ITS 3:50 PM APR 21,10.THERE WAS A FORMER FBI AGENT TED GUNNERSON ON ALEX JONES AND AS SOON AS HE SAID OSAMA BIN LADIN,JONES WENT BLANK FOR 2 MINUTES.JONES SAID THE HYDRO WAS GOING NUTS ON AND OFF.HE WAS TALKIN ABOUT BIN LADIN AND GIVING MISSLES TO AFGHANISTAN.BIN LADIN WAS AN AMERICAN ALLY THIS TED GUY SAYS.THIS BIN LADIN IS A BOOGY MAN SCAM FOR TERRORIST ATTACKS AGAINST AMERICAN PEOPLE TO GET DICTATORIAL CONTROL.
HERES TODAYS JONES SHOW TO HERE THE INTERVIEW IN THE LAST HOUR
http://rss.nfowars.net/20100421_Wed_Alex.mp3
WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnq5cQMiAB8&feature=related
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links
DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.
EPHESIANS 6:10-13
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,(DEMONIC ANGELS IN HIGH PLACES) against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.(SPIRTIUAL DEMONIC PERSONS)
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
LUKE 4:5-7(BECAUSE SATAN OFFERS WORLD POWER, WORLD ORDERERS HAVE ACCEPTED SATANS GIFT)
5 And the devil, taking him (JESUS) up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he 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.
DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
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.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
Citigroup says only United States of Europe(WORLD GOVERNMENT)will save euro
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today APR 21,10 @ 09:15 CET
A Citigroup note to clients has warned that the eurozone is likely to fall apart unless the European Union's member states fuse both on the fiscal and political level.Europe needs to stand up and decide if it is going to be a United States of Europe or a patchwork quilt of independent states, reads a note by Tom Fitzpatrick, chief technical analyst at Citigroup in New York, first seen by Bloomberg.The financial services firm, the largest in the world and one of America's big four banks, says that if such integration is not on the cards, the euro area is doomed even if the current Greek crisis is resolved.Without a preparedness amongst the major nations - Germany in particular - to head in this direction, we fear that the euro as a common and expanding single currency will inevitably be doomed,the analysis continued.In February this year, hedge fund wizard George Soros also warned the eurozone was bound to break up without fiscal union.
A makeshift assistance should be enough for Greece, but that leaves Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland. Together they constitute too large of a portion of the Euroland to he helped in this way…The survival of Greece would still leave the future of the Euro in question,he told the Financial Times.The construction is patently flawed. A fully fledged currency requires both a central bank and a treasury. The treasury need not be used to tax citizens on an everyday basis, but it needs to be available in times of crisis,he said. When the financial system is in danger of collapsing, the central bank can provide liquidity, but only a treasury can deal with problems of solvency.This is a well-known fact that should have been clear to everyone involved in the creation of the euro.The euro has slid 6.1 percent against the US dollar this year.
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,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/site/14081545/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED APR 21,2010
09:30 AM +0.73
10:00 AM +21.54
10:30 AM +8.84
11:00 AM +22.15
11:30 AM -14.73
12:00 PM +1.29
12:30 PM +8.16
01:00 PM +8.62
01:30 PM +6.73
02:00 PM +18.29
02:30 PM -26.45
03:00 PM -28.79
03:30 PM -14.89
04:00 PM +7.86 11,124.92
S&P 500 1205.94 -1.23
NASDAQ 2504.61 +4.30
GOLD 1,146.20 +7.20
OIL 83.63 -0.22
TSE 300 12,134.60 +21.00
CDNX 1647.50 -4.70
S&P/TSX/60 711.65 +0.76
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +9 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -45 points at low today.
Dow +37 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,143.10.OIL opens at $83.91 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -45 points at low today so far.
Dow +37 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -45 points at low today.
Dow +37 points at high today.
CRUDE OIL +1.9 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE +3.6 MILLION BARRELS
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES +2.1 MILLION BARRELS
REFINERY UTILIZATION
BOB BOWMAN ON JONES TUE-CATHERINE-AUSTIN FITTS WED APR 21,10
http://rss.nfowars.net/20100420_Tue_Alex.mp3
http://rss.nfowars.net/20100421_Wed_Alex.mp3
BANKS OUT OF CONTROL-MAX KEIZER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd02Ks-1LmU&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSwWy4E6I04&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoQrYa_NKQQ&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoLpenxdcQ8&feature=player_embedded
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2010/04/sec-charges-goldman-sachs-with-subprime.html#links
OKC CITY BOMBING SURVIVOR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGdtgotcZdw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE5N7ugbBns&feature=player_embedded
JOHN LOEFFLER THE ROOTS OF PROGRESSIVE THOUGHT
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2010/04/john-leoffler-steel-on-steel-roots-of.html#links
SOROS CHINA SHOULD RULE THE WORLD
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2010/04/george-soros-states-china-should-rule_13.html#links
NAKED BODY SCANNER VIDEOS
http://www.infowars.com/naked-body-scanner-contest-all-entries-combined/
VOLCANO PICTURES
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1267663/Iceland-volcano-Katla-eruption-10-times-stronger-Eyjafjallajokull.html
WHAT THE NEW MONEY WILL LOOK LIKE
http://www.prisonplanet.com/here-is-how-your-new-soon-to-be-worthless-money-will-look-like.html
SAVAGE PREDICTS AMERICAN GOVERNMENT FALSE FLAG BOMBINGS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eomSubMupiA&feature=player_embedded
PHYSCOTIC INCIDENT BY ED SCHULTZ OF MSNBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC3XxN0pdkg&feature=player_embedded
PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS
JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME
PSALMS 14:1
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.
JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).
WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
HATE AGAINST TEA PARTIERS,CHRISTIANS ETC.....IS ON BGTIME NOW,IN FULL GEAR.
Southern Poverty Law Center Publishes Patriot Hit List
Chuck Baldwin April 21, 2010
In a report on its web site dated April 2010, entitled Meet The Patriots, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) profiled 36 individuals at the heart of the resurgent [patriot] movement.(In reading the list, I counted only 35 patriots and 5 enablers for a total of 40. I’m not really sure how the SPLC came up with 36. Perhaps their ability to count is commensurate with their ability to appreciate patriotism and liberty.) The SPLC (founded by Morris Dees) sees itself as America’s guardian against right wing militias and loves to label conservatives and libertarians that it doesn’t like as extremists.The SPLC is one of the most ultra-liberal organizations in the country and should be dismissed as a group of paranoid leftists, not worthy of thought or mention.Millions and millions of hard-working, God-fearing, liberty-loving Americans are not going to sit back and let Morris Dees and his cabal of Big Government elitists destroy the principles of freedom in our land.The sad truth is, however, our federal government has chosen to exalt the SPLC to the position of being its go to source for information regarding potential domestic terrorists and similar characterizations. As a result, the information and reports disseminated by SPLC wind up in police reports and bulletins all over the United States. As an example, the SPLC had its fingerprints all over the infamous MIAC report. One could even question whether the SPLC is merely a front organization for Big Brother.Therefore, it is highly likely that the report negatively profiling 40 American patriots will find its way into Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fusion centers and be distributed to police agencies all across the country. So, should the 40 people who find themselves targeted by SPLC expect some kind of government/police attention? Are we really that close to Nazi-style persecution in America? If the SPLC has its way, the answer seems to be a definite yes.
I remind readers that in the book, Nazi Justiz: Law of the Holocaust (page 3), there were five steps to Hitler’s plans for the destruction of European Jews. Step 1: Identification/registration of the targeted group as a public menace. Step 2: Ostracism of the targeted persons. Step 3: property confiscation. Step 4: Concentration of members into geographical locations. Step 5: Annihilation. In this latest report, SPLC seems quite willing to accomplish steps 1 and 2.
Here are the 40 names that are targeted in the SPLC report (and guess who is listed at the very top? Yours truly):
1. Chuck Baldwin, Pastor, Radio Broadcaster, Syndicated Columnist, 2008 Constitution Party Presidential nominee.
2. Joe Banister, former IRS special agent, tax protester.
3. Martin Red Beckman, tax protester
4. Catherine Bleish, head of the Liberty Restoration Project.
5. Chris Broughton, Second Amendment advocate, member of “We The People” group.
6. Bob Campbell, head of American Grand Jury.
7. Robert Crooks, Army veteran, retired commercial fisherman, anti-illegal immigration proponent.
8. Joseph Farah, CEO of World Net Daily
9. Gary Franchi, producer of Camp FEMA: American Lockdown,national director of RestoreTheRepublic.com.
10. Al Garza, head of the Patriot’s Coalition, an anti-illegal immigration group.
11. Ted Gunderson, retired FBI agent.
12. John Hassey, The public face of Alabama’s militia movement in the late 1990s, says SPLC.
13. Alex Jones, Radio Talk Show host.
14. Devvy Kidd, prolific columnist, blogger, and public speaker.
15. Larry Kilgore, telecommunications consultant, former US Senate candidate from Texas, pro-secession advocate.
16. Cliff Kincaid, syndicated columnist and author, editor of AIM Report (Accuracy in Media’s publication), founder and president of America’s Survival, Inc., a UN watchdog group.
17. Mark Koernke, associated with the now-defunct Michigan Militia.
18. Richard Mack, former Graham County, Arizona, Sheriff, author, and public speaker.
19. Jack McLamb, former Phoenix, Arizona, police officer, author, and public speaker.
20. John McManus, former member of the US Marine Corps, president of the John Birch Society.
21. Daniel New, father of Michael New (the Army medic who refused to wear a UN uniform), author, public speaker.
22. Norm Olson, founder of the now-defunct Michigan Militia.
23. Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America.
24. Stewart Rhodes, Army veteran and Yale Law School graduate, founder of Oath Keepers.
25. Jon Roland, computer specialist, founder of the Constitution Society.
26. Luke Rudkowski, founder We Are Change.
27. Robert Bob Schultz, founder of We The People.
28. Joel Skousen, editor, World Affairs Brief.
29. Jim Stachowiak, Radio Talk Show host, Longtime militia organizer,claims SPLC.
30. John Stadtmiller, founder, Republic Broadcasting Network.
31. Orly Taitz, California attorney, a leader in the push to make President Obama disclose his US birth certificate.
32. Amanda Teegarden, executive director of Oklahomans for Sovereignty and Free Enterprise.
33. Mike Vanderboegh, anti-Obama health care activist.
34. Paul Venable, former candidate for the Idaho House of Representatives.
35. Edwin Vieira, Jr., attorney, author, proponent of constitutional State militias, lecturer.
36. Michele Bachmann, US Representative from Minnesota.
37. Glenn Beck, Fox News Channel TV host.
38. Paul Broun, medical doctor, US Representative from Georgia.
39. Andrew Napolitano, attorney, former State judge in New Jersey, Fox News Channel legal analyist, lecturer.
40. Ron Paul, former member of the US Air Force, medical doctor, US Representative from Texas, 2008 Republican candidate for President.
See the SPLC report here.
The SPLC, no doubt, sees each person on the above list as being a leader of the radical right,a conspiracist,and antigovernment.But understand, the SPLC makes its living off of big-government, leftist ideology. To say it is a shill for Big Government Liberalism is an understatement. The SPLC is so radical it makes the ACLU look conservative! Again, this SPLC report would not even merit a mention (much less an entire column) except for the fact that the SPLC has become a source of information fuelling anti-freedom hysteria for countless bureaucrats at the DHS. Add this to the previously exposed MIAC and DHS reports, and the Army major’s report blaming millennialist Christians for much of the ills of the world, and a disturbing trend is quickly developing: so-called right-wing ANYTHING is being targeted and demonized as a public menace.
But the lists that you and I are not seeing are even more disturbing.
Joel Skousen quotes (Radar Magazine’s) Christopher Ketcham’s The Last Roundup as asking if the federal government is compiling a secret enemies list of citizens who could face detention? He goes on to say, A number of former government employees and intelligence sources with independent knowledge of domestic surveillance operations claim the program that caused the flap between [former assistant attorney general under John Ashcroft, James] Comey and the White House was related to a database of Americans who might be considered potential threats in the event of a national emergency. Sources familiar with the program say that the government’s data gathering has been overzealous and probably conducted in violation of federal law and the protection from unreasonable search and seizure guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment.A veteran CIA intelligence analyst who maintains active high-level clearances and serves as an advisor to the Department of Defense in the field of emerging technology tells Radar that during the 2004 hospital room drama [between former Chief of Staff Andrew Card and Attorney General Ashcroft, in an attempt by Card to coerce a very ill Ashcroft to authorize President Bush's secretive domestic spying programs as his assistant--and acting--attorney general had refused to do so], James Comey expressed concern over how this secret database was being used to accumulate otherwise private data on non-targeted U.S. citizens for use at a future time.
The report further states, According to a senior government official who served with high-level security clearances in five administrations, There exists a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived enemies of the state almost instantaneously.At this point, Skousen noted, And that is precisely why the census bureau took a GPS coordinate on every front door in America, secretly linking this to dissidents and their known addresses.This database of Americans who are perceived to be potential enemies of the state goes by the code name Main Core.And according to the report, One knowledgeable source claims that 8 million Americans are now listed in Main Core as potentially suspect. In the event of a national emergency, these people could be subject to everything from heightened surveillance and tracking to direct questioning and possibly even detention.Officials at the Department of Homeland Security begin actively scrutinizing people who–for a tremendously broad set of reasons–have been flagged in Main Core as potential domestic threats [sound familiar?]. Some of these individuals might receive a letter or a phone call, others a request to register with local authorities. Still others might hear a knock on the door and find police or armed soldiers outside. In some instances, the authorities might just ask a few questions. Other suspects might be arrested and escorted to federal holding facilities, where they could be detained without counsel until the state of emergency is no longer in effect.The report also noted that former Assistant Attorney General James Comey had concluded that the use of that Main Core database compromised the legality of the overall NSA domestic surveillance project. If Main Core does exist,says Philip Giraldi, a former CIA counterterrorism officer and an outspoken critic of the agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is its likely home. If a master list is being compiled, it would have to be in a place where there are no legal issues–the CIA and FBI would be restricted by oversight and accountability laws–so I suspect it is at DHS, which as far as I know operates with no such restraints.Giraldi notes that DHS already maintains a central list of suspected terrorists and has been freely adding people who pose no reasonable threat to domestic security.
So, is there a secret list of 8 million unfriendly Americans kept by DHS (if there is, dear reader, you are probably on it!)? Does anyone reading this column doubt that our federal government is more than willing and capable of doing such a thing? All of us are quite familiar with the government’s no fly or flagged airline passenger list. I can personally attest to the authenticity of this list, as airport officials in San Antonio, Texas, told me that I’m on it. I also made it to the list of three that were named in the MIAC report (the other two were Ron Paul and Bob Barr). And now I am on the SPLC list of patriots (not a compliment in the SPLC lexicon). Wow! I never realize how popular I was! (With the exception of Ron Paul, I’m probably on more lists than anyone in America.)Who would ever have thought that the day would come in America when to speak up for freedom, constitutional government, and the principles expressed by our Founding Fathers would land one on a government watch list? Well, that day is here, my friend! No doubt, the major media and federal government–in order to further ostracize patriotic, God-fearing Americans–will use the SPLC patriot hit list as a vehicle to carry our country further down the road of oppression.But what the radical left fearmongers at the Southern Poverty Law Center fail to realize is that the more they try to marginalize and ostracize American patriots such as you and me, the more they isolate themselves from America’s future, because millions and millions of hard-working, God-fearing, liberty-loving Americans are not going to sit back and let Morris Dees and his cabal of Big Government elitists destroy the principles of freedom in our land.So, people such as Morris Dees can put us on as many lists as they like; we will never let liberty die! And the more they try to demonize us, the more people will want to join with us. You see, freedom burns deep and strong in the hearts of real Americans. And that’s something the SPLC can’t extinguish–no matter how many lists it makes!
SINS OF PEOPLE
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Goldman Sachs Eats Its Young Keith Johnson
Revolt of the Plebs April 20, 2010
This should be a lesson to all those young, aggressive, upwardly mobile Wall Street wannabes who think they are somehow going to fast track their way into the stratosphere of high finance.Sorry, kids! There’s no room left at the top, and soon you’re going to see even those old money families tearing each other apart for what’s left of a collapsing fiat money system that has just about run its course.I submit to you the unfortunate tale of Goldman Sachs’ naïve boy protégé, Fabrice Tourre, the so-called Fabulous Fab who is alleged to be the mastermind behind a scheme to sell toxic mortgage investments that were deliberately designed to fail in the US housing market crash.Fabrice Tourre, 31, is the classic patsy and the kind of villain the American people love to hate. He’s foreign (French), flamboyant, young, rich and shrewd. He was only 22 and fresh out of college when he started working for Goldman Sachs in 2001. Just five years into his employment, he found himself at the center of a scheme devised by one of the world’s richest billionaires, hedge fund manager John Paulson.Paulson had presented a roster of sub-prime mortgage deals that he was betting would fail in the housing market.He paid Goldman Sachs $15 million to find clients that would bet the other way.The scheme was packaged into what has come to be known as an Abacus Deal.Tourre is alledged to have taken this portfolio to potential investors and sell them as favorable risks while hiding the fact that he was working with Paulson, who was betting against them.
To help with pitching these toxic investments, they employed the services of ACA Capital Holdings, Inc. and convinced them that Paulson was actually investing in these mortgages. Tourre and Paulson then used ACA’s endorsement of the mortgages as a credible and sound investment. Everything went as planned and Paulson cashed in on a cool $1 billion while the Goldman Sachs investors took it in the shorts.Now the SEC has been called in to restore their tarnished image with the public by bringing suit against the investment giant and taking aim, in particular, at the novice Tourre. So far, the SEC has conducted five interviews including one with the now notorious Fabulous Fab. They have not elected to interview any one of the top Goldman Sachs executives, including Tourre’s manager Jonathan Egol. They’ve also apparently found no need to trouble Mr. Paulson with any of their inquiries. Goes to show you that only the little minnows get swallowed up in the cesspool of Wall Street.Tourre is said to have been well liked and popular at Goldman Sachs. He is known for his impecible charm and biting sense of humor.Up through and including 2008, he has reportedly been pulling in over $2 million a year.He has since moved to an office on Fleet street in London and has been living it up and throwing loud, lavish parties out of his luxurious bachealor flat. Apparently, Tourre has been laying low and ducking media interviews. But you can bet that the boys at Sachs have already sent their best attorneys to drape an arm around his back and rub his shoulders. You can probably imagine the scene: The poor kid (boo hoo) is probably cradling his face in his hands and shaking his head as the Sachs lawyers whisper in his ear that everything is going to be O.K. Just keep quiet they’re telling him—We’ll do all the talking. You’re probably going to have to take the fall on this one, but we’ll do everything within our power to make sure you’re well taken care of when this thing blows over.
Meanwhile, back in the States, his bosses are laying the groundwork for pinning all of the blame on this minor player. The most recent statement by Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein should convince you of that. In response to the allegations of misconduct, Blankfein told his employees Sunday I will repeat what you have heard me say many times in the past: Goldman Sachs has never condoned and would never condone inappropriate activity by any of our people. On the contrary, we would be the first to condemn it and take immediate and appropriate action. Our responsibility as a financial intermediary requires it and our commitment to integrity and the firm’s business principles demand it.If that doesn’t convince you that Goldman Sachs is setting this kid up to take the fall, I don’t know what will. So you see what I mean when I say he’s the perfect patsy.This kid has been served up for American consumption.Your average Sarah Palin-Tea Party Republican, pissed off about the Wall Street bail-outs, will unwittingly accept this burnt offering as Goldman Sachs’ sacrificial lamb and will be just enough of a token gesture for the fence-sitting Democrats to come back around to Obama when he brings the whip down on this poor, hapless dupe.
The American people are a predictable bunch. As long as you frame everything in the context of a Hollywood script you could have them believing just about anything. It reminds me of the Neo-con (Jerry Bruckheimer) produced film Enemy of the State where rouge elements in the NSA cover up the killing of a US Congressman. In the end, the integrity of the NSA is upheld as we see the young agents held to answer for their crimes by our heroic government. You’re bound to see that same scenario unfold here. Goldman Sachs will throw this kid under the bus and claim that they were duped right along with the rest of their investors. Goldman Sachs will let this play out in a long, drawn-out court battle until it is all but forgotten in the American public’s mind. They’ll end up paying a fine, that sounds like a lot of money to most people, but in reality amounts to nothing more than a slap on the wrist. As for Tourre? Well, he’ll be flushed down the memory hole of oblivion after a royal screwing in the press as the rouge villain who besmerched the good name of Goldman Sachs.But the more enlightened of us will know the real truth. It was Tourre’s superiors who really engineered this debacle. Anyone with half a brain knows that a novice like Tourre would never be left unattended to make deals with heavy hitters like John Paulson. Schemes of this magnitude don’t go forward without first being signed off by the guys upstairs. On Monday, the New York times cited eight confidential sources who made this point clear. The article stated that: According to interviews with eight former Goldman employees, senior bank executives played a pivotal role in overseeing the mortgage unit just as the housing market began to go south. These people spoke on the condition that they not be named so as not to jeopardize business relationships or to anger executives at Goldman, viewed as the most powerful bank on Wall Street. According to these people, executives up to and including Lloyd C. Blankfein, the chairman and chief executive, took an active role in overseeing the mortgage unit. It was Goldman’s top leadership, these people say, that ended the dispute on the mortgage desk by siding with those who, like Tourre and Egol, believed home prices would decline…By early 2007, Goldman’s mortgage unit had become a hive of intense activity. In addition to Blankfein, Gary D. Cohn, Goldman’s president, and David A. Viniar, the chief financial officer, visited the mortgage unit frequently.
This whole scandal couldn’t come at a better time for Goldman Sachs’ choice for President, Barrack Obama. He and the Democratic Party are reeling from public outcry against his sell out to the health insurance industry and the never ending bail-outs to their friends on Wall Street. This fiasco will help push through a regulatory bill that will actually concentrate more power to the FED (Goldman Sachs Alumni) and will only serve to make smaller firms vulnerable to absorption by the likes of Goldman Sachs and other giants. Obama will shake his fist, yell at Republicans who come to Wall Street’s defence, and come out looking like a maverick who took on those nasty special interests that he loves to claim he’s a crusader against.This is also an opportunity for the SEC to come out looking tough after their disgraceful conduct in the Bernie Madoff affair. Taking on Goldman Sachs will be a great boost to their image. But that could only happen under unusual circumstances like these. Right now, Goldman Sachs actually wants to be made to look like they’re no different from anybody else. They need to convince the American people that they are just as vulnerable and subject to public scrutiny as any other legitimate business. In other words, Goldman Sachs has given the SEC permission to take them on. Otherwise, the SEC would be just as ineffective and bias as they have always been.The SEC is actually a public relations device for the FED. They go after the little guys to look like they’re doing something while turning a blind eye to the big investment firms that their agents hope to someday work for.
Never was this more apparent than during the Madoff scandal. Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos repeatedly warned the Securities and Exchange Commission that Madoff was perpetrating a massive investment fraud and said that the regulatory agency that the SEC is inept, financially illiterate and far too cozy with the financial titans it is supposed to be regulating. Markopolos said The SEC is also captive to the industry it regulates and it is afraid of bringing big cases against the largest most powerful firms. Cleary the SEC was afraid of Mr. Madoff.It was also reported that agents who were dispatched to interview Madoff were so enamored with his lavish offices and lifestyle that they were tripping over themselves trying to get their resumes onto his desk. Such is the true reality of the SEC.This is not to say that the bright and rosy future of Goldman Sachs is etched in solid granite. As the fractional reserve system of banking starts to collapse, we are bound to see the connoisseurs of fine dining resort to cannibalistic practices as they scramble to loot and plunder what’s left of the American economy. Bon Appétit.
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CFR Journalist Calls Tea Party Talk Seditious Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com April 19, 2010
Joe Klein is worried. All this constitutional talk on the part of the Tea Party movement may actually lead to significant change (not Obama faux change, but the real McCoy).Mr. Klein, who is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, does not take kindly to the commoners organizing and refusing to sit down and shut up, so over the weekend he characterized exercising the First Amendment as sedition.I did a little bit of research just before this show — it’s on this little napkin here, Klein told Obama attack dog Christ Matthews. I looked up the definition of sedition which is conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of the state. And a lot of these statements, especially the ones coming from people like Glenn Beck and to a certain extent Sarah Palin, rub right up close to being seditious.Mr. Klein, of course, realizes Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck will not challenge the primacy of the state — they will merely flip the rigged political game back over to the Republican side of the coin. Klein and the CFR will not be sent packing under a Republican regime. Establishment Republicans are not allergic to the CFR and its plan for world government.
No, Mr. Klein was talking about the real Tea Party — the original Libertarian version that was paved over by the artificial astroturf version cobbled together by establishment Republicans.Sedition is reserved for real patriots, not Republican neocons. Mr. Klein is merely speaking out loud what the establishment discusses in private.Our rulers are eager to bring back the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. The law signed by John Adams established punishment of up to two years of imprisonment for opposing or resisting any law of the United States or for writing or publishing false, scandalous, and malicious writing about the President or the U.S. Congress.
The government, of course, gets to decide what is false, scandalous, and malicious writing.President Thomas Jefferson allowed Adams’ monstrosity to expire in 1801 but it has come back in various manifestations since (for instance the the Espionage Act of 1917 that was expanded to cover criticizing the Government of the United States, and also the Smith Act of 1940 which made it a crime to advocate or to teach overthrowing the government or to be a member of any organization that advocated such).Last month the FBI arrested members of the Hutaree militia (they liked to play paintball games in the woods) and they now stand charged with sedition against the government.Stay tuned. It looks like sedition is about to stage a comeback.
FALSE FLAG HATE BY CLINTON-WATCH VIDEOS
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False Flag Prelude? Clinton Launches Demonization Campaign On OK City Bombing Anniversary Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com April 18, 2010
Former president Bill Clinton has told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer he is worried that anti-government rhetoric will lead to violence and another Oklahoma City. He said he is concerned about people opposed to the government using the internet.Government defined terrorists, Clinton said, can communicate with each other much faster and much better than they did before. The main thing that bothered us since the time of Oklahoma City was that already, there was enough use of the Internet that if you knew how to find a Web site — and not everybody even had a computer back then, but if you knew how to find it, you could learn, for example, how to make a bomb like the one used to bring down the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, killing 168 people.Beyond the obvious propaganda designed to link the Tea Party movement to domestic terrorism — a sign that the government is indeed desperate to discredit growing opposition — Bill Clinton’s remarks reveal just how alarmed the establishment is over the opposition’s use of the internet as an organizational and educational tool. Traditional corporate media propaganda avenues are now avoided by growing numbers of Americans who no longer trust the government and the lies it disseminates via the corporate media.Clinton also appeared on ABC where he repeated his assertion that opposition to the government is domestic terrorism (he has yet to use that specific term, however). Once again, he brought up the specter of Oklahoma City. And we shouldn’t demonize the government or its public employees or its elected officials. We can disagree with them,Clinton told Jack Tapper.We ought to remember after Oklahoma City, we learned something about the difference in disagreement and demonization.
He launched the effort to blur the lines between legitimate anti-government opposition and the documented false flag attack in Oklahoma on Friday during a speech at the Center for American Progress Action Fund in California.Monday is the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing and the premeditated government massacre that slaughtered 76 people in Waco, more than 20 of them children. Clinton was president at the time and is directly responsible along with his attorney general Janet Reno for the massacre in Texas two years before the Oklahoma City bombing. I’m glad they’re fighting over health care and everything else. Let them have at it. But I think that all you have to do is read the paper every day to see how many people there are who are deeply, deeply troubled,he said. What we learned from Oklahoma City is not that we should gag each other or that we should reduce our passion for the positions we hold — but that the words we use really do matter, because there’s this vast echo chamber, and they go across space and they fall on the serious and the delirious alike. They fall on the connected and the unhinged alike.It certainly looks like the government is preparing another false flag attack to demonize the patriot movement and the real Tea Party movement (the Republican hijacked Tea Party is not a threat and will follow orders this November and vote for establishment candidates).It is no mistake Bill Clinton’s demonization campaign is timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. Is it a prelude to yet another false flag attack to be blamed by the government and its Mockingbird corporate media on those of us opposed to an authoritarian federal government?
A government orchestrated terror event somewhere within the United States exploited as an excuse to crack down on the opposition is the government’s only viable option at this point.Millions of Americans are now awake and mobilized in opposition to the government. Increased and growing activism now threatens the establishment. The Tea Party movement is only the most obvious manifestation of an effort to take back control of the government from the elite and their corporate minions.Faced with such historically significant opposition, the establishment has two options – capitulate or attack the movement indirectly through false flag terrorism. Attacking the movement directly would create even more support for the opposition and further legitimize their argument that the federal government is tyrannical.
Canada rejects IMF bank tax plan Globe and Mail update
Last updated on Wednesday, Apr. 21, 2010 11:19AM EDT
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says he will be adamant about opposing a bank tax, even after the IMF has come out in favour of one. Canada will not go down the path of excessive, arbitrary or punitive regulation of the financial sector, Mr. Flaherty said.He said the government does not want to see financial institutions in this country penalized because of their relative success and their stability during the course of the crisis.The Finance Minister's comments, which he made in Toronto Wednesday morning at a Euromoney conference, show that he is prepared to battle his G20 counterparts over the creation of a bank tax even as support for the idea grows.
Mr. Flaherty noted that the idea of taxing banks has gained support among many European countries and in the U.S. Their view is that the levies would penalize institutions that triggered the global recession and create a cushion against future crises, Mr. Flaherty added. The idea is to create a pool of funds that could be tapped to help pay for future bailouts. Mr. Flaherty said he agrees that taxpayers should not be on the hook for the costs of bailing out financial institutions. But he says a tax is not the best way to ensure that. A tax could weaken banks' ability to absorb loan losses, and could also result in excessive risk-taking because of the perception of a government guarantee against bank failures.
Both he and Canada's top banking regulator are instead promoting an idea based on the use of embedded contingent capital, which is essentially a security that converts to common equity when a bank is in trouble. Mr. Flaherty's comments come as he prepares to travel to Washington to meet finance ministers from around the world on Thursday.He said that the economic situation in Canada is better than in many other countries.
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DeMint: Tea Party Movement Will Bring on Spiritual Revival
Breitbart.tv Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Well, I think people are seeing this massive government growing and they’re realizing that it’s the government that’s hurting us and I think they’re turning back to God in effect is our salvation and government is not our salvation and in fact more and more people see government as the problem and so I think some have been drawn in over the years to a dependency relationship with government and as the Bible says you can’t have two masters and I think as people pull back from that they look more to God.
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, IMF officials to thrash out details with Greece
ANDREW WILLIS Today APR 21,10 @ 09:29 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The stage is set for EU, IMF and Greek officials to meet in Athens on Wednesday (21 April), as the different sides attempt to thrash out the lending terms of a three-year financial support package for the debt-ridden country.
Iceland's volcanic ash travel chaos delayed Monday's original start date, with record high 10-year Greek bond yields of 7.85 percent on Tuesday providing the new backdrop.The talks are unlikely to ease tensions in Greece, where public sector workers have already seen salaries dramatically cut this year and a 24-hour public sector strike is expected to bring the country to a standstill this Thursday. The European Commission has indicated that no new austerity measures will be demanded of Greece this year, but is pressing Athens to give more details on the years to come.
Athens needs now to be more specific regarding fiscal measures for 2011 and 2012, in order to deliver an ambitious program of structural reforms, said commission economy spokesman Amadeu Altafaj in Brussels on Tuesday. The Greek centre-left government has announced spending cuts and tax hikes worth around €16 billion, as it attempts to shave four percent off its budget deficit this year after it reached 12.7 percent in 2009. Greece has promised to bring its deficit below three percent by 2012.
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EU officials said the talks could take up to three weeks, with many questions yet to be answered, including the total three-year lending figures and the contribution to be made by the IMF. Following a snap weekend teleconference meeting earlier this month, eurozone finance ministers agreed to lend Greece up to €30 billion this year, with the IMF expected to contribute a further €10-15 billion to the 2010 pot.
Wednesday's Financial Times Deutschland reported sources as suggesting the total IMF contribution over three years could be as little as €18 billion however, placing a greater financial strain on euro area capitals, and in particular Berlin, should it turn out to be the case. The talks in Athens are also likely to concentrate on a three-year lending figure, with German central bank governor Axel Weber saying Greece may need up to €80 billion in financial aid to avoid default, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.The central bank chief told a small group of German lawmakers at a closed-door meeting earlier this week that Greece's situation was worsening and that the numbers are changing all the time,reports the newspaper.
Germany
Mr Weber's comments are unlikely to help Berlin's position, coming barely three weeks before crucial elections in the North Rhine-Westphalia region, the most populous federal state in Germany, with over 18 million citizens. Polls suggest a majority of Germans are opposed to bilateral aid for Greece, with rumours running the corridors of Brussels that Ms Merkel would like any Greek request for aid to come after the German vote. With the threat of several legal challenges also hanging in the air, a recent study produced by the Centre for European Policy think-tank suggests eurozone aid would contravene the EU rules.A bail-out of bilateral loans in Germany or another member state is illegal under EU law, says the study by Thiemo Jeck and Bert van Roosebeke, reports German daily Handelsblatt. Responding to questions from MEPs in Strasbourg on Tuesday, Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso Barroso said several times that he is confident the Greek solution does not breach the EU treaties. The solution found so far is fully in line with the treaty, he said. It is simply wrong to say that it is some kind of bailout.
Brussels unveils plan to press member states to live up to aid promises
LEIGH PHILLIPS Today APR 21,10 @ 17:32 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU may be collectively be the biggest donor of development aid in the world, but such sums remain far below what has repeatedly been pledged, and so on Wednesday, the European Commission said the bloc's member states are not doing enough and need to step up their game, announcing a 12-point-plan to get the 27 to live up to their promises.It is important to recall that the challenge of poverty does not stop at the EU's borders. I call on Member States to make developing countries part of our thinking for the future, said European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the announcement of the plan.In 2009, the EU aid levels dropped slightly decreased to €49 billion, or 0.42 percent of EU GNI. Yet EU member states had recommitted themselves in 2005 to raise their game to 0.56% of GNI by 2010 before reaching the key long-standing target - which dates back to promises from the global north made as long ago as 1970 at the UN General Assembly - of 0.7 percent of GNI. In 2005, the EU said it would meet this goal by 2015.European Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs said: I want Europe to remain the main and most credible leader in the fight against poverty. We have to respect our promises of more and better aid to halve poverty by 2015.The goals are still achievable, provided there is financial effort and political will from EU member states.
The 12-point plan asks member states to come put with national action plans by September of how they are to achieve their development aid pledges this year. This will then be peer-reviewed by other member states at the development ministerial level to see if the plans are up to scratch.National laws requiring governments to respect aid pledges of 0.7 percent of GNI are in the legislative pipeline in the UK, Belgium and Finland. While the commission is not saying other member states must do the same, it does believe this is a good example of what capitals can achieve.There should also be a focus on aid effectiveness, meaning for example, avoidance of duplication of efforts. If national aid programmes are better coordinated at the EU level, this could result in a savings of €3 to €6 billion yearly, according to commission analysis. Brussels holds up the recent EU-co-ordinated effort around Haiti reconstruction as a good example of what can be achieved if this is implemented across the board.The plan would also see less of a scatter-gun approach and more emphasis on particular Millennium Development Goals, notably gender, health, education and food security, that are the most off track from being achieved by 2015, as well as targetting those countries most in need.One of the most crucial parts of the plan, involving a separate communication from the commission in parallel to the overall plan proposal, would be efforts to help prevent tax evasion by northern companies, particularly in the case of extractive industries.
All over the world, governments lose billions in revenue every year because of harmful tax practices,the commission notes. According to a Norwegian government commission cited by the Brussels plan, illegal money flows from developing countries were at least seven times higher than the amount supplied in development assistance, meaning however much the EU gives to the developing world, so much more is essentially stolen from government revenues by European companies not paying the taxes they are supposed to.Brussels wants international tax co-operation to plug these leaks. In the meantime, the commission argues for EU technical assistance to be sent to help boost capacity and buttress southern governments efforts at chasing after taxation scofflaws. The plan is backed by the entirety of the commission but nevertheless is the product of the development department and calls for the revenues flowing from any new international finance mechanism, such as a global levy on banks or a financial transaction tax, currently in discussion at the G20 level, to at least in part be channelled into to development aid.It is understood that development commissioner Piebalgs disagrees with the staff of the economy and finance department that any such revenues should be cordoned off to cover the costs of future financial crises alone.In the wake of the Copenhagen climate debacle, it was clear in European minds that the EU and the developed world in general was failing the trust test with the developing world. The failure of the UN climate summit in the Danish capital last year was widely believed to be the result of a split between rich and poor countries. One of the fundamental issues was the question of so-called climate finance, in which developed countries were to pay their developing counterparts to make the very expensive shift to a low-carbon growth path.
But the sums suggested remained minimal compared to what analysts such as the World Bank had said is required and southern leaders repeatedly made the point that they could not trust the global north to live up to its climate finance promises if it did not even live up to its existing development aid pledges.As a result, a new emphasis in Brussels has been placed on proving to the world it can indeed meet its commitments.Aid NGOs for their part were on the were quite supportive of the plan.The proposals got a thumbs up from Oxfam, which said it strongly welcomed Mr Piebalgs' work. The group said the ball is squarely in the court of the member states. Italy's aid spending plunged last year by a massive 31 per cent, Ireland's by 19 per cent and Germany's by 12 per cent,noted Elise Ford, head of the group's Brussels Office.Action Aid's Chris Coxon meanwhile told EUobserver that the proposals show a lot of promise, but there is still a lot to be pushed through.Whether the political will is there to wholly implement it remains to be seen.The EU co-ordinating group for Catholic aid charities, CIDSE, however was quite sharp, predicting that the EU action plan was likely to fail.The group's secretary general, Bernd Nilles, blasted what it called vague recommendations that member states can just take or leave.The time is up for soft targets, we need binding schemes to hold EU countries accountable.The commission opted for an action plan rather than a directive requiring member states to meet their pledges.Mr Nilles also said that the bloc needed to join up its activities on this front, saying that its whatever development work done is undermined by EU trade and agriculture policies.
MEPs slam budgets of Council and EU police agency
ANDREW WILLIS Today APR 21,10 @ 18:11 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The Council of Ministers, the EU institution representing member states, and the European Police College attracted sharp criticism from MEPs debating the EU's 2008 budget in Strasbourg on Wednesday (21 April).The debate centered round a number of budgetary reports presented by members of parliament's budgetary control committee, with Green MEP Bart Staes accusing the chamber's centre-right grouping of obstructing his analysis of parliament's own expenditure. Under the EU treaties, parliament is charged with signing off on EU budgetary expenditure, a process known as the budgetary discharge. With MEPs set to vote on the subject early next month (5-6 May), the author of the report on the council suggested MEPs postpone their vote on that institution until October. The Council leaves a lot to be desired when we talk about budgetary matters, said Conservative MEP Ryszard Czarnecki. Certain aspects of the common foreign and security policy are still not clear, the budgetary measures and accounts are still not clear.Irregularities in the council procurement procedure were also unsatisfactory, said the Polish politician, as was the fact that some of the documents handed to the parliament related to 2007 and not 2008. Council's budget in 2008 was €743 million. As the debate started up, general disapproval was expressed around the almost empty chamber that no representative from the Council appeared to be present. However, the Spanish secretary of state for the EU, Diego Lopez Garrido showed up half an hour late. You see how good this fantastic power is,said parliament's president Jerzy Buzek jokingly, referring to the EU's new Lisbon Treaty.
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The EU's many decentralised agencies were generally commended for their good work by parliament's rapporteur, centre-right MEP Véronique Mathieu, but she was highly critical of the European Police College (CEPOL).The UK-based college brings together senior police officers across Europe with the aim of encouraging cross-border co-operation in the fight against crime. Its budget in 2008 was €8.7 million. The audit carried out shows there are irregularities, blatant ones, in terms of administration and finance, and that's why we would like to defer discharge,said Ms Mathieu. The EU's anti-fraud body, OLAF, is currently investigating allegations that CEPOL employees used work mobile phones, transport options and furniture for private use.
The French MEP outlined how EU agencies have grown rapidly over the past decade due to the need for greater expertise in the face of new challenges and an enlarged EU.
Over the decade from 2000 to 2010, agency budgets have risen from €95 million to €569 million, while staff numbers have climbed from 1,219 to 4,794.
Self-critical parliament?
Green MEP Bart Staes suggested to MEPs that they approve their own €1.4 billion expenditure for 2008, but said a number of problems remained, not least the issue of self-verification. While improvements had been made in cutting the parliament's costs, Mr Staes said the legislature's secretary-general should seek a second opinion before giving his backing of parliament's expenditure. The Belgian deputy indicated improvements needed to be made in the field of public procurements, adding that taxpayers should not be made to bail out the legislature's private pension fund which currently has a deficit of €120 million. My report is intended to make sure that when we go back to the polls in 2013, we have got rid of all the scandals, large and small, and we area not harassed by that kind of unsavory reporting in the press,he told the rows of empty seats. Flight disruptions caused by ash spewing from one of Iceland's volcanos has prevented many deputies from making this week's plenary session, although MEPs are not famed for their great attendance record. Mr Staes also accused certain elements of the parliament of obstructing his work.I tried to co-operate with shadow rapporteurs ... but there were about 50 amendments from the [centre-right] European Peoples' Party to delete large parts of my report.
Commission
The large bulk of the EU budget, €129 billion in 2008, is administered by the European Commission, although most of this money is then spent by the member states, for example in helping to boost the economies of poorer regions, known as cohesion funding. The report of centre-left MEP Bogusław Liberadzki draws attention to this area saying the committee: Is concerned that errors in the area of cohesion funding indicate that at least 11 percent of the total amount reimbursed should not have been paid out.The mis-spending in this area ranged from cases of fraud to officials simply ticking the wrong box, with the need to for greater member state co-operation stressed by centre-left MEP Jens Geier, standing in for Mr Liberadzki who was trapped in Poland. Parliament's budgetary control committee played a role in toppling the former commission of Jacques Santer in 1999, but MEPs are likely to approve the executive's 2008 budget when they meet next month.
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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)
EU hoping ash crisis will lead to more harmonised European airspace
HONOR MAHONY Today APR 21,10 @ 17:32 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission is hoping that the travel chaos caused by the Icelandic ash cloud will spur member states to agree to a European air supervisor who can issue binding recommendations to national air controllers.Last Wednesday's eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano exposed the shortcomings of having 27 autonomous airspaces able to make unilateral decisions to introduce flying bans, in this case it was the UK taking the lead.As the crisis unfolded and thousands of European passengers were left stranded in airports within and beyond Europe, it was only on Monday - four days after the flight bans were imposed - that member-state technical experts met, followed by a meeting of transport ministers in the evening. There it was concluded that the virtual total air ban for civilian flights put in place by several member states was an exaggerated response.
The get-togethers only occurred after the European Commission stepped in to provide some sort of direction. Until then, the response largely fell to Eurocontrol, an intergovernmental agency covering 38 countries, that pools air route information based on data from national air traffic controllers.With airlines furious at the economic cost of the extensive flying bans, which have had knock-on effects on several other areas including retail outlets in airports and food imports, the commission is hoping to capitalise on the mood to create a stronger European presence.There is simply not enough Europe here,said EU transport spokesperson Helen Kearns on Wednesday (21 April) noting that there were "different responses to the same advice.A first package on creating a more harmonised approach to the EU's skies came into place in 2004. In December last year, it was updated to help reduce some of the economic and environmental costs of having 27 national airspaces - each flight in the EU is a minimum 50km longer than it needs to be as flight routes are determined by national authorities often according to defence and security priorities.
But the precise details of the updated package, due to come into force in 2012, are still to be agreed. On back of the ash crisis and with the threat of more volcanic erruptions on Iceland to come, the commission is now pushing for a European network manager or air supervisor to be able to issue binding recommendations to national authorities.This manager would organise flight routes, for example saying how best a pilot should fly from Schipol airport in the Netherlands to Rome.A transport official from the European Commission said the power to issue binding recommendations would not impinge on member states' sovereignty over their airspace as the advice could be ignored. But a fine could be issued if it is then proven that ignoring the recommendation led to adverse consequences.According to Ms Kearns, the closer European co-ordination envisioned under the so-called Single European Sky initiative would have made an enormous difference in the current crisis with a decision on the flight bans and the safety of European airspace likely to have been made as early as last Friday, rather than three days later on Monday.Speaking about the 2012 implementation date, Ms Kearns said: The political question now is can we go further faster.The updated package is also supposed to double the capacity of the European network by 2020 and reduce CO2 emissions by 10 percent per flight.Aside from the trying to ensure a pan-European approach to EU skies as quickly as possible, the ash crisis has also raised other questions such as what is the amount of ash in the air needed to trigger a flight ban, a point of confusion over recent days.I am quite sure that will be a political priority,said Ms Kearns, with EU transport commissioner Siim Kallas due to present his thoughts on the consequences of the current transport crisis next Tuesday.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
JOBBIK HATERS WIN HUNGARY OVER ANTISEMETIC NUTCASES
Or Eshol Wins Int'l Bible Quiz, Netanyahu's Son Wins 3rd Place
by Hana Levi Julian AP 20,10
The winner of the annual International Bible Quiz this year kept her family's tradition by following in her father's footsteps 27 years later. Or Eshol of Kfar Saba, 17, defeated 15 competitors to take first prize in the contest -- an achievement first accomplished by her father Shimon when he was a teen.Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was also a proud father after judges announced that his son Avner had won third place. I was very excited together with my wife, for our son. It's only natural,said the prime minister, who added that he was deeply impressed with the two top winners.
First runner-up was Elad Nachshon.
Avner Netanyahu had attracted much media attention due to his family ties, reaching the finals and correctly answering the first two questions to face the Prime Minister's Question.As a result of his background, he was given a question written by the main query writer, Neria Pinchas instead, and was provided only a partial answer, which stopped him from going further.The prime minister and Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar also announced that adults will once again also have the opportunity to compete as well, when the Adult Bible Competition is renewed. The contest was abandoned 30 years ago. (IsraelNationalNews.com)
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,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
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EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
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.
Europe scales down response to ash cloud-Stranded passengers at Frankfurt airport (Photo: Travel Aficionado)VALENTINA POP 19.04.2010 @ 22:29 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Parts of Europe will be re-opened for flights on Tuesday as ministers agreed to narrow down the no-fly zones around the Icelandic ash cloud, amid mounting pressure from airlines and experts saying the complete closure was exaggerated. After a four-hour long conference call on Monday (19 April), the 27 transport ministers agreed to carve out three safety zones and ban planes from flying only through the cloud itself and with specific restrictions in a buffer-zone around the ash plume. The pollution-free zones will meanwhile be opened without any restrictions. The exact carve-out is to be drawn up by Tuesday morning in the Brussels-based headquarter of Eurocontrol, the agency pooling and co-ordinating data from 38 national air traffic controllers.The Scandinavian countries, eastern and southern Europe are likely to resume all flights, while Britain, Ireland and the Benelux will probably continue to impose some restrictions, Bo Redeborn from Eurocontrol said at a press briefing.Currently, 18 states have partial or total fly bans. But Mr Redeborn said this reaction was exaggerated, although understandably, due to the unprecedented scale of the ash cloud formed after a volcanic eruption in Iceland last Wednesday.The risk entailed by volcanic ash is that it can melt into glass and damage the jet's engine. A Nato fighter jet flying through the cloud reported such problems, although it managed to land safely.
However, several airliners, such as Lufthansa and Air France-KLM, ran some 40 test flights in cloud-adjacent areas and experienced no problems, voicing their anger against the fly ban which saw them lose hundreds of millions of euros a day.The umbrella association of all air companies, IATA, accused the EU of dragging its feet in taking a decision. The decision that Europe has made is with no risk assessment, no consultation, no co-ordination, no leadership,IATA president Giovanni Bisignani said in Paris.In fact, only a third of the airspace blocked so far is estimated to be risky for planes to fly, Mr Redeborn admitted. The reason for the exaggerated response was linked to the high number of people involved in the decision-making process. The teleconference of stakeholders on Monday comprised some 200 persons.
When all these people get exposed to a situation where there is no previous experience, the safety culture induced environment means that everybody jumps in the direction of safety. Once you learn more about the nature of the ash, what jet engines can cope with, things change little by little.For the first passenger-free test flight, for instance, it took Eurocontrol six hours to get the green light from national authorities, due to a reluctance to take responsibility. But once it proved to be safe, others were easier to get up in the air.In the US - unlike in Europe - airlines are allowed to decide themselves if they want to fly and how to circumvent the ash cloud. National authorities only give them information about the location of the cloud.There were suggestions we move in that direction,Mr Redeborn said, but admitted it was still a distant prospect, as national authorities in Europe still have a say in all matters related to their airspace.
EU bends rules
Meanwhile, the European Commission has signalled willingness to bend competition rules for state aid given to troubled airlines facing an avalanche of costs with stranded and re-routed passengers. In the UK, British Airlines has already filed for state aid.It also advised member states to show leniency to non-EU passengers who now need to travel by land or by sea but have no visas.Nearly seven million passengers are stranded at 313 airports around the world due to the European flight ban.
EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.(SOCIALISM)
13 These have one mind,(SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)
REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
European parliament holds pared down session
HONOR MAHONY 19.04.2010 @ 20:41 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - There will be no voting during the European Parliament's plenary session in Strasbourg this week, with most MEPs not making it to the Alsatian capital as travel chaos caused by the Icelandic volcanic ash continues in Europe.The trimmed session, finishing a day early and featuring an emergency debate on Tuesday (20 April) on the chaotic transport situation, was announced by parliament president Jerzy Buzek at the formal opening of the plenary session.The European Parliament plenary session is going ahead in Strasbourg. We have decided that due to travel restrictions there will be no votes. MEPs are fully aware of the dramatic consequences of the ash cloud, Mr Buzek told the chamber. Of the 736 MEPs, around 200 were present to hear the announcement.The parliament's strict rules of procedure meant the formal decision or whether to go ahead with the parliamentary sitting at all had to be taken in Strasbourg and not before. This caused a slightly mutinous feeling among the MEPs that did make it to Strasbourg. Some questioned the point of going ahead with a vote-free session while others noted that if it had been clear earlier that parliament was to convene, more MEPs might have made it.The voting was postponed due to fears both that the legal quorum would not be reached (at least a third of MEPs must be present) and the results would be geographically skewed in favour of MEPs living in mainland Europe and relatively close to Strasbourg.One MEP, reacting to Mr Buzek's praise for the deputies that managed to be in the chamber, said It is our job, it is really nothing special. He went on to chastise Mr Buzek and the parliament's authorities for not giving out information in a speedy fashion.
It would be very helpful for us if we get information about plenary sittings ... earlier than we did it this time because I got the first information on Sunday and it was a bit tricky for me to come here, said Austrian Socialist MEP Joerg Leichtfreid.MEPs were told on Saturday that a decision would only be made on Monday and would have to be taken in Strasbourg.Meanwhile, British MEPs complained that postponing the voting for two weeks would coincide with preparations for the UK elections on 6 May making it unlikely that any British MEPs would be present. Conservative MEP Charles Tannock asked for the programme to be changed again.MEPs were due to vote on energy labelling on goods, the 2008 budget and their position on a controversial bank data sharing deal.In addition, attempts by MEPs - several of whom twittered on the issue - to capitalise on opposition among many in their ranks to having monthly sessions in Strasbourg with suggestions to meet in Brussels this week instead were firmly rebuffed. A number of colleagues also suggested that the plenary session be moved from Strasbourg to Brussels but as the airports in both cities remain closed, there was no objective justification for such a last minute change,Mr Buzek wrote in a letter to deputies.
EU following Goldman fraud case
ANDREW WILLIS 19.04.2010 @ 17:53 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission has said it is closely monitoring the latest fraud case surrounding Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs, as allegations of mispractise draw sharp criticism in a number of European capitals. This is a fraud investigation that is being carried out in the United States. We are obviously following events with great interest,said commission spokeswoman Amelia Torres on Monday (19 April).The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the country's financial regulator, filed charges against Goldman late last week, accusing the company of failing to disclose full information to clients of one of its investment products, known as a collaterised debt obligation (CDO).UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown attacked the famous bank over the weekend, accusing it of moral bankruptcy, after the SEC listed the Royal Bank of Scotland, now 84 percent owned by British taxpayers following a series of government bail-outs, as one of the victims of the CDO at the centre of the case. The US complaint alleges Goldman and Fabrice Tourre, a 31-year old vice president with the firm, hid from investors the fact that the hedge fund Paulson & Co had been influential in determining the composition of loans going into the CDO created by Goldman in 2007. While most investors sought high returns from the structured finance product, Paulson placed bets that the mortgage-linked assets would fall. Nine months after the creation of the CDO, 99 percent of its loans had been downgraded, netting $1 billion for Paulson & Co., and costing the Royal Bank of Scotland $841 million.Everything I find out convinces me that we have got to go in deeper, and I believe that I am the man to deal with these problems,said an election-mode Mr Brown.
Germany has also indicated its interest in the case. The country's IKB bank was an early victim of the credit crunch, losing almost the entirety of its $150 million investment in the Goldman CDO. Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman, Ulrich Wilhelm, said the German regulator BaFin will ask the SEC for detailed information. After a careful evaluation of the documents, we will examine legal steps,he said, report national media. Analysts said the latest revelations could speed the passage of a US financial regulation bill set to hit the senate floor in the coming days, with a subsequent knock-on effect for Europe. Supposing the US adopts legislation before the summer, which is not impossible, this will then become the benchmark for the EU, Nicolas Véron, a financial services analyst with the Brussels-based Bruegel think-tank, told EUobserver. EU internal market and financial services commissioner Michel Barnier is set to propose new legislation on financial derivatives this June, likely to lead to extensive debate between member states and inside the European Parliament.France and other members of the G20 group of leading countries have pledged to regulate the $450 trillion global derivatives market by the end of 2012.
The US announcement of an investigation into Goldman last week comes on top of EU criticism earlier this year that Goldman helped Greece to hide the true extent its debt pile, using a different financial product known as a currency swap. The bank has insisted no rules have been broken in either case.
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)
WARS AND RUMURS OF WARS.
MATTHEW 24:6
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
MARK 13:7
7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
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.
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.
HERES SOME MORE HATING NUTCASES UNDER THE GUISE OF PATRIOTS,ANYTHING TO DISCREDIT THE TEA PARTIERS-A TRUE PEACEFUL MOVEMENT,THESE JOBBIK HATING NUTCASES WILL BE COMPARED TO TEA PARTIERS I CAN SEE THIS COMING ALREADY.FITTING IN WITH THESE HATE NUTCASES ARE SODOMTE RAINBOW GROUPER(BUTCH)RACHAEL MADDOW AND MORE NUTCASES AT MSNBC KEITH OLBERMANN AND CIA AGENT CHRIS MATTHEWS AND ED SCHULTZ.CIA AGENT ANDERSON COOPER AT CNN ALSO AND CHRISTINE AMANPOUR.ALL THESE NUTCASES HATE ISRAEL AND SHOULD BE BANNED FROM THE MEDIA.
A far-right for the Facebook generation: The rise and rise of JobbikGabor Vona, the 32-year-old Jobbik leader and founder of the Magyar Garda (Photo: Flickr)
LEIGH PHILLIPS 19.04.2010 @ 21:03 CET
EUOBSERVER / FEATURE - Last week, Europeans woke up to the sinister news that in the heart of Europe a thoroughly far-right party, the Movement for a Better Hungary, or Jobbik, had won 17 percent of the vote in general elections, almost beating the governing Socialists into third place.Most European nations have their share of far-right fringe groups. But Jobbik is openly anti-semitic and anti-gypsy. It is the founder of a rapidly growing, jackbooted and black-uniformed paramilitary, the Magyar Garda, and it is allied to pariahs such as the British National Party and France's Front National in the EU Parliament. How could such an out-and-out fascist outfit climb so vertiginously high up the greasy pole of politics in the modern era?
It is the clearest sign yet that the economic crisis has woken Europe's most frightening demons.
Or so runs the media narrative.
Long-time watchers of the far-right in Europe describe this version of the story as lazy. Certainly, the crash, which hit Hungary harder than many European nations - it was the first EU member state to run to the IMF - played a role in last week's vote, but the tale is, they say, longer and more complicated.The frustration I have with the sudden burst of media coverage is that for most of the time, the far-right phenomenon is not treated seriously, complains Graeme Atkinson, the European editor of the UK's anti-fascist monthly, Searchlight.They're treated as cranks, so papers don't write about them, don't notice them. And then suddenly something like this happens and they think the sky is falling.I don't go for either picture. It's not that the crisis has suddenly caused this. This is a phenomenon that goes back much further than the last two years ... Of course it exacerbates the situation - it would be surprising if the crisis did not result in some increased support for the far-right. But it's a long-term phenomenon that needs monitoring and countering. It's no reason to panic and then forget about it once the next big news item happens.
Mr Atkinson actually lays the bulk of the blame on the centre-left establishment in Europe: Social democrats everywhere have abandoned their traditional constituency. This is the vacuum the far right are filling.As socialist and labour parties have, pace Tony Blair, embraced business, backed privatisation and instituted social spending cuts, he argues, extremist ideas provide an easy answer to the thousands that feel disoriented by the slings and arrows of the free market.The Perspective Institute, a Budapest polling firm, demographically backs this analyis, noting already in an analysis after last year's European elections in which the party scored 14.8 percent that left-wing voters were en masse turning toward Jobbik: The Hungarian extreme right doesn't primarily recruit its supporters from the centre-right but instead from the leftist camp disappointed with the governmental performance of MSZP [the Socialists]. Jobbik, in certain cases, succeeded in doubling its nationwide share of the votes in cities that had been Socialist strongholds.
Support for far-right ideas doubles in ten years
Hungarian liberal think-tank Political Capital meanwhile has been measuring support for far-right ideas across Europe for a number of years. According to its latest Demand for Right-Wing Extremism (Derex) index, which gauges people's predisposition to far-right politics in 32 European countries, 21 percent of Hungarians are open to extreme right-wing ideas, the highest percentage of any European country other than Bulgaria, where 24.6 percent of the population is so predisposed.Just seven years ago in 2003, only 10 percent of Hungarians had such a propensity, according to the think-tank's surveys. Poland at the same time also had a score of 10 percent. This has since fallen to 6.5 percent.But here it's doubled. The extreme right has profited from a massive growth in disaffection from the political elite. This feeling is not just anti-establishment. They oppose the entire system. They want to get rid of the whole thing,Political Capital analyst Alex Kuli says.Jobbik's growth was unremarkable until the last four years, when it began its meteoric ascent. The key event was in autumn 2006, when street protests in which the party played a key role rampaged through Budapest following the leak of an audiotape revealing that the then Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany had lied in order to win elections.
But why such a response? There have been political scandals elsewhere.
There was the expenses scandal in the UK, sure, but what happened? asks Mr Kuli. People are investigated by the police, they resign, expelled from the party. They are humiliated. In Hungary, there is a feeling that there is no recourse to the law. People are caught stealing from the public purse and not a single thing is done against them.
Radical youth
One of the most disturbing aspects of the Jobbik phenomenon is how young and educated many of its supporters are. Far-right supporters elsewhere are thought of as the rural uneducated or, in the urban context, to use an old term, lumpenproletarian. But in Hungary so many of them are the Bright Young Things. They believe they are the radical ones, with a burning fire of injustice as self-righteous as any anti-G8 militant from Genoa to Gothenburg to Gleneagles.Hungarian pollster Forsense noted that Jobbik and the country's small Green party, the LMP, together won 24 percent of all votes in the election, but a full 40 percent of votes cast by those under age 24. Almost half of the voters for the two parties are under 35 years of age and only 10 percent of them are over 55.The 2006 events radicalised Hungarian youth. But rather than looking to the left, as disaffected youth have ever done in the West, and once again over the past decade, from the Seattle anti-WTO demonstrations to anti-Iraq war protests in Barcelona, Paris and London and beyond, in Hungary, those who described themselves as left, in the form of the corrupt Socialist party of wealthy businessman Ferenc Gyurcsany, were the ones they were demonstrating against.There's no attraction for angry young people to join something to the left of the [Socialists] because this politic is completely discredited after the collapse of the Soviet bloc, so you just don't get this,Mr Kuli says.Zsolt Varkonyi, the group's presidential campaign chief readying himself for the party's run in the upcoming June presidential elections, at 54 years old is one of the more senior members: There is a big age-gap between me and them. Most of them could be my sons and daughters.
Jobbik's national spokeswoman Dora Duro, for example, he says, is just 22.They get out of school, university and they find themselves without a job. Everyone, even doctors, economists - there has been a huge wave of young people joining the party, he says.Adam Schonburger, an anti-Jobbik campaigner and an organiser with the Budapest Jewish Youth Organisation, has tried to focus his activities on educating young people about Jewish and Gypsy culture, organising an annual festival in the hope they will learn from other sources than the slick Jobbik website and internet chatrooms.University student government is largely controlled by Jobbik, particularly the humanities faculty,he says.You know that Jobbik was actually created by a student government? There is very strong support for Jobbik in the universities,says Adam LeBor, the Hungary correspondent for the Times and the author of the Budapest Protocol, a political thriller that came out last year that focuses on anti-gypsy oppression in the country.Part of this is the economic situation. It is indeed very hard for young people to find a job, but the crucial element is that Jobbik has an extremely savvy web presence, enabling them to sidestep the traditional media and speak directly to youth, to the Facebook generation. It even has pages in English, well-written English that isn't garbled. The other parties haven't really done this.It's a lot more complex than just the nasties are marching.
Judapest
The Magyar Garda, the estimated 3,000-strong paramilitary group founded by Jobbik leader Gabor Vona, has taken to calling the capital Judapest.Socialist Party election posters were defaced with Stars of David and the Jewish community mounted a thousand-strong demonstration the week before the election after a rabbi's windows were stoned during Passover. Orthodox Jews in the supermarket are saluted with a raised arm Heil Hitler. But Mr LeBor says that as terrifying as this is, it is not anti-semitism that is really what he calls the mobilising issue. The mobilising issue is racism against gypsies, which is much more widespread.He blames previous administrations for doing nothing to tackle the problems of the Roma community: No government of any stripe has managed to deal with the situation of the Roma, who live in utter squalor, with high levels of unemployment. It's the classic strategy: in times of crisis, you seek a scapegoat.Roma homes and individuals have been repeatedly shot at and firebombed with Molotov cocktails. In 2009, eight gypsies were killed in incidents police believe to be deliberately targetted against the community.
Gypsy Crime and Israeli companies
Roberto Fiore, leader of Italy's neo-Nazi Forza Nuova addressed a Jobbik rally in Budapest in November last year, but the Jobbik youngsters do not think of themselves as fascists at all. They view themselves as part of a generational change in Hungary,the Political Capital think-tank's Mr Kuli adds. The rest of the world may not be able to speak Hungarian, but the hyper-educated Hungarian youth can read English and know what the rest of the world is saying about them. The Jobbik kids are not big fans.Jobbik are not Nazis, they insist, with the party's English-language website contrasting a relatively gentle picture of Jobbik voters in military traditional dress with a German skinhead with a large swastika tattoo on his neck, whom the caption describes as a Nazi imbecile.On the day of the election, the Jobbik website published an rejoinder raging against the international coverage of the party and in particular an article in The Scotsman newspaper entitled Anti-Roma rhetoric pays off for far right in Hungary explaining why so many people were voting for the party: The scenario is classic. Hungary's economy is in crisis, its large Roma minority is an easy scapegoat, and a far-right party blaming gypsy crooks and welfare spongers is set to be the big winner.Responding to what a Jobbik web-writer viewed in the Scottish report as vicious slander, the party's missive reads: What is this 'classic scenario? Quite simple really. Central Europeans + Economic Downturn = (or rather, must and can only equal) Hateful Extremists and persecution of minorities ... Take a few pennies out of a Hungarian's pocket, and he turns almost immediately into a slavering ultra-nationalist who on the way back from clubbing a local gypsy, will pause only to hurl yet another brick through the windows of his nearest synagogue.Mr Varkonyi, the Jobbik spokesman, says the party is only reminding Hungarians of what Israeli President Shimon Peres himself admitted.
He refers to the boast by Mr Peres of how well his country's real estate sector had been doing at a gathering of businessmen in Tel Aviv in October 2007. The economic situation in Israel is excellent. We are buying up Manhattan, Romania, Hungary and Poland, all due to Israeli business acumen and connections.When EUobserver proposes that Mr Varkonyi perhaps might be misinterpreting the Israeli president's speech, Mr Varkonyi says: Look, 70 percent of Budapest belongs to Israeli companies. These were not empty words - there was something behind it.Krisztina Morvai, an MEP for the party and Jobbik's presidential candidate once spat: So-called proud Hungarian Jews should go back to playing with their tiny little circumcised tails.
But even she, a mother of three and practising human rights lawyer who once worked for the United Nations, styles her anti-Jewish rhetoric not with the bile of a Der Sturmer polemic, but couched in a pro-Palestinian discourse, albeit one that Palestinian solidarity groups elsewhere distance themselves from. In February, 2009, following Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip that killed 1400 Palestinians, she wrote in a letter to the Jewish state's ambassador to Hungary: The only way to talk to people like you is by assuming the style of Hamas. I wish all of you lice-infested, dirty murderers will receive Hamas' kisses.Mr Varkonyi also insists that the party's strategy for dealing with the gypsy problem is no different to what is being done in Italy or Slovakia.And there is a reality to what we say about gypsy crime. There were 118 case of gypsies committing crimes against Hungarians from 1993 to 2009.We don't need sociological explanations when it is suggested to him that crime rates may grow amongst economically dislocated, racially oppressed communities. How does a sociological explanation feel to an old lady who has had her head cut off by an 18-year-old gypsy, or a girl who is tied to a tree and raped and then set on fire?
Political magpies
We are not even a right-wing party,declares Mr Varkonyi. We do not believe in the division between left and right. The true division is between those who want globalisation and those who do not. We are a patriotic party.He goes on to approvingly quote the left-wing Franco-American Tobin-Tax and anti-Lisbon-Treaty campaigner Susan George, criticising the privatisation of energy and water companies.There is some cross-over with the anti-globalisation protests [at the turn of the millenium]. But the difference is that we respect private property. We are different from the Seattle protestors in that we want local private property but not a global version of private property.Indeed, the Jobbik website article goes on to try to deliver as proof that the party are not your average Nazi boneheads a laundry-list of policies, which, in all fairness, no one would be surprised to hear coming out of the mouths of the likes of leftist figures such as a Jose Bove, Oscar Lafontaine or Olivier Besancenot: rejecting IMF austerity measures, the influence of agribusiness and unrestricted cowboy-capitalism.However, Jobbik, like any classic far-right formation, are political magpies, picking and choosing from the left and the right. Its website article that is supposed to explode myths about the party goes on to explain, without giving evidence, how gypsies increase crime in whichever country they go to, promotes Greater Hungary chauvinism - aiming to restore Hungary to its pre-World-War-One borders - and demands the return of the Csendorseg, the Hungarian Gendarmerie, the country's chief agents of Jewish deportations during the Holocaust, notorious for robberies, acts of torture and a viciousness which startled even the Germans.When the Gendarmerie walked down the street and gypsies saw them, they would run away. They knew someone was watching them,warns Mr Varkonyi.
2006 riots
Vilmos Hanti, the president of the Hungarian Federation of Resistance Fighters and Anti-fascists (Measz), which dates back to 1945, blames the youthful attraction to the far-right on a gap in the school curriculum after 1990.History books used in the schools are without a word of criticism regarding the role of Hungary in the Second World War. The young people of today know very little about Hungarian anti-fascist resistance,he says.In spite of our efforts, a museum presenting Hungarian resistance to young people was never realised.In the six months that followed the 2006 anti-Gyurcsany riots in Budapest, Jobbik boosted its profile with a militant campaign against Gypsy crime.Then, further building on its notoriety, the following year, the party launched the paramilitary Magyar Garda, or Hungarian Guard.The Magyar Garda, attired in black boots, black trousers, white shirt and black vest, take their oaths under the red-and-white striped flag of Arpad, the banner of the Arrow Cross, the Hungarian fascists who murdered between 10,000 and 15,000 Jews and together with the Gendarmes sent 80,000 to their deaths in Auschwitz.The Budapest Jewish Youth Organisation's Mr Schonburger says that the police in many cases are leaving the Hungarian Guard to solve problems: They say We can't help. Go ask the Hungarian Guard.Still, even two years after the riots, as late as December 2008, the party could not claim more than roughly three percent of voters. Over the following five months, it started to climb sharply as the economic crisis began to pinch, winning 14.8 percent or 428,000 votes cast in the June 2009 European Parliamentary elections, making it for the first time a serious political force.
And then onn 10 April 2010, the party won 16.7 percent or 844,000 ballots, doubling its number of voters in less than a year.While Jobbik, led by 32-year-old Gabor Vona, a history teacher and founder of the Hungarian Guard - who has said he will wear his Magyar Garda uniform when sworn in as an MP - has won over thousands of young people, it is not true to say that they form the majority of the party's voters. The bulk of Jobbik's support actually comes from the east of the country, where there is enormous economic dislocation. There, one finds a strong correlation between such poverty and support for Jobbik.It should also be remembered that in Budapest, the LMP, from its Hungarian acronym for Politics Can Be Different, which is affiliated to the European Green Party, is also a party of the young, and that it beat Jobbik into fourth place inside the capital. The Times' Mr Lebor thinks there may be some hope here: And this is a party that barely existed six months ago. All people really know about them is that they are sort of green and progressive. They don't know much more.Mr Kuli, for his part, is dismissive of the upstart LMP, a left-wing group but untarnished by any link to the Communist Party. Their leader, Andras Schiffer, a lawyer, in the 1990s defended a bar that refused entry to two gypsies and the husband of the party's number six on their list is a legal advisor to Jobbik, so is there a real human rights commitment there or is it opportunism?
Searchlight's Mr Atkinson is quite pessimistic about the chances for a movement against the growth of the far right in the country: Measz [the official Hungarian anti-fascist organisation] are very elderly, and maybe a bit old Stalinist, so there is that mark against them,he concedes. But they were very heroic people in their time, although they are not really up for a fight now. There are no young anti-racist or anti-fascist groups that I know of, at least not on the scale that exist in most Western countries, even in eastern countries, Russia.There is no real opposition in Hungary. It would be nice to see if something happens with the [LMP], although I worry they don't have much of a base.
Will Fidesz take them on?
And what of Fidesz, the socially conservative party of family values and law and order that won the election? After winning a whopping 52.8 percent of the vote and heading for an even better result in the second round that should give it a two-thirds majority in the parliament, it has no need to build a coalition with the far-right. Many are thankful that this at least this puts something of a break on and perhaps reverses Jobbik's advance, which according to some polls, had reached 25 percent support ahead of the voting.After the first round of voting, Fidesz' charismatic leader, Victor Orban, said he would take on Jobbik: No radical party will be allowed to get rid of law and order in this country, he told reporters. Democracy in this country is strong enough to defend itself.However, Mr Atkinson believes Fidesz is a worry in itself: I cringe when I see some in the press refer to Fidesz as centre-right.They're not. They're nationalist populist, what in German is sometimes referred to as a Volkisch right.Fidesz, itself once a party of youth - the name is an acronym of Fiatal Demokratak Szovetsege, or Alliance of Young Democrats - was founded in 1988 as a libertarian anti-Communist party, joining the Liberal International in 1992. After a poor showing in the 1994 elections, it switched allegiance from liberalism to conservatism.The British anti-fascist editor says Mr Orban is a political chameleon, shifting ideology to whatever will keep him in power. He notes that the party has been in coalition with Jobbik at the local level in around 100 municipalities.In 2008, Fidesz MP Oszkar Molnar, who was also mayor of Edeleny, a town in eastern Hungary, famously claimed that pregnant Roma women take medication to give birth to fools to receive higher family subsidies. I have checked this and it's true; they hit their bellies with a rubber hammer so that they'll give birth to handicapped kids.Responding to Mr Molnar's statement, Mr Orban said only that his speech was embarrassing,although the MP was later dropped from national lists and quit the party.But Mr Kuli, from the Poltical Capital think-tank, thinks the conservative party should be given the benefit of the doubt for now. Fidesz has dealt with these issues very gingerly, it is true. But it's a political calculation. They do not want to alienate their rural support by taking decisive action against Molnar and send them into the arms of Jobbik. I don't necessarily support this strategy, but this is why they acted this way,he said.The Times' Mr LeBor believes that to call Fidesz Jobbik lite is a complete nonsense. During the election campaign it made great efforts to distance itself from Jobbik. Like all parties, they include a wide range of views. Some of their MPs are more right-wing than others.The Budapest Jewish Youth Organisation's Mr Schonburger also does not think Fidesz are wolves in centre-right sheep's clothing, but he does wish the party was more forthright in countering Jobbik: We are hoping for the incoming government to make a clear statement on the issue in the next two weeks, Orban needs to make more public statements about what has happened. But I don't know if they are willing to. We certainly don't see any clear statement coming from them yet.He is however furious at the post-Hungarian election triumphalism of other conservative parties across Europe: How can they call this a victory? How can they celebrate when so many people have voted for Jobbik? This is the most important issue facing Hungary, maybe even more important than the economic crisis. Something is going on here. How in the middle of Europe, in this new part of the EU, can we have such radical voters, Jobbik, the Hungarian Guard?
Analyst Mr Kuli is more optimistic: What will Hungary look like in two years? Orban says he will be able to renegotiate the terms of the IMF deal. But he has very little room to manoeuvre. At the same time, the stability that a supermajority gives Fidesz - it will be the most stable government since 1990 - shouldn't be forgotten. And the economic gurus around him are very intelligent men.But even he issues a warning: The trick is if Orban goes further with austerity measures. If his voters see that he doesn't have their dreams in mind, I think you'd see protests against him as well.And Jobbik will be ready and waiting in the wings.
Nationalist victory threatens Cyprus peace process
LEIGH PHILLIPS 19.04.2010 @ 09:26 CET
A right-wing nationalist appears to have won the presidential election in northern Cyprus, potentially threatening hopes for reunification of the divided island.Dervis Eroglu, the 72-year-old leader of the conservative National Unity Party, has won 50.38 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results posted on the website of the Turkish Cypriot High Electoral Board, beating left-wing incumbent Mehmet Ali Talat of the social-democratic Republican Turkish Party with 42.85 percent.If the results are confirmed by the country's electoral commission, Mr Ergolu, currently the prime minister of Turkish-controlled Cyprus, which is recognised as a country by Turkey only, would avoid a run-off vote.While Mr Talat has been a strong supporter of the renewed peace process and ultimately of the reunification of Cyprus, Mr Eroglu wants to see separate Greek and Turkish Cypriot states.No-one must think that I will walk away from the negotiating table. The talks process will continue, he told NTV, a Turkish broadcaster, however. I will work with goodwill for a solution that takes my community's rights into account.Analysts say his victory is due to frustration with the peace process among northern Cypriots.Mr Talat has repeatedly met with his Greek Cypriot counterpart, Demetris Christofias, of the far-left Akel party since talks restarted in 2008. But the deadlock remains despite their ideological proximity. Northerners are especially annoyed by Greek Cyprus' blockade of its access to EU markets. During campaigning Mr Eroglu talked of equal, sovereign peoples in a reference to two separate states. He also rejects a solution that would permit Greek Cypriots to reclaim their property in the north.The island has been divided since Turkey's invasion in 1974 in response to a Greek-inspired coup in Nicosia aimed at uniting the island with Greece.
Reunification talks resumed in September 2008 with strong support from Ankara, which faces problems with its EU entry bid because of the situation.In 2006 the EU blocked eight negotiating areas from further discussion due to Turkey's failure to meet commitments regarding Cyprus, notably its refusal to allow Cypriot ships and planes into Turkish territory.For its part, Turkey maintains that Europe has not fulfilled its own promises regarding expanded links with Northern Cyprus, after Turkish Cypriots voted in favour of the UN peace plan for re-unification of the island in 2004, just before Cyprus joined the EU.Greek Cypriots living on the southern part of the island voted down the proposal, which resulted in the island entering the union in its divided form.The EU considers the whole of the island to be part of the bloc. However, in the northern part of the island, EU legislation is suspended.
Israel Rejects Turkish Request to Buy Arms
by Hana Levi Julian APR 20,10
Israel has declined a request by Turkey to purchase several different military systems, including an anti-tank guided weapon and a missile system for its navy. The request by the Turkish government was rejected by Israel's SIBAT, the defense assistance and export organization, which is currently reviewing each order on a case-by-case basis.Turkey said it wanted to buy the Spike non-line-of-site (NLOS) anti-tank guided weapon, the Namer heavy infantry fighting vehicle, and the Israel Aerospace Industries' (IAI) Barak 8 theater-defense missile system for its navy, according to UK-based Jane's Defence Weekly. Israel did, however, deliver the last of 170 upgraded M60A1 main battle tanks (MBTs) to the Turkish military on April 7 through a joint contract between Israel Military Industries (IMI) and Turkey's Aselsan, shepherded along by Columbia.The move is seen as a response to Turkey's increasing anti-Israel rhetoric and the pro-Islamic leanings in its foreign and domestic policies.An Israeli defense official was quoted by the military publication as saying, Ties with Turkey will never be the way they once were. We are being very careful which systems we sell them, due to the growing Islamic trends in the country.Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Recep Erdogan harshly criticized Israel during and following its counter terrorism Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, which ran from December 28, 2008 to January 20, 2009.
Since that time, relations between the two countries have steadily deteriorated, a trend reflected in Turkey's decision in October 2009 to bar Israel's Air Force from participating in the joint Anatolian Eagle exercises. Turkey ultimately chose to cancel the drill rather than back down in response to pressure from the United States and Italy, who were also set to participate.As a result, Israel has also been searching for new air space in which to conduct long-range training exercises, since Turkey has refused the IAF use of its air space. Recently the Defense Ministry has been exploring the possibility of renewing a 2006 agreement to deploy IAF fighter jets in Romania. (IsraelNationalNews.com)
by Hana Levi Julian AP 20,10
The winner of the annual International Bible Quiz this year kept her family's tradition by following in her father's footsteps 27 years later. Or Eshol of Kfar Saba, 17, defeated 15 competitors to take first prize in the contest -- an achievement first accomplished by her father Shimon when he was a teen.Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was also a proud father after judges announced that his son Avner had won third place. I was very excited together with my wife, for our son. It's only natural,said the prime minister, who added that he was deeply impressed with the two top winners.
First runner-up was Elad Nachshon.
Avner Netanyahu had attracted much media attention due to his family ties, reaching the finals and correctly answering the first two questions to face the Prime Minister's Question.As a result of his background, he was given a question written by the main query writer, Neria Pinchas instead, and was provided only a partial answer, which stopped him from going further.The prime minister and Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar also announced that adults will once again also have the opportunity to compete as well, when the Adult Bible Competition is renewed. The contest was abandoned 30 years ago. (IsraelNationalNews.com)
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,(WORLD SOCIALISM) 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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09:30 AM +2.42
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12:30 PM +43.30
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MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +33 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -12 points at low today.
Dow +53 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,143.00.OIL opens at $82.19 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
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Dow +53 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -12 points at low today.
Dow +53 points at high today.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
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.
Europe scales down response to ash cloud-Stranded passengers at Frankfurt airport (Photo: Travel Aficionado)VALENTINA POP 19.04.2010 @ 22:29 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Parts of Europe will be re-opened for flights on Tuesday as ministers agreed to narrow down the no-fly zones around the Icelandic ash cloud, amid mounting pressure from airlines and experts saying the complete closure was exaggerated. After a four-hour long conference call on Monday (19 April), the 27 transport ministers agreed to carve out three safety zones and ban planes from flying only through the cloud itself and with specific restrictions in a buffer-zone around the ash plume. The pollution-free zones will meanwhile be opened without any restrictions. The exact carve-out is to be drawn up by Tuesday morning in the Brussels-based headquarter of Eurocontrol, the agency pooling and co-ordinating data from 38 national air traffic controllers.The Scandinavian countries, eastern and southern Europe are likely to resume all flights, while Britain, Ireland and the Benelux will probably continue to impose some restrictions, Bo Redeborn from Eurocontrol said at a press briefing.Currently, 18 states have partial or total fly bans. But Mr Redeborn said this reaction was exaggerated, although understandably, due to the unprecedented scale of the ash cloud formed after a volcanic eruption in Iceland last Wednesday.The risk entailed by volcanic ash is that it can melt into glass and damage the jet's engine. A Nato fighter jet flying through the cloud reported such problems, although it managed to land safely.
However, several airliners, such as Lufthansa and Air France-KLM, ran some 40 test flights in cloud-adjacent areas and experienced no problems, voicing their anger against the fly ban which saw them lose hundreds of millions of euros a day.The umbrella association of all air companies, IATA, accused the EU of dragging its feet in taking a decision. The decision that Europe has made is with no risk assessment, no consultation, no co-ordination, no leadership,IATA president Giovanni Bisignani said in Paris.In fact, only a third of the airspace blocked so far is estimated to be risky for planes to fly, Mr Redeborn admitted. The reason for the exaggerated response was linked to the high number of people involved in the decision-making process. The teleconference of stakeholders on Monday comprised some 200 persons.
When all these people get exposed to a situation where there is no previous experience, the safety culture induced environment means that everybody jumps in the direction of safety. Once you learn more about the nature of the ash, what jet engines can cope with, things change little by little.For the first passenger-free test flight, for instance, it took Eurocontrol six hours to get the green light from national authorities, due to a reluctance to take responsibility. But once it proved to be safe, others were easier to get up in the air.In the US - unlike in Europe - airlines are allowed to decide themselves if they want to fly and how to circumvent the ash cloud. National authorities only give them information about the location of the cloud.There were suggestions we move in that direction,Mr Redeborn said, but admitted it was still a distant prospect, as national authorities in Europe still have a say in all matters related to their airspace.
EU bends rules
Meanwhile, the European Commission has signalled willingness to bend competition rules for state aid given to troubled airlines facing an avalanche of costs with stranded and re-routed passengers. In the UK, British Airlines has already filed for state aid.It also advised member states to show leniency to non-EU passengers who now need to travel by land or by sea but have no visas.Nearly seven million passengers are stranded at 313 airports around the world due to the European flight ban.
EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.(SOCIALISM)
13 These have one mind,(SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)
REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
European parliament holds pared down session
HONOR MAHONY 19.04.2010 @ 20:41 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - There will be no voting during the European Parliament's plenary session in Strasbourg this week, with most MEPs not making it to the Alsatian capital as travel chaos caused by the Icelandic volcanic ash continues in Europe.The trimmed session, finishing a day early and featuring an emergency debate on Tuesday (20 April) on the chaotic transport situation, was announced by parliament president Jerzy Buzek at the formal opening of the plenary session.The European Parliament plenary session is going ahead in Strasbourg. We have decided that due to travel restrictions there will be no votes. MEPs are fully aware of the dramatic consequences of the ash cloud, Mr Buzek told the chamber. Of the 736 MEPs, around 200 were present to hear the announcement.The parliament's strict rules of procedure meant the formal decision or whether to go ahead with the parliamentary sitting at all had to be taken in Strasbourg and not before. This caused a slightly mutinous feeling among the MEPs that did make it to Strasbourg. Some questioned the point of going ahead with a vote-free session while others noted that if it had been clear earlier that parliament was to convene, more MEPs might have made it.The voting was postponed due to fears both that the legal quorum would not be reached (at least a third of MEPs must be present) and the results would be geographically skewed in favour of MEPs living in mainland Europe and relatively close to Strasbourg.One MEP, reacting to Mr Buzek's praise for the deputies that managed to be in the chamber, said It is our job, it is really nothing special. He went on to chastise Mr Buzek and the parliament's authorities for not giving out information in a speedy fashion.
It would be very helpful for us if we get information about plenary sittings ... earlier than we did it this time because I got the first information on Sunday and it was a bit tricky for me to come here, said Austrian Socialist MEP Joerg Leichtfreid.MEPs were told on Saturday that a decision would only be made on Monday and would have to be taken in Strasbourg.Meanwhile, British MEPs complained that postponing the voting for two weeks would coincide with preparations for the UK elections on 6 May making it unlikely that any British MEPs would be present. Conservative MEP Charles Tannock asked for the programme to be changed again.MEPs were due to vote on energy labelling on goods, the 2008 budget and their position on a controversial bank data sharing deal.In addition, attempts by MEPs - several of whom twittered on the issue - to capitalise on opposition among many in their ranks to having monthly sessions in Strasbourg with suggestions to meet in Brussels this week instead were firmly rebuffed. A number of colleagues also suggested that the plenary session be moved from Strasbourg to Brussels but as the airports in both cities remain closed, there was no objective justification for such a last minute change,Mr Buzek wrote in a letter to deputies.
EU following Goldman fraud case
ANDREW WILLIS 19.04.2010 @ 17:53 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission has said it is closely monitoring the latest fraud case surrounding Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs, as allegations of mispractise draw sharp criticism in a number of European capitals. This is a fraud investigation that is being carried out in the United States. We are obviously following events with great interest,said commission spokeswoman Amelia Torres on Monday (19 April).The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the country's financial regulator, filed charges against Goldman late last week, accusing the company of failing to disclose full information to clients of one of its investment products, known as a collaterised debt obligation (CDO).UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown attacked the famous bank over the weekend, accusing it of moral bankruptcy, after the SEC listed the Royal Bank of Scotland, now 84 percent owned by British taxpayers following a series of government bail-outs, as one of the victims of the CDO at the centre of the case. The US complaint alleges Goldman and Fabrice Tourre, a 31-year old vice president with the firm, hid from investors the fact that the hedge fund Paulson & Co had been influential in determining the composition of loans going into the CDO created by Goldman in 2007. While most investors sought high returns from the structured finance product, Paulson placed bets that the mortgage-linked assets would fall. Nine months after the creation of the CDO, 99 percent of its loans had been downgraded, netting $1 billion for Paulson & Co., and costing the Royal Bank of Scotland $841 million.Everything I find out convinces me that we have got to go in deeper, and I believe that I am the man to deal with these problems,said an election-mode Mr Brown.
Germany has also indicated its interest in the case. The country's IKB bank was an early victim of the credit crunch, losing almost the entirety of its $150 million investment in the Goldman CDO. Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman, Ulrich Wilhelm, said the German regulator BaFin will ask the SEC for detailed information. After a careful evaluation of the documents, we will examine legal steps,he said, report national media. Analysts said the latest revelations could speed the passage of a US financial regulation bill set to hit the senate floor in the coming days, with a subsequent knock-on effect for Europe. Supposing the US adopts legislation before the summer, which is not impossible, this will then become the benchmark for the EU, Nicolas Véron, a financial services analyst with the Brussels-based Bruegel think-tank, told EUobserver. EU internal market and financial services commissioner Michel Barnier is set to propose new legislation on financial derivatives this June, likely to lead to extensive debate between member states and inside the European Parliament.France and other members of the G20 group of leading countries have pledged to regulate the $450 trillion global derivatives market by the end of 2012.
The US announcement of an investigation into Goldman last week comes on top of EU criticism earlier this year that Goldman helped Greece to hide the true extent its debt pile, using a different financial product known as a currency swap. The bank has insisted no rules have been broken in either case.
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)
WARS AND RUMURS OF WARS.
MATTHEW 24:6
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
MARK 13:7
7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
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.
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.
HERES SOME MORE HATING NUTCASES UNDER THE GUISE OF PATRIOTS,ANYTHING TO DISCREDIT THE TEA PARTIERS-A TRUE PEACEFUL MOVEMENT,THESE JOBBIK HATING NUTCASES WILL BE COMPARED TO TEA PARTIERS I CAN SEE THIS COMING ALREADY.FITTING IN WITH THESE HATE NUTCASES ARE SODOMTE RAINBOW GROUPER(BUTCH)RACHAEL MADDOW AND MORE NUTCASES AT MSNBC KEITH OLBERMANN AND CIA AGENT CHRIS MATTHEWS AND ED SCHULTZ.CIA AGENT ANDERSON COOPER AT CNN ALSO AND CHRISTINE AMANPOUR.ALL THESE NUTCASES HATE ISRAEL AND SHOULD BE BANNED FROM THE MEDIA.
A far-right for the Facebook generation: The rise and rise of JobbikGabor Vona, the 32-year-old Jobbik leader and founder of the Magyar Garda (Photo: Flickr)
LEIGH PHILLIPS 19.04.2010 @ 21:03 CET
EUOBSERVER / FEATURE - Last week, Europeans woke up to the sinister news that in the heart of Europe a thoroughly far-right party, the Movement for a Better Hungary, or Jobbik, had won 17 percent of the vote in general elections, almost beating the governing Socialists into third place.Most European nations have their share of far-right fringe groups. But Jobbik is openly anti-semitic and anti-gypsy. It is the founder of a rapidly growing, jackbooted and black-uniformed paramilitary, the Magyar Garda, and it is allied to pariahs such as the British National Party and France's Front National in the EU Parliament. How could such an out-and-out fascist outfit climb so vertiginously high up the greasy pole of politics in the modern era?
It is the clearest sign yet that the economic crisis has woken Europe's most frightening demons.
Or so runs the media narrative.
Long-time watchers of the far-right in Europe describe this version of the story as lazy. Certainly, the crash, which hit Hungary harder than many European nations - it was the first EU member state to run to the IMF - played a role in last week's vote, but the tale is, they say, longer and more complicated.The frustration I have with the sudden burst of media coverage is that for most of the time, the far-right phenomenon is not treated seriously, complains Graeme Atkinson, the European editor of the UK's anti-fascist monthly, Searchlight.They're treated as cranks, so papers don't write about them, don't notice them. And then suddenly something like this happens and they think the sky is falling.I don't go for either picture. It's not that the crisis has suddenly caused this. This is a phenomenon that goes back much further than the last two years ... Of course it exacerbates the situation - it would be surprising if the crisis did not result in some increased support for the far-right. But it's a long-term phenomenon that needs monitoring and countering. It's no reason to panic and then forget about it once the next big news item happens.
Mr Atkinson actually lays the bulk of the blame on the centre-left establishment in Europe: Social democrats everywhere have abandoned their traditional constituency. This is the vacuum the far right are filling.As socialist and labour parties have, pace Tony Blair, embraced business, backed privatisation and instituted social spending cuts, he argues, extremist ideas provide an easy answer to the thousands that feel disoriented by the slings and arrows of the free market.The Perspective Institute, a Budapest polling firm, demographically backs this analyis, noting already in an analysis after last year's European elections in which the party scored 14.8 percent that left-wing voters were en masse turning toward Jobbik: The Hungarian extreme right doesn't primarily recruit its supporters from the centre-right but instead from the leftist camp disappointed with the governmental performance of MSZP [the Socialists]. Jobbik, in certain cases, succeeded in doubling its nationwide share of the votes in cities that had been Socialist strongholds.
Support for far-right ideas doubles in ten years
Hungarian liberal think-tank Political Capital meanwhile has been measuring support for far-right ideas across Europe for a number of years. According to its latest Demand for Right-Wing Extremism (Derex) index, which gauges people's predisposition to far-right politics in 32 European countries, 21 percent of Hungarians are open to extreme right-wing ideas, the highest percentage of any European country other than Bulgaria, where 24.6 percent of the population is so predisposed.Just seven years ago in 2003, only 10 percent of Hungarians had such a propensity, according to the think-tank's surveys. Poland at the same time also had a score of 10 percent. This has since fallen to 6.5 percent.But here it's doubled. The extreme right has profited from a massive growth in disaffection from the political elite. This feeling is not just anti-establishment. They oppose the entire system. They want to get rid of the whole thing,Political Capital analyst Alex Kuli says.Jobbik's growth was unremarkable until the last four years, when it began its meteoric ascent. The key event was in autumn 2006, when street protests in which the party played a key role rampaged through Budapest following the leak of an audiotape revealing that the then Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany had lied in order to win elections.
But why such a response? There have been political scandals elsewhere.
There was the expenses scandal in the UK, sure, but what happened? asks Mr Kuli. People are investigated by the police, they resign, expelled from the party. They are humiliated. In Hungary, there is a feeling that there is no recourse to the law. People are caught stealing from the public purse and not a single thing is done against them.
Radical youth
One of the most disturbing aspects of the Jobbik phenomenon is how young and educated many of its supporters are. Far-right supporters elsewhere are thought of as the rural uneducated or, in the urban context, to use an old term, lumpenproletarian. But in Hungary so many of them are the Bright Young Things. They believe they are the radical ones, with a burning fire of injustice as self-righteous as any anti-G8 militant from Genoa to Gothenburg to Gleneagles.Hungarian pollster Forsense noted that Jobbik and the country's small Green party, the LMP, together won 24 percent of all votes in the election, but a full 40 percent of votes cast by those under age 24. Almost half of the voters for the two parties are under 35 years of age and only 10 percent of them are over 55.The 2006 events radicalised Hungarian youth. But rather than looking to the left, as disaffected youth have ever done in the West, and once again over the past decade, from the Seattle anti-WTO demonstrations to anti-Iraq war protests in Barcelona, Paris and London and beyond, in Hungary, those who described themselves as left, in the form of the corrupt Socialist party of wealthy businessman Ferenc Gyurcsany, were the ones they were demonstrating against.There's no attraction for angry young people to join something to the left of the [Socialists] because this politic is completely discredited after the collapse of the Soviet bloc, so you just don't get this,Mr Kuli says.Zsolt Varkonyi, the group's presidential campaign chief readying himself for the party's run in the upcoming June presidential elections, at 54 years old is one of the more senior members: There is a big age-gap between me and them. Most of them could be my sons and daughters.
Jobbik's national spokeswoman Dora Duro, for example, he says, is just 22.They get out of school, university and they find themselves without a job. Everyone, even doctors, economists - there has been a huge wave of young people joining the party, he says.Adam Schonburger, an anti-Jobbik campaigner and an organiser with the Budapest Jewish Youth Organisation, has tried to focus his activities on educating young people about Jewish and Gypsy culture, organising an annual festival in the hope they will learn from other sources than the slick Jobbik website and internet chatrooms.University student government is largely controlled by Jobbik, particularly the humanities faculty,he says.You know that Jobbik was actually created by a student government? There is very strong support for Jobbik in the universities,says Adam LeBor, the Hungary correspondent for the Times and the author of the Budapest Protocol, a political thriller that came out last year that focuses on anti-gypsy oppression in the country.Part of this is the economic situation. It is indeed very hard for young people to find a job, but the crucial element is that Jobbik has an extremely savvy web presence, enabling them to sidestep the traditional media and speak directly to youth, to the Facebook generation. It even has pages in English, well-written English that isn't garbled. The other parties haven't really done this.It's a lot more complex than just the nasties are marching.
Judapest
The Magyar Garda, the estimated 3,000-strong paramilitary group founded by Jobbik leader Gabor Vona, has taken to calling the capital Judapest.Socialist Party election posters were defaced with Stars of David and the Jewish community mounted a thousand-strong demonstration the week before the election after a rabbi's windows were stoned during Passover. Orthodox Jews in the supermarket are saluted with a raised arm Heil Hitler. But Mr LeBor says that as terrifying as this is, it is not anti-semitism that is really what he calls the mobilising issue. The mobilising issue is racism against gypsies, which is much more widespread.He blames previous administrations for doing nothing to tackle the problems of the Roma community: No government of any stripe has managed to deal with the situation of the Roma, who live in utter squalor, with high levels of unemployment. It's the classic strategy: in times of crisis, you seek a scapegoat.Roma homes and individuals have been repeatedly shot at and firebombed with Molotov cocktails. In 2009, eight gypsies were killed in incidents police believe to be deliberately targetted against the community.
Gypsy Crime and Israeli companies
Roberto Fiore, leader of Italy's neo-Nazi Forza Nuova addressed a Jobbik rally in Budapest in November last year, but the Jobbik youngsters do not think of themselves as fascists at all. They view themselves as part of a generational change in Hungary,the Political Capital think-tank's Mr Kuli adds. The rest of the world may not be able to speak Hungarian, but the hyper-educated Hungarian youth can read English and know what the rest of the world is saying about them. The Jobbik kids are not big fans.Jobbik are not Nazis, they insist, with the party's English-language website contrasting a relatively gentle picture of Jobbik voters in military traditional dress with a German skinhead with a large swastika tattoo on his neck, whom the caption describes as a Nazi imbecile.On the day of the election, the Jobbik website published an rejoinder raging against the international coverage of the party and in particular an article in The Scotsman newspaper entitled Anti-Roma rhetoric pays off for far right in Hungary explaining why so many people were voting for the party: The scenario is classic. Hungary's economy is in crisis, its large Roma minority is an easy scapegoat, and a far-right party blaming gypsy crooks and welfare spongers is set to be the big winner.Responding to what a Jobbik web-writer viewed in the Scottish report as vicious slander, the party's missive reads: What is this 'classic scenario? Quite simple really. Central Europeans + Economic Downturn = (or rather, must and can only equal) Hateful Extremists and persecution of minorities ... Take a few pennies out of a Hungarian's pocket, and he turns almost immediately into a slavering ultra-nationalist who on the way back from clubbing a local gypsy, will pause only to hurl yet another brick through the windows of his nearest synagogue.Mr Varkonyi, the Jobbik spokesman, says the party is only reminding Hungarians of what Israeli President Shimon Peres himself admitted.
He refers to the boast by Mr Peres of how well his country's real estate sector had been doing at a gathering of businessmen in Tel Aviv in October 2007. The economic situation in Israel is excellent. We are buying up Manhattan, Romania, Hungary and Poland, all due to Israeli business acumen and connections.When EUobserver proposes that Mr Varkonyi perhaps might be misinterpreting the Israeli president's speech, Mr Varkonyi says: Look, 70 percent of Budapest belongs to Israeli companies. These were not empty words - there was something behind it.Krisztina Morvai, an MEP for the party and Jobbik's presidential candidate once spat: So-called proud Hungarian Jews should go back to playing with their tiny little circumcised tails.
But even she, a mother of three and practising human rights lawyer who once worked for the United Nations, styles her anti-Jewish rhetoric not with the bile of a Der Sturmer polemic, but couched in a pro-Palestinian discourse, albeit one that Palestinian solidarity groups elsewhere distance themselves from. In February, 2009, following Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip that killed 1400 Palestinians, she wrote in a letter to the Jewish state's ambassador to Hungary: The only way to talk to people like you is by assuming the style of Hamas. I wish all of you lice-infested, dirty murderers will receive Hamas' kisses.Mr Varkonyi also insists that the party's strategy for dealing with the gypsy problem is no different to what is being done in Italy or Slovakia.And there is a reality to what we say about gypsy crime. There were 118 case of gypsies committing crimes against Hungarians from 1993 to 2009.We don't need sociological explanations when it is suggested to him that crime rates may grow amongst economically dislocated, racially oppressed communities. How does a sociological explanation feel to an old lady who has had her head cut off by an 18-year-old gypsy, or a girl who is tied to a tree and raped and then set on fire?
Political magpies
We are not even a right-wing party,declares Mr Varkonyi. We do not believe in the division between left and right. The true division is between those who want globalisation and those who do not. We are a patriotic party.He goes on to approvingly quote the left-wing Franco-American Tobin-Tax and anti-Lisbon-Treaty campaigner Susan George, criticising the privatisation of energy and water companies.There is some cross-over with the anti-globalisation protests [at the turn of the millenium]. But the difference is that we respect private property. We are different from the Seattle protestors in that we want local private property but not a global version of private property.Indeed, the Jobbik website article goes on to try to deliver as proof that the party are not your average Nazi boneheads a laundry-list of policies, which, in all fairness, no one would be surprised to hear coming out of the mouths of the likes of leftist figures such as a Jose Bove, Oscar Lafontaine or Olivier Besancenot: rejecting IMF austerity measures, the influence of agribusiness and unrestricted cowboy-capitalism.However, Jobbik, like any classic far-right formation, are political magpies, picking and choosing from the left and the right. Its website article that is supposed to explode myths about the party goes on to explain, without giving evidence, how gypsies increase crime in whichever country they go to, promotes Greater Hungary chauvinism - aiming to restore Hungary to its pre-World-War-One borders - and demands the return of the Csendorseg, the Hungarian Gendarmerie, the country's chief agents of Jewish deportations during the Holocaust, notorious for robberies, acts of torture and a viciousness which startled even the Germans.When the Gendarmerie walked down the street and gypsies saw them, they would run away. They knew someone was watching them,warns Mr Varkonyi.
2006 riots
Vilmos Hanti, the president of the Hungarian Federation of Resistance Fighters and Anti-fascists (Measz), which dates back to 1945, blames the youthful attraction to the far-right on a gap in the school curriculum after 1990.History books used in the schools are without a word of criticism regarding the role of Hungary in the Second World War. The young people of today know very little about Hungarian anti-fascist resistance,he says.In spite of our efforts, a museum presenting Hungarian resistance to young people was never realised.In the six months that followed the 2006 anti-Gyurcsany riots in Budapest, Jobbik boosted its profile with a militant campaign against Gypsy crime.Then, further building on its notoriety, the following year, the party launched the paramilitary Magyar Garda, or Hungarian Guard.The Magyar Garda, attired in black boots, black trousers, white shirt and black vest, take their oaths under the red-and-white striped flag of Arpad, the banner of the Arrow Cross, the Hungarian fascists who murdered between 10,000 and 15,000 Jews and together with the Gendarmes sent 80,000 to their deaths in Auschwitz.The Budapest Jewish Youth Organisation's Mr Schonburger says that the police in many cases are leaving the Hungarian Guard to solve problems: They say We can't help. Go ask the Hungarian Guard.Still, even two years after the riots, as late as December 2008, the party could not claim more than roughly three percent of voters. Over the following five months, it started to climb sharply as the economic crisis began to pinch, winning 14.8 percent or 428,000 votes cast in the June 2009 European Parliamentary elections, making it for the first time a serious political force.
And then onn 10 April 2010, the party won 16.7 percent or 844,000 ballots, doubling its number of voters in less than a year.While Jobbik, led by 32-year-old Gabor Vona, a history teacher and founder of the Hungarian Guard - who has said he will wear his Magyar Garda uniform when sworn in as an MP - has won over thousands of young people, it is not true to say that they form the majority of the party's voters. The bulk of Jobbik's support actually comes from the east of the country, where there is enormous economic dislocation. There, one finds a strong correlation between such poverty and support for Jobbik.It should also be remembered that in Budapest, the LMP, from its Hungarian acronym for Politics Can Be Different, which is affiliated to the European Green Party, is also a party of the young, and that it beat Jobbik into fourth place inside the capital. The Times' Mr Lebor thinks there may be some hope here: And this is a party that barely existed six months ago. All people really know about them is that they are sort of green and progressive. They don't know much more.Mr Kuli, for his part, is dismissive of the upstart LMP, a left-wing group but untarnished by any link to the Communist Party. Their leader, Andras Schiffer, a lawyer, in the 1990s defended a bar that refused entry to two gypsies and the husband of the party's number six on their list is a legal advisor to Jobbik, so is there a real human rights commitment there or is it opportunism?
Searchlight's Mr Atkinson is quite pessimistic about the chances for a movement against the growth of the far right in the country: Measz [the official Hungarian anti-fascist organisation] are very elderly, and maybe a bit old Stalinist, so there is that mark against them,he concedes. But they were very heroic people in their time, although they are not really up for a fight now. There are no young anti-racist or anti-fascist groups that I know of, at least not on the scale that exist in most Western countries, even in eastern countries, Russia.There is no real opposition in Hungary. It would be nice to see if something happens with the [LMP], although I worry they don't have much of a base.
Will Fidesz take them on?
And what of Fidesz, the socially conservative party of family values and law and order that won the election? After winning a whopping 52.8 percent of the vote and heading for an even better result in the second round that should give it a two-thirds majority in the parliament, it has no need to build a coalition with the far-right. Many are thankful that this at least this puts something of a break on and perhaps reverses Jobbik's advance, which according to some polls, had reached 25 percent support ahead of the voting.After the first round of voting, Fidesz' charismatic leader, Victor Orban, said he would take on Jobbik: No radical party will be allowed to get rid of law and order in this country, he told reporters. Democracy in this country is strong enough to defend itself.However, Mr Atkinson believes Fidesz is a worry in itself: I cringe when I see some in the press refer to Fidesz as centre-right.They're not. They're nationalist populist, what in German is sometimes referred to as a Volkisch right.Fidesz, itself once a party of youth - the name is an acronym of Fiatal Demokratak Szovetsege, or Alliance of Young Democrats - was founded in 1988 as a libertarian anti-Communist party, joining the Liberal International in 1992. After a poor showing in the 1994 elections, it switched allegiance from liberalism to conservatism.The British anti-fascist editor says Mr Orban is a political chameleon, shifting ideology to whatever will keep him in power. He notes that the party has been in coalition with Jobbik at the local level in around 100 municipalities.In 2008, Fidesz MP Oszkar Molnar, who was also mayor of Edeleny, a town in eastern Hungary, famously claimed that pregnant Roma women take medication to give birth to fools to receive higher family subsidies. I have checked this and it's true; they hit their bellies with a rubber hammer so that they'll give birth to handicapped kids.Responding to Mr Molnar's statement, Mr Orban said only that his speech was embarrassing,although the MP was later dropped from national lists and quit the party.But Mr Kuli, from the Poltical Capital think-tank, thinks the conservative party should be given the benefit of the doubt for now. Fidesz has dealt with these issues very gingerly, it is true. But it's a political calculation. They do not want to alienate their rural support by taking decisive action against Molnar and send them into the arms of Jobbik. I don't necessarily support this strategy, but this is why they acted this way,he said.The Times' Mr LeBor believes that to call Fidesz Jobbik lite is a complete nonsense. During the election campaign it made great efforts to distance itself from Jobbik. Like all parties, they include a wide range of views. Some of their MPs are more right-wing than others.The Budapest Jewish Youth Organisation's Mr Schonburger also does not think Fidesz are wolves in centre-right sheep's clothing, but he does wish the party was more forthright in countering Jobbik: We are hoping for the incoming government to make a clear statement on the issue in the next two weeks, Orban needs to make more public statements about what has happened. But I don't know if they are willing to. We certainly don't see any clear statement coming from them yet.He is however furious at the post-Hungarian election triumphalism of other conservative parties across Europe: How can they call this a victory? How can they celebrate when so many people have voted for Jobbik? This is the most important issue facing Hungary, maybe even more important than the economic crisis. Something is going on here. How in the middle of Europe, in this new part of the EU, can we have such radical voters, Jobbik, the Hungarian Guard?
Analyst Mr Kuli is more optimistic: What will Hungary look like in two years? Orban says he will be able to renegotiate the terms of the IMF deal. But he has very little room to manoeuvre. At the same time, the stability that a supermajority gives Fidesz - it will be the most stable government since 1990 - shouldn't be forgotten. And the economic gurus around him are very intelligent men.But even he issues a warning: The trick is if Orban goes further with austerity measures. If his voters see that he doesn't have their dreams in mind, I think you'd see protests against him as well.And Jobbik will be ready and waiting in the wings.
Nationalist victory threatens Cyprus peace process
LEIGH PHILLIPS 19.04.2010 @ 09:26 CET
A right-wing nationalist appears to have won the presidential election in northern Cyprus, potentially threatening hopes for reunification of the divided island.Dervis Eroglu, the 72-year-old leader of the conservative National Unity Party, has won 50.38 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results posted on the website of the Turkish Cypriot High Electoral Board, beating left-wing incumbent Mehmet Ali Talat of the social-democratic Republican Turkish Party with 42.85 percent.If the results are confirmed by the country's electoral commission, Mr Ergolu, currently the prime minister of Turkish-controlled Cyprus, which is recognised as a country by Turkey only, would avoid a run-off vote.While Mr Talat has been a strong supporter of the renewed peace process and ultimately of the reunification of Cyprus, Mr Eroglu wants to see separate Greek and Turkish Cypriot states.No-one must think that I will walk away from the negotiating table. The talks process will continue, he told NTV, a Turkish broadcaster, however. I will work with goodwill for a solution that takes my community's rights into account.Analysts say his victory is due to frustration with the peace process among northern Cypriots.Mr Talat has repeatedly met with his Greek Cypriot counterpart, Demetris Christofias, of the far-left Akel party since talks restarted in 2008. But the deadlock remains despite their ideological proximity. Northerners are especially annoyed by Greek Cyprus' blockade of its access to EU markets. During campaigning Mr Eroglu talked of equal, sovereign peoples in a reference to two separate states. He also rejects a solution that would permit Greek Cypriots to reclaim their property in the north.The island has been divided since Turkey's invasion in 1974 in response to a Greek-inspired coup in Nicosia aimed at uniting the island with Greece.
Reunification talks resumed in September 2008 with strong support from Ankara, which faces problems with its EU entry bid because of the situation.In 2006 the EU blocked eight negotiating areas from further discussion due to Turkey's failure to meet commitments regarding Cyprus, notably its refusal to allow Cypriot ships and planes into Turkish territory.For its part, Turkey maintains that Europe has not fulfilled its own promises regarding expanded links with Northern Cyprus, after Turkish Cypriots voted in favour of the UN peace plan for re-unification of the island in 2004, just before Cyprus joined the EU.Greek Cypriots living on the southern part of the island voted down the proposal, which resulted in the island entering the union in its divided form.The EU considers the whole of the island to be part of the bloc. However, in the northern part of the island, EU legislation is suspended.
Israel Rejects Turkish Request to Buy Arms
by Hana Levi Julian APR 20,10
Israel has declined a request by Turkey to purchase several different military systems, including an anti-tank guided weapon and a missile system for its navy. The request by the Turkish government was rejected by Israel's SIBAT, the defense assistance and export organization, which is currently reviewing each order on a case-by-case basis.Turkey said it wanted to buy the Spike non-line-of-site (NLOS) anti-tank guided weapon, the Namer heavy infantry fighting vehicle, and the Israel Aerospace Industries' (IAI) Barak 8 theater-defense missile system for its navy, according to UK-based Jane's Defence Weekly. Israel did, however, deliver the last of 170 upgraded M60A1 main battle tanks (MBTs) to the Turkish military on April 7 through a joint contract between Israel Military Industries (IMI) and Turkey's Aselsan, shepherded along by Columbia.The move is seen as a response to Turkey's increasing anti-Israel rhetoric and the pro-Islamic leanings in its foreign and domestic policies.An Israeli defense official was quoted by the military publication as saying, Ties with Turkey will never be the way they once were. We are being very careful which systems we sell them, due to the growing Islamic trends in the country.Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Recep Erdogan harshly criticized Israel during and following its counter terrorism Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, which ran from December 28, 2008 to January 20, 2009.
Since that time, relations between the two countries have steadily deteriorated, a trend reflected in Turkey's decision in October 2009 to bar Israel's Air Force from participating in the joint Anatolian Eagle exercises. Turkey ultimately chose to cancel the drill rather than back down in response to pressure from the United States and Italy, who were also set to participate.As a result, Israel has also been searching for new air space in which to conduct long-range training exercises, since Turkey has refused the IAF use of its air space. Recently the Defense Ministry has been exploring the possibility of renewing a 2006 agreement to deploy IAF fighter jets in Romania. (IsraelNationalNews.com)
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