should take extra care in case children walk into the road unexpectedly.
Archaeologist sees proof for Bible in ancient wall By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer – Mon Feb 22, 8:07 pm ET
JERUSALEM – An Israeli archaeologist said Monday that ancient fortifications recently excavated in Jerusalem date back 3,000 years to the time of King Solomon and support the biblical narrative about the era.If the age of the wall is correct, the finding would be an indication that Jerusalem was home to a strong central government that had the resources and manpower needed to build massive fortifications in the 10th century B.C.That's a key point of dispute among scholars, because it would match the Bible's account that the Hebrew kings David and Solomon ruled from Jerusalem around that time.While some Holy Land archaeologists support that version of history — including the archaeologist behind the dig, Eilat Mazar — others posit that David's monarchy was largely mythical and that there was no strong government to speak of in that era.Speaking to reporters at the site Monday, Mazar, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, called her find the most significant construction we have from First Temple days in Israel.It means that at that time, the 10th century, in Jerusalem there was a regime capable of carrying out such construction, she said.Based on what she believes to be the age of the fortifications and their location, she suggested it was built by Solomon, David's son, and mentioned in the Book of Kings.The fortifications, including a monumental gatehouse and a 77-yard (70-meter) long section of an ancient wall, are located just outside the present-day walls of Jerusalem's Old City, next to the holy compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. According to the Old Testament, it was Solomon who built the first Jewish Temple on the site.
That temple was destroyed by Babylonians, rebuilt, renovated by King Herod 2,000 years ago and then destroyed again by Roman legions in 70 A.D. The compound now houses two important Islamic buildings, the golden-capped Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosque.Archaeologists have excavated the fortifications in the past, first in the 1860s and most recently in the 1980s. But Mazar claimed her dig was the first complete excavation and the first to turn up strong evidence for the wall's age: a large number of pottery shards, which archaeologists often use to figure out the age of findings.Aren Maeir, an archaeology professor at Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv, said he has yet to see evidence that the fortifications are as old as Mazar claims. There are remains from the 10th century in Jerusalem, he said, but proof of a strong, centralized kingdom at that time remains tenuous.While some see the biblical account of the kingdom of David and Solomon as accurate and others reject it entirely, Maeir said the truth was likely somewhere in the middle.There's a kernel of historicity in the story of the kingdom of David, he said.
FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU Russia to deliver missile defense to Iran-Foreign minister confirms deal despite reports of cancellation, delay February 22, 2010 12:51 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2010 WorldNetDaily
S-300 anti-aircraft missile system displayed at military parade in Moscow (Photo: www.kremlin.ru)Russia intends to fulfill a contract to supply its S-300 advanced air-defense missiles to Iran, the Interfax news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying over the weekend. There is a contract to supply these systems to Iran, and we will fulfill it, Ryabkov told Interfax in an interview. Delays (with deliveries) are linked to technical problems with adjusting these systems,he added. Ryabkov also cautioned against politicizing Russia's arms exports to Iran. It is absolutely incorrect to put the emphasis on the issue of S-300supplies ... and to turn it into a major problem, to say nothing of linking it to the discussion on restoring trust in the purely peaceful character of Iran's nuclear program,Ryabkov said. Last week, WND quoted a senior Egyptian security official stating despite announcements to the contrary, Russia still plans to deliver to Iran the S-300. The Egyptian official said Russia also intends to see the system delivered to Syria, from which it can also be transferred to the Hezbollah militia operating in Lebanon. Last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Moscow, where he reportedly asked the Russians to cancel a contract with Iran to deliver and install the S-300 system. Israeli newspapers quoted sources in Netanyahu's entourage stating Russia agreed to cancel the sale. The S-300PMU1 is a mobile system designed to shoot down aircraft and cruise missiles. Analysts say the S-300 system would make any Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear facilities more difficult.
Just after Netanyahu's visit, the Interfax news agency quoted a senior Russian official as saying the delivery to Iran of the S-300 had been delayed for technical reasons. The delay is due to technical problems. The delivery will be carried out when they are resolved,said Alexander Fomin, deputy head of Russia's Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation. However, the Egyptian official speaking to WND said Russia still intends to deliver the system to Iran within the next month. The official said there are also plans to see the system deployed in Syria, where Russia maintains a large naval fleet unseen since the Cold War days. The official said Syria intends to transfer the S-300 to Hezbollah in Lebanon. An Israeli security official said Israel is monitoring the situation. Russia has not announced the specific terms of its agreement with Iran, but Interfax reported the deal calls for Moscow to sell Tehran five batteries of S-300PMU1 missiles for around $800 million.
Iran has expressed frustration over the continued delay in the delivery of the S-300 system. Last week a top Iranian military commander claimed his country would build its own air-defense missiles that would be even better than the S-300.
GLOBAL JIHAD-Iran steps up training of Hamas retaliation force-Tehran fears Israeli raid against nuke sites this year February 21, 2010 8:53 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2010 WorldNetDaily
Iranian Revolutionary Guard
JERUSALEM – Iran has increased exponentially its training of Hamas gunmen both in the Gaza Strip and abroad, a senior Egyptian security official told WND. The official said Iran believes there will be a confrontation with Israel this year over Tehran's nuclear facilities and has thus stepped up training of Hamas, whose gunmen will be instrumental in carrying out retaliatory attacks against the Jewish state during any future war. The official said the training is taking place both in Gaza, where Iran has militants stationed, and in other countries, particularly in Lebanon and Iran itself. He said an explosion in Lebanon last month that the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group blamed on Israel actually was part of a work accident during training exercises between Hezbollah and Hamas. Two Hamas members were killed in that attack, which Hamas claimed was targeting Hamas's representative in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan. Last month, WND published early reports that, according to a senior Egyptian intelligence official, Iranian Revolutionary Guard units were actively working to train Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip. The official also said Egypt is concerned that neighboring Gaza could become a major center of al-Qaida activity in the region. The Egyptian official said those factors were central in his country's decision to build a steel wall under the Egypt-Gaza border as part of efforts to isolate Hamas and stem weapons smuggling into Gaza. The official also said Egypt has information that Hamas and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group for the first time formed a joint operations room from which the two groups exchange knowledge, coordinate efforts and work on obtaining weapons. The Egyptian intelligence official said recent information as well as interrogations of arrested suspects in Egypt indicate Iranian-backed groups are working with al-Qaida in the Gaza Strip even though the two groups have different points of view and conflicting religious ideology. The official pointed to similar cooperation in Yemen, where he said Iranian agents and al-Qaida have been working against the Yemeni government.
Reports that Iranian agents have been operating in Gaza are not new. In 2007, WND first reported security forces associated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party captured seven Iranian military trainers – including a general of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard – at a purported Hamas training facility in the Gaza Strip. During Israel's military incursion in Gaza last year, Israeli newspapers reported an Iranian Unit of Hamas – members of the group's military wing trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard – had been destroyed.
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.
FROM JEROME CORSI'S RED ALERT-Dead on ice: Obama losing climate war
EPA challenged on ruling that CO2 is harmful chemical February 22, 2010
12:36 pm Eastern 2010 WorldNetDaily
In yet another indication that the Obama administration is losing the global-warming war, Texas and several national industry groups have filed separate motions in federal court challenging the government's authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports. In December, the Environmental Protection Agency, acting under the authority of the Clean Air Act, took steps to control carbon emissions blamed for global warming from power plants, factories and refineries without waiting for Congress to act on cap-and-trade. The EPA ruled that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide endanger human health under the Clean Air Act,Corsi noted,despite the fact human beings exhale carbon dioxide that trees and other plants absorb.The EPA decision opened the door for the Obama administration to impose restrictions on the use of carbon-based fuels in the United States, even if Congress never passes the administration's proposed cap-and-trade legislation. The agency seeks to require industrial plants that emit 25,000 tons of greenhouses gases a year or more to install technology to improve energy efficiency whenever a facility is changed or built, according to the Associated Press. Red Alert reported that the EPA has also delayed 79 coal-mining permits in four states, arguing the planned coal mining operations would cause significant damage to water quality and the environment under the specifications of the Clean Water Act. Texas, a leading carbon-dioxide emitter because of its heavy concentration of oil refining and other industries, stands to suffer a major economic impact if the EPA mandatory regulations on carbon dioxide are allowed to take effect,Corsi noted.
The National Association of Manufacturers, the America Petroleum Institute and the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association announced that they filed a petition in federal appeals court challenging the EPA's carbon-dioxide ruling. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and various U.S. iron and steel makers have also threatened to file similar petitions. These challenges signal that the White House has lost control of the global-warming message to such an extent that the end-run around Congress seems to be hitting a dead end as these lawsuits force the EPA to prove carbon dioxide is a chemical harmful to people, Corsi wrote. Last year, cap-and-trade legislation passed the U.S. House but stalled in the Senate. Red Alert continues to predict that the Obama administration's cap-and-trade legislation will fail to pass Congress this year, joining Obamacare and a new attempt to pass comprehensive immigration reform as failed pillars of President Obama's first-year legislative agenda. Red Alert's author, whose books The Obama Nation and Unfit for Command have topped the New York Times best-sellers list, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972. For nearly 25 years, beginning in 1981, he worked with banks throughout the U.S. and around the world to develop financial services marketing companies to assist banks in establishing broker/dealers and insurance subsidiaries to provide financial planning products and services to their retail customers. In this career, Corsi developed three different third-party financial services marketing firms that reached gross sales levels of $1 billion in annuities and equal volume in mutual funds. In 1999, he began developing Internet-based financial marketing firms, also adapted to work in conjunction with banks. In his 25-year financial services career, Corsi has been a noted financial services speaker and writer, publishing three books and numerous articles in professional financial services journals and magazines.
MEDIA MATTERS-Meet kinder, gentler Glenn Beck: New global warming believer
Finds common ground with George Clooney, his publicist is Democratic Party power player February 22, 2010 9:00 pm Eastern 2010 WorldNetDaily
Glenn Beck
While polls show more people drifting away from acceptance of global warming, the newest superstar among conservatives – Glenn Beck – is embracing it. You'd be an idiot not to notice the temperature change,he says. He also thinks it could be caused by man's activity. At home, he's going green by using energy-saving products.
I'm willing to do anything but use the CFLs, he says of compact fluorescent light bulbs.I put them in once and couldn't stand the way they lit up the room.The kinder, gentler, greener and warmer side of Beck, known as a firebrand conservative, came to light in an interview in USA Weekend. Let them know what you really think. Get Global Warming Is A Hoax Magnetic/Easy-Off Adhesive Bumper Sticker.
Beck also has lots of friends on the other side of the political spectrum, he reveals. He calls George Clooney a good, honest man.Beck says the two of them had an extended conversation about the genocide in Darfur. We came to an immediate, completely wholehearted agreement about the situation,Beck says.That is, to put aside the politics and give troops what they need to protect people over there. He's a good, honest man who believes passionately about doing something about it.Beck's personal publicist, Matt Hiltzik, is a Democratic power player who helped get Hillary Rodham Clinton elected to the U.S. Senate, says the magazine report. And let me tell you about Liz Julis, the editor of my magazine, Fusion,he says. Every year, I match charitable donations that my employees make. She ends up giving her money away to some hippie hemp farm somewhere, and she loves to rub it in that I'm writing a check for something like that. She's one of my favorite people because we hardly agree on anything, but we challenge each other.Beck also explains how he chose Mormonism as his religion. He was raised Catholic and wasn't practicing any faith when he met his current wife, Tania, says the report. When she insisted that a church needed to be a part of their family's life, they began church shopping. We tried em all,Beck says. Unitarian, Episcopalian, Baptist, even a synagogue. We ended up with the Church of Latter-day Saints because I took my daughters from my first marriage there, and they said, Dad, this place makes us feel warm and welcome inside. Can we come back? Beck also reveals he's no fan of Ronald Reagan whom he blames for driving up the deficits. Republicans sold the American people out, Beck says.I've always said I was a Reagan-style conservative. But I don't think Reagan was a real Republican. He just maintained some shared values.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
Stocks close lower on caution about economy By STEPHEN BERNARD, AP Business Writer – Mon Feb 22, 5:57 pm ET
NEW YORK – The stock market paused from a four-day rally Monday and closed modestly lower after big consumer companies gave a cautious outlook for economic growth.The market, which has advanced on stronger economic signs, fluctuated after Lowe's Cos. and Campbell Soup Co. reported higher earnings but reminded investors that a recovery among consumers is expected to be slow. Stocks drew some support from news that oil field services company Schlumberger Ltd. agreed to buy Smith International Inc.Corporate America is being cautious with their earnings predictions, said Roy Williams, CEO at Prestige Wealth Management Group. A recovery in consumer spending hasn't happened as fast as executives have hoped, he said.Trading was also fragmented as investors hunted for deals following last week's big rally. The Dow Jones industrial average posted its best weekly gain since November on strong earnings and economic reports.I wouldn't read too much into this, Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at Standard & Poor's, said of Monday's trading. There could be some minor profit-taking.Financial stocks were among the day's winners after a federal judge approved a settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Bank of America Corp. over the acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co.The Dow fell 18.97, or 0.2 percent, to 10,383.38. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 1.16, or 0.1 percent, to 1,108.01, while the Nasdaq composite index fell 1.84, or 0.1 percent, to 2,242.03.Rising stocks were about even with losers on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to a light 3.84 billion shares, compared with 3.95 billion on Friday
Lowe's said Monday its fourth-quarter profit rose 27 percent as it cut costs and saw a slight increase in sales. The home improvement retailer's results beat analyst projections and Lowe's said it anticipates sales to grow as the housing market recovers. However, its first-quarter earnings forecast was below expectations.
Campbell Soup's fiscal second-quarter profit met forecasts as lower costs helped offset a slowdown in U.S. sales.Right now, they're trying to heal, Steven Goldman, chief market strategist at Weeden & Co., said of consumers.Consumers are holding off on big purchases like home renovations because employment is still a concern, Goldman said. That hurts companies like Lowe's that rely on big spending from U.S. customers. But they're also being choosy when it comes to staples including food. Campbell's report reflected that caution.Lowe's fell 6 cents to $23.07. Campbell Soup dipped 43 cents to $33.50.The National Association for Business Economics echoed a similar tone that the economy is getting better, but at a sluggish pace. It reaffirmed in its latest outlook that an economic recovery remains on track, though it will be slow. The group of economists expects to see job growth later this quarter, but unemployment is expected to stay above 9 percent throughout the year.
High unemployment — the rate currently stands at 9.7 percent — remains a major obstacle for a strong, sustained recovery. It has also dragged down consumer spending and confidence, which hurts companies like Lowe's and Campbell Soup.Other major retailers, including Macy's Inc., Target Corp., Home Depot Inc. and Gap Inc., release quarterly results this week. The reports should provide further clues about whether consumers are more confident in the recovery.Schlumberger is buying Smith International for $11 billion in stock in a move to diversify its product offerings and better compete with rival Halliburton Co. Investors viewed the deal as a sign that demand is likely to grow for fuel as the global economy recovers.Energy and material companies were mixed on the day following the deal. Falling commodity prices dragged down the sector. Schlumberger shares fell $2.33, or 3.7 percent, to $61.57. Smith International rose $3.33, or 8.8 percent, to $41.03. Healthcare shares were also mixed after President Barack Obama renewed his push for insurance reform and a Senate report said drug maker GlaxoSmithKline has known about possible heart attack risks tied to its diabetes medication Avandia. GlaxoSmithKline shares fell 94 cents, or 2.5 percent, to $37.32. Bank of America rose 33 cents to $16.21 after U.S. District Court Judge Jed S. Rakoff approved the settlement of charges that the bank had misled shareholders about the Merrill Lynch deal. Meanwhile, bond prices also traded in a tight range. Long-term bonds fell slightly, while short-term rates increased — a sign that investors might expect the Federal Reserve to raise its benchmark rates in the coming months. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to give his semiannual report on the economy and interest rates to Congress later this week. Last week the Fed started to remove its extraordinary stimulus measures put in place during the recession. It increased the rate it charges banks for emergency loans. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 3.80 percent, from 3.78 percent late Friday. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 0.63, or 0.1 percent, to 632.25. Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average rose 2.7 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.1 percent, Germany's DAX index fell 0.6 percent, and France's CAC-40 fell 0.3 percent.
TSX falls with mixed banks, softer golds By Ka Yan Ng – Mon Feb 22, 11:11 am ET
TORONTO (Reuters) – Toronto's main stock index eased on Monday as early support from firm oil and gold prices faded, while financials came under pressure after their recent run-up.Some profit-taking was overdue, analysts said, after the TSX index had risen for eight straight sessions.Financials were a mixed group. Some were among the top heavyweight decliners, including Royal Bank of Canada, down 0.7 percent at C$56.70, and Bank of Nova Scotia, down 0.13 percent at C$47.74. But Bank of Montreal and Sun Life Financial headed the other way, with each rising about 0.4 percent.The financials were also in the spotlight as first-quarter results for the banks will start being published later this week, kicking off with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce on Thursday.Having weathered the global financial crisis better than most lenders, Canada's big banks are expected to report unimpressive profits in their first quarter, due to the lingering effects of the recession and consequent loan losses.At 10:48 a.m., the Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index was down 16.78 points, or 0.14 percent, at 11,692.51, after opening slightly higher.There's certainly an element of profit-taking. I think that this has been such a skittish market that we are seeing some people at the margins trading a little bit more aggressively and taking profits early when they can,said Michael Sprung, president at Sprung & Co Investment Counsel.
Gold stocks were also among the weak issues on Monday as the price of gold retreated from one-month highs. Barrick Gold was off 1.5 percent at C$40.38, while Goldcorp skidded 0.6 percent to C$40.09.A big deal in the oilfield services industry in the United States shone the spotlight on the TSX's resource group, but the declining price of oil limited the sector's advance.Canadian Natural Resources rose 0.87 percent to C$73.15, but Suncor Energy fell 0.4 percent to C$31.81.Market players were also still assessing the implications of the Federal Reserve's move to hike its discount rate, which has raised speculation that the U.S. central bank might raise its key fed funds rate earlier than expected. Greece's unresolved debt woes also remained on investors' radar.(Reporting by Ka Yan Ng; editing by Rob Wilson)
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
THE BANK OF THE WORLD THE IMF THE NEW WORLD ORDER CONTROLLED-EUROPEAN UNION CONTROLLED FOR EVERYONE TO PAY TAXES TO-TO KEEP FAT THE NEW WORLD ORDER-ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT.
IMF aide assists EU in Greece Mon Feb 22, 3:27 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund said Monday it sent a staff member to Athens to assist a European Union team working to help Greece deal with its debt crisis.At the request of the EU Commission and at the invitation of the Greek authorities, a fund staff member is in Athens this week to provide assistance to an EU Commission team, an IMF official said.Greece has vowed to reduce its budget deficit from an estimated 12.7 percent of gross domestic product in 2009 (GDP) -- by far the highest budget deficit in the eurozone -- to below the EU limit of 3.0 percent by 2012 and has warned major cuts in public spending will be needed.Under heavy pressure from its eurozone partners to bring order to its public finances, Greece's Socialist government is weighing cuts to benefits, a rise in the retirement age and other measures that have sparked union resistance.The EU has pledged political support for Greece and has hinted at more concrete financial assistance in the future but it has also imposed strict deadlines and monitoring for Greece's deficit-cutting program.A European Commission spokesman said Monday that Greece had missed a deadline from the commission to give a full account of financial operations allegedly used by Athens to hide the true extent of its budget deficit.Greek authorities failed to meet the Friday deadline, telling European Commission officials that the delay was due to a four-day strike at the country's finance ministry.
The European Commission's data office Eurostat has received some information, but not all the information needed from Greek authorities,said a spokesman for the commission, the EU's executive arm.Brussels is hoping to receive the documents very soon as this would be to the advantage of all parties concerned,he said.Eurostat's inquiry focuses on allegations in the New York Times and Financial Times that major Wall Street banks helped Greece hide the holes in its budget through complex operations, facilitating the country's accession to the eurozone.Greece's finance minister has said the schemes were legal at the time.News of the IMF and EU presence in the Greek capital came as Greece braces for a nationwide strike scheduled for Wednesday, called by unions to protest austerity measures, and reports that it may attempt a bond issue this week.Highlighting the country's critical need for more financing, Greece on Monday said it had asked Abu Dhabi, the richest of the seven states making up the United Arab Emirates, to invest in a Greek development fund.A crucial test of market confidence in Greece could come as early as this week with the government attempting a multibillion-euro (dollar) bond issue, the Financial Times reported earlier, citing bankers in Athens.Prime Minister George Papandreou added further urgency in an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr Programme on Sunday in which he said that Greece's borrowing needs were only covered through the middle of March.
Our borrowing needs are covered till mid-March, Papandreou said, adding that Greece needs EU support so that we can borrow at the same rate as other countries, not at high rates that undermine the country's reform efforts.The yield on 10-year Greek bonds -- the interest rate that Greece must pay on bonds it issues to borrow money in the markets -- was at 6.411 percent during trading on Monday, compared to 3.281 percent for German 10-year bonds.
Canada's deficit plan will target public spending By Louise Egan – Mon Feb 22, 4:52 pm ET
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada's plan to reduce its record deficit will center on slowing the growth in government spending, with the exception of health care, pensions and education, a senior government official said on Monday.The March 4 federal budget will lay out the Conservative government's plans to execute the second year of its economic stimulus efforts, the official said. The spending plan will focus on jobs and growth, he said.But Ottawa will not bow to pressure to extend even the most popular temporary measures, such as a two-year freeze on employment insurance premiums or a home renovation tax credit.The stimulus taps will be turned off at the end of the 2010-11 fiscal year, as originally planned, he said.As you know, we've always said that reducing the deficit and returning to fiscal balance will happen through slowing the rate of growth in federal spending, and that still applies, the official told reporters in a background briefing, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Having said that, I don't anticipate that to occur for pensions, for health care or for education.he said.He declined to comment on whether Ottawa would introduce new fiscal targets, either in the short term or over a longer horizon.Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has repeatedly said he will balance the books in the medium term, without raising taxes or cutting the federal government's transfer payments to the provinces. The budget will simply be a plan for staying the course, he has said.In fact, there will be no significant new measures of any kind in the upcoming budget, the official said.Prime Minister Stephen Harper is under some pressure to satisfy some of his opponents' demands in the budget, otherwise he could face an election. His minority government needs the support of at least one of the three opposition parties to stay in power.The legislative vote on the budget is always considered a motion of confidence in the government, so its defeat could force a spring election although no party has appeared intent on pushing for one in recent weeks.
All three opposition parties have called for some extra measures in the budget either to protect the unemployed, provide incentives for businesses that create new jobs, or extend special support to specific industries hard-hit by the recession.The main opposition Liberals want to see changes to the public pension system to allow contributors to top up their savings during good times, and reforms to bankruptcy laws to protect dismissed workers' pensions.The left-leaning New Democrats have also proposed the cancellation of corporate tax cuts already legislated by the Conservatives, with reductions planned in 2011 and 2012.But the Conservatives argue that low taxes are the best formula for spurring growth and jobs, and will also push for more free trade deals.We will create optimal economic conditions for job growth by maintaining competitive tax rates and reducing the deficit once the economy has recovered,the senior official said.And we will also seek to open new markets, allowing Canadians to compete and succeed in the global economy and we will tackle barriers to growth and job creation.(Reporting by Louise Egan; editing by Frank McGurty)
Asian stocks fall after losses on Wall Street By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ, AP Business Writer – FEB 23,10
HONG KONG – Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday, with Japan's benchmark off nearly 1 percent, following overnight losses on Wall Street.
After rising strongly the day before, regional markets gave back some of their gains amid few new reports to guide investors. The dollar slipped moderately against the yen and the euro. Oil prices drifted below $80 a barrel.European and U.S. market declines weighed on investors. Wall Street paused after a four-day rally as cautious outlooks from major consumer companies reminded traders America's economic recovery would be subdued.Nagging worries about U.S. growth and interest rates, along with uncertainty about China's recent steps to curb extravagant lending, continue to hold investors back, said Belle Liang, head of research at Core Pacific-Yamaichi International in Hong Kong.These two things have been bothering investors a lot the last few days, said Liang.She predicted Asian markets would attract new buying in coming weeks as investors shift their attention to company earnings when Chinese companies begin reporting year-end results.In the meantime, investors were awaiting testimony from U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday and Thursday that could provide more clarity about the bank's plan to unwind its emergency economic support measures and raise consumer borrowing rates. The Fed's surprise decision to hike its emergency lending rates to banks rattled global markets last week.In Japan, the Nikkei 225 stock average fell 68.96 points, or 0.7 percent, to 10,331.51 Shares of Toyota Motor Corp. lost about 1 percent, in line with the broader market's losses, a day after disclosing it was the target of U.S. criminal and regulatory investigations in connection with its recent safety problems.
Shanghai was Asia's worst performing market, dropping 1.8 percent to 2,950.30. South Korea's index shed 0.2 percent and Australia's index was down 0.4 percent.Among rising markets, Hong Kong reversed an early retreat to gain 0.4 percent to 20,455.75. Indian and Singaporean shares were up slightly.In the U.S. Monday, the Dow fell 18.97, or 0.2 percent, to 10,383.38.The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 1.16, or 0.1 percent, to 1,108.01, while the Nasdaq composite index fell 1.84, or 0.1 percent, to 2,242.03.In oil, the benchmark contract was down 37 cents at $79.94 barrel after adding 35 cents overnight.The dollar fell 91.02 yen 91.15 yen. The euro gained to $1.3603 from $1.3593.
Oil drops below $80 after 3-week rally By Alex Kennedy, Associated Press Writer – FEB 23,10
SINGAPORE – Oil prices retreated below $80 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as investors mulled whether sluggish U.S. crude demand justified a 14 percent rally over the last three weeks.Benchmark crude for April delivery was down 34 cents to $79.97 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract added 25 cents to settle at $80.31 on Monday.Oil has jumped from $69.59 a barrel on Feb. 5 on investor optimism that the global economy will rebound strongly from recession last year. Yet growing inventories of crude, gasoline and diesel fuel suggest demand in the U.S. remains weak.Some analysts expect crude demand in the U.S. and Japan will gradually follow overall economic growth and lift prices. Goldman Sachs expects crude to trade between $85 and $95 for most of this year.Continuing growth in the two largest developed market economies suggests that the economic recovery is still on track. Goldman Sachs said in a report. We expect that Japanese oil demand will break the trend of the past decade and grow in 2010.In other Nymex trading in March contracts, heating oil fell 0.2 cent to $2.077 a gallon while gasoline rose 0.1 cent to $2.1168 a gallon. Natural gas gained 2.4 cents to $4.919 per 1,000 cubic feet.In London, Brent crude was down 43 cents at $78.18 on the ICE futures exchange.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Iran to build enrichment sites inside mountains By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer – Mon Feb 22, 7:08 pm ET
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran said Monday it plans to build two new uranium enrichment facilities deep inside mountains to protect them from attack, a new challenge to Western powers trying to curb Tehran's nuclear program for fear it is aimed at making weapons.Ali Akbar Salehi, who is also Iran's vice president, said Tehran intends to use its more advanced centrifuges at the new sites, a decision that could add to growing concerns in the West over Tehran's program because the technology would allow Iran to accelerate the pace of its program.The two plants are among 10 industrial scale uranium enrichment facilities Iran approved the construction of in November, a dramatic expansion of the program in defiance of U.N. demands it halt enrichment.Hopefully, we may begin construction of two new enrichment sites in the next Iranian year as ordered by the president, the semiofficial ISNA quoted Salehi as saying Monday. The Iranian calendar year begins March 21.As of now, our enrichment sites ... will be built inside mountains, Salehi added, according to ISNA.
The decision appears to be aimed at shielding the facilities from potential military attack.Israel considers Iran's nuclear program a strategic threat, and has hinted at the possibility of airstrikes against Iran if world pressure does not halt Tehran's nuclear efforts.The Israelis have launched such strikes in the past. In 1981, an Israeli air attack destroyed an unfinished nuclear reactor in Iraq. Israel also hit a suspected nuclear facility in Syria in September 2007.Iran's enrichment of uranium is the central concern of the United States and other nations negotiating with the country over its disputed nuclear program. The technology can be used to generate fuel for power plants and isotopes for medical purposes, but it can also be used to make weapons-grade uranium for atomic bombs.Tehran insists its enrichment work is only meant for peaceful purposes, but Washington and its allies worry the program masks efforts to build a nuclear weapon.Tehran has already said it may install its more advanced centrifuges at its small enrichment site near the holy city of Qom, which was made public last September. The new centrifuges are more advanced than the decades-old P-1 type centrifuges in use at the country's main enrichment facility at Natanz, in central Iran.Centrifuges are machines used to enrich uranium — a technology that can produce fuel for power plants or materials for a nuclear weapon. Uranium enriched to a low level is used to produce fuel, but further enrichment makes it suitable for use in building nuclear arms.The new models will be able to enrich uranium much faster than the old ones — which means Iran could amass more material in a shorter space of time that could be turned into the fissile core of missiles, should Tehran choose to do so.Salehi said the new enrichment sites will be equal to that of Natanz in terms of production capacity but smaller in geographical size, another indication that more advanced centrifuges will be installed, requiring less space to churn out the same enriched uranium.
More than 8,600 centrifuges have been set up in Natanz, but only about 3,800 are actively enriching uranium, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The facility will eventually house 54,000 centrifuges.Tehran produced its first batch of uranium enriched to a higher level earlier this month, prompting the U.S. and its allies to seek new U.N. Security Council sanctions.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
South Africa says intercepted North Korea arms shipment By Louis Charbonneau – Mon Feb 22, 7:57 pm ET
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – South Africa has told a U.N. Security Council committee it intercepted a North Korean weapons shipment bound for Central Africa, which diplomats said was a violation of a U.N. ban on arms sales by Pyongyang.The seizure took place in November, when South African authorities received information that a ship headed for Congo Republic was carrying containers with suspicious cargo, according to a letter sent by South Africa to the Security Council's North Korea sanctions committee.Several Western diplomats described the incident as a clear-cut violation of Security Council resolution 1874, which bans all North Korean arms exports and most weapons-related imports in response to its nuclear program.The letter, parts of which were seen by Reuters on Monday, said a North Korean company was the shipping agent and the cargo was first loaded onto a ship in China, then transferred to a vessel owned by French shipping firm CMA CGM in Malaysia.Diplomats said the French company alerted authorities to the fact it had suspicious cargo on board and was not believed to have done anything wrong. The South Africans intercepted the vessel and seized the containers, which held tank parts.
The letter, which the committee received last week, said the South Africans discovered that the contents fell within the definition of conventional arms in that the contents consisted of components of a military tank T-54/T-55.The letter said the documentation for the containers described the cargo as spare parts of bulldozer.T-54 and T-55 tanks were designed and produced in the Soviet Union in the 1940s and 1950s but were later upgraded and made in other countries.Neither the French company nor the countries involved had any immediate comment.Congo Republic, which borders Democratic Republic of Congo, has suffered a wave of violence in the Pool region between the capital Brazzaville and the oil port town of Pointe Noire that has broken a period of calm after a decade of instability.
COMMITTEE TO DECIDE
The diplomats said the committee was planning to send letters to countries involved in the case -- such as North Korea, Republic of Congo, Malaysia and France -- seeking more information so it can decide whether the North Koreans or any other nations were in breach of U.N. sanctions.Resolution 1874, approved in June 2009, was passed in response to Pyongyang's second nuclear test in May 2009 and expanded the punitive measures the Security Council had imposed on North Korea after its first atomic test in October 2006.Last year's resolution also authorized countries to inspect suspicious North Korean air, land and sea cargo and to seize any banned goods.The latest incident shows that the sanctions are working, one Western diplomat told Reuters.But it also shows that we have to be vigilant. The DPRK (North Korea) is still trying to violate the sanctions.This is not the only seizure of its kind. Thai authorities confiscated over 35 tons of arms from a cargo plane they said had come from North Korea after the aircraft made an emergency landing at a Bangkok airport in December 2009.Last's year's expanded sanctions against North Korea were aimed at cutting off its arms sales, a vital export estimated to earn the destitute state more than $1 billion a year.North Korea's biggest weapons sales come from ballistic missiles, with Iran and other Middle Eastern states as customers, according to U.S. government officials.The U.N. sanctions and the cut-off of handouts from South Korea have dealt a heavy blow to the North, which has an estimated gross domestic product of $17 billion, and may force it back to nuclear disarmament talks in the hopes of winning aid, analysts say. (Editing by John O'Callaghan)
EZEKIEL 38:5(WW3 WAVE 1 MARCH TO ISRAEL)
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:(LEADER OF THESE-RUSSIA)
Iran warns airlines over not calling Gulf Persian
Mon Feb 22, 2:46 pm ET
TEHRAN, Iran – Airlines not referring to the waterway between Iran and the Arabian peninsula as the Persian Gulf will be banned from Iranian airspace, the transport minister told local media Monday.The warning was directed specifically toward the airlines of neighboring Gulf Arab countries who have a history of referring to the body of water as the Arabian Gulf.The airlines of the southern Persian gulf countries flying to Iran must use Persian Gulf on their flight monitors, Hamid Behbahani told the IRAN daily.Airlines ignoring the warning would be banned from Iranian airspace, while repeat offenders would have their planes grounded in Iran and the companies' flight permits to Iran canceled.The report said Iran expelled a Greek flight attendant from the private Iranian airline, Kish Air, for using Arabian Gulf on a monitor over the weekend.Iranians are traditionally sensitive over the historic name of the waterway between Iran and seven Arab nations.
Last month the Saudi-based Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation said it canceled the Islamic Solidarity Games in April because its Iranian host planned to use Persian Gulf on banners and medals.In 2004, Iran banned American National Geographic for using Arabian Gulf instead of the Persian Gulf. In 2005, National Geographic revised its world atlas use Persian.
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.
Haiti leader says quake toll could reach 300,000
Sun Feb 21, 8:49 pm ET
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico – The president of Haiti said Sunday the death toll from his country's earthquake could reach 300,000 once all the bodies are recovered from wrecked buildings.Speaking after arriving in Mexico for regional meetings that will include discussion of Haitian aid needs, Preval gave no indication of how he reached the figure.You have seen the pictures, you know the numbers, more than 200,000 bodies picked up in the streets, counting those that are still underneath the rubble, perhaps we could arrive at 300,000 deaths, Preval said at a meeting between Mexican officials and the countries of the Caribbean trade bloc.Haiti's government has placed the death toll at between 170,000 and 230,000. It depends on which official is talking and none have explained in detail the methodology used to arrive at the numbers.The country's chief epidemiologist has said he believes the government is making a lot of estimates.Preval will also attend the Unity Summit of Latin American and Caribbean nations convened by the Rio Group starting Monday. Aid for Haiti in the wake of the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake is expected to be discussed.Arriving Sunday aboard a Mexican government plane, Preval thanked Mexico for all the aid it has sent to his country since the quake.I want to thank the Mexican people with all my heart, he said.
Homeless Haitians: aid halted to force them out By FRANK BAJAK, Associated Press Writer – Mon Feb 22, 5:33 pm ET
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Homeless victims of Haiti's earthquake said Monday that police are halting deliveries of food and water to try to force them to leave their camp on the grounds of the prime minister's office.Police padlocked the main gate to the hillside camp, where about 2,500 homeless people live under bed sheets and tarps propped on sticks on the sloping hill leading to the office. Stinking garbage with swarms of flies was being allowed to pile up and portable latrines were filled, camp residents complained.Witnesses said police beat 22-year-old Dalida Jeanty after she picked up a broom to sweep around her tent. They called her and she did not come so they beat her,said her cousin, Alix Jeanty.He was among the friends and relatives who carried the woman down the hill, where U.N. peacekeepers from Chile and India arranged for her to be taken to the hospital.A police officer guarding the gate to the prime minister's office refused to give his name or comment on the alleged beating. Nor would he discuss accusations they have been turning away trucks carrying food and water for the past 10 days.Calls to the Information Ministry on Monday were unanswered, as was an e-mail to the prime minister's chief aide.We've been here for a month and we were being treated well, but for the past two weeks we have been mistreated,said Markinson Midey, a 22-year-old student. Anytime they bring food or water, the police make the trucks leave.Midey and other residents, some of them shouting angrily and banging pans when they saw reporters, said they believe the government wants to make the camp conditions so bad that people will be forced to leave, even though they have nowhere else to go.After reporters arrived, police opened the gate they'd locked.
Many government buildings were damaged in the Jan. 12 quake and Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive is working out of the same office as President Rene Preval at a temporary government headquarters set up in the headquarters of the judicial police, near the airport.The Jan. 12 earthquake killed about 200,000 people and left 1.2 million homeless, according to the government.More than half a million people fled devastated Port-au-Prince, but 700,000 are living in every available piece of open land, from public squares and school yards to sidewalks, their only protection makeshift tents of sheets propped up by sticks.There has been no evidence of any concerted government policy to forcibly remove the homeless from the many spontaneous settlements, however authorities have made it clear they plan to resettle the refugees as soon as more permanent camps can be established outside town.Many inhabitants of the capital's miserable tent camps got soaked by an overnight downpour. Doctors say many children — half the population of Haiti is under 15 years — are suffering from colds, coughs and diarrhea.Bellerive told The Associated Press last week that the government will be forced to appropriate private land to build better tent camps with tarpaulins.But aid agencies taking part in a massive international effort to help victims say the government is dragging its feet even as the rainy season approaches and the need to get people out of congested camps that pose health risks and under proper cover becomes more urgent.
AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)
EZEKIEL 39:21
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
ISAIAH 18:1-2
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
JEREMIAH 50:11,37,12
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;(BACKSLIDERS)
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.(A NATION OF MINGLED PEOPLE)
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:(MOTHER ENGLAND) behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
JEREMIAH 51:13,7,53
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
REVELATION 18:3,5,7
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK ON AMERICA)
REVELATION 18:9-11,15-21
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,(NUKE ATTACK I BELIEVE)
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.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
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,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
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.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Any strike against Iran would not be decisive: US military chief
Mon Feb 22, 4:50 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The top US military officer warned on Monday that any strike against Iran would not be decisive in countering Tehran's nuclear program.Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he supported using diplomatic and economic pressure against Iran and repeated his view that military action could carry unintended consequences.No strike, however effective, will be in and of itself decisive, Mullen told a press conference after recently returning from a visit to the Middle East.But he said the US military stood ready with plans for possible action if necessary.Let me be clear: We owe the (defense) secretary and the president a range of options for this threat. We owe the American people our readiness.Mullen's comments came as the United States pushed for fresh sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program and before Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak visits Washington this week.The admiral said he believed Iran was on a path to achieve nuclear weaponization and that the effort "further destabilizes the region.
He said there was widespread concern in the Middle East about Iran's role and its nuclear ambitions.He said that it isn't just a nuclear capable Iranian military our friends worry about, it's an Iran with hegemonic ambitions and a desire to dominate its neighbors.Mullen and other top US officials have said previously military action against Iran cannot be ruled out.But, as I have said many times, I worry a lot about the unintended consequences of any sort of military action.For now, the diplomatic and the economic levers of international power are and ought to be, the levers first pulled,Mullen said.Iran meanwhile said on Monday it is considering plans to build two new uranium enrichment plants concealed inside mountains to avert possible air strikes.Last November, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Iran would build 10 new uranium enrichment plants, after Tehran was strongly rebuked by world powers for building a second enrichment plant near the Shiite holy city of Qom.Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi said the enrichment capacities of the new sites would be similar to the existing facility in the central city of Natanz, where a defiant Tehran is refining uranium despite three sets of UN sanctions.According to the latest UN nuclear watchdog report, Iran has installed in Natanz 8,610 centrifuges, the device which rotates at supersonic speed to enrich uranium.Of these, 3,772 centrifuges are actively enriching uranium under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Salehi said the new plants will be equipped with new generation centrifuges and the facilities would be hidden in mountains so as to protect them from any attacks.
World powers suspect Iran is enriching uranium to make nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran denies. Enriched uranium can be used as fuel to power nuclear reactors or in highly refined form to produce the fissile core of an atom bomb. Iran is at loggerheads with world powers for not accepting an IAEA-drafted deal which would supply it with nuclear fuel for a Tehran research reactor in return for the transfer of the bulk of its low-enriched uranium. Mullen returned last week from a trip to Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries (DRUGS), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Marijuana use by seniors goes up as boomers age By MATT SEDENSKY, Associated Press Writer – Mon Feb 22, 4:08 pm ET
MIAMI – In her 88 years, Florence Siegel has learned how to relax: A glass of red wine. A crisp copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Some classical music, preferably Bach. And every night like clockwork, she lifts a pipe to her lips and smokes marijuana.Long a fixture among young people, use of the country's most popular illicit drug is now growing among the AARP set, as the massive generation of baby boomers who came of age in the 1960s and '70s grows older.
The number of people aged 50 and older reporting marijuana use in the prior year went up from 1.9 percent to 2.9 percent from 2002 to 2008, according to surveys from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.The rise was most dramatic among 55- to 59-year-olds, whose reported marijuana use more than tripled from 1.6 percent in 2002 to 5.1 percent.Observers expect further increases as 78 million boomers born between 1945 and 1964 age. For many boomers, the drug never held the stigma it did for previous generations, and they tried it decades ago.
Some have used it ever since, while others are revisiting the habit in retirement, either for recreation or as a way to cope with the aches and pains of aging.Siegel walks with a cane and has arthritis in her back and legs. She finds marijuana has helped her sleep better than pills ever did. And she can't figure out why everyone her age isn't sharing a joint, too.They're missing a lot of fun and a lot of relief, she said.Politically, advocates for legalizing marijuana say the number of older users could represent an important shift in their decades-long push to change the laws.For the longest time, our political opponents were older Americans who were not familiar with marijuana and had lived through the Reefer Madness mentality and they considered marijuana a very dangerous drug,said Keith Stroup, the founder and lawyer of NORML, a marijuana advocacy group.Now, whether they resume the habit of smoking or whether they simply understand that it's no big deal and that it shouldn't be a crime, in large numbers they're on our side of the issue.Each night, 66-year-old Stroup says he sits down to the evening news, pours himself a glass of wine and rolls a joint. He's used the drug since he was a freshman at Georgetown, but many older adults are revisiting marijuana after years away.The kids are grown, they're out of school, you've got time on your hands and frankly it's a time when you can really enjoy marijuana, Stroup said. Food tastes better, music sounds better, sex is more enjoyable.The drug is credited with relieving many problems of aging: aches and pains, glaucoma, macular degeneration, and so on. Patients in 14 states enjoy medical marijuana laws, but those elsewhere buy or grow the drug illegally to ease their conditions.
Among them is Perry Parks, 67, of Rockingham, N.C., a retired Army pilot who suffered crippling pain from degenerative disc disease and arthritis. He had tried all sorts of drugs, from Vioxx to epidural steroids, but found little success. About two years ago he turned to marijuana, which he first had tried in college, and was amazed how well it worked for the pain.I realized I could get by without the narcotics,Parks said, referring to prescription painkillers. I am essentially pain free.But there's also the risk that health problems already faced by older people can be exacerbated by regular marijuana use.Older users could be at risk for falls if they become dizzy, smoking it increases the risk of heart disease and it can cause cognitive impairment, said Dr. William Dale, chief of geriatrics and palliative medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He said he'd caution against using it even if a patient cites benefits. There are other better ways to achieve the same effects,he said. Pete Delany, director of applied studies at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, said boomers' drug use defied stereotypes, but is important to address. When you think about people who are 50 and older you don't generally think of them as using illicit drugs — the occasional Hunter Thompson or the kind of hippie dippie guy that gets a lot of press maybe,he said. As a nation, it's important to us to say,It's not just young people using drugs it's older people using drugs.In conversations, older marijuana users often say they smoke in less social settings than when they were younger, frequently preferring to enjoy the drug privately. They say the quality (and price) of the drug has increased substantially since their youth and they aren't as paranoid about using it.
Dennis Day, a 61-year-old attorney in Columbus, Ohio, said when he used to get high, he wore dark glasses to disguise his red eyes, feared talking to people on the street and worried about encountering police. With age, he says, any drawbacks to the drug have disappeared. My eyes no longer turn red, I no longer get the munchies, Day said.The primary drawbacks to me now are legal.Siegel bucks the trend as someone who was well into her 50s before she tried pot for the first time. She can muster only one frustration with the drug. I never learned how to roll a joint, she said. It's just a big nuisance. It's much easier to fill a pipe.
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