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.

STOCK RESULTS FEB 22,2010

THE DEVALUATION OF THE US DOLLAR MAY HAVE STARTED, BE PREPARED.
http://www.infowars.com/update-citigroup-says-feds-ordered-7-day-restriction-on-bank-withdrawals/(READ THE LINKS)

REMEMBER LINDSEY WILLIAMS SAID HIS NWO NUTCASE BUDDY SAID THE DOLLAR WOULD BE DEVALUED 30-50% THIS YEAR.

Update: Citigroup Says Feds Ordered 7 Day Restriction On Bank Withdrawals
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, February 22, 2010

A new advisory being sent by America’s third largest bank to its account holders has stoked fears that major financial institutions could be preparing for old fashioned bank runs if the economy takes a turn for the worse.Originally reported by John Carney over at the Business Insider website, Citigroup is sending the following information to customers along with their bank statements.Effective April 1, 2010, we reserve the right to require (7) days advance notice before permitting a withdrawal from all checking accounts. While we do not currently exercise this right and have not exercised it in the past, we are required by law to notify you of this change.An almost identical advisory to the one being sent out can be read on page 22 of Citbank’s Client Manual effective January 1, 2010, which can be read here from Citibank’s own website.We reserve the right to require seven (7) days advance notice before permitting a withdrawal from all checking, savings and money market accounts. We currently do not exercise this right and have not exercised it in the past, states the manual.According to the Future of Capitalism blog, Citigroup originally claimed that the warning was only sent nationwide as a result of a mistake, but that the measures do apply to account holders in Texas.However, in a statement, Citigroup confirmed that they had reserved the right to impose the new 7 day rule on all account holders nationwide, but claimed they had no plans to enforce it. The bank stated that they had been forced to enact the new policy as a result of federal regulations.

When Citibank moved to unlimited FDIC coverage in 2009, we had to reclassify many checking accounts to allow for immediate withdrawals in order to ensure all customers qualified for the additional coverage. When we moved back to standard FDIC coverage with most major banks in 2010, Citibank decided to reclassify those accounts back to make them eligible again for promotional incentives. To do so, Federal Reserve Reg D requires these accounts, called NOW accounts, to reserve the right to require a 7-day notice of withdrawal. We recently communicated this technical requirement to our customers. However, we have never exercised this right and have no plans to do so in the future,reads a statement released by the bank.Over the last 18 months, numerous rumors of bank runs,bank holidays,and limitations on access to cash at ATM’s have been floating around. Citigroup’s new policy to restrict withdrawals won’t do anything to calm such fears.As we reported back in 2008, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which guarantees individual accounts up to $100,000, only has about $50 billion to insure about $1 trillion in assets across the nation’s financial institutions.This revelation prompted fears that an accelerating amount of bank closures could absorb FDIC funds and leave holders of money market and traditional savings accounts exposed.

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Citigroup Warns Customers It May Refuse To Allow Withdrawals

John Carney

Business Insider

Sunday, February 21, 2010

The image of banks locking their doors to keep customers from making withdrawals during a bank run is what immediately came to mind when we heard that Citigroup was telling customers it has the right to prevent any withdrawals from checking accounts for seven days.

More here.

Below are a number of other news sources reporting on this story and the potential for bank runs.

Citi Warns of Withdrawal Gate

Foreign Embassies Urged to Stockpile Local Currencies

Government Trying To Prevent Bank Run After IndyMac Collapse

What’s a Bank Run?

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
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MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +15 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -29 points at low today.
Dow +31 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,121.20.OIL opens at $80.18 today.

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WTO-NO LEADERS MEETING YET

PRAYER FOR ISRAEL WEDNESDAY 5AM EST PSALMS 83,142 AND 130 IN THAT ORDER,THEN YOUR OWN PRAYER FOR ISRAEL.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/1969

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 diplomats to benefit from new intelligence hub-The new intelligence hub will contain a cell of delegates from EU states' secret services (Photo: Anonymous9000)ANDREW RETTMAN Today FEB 22,10 @ 08:49 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU is planning to pull together three intelligence-sharing bureaus based in Brussels to form a new department in the bloc's External Action Service (EAS). The EU's foreign relations chief, Catherine Ashton, is currently drafting a proposal for the future structure of the union's diplomatic corps, with a final paper expected in March. But sources in the EU institutions say she aims to merge into one new department the EU Council's Joint Situation Centre, its Watch-Keeping Capability and the European Commission's Crisis Room to help guide EAS decisions on security matters. The Joint Situation Centre, known as SitCen, today has 110 staff and is located on Avenue de Cortenbergh, in the heart of the EU quarter.It contains a cell of secret service agents seconded from EU capitals. The cell, headed up by a French agent, pools classified information sent in by member states and drafts occasional four-to-10-page-long reports on topics ranging from terrorism to, for example, Iran's diplomatic contacts with neighbouring countries.

SitCen also runs a round-the-clock alert desk which uses open sources, such as BBC Monitoring or photos taken by commercial satellites, and sends emails and SMSes to selected EU diplomats two or three times a day. The Watch-Keeping Capability is in the same building. Its team, made up of 12 people from EU states' police and armed forces, pulls in news from the EU's 23 police and military missions, such as the EUMM in Georgia. The Crisis Room, around the corner in the commission's Charlemagne building, is run by six officials. It operates a secure website with breaking news about the world's 118 active conflicts from open sources and from the commission's foreign embassies. It uses scientific tools, such as statistical analysis, and high-tech software: One program scans TV broadcasts round the world and automatically picks out quotes on search terms, such as people's names. The details of the EAS' new intelligence branch are still up in the air.It is unclear where it will be situated and who will be in charge. But the current head of SitCen, former British diplomat William Shapcott, is the top candidate due to his friendly ties with member states' secret services. The mandate for the new department also remains to be written. Some EU diplomats would like it to make policy recommendations as well as analytical reports. Others are posing questions about its ethos: Will it be used to aggressively pursue member states' national interests or for common goals, such as peace-building and crisis relief? one EU official asked. SitCen already sends staff to visit the EU's foreign police and military missions to gather information and has a mystique due to the secretive nature of its work. But the new EAS branch will not have undercover operatives in the field on the model of member states' intelligence agencies. Belgium and Austria proposed this [creating an EU secret service] after Madrid. But we are still light years away from it,the EU official said, referring to the terrorist bombing in Spain in 2004.

Circles within the circle

The questions of equal access to information and geographic balance are likely to feature in Ms Ashton's thinking on appointments.SitCen's official reports are equally available to all 27 EU countries via their envoys to the Political and Security Committee (PSC), a group of member states diplomats which meets regularly in the EU Council to discuss security issues.But the quality of the reports is in dispute: When I read magazines like Time or Newsweek the quality of analysis is sometimes the same. I sometimes get faster alerts from my national newswire,one EU diplomat said.The added value is that the information has been checked. You have to be damned sure it's good because decisions can be based on it,another diplomatic source said. Meanwhile, the best classified information is often shared through informal channels between smaller groups of EU countries with a history of intelligence co-operation. There are circles within the circle. It's an informal reality that takes into account the sensitive nature of intel,a contact acquainted with SitCen's work told EUobserver.Ms Ashton will also take charge of the PSC itself by appointing a permanent president for its meetings, with a mandate up to five years long. The names floating about for the new post include the current PSC ambassadors of Sweden (Olof Skoog), Belgium (Walter Stevens) and Spain (Carlos Fernandez Arias Minuesa). But an early favourite is France's former PSC ambassador, Christine Roger, who now works in the EU Council secretariat. The French are worried that the EAS will be dominated by British people,one EU official said.

Starting small

SitCen and the Crisis Room have come a long way since their beginnings some 10 years ago.SitCen started out as a piece of A4-paper, a telephone and a pool table, according to one anecdote. When 9/11 struck in 2001, the commission's phone lines and internet crashed due to heavy traffic, leaving it cut off and triggering the creation of the Crisis Room.There was one TV set in the building. We were crouched round a telephone listening to the TV at the other end of the line,another EU official said.

Greece misses EU deadline on currency swaps
ANDREW WILLIS Today FEB 22,10 @ 16:49 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Greece has missed a deadline to hand over information to the European Union, following recent allegations it used complex financial products to hide the true extent of its debt pile over the past decade. The news comes as a further embarrassment to the embattled Greek administration, already facing a major debt crisis and legal action over a budgetary deficit revision last October. Athens told us that the reason for the delay was partly due to the four-day strike which affected the ministry of finance, European Commission economy spokesman Amadeu Altafaj Tardio said at a news conference on Monday (22 February). The deadline was last Friday. Greek customs workers ended a strike on Saturday, with the country's biggest union due to stage further protests this week.The EU request for information relates to accusations published earlier this month that currency swaps, provided by Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs in 2001, enabled Athens to net a €2.4 billion loan that went undetected by EU monitors. Athens insists the use of currency swaps did not contravene the bloc's rules at the time, adding that they were also deployed by other European capitals. The missed deadline adds to doubts over the Greek administration's ability to handle it's current predicament however, and raises a question mark over Brussels' ability to stamp its authority on wayward national capitals. And despite the fact that economy commissioner Olli Rehn made a clear request on 12 February for the information on the alleged use of the swaps, Athens is unlikely to face any consequences over the missed deadline. Consequences? No, not at this point, said Mr Tardio on Monday. Instead the EU is now seeking the information as soon as possible.

This is a bad signal,Cinzia Alcidi, a research fellow at the Brussels-based Centre for European Policy Studies, told this website. It's a sign that it will be very difficult to ensure implementation of the plan Greece committed to.EU finance ministers last week approved a Greek-government programme of spending cuts, designed to slash its deficit by four percent this year after it totaled 12.7 percent of GDP in 2009.The commission could use tougher mechanisms at its disposal, added Ms Alcidi, citing the withdrawal of EU structural funds as an example, but so far there has been no sign of this.

€25 billion bail-out?

The commission also denied reports on Monday that euro area members are preparing a €20-25 billion aid package for Greece. German news magazine Der Spiegel reported that members of the single currency are preparing to bail out Greece to the tune of €20-25 billion, citing German finance officials. Despite the denials, EU and member state officials are widely perceived to be preparing a mechanism to transfer financial support to the Aegean state if necessary, with Athens set to roll over roughly €20 billion in debt this April / May. They are putting everything in place in case there is a need,said Ms Alcidi.

EU tones down condemnation of Dubai murder
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today FEB 22,10 @ 17:39 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels have condemned the use of EU passports by the killers of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai in January, but using softer language than originally proposed.
Notably, the bloc refrained from making any criticism of Israel, widely assumed to be behind the operation, and language referring to the practice of extra-judicial killing was removed.EU officials acknowledge the issue will present a hurdle to closer EU-Israeli relations in the future.The killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai on 20 January raises issues that are profoundly disturbing to the European Union, the ministers said in a statement.This was an action that cannot be conducive to peace and stability in the Middle East. The EU strongly condemns the fact that those involved in this action have used fraudulent EU member states' passports and credit cards acquired through the theft of EU citizens' identities.The EU's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, explained that she would be meeting with Israel's foreign minister, Avigdor Leiberman, for an informal dinner on Monday evening where she would raise the issue, as other EU ministers had earlier done in bilateral meetings with the minister.However, she said that to condemn Israel was to presume the state is guilty before anything has been proved.We can't move from a position where some press reports say something happened to taking a postion [assuming they are correct],she said.But the member states remain extremely angry.Earlier in the day, Irish foreign minister Michael Martin met with Mr Leiberman. I articulated our grave concern over the use of our passports in Dubai and the degree to which we are concerned about the safety of our citizens. He said Mr Lieberman had indicated strongly that he had no further information.It is understood that Mr Martin put it to his counterpart that the chief of the Dubai police had said he was 99 percent certain the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, was behind the killing.

At which point, Mr Lieberman dismissed the suggestion as press speculation.Mr Martin told reporters that he was glad the EU had now made a collective statement, rather than leaving it at the member state level. Last week, the European Commission had been adamant that the issue was not a matter of responsibility for the European Union.The fraudulent use of passports and credit cards is a concern for EU citizens collectively,he said.[Those whose identities had been stolen] will automatically be put on terror lists and so on. If any of them had travelled over the weekend, they would have had enormous difficulties.He said that his government had already received a complaint from a businessman who had received negative treatment in Dubai as a result: This has a real effect on citizens.Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman also met with the UK foreign secretary, David Miliband, where the British minister stressed the importance of Israel co-operating with investigtions into the murder. According to Mr Miliband, his Israeli counterpart responded that he had no information at this stage.One EU source described the final language of the ministers' communique as bland.The original text reportedly made reference to extra-judicial killing.It's been toned down a lot from where it was earlier and what some member states would have wanted. It's more symbolic, a show of solidarity among the member states than anyone telling anyone off. At the same time, there was no real opposition from the usual member states [that are more pro-Israel than the other ones], but this time Germany's one of the countries affected, so that makes things a bit different this time,the contact said.

Scanned copies of passports

The suspected killers of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh used passports from Ireland, France, Germany, and the UK. Initially 11 individuals were alleged to have been responsible for the murder, six Britons, three Irish, one French and one German, but the enquiry has now extended to 18 people, including two Palestinians.Dublin has confirmed that two of the subsequent suspects also carried Irish passports. The UK and France have said that the passports were fake. In the British case, the identities of six dual UK-Israeli citizens were stolen by the perpetrators. Authorities in London are investigating the possibility that the passport data were stolen when the individuals passed through Ben-Gurion airport in Tel Aviv.In the Irish case, the passports carried genuine passport numbers from the country's passport system, but were not genuine passports. But it's hard to say at this point whether they were counterfeit or just obtained in a fraudulent manner. All we have to go on are the scanned copies of the passports from the Dubai police, said one source close to the investigation.The United Arab Emirates is currently considering tightening visa availability for EU citizens in the wake of the incident.

Reports put Greek bail-out at €25bn
ANDREW WILLIS Today FEB 22,10 @ 09:22 CET

Reports suggest eurozone states are preparing to bail out Greece to the tune of €20-25 billion, even as the country's Prime Minister George Papandreou insisted over the weekend that no transfers were being sought. A Berlin-drafted plan could see eurozone countries contribute the aid to Greece according to their proportion of capital in the European Central Bank, said Monday's (22 February) edition of German news magazine Der Spiegel, citing national finance officials. As the largest eurozone member, Germany would contribute nearly 20 percent of the potential aid package, likely to take the shape of loans and guarantees. The aid would be tied to strict conditions, with loan tranches only to be paid out once these are met. German officials denied the speculation however, according to other news sources, with the country's politicians sensitive to national doubts on the merit of the move. EU leaders offered political support for Greece at an informal summit earlier this month, but financial markets have pressed for greater details of the bailout plan to be made public. Estimates put Greece's total debt pile at about €300 billion, with roughly €20 billion of bonds to mature in April and May. Athens appointed a senior commercial banker on Friday as the new head of its debt agency, fueling speculation the government could try to raise €3-5 billion in the coming days. EU finance ministers supported a package of Greek austerity measures last week, but coupled with rigorous monitoring from the European Commission. They also said supplementary measures were likely to be needed, following a mid-March progress checkup. Athens has committed to cutting it budget deficit by four percent this year after it reached 12.7 percent in 2009, with civil servant salary freezes, bonus cuts and a two-year increase in the average retirement age among the list of cutbacks already outlined. Despite high popularity ratings that have continued since elections last October, the centre-left Pasok administration has had to contend with a series of strikes from national unions as a result of the measures. Greek customs workers ended a five-day strike on Saturday, with the country's biggest union due to stage further protests this week.

No bailout requested, says PM

Despite beliefs that the economic reforms outlined by Greece could prove insufficient in tackling the country's debt problem, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou insisted on Sunday his administration was not seeking a bail-out.
Instead he said Greece needed political support to enable it to borrow at the same interest rate as other euro area members. Give us the time, give us the support - and I'm not talking about financial but political support - in order to show you that what we're saying is being implemented and we are credible again,he told the BBC. We don't have at this point a need for borrowing. Our borrowing needs are covered until mid-March,he added.

PSALMS 2:1-5
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed,(JESUS)(ISRAEL-JERUSALEM) saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

WHEN THE WORLD CONDEMNS ISRAEL,THERE COMING AGAINST GOD (KING JESUS HIMSELF).AND GOD STICKS UP FOR ISRAEL-JERUSALEM,SO GUESS WHO LOSES-WORLD CONDEMNERS OF ISRAEL.

IF IT IN FACT WAS ISRAEL THAT GOT RID OF THIS HAMAS MURDERER,AND WE DON'T KNOW FOR SURE.WE SHOULD BE THANKFUL TO ISRAEL FOR STOPPING A MASS MURDERER FROM FUTHUR KILLING.

WHO KILLED HAMAS MURDERER-ISRAEL MOSSAD OR CIA OR SOMEONE ELSE
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/1970

Lieberman: Why Blame Israel for Assassination?
by Gil Ronen FEB 22,10

(IsraelNN.com) Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman refused on Monday to confirm or deny that Israel carried out the assassination of Hamas terrorist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai on January 19. He suggested that the accusations against Israel stem from an anti-Israel bias among the Arab states. Lieberman' Irish counterpart, Michael Martin, asked him for clarifications about the assassins' use of forged Irish passports, when the two ministers met in Brussels. There is no information that shows that Israel was involved in the matter, Lieberman replied. If someone had presented other information, beyond reports in the media, we would comment on it, Lieberman added, but since there is no such information, there is no need to comment on the matter.There are many false accusations against Israel about all kinds of subjects and there is an Arab tendency to blame Israel for everything, Lieberman went on.In the Middle East, there are many internal struggles inside countries and bodies that are not as democratic as Israel.

EU condemns use of fake passports
The foreign ministers of the European Union issued a statement Monday condemning the use of forged European passports in the assassination of al-Mabhouh, but refrained from mentioning Israel. The EU strongly condemns the fact that those involved in this action used fraudulent EU member states' passports and credit cards acquired through the theft of EU citizen's identities,the statement said. We are extremely concerned that European passports... can be used in a different manner for a different purpose,Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency, told reporters. French President Nicolas Sarkozy unreservedly condemned the assassination, speaking at a press conference with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas according to news agency AFP.

EU to condemn Dubai killings
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today FEB 22,10 @ 14:27 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels are to condemn the use of EU passports by the killers of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai in January. The bloc however will refrain from making any explicit criticism of Israel, widely assumed to be behind the operation.Miguel Angel Moratinos, the foreign minister of Spain - currently at the helm of the EU's six-month rotating presidency, told reporters this morning ahead of the meeting of foreign ministers that they were likely to issue a statement noting their common concern at what has happened.We are extremely concerned that European passports, which are a very rigorous and legal document, can be used in a different manner for a different purpose, he said.However, the EU will make no reference to the widely held assumption that Israel was behind the operation.There will be no references to Israel, and no member state was really pushing for it, as we can't condemn anyone for something that hasn't been proven yet, an EU diplomat told EUobserver.We can't name them without proof.The Dubai police have said they are 99 percent certain that the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service, is responsible for the assassination.

The Israeli government for its part is sticking to its policy of ambiguity in intelligence matters, neither confirming nor denying its role in the matter.The suspected killers of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh used passports from Ireland, France, Germany, and the UK. Initially 11 individuals were alleged to have been responsible for the murder, six Britons, three Irish, one French and one German, but the enquiry has now extended to 18 people, including two Palestinians.Dublin has confirmed that two of the subsequent suspects also carried Irish passports. The UK and France have said that the passports were fake. In the British case, the identities of six dual UK-Israeli citizens were stolen by the perpetrators. Authorities in London are investigating the possibility that the passport data were stolen when the individuals passed through Ben-Gurion airport in Tel Aviv.In the Irish case, the passports carried genuine passport numbers from the country's passport system, but were not genuine passports. But it's hard to say at this point whether they were counterfeit or just obtained in a fraudulent manner. All we have to go on are the scanned copies of the passports from the Dubai police.The German authorities have yet to say whether the passport in question was fake, but news magazine Der Spiegel has reported that it was a genuine passport that was issued in Cologne in 2009

Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman is currently in the European capital meeting with Mr Moratinos, UK foreign secretary David Miliband and the German deputy foreign minister. On Monday evening, he will also meet EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton for an informal dinner where the matter will likely be discussed.The United Arab Emirates is currently considering tightening visa availability for EU citizens in the wake of the incident.

Rights court reforms to deal with huge backlog
VALENTINA POP Today FEB 22,10 @ 09:23 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Ministers from the 47 countries adhering to the European Court of Human Rights have agreed to reform the institution, so as to speed up the processing of its backlog of 120,000 cases.Switzerland, which currently holds the chairmanship of the council's committee of ministers, organised a two-day conference in Interlaken at the end of last week in order to tackle the problems facing the Strasbourg-based court.As it openly admits on its own website, the court dealing with human rights abuses faces a desperate situation, with 120,000 pending cases which would take 46 years to be processed, if current rules apply. Some 90 percent of all cases brought to the court are inadmissible or have no legal basis, so that judges are caught up in a lot of unnecessary work. Ministers have agreed for a single judge to be able to decide if a case can be pursued or not, whereas up until now a panel of three judges was necessary for such a ruling.Russia, accountable for a big bulk of cases, especially related to killings and torture in Chechnya, had initially resisted the reforms, BBC reports.It only agreed at the last minute when a provision was included to allow a Russian judge to participate in any decisions concerning the country.All 47 countries which have signed the European Convention on Human Rights - including Russia - have to obey the rulings of the court. However, the body cannot force states to comply, the ultimate sanction being expulsion from the Council of Europe, the body overseeing execution of these judgements and other matters relating to democracy and human rights.

Europeans can only file a complaint against their state when all the other national avenues of legal redress have been exhausted. Social issues, such as abortion, homosexuality and religion have also featured among the court's rulings, prompting criticism in some countries such as Ireland which feel their sovereignty on these matters narrowed by the European court. The Interlaken declaration also calls for a better implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights on a national level and for countries to fully execute the court's rulings. The first measures are to be implemented by June 2011. A review of the declaration goals will be made after five years.

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

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

Tropical storms to be more intense but less frequent: climate study
Sun Feb 21, 6:25 pm ET

PARIS (AFP) – Tropical cyclones may become less frequent this century but pack a stronger punch as a result of global warming, a paper published on Sunday said.The study is an overview of work into one of the scariest yet also one of the least understood aspects of climate change.Known in the Atlantic as hurricanes and in eastern Asia as typhoons, tropical storms are driven by the raw fuel of warm seas, which raises the question about what may happen when temperatures rise as a result of greenhouse gases.Tom Knutson and colleagues from the UN's World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) looked at peer-reviewed investigations that have appeared over the past four years, when the issue began to hit the headlines.Their benchmark for warming is the A1B scenario, a middle-of-the-road computer simulation which predicts a global average surface temperature rise of 2.8 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) over the 21st century.It is likely that the global frequency of tropical cyclones will either decrease or remain essentially unchanged, says the paper.But storms could have more powerful winds -- an increase of between two and 11 percent -- and dump more water, it warns.Rainfall could increase by 20 percent within 100 kilometres (62 miles) of the eye of the storm.In addition, some storm basins will more likely than not see a big increase in the frequency of high-impact storms.

The overview calls for an effort to fill in some big gaps in knowledge, including the variability of cyclones in the past and how global warming will affect storm behaviour in specific regions.It is published online by Nature Geoscience, a journal of Britain's Nature Publishing Group.The findings broadly concur with those of the UN's panel of climate scientists, which in a 2007 report said it was likely that tropical cyclones would become more intense this century, with heavier rainfall and stronger wind speeds.However, the panel said it was less confident in concluding whether the number of cyclones would decrease.

Hungary's key interest rate cut to record low
FEB 22,10

BUDAPEST, Hungary – The National Bank of Hungary on Monday cut its main interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 5.75 percent, its lowest level ever, to help the economy out of the economic downturn.The cut, to take effect Feb. 23, was in line with analysts' expectations, many of whom also believe the central bank would now stay on hold for some time — since July 2009 it has lowered rates at eight consecutive meetings.Analysts say external factors like market uncertainty caused by Greece's fiscal problems and expectations that the United States will also soon have higher interest rates are likely to slow or halt Hungary's rate cuts.On the domestic side, risk factors include Hungary's parliamentary elections in April and a chance that inflation will be higher than expected.The bank's rhetoric is clearly getting more and more cautious, a pause is to come soon,said analyst Gabor Ambrus at 4Cast in London.The central bank said higher inflation over the past three months could be attributed mostly to noncore factors, such as oil prices, while services prices continued to fall.Taking all these factors into account ... inflation may fall below the target over the next two years, albeit at a somewhat slower pace than earlier expected,the bank's Monetary Council said after the rate cut announcement.The central bank also noted that risks to Hungary's economy were little changed despite the weakening of investor sentiment due to Greece's debt crisis.The significant improvement of Hungary's external balance has reduced the vulnerability of the economy,the bank said.However, the high level of debt and weak indicators of economic activity continue to pose risks.The central bank also released fresh predictions for Hungary's inflation and growth rates. Consumer prices are now expected to rise by 4.4 percent in 2010 and 2.3 percent in 2011 — up from earlier forecasts of 3.9 percent and 1.9 percent. The central bank's medium-term inflation target is 3 percent.

On growth, the central bank confirmed the finance ministry's recent revision for a forecast of 0.2 percent contraction in 2010 — compared to earlier expectations of a 0.6 percent fall — and economic growth of 3.4 percent in 2011.With exports rising and domestic demand continuing to fall, Hungary's current account has been showing a substantial surplus since mid-2009, which the bank sees continuing in the medium term.The council therefore expects the economy to operate without reliance of foreign funding in coming years, the bank said.Analysts said that an upcoming reduction to seven from nine members in the NBH's monetary council also would make rate cuts less likely, as the two departing members, Ilona Hardy and Vilmos Bihari, were considered to be among the more dovish economists, favoring rate cuts.Their departure could mean a relative majority for those preferring monetary tightening, said a report from Equilor Investment Ltd. in Budapest.

WTO says too early for ministers to meet on Doha
Mon Feb 22, 9:24 am ET

GENEVA (AFP) – World Trade Organisation chief Pascal Lamy said Monday that he was against inviting ministers to a meeting in March which is aimed at driving forward negotiations for a global trade liberalisation pact.While acknowledging that political commitment was needed to conclude the Doha Round of talks, Lamy also assessed that it was too early to call on ministers to make such a push at the end of next month.On... the political decision about 2010, I believe this is a judgment that belongs to ministers and that, on this specific issue, engagement will be needed, he told diplomats representing the WTO's 153-member states.Given where we are right now, it is also clear, however, that the end of March is too early for that, added the director-general of the WTO.Lamy said that the meeting in March, aimed at taking stock of the progress in negotiations, would be best undertaken by senior officials at this stage.Lamy had earlier warned that WTO member states risk missing the 2010 target set by world leaders for reaching a long delayed global trade pact unless there was a breakthrough by the end of the first quarter.The Doha Round of negotiations for a trade liberalisation deal began in 2001 with a focus on dismantling obstacles to trade for poor nations, by aiming for a deal that would cut agriculture subsidies and tariffs on industrial goods.

Deadlines to conclude the talks have been repeatedly missed.

Discussions have been dogged by disagreements, including on how much the United States and the European Union should reduce aid to their farmers and the extent to which developing countries such as India and China should lower tariffs.

Dubai property chief believes prices near bottom By ADAM SCHRECK, AP Business Writer – Mon Feb 22, 9:27 am ET

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Dubai's battered real estate prices have nearly bottomed out and should start to recover, but probably not until at least next year, the head of one of the troubled emirate's most prominent property developers said Monday.Prices in the Mideast sheikdom dropped by half in less than a year from their peak in late 2008 as overseas buyers, many of them speculators relying on easy credit, fled the market.The unexpectedly steep plunge led to widespread job cuts and contributed to Dubai's financial problems by depriving many local developers the cash they needed to pay the bills and cover debts racked up in a torrid building boom.Deyaar Development Co., Dubai's second biggest listed developer, was among those hurt by the downturn.CEO Markus Giebel told reporters Monday that while he does not expect a dramatic recovery in Dubai's property market, prices are unlikely to fall significantly further.Dubai has reached a bottom phase, Giebel said. I cannot tell you if it goes 5 percent up or down. But I'm very certain it will not go 20 or 30 percent up or down in the next year.Giebel said he expects prices will fluctuate in a narrow range before possibly starting to recover in 2011.

Unlike some other Dubai firms, such as troubled island-building developer Nakheel, Deyaar is not owned outright by the emirate's government, though the state does have an indirect stake.Deyaar last week said its 2009 profit dropped 95 percent to 30 million dirhams ($8.2 million), as sales fell and the company booked impairment charges and made other accounting adjustments.Giebel said Deyaar planned to move beyond primarily developing luxury high-rises to focus more on specialized markets and low-income housing, which is scarce in Dubai. It also is looking to expand to other parts of the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and possibly Iraq.

Deyaar currently owes its contractors less than 100 million dirhams ($27.3 million), much of it overdue, but is working to clear those debts, Giebel said.Dubai is struggling to get out from under more than $80 billion in debt. Much of it was amassed by state-linked developers during a building boom over the past decade that transformed the once-sleepy emirate into a bustling business and tourism hub populated largely by foreigners.That property boom has left the city-state with a glut of new skyscrapers and man-made islands, most of which now sit empty.Analysts, however, say a recovery could still be far off.Los Angeles-based commercial property giant CB Richard Ellis said earlier this month the Dubai market remained sluggish through the end of 2009 and showed few signs to suggest any imminent upturn in fortunes.Another firm, Dubai-based Landmark Advisory, expected house prices in the emirate will stagnate as apartment values continue to fall.We predict apartments will decline as much as 20 percent over the next 18 months, analyst Jesse Downs and colleagues said in a report last week.

Gasoline heading above $3 a gallon by this summer By CHRIS KAHN, AP Energy Writer – FEB 22,10

NEW YORK – Retail gas prices likely bottomed out last week, and they're again headed to above $3 a gallon this summer, experts said Monday.Pump prices typically rise this time of year as refineries switch to a more expensive grade of gas. But this year, prices are increasing after millions of Americans received pink slips and kept their cars in the driveway.If you look at demand, it's just abysmal, said Fred Rozell, retail pricing director at Oil Price Information Service.What's pushing prices higher isn't American consumption. It's the crude oil that's used to make motor fuel, Rozell said. Crude is an international commodity that's become ever more expensive as demand grows in China.Retail gas prices rose Monday for the fifth straight day, adding less than a penny overnight to a new national average of $2.648 a gallon, according to AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service.A gallon of regular unleaded is still cheaper than it was a month ago. It's also 73.1 cents more expensive than the same time last year.Even though prices are climbing, motorists shouldn't expect a return of the price spikes of 2008, when gasoline jumped above $4 a gallon in some parts of the country. Americans simply aren't burning enough fuel to push prices that high, Rozell said.

I'll be surprised if it got over $3.25, he said.Benchmark oil for March delivery slipped 3 cents Monday to $79.78 a barrel on the contract's final day of trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Most of the trading volume already has shifted to the April contract, which added a penny at $80.07 a barrel.In other Nymex trading in March contracts, heating oil rose less than a penny to $2.0779 a gallon, and gasoline gained 1.63 cents at $2.102 a gallon. Natural gas dropped 19 cents to $4.854per 1,000 cubic feet.In London, Brent crude gave up 21 cents to $77.98 on the ICE futures exchange.Associated Press writers Pablo Gorondi in Budapest, Hungary and Alex Kennedy in Singapore contributed to this report.

Stocks waver in following earnings, M&A By STEPHEN BERNARD, AP Business Writer – FEB 22,10

NEW YORK – The stock market paused from a four-day rally Monday after big consumer companies gave a cautious outlook for economic growth.The market, which has climbed on upbeat economic signals, fluctuated in a narrow range after Lowe's Cos. and Campbell Soup Co. reported higher earnings but reminded investors 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.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.In early afternoon trading, the Dow fell 15.49, or 0.2 percent, to 10,386.86. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 2.13, or 0.2 percent, to 1,107.04, while the Nasdaq composite index rose 4.99, or 0.2 percent, to 2,238.88.

Falling stocks narrowly outpaced those rising on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 358.4 million shares, compared with 494.2 million traded at the same point 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, it predicted first-quarter earnings that were below expectations.Campbell Soup's fiscal second-quarter profit met forecasts as lower costs helped offset a slowdown in U.S. sales.Shares of Lowe's fell 11 cents to $23.01, while Campbell Soup dipped 56 cents to $33.37.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 $3.33, or 5.2 percent, to $60.57. Smith International rose $2.68, or 7.1 percent, to $40.38.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 92 cents, or 2.4 percent, to $37.34.
Meanwhile, bond prices were also trading 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 Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 0.18, or less than 0.1 percent, to 631.80. Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average rose 2.7 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.2 percent, Germany's DAX index fell 0.6 percent, and France's CAC-40 fell 0.3 percent.

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

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

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

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

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

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

PA Working Feverishly to Achieve State
by Hillel Fendel FEB 22,10

(IsraelNN.com) Palestinian Authority officials are working on several fronts to achieve a Palestinian state, with or without a peace agreement with Israel. These include:

-Building institutions: PA interior minister Saed Abu Ali told the Al-Hayat newspaper, In the framework of our political activity… we are building our state-to-be, and [the institutions] will turn it into an existing fact that will receive international recognition, and we are working with the world’s countries to end the occupation.Among the most important institutions being built for this purpose are the security forces, Abu Ali said. Instead of relying on one charismatic and somewhat dictatorial personality, such as Jibril Rajoub or Muhammed Dahlan, the chairman of the PA – Mahmoud Abbas – is the final authority, and he meets with the heads of the forces each week. It is not their job to maintain Israel’s security, Abu Ali emphasized, but rather to fulfill the PA’s diplomatic obligations.In this connection, he said that extremist Muslims associated with Al-Qaeda have been arrested. He noted, too, that 250 Hamas prisoners are being held in PA jails.

-PA elements are also encroaching on Israeli land in Judea and Samaria. The area has been divided into three zones: Area A, in which the PA has full control; Area C, in which Israel has full control; and Area B, where Israel controls military matters and the PA is responsible administratively. Based on the idea that all of Judea and Samaria is Arab land, the PA often builds, with foreign support, in Area C. For instance, a giant Arab stadium is nearly completed between Ramallah and the Jewish town of Psagot – in Area C. Stop-work and demolition orders have been issued on the giant structure, which is being funded by Germany and FIFA, but none have been implemented. The residents of Psagot are outraged, asking rhetorically, What will stop the thousands of fans from taking out their frustration after a loss from descending onto the Jewish houses of Psagot?

-Mahmoud Abbas continues to travel around the world to garner support for a PA state. He was in Paris this week, where just before, France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told a French newspaper over the weekend that he could envision the recognition of a Palestinian state even before its borders are drawn up. One can envision the proclamation soon of a Palestinian state, and its immediate recognition by the international community, even before negotiating its borders, Kouchner said.

-Abbas is also scheduled to meet in the coming days with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. The visits are intended to build regional support for recognition of a Palestinian state in Yesha, and for a total halt on Israeli settlement construction as a condition for the PA to agree to resume peace talks with Israel. Israel rejects the idea of foreign countries recognizing a PA state without a negotiated peace agreement.Imposing this kind of semblance of a partial solution from outside goes against the very idea of peace,a senior Israeli official told the French news agency AFP. Granting recognition when the issues of the conflict have not been settled would add fuel to the fire. This would only push the Palestinians to be even more intransigent and thus make any compromise impossible.

-If all else fails, the PA, whose forces initiated several intifadas against Israel and which continues to incite against Israel in its schools and via its media, has not abandoned the idea of violence and terrorism. Abbas told the French daily Le Monde on Friday,For the moment, we are controlling the situation ... If people don't believe that the future will bring them a Palestinian state, if there is an obstacle, I fear they will return to violence.Netanyahu: PA State Must be Demilitarized Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has agreed to recognize a demilitarized Palestinian state. Any other type of arrangement, many experts feel, would lead to the formation of yet another hostile, if not terrorist, political entity on Israel’s doorstep. In his speech at Bar Ilan University last June, Netanyahu explained: Any area in Palestinian hands has to be demilitarized, with solid security measures. Without this condition, there is a real fear that there will be an armed Palestinian state which will become a terrorist base against Israel, as happened in Gaza. We do not want missiles on Petah Tikva, or Grads [Katyushas] on Ben Gurion International Airport. We want peace. And, to ensure peace, we don't want them to bring in missiles or rockets or have an army, or control of airspace, or make treaties with countries like Iran, or Hizbullah. There is broad agreement on this in Israel. We cannot be expected to agree to a Palestinian state without ensuring that it is demilitarized. This is crucial to the existence of Israel. We must provide for our security needs. This is why we are now asking our friends in the international community, headed by the USA, for what is necessary for our security, that in any peace agreement, the Palestinian area must be demilitarized. No army, no control of air space. Real effective measures to prevent arms coming in – not what's going on now in Gaza. The Palestinians cannot make military treaties. Without this, sooner or later, we will have another Hamastan. We can't agree to this. Israel must govern its own fate and security.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

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)

ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth before them; 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.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

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

REVELATION 9:18
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.

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).

MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

STANLEY FISHER THE EX IMF,WORLD BANK WORKER NOW HEAD OF ISRAELS BANKING SYSTEM IS BEING SENT TO CHINA TO TRY TO GET THEM ABOARD TO STOP IRAN FROM NUKES.NETANYAHU PLACED STANLEY IN THE BANKING SYSTEM,I'M WORRIED FISHER IS A NWO BANKER BUYOUT.HE MIGHT BE A MAIN MAN TO GET ISRAEL TO BE GUARENTEED OF SECURITY BY THE EUROPEAN UNION SINCE HE WORKED FOR THE EU THROUGH THE IMF.

Iran: work on 2 new enrichment sites to begin soon By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer – Mon Feb 22, 7:29 am 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.