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
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED MAY 30,2010
09:30 AM +1.85
10:00 AM +70.91
10:30 AM +54.04
11:00 AM +53.47
11:30 AM +67.28
12:00 PM +66.52
12:30 PM +67.17
01:00 PM +26.26
01:30 PM +6.39
02:00 PM +1.06
02:30 PM +24.14
03:00 PM +37.12
03:30 PM +49.49
04:00 PM +28.23 10,415.24
S&P 500 1104.19 +5.32
NASDAQ 2236.20 +7.33
GOLD 1,245.80 -11.70
OIL 73.99 -0.70
TSE 300 12,033.50 -8.70
CDNX 1582.00 -6.06
S&P/TSX/60 700.80 -0.70
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +83 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -2 points at low today.
Dow +88 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,255.00.OIL opens at $75.66 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -2 points at low today so far.
Dow +88 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -2 points at low today.
Dow +88 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,266.90 (NOT AT CLOSE)
CRUDE OIL -1.8 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE -240,000 BARRELS
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES -380,000 BARRELS
REFINERY UTILIZATION
NATURAL GAS +58 BCF
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
ROSH HASHANA-NEW YEAR IN ISRAEL TODAY
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded
DEUTERONOMY 7:7-8
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people;(ISRAEL) for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you,(ISRAEL) and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
ZECHARIAH 2:8
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
JEREMIAH 3:14
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you:(ISRAEL) and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
ISAIAH 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,(ISRAEL) in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
ISAIAH 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
ISAIAH 65:9,22
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
ISAIAH 56:5
5 Even unto them (ISRAELIS) will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name,(ISRAEL) that shall not be cut off.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
THIS IS THE DAY IN THE FUTURE THAT THE 7 YR PEACE TREATY WILL BE SIGNED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR,ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS AND MANY.AND 7 YEARS LATER JESUS BODILY RETURNS TO EARTH TO RULE AND REIGN FROM JERUSALEM FOREVER.COME QUICKLY LORD KING JESUS.
NO SUCH PEOPLE AS PALESTINIANS.THE MUSLIMS CAN'T EVEN SAY PALESTINE,THEY SAY BALESTINE BECAUSE THEY CAN'T EVEN HAVE A P IN THERE VOCABULARY.HOW CAN A PEOPLE NOT EVEN PROPERLY HAVE A LAND WHEN THEY CAN NOT EVEN PRONOUNCE THEIR OWN TERRITORY.GODS PROOF ITS ISRAELS LAND AND NOT THE ARAB,MUSLIMS.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2513
ROSH HASHANA
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2512
ROSH HASHANA FOR CHILDREN
http://www.akhlah.com/holidays/roshhashana/roshhashannah.php
SHOFAR
http://www.akhlah.com/holidays/roshhashana/shofar.php
BLESSINGS
http://www.akhlah.com/holidays/roshhashana/roshhashana_blessings.php
TASHLICH
http://www.akhlah.com/holidays/roshhashana/tashlich.php
http://www.torah.org/learning/yomtov/roshhashanah/#
ITS 11AM IN CANADA,6PM IN ISRAEL,ROSH HASHANA IS OFFICIALLY UNDER WAY.THE NEW YEAR IN ISRAEL.
Rosh Hashanah Significance: New Year
Observances: Sounding the shofar (ram's horn trumpet)
Length: 2 Days (Some: 1 Day)
Customs: Dipping apples in honey; Casting off sins into a river
Greeting: L'shanah tovah! (For a good year!)
...In the seventh month, on the first of the month, there shall be a sabbath for you, a remembrance with shofar blasts, a holy convocation. -Leviticus 16:24
Rosh Hashanah occurs on the first and second days of Tishri. In Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah means, literally, head of the year or first of the year. Rosh Hashanah is commonly known as the Jewish New Year. This name is somewhat deceptive, because there is little similarity between Rosh Hashanah, one of the holiest days of the year, and the American midnight drinking bash and daytime football game. There is, however, one important similarity between the Jewish New Year and the American one: Many Americans use the New Year as a time to plan a better life, making resolutions. Likewise, the Jewish New Year is a time to begin introspection, looking back at the mistakes of the past year and planning the changes to make in the new year. More on this concept at Days of Awe. The name Rosh Hashanah is not used in the Bible to discuss this holiday. The Bible refers to the holiday as Yom Ha-Zikkaron (the day of remembrance) or Yom Teruah (the day of the sounding of the shofar). The holiday is instituted in Leviticus 23:24-25.
The shofar is a ram's horn which is blown somewhat like a trumpet. One of the most important observances of this holiday is hearing the sounding of the shofar in the synagogue. A total of 100 notes are sounded each day. There are four different types of shofar notes: tekiah, a 3 second sustained note; shevarim, three 1-second notes rising in tone, teruah, a series of short, staccato notes extending over a period of about 3 seconds; and tekiah gedolah (literally, big tekiah), the final blast in a set, which lasts (I think) 10 seconds minimum. Click the shofar above to hear an approximation of the sound of Tekiah Shevarim-Teruah Tekiah. The Bible gives no specific reason for this practice. One that has been suggested is that the shofar's sound is a call to repentance. The shofar is not blown if the holiday falls on Shabbat. No work is permitted on Rosh Hashanah. Much of the day is spent in synagogue, where the regular daily liturgy is somewhat expanded. In fact, there is a special prayerbook called the machzor used for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur because of the extensive liturgical changes for these holidays. Another popular observance during this holiday is eating apples dipped in honey, a symbol of our wish for a sweet new year. This was the second Jewish religious practice I was ever exposed to (the first one: lighting Chanukkah candles), and I highly recommend it. It's yummy. We also dip bread in honey (instead of the usual practice of sprinkling salt on it) at this time of year for the same reason.
Another popular practice of the holiday is Tashlikh (casting off). We walk to flowing water, such as a creek or river, on the afternoon of the first day and empty our pockets into the river, symbolically casting off our sins. Small pieces of bread are commonly put in the pocket to cast off. This practice is not discussed in the Bible, but is a long-standing custom. Tashlikh is normally observed on the afternoon of the first day, before afternoon services. When the first day occurs on Shabbat, many synagogues observe Tashlikh on Sunday afternoon, to avoid carrying (the bread) on Shabbat.
Religious services for the holiday focus on the concept of G-d's sovereignty.
The common greeting at this time is L'shanah tovah (for a good year). This is a shortening of L'shanah tovah tikatev v'taihatem (or to women, L'shanah tovah tikatevi v'taihatemi), which means May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year. More on that concept at Days of Awe. You may notice that the Bible speaks of Rosh Hashanah as occurring on the first day of the seventh month. The first month of the Jewish calendar is Nissan, occurring in March and April. Why, then, does the Jewish new year occur in Tishri, the seventh month? Judaism has several different new years, a concept which may seem strange at first, but think of it this way: the American new year starts in January, but the new school year starts in September, and many businesses have fiscal years that start at various times of the year. In Judaism, Nissan 1 is the new year for the purpose of counting the reign of kings and months on the calendar, Elul 1 (in August) is the new year for the tithing of animals, Shevat 15 (in February) is the new year for trees (determining when first fruits can be eaten, etc.), and Tishri 1 (Rosh Hashanah) is the new year for years (when we increase the year number. Sabbatical and Jubilee years begin at this time). See Extra Day of Jewish Holidays for an explanation of why this holiday is celebrated for two days instead of the one specified in the Bible.
List of Dates
Rosh Hashanah will occur on the following days of the Gregorian calendar:
Jewish Year 5769: sunset September 29, 2008 - nightfall October 1, 2008
Jewish Year 5770: sunset September 18, 2009 - nightfall September 20, 2009
Jewish Year 5771: sunset September 8, 2010 - nightfall September 10, 2010
Jewish Year 5772: sunset September 28, 2011 - nightfall September 30, 2011
Jewish Year 5773: sunset September 16, 2012 - nightfall September 18, 2012
Rosh HaShanah - Special Readings
Rosh HaShanah - First Day
Samuel I 1:1 - 1:28 & 2:1 - 2-10
There was a man from Ramathaim-Tzophim on Mount Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah, son of Yerocham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Tzuph, a native of Ephrath. He had two wives, one named Hannah, and the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none. Now this man went up from his city annually to worship and to sacrifice to HaShem in Shiloh where the two sons of Eli, Chophni and Pinchas were priests of HaShem. When Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and daughters. But to Hannah he would give a double portion; because he loved Hannah although HaShem had made her childless. Peninnah, however, taunted her mercilessly to irritate her, because she had no children. This happened year after year -- when she went up to HaShem's house she provoked her, so that she cried and did not eat. Then Elkanah, her husband, said to her, Hannah, why are you weeping? Why are you not eating? Why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?
After the eating and drinking at Shiloh, Hannah rose. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat by the doorpost of HaShem's Temple. With a sorrowful soul, she prayed to HaShem and cried bitterly. Then she made a vow, saying, HaShem if you know my suffering, and remember me, and give me a son, then I will give him to You all the days of his life, and a razor will never touch his head.As she continued praying to HaShem, Eli observed her. Now Hannah was speaking inwardly; only her lips moved and her voice could not be heard. Eli thought she was drunk. So Eli said to her, How long will you be drunk? But Hannah answered, No, my master, I am a deeply grieved woman. I am not drunk, but have poured out my soul before HaShem. Do not regard me as a worthless woman.Then Eli answered, Go in peace; may the HaShem grant you your prayers.Then she went her way, and ate, and was no longer sad. They rose early in the morning, worshiped before HaShem, and returned to their house in Ramah. Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and HaShem remembered her. In due time, Hannah conceived and bore a son, whom she named Samuel, saying I asked HaShem for him.The man Elkanah, and his whole household, went up to offer to HaShem the yearly sacrifice and what he had vowed.
But Hannah did not go up; for she told her husband, I will not go up until the child is weaned, and then I will bring him, so that he may appear before HaShem, and stay there forever.Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what seems best to you; wait until you have weaned him and may HaShem establish His word.So she remained, and nursed her son until she weaned him. When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with three bullocks, one measure of flour, and a bottle of wine; and brought him to the house of HaShem in Shiloh, when he was but a child. Then they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli. She said, O my master, as you live; my master, I am the woman who was standing near you, praying to HaShem. I prayed for this child; and HaShem has granted me my petition which I made to Him. I have therefore lent him to HaShem; as long as he lives he will be lent to HaShem.Then Hannah prayed and said: My heart rejoices in HaShem, my glory is raised by HaShem; my mouth derides my enemies; because I rejoice in Your salvation. Do not talk so very proudly; let not arrogance come from your mouth. For HaShem is a Lord of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed. The bows of the mighty men are broken, while those who stumbled are girded with strength. Those who had plenty have hired themselves out for bread; while those who were hungry are at ease. The barren has borne seven and she who had many children is desolate. HaShem causes death and brings to life. He brings down to the grave, and raises up. HaShem makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up. He lifts the poor from the dust, and raises the beggar from the rubbish, to be seated among princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are HaShem's, and He has set the world on them. He will guard the feet of his saints, and the wicked will perish in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength. HaShem's foes will be crushed; He will thunder in heaven against them. HaShem will judge the ends of the earth; He will give strength to His king, and exalt the power of His anointed.
Rosh HaShanah - Second Day
Jeremiah 31:1 - 31:19
The people who survived the sword will find grace in the wilderness, when Israel goes to seek rest. HaShem has loved you with an everlasting love. HaShem will build you again and you will be restored, you will again plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the planters will plant and enjoy its fruit. For there will come a day, when the watchmen in the hills of Ephraim will cry, Let us rise, and go up to Zion, to HaShem our Lord. For this is what HaShem says: Sing merrily for Jacob, and shout on the hilltops of the nations; cry out, praise, and say, O HaShem, save your people, the remnant of Israel.Behold, HaShem will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the farthest ends of the earth; among them the blind and the lame, women with child and women in labor; a great company will return here. They will come weeping and I will lead them with supplications. I will guide them by the streams of water in a straight path, in which they will not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My first born. Hear HaShem's word and declare it in the far-off islands, saying, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and tend him as a shepherd tends his flock.For HaShem has redeemed Jacob and freed him from a stronger power. Therefore, they will come and sing on the heights of Zion, and be radiant over HaShem's bounty, over the grain, the wine, the oil, and for the young of the flock and the herd; their souls will be like a watered garden; and they will sorrow no more.
Then the maidens will rejoice in dancing, the young men and old will rejoice together; for I will turn their mourning into joy and I will comfort them, and make them rejoice after their sorrow. I will satisfy the soul of the priests with abundance, and My people will be filled with My goodness.A voice is heard in Ramah weeping; Rachel is weeping for her children and refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are away. HaShem says: Restrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded, says HaShem; and they will return from the land of the enemy. There is hope for your future that your children will return to their own country. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus: 'You have chastised me, and I was punished, like an untrained calf; take me back, so that I may return; for You are HaShem. Surely after I turned away, I repented; and after I was instructed, I smote myself in remorse; I was ashamed and confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.Is Ephraim My favorite son? Is he My beloved child? For as often as I speak of him, I still remember him fondly; therefore My heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded
DEUTERONOMY 7:7-8
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people;(ISRAEL) for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you,(ISRAEL) and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
ZECHARIAH 2:8
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
JEREMIAH 3:14
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you:(ISRAEL) and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
ISAIAH 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,(ISRAEL) in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
ISAIAH 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
ISAIAH 65:9,22
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
ISAIAH 56:5
5 Even unto them (ISRAELIS) will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name,(ISRAEL) that shall not be cut off.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
THIS IS THE DAY IN THE FUTURE THAT THE 7 YR PEACE TREATY WILL BE SIGNED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR,ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS AND MANY.AND 7 YEARS LATER JESUS BODILY RETURNS TO EARTH TO RULE AND REIGN FROM JERUSALEM FOREVER.COME QUICKLY LORD KING JESUS.
NO SUCH PEOPLE AS PALESTINIANS.THE MUSLIMS CAN'T EVEN SAY PALESTINE,THEY SAY BALESTINE BECAUSE THEY CAN'T EVEN HAVE A P IN THERE VOCABULARY.HOW CAN A PEOPLE NOT EVEN PROPERLY HAVE A LAND WHEN THEY CAN NOT EVEN PRONOUNCE THEIR OWN TERRITORY.GODS PROOF ITS ISRAELS LAND AND NOT THE ARAB,MUSLIMS.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2513
ROSH HASHANA
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2512
ROSH HASHANA FOR CHILDREN
http://www.akhlah.com/holidays/roshhashana/roshhashannah.php
SHOFAR
http://www.akhlah.com/holidays/roshhashana/shofar.php
BLESSINGS
http://www.akhlah.com/holidays/roshhashana/roshhashana_blessings.php
TASHLICH
http://www.akhlah.com/holidays/roshhashana/tashlich.php
http://www.torah.org/learning/yomtov/roshhashanah/#
ITS 11AM IN CANADA,6PM IN ISRAEL,ROSH HASHANA IS OFFICIALLY UNDER WAY.THE NEW YEAR IN ISRAEL.
Rosh Hashanah Significance: New Year
Observances: Sounding the shofar (ram's horn trumpet)
Length: 2 Days (Some: 1 Day)
Customs: Dipping apples in honey; Casting off sins into a river
Greeting: L'shanah tovah! (For a good year!)
...In the seventh month, on the first of the month, there shall be a sabbath for you, a remembrance with shofar blasts, a holy convocation. -Leviticus 16:24
Rosh Hashanah occurs on the first and second days of Tishri. In Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah means, literally, head of the year or first of the year. Rosh Hashanah is commonly known as the Jewish New Year. This name is somewhat deceptive, because there is little similarity between Rosh Hashanah, one of the holiest days of the year, and the American midnight drinking bash and daytime football game. There is, however, one important similarity between the Jewish New Year and the American one: Many Americans use the New Year as a time to plan a better life, making resolutions. Likewise, the Jewish New Year is a time to begin introspection, looking back at the mistakes of the past year and planning the changes to make in the new year. More on this concept at Days of Awe. The name Rosh Hashanah is not used in the Bible to discuss this holiday. The Bible refers to the holiday as Yom Ha-Zikkaron (the day of remembrance) or Yom Teruah (the day of the sounding of the shofar). The holiday is instituted in Leviticus 23:24-25.
The shofar is a ram's horn which is blown somewhat like a trumpet. One of the most important observances of this holiday is hearing the sounding of the shofar in the synagogue. A total of 100 notes are sounded each day. There are four different types of shofar notes: tekiah, a 3 second sustained note; shevarim, three 1-second notes rising in tone, teruah, a series of short, staccato notes extending over a period of about 3 seconds; and tekiah gedolah (literally, big tekiah), the final blast in a set, which lasts (I think) 10 seconds minimum. Click the shofar above to hear an approximation of the sound of Tekiah Shevarim-Teruah Tekiah. The Bible gives no specific reason for this practice. One that has been suggested is that the shofar's sound is a call to repentance. The shofar is not blown if the holiday falls on Shabbat. No work is permitted on Rosh Hashanah. Much of the day is spent in synagogue, where the regular daily liturgy is somewhat expanded. In fact, there is a special prayerbook called the machzor used for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur because of the extensive liturgical changes for these holidays. Another popular observance during this holiday is eating apples dipped in honey, a symbol of our wish for a sweet new year. This was the second Jewish religious practice I was ever exposed to (the first one: lighting Chanukkah candles), and I highly recommend it. It's yummy. We also dip bread in honey (instead of the usual practice of sprinkling salt on it) at this time of year for the same reason.
Another popular practice of the holiday is Tashlikh (casting off). We walk to flowing water, such as a creek or river, on the afternoon of the first day and empty our pockets into the river, symbolically casting off our sins. Small pieces of bread are commonly put in the pocket to cast off. This practice is not discussed in the Bible, but is a long-standing custom. Tashlikh is normally observed on the afternoon of the first day, before afternoon services. When the first day occurs on Shabbat, many synagogues observe Tashlikh on Sunday afternoon, to avoid carrying (the bread) on Shabbat.
Religious services for the holiday focus on the concept of G-d's sovereignty.
The common greeting at this time is L'shanah tovah (for a good year). This is a shortening of L'shanah tovah tikatev v'taihatem (or to women, L'shanah tovah tikatevi v'taihatemi), which means May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year. More on that concept at Days of Awe. You may notice that the Bible speaks of Rosh Hashanah as occurring on the first day of the seventh month. The first month of the Jewish calendar is Nissan, occurring in March and April. Why, then, does the Jewish new year occur in Tishri, the seventh month? Judaism has several different new years, a concept which may seem strange at first, but think of it this way: the American new year starts in January, but the new school year starts in September, and many businesses have fiscal years that start at various times of the year. In Judaism, Nissan 1 is the new year for the purpose of counting the reign of kings and months on the calendar, Elul 1 (in August) is the new year for the tithing of animals, Shevat 15 (in February) is the new year for trees (determining when first fruits can be eaten, etc.), and Tishri 1 (Rosh Hashanah) is the new year for years (when we increase the year number. Sabbatical and Jubilee years begin at this time). See Extra Day of Jewish Holidays for an explanation of why this holiday is celebrated for two days instead of the one specified in the Bible.
List of Dates
Rosh Hashanah will occur on the following days of the Gregorian calendar:
Jewish Year 5769: sunset September 29, 2008 - nightfall October 1, 2008
Jewish Year 5770: sunset September 18, 2009 - nightfall September 20, 2009
Jewish Year 5771: sunset September 8, 2010 - nightfall September 10, 2010
Jewish Year 5772: sunset September 28, 2011 - nightfall September 30, 2011
Jewish Year 5773: sunset September 16, 2012 - nightfall September 18, 2012
Rosh HaShanah - Special Readings
Rosh HaShanah - First Day
Samuel I 1:1 - 1:28 & 2:1 - 2-10
There was a man from Ramathaim-Tzophim on Mount Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah, son of Yerocham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Tzuph, a native of Ephrath. He had two wives, one named Hannah, and the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none. Now this man went up from his city annually to worship and to sacrifice to HaShem in Shiloh where the two sons of Eli, Chophni and Pinchas were priests of HaShem. When Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and daughters. But to Hannah he would give a double portion; because he loved Hannah although HaShem had made her childless. Peninnah, however, taunted her mercilessly to irritate her, because she had no children. This happened year after year -- when she went up to HaShem's house she provoked her, so that she cried and did not eat. Then Elkanah, her husband, said to her, Hannah, why are you weeping? Why are you not eating? Why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?
After the eating and drinking at Shiloh, Hannah rose. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat by the doorpost of HaShem's Temple. With a sorrowful soul, she prayed to HaShem and cried bitterly. Then she made a vow, saying, HaShem if you know my suffering, and remember me, and give me a son, then I will give him to You all the days of his life, and a razor will never touch his head.As she continued praying to HaShem, Eli observed her. Now Hannah was speaking inwardly; only her lips moved and her voice could not be heard. Eli thought she was drunk. So Eli said to her, How long will you be drunk? But Hannah answered, No, my master, I am a deeply grieved woman. I am not drunk, but have poured out my soul before HaShem. Do not regard me as a worthless woman.Then Eli answered, Go in peace; may the HaShem grant you your prayers.Then she went her way, and ate, and was no longer sad. They rose early in the morning, worshiped before HaShem, and returned to their house in Ramah. Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and HaShem remembered her. In due time, Hannah conceived and bore a son, whom she named Samuel, saying I asked HaShem for him.The man Elkanah, and his whole household, went up to offer to HaShem the yearly sacrifice and what he had vowed.
But Hannah did not go up; for she told her husband, I will not go up until the child is weaned, and then I will bring him, so that he may appear before HaShem, and stay there forever.Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what seems best to you; wait until you have weaned him and may HaShem establish His word.So she remained, and nursed her son until she weaned him. When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with three bullocks, one measure of flour, and a bottle of wine; and brought him to the house of HaShem in Shiloh, when he was but a child. Then they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli. She said, O my master, as you live; my master, I am the woman who was standing near you, praying to HaShem. I prayed for this child; and HaShem has granted me my petition which I made to Him. I have therefore lent him to HaShem; as long as he lives he will be lent to HaShem.Then Hannah prayed and said: My heart rejoices in HaShem, my glory is raised by HaShem; my mouth derides my enemies; because I rejoice in Your salvation. Do not talk so very proudly; let not arrogance come from your mouth. For HaShem is a Lord of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed. The bows of the mighty men are broken, while those who stumbled are girded with strength. Those who had plenty have hired themselves out for bread; while those who were hungry are at ease. The barren has borne seven and she who had many children is desolate. HaShem causes death and brings to life. He brings down to the grave, and raises up. HaShem makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up. He lifts the poor from the dust, and raises the beggar from the rubbish, to be seated among princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are HaShem's, and He has set the world on them. He will guard the feet of his saints, and the wicked will perish in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength. HaShem's foes will be crushed; He will thunder in heaven against them. HaShem will judge the ends of the earth; He will give strength to His king, and exalt the power of His anointed.
Rosh HaShanah - Second Day
Jeremiah 31:1 - 31:19
The people who survived the sword will find grace in the wilderness, when Israel goes to seek rest. HaShem has loved you with an everlasting love. HaShem will build you again and you will be restored, you will again plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the planters will plant and enjoy its fruit. For there will come a day, when the watchmen in the hills of Ephraim will cry, Let us rise, and go up to Zion, to HaShem our Lord. For this is what HaShem says: Sing merrily for Jacob, and shout on the hilltops of the nations; cry out, praise, and say, O HaShem, save your people, the remnant of Israel.Behold, HaShem will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the farthest ends of the earth; among them the blind and the lame, women with child and women in labor; a great company will return here. They will come weeping and I will lead them with supplications. I will guide them by the streams of water in a straight path, in which they will not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My first born. Hear HaShem's word and declare it in the far-off islands, saying, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and tend him as a shepherd tends his flock.For HaShem has redeemed Jacob and freed him from a stronger power. Therefore, they will come and sing on the heights of Zion, and be radiant over HaShem's bounty, over the grain, the wine, the oil, and for the young of the flock and the herd; their souls will be like a watered garden; and they will sorrow no more.
Then the maidens will rejoice in dancing, the young men and old will rejoice together; for I will turn their mourning into joy and I will comfort them, and make them rejoice after their sorrow. I will satisfy the soul of the priests with abundance, and My people will be filled with My goodness.A voice is heard in Ramah weeping; Rachel is weeping for her children and refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are away. HaShem says: Restrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded, says HaShem; and they will return from the land of the enemy. There is hope for your future that your children will return to their own country. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus: 'You have chastised me, and I was punished, like an untrained calf; take me back, so that I may return; for You are HaShem. Surely after I turned away, I repented; and after I was instructed, I smote myself in remorse; I was ashamed and confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.Is Ephraim My favorite son? Is he My beloved child? For as often as I speak of him, I still remember him fondly; therefore My heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him.
ROSH HASHANA FREE PRAYER ACROSS AMERICA
ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded
DEUTERONOMY 7:7-8
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people;(ISRAEL) for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you,(ISRAEL) and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
ZECHARIAH 2:8
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
JEREMIAH 3:14
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you:(ISRAEL) and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
ISAIAH 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,(ISRAEL) in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
ISAIAH 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
ISAIAH 65:9,22
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
ISAIAH 56:5
5 Even unto them (ISRAELIS) will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name,(ISRAEL) that shall not be cut off.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE ALSO.
NETANYAHU ACCEPT JEWISH STATE ARABS
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/139553
FARMERS HELP
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/139550
ROSH HASHANA LETS DO IT RIGHT THIS YEAR-ISRAELIS
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2519
Free Prayer Across America for Rosh HaShanah
by Chana Ya'ar SEPT 7,10
As Jews around the world prepare for the Rosh HaShanah New Year's holiday, North American families this year will have many more options for places to pray than ever before.The High Holy Days, as the New Year and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement are called, often are a time for scrambling to ante up for the annual synagogue membership.Paying for one's synagogue seats can mean added stress after the recession has taken such a large bite out of the family coffers, and often less-than-observant Jews decide to skip the service.This year, however, quite a number of congregations and Jewish community centers are offering no-cost services, or discounted seats for members of the general public. Many advertise in local Jewish newspapers, and some have even taken to issuing public service announcements on the local Jewish radio programs.The Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement always offers free High Holy Day services at numerous college and university campuses, and in most cities across North America. Locations can be found by clicking here.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Mosque Debate: Gov. Paterson Asks for a Week's Silence
by Gil Ronen SEPT 7,10
New York Governor David Paterson suggested that New Yorkers refrain, this week, from discussing the highly contentious plan for a Muslim mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero. The reason: the week is one that includes the Jewish New Year, the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday, and the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 massacres. Paterson was quoted on the New York Daily News website.The greater issue involving this situation is how can we bring New York's people back together and I propose that perhaps in light of the fact that Rosh Hashanah is this week, the Jewish New Year, that the celebration of Ramadan is coming at the end of the week and that we should all be focused on our concern to those who lost relatives [on] Sept. 11, Paterson said, perhaps we might think more in terms of supporting those families who are on both sides of this issue as all of us are and maybe all step back and try to devote a week of peace.The governor announced that he would try not to speak about the issue for a week, just to see if this exercise would help New Yorkers and Americans remember that the terrorists didn't care who we were when they attacked us and we should think a lot about the fact that in many ways, we were all victims.
Rosh HaShana will commence Wednesday evening. Eid al-Fitr will occur on Thursday or Friday, depending on sightings of the moon. September 11 will be Saturday.
(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
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED SEPT 08,2010
09:30 AM +1.55
10:00 AM +58.16
10:30 AM +72.92
11:00 AM +69.17
11:30 AM +75.00
12:00 PM +64.78
12:30 PM +71.22
01:00 PM +76.55
01:30 PM +69.67
02:00 PM +41.55
02:30 PM +51.09
03:00 PM +52.86
03:30 PM +50.48
04:00 PM +46.32 10,387.01
S&P 500 1098.87 +7.03
NASDAQ 2228.87 +19.98
GOLD 1,257.90 -1.40
OIL 74.60 +0.51
TSE 300 12,042.30 -59.70
CDNX 1588.06 -6.90
S&P/TSX/60 701.50 -3.63
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +33 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -3 points at low today.
Dow +88 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,257.70.OIL opens at $74.17 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -3 points at low today so far.
Dow +88 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -3 points at low today.
Dow +88 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,266.90 (NOT AT CLOSE)
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).
Finance ministers give green light to EU oversight of national budgets-The semester system is the most significant element yet in place of a new EU economic architecture (Photo: Council of the European Union)LEIGH PHILLIPS 07.09.2010 @ 15:41 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European finance ministers on Tuesday (7 September) gave the green light to a system of mutual supervision and oversight of each others' budgets.
But in a significant victory for the UK, London managed to wrangle an exception, allowing it to submit its spending plans to the House of Commons before it hands them over to Brussels and other member states for consideration.The ministers endorsed a new system of a European Semester, pushing EU nations closer towards fiscal harmonisation than ever before.The semester, to kick in as soon as January next year, will begin with the European Commission producing a survey of the overall state of the economy, identifying difficulties facing both eurozone nations and the EU as a whole. This in turn will be presented to the European Parliament.EU member states will then submit by April broad budgetary outlines for the commission to assess. Following this, based on the commission's opinion, may then choose to issue country-specific guidance by June and July.European economics commissioner Olli Rehn called the sign-off a major improvement of our economic governance architecture.We can act preventatively, instead of sending in the fire brigade when the house is already burning.The agreement is the most significant element yet put in place of the last year's discussions of a new EU economic architecture, provoked by the fiscal destruction wrought by the global economic crisis.London however managed to, in the words of the British chancellor George Osborne, secure an important agreement to protect the parliamentary procedures of the UK.In the case of Britain, the information will be submitted for EU oversight after the submission of the spring budget to the UK parliament.
We had a particular concern, Mr Osborne told reporters after the meeting, that I would have to present information to the commission before the House of Commons. Events like this are unacceptable. But I am very pleased that Britain's unique schedule is explicitly recognised.Once having won the exception, the chancellor said he cheered the new semester system: As someone who believes strongly in single market, i welcome the creation of an architecture at the EU level that can co-ordinate supervision.He described the oversight as a healthy exchange of budgetary data.Specific sanctions for flouting the guidance of the Council and Commission remain to be decided.The European Commission will on 29 September unveil a proposal for the imposition of quasi-automatic sanctions for delinquents. It is understood that this package of measures would invert the current framework, wherein a qualified majority in the Council must be reached to impose sanctions on countries in breach of the current fiscal rules. Under the commission's plan, sanctions would be imposed automatically and it would require a qualified majority to block their imposition. It is also thought that such a sanctions regime would initially be proposed for just eurozone countries and only in the much longer term be proposed for all EU states.Broader discussion of what sort of punishment should be meted out is being left for European Council President's special task force on economic governance to consider. Meeting on Monday evening for the first time after the summer break, the task force did not make much progress.
No progress on bank levy talks either
The second major discussion point amongst finance chiefs, the imposition of a levy or tax on banks to to cover the costs of any future banking sector bail-out, foundered as member states are still very far apart on the details of such a move, already agreed in principle in June. The heart of the controversy concerns whether the funds raised would be gathered together in a common pot - in Brussels jargon, a resolution fund - or return to national coffers to be spent by governments to balance their accounts. The UK in particular does not support an EU-level resolution fund.We are very clear. It is up to national governments to decide what should happen to those revenues, said Mr Osborne. He added that the UK has plenty of allies around the table opposing a European fund.
Whither an EU Tobin Tax?
A second type of levy, a tax on financial transactions, possibly being extended to a range of banking products, and that would deliver up billions for spending on low-carbon infrastructure, development in the third world and social programmes domestically was also discussed, but found even less agreement.Championed by France, the idea, also known as a Tobin Tax, met with no unanimity, as Belgian finance minister and current chair of the council of economy ministers, Didier Reynders, put it.Blunter still was Mr Osborne, who said: The idea of such a tax has been discussed for many decades, and, I suspect, will continue to be discussed for many decades to come.It is difficult to see how in practice to make it operate in a world in which capital can move very quickly outside the EU.The worry is that unless such a tax were implemented globally, or at least by a large enough number of major powers, institutions would simply move to a jurisdiction where the tax did not exist.A paper on an EU Tobin Tax submitted to the meeting for discussion by tax commissioner Algirdas Semeta also questioned its feasibility.With the concept being shot down by a majority of states at this spring's G20 meeting of the world's major industrialised and emerging powers, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said he intends to make a push for the tax when his country takes over the presidency of the global body next year.The UK finance minister however suggested that France's efforts at the G20 would be more fruitful if they focus on other more pressing issues.
EU has survived economic crisis, Barroso says in first State of Union address
Mr Barroso in Strasbourg on Tuesday indicated that the worst of the crisis has passed in an upbeat, presidential-type speech (Photo: ec.europa.eu)ANDREW RETTMAN
07.09.2010 @ 11:03 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in a major speech on Tuesday morning said the EU has survived the economic crisis.Over the last year, the economic and financial crisis has put our Union before one of its greatest challenges ever ... As I look back at how we have reacted, I believe that we have withstood the test, Mr Barroso told MEPs in his first ever so-called State of the Union address. Those who predicted the demise of the European Union were proved wrong.His remarks come after a threat of sovereign default by eurozone countries such as Greece and Spain threatened to pull apart the single currency in a potentially deadly blow to the 50-year-old European project. Noting that our work is not finished, the Portuguese politician put the EU's economic future at the top of his five-point agenda. He defended the commission's push to regulate EU countries' debt levels despite rising social tension in countries such as Greece, which has seen an outbreak of violent street protests in reaction to EU-and-IMF-imposed cutbacks. Unsustainable budgets make us vulnerable. Debt and deficit lead to boom and bust. And they unravel the social safety net. Money that is spent on servicing debt is money that cannot be spent on the social good, he said. He spoke up for an "ambitious" future budget, saying: The EU budget is not for Brussels - it is for the people that you represent ... a euro spent at European level gets you more than a euro spent at national level.With the commission to shortly publish ideas on how to raise extra EU money by, for example, directly taxing financial transactions, the commission chief attacked the culture of pessimism and Brussels nay-saying in some EU capitals: I find it extraordinary that some are already rejecting them [the new budget ideas], without even knowing what they will be.
He set out a shopping list of upcoming economic initiatives.
He said Brussels will propose launching EU project bonds together with the European Investment Bank to help finance new infrastructure. He promised an ambitious Single Market Act to cut red tape for small businesses, liberalise the energy sector and boost green collar jobs. He said the commission will attack risk-generating financial practices such as big bonuses, credit default swaps and naked short selling. He also promised to overhaul the byzantine complexity of the EU budget, in which countries give money with one hand and take it away with another, and to move to a 10-year budgeting period instead of the current seven.In a message pregnant with references to EU values, Mr Barroso took a swipe at France's controversial policy of expelling Roma.Without naming Paris, Mr Barroso said, to loud applause: Everyone in Europe must respect the law, and the governments must respect human rights, including those of minorities. Racism and xenophobia have no place in Europe.
He also lashed out at Iran over the case of a woman sentenced to death for adultery: I am appalled when I hear that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is sentenced to death by stoning. This is barbaric beyond words.European Parliament officials tweeted during the speech that around 600 MEPs attended the event despite earlier dropping plans to fine deputies who skipped it.
Mr Barroso's call for EU countries to support the EU's new foreign relations chief, Catherine Ashton, and her diplomatic service in order to give the EU more clout on the world stage was echoed in the plenary debate following the address.Senior MEPs began by criticising Ms Ashton for not going to the launch of Middle East peace talks in Washington last week, however. Joseph Daul, the French leader of the centre-right European People's Party did not name the British baroness, but said: How can we justify that we are not present at the [negotiating] table? The leader of the Liberal group, Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt, chided her for not attending the Barroso speech. It would be better if she were here, he said.The State of the Union address, which recalls the US President's annual speech to the houses of Congress, is to be repeated every year. Coming in the wake of the Lisbon Treaty, which is seen by eurosceptic politicians, such as British Conservative MEP Timothy Kirkhope, as a step towards [an EU] superstate, Mr Barroso's presidential speech has also raised the question of who is the new top man in the Brussels hierarchy.I thought Van Rompuy was the President of the EU, a Brussels-based diplomat from one non-EU country told this website, referring to the Belgian President of the European Council.
EU finance ministers to discuss bank-levy co-ordination
LEIGH PHILLIPS 07.09.2010 @ 10:14 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A levy on banks across the bloc to produce funds to cover the costs of any future banking sector bail-out is set to be the lead topic when EU finance ministers meet in Brussels on Tuesday, aiming to ensure that never again should such economic disasters weigh so heavily on the public sector and taxpayers.
As a result of the 2008-2009 credit crunch, governments chose to bail-out teetering banks to the tune of 16.5 percent of EU GDP, effectively transferring private sector debt onto the back of governments. The current ongoing concerns markets have over the viability of European governments to pay their debts is largely a result of this transfer.In June this year, member states agreed that the imposition of a bank levy or tax on financial firms should be developed. But the detail of how such a levy would work has yet to be worked out, even as the three biggest EU states, France, Germany and the UK, are set to already move ahead with their own such taxes from the start of 2011. Sweden was the first EU state to introduce such a tax, in 2009.The European Commission for its part is worried that levies are being introduced haphazardly and will attempt to shepherd the bloc toward a co-ordinated solution.In our view, there is a need for a common framework, with some already introducing advanced plans for banking levies, said one commission official on Monday ahead of the meeting. There needs to be a properly co-ordinated framework.The official added: We have no desire to play referee [between the different approaches].At the heart of the issue is whether the funds raised would be gathered together in a common pot - in Brussels jargon, a resolution fund - or return to national coffers to be spent by governments to balance their accounts. The UK in particular favours the latter approach.There are also concerns that the current approach will result in double charging, with banks situated in two or more member states being hit twice or more by different national levies.Additionally, wide variations in the level of taxation could see financial institutions shopping around for the best deal amongst EU states.
The discussion will be a first exchange of views on the subject and the commission is still some way from any legislative proposal, expected to be put on the table in spring next year. The level or percentage of such a levy will only much later be discussed, according to officials.The second major item topping the ministers' agenda on Tuesday and still more controversial is the mutual oversight of each others' spending plans, the so-called European Semester, a six-month period where Brussels and EU finance ministers consider the budget outlines for the upcoming three years.Ministers on Tuesday are hoping to reach agreement on a revised Code of Conduct to make the semester fully operational by 2011. The semester's cycle would start early in the year, with the ministers, the Eurogroup - those states employing the euro currency, and premiers and presidents identifying the common economic challenges for the coming period and then guide each other into making the right spending decisions. The Council of Ministers and the commission will each provide an assessment and guidance to member states in June and July, aiming to complete the process in a window ahead of when most countries make their important budget decisions.
Will Jewish Businessmen Invest in Israel?
by Elad Benari SEPT 8,10
Efforts are always taking place to encourage more business investments in Israel.
One such effort was made last week by Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, who held a closed meeting with 80 Jewish American businessmen in the city of Silistra, Bulgaria, Yediot Aharonot reported earlier this week. During the meeting, Rabbi Pinto asked the businessmen to invest $5 billion in the Israeli economy, with $2 billion in the coming year.Among the businessmen who met with Rabbi Pinto was entrepreneur Jay Schottenstein and one of the owners of the Victoria’s Secret women’s wear retailer.
The rabbi told the businessmen during the meeting: In such days of economic opportunities, we must remember that we, the sons of the Jewish people, must preserve the country, built it and ensure that its economic flourishes. It’s unfortunate that there are so many wealthy Jews in the world who don’t even consider the Israeli economy as an option.Rabbi Pinto is 37 years old and speaks only Hebrew. He comes from a centuries-old rabbinic family from Morocco, and has rabbinic connections on both sides of his family: On his father’s side he is the great-grandson of Rabbi Chaim Pinto, while on his mother's side, he is the grandson of Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira, who is known as the Baba Sali.Rabbi Pinto, who lives and operates in Midtown New York City, is visited by many businessmen, both Israeli and Jewish-American, who consult with him on both business and personal matters. Some of the more well-known visitors he has received include Yitzhak Tshuva, talk-show host Donny Deutsch, real estate mogul Ofer Yardeni, and even former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. He has also been visited by Israeli politicians such as Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman, MK Danny Naveh, and MK Danny Danon.Recently, it was reported that NBA star LeBron James of the Miami Heat consulted with Rabbi Pinto and even paid him a six-figure sum to sit in on a merchandising meeting.
Silistra, the city in which the meeting with the businessmen was held, is the place where renowned Jewish scholar Rabbi Eliezer Papo is buried. Rabbi Pinto visits the grave once a year, as part of an event similar to the pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine, the gravesite of Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav.Recently, it was reported that French businessmen Baron Edouard de Rothschild has decided to move to Israel. Rothschild will live part time in his Tel Aviv home while continuing to maintain his businesses in France. In July 2003, Rothschild was made head of Rothschild & Cie Banque, a Paris based bank. He is currently a 37% majority shareholder in the French newspaper Libération, a left-wing daily French newspaper that was founded in 1973.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Im Tirtzu: Zionist Donors Must Start Thinking Differently
by Gil Ronen SEPT 7,10
In Israeli politics, it has been the year of Im Tirtzu – the media-savvy Zionist students' movement that managed to create a true stir with a February campaign that exposed the New Israel Fund's dastardly doings before the Israeli public.The campaign targeted NIF chair Naomi Chazan and received high-profile news coverage. Im Tirtzu's research focused on the NIF's complicity in the Goldstone Report that attacked the IDF for its Cast Lead Gaza operation. The NIF came under fire in Israel and in Jewish communities worldwide. Used to being ignored by the leftist media and to waging losing battles, Zionist pundits were ecstatic at the new movement's successes.A few months later, Im Tirtzu was back with another report – this time about the overwhelming proportion of radical leftists in Ben Gurion University's Political Science Department. Again, the media was full of the story.In a Rosh HaShanah interview with Arutz Sheva, Ronen Shoval, 29, chairman of the movement, expressed his belief that the movement and others like it could be doing a lot more to save Israel if only Jewish donors begin to think differently. Donors, he said, are used to buying houses from Arabs in Judea and Samaria or eastern Jerusalem, and settling Jews in them. That is important, but they should also be thinking about shaping public consciousness.The question is, he explains, do facts on the ground create public consciousness, or is it the other way around? The Jewish approach he feels, is that the universe was created through words: that is to say, consciousness creates reality.Throughout the history of Zionism, these rival approaches competed with each other and complemented each other. Herzl believed in shaping consciousness and asked the world's powers for a charter to settle in the Land of Israel. The Hovevei Tzion movement, meanwhile, believed in buying another dunam [area of land,ed.] and another goat.
These two great streams collided in the summer of 2005, in the Disengagement. The settlement movement thought that it was creating facts on the ground in Gush Katif – but it turned out that without proper consciousness, one government decision was enough for all of the communities there to be destroyed. It won't help us to buy another house in eastern Jerusalem, and another one after that, if they decide to hand over eastern Jerusalem to the Arabs in the end.The other side understands this but the nationalists continue to think in terms of material, not spirit. That is why we lose touch with the nation of Israel. The nationalists invest in buildings, not books. Do we have one publishing house? One theater? The entire cultural world is controlled by one side. We used to comfort ourselves and say that the dogs bark but the caravan passes,but this no longer works. If we do not wake up – the entire Zionist venture is in danger.We must invest in thinkers, in culture – and not just in yet another outpost and another useless caravan. What is it good for? If the public consciousness is not there, it will be seen as an illegal outpost and torn down. But if the public consciousness is primed, it will be seen as part of the Zionist settlement ethos and a great mitzvah.
A7: Why doesn't the nationalist side have a fund like the NIF?
RS: It is easier to destroy than to build.
A7: What happened to the Knesset subcommittees that were supposed to look into the New Israel Fund after your campaign?
RS: There are several bills that are being prepared. There is a lot of work to be done. The Knesset members tend to work on things that are on the public agenda – otherwise they need to be pressured.
A7: Do you think someone is trying to stonewall you?
RS: I hope and tend to believe that the Knesset members understand the national importance of this matter and are working at full tilt in order to remove the radical anti-Zionist threat facing us.
A7: How does the NIF achieve such control over the Israeli media?
RS: They support the Agenda Center for media, which pumps out the correct positions to journalists. They find jobs for journalists and provide training for them. That is how the PC mechanism is created. In addition, social and legal organizations place issues on the public agenda.As a result of all this, Israel is much less pluralistic than the US. The Americans have both Fox and CNN, they have the Washington Post and the New York Times: the media airs about 80% of the spectrum of public opinion on various subjects. The remaining 20% are considered extreme and illegitimate. In Israel, the media mechanism makes sure that only 20%-30% of the public's views are heard – and everything else is branded as illegitimate. They determine the consensus. The silencing is much more radical.
A7: Some leftist bloggers claimed that all your activists are men, and that women dislike your movement. Is this true?
RS: Not every stupid claim deserves a response. There are many women in Im Tirtzu.
A7: So what is the next step?
RS: There are many interesting surprises in the works.
A7: For Naomi Chazan?
RS: Yes, for her too.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
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STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Floods leave tens of thousands homeless in Mexico By ANTONIO VILLEGAS and MIGUEL ANGEL HERNANDEZ, Associated Press Writers - SEPT 7,10
VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico – Weeks of torrential rains have unleashed flooding in huge swaths of southern Mexico, forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes.Tens of thousands more are sleeping on their roofs, refusing to abandon their possessions even as the rivers around them rise rapidly.Authorities on Tuesday started releasing 2,000 cubic meters (71,000 cubic feet) of water per second from four damns in the region that have reached capacity. That caused several rivers to overflow.Hipolito Hernandez swiftly hauled many of his belongings onto his roof as the Rio Carrizal jumped its banks and flooded dozens of home in the farming community of Sauces in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.Hernandez, 38, gave some of his possessions to relatives who went to shelters but he stayed put. In 2007, he lost everything when he left his home during flooding that left 1 million homes underwater and killed 33 people.We are waiting to see what happens, we can still withstand this flood, Hernandez said.The flooding has affected all four southernmost Mexican states: Tabasco, Veracruz, Chiapas and Oaxaca. People in the region are accustomed to severe flooding every year, and the government often struggles to persuade residents to leave dangerous zones.In Tabasco, the homes of more than 124,000 people have been severely flooded. More than 187,000 hectares of crops belonging to 20,000 people have been lost.
But only 2,000 people in the state are in shelters.They are refusing to leave their homes and they don't want to go to shelters because they have a culture of living with water, Tabasco Gov. Andres Granier said during a meeting with President Felipe Calderon, who flew over the affected areas Tuesday and walked through some flooded towns.Granier warned Calderon the situation could become even worse than in 2007 as record rainfall is expected.What worries me is that the worst is yet to come for Tabasco, Granier said. The state and these people cannot keep suffering these problems each year, or live in permanent uncertainty.Already, authorities said the region has received twice the amount of rainfall that normally falls during the season, which does not officially end until November.The government has built relief ditches and other infrastructure in the past years to ease the annual flooding in southern Mexico. Calderon acknowledged more needs to be done, but said the flooding would be much worse this year without the government's advances.He pointed to emergency levees made of concrete and dirt erected on the banks of the Grijalva, which has swelled rapidly and threatens to flood the state capital, Villahermosa. A few outlying neighborhoods were severely flooded, however.In neighboring Veracruz state, flooding has forced 200,000 people from their homes over the past weeks, although some have started returning.They evacuated us when the water was up to our waists, but the water had already broke all the doors of our house, said Angelica Martinez Galindo, the mother of a 3-year-old girl who had to flee Tlacotalpan, a colonial town in Veracruz state that UNESCO named a World Heritage site.She said at least 20 men stayed behind in her neighborhood to try to salvage possessions. Clara Luz Montalvo said she resisted leaving her home in El Juchil because her 82-year-old mother didn't want to move. When they finally were forced to flee, they were nearly swept away by floodwaters and had to be rescued by marines on a boat. It was a very serious situation. My mother can hardly walk and I have a sister who is disabled. I don't know what I would have done if it hadn't been for the government, the marines, said Montalvo, waiting her turn at a food line at a shelter in Veracruz city.
Associated Press writer Miguel Angel Hernandez in Veracruz, Mexico contributed to this report.
A common link among fire, floods, food riots: extreme weather
– Tue Sep 7, 6:49 pm ET By JOHN CAREY Special to Yahoo! News
Deadly riots in the streets of Mozambique over sharply higher food prices have left 13 dead. Anger is growing in Egypt and Serbia as well. Panicked Russian shoppers have cleared the shelves of staple grains. And the devastating floods that have left as many as 10 million Pakistanis homeless are also raising concerns about the country's ability to feed itself.A series of isolated disasters? Not at all. The common thread: extreme weather, which is putting pressure on food supplies around the globe.
What's going on?
For most of the summer, Russia was in the grip of an unprecedented heat wave. Fires darkened the skies of Moscow with thick smoke, and the Russian wheat crop withered and burned. Fully a third of the usual Russian harvest of buckwheat -- one of the country's most commonly used grains -- was lost. That has led to shortages of wheat at home in Russia -- and an export ban on Russian wheat.The export cutback has in turn driven up food prices in countries like Mozambique and Egypt, which depend on food imports, sparking anger and riots.Meanwhile, the same weather pattern of high pressure that brought searing heat to Russia diverted moisture in the atmosphere toward Pakistan, causing torrential rains and devastating flooding.
Who is affected?
Mostly, just those people in countries now facing shortages and price spikes. There's no overall shortage of food. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization says that 2010 brought the third-largest harvest of grains on record, leaving global food stocks high.But the shortfall in Russian wheat did push up grain prices. As a result, the government of Mozambique raised the official price of bread by 20%. That touched off the riots, forcing the government to backtrack.In hard-hit Pakistan, prices of food have risen 15%.
[Pakistan floods: How to help]
The Food and Agriculture Organization acknowledges that higher prices are causing hardships. But it adds that the situation now is far less dire than it was in 2007-08, when the soaring price of energy caused an even bigger spike in food prices.
Will the United States be affected?
In the short term, there are few concerns outside countries hit by natural disasters or higher prices. Even Russians aren't facing actual shortages of food, just limited supplies of one of their favorite staples -- buckwheat.In fact, the problems have been a boon for American farmers. Exports of farm products nearly hit record levels in 2010, thanks to bountiful harvests and higher prices for wheat, corn, cotton and other crops.
How worried should we be?
Nevertheless, the long-term threat -- the potential impact of climate change on agriculture throughout the globe -- is major. Until recently, scientists were careful to say that any single natural disastrous climate event, such as the Russian drought or Hurricane Katrina, could not be attributed to global warming. No longer. The issue isn't whether these events are natural or caused by climate change, former Energy Department official Joseph J. Romm told Yahoo! News. It's both. You can't separate the two.For instance, a study by Kevin Trenberth -- head of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. -- has shown that Hurricane Katrina dumped more rain on the Gulf Coast than would have happened without climate change. What we can say is that certain events would have been extremely unlikely to have occurred without global warming, and that includes the Russian heat wave and wildfires, and Pakistan, Chinese and Indian floods, Trenberth told Yahoo! News. Even the Russians have become believers in the threat. The Russian government used to doubt the existence of climate change, or argue that it might be beneficial for Russia to get a bit warmer. Now, suggests Romm, they've realized that global warming won't bring a gradual and relatively benign increase in temperatures. Instead, as scientists' climate models have long predicted, the effect will be to intensify extreme events. As Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev told the Russian Security Council this month: Everyone is talking about climate change now. Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions in the past.
How critical could the situation get?
If you think the Russian heat wave or Pakistan floods are bad, wait until the Earth's temperature rises a few more degrees, as scientists' models also predict. We ain't seen nothing yet, warns Romm. I think we can't even imagine future events. So agriculture -- and the world's ability to feed itself -- face huge challenges. We are getting to a point where we are getting more water, more rainy days, but it's more variable, so it leads to droughts and it leads to floods, Sunita Narain, the head of the Center for Science and Environment in India, told AFP during a world conference on water, being held through Saturday in Sweden.That is leading to huge amounts of stress on agriculture and livelihoods.
What can be done to ease the problems?
When it comes to short-term problems -- shortages and high prices -- the key is to ensure that global food stocks get to the countries that most need them, agricultural experts say. The long-term problem is far more complicated. The only real solution, many scientists believe, is to tackle global warming at its root, by reducing emissions from fossil fuels or by stepping up efforts to take carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. John Carey is an environmental writer.
Hermine gives south Texas another tropical lashing By PAUL J. WEBER, Associated Press Writer - SEPT 7,10
RAYMONDVILLE, Texas – Tropical Storm Hermine gave a wet and windy punch to Texas on Tuesday before weakening into a tropical depression, leaving only minor scrapes in the storm-weary Rio Grande Valley, which is proving resilient this hurricane season after taking a third tropical system on the chin.Hermine lost steam after crossing into Texas with tropical storm strength. A peeled-back motel roof in the coastal farming town of Raymondville and scattered power outages were about the worst leftover from the gusty, drenching storm that came and went quickly after creeping up on Texas and Mexico in the warm Gulf waters over the long holiday weekend.I think we're lucky. It could've been worse, said Art Nelson, sizing up the hulking aluminum shed that collapsed on a farming plow at his John Deere store in Raymondville.Mexico didn't get off as easy. Hermine knocked out power for several hours in Matamoros and damaged about 20 homes, whose inhabitants were among 3,500 people who evacuated to shelters.About 1,000 families were still in shelters Tuesday morning. Authorities in Mexico said there were no reports of serious injuries or death, which was welcome news after 12 people in Mexico died in flooding caused by Hurricane Alex earlier this summer.Texas also had no reports of serious injuries, and evacuations orders weren't necessary even in the most low-lying regions. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Tuesday night that the storm had weakened to a tropical depression that was still bringing heavy rain to central Texas.
It was another sigh of relief for the flood-prone Rio Grande Valley, which got lashed by Alex at the start of the summer and soaked by another tropical system in July.So damp is the area that only last week did Hidalgo County finally put away its last water-pumping machine. But much of the 5 inches to a foot of rain from Hermine fell harmlessly in the Gulf, and flooding was limited to only minor nuisances.The storm made landfall early Tuesday in northeastern Mexico with winds of up to 65 mph (100 kph), arriving near the same spot as Alex. By Tuesday night, maximum winds speeds had decreased to about 35 mph (55 kph).But Hermine was expected to cover more of the U.S. than Alex, which swiped Texas in June as a Category 1 storm before plunging southwest and breaking up over Mexico.Forecasters expect Hermine's remnants to spread as far north as Oklahoma and Kansas. Flash flood advisories remained in effect for counties in its path.This is going to be much more of a memorable storm than Alex, National Weather Service meteorologist Joseph Tomaselli said.The Coast Guard said it received multiple reports of vessels in distress late Monday and early Tuesday. Monday evening's incoming tide freed a fishing boat that had run aground in the Brownsville Ship Channel near Port Isabel, but Coast Guard crews and other officials had to rescue 17 crew members and a dog from three other fishing vessels that got stuck near the South Padre Island beach. All were treated for minor injuries, the Coast Guard said Tuesday.In Mexico, authorities had released water from some dams to make room for rain. It added more anxiety in the northeast cattle-ranching region where residents already live under the fear of a bloody turf war between drug cartels. Hermine struck around the same area where 72 migrants were killed two weeks ago in what is believed to be the country's worst drug gang massacre to date.
By Tuesday afternoon, lights were gradually turning back on for about 50,000 people who lost power. Practically all of Raymondville had been in the dark after Hermine blew out signs, snapped utility poles and skinned the roof of the Best Rest Inn motel.Melodie Tamyl and Roy Tamez were in their second-story room when their ceiling began bowing up and down. They opened the door just in time to watch the wood awning flip violently backward.I told (Melodie) that we've got to get out of here right now, said Tamez, 52. The whole roof is about to go.The couple returned Tuesday to find half the roof over their room gone and their bedding soaked and soiled with ceiling tile and mud. They picked through soggy clothes and food, salvaging what they could. Hermine made landfall barely a day after becoming a tropical storm. That left many south Texas residents with little notice, but also gave the storm little time to build up steam. Associated Press Writers Jorde Vargas in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Emilio Lopez in Pachuca, Mexico, and Schuyler Dixon in Dallas contributed to this report.
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DEUTERONOMY 7:7-8
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people;(ISRAEL) for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you,(ISRAEL) and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
ZECHARIAH 2:8
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
JEREMIAH 3:14
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you:(ISRAEL) and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
ISAIAH 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,(ISRAEL) in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
ISAIAH 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
ISAIAH 65:9,22
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
ISAIAH 56:5
5 Even unto them (ISRAELIS) will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name,(ISRAEL) that shall not be cut off.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE ALSO.
NETANYAHU ACCEPT JEWISH STATE ARABS
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FARMERS HELP
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/139550
ROSH HASHANA LETS DO IT RIGHT THIS YEAR-ISRAELIS
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Free Prayer Across America for Rosh HaShanah
by Chana Ya'ar SEPT 7,10
As Jews around the world prepare for the Rosh HaShanah New Year's holiday, North American families this year will have many more options for places to pray than ever before.The High Holy Days, as the New Year and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement are called, often are a time for scrambling to ante up for the annual synagogue membership.Paying for one's synagogue seats can mean added stress after the recession has taken such a large bite out of the family coffers, and often less-than-observant Jews decide to skip the service.This year, however, quite a number of congregations and Jewish community centers are offering no-cost services, or discounted seats for members of the general public. Many advertise in local Jewish newspapers, and some have even taken to issuing public service announcements on the local Jewish radio programs.The Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement always offers free High Holy Day services at numerous college and university campuses, and in most cities across North America. Locations can be found by clicking here.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Mosque Debate: Gov. Paterson Asks for a Week's Silence
by Gil Ronen SEPT 7,10
New York Governor David Paterson suggested that New Yorkers refrain, this week, from discussing the highly contentious plan for a Muslim mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero. The reason: the week is one that includes the Jewish New Year, the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday, and the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 massacres. Paterson was quoted on the New York Daily News website.The greater issue involving this situation is how can we bring New York's people back together and I propose that perhaps in light of the fact that Rosh Hashanah is this week, the Jewish New Year, that the celebration of Ramadan is coming at the end of the week and that we should all be focused on our concern to those who lost relatives [on] Sept. 11, Paterson said, perhaps we might think more in terms of supporting those families who are on both sides of this issue as all of us are and maybe all step back and try to devote a week of peace.The governor announced that he would try not to speak about the issue for a week, just to see if this exercise would help New Yorkers and Americans remember that the terrorists didn't care who we were when they attacked us and we should think a lot about the fact that in many ways, we were all victims.
Rosh HaShana will commence Wednesday evening. Eid al-Fitr will occur on Thursday or Friday, depending on sightings of the moon. September 11 will be Saturday.
(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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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).
Finance ministers give green light to EU oversight of national budgets-The semester system is the most significant element yet in place of a new EU economic architecture (Photo: Council of the European Union)LEIGH PHILLIPS 07.09.2010 @ 15:41 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European finance ministers on Tuesday (7 September) gave the green light to a system of mutual supervision and oversight of each others' budgets.
But in a significant victory for the UK, London managed to wrangle an exception, allowing it to submit its spending plans to the House of Commons before it hands them over to Brussels and other member states for consideration.The ministers endorsed a new system of a European Semester, pushing EU nations closer towards fiscal harmonisation than ever before.The semester, to kick in as soon as January next year, will begin with the European Commission producing a survey of the overall state of the economy, identifying difficulties facing both eurozone nations and the EU as a whole. This in turn will be presented to the European Parliament.EU member states will then submit by April broad budgetary outlines for the commission to assess. Following this, based on the commission's opinion, may then choose to issue country-specific guidance by June and July.European economics commissioner Olli Rehn called the sign-off a major improvement of our economic governance architecture.We can act preventatively, instead of sending in the fire brigade when the house is already burning.The agreement is the most significant element yet put in place of the last year's discussions of a new EU economic architecture, provoked by the fiscal destruction wrought by the global economic crisis.London however managed to, in the words of the British chancellor George Osborne, secure an important agreement to protect the parliamentary procedures of the UK.In the case of Britain, the information will be submitted for EU oversight after the submission of the spring budget to the UK parliament.
We had a particular concern, Mr Osborne told reporters after the meeting, that I would have to present information to the commission before the House of Commons. Events like this are unacceptable. But I am very pleased that Britain's unique schedule is explicitly recognised.Once having won the exception, the chancellor said he cheered the new semester system: As someone who believes strongly in single market, i welcome the creation of an architecture at the EU level that can co-ordinate supervision.He described the oversight as a healthy exchange of budgetary data.Specific sanctions for flouting the guidance of the Council and Commission remain to be decided.The European Commission will on 29 September unveil a proposal for the imposition of quasi-automatic sanctions for delinquents. It is understood that this package of measures would invert the current framework, wherein a qualified majority in the Council must be reached to impose sanctions on countries in breach of the current fiscal rules. Under the commission's plan, sanctions would be imposed automatically and it would require a qualified majority to block their imposition. It is also thought that such a sanctions regime would initially be proposed for just eurozone countries and only in the much longer term be proposed for all EU states.Broader discussion of what sort of punishment should be meted out is being left for European Council President's special task force on economic governance to consider. Meeting on Monday evening for the first time after the summer break, the task force did not make much progress.
No progress on bank levy talks either
The second major discussion point amongst finance chiefs, the imposition of a levy or tax on banks to to cover the costs of any future banking sector bail-out, foundered as member states are still very far apart on the details of such a move, already agreed in principle in June. The heart of the controversy concerns whether the funds raised would be gathered together in a common pot - in Brussels jargon, a resolution fund - or return to national coffers to be spent by governments to balance their accounts. The UK in particular does not support an EU-level resolution fund.We are very clear. It is up to national governments to decide what should happen to those revenues, said Mr Osborne. He added that the UK has plenty of allies around the table opposing a European fund.
Whither an EU Tobin Tax?
A second type of levy, a tax on financial transactions, possibly being extended to a range of banking products, and that would deliver up billions for spending on low-carbon infrastructure, development in the third world and social programmes domestically was also discussed, but found even less agreement.Championed by France, the idea, also known as a Tobin Tax, met with no unanimity, as Belgian finance minister and current chair of the council of economy ministers, Didier Reynders, put it.Blunter still was Mr Osborne, who said: The idea of such a tax has been discussed for many decades, and, I suspect, will continue to be discussed for many decades to come.It is difficult to see how in practice to make it operate in a world in which capital can move very quickly outside the EU.The worry is that unless such a tax were implemented globally, or at least by a large enough number of major powers, institutions would simply move to a jurisdiction where the tax did not exist.A paper on an EU Tobin Tax submitted to the meeting for discussion by tax commissioner Algirdas Semeta also questioned its feasibility.With the concept being shot down by a majority of states at this spring's G20 meeting of the world's major industrialised and emerging powers, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said he intends to make a push for the tax when his country takes over the presidency of the global body next year.The UK finance minister however suggested that France's efforts at the G20 would be more fruitful if they focus on other more pressing issues.
EU has survived economic crisis, Barroso says in first State of Union address
Mr Barroso in Strasbourg on Tuesday indicated that the worst of the crisis has passed in an upbeat, presidential-type speech (Photo: ec.europa.eu)ANDREW RETTMAN
07.09.2010 @ 11:03 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in a major speech on Tuesday morning said the EU has survived the economic crisis.Over the last year, the economic and financial crisis has put our Union before one of its greatest challenges ever ... As I look back at how we have reacted, I believe that we have withstood the test, Mr Barroso told MEPs in his first ever so-called State of the Union address. Those who predicted the demise of the European Union were proved wrong.His remarks come after a threat of sovereign default by eurozone countries such as Greece and Spain threatened to pull apart the single currency in a potentially deadly blow to the 50-year-old European project. Noting that our work is not finished, the Portuguese politician put the EU's economic future at the top of his five-point agenda. He defended the commission's push to regulate EU countries' debt levels despite rising social tension in countries such as Greece, which has seen an outbreak of violent street protests in reaction to EU-and-IMF-imposed cutbacks. Unsustainable budgets make us vulnerable. Debt and deficit lead to boom and bust. And they unravel the social safety net. Money that is spent on servicing debt is money that cannot be spent on the social good, he said. He spoke up for an "ambitious" future budget, saying: The EU budget is not for Brussels - it is for the people that you represent ... a euro spent at European level gets you more than a euro spent at national level.With the commission to shortly publish ideas on how to raise extra EU money by, for example, directly taxing financial transactions, the commission chief attacked the culture of pessimism and Brussels nay-saying in some EU capitals: I find it extraordinary that some are already rejecting them [the new budget ideas], without even knowing what they will be.
He set out a shopping list of upcoming economic initiatives.
He said Brussels will propose launching EU project bonds together with the European Investment Bank to help finance new infrastructure. He promised an ambitious Single Market Act to cut red tape for small businesses, liberalise the energy sector and boost green collar jobs. He said the commission will attack risk-generating financial practices such as big bonuses, credit default swaps and naked short selling. He also promised to overhaul the byzantine complexity of the EU budget, in which countries give money with one hand and take it away with another, and to move to a 10-year budgeting period instead of the current seven.In a message pregnant with references to EU values, Mr Barroso took a swipe at France's controversial policy of expelling Roma.Without naming Paris, Mr Barroso said, to loud applause: Everyone in Europe must respect the law, and the governments must respect human rights, including those of minorities. Racism and xenophobia have no place in Europe.
He also lashed out at Iran over the case of a woman sentenced to death for adultery: I am appalled when I hear that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is sentenced to death by stoning. This is barbaric beyond words.European Parliament officials tweeted during the speech that around 600 MEPs attended the event despite earlier dropping plans to fine deputies who skipped it.
Mr Barroso's call for EU countries to support the EU's new foreign relations chief, Catherine Ashton, and her diplomatic service in order to give the EU more clout on the world stage was echoed in the plenary debate following the address.Senior MEPs began by criticising Ms Ashton for not going to the launch of Middle East peace talks in Washington last week, however. Joseph Daul, the French leader of the centre-right European People's Party did not name the British baroness, but said: How can we justify that we are not present at the [negotiating] table? The leader of the Liberal group, Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt, chided her for not attending the Barroso speech. It would be better if she were here, he said.The State of the Union address, which recalls the US President's annual speech to the houses of Congress, is to be repeated every year. Coming in the wake of the Lisbon Treaty, which is seen by eurosceptic politicians, such as British Conservative MEP Timothy Kirkhope, as a step towards [an EU] superstate, Mr Barroso's presidential speech has also raised the question of who is the new top man in the Brussels hierarchy.I thought Van Rompuy was the President of the EU, a Brussels-based diplomat from one non-EU country told this website, referring to the Belgian President of the European Council.
EU finance ministers to discuss bank-levy co-ordination
LEIGH PHILLIPS 07.09.2010 @ 10:14 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A levy on banks across the bloc to produce funds to cover the costs of any future banking sector bail-out is set to be the lead topic when EU finance ministers meet in Brussels on Tuesday, aiming to ensure that never again should such economic disasters weigh so heavily on the public sector and taxpayers.
As a result of the 2008-2009 credit crunch, governments chose to bail-out teetering banks to the tune of 16.5 percent of EU GDP, effectively transferring private sector debt onto the back of governments. The current ongoing concerns markets have over the viability of European governments to pay their debts is largely a result of this transfer.In June this year, member states agreed that the imposition of a bank levy or tax on financial firms should be developed. But the detail of how such a levy would work has yet to be worked out, even as the three biggest EU states, France, Germany and the UK, are set to already move ahead with their own such taxes from the start of 2011. Sweden was the first EU state to introduce such a tax, in 2009.The European Commission for its part is worried that levies are being introduced haphazardly and will attempt to shepherd the bloc toward a co-ordinated solution.In our view, there is a need for a common framework, with some already introducing advanced plans for banking levies, said one commission official on Monday ahead of the meeting. There needs to be a properly co-ordinated framework.The official added: We have no desire to play referee [between the different approaches].At the heart of the issue is whether the funds raised would be gathered together in a common pot - in Brussels jargon, a resolution fund - or return to national coffers to be spent by governments to balance their accounts. The UK in particular favours the latter approach.There are also concerns that the current approach will result in double charging, with banks situated in two or more member states being hit twice or more by different national levies.Additionally, wide variations in the level of taxation could see financial institutions shopping around for the best deal amongst EU states.
The discussion will be a first exchange of views on the subject and the commission is still some way from any legislative proposal, expected to be put on the table in spring next year. The level or percentage of such a levy will only much later be discussed, according to officials.The second major item topping the ministers' agenda on Tuesday and still more controversial is the mutual oversight of each others' spending plans, the so-called European Semester, a six-month period where Brussels and EU finance ministers consider the budget outlines for the upcoming three years.Ministers on Tuesday are hoping to reach agreement on a revised Code of Conduct to make the semester fully operational by 2011. The semester's cycle would start early in the year, with the ministers, the Eurogroup - those states employing the euro currency, and premiers and presidents identifying the common economic challenges for the coming period and then guide each other into making the right spending decisions. The Council of Ministers and the commission will each provide an assessment and guidance to member states in June and July, aiming to complete the process in a window ahead of when most countries make their important budget decisions.
Will Jewish Businessmen Invest in Israel?
by Elad Benari SEPT 8,10
Efforts are always taking place to encourage more business investments in Israel.
One such effort was made last week by Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, who held a closed meeting with 80 Jewish American businessmen in the city of Silistra, Bulgaria, Yediot Aharonot reported earlier this week. During the meeting, Rabbi Pinto asked the businessmen to invest $5 billion in the Israeli economy, with $2 billion in the coming year.Among the businessmen who met with Rabbi Pinto was entrepreneur Jay Schottenstein and one of the owners of the Victoria’s Secret women’s wear retailer.
The rabbi told the businessmen during the meeting: In such days of economic opportunities, we must remember that we, the sons of the Jewish people, must preserve the country, built it and ensure that its economic flourishes. It’s unfortunate that there are so many wealthy Jews in the world who don’t even consider the Israeli economy as an option.Rabbi Pinto is 37 years old and speaks only Hebrew. He comes from a centuries-old rabbinic family from Morocco, and has rabbinic connections on both sides of his family: On his father’s side he is the great-grandson of Rabbi Chaim Pinto, while on his mother's side, he is the grandson of Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira, who is known as the Baba Sali.Rabbi Pinto, who lives and operates in Midtown New York City, is visited by many businessmen, both Israeli and Jewish-American, who consult with him on both business and personal matters. Some of the more well-known visitors he has received include Yitzhak Tshuva, talk-show host Donny Deutsch, real estate mogul Ofer Yardeni, and even former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. He has also been visited by Israeli politicians such as Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman, MK Danny Naveh, and MK Danny Danon.Recently, it was reported that NBA star LeBron James of the Miami Heat consulted with Rabbi Pinto and even paid him a six-figure sum to sit in on a merchandising meeting.
Silistra, the city in which the meeting with the businessmen was held, is the place where renowned Jewish scholar Rabbi Eliezer Papo is buried. Rabbi Pinto visits the grave once a year, as part of an event similar to the pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine, the gravesite of Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav.Recently, it was reported that French businessmen Baron Edouard de Rothschild has decided to move to Israel. Rothschild will live part time in his Tel Aviv home while continuing to maintain his businesses in France. In July 2003, Rothschild was made head of Rothschild & Cie Banque, a Paris based bank. He is currently a 37% majority shareholder in the French newspaper Libération, a left-wing daily French newspaper that was founded in 1973.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Im Tirtzu: Zionist Donors Must Start Thinking Differently
by Gil Ronen SEPT 7,10
In Israeli politics, it has been the year of Im Tirtzu – the media-savvy Zionist students' movement that managed to create a true stir with a February campaign that exposed the New Israel Fund's dastardly doings before the Israeli public.The campaign targeted NIF chair Naomi Chazan and received high-profile news coverage. Im Tirtzu's research focused on the NIF's complicity in the Goldstone Report that attacked the IDF for its Cast Lead Gaza operation. The NIF came under fire in Israel and in Jewish communities worldwide. Used to being ignored by the leftist media and to waging losing battles, Zionist pundits were ecstatic at the new movement's successes.A few months later, Im Tirtzu was back with another report – this time about the overwhelming proportion of radical leftists in Ben Gurion University's Political Science Department. Again, the media was full of the story.In a Rosh HaShanah interview with Arutz Sheva, Ronen Shoval, 29, chairman of the movement, expressed his belief that the movement and others like it could be doing a lot more to save Israel if only Jewish donors begin to think differently. Donors, he said, are used to buying houses from Arabs in Judea and Samaria or eastern Jerusalem, and settling Jews in them. That is important, but they should also be thinking about shaping public consciousness.The question is, he explains, do facts on the ground create public consciousness, or is it the other way around? The Jewish approach he feels, is that the universe was created through words: that is to say, consciousness creates reality.Throughout the history of Zionism, these rival approaches competed with each other and complemented each other. Herzl believed in shaping consciousness and asked the world's powers for a charter to settle in the Land of Israel. The Hovevei Tzion movement, meanwhile, believed in buying another dunam [area of land,ed.] and another goat.
These two great streams collided in the summer of 2005, in the Disengagement. The settlement movement thought that it was creating facts on the ground in Gush Katif – but it turned out that without proper consciousness, one government decision was enough for all of the communities there to be destroyed. It won't help us to buy another house in eastern Jerusalem, and another one after that, if they decide to hand over eastern Jerusalem to the Arabs in the end.The other side understands this but the nationalists continue to think in terms of material, not spirit. That is why we lose touch with the nation of Israel. The nationalists invest in buildings, not books. Do we have one publishing house? One theater? The entire cultural world is controlled by one side. We used to comfort ourselves and say that the dogs bark but the caravan passes,but this no longer works. If we do not wake up – the entire Zionist venture is in danger.We must invest in thinkers, in culture – and not just in yet another outpost and another useless caravan. What is it good for? If the public consciousness is not there, it will be seen as an illegal outpost and torn down. But if the public consciousness is primed, it will be seen as part of the Zionist settlement ethos and a great mitzvah.
A7: Why doesn't the nationalist side have a fund like the NIF?
RS: It is easier to destroy than to build.
A7: What happened to the Knesset subcommittees that were supposed to look into the New Israel Fund after your campaign?
RS: There are several bills that are being prepared. There is a lot of work to be done. The Knesset members tend to work on things that are on the public agenda – otherwise they need to be pressured.
A7: Do you think someone is trying to stonewall you?
RS: I hope and tend to believe that the Knesset members understand the national importance of this matter and are working at full tilt in order to remove the radical anti-Zionist threat facing us.
A7: How does the NIF achieve such control over the Israeli media?
RS: They support the Agenda Center for media, which pumps out the correct positions to journalists. They find jobs for journalists and provide training for them. That is how the PC mechanism is created. In addition, social and legal organizations place issues on the public agenda.As a result of all this, Israel is much less pluralistic than the US. The Americans have both Fox and CNN, they have the Washington Post and the New York Times: the media airs about 80% of the spectrum of public opinion on various subjects. The remaining 20% are considered extreme and illegitimate. In Israel, the media mechanism makes sure that only 20%-30% of the public's views are heard – and everything else is branded as illegitimate. They determine the consensus. The silencing is much more radical.
A7: Some leftist bloggers claimed that all your activists are men, and that women dislike your movement. Is this true?
RS: Not every stupid claim deserves a response. There are many women in Im Tirtzu.
A7: So what is the next step?
RS: There are many interesting surprises in the works.
A7: For Naomi Chazan?
RS: Yes, for her too.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
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LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Floods leave tens of thousands homeless in Mexico By ANTONIO VILLEGAS and MIGUEL ANGEL HERNANDEZ, Associated Press Writers - SEPT 7,10
VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico – Weeks of torrential rains have unleashed flooding in huge swaths of southern Mexico, forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes.Tens of thousands more are sleeping on their roofs, refusing to abandon their possessions even as the rivers around them rise rapidly.Authorities on Tuesday started releasing 2,000 cubic meters (71,000 cubic feet) of water per second from four damns in the region that have reached capacity. That caused several rivers to overflow.Hipolito Hernandez swiftly hauled many of his belongings onto his roof as the Rio Carrizal jumped its banks and flooded dozens of home in the farming community of Sauces in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.Hernandez, 38, gave some of his possessions to relatives who went to shelters but he stayed put. In 2007, he lost everything when he left his home during flooding that left 1 million homes underwater and killed 33 people.We are waiting to see what happens, we can still withstand this flood, Hernandez said.The flooding has affected all four southernmost Mexican states: Tabasco, Veracruz, Chiapas and Oaxaca. People in the region are accustomed to severe flooding every year, and the government often struggles to persuade residents to leave dangerous zones.In Tabasco, the homes of more than 124,000 people have been severely flooded. More than 187,000 hectares of crops belonging to 20,000 people have been lost.
But only 2,000 people in the state are in shelters.They are refusing to leave their homes and they don't want to go to shelters because they have a culture of living with water, Tabasco Gov. Andres Granier said during a meeting with President Felipe Calderon, who flew over the affected areas Tuesday and walked through some flooded towns.Granier warned Calderon the situation could become even worse than in 2007 as record rainfall is expected.What worries me is that the worst is yet to come for Tabasco, Granier said. The state and these people cannot keep suffering these problems each year, or live in permanent uncertainty.Already, authorities said the region has received twice the amount of rainfall that normally falls during the season, which does not officially end until November.The government has built relief ditches and other infrastructure in the past years to ease the annual flooding in southern Mexico. Calderon acknowledged more needs to be done, but said the flooding would be much worse this year without the government's advances.He pointed to emergency levees made of concrete and dirt erected on the banks of the Grijalva, which has swelled rapidly and threatens to flood the state capital, Villahermosa. A few outlying neighborhoods were severely flooded, however.In neighboring Veracruz state, flooding has forced 200,000 people from their homes over the past weeks, although some have started returning.They evacuated us when the water was up to our waists, but the water had already broke all the doors of our house, said Angelica Martinez Galindo, the mother of a 3-year-old girl who had to flee Tlacotalpan, a colonial town in Veracruz state that UNESCO named a World Heritage site.She said at least 20 men stayed behind in her neighborhood to try to salvage possessions. Clara Luz Montalvo said she resisted leaving her home in El Juchil because her 82-year-old mother didn't want to move. When they finally were forced to flee, they were nearly swept away by floodwaters and had to be rescued by marines on a boat. It was a very serious situation. My mother can hardly walk and I have a sister who is disabled. I don't know what I would have done if it hadn't been for the government, the marines, said Montalvo, waiting her turn at a food line at a shelter in Veracruz city.
Associated Press writer Miguel Angel Hernandez in Veracruz, Mexico contributed to this report.
A common link among fire, floods, food riots: extreme weather
– Tue Sep 7, 6:49 pm ET By JOHN CAREY Special to Yahoo! News
Deadly riots in the streets of Mozambique over sharply higher food prices have left 13 dead. Anger is growing in Egypt and Serbia as well. Panicked Russian shoppers have cleared the shelves of staple grains. And the devastating floods that have left as many as 10 million Pakistanis homeless are also raising concerns about the country's ability to feed itself.A series of isolated disasters? Not at all. The common thread: extreme weather, which is putting pressure on food supplies around the globe.
What's going on?
For most of the summer, Russia was in the grip of an unprecedented heat wave. Fires darkened the skies of Moscow with thick smoke, and the Russian wheat crop withered and burned. Fully a third of the usual Russian harvest of buckwheat -- one of the country's most commonly used grains -- was lost. That has led to shortages of wheat at home in Russia -- and an export ban on Russian wheat.The export cutback has in turn driven up food prices in countries like Mozambique and Egypt, which depend on food imports, sparking anger and riots.Meanwhile, the same weather pattern of high pressure that brought searing heat to Russia diverted moisture in the atmosphere toward Pakistan, causing torrential rains and devastating flooding.
Who is affected?
Mostly, just those people in countries now facing shortages and price spikes. There's no overall shortage of food. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization says that 2010 brought the third-largest harvest of grains on record, leaving global food stocks high.But the shortfall in Russian wheat did push up grain prices. As a result, the government of Mozambique raised the official price of bread by 20%. That touched off the riots, forcing the government to backtrack.In hard-hit Pakistan, prices of food have risen 15%.
[Pakistan floods: How to help]
The Food and Agriculture Organization acknowledges that higher prices are causing hardships. But it adds that the situation now is far less dire than it was in 2007-08, when the soaring price of energy caused an even bigger spike in food prices.
Will the United States be affected?
In the short term, there are few concerns outside countries hit by natural disasters or higher prices. Even Russians aren't facing actual shortages of food, just limited supplies of one of their favorite staples -- buckwheat.In fact, the problems have been a boon for American farmers. Exports of farm products nearly hit record levels in 2010, thanks to bountiful harvests and higher prices for wheat, corn, cotton and other crops.
How worried should we be?
Nevertheless, the long-term threat -- the potential impact of climate change on agriculture throughout the globe -- is major. Until recently, scientists were careful to say that any single natural disastrous climate event, such as the Russian drought or Hurricane Katrina, could not be attributed to global warming. No longer. The issue isn't whether these events are natural or caused by climate change, former Energy Department official Joseph J. Romm told Yahoo! News. It's both. You can't separate the two.For instance, a study by Kevin Trenberth -- head of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. -- has shown that Hurricane Katrina dumped more rain on the Gulf Coast than would have happened without climate change. What we can say is that certain events would have been extremely unlikely to have occurred without global warming, and that includes the Russian heat wave and wildfires, and Pakistan, Chinese and Indian floods, Trenberth told Yahoo! News. Even the Russians have become believers in the threat. The Russian government used to doubt the existence of climate change, or argue that it might be beneficial for Russia to get a bit warmer. Now, suggests Romm, they've realized that global warming won't bring a gradual and relatively benign increase in temperatures. Instead, as scientists' climate models have long predicted, the effect will be to intensify extreme events. As Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev told the Russian Security Council this month: Everyone is talking about climate change now. Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions in the past.
How critical could the situation get?
If you think the Russian heat wave or Pakistan floods are bad, wait until the Earth's temperature rises a few more degrees, as scientists' models also predict. We ain't seen nothing yet, warns Romm. I think we can't even imagine future events. So agriculture -- and the world's ability to feed itself -- face huge challenges. We are getting to a point where we are getting more water, more rainy days, but it's more variable, so it leads to droughts and it leads to floods, Sunita Narain, the head of the Center for Science and Environment in India, told AFP during a world conference on water, being held through Saturday in Sweden.That is leading to huge amounts of stress on agriculture and livelihoods.
What can be done to ease the problems?
When it comes to short-term problems -- shortages and high prices -- the key is to ensure that global food stocks get to the countries that most need them, agricultural experts say. The long-term problem is far more complicated. The only real solution, many scientists believe, is to tackle global warming at its root, by reducing emissions from fossil fuels or by stepping up efforts to take carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. John Carey is an environmental writer.
Hermine gives south Texas another tropical lashing By PAUL J. WEBER, Associated Press Writer - SEPT 7,10
RAYMONDVILLE, Texas – Tropical Storm Hermine gave a wet and windy punch to Texas on Tuesday before weakening into a tropical depression, leaving only minor scrapes in the storm-weary Rio Grande Valley, which is proving resilient this hurricane season after taking a third tropical system on the chin.Hermine lost steam after crossing into Texas with tropical storm strength. A peeled-back motel roof in the coastal farming town of Raymondville and scattered power outages were about the worst leftover from the gusty, drenching storm that came and went quickly after creeping up on Texas and Mexico in the warm Gulf waters over the long holiday weekend.I think we're lucky. It could've been worse, said Art Nelson, sizing up the hulking aluminum shed that collapsed on a farming plow at his John Deere store in Raymondville.Mexico didn't get off as easy. Hermine knocked out power for several hours in Matamoros and damaged about 20 homes, whose inhabitants were among 3,500 people who evacuated to shelters.About 1,000 families were still in shelters Tuesday morning. Authorities in Mexico said there were no reports of serious injuries or death, which was welcome news after 12 people in Mexico died in flooding caused by Hurricane Alex earlier this summer.Texas also had no reports of serious injuries, and evacuations orders weren't necessary even in the most low-lying regions. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Tuesday night that the storm had weakened to a tropical depression that was still bringing heavy rain to central Texas.
It was another sigh of relief for the flood-prone Rio Grande Valley, which got lashed by Alex at the start of the summer and soaked by another tropical system in July.So damp is the area that only last week did Hidalgo County finally put away its last water-pumping machine. But much of the 5 inches to a foot of rain from Hermine fell harmlessly in the Gulf, and flooding was limited to only minor nuisances.The storm made landfall early Tuesday in northeastern Mexico with winds of up to 65 mph (100 kph), arriving near the same spot as Alex. By Tuesday night, maximum winds speeds had decreased to about 35 mph (55 kph).But Hermine was expected to cover more of the U.S. than Alex, which swiped Texas in June as a Category 1 storm before plunging southwest and breaking up over Mexico.Forecasters expect Hermine's remnants to spread as far north as Oklahoma and Kansas. Flash flood advisories remained in effect for counties in its path.This is going to be much more of a memorable storm than Alex, National Weather Service meteorologist Joseph Tomaselli said.The Coast Guard said it received multiple reports of vessels in distress late Monday and early Tuesday. Monday evening's incoming tide freed a fishing boat that had run aground in the Brownsville Ship Channel near Port Isabel, but Coast Guard crews and other officials had to rescue 17 crew members and a dog from three other fishing vessels that got stuck near the South Padre Island beach. All were treated for minor injuries, the Coast Guard said Tuesday.In Mexico, authorities had released water from some dams to make room for rain. It added more anxiety in the northeast cattle-ranching region where residents already live under the fear of a bloody turf war between drug cartels. Hermine struck around the same area where 72 migrants were killed two weeks ago in what is believed to be the country's worst drug gang massacre to date.
By Tuesday afternoon, lights were gradually turning back on for about 50,000 people who lost power. Practically all of Raymondville had been in the dark after Hermine blew out signs, snapped utility poles and skinned the roof of the Best Rest Inn motel.Melodie Tamyl and Roy Tamez were in their second-story room when their ceiling began bowing up and down. They opened the door just in time to watch the wood awning flip violently backward.I told (Melodie) that we've got to get out of here right now, said Tamez, 52. The whole roof is about to go.The couple returned Tuesday to find half the roof over their room gone and their bedding soaked and soiled with ceiling tile and mud. They picked through soggy clothes and food, salvaging what they could. Hermine made landfall barely a day after becoming a tropical storm. That left many south Texas residents with little notice, but also gave the storm little time to build up steam. Associated Press Writers Jorde Vargas in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Emilio Lopez in Pachuca, Mexico, and Schuyler Dixon in Dallas contributed to this report.
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
THE STORMS ARE CHURNING
THE NEW WORLD ORDER-ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT,NEW AGE ENVIROMENTAL WORSHIPPING NUTCASES ARE BEING REVEALED FOR THE MURDERERS THEY REALLY ARE AGAINST EARTHS CITIZENS.WE CAN SEE WHY THEY USE ISLAM AGAINST THE WORLD ALSO,THEY HAVE THE SAME IDEAS.
Charles Manson: Global Warming Prophet
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com September 7, 2010
http://www.infowars.com/charles-manson-global-warming-prophet/ (LINKS-VIDEOS)
Charles Manson, the man who masterminded the brutal murders of nine people in the summer of 1969 in an effort to spark a race war in America, has adopted a new cause from his prison cell in California – he is a prophet for the global warming movement – sharing common ground with top academics, environmentalists and even the White House science czar in calling for large numbers of human beings to be exterminated in the name of saving the Earth.A study of Manson’s belief system is an alarming exercise in understanding the roots of the modern day eugenicist movement, which is propagated via the notion that overpopulation is killing the planet and causing global warming.The infamous Manson family were responsible for the barbaric slayings of actress Sharon Tate and her unborn baby, as well as Rosemary LaBianca and her husband Leno, murders that sent shock waves through America and marked a sudden and crashing halt to the free love hippy movement of the 60’s. Manson himself killed one man, Bernard Crowe, and directed his cult-like followers in the murders of eight other victims.Manson masterminded the murders in a bid to precipitate a race war between whites and blacks which he dubbed Helter Skelter, a term he took from the Beatles song of the same name. Manson and his followers were arrested for the murders in October, November and December of 1969 and all received life sentences.Preaching the same cause as James Jay Lee, the crazed eco-warrior who stormed a Discovery Channel building last week armed with guns and explosives, Manson continues to attract a loyal following from new members of his family who share the notorious killer’s obsession with the need to exterminate humans in order to save the Earth from global warming.Manson, who still adorns a Nazi swastika tattoo on his forehead, did not glom on to the global warming bandwagon after seeing Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, the movie that gunman Lee cited as his inspiration, he was preaching about the need to kill people in order to save the polar ice caps from melting as far back as the mid-80’s.Watch the following clip, filmed in 1987 by the Today Show, in which Manson attempts to absolve his role in the brutal murders of Sharon Tate, Rosemary LaBianca and seven others, by saying the slayings were justified in the name of the environment and expressing regret that he could not have killed more people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ0P1oI3Uvo&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1PsR8k_Glc&feature=player_embedded
Responding to a question about why he directed the killings, Manson responded, I am working to save my air, my water, my trees and my wildlife, and I’m trying to do away with society.Why don’t you tell them that the polar caps are melting because you’re creating so much heat with this machine, continues Manson….Maybe I should have killed four or five hundred people then I would have felt better, I would have felt like I’d really offered society something…..the truth is the planet Earth is dying.In a separate clip from the same interview, Manson chillingly states, If I started murdering people, there’d be none of you left.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gx9Nq1H6BI&feature=player_embedded
The You Tube clips of Manson’s prison interviews are accompanied by hundreds of comments from people who agree with his barbarous views on the need to kill humans in order to save the Earth.Manson also talks about the need to set up suicide parlors so that people can kill themselves in an orderly fashion so that the world can be cleansed of humans.In another interview with Geraldo Rivera, Manson goes further, saying that 50 million dead will be required to please mother Earth.I’m gonna kill you, as many as I can. I’m gonna pile you up to the sky, I figure about 50 million, said Manson, I figure if I can get about 50 million of you I might be able to save my trees and my air and my water and my wildlife.Mason characterized the slaughter of 50 million people in the name of saving the planet as just a drop in the bucket of what’s really coming.Watch the clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b65BI4AiGpI&feature=player_embedded
The fact that Manson, considered by many to be evil incarnate and the leader of one of the most creepy and bloodthirsty cults ever recorded, is now a prophet for the religion of global warming and climate change, proves that the real agenda behind global warming, neo-eugenics, has its roots in the darkest and most abhorrent recesses of the human mind.Manson’s eugenicist doctrine didn’t end when television stations were banned from interviewing him in the late 80’s, the dark mystique surrounding the former cult leader continues to this day, with followers still attempting to communicate and meet with the now 75-year-old inmate of Corcoran State Prison, eager and receptive to his environmental message.One such individual is a man Manson himself dubbed Gray Wolf, who moved close to the prison for the express purpose of hearing Manson’s insights on climate change and the environment. Manson thinks the destruction of the environment is much more serious than we are being made out to believe, Wolf told CNN. Our government keeps covering up problems with pollution, with coal, with automobiles. Charlie says we need to get back to the horse.In calling for a return to the agrarian age, which ended in around 1700 as the industrial age began, Manson is echoing the propaganda of people like author and environmentalist Keith Farnish, who in a recent book called for acts of sabotage and environmental terrorism in blowing up dams and demolishing cities in order to return the planet to pre-industrial society. Prominent NASA global warming alarmist and Al Gore ally Dr. James Hansen endorsed Farnish’s book.James Jay Lee also parroted this anti-industrialist creed, calling for the need to disassemble civilization in his online rant.In a phone conversation, Manson characterized the emission of carbon dioxide as a sin punishable by criminal charges, in rhetoric chillingly similar to that espoused by global warming alarmist like Al Gore who have advocated carbon offsets and CO2 taxes as indulgences to pay for such activity.Crime is anything that’s done against your survival. Any sin against your life is crime. The problem is the atmosphere is dying, anything that sins against the air is a sin against your life, anybody that sins against the air should be considered a criminal and any sin against the air should be considered a crime, said Manson.Another of Manson’s followers, a 24 year-old woman Manson named Star, invoked the Club of Rome’s infamous 1990 publication entitled The First Global Revolution, in which the organization outlined how they would manufacture ecological scares in order to manipulate the public into accepting the imposition of a dictatorial world government run by them, when she talked about Manson’s belief that humans were the enemy of the Earth.The goal, really, the main goal is to basically save life on the planet Earth from the humans, she said.We have a key to make this goal accomplished, and that key is Charlie Manson,she said.But who should lead this crusade to rid the planet of evil humans, or parasitic human infants as James Jay Lee called them? Manson makes it clear who should be empowered to carry out the eugenics program in a 1987 interview with the BBC’s Bill Murphy, and it’s the same planetary regime that White House science czar John Holdren advocates to carry out forced abortions and mandatory sterilization procedures in his 1977 book Ecoscience.Watch the clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpcbG78yw6g&feature=player_embedded
We’ve got to get a one world government, rants Manson out of the blue, We’ve got to have it man.Indeed, what could be termed Manson’s official website, which is named after the philosophy he coined, Air, Trees, Water, Animals (ATWA), features on its front page a globe with the words One World Order written underneath. A special page is dedicated to this promotion of a one world order, which includes a poem written by Manson about how the foundation of a one world order is closely related to a green lifestyle.Charles Manson’s official website advocates a one world order.
Manson’s call for a one world order to manage the planet on an environmentally sound basis mirrors the thoughts of James Lovelock, top environmentalist and creator of the Gaia hypothesis, who told the Guardian earlier this year that democracy must be put on hold to combat global warming and that a few people with authority should be allowed to run the planet.Another Manson fan website, again named after the Air, Trees, Water and Animals acronym, proudly displays the mutilated corpse of pregnant victim Sharon Tate on its front page, declaring that Manson is both the God and the devil.
In 1975, one of Manson’s family, known as Squeaky Fromme, attempted to murder President Gerald Ford in the name of saving California’s redwood trees. In resorting to violence for the sake of environmentalism, Fromme shared the same motivations invoked by James Jay Lee some 35 years later.Manson’s belief that humans need to be killed in large numbers in order to preserve the environment is one shared and promoted by many prominent academics and scientists, people like Dr. Eric R. Pianka, an American biologist based at the University of Texas in Austin. During a speech to the Texas Academy of Science in March 2006, Pianka advocated the need to exterminate 90% of the world’s population through the airborne ebola virus. The reaction from scores of top scientists and professors in attendance was not one of shock or revulsion – they stood and applauded Pianka’s call for mass genocide.Saying the public was not ready to hear the information presented, Pianka began by exclaiming, We’re no better than bacteria!, as he jumped into a doomsday malthusian rant about overpopulation destroying the earth.People like James Jay Lee are now turning such rhetoric into violent action, following in the footsteps of others like Francisco Lotero and 23-year-old Miriam Coletti, who killed themselves, their son, and attempted to kill their own baby as part of a suicide pact to bring attention to global warming.Charlie Manson – the mastermind of some of the most gruesome and horrific murders America has ever seen – and a man who expressed regret during interviews that he didn’t get the chance to kill 50 million humans – believes vehemently in the same doctrine pushed by top environmentalists and academics, and he has a willing band of creepy followers on the outside whose mindset differs little from members of the family who followed Manson’s orders in butchering eight people, a new cadre of followers more than eager to further this religion of death.
Manson’s advocacy for the religion of death, and his call for violence in the name of global warming and overpopulation, would be dismissed as the inane rantings of an evil psychopath if it were not shared by people holding significant positions of power in government, academia and science today.If this doctrine of neo-eugenics, also shared by crazed gunman James Jay Lee, the extended Manson Family, the parents in Argentina who killed their kids for climate change, and some of the top environmental scientists and academics in the world, is allowed to take hold, we can expect to see many more bizarre and tragic incidents like that witnessed last week in Silver Spring, Maryland.Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America’s most listened to late night talk show.
The Impact of Fiat Money as the World’s Reserve Currency
David Redick Activist Post September 7, 2010
The creation of fiat official government money has had a profound effect in history and on our nation and the world today. Fiat means it is worth whatever the government says it is (its face value), although the material of which it is made may have more or less intrinsic market value. Examples would include both valuable silver dollars and worthless paper, each declared to be worth $1; and today’s American Eagle bullion coin with a face value of $50 for one ounce of gold.When a country creates too much fake money, sellers avoid it for payment. Photo: David Muir.Normally, when a country creates too much fake money, sellers avoid it for payment, or stop buying its bonds due to its falling value, and the party is soon over. However, the U.S. is in a unique position never seen in the history of the world. Our fiat paper money is the primary de facto world’s reserve currency (anyone will accept it for payment and keep it as cash, or as a dollar-denominated asset; banks keep it as their reserves, like gold). We can create new money out of thin-air, and sellers of goods and services worldwide will accept it.We can also pay our debts with it, even as the federal government spends to excess.We have abused the privileged status of the U.S. dollar in many immoral and counterproductive ways. It is the underlying cause of our major problems, such as jobs being exported due to excess imports of goods (other countries would run out of money; the U.S. can create more as needed!), strange banking and securities deals based on loose money, excess personal spending and debt, and wars.One cannot underestimate the importance of our ability to pay debts to other nations, and not be required to convert to their money. This conversion would normally trigger market valuation, which could collapse the value of the U.S. dollar. Conversely, other nations must buy dollars to pay for most imports, and face declining exchange rates if they have expanded their money supply too much. We have abused this reserve status, and as of mid-2009 other nations started seeking alternatives (yuan, yen, a basket of currencies, etc.).
Most people are not aware that the reserve currency is used for most payments between other nations; for example, India pays Brazil for coffee with U.S. dollars. Hence, all nations keep a supply of U.S. dollars to use in trade. All banks are required to have sufficient reserves in order to show a strong asset base for the bank’s obligations (mainly demand and time deposits). Since the USD has been valued by the world system to be as good as gold, it is known as a reserve currency and used instead of gold to fund these bank reserves. The Dollar has been used in about 90% of international transactions since its ascendancy in the 1920s, but has become weaker since 2000, and declined to 70% or less by 2009. About 30% of international deals are now done in Euros and Yen, but that is increasing as the economies and currencies of China and others grow stronger. Indeed, China started using its yuan for international transactions in 2010, and also allowed foreign firms to create yuan-denominated private equity funds.There have been a series of international agreements to manage currency. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank were born of these deals. Both are counterproductive causes of spending and distortions (including feeding corrupt governments), and should be abolished along with the Federal Reserve.Redeemability was restricted more and more until the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement, which set rules to: 1) Allow only nations to redeem paper for gold between each other (not people; a form of the Gold Bullion Exchange standard). 2) Create the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to handle its transactions. 3) Set the USD as the world’s official reserve currency, with a fixed value of $35 per ounce of gold.The US engaged in so much monetary expansion (inflation of the money supply) after WW2 it lost much of its value and flooded Europe with so-called Euro-dollars. France finally started demanding gold for most of their paper dollars, which peaked with De Gaulle’s famous press conference on Feb. 4, 1965 where he described the U.S. as having an exorbitant privilege as the world’s reserve currency, which allowed us to pay our debts with money created out of thin air! De Gaulle said:There can be no other criterion, no other standard, than gold. Gold that never changes, that can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins . . . that has no nationality and that is eternally and universally accepted as the ultimate fiduciary value par excellence.France started redeeming their paper dollars to gold, but Nixon soon refused to remit gold to any nation (we were running out), and then abrogated Bretton Woods on Aug. 15, 1971, setting the dollar afloat with no redeemability. Within a few years, all nations had done the same, including conservative Switzerland. Whoopee! Everybody could make money out of thin air! The Fed destroys the value of our money by excess expansion of the money supply. Proof is shown in the start and end purchase power amounts below, which are from www.measuringworth.com:
It took $1,202.05 in the year 1912 for the same purchase power as $1,000 in the year 1774 (a 17.7% loss in 138 yrs, or 0.13 % per yr).It took $22,427.40 in the year 2008 for the same purchase power as $1,000 in the year 1913 (a 95.5% loss in 95 yrs, or 1.0% per yr). Almost eight times worse than before the Fed! A decline in purchasing power of the dollar, and thus price increases, always follow a rapid and excess (over 5% per year) increase in the money supply (monetary inflation). As shown below, the dollar has lost 95% of its value from 1913 (when the Fed started) to 2010, but 80% of that loss occurred after Nixon cut the Bretton Woods tie to gold in 1971, increasing the money supply even faster. Other factors, such as a reduced supply of goods and services, can cause price increases, but monetary inflation clearly has caused the most harm:Source: Byron King, www.agorafinancial.com.The US dollar has lost over 95% of its purchasing power since 1913 due to excess monetary inflation by the Fed by creating new money to pay bills. This has been the main cause of the 2,000% increase in prices since 1913. Excess money creation prior to 1913 resulted in short-term inflation and panic runs on insolvent banks, but the Fed allowed long-term abuse by bailing-out such banks, which in turn caused the moral hazard of the banks taking excess risks by seeking casino profits for the last 97 years and counting! A special monetary expansion event occurred in late 2008 when Bernanke produced the now infamous Bailout Spike by injecting almost $1 trillion of new money into the U.S. economy. On April 15, 2008, the Fed held $866 billion in assets, which served as the monetary base for the nation. On April 15, 2009, it held $2.2 trillion. A decline in purchasing power of the dollar will follow this increase in the money supply.Internationally, the USD emerged as the world’s reserve currency after WWI because all fiat paper money is actually viewed as a share in the economy of the issuer. Thus, the paper of a large and stable government and economy has good value; it is the best choice within the world’s fake money system. Until recently, the U.S. was without question the world’s strongest economy, and thus the USD had good value as a share in USA, Inc. Since 1971, however, the U.S. has abused its currency by inflating its supply even more than other countries, borrowed and spent to excess, and the dollars’ value has subsequently decreased (prices increased) rapidly ever since on both the international exchange basis (about 4:1 against western Europe legacy currencies from 1971 to 1999, then a loss of about 2:1 against the Euro from 1999 to 2008; 0.8 to 1.5 US$ per Euro), and by about 10:1 domestically (price increase of cars, pizza, etc.; things not subsidized or under price controls). Thus our share of USA Inc. is decreasing in value and confidence as viewed by other nations, and they are seeking less dependency on the USD as the primary reserve currency for the world. This has massive implications on our ability to create new money to pay our bills to other countries, and could result in a crash (loss of 50% or more of purchasing power) of the U.S. dollar.
During the 2000 to 2007 boom times, Wall Street had been securitizing bundles of various weak and bad debt instruments (subprime mortgages, credit card debt, etc.), then getting their complicit rating agencies (Moodys, S&P, etc.) to falsely label them AAA. By doing so, they could sell them worldwide to get them off their books, and then make more money by making new loans to other weak borrowers. Foreign banks and investors happily bought trillions of dollars of these securities because they were primarily based on U.S. real estate, had high interest income, and were apparently backed by the U.S. government. The process was corrupt from the start, but was pushed by Congress and Wall Street elites, many of whom made hundreds of millions each in bonuses. As the false prosperity slowed, and caused loss of U.S. jobs, then mortgage foreclosures, these fake securities lost value, and the worldwide crash started in late 2008.The countries we buy imports from (China leads) accumulate billions of U.S. dollars and buy our T-bills to get some interest (and help feed future purchases?). This is a recycling of fake money, with interest paid by fake money, with all parties hoping it will last forever! There are signs that the game might be up: China and Russia suggested at the Jan-2009 World Economic Forum in Davos that a new system is needed to replace the USD as the world’s primary reserve currency. It has been a fun party since 1944, but our era of financing wars, Empire-USA, foreign aid, imports, and homeland spending with fake money is about to end. Other nations are tired of, and can’t afford, our exorbitant privilege of being both a fiat currency and the world’s primary reserve currency.David Redick has authored two books Monetary Revolution USA, and Rebuild America Now. Mr. Redick is a Ron Paul Style Republican running for Wisconsin and supports establishing a state bank.
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/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE SEPT 07,2010
09:30 AM -3.25
10:00 AM -90.89
10:30 AM -80.00
11:00 AM -64.63
11:30 AM -62.36
12:00 PM -65.24
12:30 PM -78.78
01:00 PM -81.55
01:30 PM -80.30
02:00 PM -74.81
02:30 PM -80.20
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03:30 PM -95.96
04:00 PM -107.24 10,340.69
S&P 500 1091.84 -12.67
NASDAQ 2208.89 -24.86
GOLD 1,258.80 +7.70
OIL 73.80 -0.80
TSE 300 12,102.00 -42.90
CDNX 1594.96 +29.00
S&P/TSX/60 705.13 -2.90
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -51 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -95 points at low today.
Dow -1 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,259.50.OIL opens at $73.84 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -109 points at low today so far.
Dow -1 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -109 points at low today.
Dow -1 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,266.90 (NOT AT CLOSE)
NO SUCH PEOPLE AS PALESTINIANS.THE MUSLIMS CAN'T EVEN SAY PALESTINE,THEY SAY BALESTINE BECAUSE THEY CAN'T EVEN HAVE A P IN THERE VOCABULARY.HOW CAN A PEOPLE NOT EVEN PROPERLY HAVE A LAND WHEN THEY CAN NOT EVEN PRONOUNCE THEIR OWN TERRITORY.GODS PROOF ITS ISRAELS LAND AND NOT THE ARAB,MUSLIMS.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2513
ROSH HASHANA
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2512
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.(TR 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 banks throw their weight behind Nabucco pipeline
VALENTINA POP 06.09.2010 @ 19:54 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The EU's Nabucco gas pipeline received a boost on Monday as the European Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank made a first written commitment that may lend the project up to €4billion, half of its total cost.International financing institutions are very conservative in their assessments, so if they indicate they are ready to commit funding, they usually end up doing it, Thomas Barrett from the EIB said during a joint press briefing in Brussels.The potential financing package, pending approval of the environmental and social feasibility studies, will consist of up to €2 billion from the EIB, €1.2 billion from the EBRD and around €800 million from the World Bank. The European Commission has already earmarked €200 million for the project, provided the green light from investors is given by the end of this year or beginning of 2011. The total cost of the project is estimated at €7.9 billion. The financial commitment from international banks is aimed at alleviating fears in supplier countries – notably Azerbaijan and Iraq – that the consortium lacks the proper funding for the 3,300 to 4,000 km long pipeline aimed at breaking the Russian monopoly on gas exports from the Caspian Sea region via an alternative route.
Construction will start in 2012, operation of the pipeline is expected to start in 2015,Nabucco managing director Reinhard Mitschek said during the same briefing, while also signalling flexibility on the date of one year earlier or later, depending on the customers' needs. The 2 million tonnes of steel will be laid through Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria, and secure a maximum of 31 billion cubic metres a year. The gas demand of the EU's 27 member states is expected to rise from 483 billion cubic metres in 2009 to 603 billion in 2020. The Nabucco project has developed only slowly since 2002, when gas officials from the five countries involved gathered in Vienna and dubbed the pipeline Nabucco after listening to Verdi's eponymous opera.Lack of political support, haggles over transit conditions with Turkey and a pricing dispute with supplier country Azerbaijan have delayed construction. Mr Mitschek repeatedly stressed that Nabucco is a transporting company and that gas supplies and pipeline capacity will be bid on through open tender.We have to synchronise Nabucco first to the gas supply sources, Mr Mitschek said. Once the gas supply has been secured, the open season tender process for transporting gas will begin by the end of the year or in the first quarter of next year, he said.Some 16 billion cubic metres could be secured from Azerbaijan, in talks which are scheduled to start this week in Baku. But company officials from the German energy firm RWE say that the first Azeri gas could only start flowing in 2017. A much earlier prospect would be Iraqi gas from the northern Kurdish region, starting in 2015.RWE has already initiated prospective talks with the regional government from autonomous Kurdistan and offered support in developing export capacity, along with an internal grid, as the northern Iraqis still rely on gas canisters to prepare their meals and heat up their homes.The government in Baghdad on Sunday however slammed as illegal the memorandum of understanding, stressing that all gas export agreements need to be signed by the central authorities.Of course we'll talk with the central government in Iraq, Stefan Jurdisch from RWE said during a separate briefing on Monday. But he also pointed to the fact that since March, the government in Baghdad is in formation phase.We'll see how the political talks go. We need a mature government to deal with this issue."
Mr Jurdisch stressed that by the end of the year investors will have to know on which gas to count first – either from Azerbaijan or from Irak – because there are technical issues related to how these connecting branches are fed into the main pipeline.Meanwhile, Bankwatch, a watchdog monitoring the way public funds are spent on energy projects, has lambasted the decision of the three international lenders.
There are a million and one reasons for the EIB, the EBRD and the IFC not to back Nabucco, namely the urgent energy saving measures in the region's homes and businesses that can reduce CO2 emissions massively and create hundreds of thousands of jobs, Piotr Trzaskowski from Bankwatch said in a statement.One particularly contentious issue is the possibility of linking up the Azeri fields over the Caspian Sea to the offshore Turkmen fields, which have much more unexplored gas. There is a high probability that so-called European energy security via Nabucco will be reliant upon major gas supplies from Turkmenistan, an oppressive regime state that ranks alongside North Korea in widely-recognised human rights rankings, Bankwatch said.
Ireland insists not on same road as Greece despite ballooning bank debt
LEIGH PHILLIPS 06.09.2010 @ 17:47 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Ireland's finance minister, Brian Lenihan, in Brussels for discussions with the European Commission over the bail-out of nationalised Anglo Irish Bank, whose costs are ballooning, insisted the debt black hole at the heart of the company will not bankrupt the government.The bank has recently announced that it will probably need some €25 billion in fresh capital, equivalent to a full 19 percent of the country's GNP. Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's has said that it believes this to be low-balling the true figure, estimating that the real cost could come to €35 billion.The vast sums have frightened markets, which worry Dublin will have trouble paying its debt.Finance minister Brian Lenihan met with competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia on Monday (6 September) to discuss options for the bank, which recently posted the largest loss in Irish corporate history.
According to domestic media reports, before heading to Brussels on Monday, Mr Lenihan stressed that it is simply not the case the bail-out could bankrupt the state and that the debts that have effectively transferred from private hands to the public were infuriating but manageable.Management have put forward a case that if the bank were allowed to engage in lending, it might reduce the cost to the taxpayer further, he said. The government's two options are to wind the bank down over a certain period of time or break up the institution in two, into a good bank and a bad bank, a proposal put forward by Anglo Irish management.
The EU executive is to give its opinion by the end of September.The minister's words came after an ex-chief-economist of the International Monetary Fund, writing in the New York Times last week, warned that markets are beginning to see Ireland as Europe's next Greece.Ireland, simply put, appears insolvent under plausible possibilities with current policies, Simon Johnson wrote in a blog posting co-authored with Peter Boone, a London School of Economics professor.The total debts of Irish banks could result in a charge to government debt equivalent to a third of GNP, he said, atop a fiscal debt currently on 15 percent of national income. With GNP falling, he said that even with the planned government cuts of 2-3 percent of GNP, a similar deficit is envisaged for 2011.The nation probably cannot afford these debts, he added.Standard & Poor's last week cut Ireland's credit rating to AA-, its lowest position in 15 years. Credit-default-swap markets are now pricing in a 25 percent risk that the country will default some time in the next five years. The government is in a tricky situation. Long held up as a model for other indebted countries by Brussels and Frankfurt for its stubborn commitment to impose cuts to public spending, the promised return to growth has failed to materialise. Tom McDonnell, an analyst with Irish economic think-tank Tasc, told this website that initial estimates of the size of Anglo Irish's debt in 2009 of €4 billion had climbed to €12 billion by March this year and now €25 billion, a figure that represents a cost over the next 10 years of €6,000 for every Irish citizen or €14,000for everyone of working age - or €3 billion a year to the taxpayer.It is higher than what a pensioner or someone on minimum wage earns in a year, he said. It is exactly equivalent to the cuts to the budget. One year of Anglo Irish cancels out a year of savings.For each of the next 10 years, Anglo Irish will be the fourth biggest government expenditure after social welfare, health and education.
The analyst said it was time for the government to develop a definitive policy, with a timescale for paying off the debt as well as public acknowledgement of the true scale of the cost and renegotiation of with bond holders.The commission today did not offer comment on the subject of the various options for Anglo Irish Bank today other than to say We do not carry out our state aid enquiries in public.Speaking to EUobserver following the meeting, commission competition spokeswoman Amelia Torres said that the meeting with Mr Lenihan, which in the end covered the Irish banking sector as a whole, had been constructive and enabled us to progress.Any broader concerns about the state of Irish government finances are purely speculative.
Troubles mount for EU bid to re-draw economic government
– Mon Sep 6, 5:15 pm ET
BRUSSELS (AFP) – Plans to radically re-draw cross-border economic government across Europe hit a stumbling block on Monday 10 days from a deadline for concrete action set by European Union leaders.The fourth meeting of EU president Herman Van Rompuy's task force, charged with learning the lessons of the global financial crisis and the debt chaos it left in its wake across the eurozone, ended with too many voices, too may views, in the words of one minister, Slovakia's Ivan Miklos.The discussions are stuck, there's a block, admitted a European diplomat after some four hours of talks. It can't be ruled out that with signs of economic trouble up ahead, certain governments are less inclined than before to toughen budgetary discipline.An in-depth discussion on national fiscal frameworks, macro-economic surveillance and sanctions, according to Van Rompuy, resulted in an order for experts to pursue their work enabling him to complete his oral report to national leaders at a summit on September 16.However, a six-line statement made no reference to detailed ideas repeatedly raised over recent months including potential financial sanctions for persistently wayward eurozone countries.Miklos' country is one of nine eastern European member states that have newly issued a demand that the costs of pension reform be written off in their deficit and debt reporting, adding a new complication to the drive to craft automatic sanctions for offenders.
He stressed that if we want to consider debt as part of the sanctions, this is connected, but warned that there are a lot of open questions which resulted in what he termed insufficient progress.Ministers broadly agree that the EU's Stability and Growth Pact, which restricts room for maneouvre with national finances, needs strengthened, but they appear no closer to seeing eye-to-eye on when automatic penalties should kick in.Germany's Wolfgang Schaeuble said Europe would have to be a little bit patient in order to come up with creative better rules for the preventive character of the (pact).On his way into the talks, he had already conceded that with each passing week it seemed that the enthusiasm for learning the lessons is weakening bit by bit.Sanctions ideas including penalties for poorer countries or the suspension of voting rights -- the favoured mechanism in Berlin and Paris -- are do-able but very complex to put in motion, warned a top-level diplomat who requested anonymity.The first (idea) risks being seen as discrimination by Europe's poor nations because they are the biggest recipients of grants, the source added. The second raises major legal problems with treaty change doubtless required.Others, though, gave a more upbeat assessment, France's Christine Lagarde saying that while there were no milestones at this stage, they had held very good discussions within the context of an overall package.
EU economic task force reconvenes as disquiet returns to markets
LEIGH PHILLIPS 06.09.2010 @ 10:40 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - As EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy's economic governance task force reconvenes on Monday (6 September), the fiscal situation of many in the bloc remains parlous. Concerns of a double-dip recession echo across the Atlantic, and bond yields for the EU's more troubled countries stubbornly keep rising as if the promise made in May of a €750-billion eurozone bail-out should things go truly wrong had never been made.Having first met toward the end of May and a further two times before the summer recess, the task-force set itself four goals under the rubric of stronger economic cohesion of the union - a phrase that from the beginning produced conflicting interpretations from London, France and Berlin.Beyond the construction of new crisis-response mechanisms - some of which are now already being imposed - the task force is also to come up with proposals for strengthening economic governance, to give teeth to EU rules on budget discipline that have historically been flouted with impunity and, finally, a way to reduce the divergences in competitiveness.While in principle all member states back the idea of tougher discipline for countries that break any new rules put in place, there are wide divergences as to what form such sanctions should take. Germany backs the idea of a suspension of voting rights in the Council.
This is an unpopular position as it would likely require treaty change, although Finland appears to have signed up to the idea.Finland and Germany will negotiate very hard in the Van Rompuy group (to ensure) that sanctions are imposed not after the three percent limit has been exceeded for a long time, but that we learn from history and act quickly and decisively, German chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters after speaking to Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi last week.Meanwhile, the lesser sanctions being mooted, such as a restriction on structural funds, are raising hackles in the eastern, poorer states, who receive the bulk of such monies. The wealthier West would be less likely to be hurt by such a penalty, as they do not receive as much from these sources, and Poland and other newer member states have in the last few weeks given notice that this is a red line for them.Other proposals have also provoked much debate. EU leaders have backed plans to submit budget outlines to Brussels, but drew the line at handing over the full draft budget to the EU commission for approval before national parliaments have had their say.Finally, and perhaps most controversially, Mr Van Rompuy's wish to reduce divergences in competitiveness is likely to hit the biggest hurdles as this points towards a harmonisation of taxation, social spending and labour laws. But such big concepts may have to be put on the back burner even before they begin to provoke controversy as leaders return to a reality not indistinct from the height of the sovereign debt crisis that shook the union in the spring.Although Greece has been guaranteed a €110-billion lifeline and the rest of the eurozone €750 billion, bond yields continue to be exacting, with investors looking for nine percentage points more in interest to buy Greek issuances than for their German equivalent, similar to the situation Athens found itself in a few months ago, while Ireland is up 3.5 percent on German bonds. This comes as eurozone governments look to raise some €80 billion from capital markets this month, twice what they had looked to do in August. Some analysts fear they may have difficulties raising the cash.The shift of private debt from the banks to the state has left many in a grim situation. Dublin in particular faces the black hole of debt that is the nationalised Anglo Irish Bank. If the commercial property market continues to suffer, the bank could require as much as €35 billion, a likelihood that has resulting in Ireland's credit rating to be ratcheted downward.
Finally the big unknown is how citizens will react. Already the austerity measures imposed on the so-called PIIGS economies has provoked widespread opposition, and, in Greece, civil unrest. On 29 September, when European economics commissioner Olli Rehn is scheduled to unveil the EU executives own proposals for sanctions parallel to those being discussed by Mr Van Rompuy's task force, trade unions across the bloc will hold an pan-European 'day of action' against austerity, with general strikes already announced in a number of states.Investors, national parliaments and EU citizens will all be keeping an eye on how the taskforce, the commission and finance ministers navigate these waters.President Van Rompuy is to deliver a preliminary task force report next Thursday as premiers and presidents meet in Brussels Following this, he will try to achieve agreement on an economic governance package with concrete proposals ahead of an official submission to be delivered ahead of the regular autumn summit.
Tory MEP to co-chair EU parliament group
ANDREW RETTMAN 06.09.2010 @ 09:28 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The anti-federalist European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the EU parliament is preparing to elect a British co-leader to share power with its Polish chief.British Conservative MEP Timothy Kirkhope already does the co-chair job informally, but his role is to be formalised under a proposal likely to be voted on by the group in late September, ECR spokesman James Hultum told EUobserver.Mr Kirkhope is a 65-year-old lawyer from Newcastle-upon-Tyne in northeast England. He has been in the EU parliament for the past 10 years and has led the Conservative delegation for most of the past five years.He is a critic of the Lisbon Treaty, which he has called a dramatic step towards the superstate feared by many. He is currently a member of the civil liberties committee, where he has worked on issues such as freedom of information in Italy and US access to EU citizens' bank data. Mr Kaminski, from Poland's Law and Justice party, has had a hard time in his past year at the helm of the group. He has battled allegations of anti-Semitism and homophobia in the British press. He has also cited family problems as a reason for his low participation in parliamentary activity - according to the votewatch.eu project, Mr Kaminski has an attendance record of just 65 percent, placing him in the bottom 30 out of 736 deputies.The Law and Justice party was itself weakened when many of its top members died in the Smolensk air crash in April and when its leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, later lost the presidential elections.Some commentators have linked the change in the leadership structure to the change in fortune of the ECR parties. Piotr Maciej Kaczynski, an analyst at the Brussels-based think-tank CEPS, told this website: This is the price Law and Justice had to pay for the Tories' not leaving the ECR after [winning] the spring UK elections. The position of [British Conservative party leader] Cameron in Europe has improved and the incentive for the Tories to leave is stronger.
The ECR group spokesman, Mr Hultum, said there is no truth in the speculation. Mr Kirkhope was to have to run the ECR group from its very inception last year. But a fellow Tory MEP, Edward McMillan-Scott, ran against Mr Kaminski for a parliament vice-president job in violation of a deal. The move saw the Tories expel Mr McMillan-Scott and give the group leader post to Mr Kaminski to make peace. Mr Hultum noted that when the EU parliament President, Jerzy Buzek, steps down at the end of his mandate in 2011, Mr Kaminski will be the only MEP from the former Communist member states who will have access to the Conference of Presidents, the parliament's highest decision-making body.
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.
Russia's Putin hints at Kremlin return in 2012 By Andreas Rinke – Mon Sep 6, 3:21 pm ET
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gave a strong hint on Monday that he would run for president in 2012, a step that would almost certainly give him a second spell as Kremlin chief.Putin is the dominant partner in a ruling tandem with President Dmitry Medvedev, the younger man he tapped as his favored successor when a constitutional two-term limit kept the former KGB spy out of the 2008 presidential race.When asked if running for president in the 2012 election would damage Russia's political system, Putin cited Franklin Roosevelt who led the United States from 1933 until his death in office in April 1945, before a two-term limit was imposed.U.S. President Roosevelt was voted in four times in a row because this did not contradict the American constitution, Putin told Russia experts from the Valdai discussion group at a meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
The Russian constitution prevented Putin from running in 2008 after serving a second consecutive four-year term as president, but he will be free to run again in 2012. Medvedev changed the constitution in late 2008 to extend future presidential terms to six years.Neither I nor President Medvedev will do anything which contradicts current Russian legislation or the country's fundamental law -- the constitution, Putin said.How we will act in 2011 or at the start of 2012 we -- I and President Medvedev -- have said this repeatedly: we will act based on the real situation in the country, on what we have done, on the mood in society, Putin said.It is too early to speak about this, though, Putin said. We must do our jobs. Each of us is doing our job and in my view we are doing it effectively.
CHOSE TO SHARE POWER
Both Putin, 57, and Medvedev, 44, have suggested that one of them will run for president in 2012, and that they will agree in advance which one it will be.No other Russian politician commands the same authority or popular support as Putin, though some diplomats caution that Russia's political system would be far too dependent on the fate of one man if Putin did return to the Kremlin.When pressed on the long-term dangers of concentrating power in one person's hands, Putin said he wanted to create a balanced political system.We need people to understand that there is nothing wrong with constitutional changes of power. But that will take time, Putin said. I agree that it is wrong for just one person to hold all the power. That is why I chose to share with Medvedev.
Barak Meets Putin in Russia, Clinches Military Deals
by Hillel Fendel AUG 6,10
Defense Minister Ehud Barak paid a 24-hour visit to Russia Monday, meeting visit with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The contents of the talks are not being publicized, but it was announced that Russia agreed to buy Israeli military equipment.The 90-minute meeting took place in Putin’s official residence. Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov was also present. The talks are assumed to have centered on Iran's nuclear program and Russia’s role in fueling the Bushehr reactor, Russian arms sales to Damascus and Tehran, and on combating extreme Islamist terrorist groups. Serdvukov’s spokesperson said the two defense ministers were planning to sign an agreement on military cooperation that will regulate cooperation between the two countries in the military sphere over the next five years. The agreement stipulates that Russia and Israel will exchange experiences and information in the spheres of mutual interest, including international security, she said.It was announced afterwards that Russia had purchased 12 Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles, and that some 50 servicemen are being trained to operate them.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Abbas’ Threats May Throw Direct Talks in Clinton’s Lap
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu AUG 6,10
Palestinian Authority officials continued to hammer home a hard line on its demands from Israel, raising the possibility that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may be left holding the bag in the next round of talks in Egypt next week.Despite PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ tough talk last week, U.S. President Barack Obama and his advisors carefully choreographed talks with him and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu without a hitch. However, the only substantial outcome was an agreement for a new round of discussions, this time to be overseen by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt next week.Key issues--the building freeze against new Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria, the status of Jerusalem and recognizing Israel as a Jewish state--were not publicly discussed in Washington.
Abbas and Netanyahu couched their positions in polite diplomatic language, but PA leaders have made it clear the past two days they are determined as ever that Israel meet all of their conditions for talks for a new Arab country headed by the PA.Abbas told the Jerusalem-based Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper Monday he would pack my bags and leave before compromising on the borders of a future PA state. He also left no room for discussion on the Arab demand that Israel allow several million Arabs living in foreign countries to move to Israel on the basis of ancestral claims.As reported by Israel National News Sunday, Abbas reiterated demands he did not state publicly in Washington, particularly that Israel extend its 10-month temporary moratorium on building new Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria. Israel froze the building until September 26 as a concession to encourage the PA to sit down with Prime Minister Netanyahu, but the PA rejected direct talks until last week’s summons by President Obama.PA chief negotiator Saeb Erekat (pictured) also poured cold water on American officials’ statements that another round of talks would follow those in Egypt. One report said the third round would take place in Jerusalem, but Erekat categorically stated that there was nothing to talk about unless the PA sees positive results, from its viewpoint, in the discussions with Clinton next week. The time now is for decisions not for negotiations, he told Army Radio Monday,The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the parent body of the Palestinian Authority, issued a statement Monday that no international conventions should be held anywhere in Jerusalem because most of the world does not recognize the city as Israel’s capital. The PLO did not specifically say that if it would refuse to sit down with Israeli leaders in Jerusalem.
Whereas Obama’s officials lined up support from Jordan and Egypt for the talks in Washington, Clinton will have to face a growing hard-line stand by Egypt, whose Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit on Monday rejected Israel’s insistence that the country be recognized as a Jewish State. He that such a definition would leave Israeli Arabs facing the danger of expulsion. Jews living in Judea and Samaria would be expelled in a future PA-controlled state. The PA would not accept any Israeli presence, whether civilian or military, on the Palestinian territories, Abbas declared.In contrast to the PA hard line, Prime Minister Netanyahu played the role of statesman Monday, telling visiting U.S. Congressmen that he is worried that Abbas will carry out his threat to stop the talks if his demands are not met. (IsraelNationalNews.com)
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.
IAEA: Syria Does Not Cooperate
by Elad Benari AUG 7,10
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Monday that a refusal by Syria to allow UN inspectors access to a site where secret nuclear activity may have taken place is endangering potential evidence in the investigation, according to a Reuters report.In a confidential report obtained by Reuters, the IAEA said that it has not been allowed to inspect the site for two years.With time, some of the necessary information may deteriorate or be lost entirely, wrote IAEA chief Yukiya Amano in the report.The site in question is the same site bombed by Israeli Air Forces exactly three years ago, in September of 2007. The CIA confirmed that the site, known as al-Kibar or Dair Alzour, was a nuclear facility meant to produce plutonium and partially funded by North Korea. Israel bombed the reactor before it attained its planned capacity to manufacture plutonium for nuclear weapons.The IAEA has already said earlier this year that some illicit atomic activity had taken place at the site, when it reported that inspectors found uranium traces during a 2008 visit to the site. IAEA now wishes to re-examine the site and take samples from rubble removed immediately after the air strike.
In the report, Amano urges Syria to cooperate in respect to Dair Alzour, and also calls on Syria to allow the IAEA access to three other Syrian sites under military control whose appearance was altered by landscaping after inspectors requested access to them.Earlier on Monday, the IAEA reported that Iran continues to snub the United Nations and has produced 2.8 tons of enriched uranium, and added that the Islamic Republic refuses to allow UN inspectors into the country, noting it recently took away the rights of two experienced inspectors to monitor Iran’s nuclear projects after they reported that Iran conducted undeclared nuclear experiments. Iran claims it barred entry to the inspectors because their reports were not accurate.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
UN nuke agency warns monitoring of Iran hampered By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer – Mon Sep 6, 3:15 pm ET
VIENNA – The U.N. atomic agency expressed alarm Monday about Iran's decision to bar some of its inspectors, suggesting that its efforts to monitor the country's nuclear program were suffering as a result.The unusually blunt International Atomic Energy Agency warning was voiced in a restricted report on Iran made available to The Associated Press that otherwise contained few surprises. It followed Iran's recent decision to strip two experienced inspectors of the right to monitor its nuclear activities after the two reported what they said were undeclared nuclear experiments.
The Islamic Republic says the reporting by the two was inaccurate, but the IAEA stands by the findings. And the 11-page IAEA document issued Monday devoted a special section to the complaint, reflecting the importance attached to it by IAEA chief Yukiya Amano.Such a section was included in only one previous report, after Iran stripped the right of dozens of inspectors in 2006 and 2007 — most of them in order to show displeasure over recently passed U.N. Security Council sanctions on the Islamic Republic.Monday's report said that objections by Iran to some experienced inspectors hampers the inspection process and thereby detracts from the Agency's capability to implement effective and efficient safeguards in Iran.Diplomats from three countries accredited to the agency echoed the IAEA's concerns in comments to the AP, saying Iran appeared keen to ban seasoned inspectors — particularly those from nuclear weapons countries with special skills that could help detect attempts to make nuclear arms.And a U.N. official who was a former IAEA inspector in Iran spoke of intense scrutiny while on such missions and the fear among inspectors that they would be banned from returning if they reported something the Iranians did not like.If you opened your eyes too much you ran the risk of being de-designated by the Iranians said the official who — like the diplomats — asked for anonymity because his information was confidential.He said he agreed with the concerns that Iran was weeding out experts most likely to discover secret programs designed to make weapons.
The IAEA doesn't teach you about weaponization, he said. Only experts from weapons countries are good at that kind of thing.Iran rejected allegations of selective bans and intimidation of IAEA inspectors, with Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Tehran's chief delegate to the agency calling them absolutely unjustified.Soltanieh told the AP that the IAEA currently has 150 inspectors able to work in Iran and noted that the report mentioned the country's approval of five additional inspectors.That, he said, is a clear indication that we have cooperated with the agency.The quarterly report, which was being circulated to the IAEA's 35-nation board and to the U.N. Security Council, also confirmed public statements by Iranian officials that the country continues to enrich uranium in contravention of U.N. Security Council demands.Iran insists it only wants to enrich uranium to create energy. But international concerns are high because enrichment can also create the fissile core of nuclear warheads — low enriched uranium is used as nuclear fuel but the same process can produce high enriched, weapons-grade material.The report noted that while the scope of enrichment had not significantly increased over the past year, output had been steady, with Iran now accumulating about 2.8 tons of low-enriched material — nearly enough for three nuclear bombs — since its program was revealed seven years ago. That translates to about 15 percent more such material than in May, when the last IAEA report was published.Separate enrichment for what Iran says will be fuel for its research reactor had produced about 22 kilograms — more than 45 pounds — of 20-percent enriched uranium.While still substantially less than the 90 percent needed to make weapons, production of 20 percent enriched material is of concern because it can be turned into weapons grade material more quickly than the low enriched uranium turned out by Iran's main enrichment facility. The report also said that Iran continued to stonewall the agency in its efforts to follow up on U.S. and other intelligence indicating past experiments meant to develop a nuclear weapons program and warned that chances of establishing the accuracy of such information were diminishing. With Iran refusing to engage on the issue for over two years, the possible deterioration in the availability of some relevant information increase the urgency of this matter, said the report.
In a separate report, the agency expressed similar concerns about Syria's refusal allow the IAEA to probe U.S. assertions that a facility destroyed three years ago by Israeli warplanes was a secretly built reactor meant to produce plutonium. After two years of investigations constrained by Syria's lack of cooperation, it is critical that Syria positively engage with the Agency ... without further delay,said that report.
Will Israel Have Its Own Air Force One?
by Elad Benari AUG 7,10
Israel’s Prime Minister may soon be able to fly overseas with the same comfort and amenities used by the American president.According to a report in Yediot Aharonot on Sunday, Israel’s Finance Ministry has issued a tender asking commercial airlines to submit offers for Israel’s version of Air Force One, the official call sign of the Boeing aircraft that transports the US President.The decision comes after many years of reliance on El-Al aircraft that are converted into an official plane, by removing seats and installing a bed for the use of the Prime Minister and his wife. A plane is refitted each time the PM has to make an official trip abroad.The tender for Israel’s version of Air Force One calls for offering one of three alternatives: an aircraft exclusively designated for VIP transport with around-the-clock availability, an aircraft that will continue commercial flights but be available for state use at a moment's notice, or a long-term lease with an airline that will be able to configure one of its fleet for state use within 72 hours. Also being taken into consideration is the option of using an Air Force plane, which would be in regular use but be available on 24 hours' notice.According to experts, the Prime Minister's Office will likely choose to sign a contract for alternative number two: a Boeing 767 that will continue to fly regular commercial flights and be converted for state use on short notice. The winning plane will have to offer high availability over the next 15 years and be able to fly at least 10,000 km without having to land for refueling.
The Israeli Air Force One will reportedly feature rooms built into modular platforms and connectable in segments for easy reconfiguration, and will also include sporting amenities. The Israeli Prime Minister will enjoy a personal suite with a bathroom and shower. The plane will feature a business suite for senior officials, a multi-media conference room, encrypted satellite communication gear, an infirmary and special seating for aides and body guards, and measures against to counter shoulder-fired missiles. The plane will be divided into different sections: A VIP section at the front for the Prime Minister, a section similar to the first class section of a commercial jet with 20 reclining seats for the entourage, and a third section with some 80 economy-class seats for security personnel, junior assistants, and the like. The plane will have secure partitions between sections in order to ensure privacy for the Prime Minister.According to the report, companies which have already expressed interest include Israir, Arkia and LeadAir. Some figures from the business sector who are not currently in the airline industry have also shown an interest.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Iran Possesses 2.8 Tons of Uranium Despite Obama's Sanctions
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu AUG 6,10
Iran continues to snub the United Nations and has produced 2.8 tons of enriched uranium, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported Monday. Iran previously enriched uranium to a five percent grade, but increased the purification level to nearly 20 percent last February.U.S. President has claimed that harsher sanctions against Iran have affected Iran, but the latest nuclear report indicates that the sanctions, which may be hurting Iran economically, have not stopped it from enriching the key ingredient for a nuclear bomb. Americans officials said Monday they are worried by the IAEA report.The IAEA added that the Islamic Republic refuses to allow UN inspectors into the country, noting it recently took away the rights of two experienced inspectors to monitor Iran’s nuclear projects after they reported that Iran conducted undeclared nuclear experiments. Iran claims it barred entry to the inspectors because their reports were not accurate.Iran recently began operating the Bushehr nuclear reactor, in addition to the Natanz nuclear facility. It has increased production of low-enriched uranium by 15 percent since May, despite harsher sanctions placed by the United Nations and the United States.CNN and the French news agency AFP said they obtained the confidential IAEA report, which reputedly stated, Based on an overall analysis undertaken by the agency of all the information available to it, the agency remains concerned about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed nuclear-related activities involving military-related organizations, including activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile.The agency told media that previous inspections revealed that several seals had been broken on equipment at Natanz. Iran claimed that the breakages were accidental.The repeated objection by Iran to the designation of inspectors with experience in Iran's nuclear fuel cycle and facilities hampers the inspection process, the report said, according to AFP.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
9/11 Documentary: Rice Ordered Bush Not to Return to Washington
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu AUG 6,10
A British documentary on the Al-Qaeda aerial 9/11 terrorist attacks nine years ago reveals that Condoleezza Rice hung up the phone on President George W. Bush after he refused to listen to her orders to stay put and not return to Washington.The British Channel 4 program also reports that so many top officials were huddled in an underground bunker that they almost ran out of oxygen, according to the The London Daily Mirror, which previewed the documentary to be is be aired Monday night.Rice was National Security Advisor at the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in the suicide attacks on the World Trade Center’s twin towers in New York and on the Pentagon. Another plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania before the suicide terrorists could guide it to a target, probably the White House. After the crash, Rice and other officials thought it had been shot down. Bush insisted on returning from the south, where he was visiting at the time of the attacks. You cannot come back here, she told the president. The United States of America is under attack; you have to go to safety. We don't know what is going on here.When he argued with her, she raised her voice and said, You cannot come back here and hung up the phone. She told Channel 4, I had never raised my voice to the President before.In Washington, so many officials crowded together in a bunker that the oxygen levels started dropping and the secret service came in telling people they weren't essential and to leave, she revealed.Another foul-up was that a government communications system did not operate properly, forcing Bush to use an unsecured line to Washington.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
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.
Indonesian volcano erupts again; strongest one yet By BINSAR BAKKARA, Associated Press Writer AUG 6,10
TANAH KARO, Indonesia – An Indonesian volcano shot black ash three miles (5,000 meters) into the air early Tuesday — its most powerful eruption since springing back to life after four centuries of dormancy.The force of Mount Sinabung's explosion could be felt five miles (eight kilometers) away.This one was really terrifying, said Anissa Siregar, 30, as she and her two sleepy children arrived by truck at an emergency shelter near the base, adding that the whole mountain shook violently for at least three minutes. It just keeps getting worse.The volcano in North Sumatra province erupted last week for the first time since 1600, catching many scientists off guard. With more than 129 active volcanoes to watch, local vulcanologists had failed to monitor it for rising magma, slight uplifts in land and other signs of seismic activity.There are fears that current activity could foreshadow a much more destructive explosion in the next few weeks or months, though it is possible, too, that the mountain will go back to sleep after letting off steam.More than 30,000 people living along the volcano's fertile slopes have been relocated to cramped refugee camps, mosques and churches in nearby villages.But some — like Siregar, the mother who fled with her children — have insisted on returning to the danger zone to check on their homes and their dust covered crops.The government sent trucks to the mountain before Tuesday's eruption to help carry them back to safety.
Surono, who heads the nation's volcano alert center, said intensity at the mountain is clearly increasing.There were more than 80 volcanic earthquakes in the 24-hour lead up to the blast, compared to 50 on Friday, when ash and debris shot nearly two miles (3,000 meters) into the air.The eruption early Tuesday occurred just after midnight during a torrential downpour. Witnesses said volcanic ash and mud oozed down the mountain's slopes, flooding into abandoned homes.Indonesia is a seismically charged region because of its location on the so-called Ring of Fire — a series of fault lines stretching from the Western Hemisphere through Japan and Southeast Asia.
It has recorded some of the largest eruptions in history.The 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora buried the inhabitants of Sumbawa Island under searing ash, gas and rock, killing an estimated 88,000 people.The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa could be heard 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) away and blackened skies region-wide for months. At least 36,000 people were killed in the blast and the tsunami that followed.Associated Press Writer Niniek Karmini contributed to this report from Jakarta.
Galactic Supervolcano Seen Erupting With X-Rays
SPACE.com Space.com Staff space.com – Mon Sep 6, 10:15 am ET
A galactic supervolcano in the massive galaxy M87 is erupting, blasting gas outwards. The cosmic volcano — driven by a giant black hole in M87's center — is preventing hundreds of millions of new stars from forming. An image, taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array, captures the drama in action. [Photo of the galactic supervolcano.]Our results show in great detail that supermassive black holes have a surprisingly good control over the evolution of the galaxies in which they live, said Norbert Werner of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Melo Park, Calif., who led one of two studies of M87's black hole and its effects. The black hole's reach extends ever farther into the entire cluster, similar to how one small volcano can affect practically an entire hemisphere on Earth.
X-ray galaxy
M87 is about 50 million light-years from Earth and lies at the center of the Virgo cluster, which contains thousands of galaxies. M87 is filled with hot gas that emits X-ray light, which is detectable by Chandra. As the gas cools, it can fall toward the galaxy's center, where it should continue to cool even faster and form new stars.
Yet, radio observations from the Very Large Array suggest that in M87, jets of very energetic particles produced by the black hole interrupt this process. These jets lift up the relatively cool gas near the galaxy's center and produce shock waves in the galaxy's atmosphere from their supersonic speed.Scientists have found that the interaction of this cosmic eruption with the galaxy's environment is very similar to volcanic processes on Earth. In particular, the researchers compared it to the aftermath of the Eyjafjallajokull volcanic eruption, which forced much of Europe to close its airports earlier this year.The energetic particles produced near the black hole rise through the X-ray-emitting atmosphere of the cluster, lifting up the coolest gas near the center of M87 in their wake, similar to the way hot volcanic gases drag up clouds of dark ash.
Galaxy's gas plumes
In M87, the plumes of cooler gas being lifted upward contain as much mass as all of the gas contained within 12,000 light-years of the center of the galaxy cluster. The black hole-powered supervolcano is thus very efficient at blasting the galaxy free of the gas that would otherwise cool and form stars. This gas could have formed hundreds of millions of stars as massive as our own sun, if the black hole had not removed it from the center of the galaxy, said Evan Million, a graduate student at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., and lead author of a second paper to be published about M87.The eruption within M87 that lifted up the cooler gas likely occurred about 150 million years ago, but a smaller eruption only about 11 million years earlier produced the shock wave, the researchers said. The Chandra image was based on an observation lasting almost 7 days.The two papers describing these results will appear in the journal of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Floods displace thousands more in Ethiopia
– Mon Sep 6, 2:28 pm ET
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Floodwaters have displaced nearly 16,000 people in north-eastern Ethiopia, the UN said Monday, weeks after thousands of others were affected in the country's central region.Flooding in Afar, caused by the overflow of the Logia River and the Tendaho dam ... on 27 August, resulted in the displacement of approximately 15,600 people, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement.The agency said crops and livelihood assets were destroyed, roads submerged and bridges swept away.Flash floods sparked by heavy rainfall earlier in August had displaced more than 11,000 people in the central Amhara region and resulting mudslides killed 19 there, according to the UN.UNOCHA has warned that nearly 300,000 people could be affected in September as torrential rain continues to pound several regions.Ethiopia, home to over 80 million, is regularly hit by floods. According to the World Food Programme, more than 183,000 people were affected in 2007.In 2006, more than 600 people were killed and a further 300,000 affected by unusually heavy floods that ravaged several regions in the Horn of Africa country.
Death toll rises to 45 in Guatemala mudslides By LUIS ANGEL SAS, Associated Press Writer AUG 6,10
GUATEMALA CITY – Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and then the people trying to save them. The deaths raised the confirmed toll from mudslides in Guatemala to 45 as torrential rains pounded the country.Authorities said 25 people are confirmed dead and at least 15 are believed to be still buried beneath the debris in the village of Nahuala, where a first mudslide buried a bus and other vehicles, then a second one turned would-be rescuers into victims.At least 20 others died over the weekend elsewhere as a tropical depression saturated the ground and set off more than a dozen landslides around the country, according to the national disaster agency. The most recent slide, on a highway in northern Guatemala, killed one person and injured 26 on Sunday.In southern Guatemala, meanwhile, rescue workers used motorboats to reach about 100 families cut off by massive flooding in the town of Santa Ana Mixtan. Some residents sat on their roofs waiting to be evacuated, while others tried to drag bundles of their belongings through neck-deep water.In Nahuala, emergency crews and villagers rushed to the Inter-American highway on Saturday, picks and shovels in hand, after radio reports of the deadly slide — only to be swamped by the second cascade of rock and earth.Search and rescue efforts were suspended Sunday for fear that the mountainside could give way yet again, but digging resumed Monday with heavy machinery and fewer workers, said Sergio Cabanas, a Civil Protection director.Of the 100 people originally searching for bodies and survivors, only 33 remained, all of them soldiers and firefighters, Cabanas said.
And even they might not be able to recover the last of the bodies, Cabanas said. It's very dangerous to have personnel there.At least five bodies were pulled out Monday, said Mario Cruz, a firefighters' spokesman. Authorities initially said more than three dozen people were missing, but the estimate was lowered to 15 after further interviews with witnesses and relatives.Local police officer Suagustino Pascual Tuy said there had been several landslides along the Inter-American highway in the last year, and authorities knew of the danger.Last year there was a landslide there, 15 days ago there was a landslide, he said. But now a big one came.President Alvaro Colom, who visited the area and declared Monday a national day of mourning, said Guatemala must improve its disaster prevention efforts. He said more geologists should study the terrain in the country's hillsides.All told, there were 15 landslides at different spots along the Inter-American Highway — a section of the Pan-American Highway system — within in a 48-hour period, Communications Minister Guillermo Castillo said.Byron Pivaral, director of the government agency that oversees road construction, said widespread deforestation made it difficult for the land around the highway to absorb heavy rain. Along the highway, he said, people have cut down trees to plant corn and beans.Vice President Rafael Espada said there would be investigation to determine whether faulty road construction also contributed to the mudslides.
In wake of Earl, U.S. eyes other potential storms
– Sun Sep 5, 11:12 pm ET
MIAMI (Reuters) – The remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston look very likely to strengthen again as a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic and could threaten the Caribbean's Leeward Islands in coming days on a westward track, U.S. forecasters said on Sunday.The National Hurricane Center gave Gaston, which weakened to a remnant low-pressure area on Thursday soon after becoming a tropical cyclone, an 80 percent chance of redeveloping over the next 48 hours.An area of low pressure over the extreme southwestern Gulf of Mexico became a tropical depression on Sunday night with top sustained winds of 30 miles per hour, the Miami-based hurricane center said. The depression could strengthen to a tropical storm on Monday as it moves northwestward inland.The Mexican government issued a tropical storm warning for the Gulf coast from Tampico to the border with Texas.If they become tropical storms, these systems could be the new focus of weather concern in a recent flurry of 2010 Atlantic hurricane season activity, which saw Hurricane Earl brush the U.S. East Coast last week before coming ashore in Canada on Saturday and fizzling out.
Canadian energy companies were checking their facilities and operations after Earl's passage.The U.S. hurricane center said the remnant low of Gaston was located about 700 miles east of the Leeward Islands, battered by Earl last week.The low could redevelop into a tropical depression at any time today or tonight, the hurricane center said.It warned authorities in the Leeward Islands to monitor the system, but it was still too early to tell whether the Gaston remnant could eventually threaten the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, where major U.S. oil and gas production and refining operations are located, or also Florida.Meteorologist Jeff Masters of private forecaster Weather Underground predicted Gaston would pass over or just to the northeast of the Lesser Antilles Islands early on Tuesday.Gaston may threaten Puerto Rico on Wednesday, the Dominican Republic on Thursday, and Haiti, Jamaica and/or the Turks and Caicos Islands by Friday, depending upon the storm's interaction with a trough of low pressure expected to move off the U.S. East Coast later this week, Masters wrote in a blog posted on Sunday.Energy traders keep a close eye on potentially violent storms approaching the Gulf because it is home to about 30 percent of U.S. oil production, 11 percent of natural gas production and more than 43 percent of U.S. refinery capacity.The hurricane season runs from June 1 through November 30 and is currently in its peak period.(For the latest news on hurricanes click on http://www.reuters.com/subjects/hurricanes; for links to the National Hurricane Center http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/; for weather models http://www.skeetobiteweather.com/))(Reporting by Pascal Fletcher; Editing by Philip Barbara and Peter Cooney)
Earl loses tropical storm status after soaking Canada
– Sun Sep 5, 3:12 am ET
MONTREAL (AFP) – Earl lost its tropical storm status over Canada, US government forecasters announced, but the storm still left one person dead and nearly one million people without power in northeastern Canada.The storm also menaced the US East Coast but left it largely undamaged. Earl is now post-tropical, and weakening is expected during the next 48 hours, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.
Early Sunday, the center of the storm was located 180 miles (295 kilometers southwest of Mary's Harbour, in the Canadian region of Labrador, the NHC said.It was packing sustained winds of 65 miles (100 kilometers) an hour and moving north-northeast at 46 miles (74 kilometers) an hour.The center of the storm made landfall in southern Nova Scotia shortly after 11:00 am (1400 GMT) on Saturday, but the Canadian Hurricane Centre (CHC) later said its strength steadily fell as it buffeted the craggy coastline.Although weakened, Earl still pounded Halifax, the region's largest city, with high winds and rain.By late afternoon, one man was killed after falling off his boat in Nova Scotia and some 210,000 homes and 940,000 people in the region were without power.Greater Moncton International Airport canceled all flights Saturday, and Halifax Stanfield International Airport was under partial operation.
Earlier this week, Earl lashed several hundred kilometers (miles) of the US East Coast seaboard with heavy rains and strong winds, disrupting holiday plans for millions and prompting evacuations in North Carolina.It had also prompted hurricane warnings in the northeastern US state of Massachusetts, notably its vacation destinations including Cape Cod and the tiny islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.But while residents battened down the hatches, the storm dealt the region only a glancing blow.We had a lot of hype but no action, which was good, the wife of a former attendant at the historic Chatham Lighthouse on Cape Cod told AFP Saturday.
It's over. There's blue sky, sunshine, very little rain, said the woman who identified herself only as Mrs Davis, adding that winds and rain were strong overnight but did not cause major damage.Authorities were clear: coastal communities dodged a bullet.We're ecstatic it didn't happen, Craig Fugate, chief of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), told reporters, referring to the expected devastation.US communities suffered very minimal impacts, with no reports of fatalities, he said, and states were shutting down their emergency management centers.Residents of North Carolina were mopping up after a storm surge flooded roads on the low-lying barrier islands, as the high winds caused sporadic power outages.Local residents hunkered down along the beach paradise's commercial spine, Route 28, parallel to the Atlantic. They awoke to sunshine on Saturday, and quickly began pulling down plywood from storefront windows. We were really ready to get blasted, but we got lucky, said Ray Coombes, a recreational sailor who summers in West Yarmouth on Cape Cod and removed his boat from the water Thursday in anticipation of the storm. Weather watchers said Earl was still the most powerful storm to threaten the US Northeast since 1991, when Hurricane Bob killed six people.
But it left balmy weather in its wake on the US coast. On the beaches by Hyannis and Yarmouth, which were empty Friday, Labor Day holiday crowds were returning for some end-of-summer sand and sunshine.The beach is perfect today, said Sharon Patterson, who was visiting Smuggler's Beach in South Yarmouth with her three children. Fugate, however, cautioned that the United States was still 87 days away from the end of hurricane season.As FEMA resets from Hurricane Earl... we continue to keep an eye on the tropics.
Pakistanis suspect landowners of diverting floods By SEBASTIAN ABBOT and ASHRAF KHAN, Associated Press Writers - SEPT 7,10
SUKKUR, Pakistan – As the disastrous floods recede in Pakistan, something new is rising: suspicions and rumors that powerful officials and landowners used their influence to divert water away from their property and inundate the villages and fields of millions of poor Pakistanis.The claims are difficult to verify and in some cases may be exaggerated. Yet they have spread like wildfire across the waterlogged countryside, further outraging many flood victims already upset at the government's failure to provide enough food, clean water and shelter.One of the risks is that Islamist militants could seize on growing anger to increase support for their war against the state. Even before the floods, many Pakistanis harbored a deep mistrust toward their government and the landowning elite.The politicians and the rich and powerful just sacrificed the people, said 30-year-old farmer Mohammed Yousuf, who lost his home and 11 cattle last month when floodwaters surging down the Indus River swept across southern Sindh province.The floods, which were triggered by extremely heavy monsoon rains in the northwest at the end of July, have killed more than 1,600 people across Pakistan and affected some 17 million others. At its peak, the flood covered one-fifth of the country — an area larger than England.Many people suspect powerful Pakistanis were able to manipulate the flow of water by influencing which levees were breached. Levees are tall dirt and rock embankments meant to prevent a river from overflowing and can be intentionally breached using explosives or heavy machinery.
It was impossible to verify the validity of the different accusations, but it was clear that many of the allegations were being leveled at the powerful by the largely powerless.Outrage has been especially pronounced in northern Sindh where hundreds of thousands of people — including Yousuf — watched floods swamp their fields and destroy their homes as the lands of a federal minister on the opposite side of the Indus remained dry.Many of these flood victims are convinced Labor Minister Khursheed Shah pushed the government to deliberately breach a levee upriver to save his property. The water that surged through the Tori Bund levee inundated dozens of villages and towns west of the river, an area that is more densely populated than the eastern side, where Shah's lands are located.Khursheed Shah is a tyrant! shouted Masood Ahmed, a 25-year-old vegetable vendor in Karampur, a town near the western bank of the Indus that was entirely surrounded by water. He is the enemy of humanity!
The labor minister denied any wrongdoing and Sindh Irrigation Minister Jam Saifullah Dharejo has said Tori Bund was not breached by the government but ruptured when water flowing down the Indus surged unexpectedly.Residents said they were unprepared for the sudden influx of water because they had assumed authorities would breach the Ali Wan levee on the eastern bank just as they had done when floods threatened the area in 1976 — a move they accused Shah of opposing.I had to choose between saving my family or my cattle, said Shafi Mohammed, 30, sitting beneath a makeshift shelter beside a road near Karampur. He rescued his wife and six children but lost his home, most of his possessions and two of his five water buffalo.Noor Mohammad Baloch, an engineer and former chairman of Pakistan's Indus River System Authority, supported the government's explanation of the Tori Bund breach and said it reduced the water pressure enough so that the Ali Wan levee could remain intact.But flood victims dismissed the explanation and demanded an independent investigation.There was more controversy as high water headed farther west. Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, a former prime minister, criticized members of the Sindh government for breaching a levee to divert water toward Baluchistan, Pakistan's poorest province.The decision saved the city of Jacobabad, with about 300,000 residents, and a nearby air base, but it swamped homes and fields of 1 million people in Baluchistan.If it's a national calamity, we bow down our heads in front of the almighty, but if it is mismanagement, let an inquiry be held, said Jamali.
Farther north, lawmaker Jamshed Dasti from Muzaffargargh district in central Punjab province accused two powerful landowning families — the Khosas and the Hanjras — of persuading authorities not to breach levees on the western side of the Indus that would have swamped their property. As a result, water broke through a levee on the eastern side of the river and inundated much of Muzaffargargh, a more densely populated area of some 3 million people, he said. They wouldn't care even if thousands of people had died, said Dasti, who is seen as a champion of the poor in a district dominated by landowners. Their only interest is to secure their lands. They treat common people as animals.Ali Ahmad, a farmer in the town of Sanawan in Muzaffargargh, said the flooding caught people by surprise because everyone expected the water to be directed to the western side of the river. But one morning at around 5 a.m. we woke up to a chaotic situation, Ahmad said. There was water everywhere and we had to run to safety.The two landowning families have denied Dasti's allegations, saying the decision about which levees should be breached was a technical matter that was decided independently by the government. The provincial government has ordered the Lahore High Court to investigate, but Dasti has little faith in a fair outcome since one of the members of the Khosa family is an adviser to the chief minister of Punjab.The landlords, he said, did this crime in connivance with government officials, who are like their personal servants.Associated Press writers Khalid Tanveer in Muzaffargargh and Asif Shahzad in Islamabad contributed to this report.(This version CORRECTS in the 17th paragraph that Jacobabad city has a population of 300,000, instead of 30,000)
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
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.
Authorities: 1,000 homes evacuated in Colo. fire By DAN ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer - AUG 6,10
DENVER – A wind-driven wildfire in the rugged Colorado foothills spread across 5 1/2 square miles Monday, destroying an unknown number of homes and triggering the evacuation of 1,000 others, authorities said.
No injuries have been reported.
Authorities didn't immediately know how many structures burned down. But at least some were houses, including four that belonged to firefighters battling the blaze, said Laura McConnell, a spokeswoman for the fire management team.
Video from KUSA-TV showed at least one home engulfed in flames.
The fire started Monday morning in Four Mile Canyon northwest of Boulder, and erratic winds gusting to 45 mph spread the flames quickly, sometimes in two directions at once.About 100 firefighters were on the scene, and the winds calmed enough by late afternoon that three aerial tankers could start dropping fire retardant before darkness.Some crews remained at the fire through the night. Four more aerial tankers were requested to join the fight Tuesday morning.At least a half-dozen roads in the area were closed, and a billowing, white plume of heavy smoke was visible for miles before sunset. County health officials advised residents to stay indoors if the smoky air became irritating.The fire's cause was unknown. Officials said it was too early to say how much, if any, of the fire was contained.Boulder County sheriff's Cmdr. Rick Brough said the fire moved quickly through difficult country.It's very rocky, hilly, mountainous terrain, he said.
One fire vehicle was destroyed in the blaze.The Boulder County alert system malfunctioned for about two hours Monday afternoon, leaving authorities unable to send automatic calls telling residents to evacuate. Officials said it began working again later.The Red Cross set up an overnight evacuation center at the Coors Events Center on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder.A shelter for livestock was set up at the Boulder County Fairgrounds in Longmont.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Sharp series of aftershocks strike New Zealand By ROB GRIFFITH, Associated Press Writer - AUG 7,10
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – A sharp series of about 20 aftershocks rattled New Zealand's earthquake-hit city of Christchurch overnight, and earthquake experts warned Tuesday that another powerful temblor might hammer the region in coming days.
The weekend's powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake smashed buildings and homes, wrecked roads and disrupted the central city, though nobody was killed and only two people were seriously injured — which authorities attributed to good building codes and the quake's early-morning timing.It was as strong as the earthquake in Haiti earlier this year, which caused widespread devastation and is estimated to have killed approximately 230,000 people, Prime Minister John Key said Tuesday. Although no one lost their life ... families have been traumatized and lost their valued possessions.
The city center remained cordoned off by troops Tuesday, with only building owners and workers allowed in to begin clearing up the mess — with much of the center taking on the mantle of a ghost town.More than 100 aftershocks, ranging from magnitude 3.2 to 5.4, have rocked the region since Saturday's major quake.Overnight, about 20 shocks including two of magnitude 5.4 rattled the city, and quake experts said aftershocks likely will continue for several weeks — and the worst of them may be yet to come.It is still possible that we'll have a magnitude-6 in the next week, and people ought to be aware of that, particularly if they are around structures which are already damaged, said Ken Gledhill, a monitor at the geological agency GNS Science. For a shallow earthquake like this, they will go on for weeks.Key called off a planned nine-day trip to Britain and France, citing what he called the quake zone's continuing instability.
Key was to have met with British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and with his wife, Bronagh, to have spent a weekend with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at her Scottish castle, Balmoral.The New Zealand government has said it plans to pay at least 90 percent of the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to rebuild Christchurch's water, waste water and road infrastructure.In a statement Tuesday to Parliament, Key pledged to remove bottlenecks to reconstruction and said the government is prepared to step up financially to rebuild the region.
He planned to return to the damaged city later Tuesday to meet victims displaced by the quake and for talks with local officials.As the frightening aftershocks continue, we stand alongside them (people of the region), committed to helping them rebuild their lives, he said.The main quake struck at 4:35 a.m. Saturday near the South Island city of 400,000 people, ripping open a new fault line in the earth's surface, destroying hundreds of buildings and cutting power, which has been gradually restored in recent days.The government has said that at least 100,000 of the region's 160,000 homes sustained some damage.New Zealand sits above an area where two tectonic plates collide. The country records more than 14,000 earthquakes a year — but only about 150 are felt by residents. Fewer than 10 a year do any damage.New Zealand's last major earthquake registered magnitude 7.8 and hit South Island's Fiordland region on July 16, 2009, moving the southern tip of the country 12 inches (30 centimeters) closer to Australia.Associated Press Writer Ray Lilley in Wellington contributed to this report.
HERES A REAL RESULT OF SHARIA LAW IN ACTION AGAINST WOMEN.HERES THAT PEACE LOVING ISLAM RELIGIOUS CULT IN ACTION.NO HURT ALL LOVE.
Lawyer: Iran woman could be stoned to death soon By NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press Writer – Mon Sep 6, 5:30 pm ET
TEHRAN, Iran – The lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned on an adultery conviction said Monday that he and her children are worried the delayed execution could be carried out soon with the end of a moratorium on death sentences for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.In an unusual turn in the case, the lawyer also confirmed that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was lashed 99 times last week in a separate punishment meted out because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her. Under Iran's clerical rule, women must cover their hair in public. The newspaper later apologized for the error.With the end of Ramadan this week, the mother of two could be executed any moment, said her lawyer, Javid Houtan Kian.The sentence was put on hold in July after an international outcry over the brutality of the punishment, and it is now being reviewed by Iran's supreme court.Ashtiani was convicted in 2006 of having an illicit relationship with two men after the murder of her husband the year before and was sentenced at that time to 99 lashes. Later that year, she was also convicted of adultery and sentenced to be stoned, even though she retracted a confession that she says was made under duress.The possibility of stoning still exists, any moment, Kian told The Associated Press. Her stoning sentence was only delayed; it has not been lifted yet.
Italy is among several countries pressing for Iran to show flexibility in the case. The country's foreign minister, Franco Frattini, said the Italian ambassador in Iran met with authorities in Tehran who confirmed to us that no decision has been made about the stoning sentence.I interpret that in the sense that the stoning, for now, won't take place, Frattini said in an interview on Italian state TV.After putting the stoning sentence on hold, Iran suddenly announced that the woman had also been brought to trial and convicted of playing a role in her husband's 2005 murder. Her lawyer disputes that, saying no charges against her in the killing have ever been part of her case file.In early August, Iranian authorities broadcast a purported confession from Ashtiani on state-run television. In it, a woman identified as Ashtiani admits to being an unwitting accomplice in her husband's killing.
Kian says he believes she was tortured into confessing.In the latest twist, authorities are said to have flogged her for the publication of a photo of a woman without her hair covered in the Times of London newspaper. The woman in the photo was misidentified as Ashtiani.She was lashed on Thursday, Kian said, citing information from a fellow prisoner who was released last week. Kian has been allowed no direct contact with his client since last month.We have no access to Ashtiani, but there is no reason for the released prisoner to lie about the flogging, he said.
There was no official Iranian confirmation of the new punishment.The woman's son, 22-year-old Sajjad Qaderzadeh, said he did not know whether the new lashing sentence had been carried out yet, but that he also heard about the sentence from a prisoner who recently left the Tabriz prison where his mother is being held.Publishing the photo provided a judge an excuse to sentence my poor mother to 99 lashes on the charge of taking a picture unveiled, Qaderzadeh told the AP.The Times apologized in its Monday edition but added that the lashing is simply a pretext.The regime's purpose is to make Ms. Ashtiani suffer for an international campaign to save her that has exposed so much iniquity, the newspaper said. Another lawyer who once represented Ashtiani, Mohammad Mostafaei, said in a news conference in Paris that it was not certain if there really had been a new conviction and sentence over the photograph. I have contacted my former colleagues at the court who told me nothing was clear on this situation, he said at the news conference with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.There isn't any punishment for this act in our law.Kouchner called the stoning sentence the height of barbarism and said her case has become a personal cause and he was ready to do anything to save her. If I must go to Tehran to save her, I'll go to Tehran.Ashtiani's two children remain in Iran and her son is a ticket seller for a bus company in the northern Iranian city of Tabriz. He said he and his younger sister, Farideh, 18, have not seen their mother since early August. We have really missed her, he said. We expect all influential bodies to help to save her.The Vatican on Sunday raised the possibility of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save her life as well. Associated Press writers Jenny Barchfield in Paris, Jill Lawless in London and Frances D'Emilio in Rome contributed to this report.
AFTER THIS KORAN BURNING-GET READY FOR WORLD RIOTS-BURNING-BEHEADINGS AS THE MUSLIMS AND SLAM WILL BE ON A WORLD RAMPAGE.BE PREPARED.
Koran burning will endanger US lives: Petraeus
AUG 7,10
KABUL (AFP) – The US commander of the Afghan war has warned that troops' lives will be endangered if a Florida evangelical church goes ahead with a planned burning of the Koran on Saturday's 9/11 anniversary.General David Petraeus said the planned torching of Islam's holy book would be a propaganda coup for the Taliban in Afghanistan and stoke anti-US sentiment across the Muslim world.The Dove World Outreach Center at Gainesville, Florida says it will burn copies of the Koran on this weekend's ninth anniversary of the September 11 airborne attacks in protest at what it calls the evil of Islam.In an interview with Tuesday's Wall Street Journal, Petraeus said of the event: It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort.It is precisely the kind of action the Taliban uses and could cause significant problems. Not just here, but everywhere in the world we are engaged with the Islamic community, he said.The planned protest by the 50-member Florida congregation -- whose Facebook page bears the motto Islam Is Of The Devil -- has already triggered outrage in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country.
In late August about 100 Indonesian Islamists demonstrated outside the US embassy in Jakarta and threatened jihad or holy war if the US Christian group went through with the event.Alleged desecration of the Koran by US troops in both Afghanistan and Iraq has been an incendiary issue in the past, including when a US soldier deployed to Iraq riddled a copy of the holy book with bullets in 2008.A subsequent demonstration by about 2,000 people in central Afghanistan turned violent, with a Lithuanian soldier and two civilians killed in an exchange of gunfire between protestors and police.The Florida church's pastor, Terry Jones, said Petraeus's concerns were legitimate.But in a statement to the Wall Street Journal, he added: We must send a clear message to the radical element of Islam. We will no longer be controlled and dominated by their fears and threats.Interviewed by AFP in July, Jones said: Islam and Sharia law was responsible for 9/11.We will burn Korans because we think it's time for Christians, for churches, for politicians to stand up and say no; Islam and Sharia law is not welcome in the US.
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Israeli FM pushes for new settlement construction By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer – Mon Sep 6, 8:33 am ET
JERUSALEM – Israel's hard-line foreign minister said Monday that his party will try to block any extension of Israel's settlement slowdown, a move that could derail the recently launched Mideast peace negotiations.Avigdor Lieberman said the Israeli government must keep its promise to voters that the 10-month slowdown, declared last November under U.S. pressure in order to draw the Palestinians to the negotiating table, will end as scheduled at the end of the month.The Sept. 26 deadline is a challenge for the fragile talks launched in Washington last week. The Palestinians say they will quit the talks if settlement construction accelerates, but not ending the slowdown could potentially bring down the Israeli government. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to say how he will handle the deadline.A promise is a promise, Lieberman told Israel Radio. We will not agree to any extension.I promise that if there's a proposal that we don't accept it will not pass, he added.
Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu party is a key member of Israel's governing coalition, which is led by Netanyahu's Likud party.It holds 15 seats in parliament, making it the second-largest member of the coalition and giving it the ability to rob the government of its parliamentary majority if it pulls out. Other coalition partners, and members of Netanyahu's own party, also favor resuming construction.In a sign that compromise was possible, however, Lieberman told the daily Yediot Ahronot that he would not quit the coalition even if he does not get his way.We will not leave or bring down the government. We will fight from the inside for what we believe, he told the paper.At the summit marking the relaunch of peace talks in Washington last week, Netanyahu used unusually warm language about the Palestinian leadership and the chances for peace. But the Israeli foreign minister has been vocal in his pessimism.Speaking to diplomats in Jerusalem on Monday, Lieberman said the stated goal of the talks — a peace agreement within one year — was unrealistic.The Israeli government says construction in settlements continued during previous rounds of peace talks, and that building does not compromise a future deal.Lieberman's party ran on a platform that questioned the loyalty of Israel's one-fifth Arab minority, and Lieberman, known for blunt and often unpredictable language, is perhaps Israel's most polarizing politician. A resident of a West Bank settlement himself, he has absented himself from active involvement in the peace talks, which are being conducted by Netanyahu's office.
Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom, a prominent member of Netanyahu's party, said extending the slowdown would pose a huge danger to the coalition.Within the coalition, there is a huge majority against it, Shalom told reporters late Sunday. He said the issue could only be resolved through negotiations.Netanyahu is seeking a way to get through the Sept. 26 deadline without dismantling his coalition, alienating the Palestinians or angering the U.S. administration, which is backing the talks and has invested time and political capital in their success.Netanyahu is slated to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for a second round of talks next week in Egypt and Jerusalem. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is also scheduled to attend.About 300,000 Israelis live in West Bank settlements, among the territory's some 2.5 million Palestinians. In addition, almost 200,000 Israelis live in east Jerusalem, the section of the holy city claimed by the Palestinians. The Palestinians and the international community say the settlements are obstacles to peace because they eat up land the Palestinians want for a future state. The slowdown has cut the construction in the settlements, though the extent of the drop is the subject of disagreement. According to official government statistics released last week, a total of only five new building projects were begun in settlements in the first half of 2010, compared to 673 in the first half of 2009.
Israeli advocacy groups tracking settlement construction dispute those numbers. The group Peace Now says building has begun on around 450 new housing units since the slowdown went into effect last November, around 300 of them in violation of the terms of the freeze. Peace Now says those numbers mark a drop of about 50 percent in new projects. Settlement expert Dror Etkes said government statistics show the number of units under construction overall in the first quarter of this year was 2,517, a drop of only 15 percent compared to the last quarter of 2009.Groups critical of settlement building say if the slowdown is revoked now it will have had nearly no effect on settlement construction in the long term. Associated Press Writer Karin Laub contributed to this story from Ramallah.
US artists support Israelis' settlement protest
– Mon Sep 6, 5:39 am ET
JERUSALEM – A dovish U.S. Jewish group says more than 150 film and theater artists have signed a letter of support for Israeli actors who refused to perform in a West Bank settlement.The names on the letter include Oscar-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave, Cynthia Nixon of Sex and the City and playwright Tony Kushner. It was organized by the Jewish Voice for Peace.A group of Israeli actors sparked a vocal debate in Israel last month when they said they would refuse to perform at a new theater in the settlement of Ariel. They aimed to protest Israeli control of the West Bank.The actors' boycott drew support from a group of 150 Israeli academics and dozens of authors, including well-known writers Amos Oz and David Grossman.
Charles Manson: Global Warming Prophet
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com September 7, 2010
http://www.infowars.com/charles-manson-global-warming-prophet/ (LINKS-VIDEOS)
Charles Manson, the man who masterminded the brutal murders of nine people in the summer of 1969 in an effort to spark a race war in America, has adopted a new cause from his prison cell in California – he is a prophet for the global warming movement – sharing common ground with top academics, environmentalists and even the White House science czar in calling for large numbers of human beings to be exterminated in the name of saving the Earth.A study of Manson’s belief system is an alarming exercise in understanding the roots of the modern day eugenicist movement, which is propagated via the notion that overpopulation is killing the planet and causing global warming.The infamous Manson family were responsible for the barbaric slayings of actress Sharon Tate and her unborn baby, as well as Rosemary LaBianca and her husband Leno, murders that sent shock waves through America and marked a sudden and crashing halt to the free love hippy movement of the 60’s. Manson himself killed one man, Bernard Crowe, and directed his cult-like followers in the murders of eight other victims.Manson masterminded the murders in a bid to precipitate a race war between whites and blacks which he dubbed Helter Skelter, a term he took from the Beatles song of the same name. Manson and his followers were arrested for the murders in October, November and December of 1969 and all received life sentences.Preaching the same cause as James Jay Lee, the crazed eco-warrior who stormed a Discovery Channel building last week armed with guns and explosives, Manson continues to attract a loyal following from new members of his family who share the notorious killer’s obsession with the need to exterminate humans in order to save the Earth from global warming.Manson, who still adorns a Nazi swastika tattoo on his forehead, did not glom on to the global warming bandwagon after seeing Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, the movie that gunman Lee cited as his inspiration, he was preaching about the need to kill people in order to save the polar ice caps from melting as far back as the mid-80’s.Watch the following clip, filmed in 1987 by the Today Show, in which Manson attempts to absolve his role in the brutal murders of Sharon Tate, Rosemary LaBianca and seven others, by saying the slayings were justified in the name of the environment and expressing regret that he could not have killed more people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ0P1oI3Uvo&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1PsR8k_Glc&feature=player_embedded
Responding to a question about why he directed the killings, Manson responded, I am working to save my air, my water, my trees and my wildlife, and I’m trying to do away with society.Why don’t you tell them that the polar caps are melting because you’re creating so much heat with this machine, continues Manson….Maybe I should have killed four or five hundred people then I would have felt better, I would have felt like I’d really offered society something…..the truth is the planet Earth is dying.In a separate clip from the same interview, Manson chillingly states, If I started murdering people, there’d be none of you left.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gx9Nq1H6BI&feature=player_embedded
The You Tube clips of Manson’s prison interviews are accompanied by hundreds of comments from people who agree with his barbarous views on the need to kill humans in order to save the Earth.Manson also talks about the need to set up suicide parlors so that people can kill themselves in an orderly fashion so that the world can be cleansed of humans.In another interview with Geraldo Rivera, Manson goes further, saying that 50 million dead will be required to please mother Earth.I’m gonna kill you, as many as I can. I’m gonna pile you up to the sky, I figure about 50 million, said Manson, I figure if I can get about 50 million of you I might be able to save my trees and my air and my water and my wildlife.Mason characterized the slaughter of 50 million people in the name of saving the planet as just a drop in the bucket of what’s really coming.Watch the clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b65BI4AiGpI&feature=player_embedded
The fact that Manson, considered by many to be evil incarnate and the leader of one of the most creepy and bloodthirsty cults ever recorded, is now a prophet for the religion of global warming and climate change, proves that the real agenda behind global warming, neo-eugenics, has its roots in the darkest and most abhorrent recesses of the human mind.Manson’s eugenicist doctrine didn’t end when television stations were banned from interviewing him in the late 80’s, the dark mystique surrounding the former cult leader continues to this day, with followers still attempting to communicate and meet with the now 75-year-old inmate of Corcoran State Prison, eager and receptive to his environmental message.One such individual is a man Manson himself dubbed Gray Wolf, who moved close to the prison for the express purpose of hearing Manson’s insights on climate change and the environment. Manson thinks the destruction of the environment is much more serious than we are being made out to believe, Wolf told CNN. Our government keeps covering up problems with pollution, with coal, with automobiles. Charlie says we need to get back to the horse.In calling for a return to the agrarian age, which ended in around 1700 as the industrial age began, Manson is echoing the propaganda of people like author and environmentalist Keith Farnish, who in a recent book called for acts of sabotage and environmental terrorism in blowing up dams and demolishing cities in order to return the planet to pre-industrial society. Prominent NASA global warming alarmist and Al Gore ally Dr. James Hansen endorsed Farnish’s book.James Jay Lee also parroted this anti-industrialist creed, calling for the need to disassemble civilization in his online rant.In a phone conversation, Manson characterized the emission of carbon dioxide as a sin punishable by criminal charges, in rhetoric chillingly similar to that espoused by global warming alarmist like Al Gore who have advocated carbon offsets and CO2 taxes as indulgences to pay for such activity.Crime is anything that’s done against your survival. Any sin against your life is crime. The problem is the atmosphere is dying, anything that sins against the air is a sin against your life, anybody that sins against the air should be considered a criminal and any sin against the air should be considered a crime, said Manson.Another of Manson’s followers, a 24 year-old woman Manson named Star, invoked the Club of Rome’s infamous 1990 publication entitled The First Global Revolution, in which the organization outlined how they would manufacture ecological scares in order to manipulate the public into accepting the imposition of a dictatorial world government run by them, when she talked about Manson’s belief that humans were the enemy of the Earth.The goal, really, the main goal is to basically save life on the planet Earth from the humans, she said.We have a key to make this goal accomplished, and that key is Charlie Manson,she said.But who should lead this crusade to rid the planet of evil humans, or parasitic human infants as James Jay Lee called them? Manson makes it clear who should be empowered to carry out the eugenics program in a 1987 interview with the BBC’s Bill Murphy, and it’s the same planetary regime that White House science czar John Holdren advocates to carry out forced abortions and mandatory sterilization procedures in his 1977 book Ecoscience.Watch the clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpcbG78yw6g&feature=player_embedded
We’ve got to get a one world government, rants Manson out of the blue, We’ve got to have it man.Indeed, what could be termed Manson’s official website, which is named after the philosophy he coined, Air, Trees, Water, Animals (ATWA), features on its front page a globe with the words One World Order written underneath. A special page is dedicated to this promotion of a one world order, which includes a poem written by Manson about how the foundation of a one world order is closely related to a green lifestyle.Charles Manson’s official website advocates a one world order.
Manson’s call for a one world order to manage the planet on an environmentally sound basis mirrors the thoughts of James Lovelock, top environmentalist and creator of the Gaia hypothesis, who told the Guardian earlier this year that democracy must be put on hold to combat global warming and that a few people with authority should be allowed to run the planet.Another Manson fan website, again named after the Air, Trees, Water and Animals acronym, proudly displays the mutilated corpse of pregnant victim Sharon Tate on its front page, declaring that Manson is both the God and the devil.
In 1975, one of Manson’s family, known as Squeaky Fromme, attempted to murder President Gerald Ford in the name of saving California’s redwood trees. In resorting to violence for the sake of environmentalism, Fromme shared the same motivations invoked by James Jay Lee some 35 years later.Manson’s belief that humans need to be killed in large numbers in order to preserve the environment is one shared and promoted by many prominent academics and scientists, people like Dr. Eric R. Pianka, an American biologist based at the University of Texas in Austin. During a speech to the Texas Academy of Science in March 2006, Pianka advocated the need to exterminate 90% of the world’s population through the airborne ebola virus. The reaction from scores of top scientists and professors in attendance was not one of shock or revulsion – they stood and applauded Pianka’s call for mass genocide.Saying the public was not ready to hear the information presented, Pianka began by exclaiming, We’re no better than bacteria!, as he jumped into a doomsday malthusian rant about overpopulation destroying the earth.People like James Jay Lee are now turning such rhetoric into violent action, following in the footsteps of others like Francisco Lotero and 23-year-old Miriam Coletti, who killed themselves, their son, and attempted to kill their own baby as part of a suicide pact to bring attention to global warming.Charlie Manson – the mastermind of some of the most gruesome and horrific murders America has ever seen – and a man who expressed regret during interviews that he didn’t get the chance to kill 50 million humans – believes vehemently in the same doctrine pushed by top environmentalists and academics, and he has a willing band of creepy followers on the outside whose mindset differs little from members of the family who followed Manson’s orders in butchering eight people, a new cadre of followers more than eager to further this religion of death.
Manson’s advocacy for the religion of death, and his call for violence in the name of global warming and overpopulation, would be dismissed as the inane rantings of an evil psychopath if it were not shared by people holding significant positions of power in government, academia and science today.If this doctrine of neo-eugenics, also shared by crazed gunman James Jay Lee, the extended Manson Family, the parents in Argentina who killed their kids for climate change, and some of the top environmental scientists and academics in the world, is allowed to take hold, we can expect to see many more bizarre and tragic incidents like that witnessed last week in Silver Spring, Maryland.Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America’s most listened to late night talk show.
The Impact of Fiat Money as the World’s Reserve Currency
David Redick Activist Post September 7, 2010
The creation of fiat official government money has had a profound effect in history and on our nation and the world today. Fiat means it is worth whatever the government says it is (its face value), although the material of which it is made may have more or less intrinsic market value. Examples would include both valuable silver dollars and worthless paper, each declared to be worth $1; and today’s American Eagle bullion coin with a face value of $50 for one ounce of gold.When a country creates too much fake money, sellers avoid it for payment. Photo: David Muir.Normally, when a country creates too much fake money, sellers avoid it for payment, or stop buying its bonds due to its falling value, and the party is soon over. However, the U.S. is in a unique position never seen in the history of the world. Our fiat paper money is the primary de facto world’s reserve currency (anyone will accept it for payment and keep it as cash, or as a dollar-denominated asset; banks keep it as their reserves, like gold). We can create new money out of thin-air, and sellers of goods and services worldwide will accept it.We can also pay our debts with it, even as the federal government spends to excess.We have abused the privileged status of the U.S. dollar in many immoral and counterproductive ways. It is the underlying cause of our major problems, such as jobs being exported due to excess imports of goods (other countries would run out of money; the U.S. can create more as needed!), strange banking and securities deals based on loose money, excess personal spending and debt, and wars.One cannot underestimate the importance of our ability to pay debts to other nations, and not be required to convert to their money. This conversion would normally trigger market valuation, which could collapse the value of the U.S. dollar. Conversely, other nations must buy dollars to pay for most imports, and face declining exchange rates if they have expanded their money supply too much. We have abused this reserve status, and as of mid-2009 other nations started seeking alternatives (yuan, yen, a basket of currencies, etc.).
Most people are not aware that the reserve currency is used for most payments between other nations; for example, India pays Brazil for coffee with U.S. dollars. Hence, all nations keep a supply of U.S. dollars to use in trade. All banks are required to have sufficient reserves in order to show a strong asset base for the bank’s obligations (mainly demand and time deposits). Since the USD has been valued by the world system to be as good as gold, it is known as a reserve currency and used instead of gold to fund these bank reserves. The Dollar has been used in about 90% of international transactions since its ascendancy in the 1920s, but has become weaker since 2000, and declined to 70% or less by 2009. About 30% of international deals are now done in Euros and Yen, but that is increasing as the economies and currencies of China and others grow stronger. Indeed, China started using its yuan for international transactions in 2010, and also allowed foreign firms to create yuan-denominated private equity funds.There have been a series of international agreements to manage currency. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank were born of these deals. Both are counterproductive causes of spending and distortions (including feeding corrupt governments), and should be abolished along with the Federal Reserve.Redeemability was restricted more and more until the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement, which set rules to: 1) Allow only nations to redeem paper for gold between each other (not people; a form of the Gold Bullion Exchange standard). 2) Create the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to handle its transactions. 3) Set the USD as the world’s official reserve currency, with a fixed value of $35 per ounce of gold.The US engaged in so much monetary expansion (inflation of the money supply) after WW2 it lost much of its value and flooded Europe with so-called Euro-dollars. France finally started demanding gold for most of their paper dollars, which peaked with De Gaulle’s famous press conference on Feb. 4, 1965 where he described the U.S. as having an exorbitant privilege as the world’s reserve currency, which allowed us to pay our debts with money created out of thin air! De Gaulle said:There can be no other criterion, no other standard, than gold. Gold that never changes, that can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins . . . that has no nationality and that is eternally and universally accepted as the ultimate fiduciary value par excellence.France started redeeming their paper dollars to gold, but Nixon soon refused to remit gold to any nation (we were running out), and then abrogated Bretton Woods on Aug. 15, 1971, setting the dollar afloat with no redeemability. Within a few years, all nations had done the same, including conservative Switzerland. Whoopee! Everybody could make money out of thin air! The Fed destroys the value of our money by excess expansion of the money supply. Proof is shown in the start and end purchase power amounts below, which are from www.measuringworth.com:
It took $1,202.05 in the year 1912 for the same purchase power as $1,000 in the year 1774 (a 17.7% loss in 138 yrs, or 0.13 % per yr).It took $22,427.40 in the year 2008 for the same purchase power as $1,000 in the year 1913 (a 95.5% loss in 95 yrs, or 1.0% per yr). Almost eight times worse than before the Fed! A decline in purchasing power of the dollar, and thus price increases, always follow a rapid and excess (over 5% per year) increase in the money supply (monetary inflation). As shown below, the dollar has lost 95% of its value from 1913 (when the Fed started) to 2010, but 80% of that loss occurred after Nixon cut the Bretton Woods tie to gold in 1971, increasing the money supply even faster. Other factors, such as a reduced supply of goods and services, can cause price increases, but monetary inflation clearly has caused the most harm:Source: Byron King, www.agorafinancial.com.The US dollar has lost over 95% of its purchasing power since 1913 due to excess monetary inflation by the Fed by creating new money to pay bills. This has been the main cause of the 2,000% increase in prices since 1913. Excess money creation prior to 1913 resulted in short-term inflation and panic runs on insolvent banks, but the Fed allowed long-term abuse by bailing-out such banks, which in turn caused the moral hazard of the banks taking excess risks by seeking casino profits for the last 97 years and counting! A special monetary expansion event occurred in late 2008 when Bernanke produced the now infamous Bailout Spike by injecting almost $1 trillion of new money into the U.S. economy. On April 15, 2008, the Fed held $866 billion in assets, which served as the monetary base for the nation. On April 15, 2009, it held $2.2 trillion. A decline in purchasing power of the dollar will follow this increase in the money supply.Internationally, the USD emerged as the world’s reserve currency after WWI because all fiat paper money is actually viewed as a share in the economy of the issuer. Thus, the paper of a large and stable government and economy has good value; it is the best choice within the world’s fake money system. Until recently, the U.S. was without question the world’s strongest economy, and thus the USD had good value as a share in USA, Inc. Since 1971, however, the U.S. has abused its currency by inflating its supply even more than other countries, borrowed and spent to excess, and the dollars’ value has subsequently decreased (prices increased) rapidly ever since on both the international exchange basis (about 4:1 against western Europe legacy currencies from 1971 to 1999, then a loss of about 2:1 against the Euro from 1999 to 2008; 0.8 to 1.5 US$ per Euro), and by about 10:1 domestically (price increase of cars, pizza, etc.; things not subsidized or under price controls). Thus our share of USA Inc. is decreasing in value and confidence as viewed by other nations, and they are seeking less dependency on the USD as the primary reserve currency for the world. This has massive implications on our ability to create new money to pay our bills to other countries, and could result in a crash (loss of 50% or more of purchasing power) of the U.S. dollar.
During the 2000 to 2007 boom times, Wall Street had been securitizing bundles of various weak and bad debt instruments (subprime mortgages, credit card debt, etc.), then getting their complicit rating agencies (Moodys, S&P, etc.) to falsely label them AAA. By doing so, they could sell them worldwide to get them off their books, and then make more money by making new loans to other weak borrowers. Foreign banks and investors happily bought trillions of dollars of these securities because they were primarily based on U.S. real estate, had high interest income, and were apparently backed by the U.S. government. The process was corrupt from the start, but was pushed by Congress and Wall Street elites, many of whom made hundreds of millions each in bonuses. As the false prosperity slowed, and caused loss of U.S. jobs, then mortgage foreclosures, these fake securities lost value, and the worldwide crash started in late 2008.The countries we buy imports from (China leads) accumulate billions of U.S. dollars and buy our T-bills to get some interest (and help feed future purchases?). This is a recycling of fake money, with interest paid by fake money, with all parties hoping it will last forever! There are signs that the game might be up: China and Russia suggested at the Jan-2009 World Economic Forum in Davos that a new system is needed to replace the USD as the world’s primary reserve currency. It has been a fun party since 1944, but our era of financing wars, Empire-USA, foreign aid, imports, and homeland spending with fake money is about to end. Other nations are tired of, and can’t afford, our exorbitant privilege of being both a fiat currency and the world’s primary reserve currency.David Redick has authored two books Monetary Revolution USA, and Rebuild America Now. Mr. Redick is a Ron Paul Style Republican running for Wisconsin and supports establishing a state bank.
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/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE SEPT 07,2010
09:30 AM -3.25
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10:30 AM -80.00
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11:30 AM -62.36
12:00 PM -65.24
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NASDAQ 2208.89 -24.86
GOLD 1,258.80 +7.70
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TSE 300 12,102.00 -42.90
CDNX 1594.96 +29.00
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MORNING,NEWS,STATS
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Dow -51 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -95 points at low today.
Dow -1 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,259.50.OIL opens at $73.84 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -109 points at low today so far.
Dow -1 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -109 points at low today.
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GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,266.90 (NOT AT CLOSE)
NO SUCH PEOPLE AS PALESTINIANS.THE MUSLIMS CAN'T EVEN SAY PALESTINE,THEY SAY BALESTINE BECAUSE THEY CAN'T EVEN HAVE A P IN THERE VOCABULARY.HOW CAN A PEOPLE NOT EVEN PROPERLY HAVE A LAND WHEN THEY CAN NOT EVEN PRONOUNCE THEIR OWN TERRITORY.GODS PROOF ITS ISRAELS LAND AND NOT THE ARAB,MUSLIMS.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2513
ROSH HASHANA
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2512
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.(TR 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 banks throw their weight behind Nabucco pipeline
VALENTINA POP 06.09.2010 @ 19:54 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The EU's Nabucco gas pipeline received a boost on Monday as the European Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank made a first written commitment that may lend the project up to €4billion, half of its total cost.International financing institutions are very conservative in their assessments, so if they indicate they are ready to commit funding, they usually end up doing it, Thomas Barrett from the EIB said during a joint press briefing in Brussels.The potential financing package, pending approval of the environmental and social feasibility studies, will consist of up to €2 billion from the EIB, €1.2 billion from the EBRD and around €800 million from the World Bank. The European Commission has already earmarked €200 million for the project, provided the green light from investors is given by the end of this year or beginning of 2011. The total cost of the project is estimated at €7.9 billion. The financial commitment from international banks is aimed at alleviating fears in supplier countries – notably Azerbaijan and Iraq – that the consortium lacks the proper funding for the 3,300 to 4,000 km long pipeline aimed at breaking the Russian monopoly on gas exports from the Caspian Sea region via an alternative route.
Construction will start in 2012, operation of the pipeline is expected to start in 2015,Nabucco managing director Reinhard Mitschek said during the same briefing, while also signalling flexibility on the date of one year earlier or later, depending on the customers' needs. The 2 million tonnes of steel will be laid through Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria, and secure a maximum of 31 billion cubic metres a year. The gas demand of the EU's 27 member states is expected to rise from 483 billion cubic metres in 2009 to 603 billion in 2020. The Nabucco project has developed only slowly since 2002, when gas officials from the five countries involved gathered in Vienna and dubbed the pipeline Nabucco after listening to Verdi's eponymous opera.Lack of political support, haggles over transit conditions with Turkey and a pricing dispute with supplier country Azerbaijan have delayed construction. Mr Mitschek repeatedly stressed that Nabucco is a transporting company and that gas supplies and pipeline capacity will be bid on through open tender.We have to synchronise Nabucco first to the gas supply sources, Mr Mitschek said. Once the gas supply has been secured, the open season tender process for transporting gas will begin by the end of the year or in the first quarter of next year, he said.Some 16 billion cubic metres could be secured from Azerbaijan, in talks which are scheduled to start this week in Baku. But company officials from the German energy firm RWE say that the first Azeri gas could only start flowing in 2017. A much earlier prospect would be Iraqi gas from the northern Kurdish region, starting in 2015.RWE has already initiated prospective talks with the regional government from autonomous Kurdistan and offered support in developing export capacity, along with an internal grid, as the northern Iraqis still rely on gas canisters to prepare their meals and heat up their homes.The government in Baghdad on Sunday however slammed as illegal the memorandum of understanding, stressing that all gas export agreements need to be signed by the central authorities.Of course we'll talk with the central government in Iraq, Stefan Jurdisch from RWE said during a separate briefing on Monday. But he also pointed to the fact that since March, the government in Baghdad is in formation phase.We'll see how the political talks go. We need a mature government to deal with this issue."
Mr Jurdisch stressed that by the end of the year investors will have to know on which gas to count first – either from Azerbaijan or from Irak – because there are technical issues related to how these connecting branches are fed into the main pipeline.Meanwhile, Bankwatch, a watchdog monitoring the way public funds are spent on energy projects, has lambasted the decision of the three international lenders.
There are a million and one reasons for the EIB, the EBRD and the IFC not to back Nabucco, namely the urgent energy saving measures in the region's homes and businesses that can reduce CO2 emissions massively and create hundreds of thousands of jobs, Piotr Trzaskowski from Bankwatch said in a statement.One particularly contentious issue is the possibility of linking up the Azeri fields over the Caspian Sea to the offshore Turkmen fields, which have much more unexplored gas. There is a high probability that so-called European energy security via Nabucco will be reliant upon major gas supplies from Turkmenistan, an oppressive regime state that ranks alongside North Korea in widely-recognised human rights rankings, Bankwatch said.
Ireland insists not on same road as Greece despite ballooning bank debt
LEIGH PHILLIPS 06.09.2010 @ 17:47 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Ireland's finance minister, Brian Lenihan, in Brussels for discussions with the European Commission over the bail-out of nationalised Anglo Irish Bank, whose costs are ballooning, insisted the debt black hole at the heart of the company will not bankrupt the government.The bank has recently announced that it will probably need some €25 billion in fresh capital, equivalent to a full 19 percent of the country's GNP. Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's has said that it believes this to be low-balling the true figure, estimating that the real cost could come to €35 billion.The vast sums have frightened markets, which worry Dublin will have trouble paying its debt.Finance minister Brian Lenihan met with competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia on Monday (6 September) to discuss options for the bank, which recently posted the largest loss in Irish corporate history.
According to domestic media reports, before heading to Brussels on Monday, Mr Lenihan stressed that it is simply not the case the bail-out could bankrupt the state and that the debts that have effectively transferred from private hands to the public were infuriating but manageable.Management have put forward a case that if the bank were allowed to engage in lending, it might reduce the cost to the taxpayer further, he said. The government's two options are to wind the bank down over a certain period of time or break up the institution in two, into a good bank and a bad bank, a proposal put forward by Anglo Irish management.
The EU executive is to give its opinion by the end of September.The minister's words came after an ex-chief-economist of the International Monetary Fund, writing in the New York Times last week, warned that markets are beginning to see Ireland as Europe's next Greece.Ireland, simply put, appears insolvent under plausible possibilities with current policies, Simon Johnson wrote in a blog posting co-authored with Peter Boone, a London School of Economics professor.The total debts of Irish banks could result in a charge to government debt equivalent to a third of GNP, he said, atop a fiscal debt currently on 15 percent of national income. With GNP falling, he said that even with the planned government cuts of 2-3 percent of GNP, a similar deficit is envisaged for 2011.The nation probably cannot afford these debts, he added.Standard & Poor's last week cut Ireland's credit rating to AA-, its lowest position in 15 years. Credit-default-swap markets are now pricing in a 25 percent risk that the country will default some time in the next five years. The government is in a tricky situation. Long held up as a model for other indebted countries by Brussels and Frankfurt for its stubborn commitment to impose cuts to public spending, the promised return to growth has failed to materialise. Tom McDonnell, an analyst with Irish economic think-tank Tasc, told this website that initial estimates of the size of Anglo Irish's debt in 2009 of €4 billion had climbed to €12 billion by March this year and now €25 billion, a figure that represents a cost over the next 10 years of €6,000 for every Irish citizen or €14,000for everyone of working age - or €3 billion a year to the taxpayer.It is higher than what a pensioner or someone on minimum wage earns in a year, he said. It is exactly equivalent to the cuts to the budget. One year of Anglo Irish cancels out a year of savings.For each of the next 10 years, Anglo Irish will be the fourth biggest government expenditure after social welfare, health and education.
The analyst said it was time for the government to develop a definitive policy, with a timescale for paying off the debt as well as public acknowledgement of the true scale of the cost and renegotiation of with bond holders.The commission today did not offer comment on the subject of the various options for Anglo Irish Bank today other than to say We do not carry out our state aid enquiries in public.Speaking to EUobserver following the meeting, commission competition spokeswoman Amelia Torres said that the meeting with Mr Lenihan, which in the end covered the Irish banking sector as a whole, had been constructive and enabled us to progress.Any broader concerns about the state of Irish government finances are purely speculative.
Troubles mount for EU bid to re-draw economic government
– Mon Sep 6, 5:15 pm ET
BRUSSELS (AFP) – Plans to radically re-draw cross-border economic government across Europe hit a stumbling block on Monday 10 days from a deadline for concrete action set by European Union leaders.The fourth meeting of EU president Herman Van Rompuy's task force, charged with learning the lessons of the global financial crisis and the debt chaos it left in its wake across the eurozone, ended with too many voices, too may views, in the words of one minister, Slovakia's Ivan Miklos.The discussions are stuck, there's a block, admitted a European diplomat after some four hours of talks. It can't be ruled out that with signs of economic trouble up ahead, certain governments are less inclined than before to toughen budgetary discipline.An in-depth discussion on national fiscal frameworks, macro-economic surveillance and sanctions, according to Van Rompuy, resulted in an order for experts to pursue their work enabling him to complete his oral report to national leaders at a summit on September 16.However, a six-line statement made no reference to detailed ideas repeatedly raised over recent months including potential financial sanctions for persistently wayward eurozone countries.Miklos' country is one of nine eastern European member states that have newly issued a demand that the costs of pension reform be written off in their deficit and debt reporting, adding a new complication to the drive to craft automatic sanctions for offenders.
He stressed that if we want to consider debt as part of the sanctions, this is connected, but warned that there are a lot of open questions which resulted in what he termed insufficient progress.Ministers broadly agree that the EU's Stability and Growth Pact, which restricts room for maneouvre with national finances, needs strengthened, but they appear no closer to seeing eye-to-eye on when automatic penalties should kick in.Germany's Wolfgang Schaeuble said Europe would have to be a little bit patient in order to come up with creative better rules for the preventive character of the (pact).On his way into the talks, he had already conceded that with each passing week it seemed that the enthusiasm for learning the lessons is weakening bit by bit.Sanctions ideas including penalties for poorer countries or the suspension of voting rights -- the favoured mechanism in Berlin and Paris -- are do-able but very complex to put in motion, warned a top-level diplomat who requested anonymity.The first (idea) risks being seen as discrimination by Europe's poor nations because they are the biggest recipients of grants, the source added. The second raises major legal problems with treaty change doubtless required.Others, though, gave a more upbeat assessment, France's Christine Lagarde saying that while there were no milestones at this stage, they had held very good discussions within the context of an overall package.
EU economic task force reconvenes as disquiet returns to markets
LEIGH PHILLIPS 06.09.2010 @ 10:40 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - As EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy's economic governance task force reconvenes on Monday (6 September), the fiscal situation of many in the bloc remains parlous. Concerns of a double-dip recession echo across the Atlantic, and bond yields for the EU's more troubled countries stubbornly keep rising as if the promise made in May of a €750-billion eurozone bail-out should things go truly wrong had never been made.Having first met toward the end of May and a further two times before the summer recess, the task-force set itself four goals under the rubric of stronger economic cohesion of the union - a phrase that from the beginning produced conflicting interpretations from London, France and Berlin.Beyond the construction of new crisis-response mechanisms - some of which are now already being imposed - the task force is also to come up with proposals for strengthening economic governance, to give teeth to EU rules on budget discipline that have historically been flouted with impunity and, finally, a way to reduce the divergences in competitiveness.While in principle all member states back the idea of tougher discipline for countries that break any new rules put in place, there are wide divergences as to what form such sanctions should take. Germany backs the idea of a suspension of voting rights in the Council.
This is an unpopular position as it would likely require treaty change, although Finland appears to have signed up to the idea.Finland and Germany will negotiate very hard in the Van Rompuy group (to ensure) that sanctions are imposed not after the three percent limit has been exceeded for a long time, but that we learn from history and act quickly and decisively, German chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters after speaking to Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi last week.Meanwhile, the lesser sanctions being mooted, such as a restriction on structural funds, are raising hackles in the eastern, poorer states, who receive the bulk of such monies. The wealthier West would be less likely to be hurt by such a penalty, as they do not receive as much from these sources, and Poland and other newer member states have in the last few weeks given notice that this is a red line for them.Other proposals have also provoked much debate. EU leaders have backed plans to submit budget outlines to Brussels, but drew the line at handing over the full draft budget to the EU commission for approval before national parliaments have had their say.Finally, and perhaps most controversially, Mr Van Rompuy's wish to reduce divergences in competitiveness is likely to hit the biggest hurdles as this points towards a harmonisation of taxation, social spending and labour laws. But such big concepts may have to be put on the back burner even before they begin to provoke controversy as leaders return to a reality not indistinct from the height of the sovereign debt crisis that shook the union in the spring.Although Greece has been guaranteed a €110-billion lifeline and the rest of the eurozone €750 billion, bond yields continue to be exacting, with investors looking for nine percentage points more in interest to buy Greek issuances than for their German equivalent, similar to the situation Athens found itself in a few months ago, while Ireland is up 3.5 percent on German bonds. This comes as eurozone governments look to raise some €80 billion from capital markets this month, twice what they had looked to do in August. Some analysts fear they may have difficulties raising the cash.The shift of private debt from the banks to the state has left many in a grim situation. Dublin in particular faces the black hole of debt that is the nationalised Anglo Irish Bank. If the commercial property market continues to suffer, the bank could require as much as €35 billion, a likelihood that has resulting in Ireland's credit rating to be ratcheted downward.
Finally the big unknown is how citizens will react. Already the austerity measures imposed on the so-called PIIGS economies has provoked widespread opposition, and, in Greece, civil unrest. On 29 September, when European economics commissioner Olli Rehn is scheduled to unveil the EU executives own proposals for sanctions parallel to those being discussed by Mr Van Rompuy's task force, trade unions across the bloc will hold an pan-European 'day of action' against austerity, with general strikes already announced in a number of states.Investors, national parliaments and EU citizens will all be keeping an eye on how the taskforce, the commission and finance ministers navigate these waters.President Van Rompuy is to deliver a preliminary task force report next Thursday as premiers and presidents meet in Brussels Following this, he will try to achieve agreement on an economic governance package with concrete proposals ahead of an official submission to be delivered ahead of the regular autumn summit.
Tory MEP to co-chair EU parliament group
ANDREW RETTMAN 06.09.2010 @ 09:28 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The anti-federalist European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the EU parliament is preparing to elect a British co-leader to share power with its Polish chief.British Conservative MEP Timothy Kirkhope already does the co-chair job informally, but his role is to be formalised under a proposal likely to be voted on by the group in late September, ECR spokesman James Hultum told EUobserver.Mr Kirkhope is a 65-year-old lawyer from Newcastle-upon-Tyne in northeast England. He has been in the EU parliament for the past 10 years and has led the Conservative delegation for most of the past five years.He is a critic of the Lisbon Treaty, which he has called a dramatic step towards the superstate feared by many. He is currently a member of the civil liberties committee, where he has worked on issues such as freedom of information in Italy and US access to EU citizens' bank data. Mr Kaminski, from Poland's Law and Justice party, has had a hard time in his past year at the helm of the group. He has battled allegations of anti-Semitism and homophobia in the British press. He has also cited family problems as a reason for his low participation in parliamentary activity - according to the votewatch.eu project, Mr Kaminski has an attendance record of just 65 percent, placing him in the bottom 30 out of 736 deputies.The Law and Justice party was itself weakened when many of its top members died in the Smolensk air crash in April and when its leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, later lost the presidential elections.Some commentators have linked the change in the leadership structure to the change in fortune of the ECR parties. Piotr Maciej Kaczynski, an analyst at the Brussels-based think-tank CEPS, told this website: This is the price Law and Justice had to pay for the Tories' not leaving the ECR after [winning] the spring UK elections. The position of [British Conservative party leader] Cameron in Europe has improved and the incentive for the Tories to leave is stronger.
The ECR group spokesman, Mr Hultum, said there is no truth in the speculation. Mr Kirkhope was to have to run the ECR group from its very inception last year. But a fellow Tory MEP, Edward McMillan-Scott, ran against Mr Kaminski for a parliament vice-president job in violation of a deal. The move saw the Tories expel Mr McMillan-Scott and give the group leader post to Mr Kaminski to make peace. Mr Hultum noted that when the EU parliament President, Jerzy Buzek, steps down at the end of his mandate in 2011, Mr Kaminski will be the only MEP from the former Communist member states who will have access to the Conference of Presidents, the parliament's highest decision-making body.
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.
Russia's Putin hints at Kremlin return in 2012 By Andreas Rinke – Mon Sep 6, 3:21 pm ET
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gave a strong hint on Monday that he would run for president in 2012, a step that would almost certainly give him a second spell as Kremlin chief.Putin is the dominant partner in a ruling tandem with President Dmitry Medvedev, the younger man he tapped as his favored successor when a constitutional two-term limit kept the former KGB spy out of the 2008 presidential race.When asked if running for president in the 2012 election would damage Russia's political system, Putin cited Franklin Roosevelt who led the United States from 1933 until his death in office in April 1945, before a two-term limit was imposed.U.S. President Roosevelt was voted in four times in a row because this did not contradict the American constitution, Putin told Russia experts from the Valdai discussion group at a meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
The Russian constitution prevented Putin from running in 2008 after serving a second consecutive four-year term as president, but he will be free to run again in 2012. Medvedev changed the constitution in late 2008 to extend future presidential terms to six years.Neither I nor President Medvedev will do anything which contradicts current Russian legislation or the country's fundamental law -- the constitution, Putin said.How we will act in 2011 or at the start of 2012 we -- I and President Medvedev -- have said this repeatedly: we will act based on the real situation in the country, on what we have done, on the mood in society, Putin said.It is too early to speak about this, though, Putin said. We must do our jobs. Each of us is doing our job and in my view we are doing it effectively.
CHOSE TO SHARE POWER
Both Putin, 57, and Medvedev, 44, have suggested that one of them will run for president in 2012, and that they will agree in advance which one it will be.No other Russian politician commands the same authority or popular support as Putin, though some diplomats caution that Russia's political system would be far too dependent on the fate of one man if Putin did return to the Kremlin.When pressed on the long-term dangers of concentrating power in one person's hands, Putin said he wanted to create a balanced political system.We need people to understand that there is nothing wrong with constitutional changes of power. But that will take time, Putin said. I agree that it is wrong for just one person to hold all the power. That is why I chose to share with Medvedev.
Barak Meets Putin in Russia, Clinches Military Deals
by Hillel Fendel AUG 6,10
Defense Minister Ehud Barak paid a 24-hour visit to Russia Monday, meeting visit with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The contents of the talks are not being publicized, but it was announced that Russia agreed to buy Israeli military equipment.The 90-minute meeting took place in Putin’s official residence. Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov was also present. The talks are assumed to have centered on Iran's nuclear program and Russia’s role in fueling the Bushehr reactor, Russian arms sales to Damascus and Tehran, and on combating extreme Islamist terrorist groups. Serdvukov’s spokesperson said the two defense ministers were planning to sign an agreement on military cooperation that will regulate cooperation between the two countries in the military sphere over the next five years. The agreement stipulates that Russia and Israel will exchange experiences and information in the spheres of mutual interest, including international security, she said.It was announced afterwards that Russia had purchased 12 Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles, and that some 50 servicemen are being trained to operate them.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Abbas’ Threats May Throw Direct Talks in Clinton’s Lap
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu AUG 6,10
Palestinian Authority officials continued to hammer home a hard line on its demands from Israel, raising the possibility that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may be left holding the bag in the next round of talks in Egypt next week.Despite PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ tough talk last week, U.S. President Barack Obama and his advisors carefully choreographed talks with him and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu without a hitch. However, the only substantial outcome was an agreement for a new round of discussions, this time to be overseen by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt next week.Key issues--the building freeze against new Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria, the status of Jerusalem and recognizing Israel as a Jewish state--were not publicly discussed in Washington.
Abbas and Netanyahu couched their positions in polite diplomatic language, but PA leaders have made it clear the past two days they are determined as ever that Israel meet all of their conditions for talks for a new Arab country headed by the PA.Abbas told the Jerusalem-based Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper Monday he would pack my bags and leave before compromising on the borders of a future PA state. He also left no room for discussion on the Arab demand that Israel allow several million Arabs living in foreign countries to move to Israel on the basis of ancestral claims.As reported by Israel National News Sunday, Abbas reiterated demands he did not state publicly in Washington, particularly that Israel extend its 10-month temporary moratorium on building new Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria. Israel froze the building until September 26 as a concession to encourage the PA to sit down with Prime Minister Netanyahu, but the PA rejected direct talks until last week’s summons by President Obama.PA chief negotiator Saeb Erekat (pictured) also poured cold water on American officials’ statements that another round of talks would follow those in Egypt. One report said the third round would take place in Jerusalem, but Erekat categorically stated that there was nothing to talk about unless the PA sees positive results, from its viewpoint, in the discussions with Clinton next week. The time now is for decisions not for negotiations, he told Army Radio Monday,The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the parent body of the Palestinian Authority, issued a statement Monday that no international conventions should be held anywhere in Jerusalem because most of the world does not recognize the city as Israel’s capital. The PLO did not specifically say that if it would refuse to sit down with Israeli leaders in Jerusalem.
Whereas Obama’s officials lined up support from Jordan and Egypt for the talks in Washington, Clinton will have to face a growing hard-line stand by Egypt, whose Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit on Monday rejected Israel’s insistence that the country be recognized as a Jewish State. He that such a definition would leave Israeli Arabs facing the danger of expulsion. Jews living in Judea and Samaria would be expelled in a future PA-controlled state. The PA would not accept any Israeli presence, whether civilian or military, on the Palestinian territories, Abbas declared.In contrast to the PA hard line, Prime Minister Netanyahu played the role of statesman Monday, telling visiting U.S. Congressmen that he is worried that Abbas will carry out his threat to stop the talks if his demands are not met. (IsraelNationalNews.com)
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.
IAEA: Syria Does Not Cooperate
by Elad Benari AUG 7,10
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Monday that a refusal by Syria to allow UN inspectors access to a site where secret nuclear activity may have taken place is endangering potential evidence in the investigation, according to a Reuters report.In a confidential report obtained by Reuters, the IAEA said that it has not been allowed to inspect the site for two years.With time, some of the necessary information may deteriorate or be lost entirely, wrote IAEA chief Yukiya Amano in the report.The site in question is the same site bombed by Israeli Air Forces exactly three years ago, in September of 2007. The CIA confirmed that the site, known as al-Kibar or Dair Alzour, was a nuclear facility meant to produce plutonium and partially funded by North Korea. Israel bombed the reactor before it attained its planned capacity to manufacture plutonium for nuclear weapons.The IAEA has already said earlier this year that some illicit atomic activity had taken place at the site, when it reported that inspectors found uranium traces during a 2008 visit to the site. IAEA now wishes to re-examine the site and take samples from rubble removed immediately after the air strike.
In the report, Amano urges Syria to cooperate in respect to Dair Alzour, and also calls on Syria to allow the IAEA access to three other Syrian sites under military control whose appearance was altered by landscaping after inspectors requested access to them.Earlier on Monday, the IAEA reported that Iran continues to snub the United Nations and has produced 2.8 tons of enriched uranium, and added that the Islamic Republic refuses to allow UN inspectors into the country, noting it recently took away the rights of two experienced inspectors to monitor Iran’s nuclear projects after they reported that Iran conducted undeclared nuclear experiments. Iran claims it barred entry to the inspectors because their reports were not accurate.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
UN nuke agency warns monitoring of Iran hampered By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer – Mon Sep 6, 3:15 pm ET
VIENNA – The U.N. atomic agency expressed alarm Monday about Iran's decision to bar some of its inspectors, suggesting that its efforts to monitor the country's nuclear program were suffering as a result.The unusually blunt International Atomic Energy Agency warning was voiced in a restricted report on Iran made available to The Associated Press that otherwise contained few surprises. It followed Iran's recent decision to strip two experienced inspectors of the right to monitor its nuclear activities after the two reported what they said were undeclared nuclear experiments.
The Islamic Republic says the reporting by the two was inaccurate, but the IAEA stands by the findings. And the 11-page IAEA document issued Monday devoted a special section to the complaint, reflecting the importance attached to it by IAEA chief Yukiya Amano.Such a section was included in only one previous report, after Iran stripped the right of dozens of inspectors in 2006 and 2007 — most of them in order to show displeasure over recently passed U.N. Security Council sanctions on the Islamic Republic.Monday's report said that objections by Iran to some experienced inspectors hampers the inspection process and thereby detracts from the Agency's capability to implement effective and efficient safeguards in Iran.Diplomats from three countries accredited to the agency echoed the IAEA's concerns in comments to the AP, saying Iran appeared keen to ban seasoned inspectors — particularly those from nuclear weapons countries with special skills that could help detect attempts to make nuclear arms.And a U.N. official who was a former IAEA inspector in Iran spoke of intense scrutiny while on such missions and the fear among inspectors that they would be banned from returning if they reported something the Iranians did not like.If you opened your eyes too much you ran the risk of being de-designated by the Iranians said the official who — like the diplomats — asked for anonymity because his information was confidential.He said he agreed with the concerns that Iran was weeding out experts most likely to discover secret programs designed to make weapons.
The IAEA doesn't teach you about weaponization, he said. Only experts from weapons countries are good at that kind of thing.Iran rejected allegations of selective bans and intimidation of IAEA inspectors, with Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Tehran's chief delegate to the agency calling them absolutely unjustified.Soltanieh told the AP that the IAEA currently has 150 inspectors able to work in Iran and noted that the report mentioned the country's approval of five additional inspectors.That, he said, is a clear indication that we have cooperated with the agency.The quarterly report, which was being circulated to the IAEA's 35-nation board and to the U.N. Security Council, also confirmed public statements by Iranian officials that the country continues to enrich uranium in contravention of U.N. Security Council demands.Iran insists it only wants to enrich uranium to create energy. But international concerns are high because enrichment can also create the fissile core of nuclear warheads — low enriched uranium is used as nuclear fuel but the same process can produce high enriched, weapons-grade material.The report noted that while the scope of enrichment had not significantly increased over the past year, output had been steady, with Iran now accumulating about 2.8 tons of low-enriched material — nearly enough for three nuclear bombs — since its program was revealed seven years ago. That translates to about 15 percent more such material than in May, when the last IAEA report was published.Separate enrichment for what Iran says will be fuel for its research reactor had produced about 22 kilograms — more than 45 pounds — of 20-percent enriched uranium.While still substantially less than the 90 percent needed to make weapons, production of 20 percent enriched material is of concern because it can be turned into weapons grade material more quickly than the low enriched uranium turned out by Iran's main enrichment facility. The report also said that Iran continued to stonewall the agency in its efforts to follow up on U.S. and other intelligence indicating past experiments meant to develop a nuclear weapons program and warned that chances of establishing the accuracy of such information were diminishing. With Iran refusing to engage on the issue for over two years, the possible deterioration in the availability of some relevant information increase the urgency of this matter, said the report.
In a separate report, the agency expressed similar concerns about Syria's refusal allow the IAEA to probe U.S. assertions that a facility destroyed three years ago by Israeli warplanes was a secretly built reactor meant to produce plutonium. After two years of investigations constrained by Syria's lack of cooperation, it is critical that Syria positively engage with the Agency ... without further delay,said that report.
Will Israel Have Its Own Air Force One?
by Elad Benari AUG 7,10
Israel’s Prime Minister may soon be able to fly overseas with the same comfort and amenities used by the American president.According to a report in Yediot Aharonot on Sunday, Israel’s Finance Ministry has issued a tender asking commercial airlines to submit offers for Israel’s version of Air Force One, the official call sign of the Boeing aircraft that transports the US President.The decision comes after many years of reliance on El-Al aircraft that are converted into an official plane, by removing seats and installing a bed for the use of the Prime Minister and his wife. A plane is refitted each time the PM has to make an official trip abroad.The tender for Israel’s version of Air Force One calls for offering one of three alternatives: an aircraft exclusively designated for VIP transport with around-the-clock availability, an aircraft that will continue commercial flights but be available for state use at a moment's notice, or a long-term lease with an airline that will be able to configure one of its fleet for state use within 72 hours. Also being taken into consideration is the option of using an Air Force plane, which would be in regular use but be available on 24 hours' notice.According to experts, the Prime Minister's Office will likely choose to sign a contract for alternative number two: a Boeing 767 that will continue to fly regular commercial flights and be converted for state use on short notice. The winning plane will have to offer high availability over the next 15 years and be able to fly at least 10,000 km without having to land for refueling.
The Israeli Air Force One will reportedly feature rooms built into modular platforms and connectable in segments for easy reconfiguration, and will also include sporting amenities. The Israeli Prime Minister will enjoy a personal suite with a bathroom and shower. The plane will feature a business suite for senior officials, a multi-media conference room, encrypted satellite communication gear, an infirmary and special seating for aides and body guards, and measures against to counter shoulder-fired missiles. The plane will be divided into different sections: A VIP section at the front for the Prime Minister, a section similar to the first class section of a commercial jet with 20 reclining seats for the entourage, and a third section with some 80 economy-class seats for security personnel, junior assistants, and the like. The plane will have secure partitions between sections in order to ensure privacy for the Prime Minister.According to the report, companies which have already expressed interest include Israir, Arkia and LeadAir. Some figures from the business sector who are not currently in the airline industry have also shown an interest.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Iran Possesses 2.8 Tons of Uranium Despite Obama's Sanctions
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu AUG 6,10
Iran continues to snub the United Nations and has produced 2.8 tons of enriched uranium, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported Monday. Iran previously enriched uranium to a five percent grade, but increased the purification level to nearly 20 percent last February.U.S. President has claimed that harsher sanctions against Iran have affected Iran, but the latest nuclear report indicates that the sanctions, which may be hurting Iran economically, have not stopped it from enriching the key ingredient for a nuclear bomb. Americans officials said Monday they are worried by the IAEA report.The IAEA added that the Islamic Republic refuses to allow UN inspectors into the country, noting it recently took away the rights of two experienced inspectors to monitor Iran’s nuclear projects after they reported that Iran conducted undeclared nuclear experiments. Iran claims it barred entry to the inspectors because their reports were not accurate.Iran recently began operating the Bushehr nuclear reactor, in addition to the Natanz nuclear facility. It has increased production of low-enriched uranium by 15 percent since May, despite harsher sanctions placed by the United Nations and the United States.CNN and the French news agency AFP said they obtained the confidential IAEA report, which reputedly stated, Based on an overall analysis undertaken by the agency of all the information available to it, the agency remains concerned about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed nuclear-related activities involving military-related organizations, including activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile.The agency told media that previous inspections revealed that several seals had been broken on equipment at Natanz. Iran claimed that the breakages were accidental.The repeated objection by Iran to the designation of inspectors with experience in Iran's nuclear fuel cycle and facilities hampers the inspection process, the report said, according to AFP.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
9/11 Documentary: Rice Ordered Bush Not to Return to Washington
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu AUG 6,10
A British documentary on the Al-Qaeda aerial 9/11 terrorist attacks nine years ago reveals that Condoleezza Rice hung up the phone on President George W. Bush after he refused to listen to her orders to stay put and not return to Washington.The British Channel 4 program also reports that so many top officials were huddled in an underground bunker that they almost ran out of oxygen, according to the The London Daily Mirror, which previewed the documentary to be is be aired Monday night.Rice was National Security Advisor at the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in the suicide attacks on the World Trade Center’s twin towers in New York and on the Pentagon. Another plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania before the suicide terrorists could guide it to a target, probably the White House. After the crash, Rice and other officials thought it had been shot down. Bush insisted on returning from the south, where he was visiting at the time of the attacks. You cannot come back here, she told the president. The United States of America is under attack; you have to go to safety. We don't know what is going on here.When he argued with her, she raised her voice and said, You cannot come back here and hung up the phone. She told Channel 4, I had never raised my voice to the President before.In Washington, so many officials crowded together in a bunker that the oxygen levels started dropping and the secret service came in telling people they weren't essential and to leave, she revealed.Another foul-up was that a government communications system did not operate properly, forcing Bush to use an unsecured line to Washington.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
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.
Indonesian volcano erupts again; strongest one yet By BINSAR BAKKARA, Associated Press Writer AUG 6,10
TANAH KARO, Indonesia – An Indonesian volcano shot black ash three miles (5,000 meters) into the air early Tuesday — its most powerful eruption since springing back to life after four centuries of dormancy.The force of Mount Sinabung's explosion could be felt five miles (eight kilometers) away.This one was really terrifying, said Anissa Siregar, 30, as she and her two sleepy children arrived by truck at an emergency shelter near the base, adding that the whole mountain shook violently for at least three minutes. It just keeps getting worse.The volcano in North Sumatra province erupted last week for the first time since 1600, catching many scientists off guard. With more than 129 active volcanoes to watch, local vulcanologists had failed to monitor it for rising magma, slight uplifts in land and other signs of seismic activity.There are fears that current activity could foreshadow a much more destructive explosion in the next few weeks or months, though it is possible, too, that the mountain will go back to sleep after letting off steam.More than 30,000 people living along the volcano's fertile slopes have been relocated to cramped refugee camps, mosques and churches in nearby villages.But some — like Siregar, the mother who fled with her children — have insisted on returning to the danger zone to check on their homes and their dust covered crops.The government sent trucks to the mountain before Tuesday's eruption to help carry them back to safety.
Surono, who heads the nation's volcano alert center, said intensity at the mountain is clearly increasing.There were more than 80 volcanic earthquakes in the 24-hour lead up to the blast, compared to 50 on Friday, when ash and debris shot nearly two miles (3,000 meters) into the air.The eruption early Tuesday occurred just after midnight during a torrential downpour. Witnesses said volcanic ash and mud oozed down the mountain's slopes, flooding into abandoned homes.Indonesia is a seismically charged region because of its location on the so-called Ring of Fire — a series of fault lines stretching from the Western Hemisphere through Japan and Southeast Asia.
It has recorded some of the largest eruptions in history.The 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora buried the inhabitants of Sumbawa Island under searing ash, gas and rock, killing an estimated 88,000 people.The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa could be heard 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) away and blackened skies region-wide for months. At least 36,000 people were killed in the blast and the tsunami that followed.Associated Press Writer Niniek Karmini contributed to this report from Jakarta.
Galactic Supervolcano Seen Erupting With X-Rays
SPACE.com Space.com Staff space.com – Mon Sep 6, 10:15 am ET
A galactic supervolcano in the massive galaxy M87 is erupting, blasting gas outwards. The cosmic volcano — driven by a giant black hole in M87's center — is preventing hundreds of millions of new stars from forming. An image, taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array, captures the drama in action. [Photo of the galactic supervolcano.]Our results show in great detail that supermassive black holes have a surprisingly good control over the evolution of the galaxies in which they live, said Norbert Werner of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Melo Park, Calif., who led one of two studies of M87's black hole and its effects. The black hole's reach extends ever farther into the entire cluster, similar to how one small volcano can affect practically an entire hemisphere on Earth.
X-ray galaxy
M87 is about 50 million light-years from Earth and lies at the center of the Virgo cluster, which contains thousands of galaxies. M87 is filled with hot gas that emits X-ray light, which is detectable by Chandra. As the gas cools, it can fall toward the galaxy's center, where it should continue to cool even faster and form new stars.
Yet, radio observations from the Very Large Array suggest that in M87, jets of very energetic particles produced by the black hole interrupt this process. These jets lift up the relatively cool gas near the galaxy's center and produce shock waves in the galaxy's atmosphere from their supersonic speed.Scientists have found that the interaction of this cosmic eruption with the galaxy's environment is very similar to volcanic processes on Earth. In particular, the researchers compared it to the aftermath of the Eyjafjallajokull volcanic eruption, which forced much of Europe to close its airports earlier this year.The energetic particles produced near the black hole rise through the X-ray-emitting atmosphere of the cluster, lifting up the coolest gas near the center of M87 in their wake, similar to the way hot volcanic gases drag up clouds of dark ash.
Galaxy's gas plumes
In M87, the plumes of cooler gas being lifted upward contain as much mass as all of the gas contained within 12,000 light-years of the center of the galaxy cluster. The black hole-powered supervolcano is thus very efficient at blasting the galaxy free of the gas that would otherwise cool and form stars. This gas could have formed hundreds of millions of stars as massive as our own sun, if the black hole had not removed it from the center of the galaxy, said Evan Million, a graduate student at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., and lead author of a second paper to be published about M87.The eruption within M87 that lifted up the cooler gas likely occurred about 150 million years ago, but a smaller eruption only about 11 million years earlier produced the shock wave, the researchers said. The Chandra image was based on an observation lasting almost 7 days.The two papers describing these results will appear in the journal of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Floods displace thousands more in Ethiopia
– Mon Sep 6, 2:28 pm ET
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Floodwaters have displaced nearly 16,000 people in north-eastern Ethiopia, the UN said Monday, weeks after thousands of others were affected in the country's central region.Flooding in Afar, caused by the overflow of the Logia River and the Tendaho dam ... on 27 August, resulted in the displacement of approximately 15,600 people, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement.The agency said crops and livelihood assets were destroyed, roads submerged and bridges swept away.Flash floods sparked by heavy rainfall earlier in August had displaced more than 11,000 people in the central Amhara region and resulting mudslides killed 19 there, according to the UN.UNOCHA has warned that nearly 300,000 people could be affected in September as torrential rain continues to pound several regions.Ethiopia, home to over 80 million, is regularly hit by floods. According to the World Food Programme, more than 183,000 people were affected in 2007.In 2006, more than 600 people were killed and a further 300,000 affected by unusually heavy floods that ravaged several regions in the Horn of Africa country.
Death toll rises to 45 in Guatemala mudslides By LUIS ANGEL SAS, Associated Press Writer AUG 6,10
GUATEMALA CITY – Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and then the people trying to save them. The deaths raised the confirmed toll from mudslides in Guatemala to 45 as torrential rains pounded the country.Authorities said 25 people are confirmed dead and at least 15 are believed to be still buried beneath the debris in the village of Nahuala, where a first mudslide buried a bus and other vehicles, then a second one turned would-be rescuers into victims.At least 20 others died over the weekend elsewhere as a tropical depression saturated the ground and set off more than a dozen landslides around the country, according to the national disaster agency. The most recent slide, on a highway in northern Guatemala, killed one person and injured 26 on Sunday.In southern Guatemala, meanwhile, rescue workers used motorboats to reach about 100 families cut off by massive flooding in the town of Santa Ana Mixtan. Some residents sat on their roofs waiting to be evacuated, while others tried to drag bundles of their belongings through neck-deep water.In Nahuala, emergency crews and villagers rushed to the Inter-American highway on Saturday, picks and shovels in hand, after radio reports of the deadly slide — only to be swamped by the second cascade of rock and earth.Search and rescue efforts were suspended Sunday for fear that the mountainside could give way yet again, but digging resumed Monday with heavy machinery and fewer workers, said Sergio Cabanas, a Civil Protection director.Of the 100 people originally searching for bodies and survivors, only 33 remained, all of them soldiers and firefighters, Cabanas said.
And even they might not be able to recover the last of the bodies, Cabanas said. It's very dangerous to have personnel there.At least five bodies were pulled out Monday, said Mario Cruz, a firefighters' spokesman. Authorities initially said more than three dozen people were missing, but the estimate was lowered to 15 after further interviews with witnesses and relatives.Local police officer Suagustino Pascual Tuy said there had been several landslides along the Inter-American highway in the last year, and authorities knew of the danger.Last year there was a landslide there, 15 days ago there was a landslide, he said. But now a big one came.President Alvaro Colom, who visited the area and declared Monday a national day of mourning, said Guatemala must improve its disaster prevention efforts. He said more geologists should study the terrain in the country's hillsides.All told, there were 15 landslides at different spots along the Inter-American Highway — a section of the Pan-American Highway system — within in a 48-hour period, Communications Minister Guillermo Castillo said.Byron Pivaral, director of the government agency that oversees road construction, said widespread deforestation made it difficult for the land around the highway to absorb heavy rain. Along the highway, he said, people have cut down trees to plant corn and beans.Vice President Rafael Espada said there would be investigation to determine whether faulty road construction also contributed to the mudslides.
In wake of Earl, U.S. eyes other potential storms
– Sun Sep 5, 11:12 pm ET
MIAMI (Reuters) – The remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston look very likely to strengthen again as a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic and could threaten the Caribbean's Leeward Islands in coming days on a westward track, U.S. forecasters said on Sunday.The National Hurricane Center gave Gaston, which weakened to a remnant low-pressure area on Thursday soon after becoming a tropical cyclone, an 80 percent chance of redeveloping over the next 48 hours.An area of low pressure over the extreme southwestern Gulf of Mexico became a tropical depression on Sunday night with top sustained winds of 30 miles per hour, the Miami-based hurricane center said. The depression could strengthen to a tropical storm on Monday as it moves northwestward inland.The Mexican government issued a tropical storm warning for the Gulf coast from Tampico to the border with Texas.If they become tropical storms, these systems could be the new focus of weather concern in a recent flurry of 2010 Atlantic hurricane season activity, which saw Hurricane Earl brush the U.S. East Coast last week before coming ashore in Canada on Saturday and fizzling out.
Canadian energy companies were checking their facilities and operations after Earl's passage.The U.S. hurricane center said the remnant low of Gaston was located about 700 miles east of the Leeward Islands, battered by Earl last week.The low could redevelop into a tropical depression at any time today or tonight, the hurricane center said.It warned authorities in the Leeward Islands to monitor the system, but it was still too early to tell whether the Gaston remnant could eventually threaten the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, where major U.S. oil and gas production and refining operations are located, or also Florida.Meteorologist Jeff Masters of private forecaster Weather Underground predicted Gaston would pass over or just to the northeast of the Lesser Antilles Islands early on Tuesday.Gaston may threaten Puerto Rico on Wednesday, the Dominican Republic on Thursday, and Haiti, Jamaica and/or the Turks and Caicos Islands by Friday, depending upon the storm's interaction with a trough of low pressure expected to move off the U.S. East Coast later this week, Masters wrote in a blog posted on Sunday.Energy traders keep a close eye on potentially violent storms approaching the Gulf because it is home to about 30 percent of U.S. oil production, 11 percent of natural gas production and more than 43 percent of U.S. refinery capacity.The hurricane season runs from June 1 through November 30 and is currently in its peak period.(For the latest news on hurricanes click on http://www.reuters.com/subjects/hurricanes; for links to the National Hurricane Center http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/; for weather models http://www.skeetobiteweather.com/))(Reporting by Pascal Fletcher; Editing by Philip Barbara and Peter Cooney)
Earl loses tropical storm status after soaking Canada
– Sun Sep 5, 3:12 am ET
MONTREAL (AFP) – Earl lost its tropical storm status over Canada, US government forecasters announced, but the storm still left one person dead and nearly one million people without power in northeastern Canada.The storm also menaced the US East Coast but left it largely undamaged. Earl is now post-tropical, and weakening is expected during the next 48 hours, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.
Early Sunday, the center of the storm was located 180 miles (295 kilometers southwest of Mary's Harbour, in the Canadian region of Labrador, the NHC said.It was packing sustained winds of 65 miles (100 kilometers) an hour and moving north-northeast at 46 miles (74 kilometers) an hour.The center of the storm made landfall in southern Nova Scotia shortly after 11:00 am (1400 GMT) on Saturday, but the Canadian Hurricane Centre (CHC) later said its strength steadily fell as it buffeted the craggy coastline.Although weakened, Earl still pounded Halifax, the region's largest city, with high winds and rain.By late afternoon, one man was killed after falling off his boat in Nova Scotia and some 210,000 homes and 940,000 people in the region were without power.Greater Moncton International Airport canceled all flights Saturday, and Halifax Stanfield International Airport was under partial operation.
Earlier this week, Earl lashed several hundred kilometers (miles) of the US East Coast seaboard with heavy rains and strong winds, disrupting holiday plans for millions and prompting evacuations in North Carolina.It had also prompted hurricane warnings in the northeastern US state of Massachusetts, notably its vacation destinations including Cape Cod and the tiny islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.But while residents battened down the hatches, the storm dealt the region only a glancing blow.We had a lot of hype but no action, which was good, the wife of a former attendant at the historic Chatham Lighthouse on Cape Cod told AFP Saturday.
It's over. There's blue sky, sunshine, very little rain, said the woman who identified herself only as Mrs Davis, adding that winds and rain were strong overnight but did not cause major damage.Authorities were clear: coastal communities dodged a bullet.We're ecstatic it didn't happen, Craig Fugate, chief of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), told reporters, referring to the expected devastation.US communities suffered very minimal impacts, with no reports of fatalities, he said, and states were shutting down their emergency management centers.Residents of North Carolina were mopping up after a storm surge flooded roads on the low-lying barrier islands, as the high winds caused sporadic power outages.Local residents hunkered down along the beach paradise's commercial spine, Route 28, parallel to the Atlantic. They awoke to sunshine on Saturday, and quickly began pulling down plywood from storefront windows. We were really ready to get blasted, but we got lucky, said Ray Coombes, a recreational sailor who summers in West Yarmouth on Cape Cod and removed his boat from the water Thursday in anticipation of the storm. Weather watchers said Earl was still the most powerful storm to threaten the US Northeast since 1991, when Hurricane Bob killed six people.
But it left balmy weather in its wake on the US coast. On the beaches by Hyannis and Yarmouth, which were empty Friday, Labor Day holiday crowds were returning for some end-of-summer sand and sunshine.The beach is perfect today, said Sharon Patterson, who was visiting Smuggler's Beach in South Yarmouth with her three children. Fugate, however, cautioned that the United States was still 87 days away from the end of hurricane season.As FEMA resets from Hurricane Earl... we continue to keep an eye on the tropics.
Pakistanis suspect landowners of diverting floods By SEBASTIAN ABBOT and ASHRAF KHAN, Associated Press Writers - SEPT 7,10
SUKKUR, Pakistan – As the disastrous floods recede in Pakistan, something new is rising: suspicions and rumors that powerful officials and landowners used their influence to divert water away from their property and inundate the villages and fields of millions of poor Pakistanis.The claims are difficult to verify and in some cases may be exaggerated. Yet they have spread like wildfire across the waterlogged countryside, further outraging many flood victims already upset at the government's failure to provide enough food, clean water and shelter.One of the risks is that Islamist militants could seize on growing anger to increase support for their war against the state. Even before the floods, many Pakistanis harbored a deep mistrust toward their government and the landowning elite.The politicians and the rich and powerful just sacrificed the people, said 30-year-old farmer Mohammed Yousuf, who lost his home and 11 cattle last month when floodwaters surging down the Indus River swept across southern Sindh province.The floods, which were triggered by extremely heavy monsoon rains in the northwest at the end of July, have killed more than 1,600 people across Pakistan and affected some 17 million others. At its peak, the flood covered one-fifth of the country — an area larger than England.Many people suspect powerful Pakistanis were able to manipulate the flow of water by influencing which levees were breached. Levees are tall dirt and rock embankments meant to prevent a river from overflowing and can be intentionally breached using explosives or heavy machinery.
It was impossible to verify the validity of the different accusations, but it was clear that many of the allegations were being leveled at the powerful by the largely powerless.Outrage has been especially pronounced in northern Sindh where hundreds of thousands of people — including Yousuf — watched floods swamp their fields and destroy their homes as the lands of a federal minister on the opposite side of the Indus remained dry.Many of these flood victims are convinced Labor Minister Khursheed Shah pushed the government to deliberately breach a levee upriver to save his property. The water that surged through the Tori Bund levee inundated dozens of villages and towns west of the river, an area that is more densely populated than the eastern side, where Shah's lands are located.Khursheed Shah is a tyrant! shouted Masood Ahmed, a 25-year-old vegetable vendor in Karampur, a town near the western bank of the Indus that was entirely surrounded by water. He is the enemy of humanity!
The labor minister denied any wrongdoing and Sindh Irrigation Minister Jam Saifullah Dharejo has said Tori Bund was not breached by the government but ruptured when water flowing down the Indus surged unexpectedly.Residents said they were unprepared for the sudden influx of water because they had assumed authorities would breach the Ali Wan levee on the eastern bank just as they had done when floods threatened the area in 1976 — a move they accused Shah of opposing.I had to choose between saving my family or my cattle, said Shafi Mohammed, 30, sitting beneath a makeshift shelter beside a road near Karampur. He rescued his wife and six children but lost his home, most of his possessions and two of his five water buffalo.Noor Mohammad Baloch, an engineer and former chairman of Pakistan's Indus River System Authority, supported the government's explanation of the Tori Bund breach and said it reduced the water pressure enough so that the Ali Wan levee could remain intact.But flood victims dismissed the explanation and demanded an independent investigation.There was more controversy as high water headed farther west. Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, a former prime minister, criticized members of the Sindh government for breaching a levee to divert water toward Baluchistan, Pakistan's poorest province.The decision saved the city of Jacobabad, with about 300,000 residents, and a nearby air base, but it swamped homes and fields of 1 million people in Baluchistan.If it's a national calamity, we bow down our heads in front of the almighty, but if it is mismanagement, let an inquiry be held, said Jamali.
Farther north, lawmaker Jamshed Dasti from Muzaffargargh district in central Punjab province accused two powerful landowning families — the Khosas and the Hanjras — of persuading authorities not to breach levees on the western side of the Indus that would have swamped their property. As a result, water broke through a levee on the eastern side of the river and inundated much of Muzaffargargh, a more densely populated area of some 3 million people, he said. They wouldn't care even if thousands of people had died, said Dasti, who is seen as a champion of the poor in a district dominated by landowners. Their only interest is to secure their lands. They treat common people as animals.Ali Ahmad, a farmer in the town of Sanawan in Muzaffargargh, said the flooding caught people by surprise because everyone expected the water to be directed to the western side of the river. But one morning at around 5 a.m. we woke up to a chaotic situation, Ahmad said. There was water everywhere and we had to run to safety.The two landowning families have denied Dasti's allegations, saying the decision about which levees should be breached was a technical matter that was decided independently by the government. The provincial government has ordered the Lahore High Court to investigate, but Dasti has little faith in a fair outcome since one of the members of the Khosa family is an adviser to the chief minister of Punjab.The landlords, he said, did this crime in connivance with government officials, who are like their personal servants.Associated Press writers Khalid Tanveer in Muzaffargargh and Asif Shahzad in Islamabad contributed to this report.(This version CORRECTS in the 17th paragraph that Jacobabad city has a population of 300,000, instead of 30,000)
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
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.
Authorities: 1,000 homes evacuated in Colo. fire By DAN ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer - AUG 6,10
DENVER – A wind-driven wildfire in the rugged Colorado foothills spread across 5 1/2 square miles Monday, destroying an unknown number of homes and triggering the evacuation of 1,000 others, authorities said.
No injuries have been reported.
Authorities didn't immediately know how many structures burned down. But at least some were houses, including four that belonged to firefighters battling the blaze, said Laura McConnell, a spokeswoman for the fire management team.
Video from KUSA-TV showed at least one home engulfed in flames.
The fire started Monday morning in Four Mile Canyon northwest of Boulder, and erratic winds gusting to 45 mph spread the flames quickly, sometimes in two directions at once.About 100 firefighters were on the scene, and the winds calmed enough by late afternoon that three aerial tankers could start dropping fire retardant before darkness.Some crews remained at the fire through the night. Four more aerial tankers were requested to join the fight Tuesday morning.At least a half-dozen roads in the area were closed, and a billowing, white plume of heavy smoke was visible for miles before sunset. County health officials advised residents to stay indoors if the smoky air became irritating.The fire's cause was unknown. Officials said it was too early to say how much, if any, of the fire was contained.Boulder County sheriff's Cmdr. Rick Brough said the fire moved quickly through difficult country.It's very rocky, hilly, mountainous terrain, he said.
One fire vehicle was destroyed in the blaze.The Boulder County alert system malfunctioned for about two hours Monday afternoon, leaving authorities unable to send automatic calls telling residents to evacuate. Officials said it began working again later.The Red Cross set up an overnight evacuation center at the Coors Events Center on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder.A shelter for livestock was set up at the Boulder County Fairgrounds in Longmont.
EARTHQUAKES
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Sharp series of aftershocks strike New Zealand By ROB GRIFFITH, Associated Press Writer - AUG 7,10
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – A sharp series of about 20 aftershocks rattled New Zealand's earthquake-hit city of Christchurch overnight, and earthquake experts warned Tuesday that another powerful temblor might hammer the region in coming days.
The weekend's powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake smashed buildings and homes, wrecked roads and disrupted the central city, though nobody was killed and only two people were seriously injured — which authorities attributed to good building codes and the quake's early-morning timing.It was as strong as the earthquake in Haiti earlier this year, which caused widespread devastation and is estimated to have killed approximately 230,000 people, Prime Minister John Key said Tuesday. Although no one lost their life ... families have been traumatized and lost their valued possessions.
The city center remained cordoned off by troops Tuesday, with only building owners and workers allowed in to begin clearing up the mess — with much of the center taking on the mantle of a ghost town.More than 100 aftershocks, ranging from magnitude 3.2 to 5.4, have rocked the region since Saturday's major quake.Overnight, about 20 shocks including two of magnitude 5.4 rattled the city, and quake experts said aftershocks likely will continue for several weeks — and the worst of them may be yet to come.It is still possible that we'll have a magnitude-6 in the next week, and people ought to be aware of that, particularly if they are around structures which are already damaged, said Ken Gledhill, a monitor at the geological agency GNS Science. For a shallow earthquake like this, they will go on for weeks.Key called off a planned nine-day trip to Britain and France, citing what he called the quake zone's continuing instability.
Key was to have met with British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and with his wife, Bronagh, to have spent a weekend with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at her Scottish castle, Balmoral.The New Zealand government has said it plans to pay at least 90 percent of the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to rebuild Christchurch's water, waste water and road infrastructure.In a statement Tuesday to Parliament, Key pledged to remove bottlenecks to reconstruction and said the government is prepared to step up financially to rebuild the region.
He planned to return to the damaged city later Tuesday to meet victims displaced by the quake and for talks with local officials.As the frightening aftershocks continue, we stand alongside them (people of the region), committed to helping them rebuild their lives, he said.The main quake struck at 4:35 a.m. Saturday near the South Island city of 400,000 people, ripping open a new fault line in the earth's surface, destroying hundreds of buildings and cutting power, which has been gradually restored in recent days.The government has said that at least 100,000 of the region's 160,000 homes sustained some damage.New Zealand sits above an area where two tectonic plates collide. The country records more than 14,000 earthquakes a year — but only about 150 are felt by residents. Fewer than 10 a year do any damage.New Zealand's last major earthquake registered magnitude 7.8 and hit South Island's Fiordland region on July 16, 2009, moving the southern tip of the country 12 inches (30 centimeters) closer to Australia.Associated Press Writer Ray Lilley in Wellington contributed to this report.
HERES A REAL RESULT OF SHARIA LAW IN ACTION AGAINST WOMEN.HERES THAT PEACE LOVING ISLAM RELIGIOUS CULT IN ACTION.NO HURT ALL LOVE.
Lawyer: Iran woman could be stoned to death soon By NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press Writer – Mon Sep 6, 5:30 pm ET
TEHRAN, Iran – The lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned on an adultery conviction said Monday that he and her children are worried the delayed execution could be carried out soon with the end of a moratorium on death sentences for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.In an unusual turn in the case, the lawyer also confirmed that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was lashed 99 times last week in a separate punishment meted out because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her. Under Iran's clerical rule, women must cover their hair in public. The newspaper later apologized for the error.With the end of Ramadan this week, the mother of two could be executed any moment, said her lawyer, Javid Houtan Kian.The sentence was put on hold in July after an international outcry over the brutality of the punishment, and it is now being reviewed by Iran's supreme court.Ashtiani was convicted in 2006 of having an illicit relationship with two men after the murder of her husband the year before and was sentenced at that time to 99 lashes. Later that year, she was also convicted of adultery and sentenced to be stoned, even though she retracted a confession that she says was made under duress.The possibility of stoning still exists, any moment, Kian told The Associated Press. Her stoning sentence was only delayed; it has not been lifted yet.
Italy is among several countries pressing for Iran to show flexibility in the case. The country's foreign minister, Franco Frattini, said the Italian ambassador in Iran met with authorities in Tehran who confirmed to us that no decision has been made about the stoning sentence.I interpret that in the sense that the stoning, for now, won't take place, Frattini said in an interview on Italian state TV.After putting the stoning sentence on hold, Iran suddenly announced that the woman had also been brought to trial and convicted of playing a role in her husband's 2005 murder. Her lawyer disputes that, saying no charges against her in the killing have ever been part of her case file.In early August, Iranian authorities broadcast a purported confession from Ashtiani on state-run television. In it, a woman identified as Ashtiani admits to being an unwitting accomplice in her husband's killing.
Kian says he believes she was tortured into confessing.In the latest twist, authorities are said to have flogged her for the publication of a photo of a woman without her hair covered in the Times of London newspaper. The woman in the photo was misidentified as Ashtiani.She was lashed on Thursday, Kian said, citing information from a fellow prisoner who was released last week. Kian has been allowed no direct contact with his client since last month.We have no access to Ashtiani, but there is no reason for the released prisoner to lie about the flogging, he said.
There was no official Iranian confirmation of the new punishment.The woman's son, 22-year-old Sajjad Qaderzadeh, said he did not know whether the new lashing sentence had been carried out yet, but that he also heard about the sentence from a prisoner who recently left the Tabriz prison where his mother is being held.Publishing the photo provided a judge an excuse to sentence my poor mother to 99 lashes on the charge of taking a picture unveiled, Qaderzadeh told the AP.The Times apologized in its Monday edition but added that the lashing is simply a pretext.The regime's purpose is to make Ms. Ashtiani suffer for an international campaign to save her that has exposed so much iniquity, the newspaper said. Another lawyer who once represented Ashtiani, Mohammad Mostafaei, said in a news conference in Paris that it was not certain if there really had been a new conviction and sentence over the photograph. I have contacted my former colleagues at the court who told me nothing was clear on this situation, he said at the news conference with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.There isn't any punishment for this act in our law.Kouchner called the stoning sentence the height of barbarism and said her case has become a personal cause and he was ready to do anything to save her. If I must go to Tehran to save her, I'll go to Tehran.Ashtiani's two children remain in Iran and her son is a ticket seller for a bus company in the northern Iranian city of Tabriz. He said he and his younger sister, Farideh, 18, have not seen their mother since early August. We have really missed her, he said. We expect all influential bodies to help to save her.The Vatican on Sunday raised the possibility of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save her life as well. Associated Press writers Jenny Barchfield in Paris, Jill Lawless in London and Frances D'Emilio in Rome contributed to this report.
AFTER THIS KORAN BURNING-GET READY FOR WORLD RIOTS-BURNING-BEHEADINGS AS THE MUSLIMS AND SLAM WILL BE ON A WORLD RAMPAGE.BE PREPARED.
Koran burning will endanger US lives: Petraeus
AUG 7,10
KABUL (AFP) – The US commander of the Afghan war has warned that troops' lives will be endangered if a Florida evangelical church goes ahead with a planned burning of the Koran on Saturday's 9/11 anniversary.General David Petraeus said the planned torching of Islam's holy book would be a propaganda coup for the Taliban in Afghanistan and stoke anti-US sentiment across the Muslim world.The Dove World Outreach Center at Gainesville, Florida says it will burn copies of the Koran on this weekend's ninth anniversary of the September 11 airborne attacks in protest at what it calls the evil of Islam.In an interview with Tuesday's Wall Street Journal, Petraeus said of the event: It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort.It is precisely the kind of action the Taliban uses and could cause significant problems. Not just here, but everywhere in the world we are engaged with the Islamic community, he said.The planned protest by the 50-member Florida congregation -- whose Facebook page bears the motto Islam Is Of The Devil -- has already triggered outrage in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country.
In late August about 100 Indonesian Islamists demonstrated outside the US embassy in Jakarta and threatened jihad or holy war if the US Christian group went through with the event.Alleged desecration of the Koran by US troops in both Afghanistan and Iraq has been an incendiary issue in the past, including when a US soldier deployed to Iraq riddled a copy of the holy book with bullets in 2008.A subsequent demonstration by about 2,000 people in central Afghanistan turned violent, with a Lithuanian soldier and two civilians killed in an exchange of gunfire between protestors and police.The Florida church's pastor, Terry Jones, said Petraeus's concerns were legitimate.But in a statement to the Wall Street Journal, he added: We must send a clear message to the radical element of Islam. We will no longer be controlled and dominated by their fears and threats.Interviewed by AFP in July, Jones said: Islam and Sharia law was responsible for 9/11.We will burn Korans because we think it's time for Christians, for churches, for politicians to stand up and say no; Islam and Sharia law is not welcome in the US.
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Israeli FM pushes for new settlement construction By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer – Mon Sep 6, 8:33 am ET
JERUSALEM – Israel's hard-line foreign minister said Monday that his party will try to block any extension of Israel's settlement slowdown, a move that could derail the recently launched Mideast peace negotiations.Avigdor Lieberman said the Israeli government must keep its promise to voters that the 10-month slowdown, declared last November under U.S. pressure in order to draw the Palestinians to the negotiating table, will end as scheduled at the end of the month.The Sept. 26 deadline is a challenge for the fragile talks launched in Washington last week. The Palestinians say they will quit the talks if settlement construction accelerates, but not ending the slowdown could potentially bring down the Israeli government. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to say how he will handle the deadline.A promise is a promise, Lieberman told Israel Radio. We will not agree to any extension.I promise that if there's a proposal that we don't accept it will not pass, he added.
Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu party is a key member of Israel's governing coalition, which is led by Netanyahu's Likud party.It holds 15 seats in parliament, making it the second-largest member of the coalition and giving it the ability to rob the government of its parliamentary majority if it pulls out. Other coalition partners, and members of Netanyahu's own party, also favor resuming construction.In a sign that compromise was possible, however, Lieberman told the daily Yediot Ahronot that he would not quit the coalition even if he does not get his way.We will not leave or bring down the government. We will fight from the inside for what we believe, he told the paper.At the summit marking the relaunch of peace talks in Washington last week, Netanyahu used unusually warm language about the Palestinian leadership and the chances for peace. But the Israeli foreign minister has been vocal in his pessimism.Speaking to diplomats in Jerusalem on Monday, Lieberman said the stated goal of the talks — a peace agreement within one year — was unrealistic.The Israeli government says construction in settlements continued during previous rounds of peace talks, and that building does not compromise a future deal.Lieberman's party ran on a platform that questioned the loyalty of Israel's one-fifth Arab minority, and Lieberman, known for blunt and often unpredictable language, is perhaps Israel's most polarizing politician. A resident of a West Bank settlement himself, he has absented himself from active involvement in the peace talks, which are being conducted by Netanyahu's office.
Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom, a prominent member of Netanyahu's party, said extending the slowdown would pose a huge danger to the coalition.Within the coalition, there is a huge majority against it, Shalom told reporters late Sunday. He said the issue could only be resolved through negotiations.Netanyahu is seeking a way to get through the Sept. 26 deadline without dismantling his coalition, alienating the Palestinians or angering the U.S. administration, which is backing the talks and has invested time and political capital in their success.Netanyahu is slated to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for a second round of talks next week in Egypt and Jerusalem. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is also scheduled to attend.About 300,000 Israelis live in West Bank settlements, among the territory's some 2.5 million Palestinians. In addition, almost 200,000 Israelis live in east Jerusalem, the section of the holy city claimed by the Palestinians. The Palestinians and the international community say the settlements are obstacles to peace because they eat up land the Palestinians want for a future state. The slowdown has cut the construction in the settlements, though the extent of the drop is the subject of disagreement. According to official government statistics released last week, a total of only five new building projects were begun in settlements in the first half of 2010, compared to 673 in the first half of 2009.
Israeli advocacy groups tracking settlement construction dispute those numbers. The group Peace Now says building has begun on around 450 new housing units since the slowdown went into effect last November, around 300 of them in violation of the terms of the freeze. Peace Now says those numbers mark a drop of about 50 percent in new projects. Settlement expert Dror Etkes said government statistics show the number of units under construction overall in the first quarter of this year was 2,517, a drop of only 15 percent compared to the last quarter of 2009.Groups critical of settlement building say if the slowdown is revoked now it will have had nearly no effect on settlement construction in the long term. Associated Press Writer Karin Laub contributed to this story from Ramallah.
US artists support Israelis' settlement protest
– Mon Sep 6, 5:39 am ET
JERUSALEM – A dovish U.S. Jewish group says more than 150 film and theater artists have signed a letter of support for Israeli actors who refused to perform in a West Bank settlement.The names on the letter include Oscar-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave, Cynthia Nixon of Sex and the City and playwright Tony Kushner. It was organized by the Jewish Voice for Peace.A group of Israeli actors sparked a vocal debate in Israel last month when they said they would refuse to perform at a new theater in the settlement of Ariel. They aimed to protest Israeli control of the West Bank.The actors' boycott drew support from a group of 150 Israeli academics and dozens of authors, including well-known writers Amos Oz and David Grossman.
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