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Blackwater's Black Ops Jeremy Scahill September 15, 2010 | This article appeared in the October 4, 2010 edition of The Nation.

Over the past several years, entities closely linked to the private security firm Blackwater have provided intelligence, training and security services to US and foreign governments as well as several multinational corporations, including Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and banking giants Deutsche Bank and Barclays, according to documents obtained by The Nation. Blackwater's work for corporations and government agencies was contracted using two companies owned by Blackwater's owner and founder, Erik Prince: Total Intelligence Solutions and the Terrorism Research Center (TRC). Prince is listed as the chairman of both companies in internal company documents, which show how the web of companies functions as a highly coordinated operation. Officials from Total Intelligence, TRC and Blackwater (which now calls itself Xe Services) did not respond to numerous requests for comment for this article.

About the Author.Jeremy Scahill
Jeremy Scahill, a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute, is the author of the bestselling Blackwater....Also by The Author[ Click for More ] .Shhhhhh! JSOC is Hiring Interrogators and Covert Operatives for Special Access Programs (Covert Ops, US Intelligence, US Military)The military's most elite, secretive force has started advertising for highly-sensitive positions on public jobs sites. Is this Preparing the Battlefield' 2.0? There was a brief moment when it seemed the evidence of civilian killings, military cover ups and widespread lack of accountability contained in the WikiLeaks documents would spark a genuine inquiry into US conduct in Afghanistan.One of the most incendiary details in the documents is that Blackwater, through Total Intelligence, sought to become the intel arm of Monsanto, offering to provide operatives to infiltrate activist groups organizing against the multinational biotech firm.Governmental recipients of intelligence services and counterterrorism training from Prince's companies include the Kingdom of Jordan, the Canadian military and the Netherlands police, as well as several US military bases, including Fort Bragg, home of the elite Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), and Fort Huachuca, where military interrogators are trained, according to the documents. In addition, Blackwater worked through the companies for the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the US European Command.

On September 3 the New York Times reported that Blackwater had created a web of more than 30 shell companies or subsidiaries in part to obtain millions of dollars in American government contracts after the security company came under intense criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq. The documents obtained by The Nation reveal previously unreported details of several such companies and open a rare window into the sensitive intelligence and security operations Blackwater performs for a range of powerful corporations and government agencies. The new evidence also sheds light on the key roles of several former top CIA officials who went on to work for Blackwater.The coordinator of Blackwater's covert CIA business, former CIA paramilitary officer Enrique Ric Prado, set up a global network of foreign operatives, offering their deniability as a big plus for potential Blackwater customers, according to company documents. The CIA has long used proxy forces to carry out extralegal actions or to shield US government involvement in unsavory operations from scrutiny. In some cases, these deniable foreign forces don't even know who they are working for. Prado and Prince built up a network of such foreigners while Blackwater was at the center of the CIA's assassination program, beginning in 2004. They trained special missions units at one of Prince's properties in Virginia with the intent of hunting terrorism suspects globally, often working with foreign operatives. A former senior CIA official said the benefit of using Blackwater's foreign operatives in CIA operations was that you wouldn't want to have American fingerprints on it.

While the network was originally established for use in CIA operations, documents show that Prado viewed it as potentially valuable to other government agencies. In an e-mail in October 2007 with the subject line Possible Opportunity in DEA—Read and Delete,Prado wrote to a Total Intelligence executive with a pitch for the Drug Enforcement Administration. That executive was an eighteen-year DEA veteran with extensive government connections who had recently joined the firm. Prado explained that Blackwater had developed a rapidly growing, worldwide network of folks that can do everything from surveillance to ground truth to disruption operations. He added, These are all foreign nationals (except for a few cases where US persons are the conduit but no longer play on the street), so deniability is built in and should be a big plus.The executive wrote back and suggested there may be an interest in those services. The executive suggested that one of the best places to start may be the Special Operations Division, (SOD) which is located in Chantilly, VA,telling Prado the name of the special agent in charge. The SOD is a secretive joint command within the Justice Department, run by the DEA. It serves as the command-and-control center for some of the most sensitive counternarcotics and law enforcement operations conducted by federal forces. The executive also told Prado that US attachés in Mexico; Bogotá, Colombia; and Bangkok, Thailand, would potentially be interested in Prado's network. Whether this network was activated, and for what customers, cannot be confirmed. A former Blackwater employee who worked on the company's CIA program declined to comment on Prado's work for the company, citing its classified status.

In November 2007 officials from Prince's companies developed a pricing structure for security and intelligence services for private companies and wealthy individuals. One official wrote that Prado had the capacity to develop infrastructures and conduct ground-truth and security activities.According to the pricing chart, potential customers could hire Prado and other Blackwater officials to operate in the United States and globally: in Latin America, North Africa, francophone countries, the Middle East, Europe, China, Russia, Japan, and Central and Southeast Asia. A four-man team headed by Prado for countersurveillance in the United States cost $33,600 weekly, while safehouses could be established for $250,000, plus operational costs. Identical services were offered globally. For $5,000 a day, clients could hire Prado or former senior CIA officials Cofer Black and Robert Richer for representation to national decision-makers.Before joining Blackwater, Black, a twenty-eight-year CIA veteran, ran the agency's counterterrorism center, while Richer was the agency's deputy director of operations. (Neither Black nor Richer currently works for the company.)As Blackwater became embroiled in controversy following the Nisour Square massacre, Prado set up his own company, Constellation Consulting Group (CCG), apparently taking some of Blackwater's covert CIA work with him, though he maintained close ties to his former employer. In an e-mail to a Total Intelligence executive in February 2008, Prado wrote that he recently had major success in developing capabilities in Mali [Africa] that are of extreme interest to our major sponsor and which will soon launch a substantial effort via my small shop.He requested Total Intelligence's help in analyzing the North Mali/Niger terrorist problem.In October 2009 Blackwater executives faced a crisis when they could not account for their government-issued Secure Telephone Unit, which is used by the CIA, the National Security Agency and other military and intelligence services for secure communications. A flurry of e-mails were sent around as personnel from various Blackwater entities tried to locate the device. One former Blackwater official wrote that because he had left the company it was not really my problem,while another declared, I have no dog in this fight.Eventually, Prado stepped in, e-mailing the Blackwater officials to pass my number to the OGA POC,meaning the Other Government Agency (parlance for CIA) Point of Contact.

What relationship Prado's CCG has with the CIA is not known. An early version of his company's website boasted that CCG professionals have already conducted operations on five continents, and have proven their ability to meet the most demanding client needs and that the company has the ability to manage highly-classified contracts. CCG, the site said, is uniquely positioned to deliver services that no other company can, and can deliver results in the most remote areas with little or no outside support.Among the services advertised were Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence (human and electronic), Unconventional Military Operations, Counterdrug Operations, Aviation Services, Competitive Intelligence, Denied Area Access...and Paramilitary Training.The Nation has previously reported on Blackwater's work for the CIA and JSOC in Pakistan. New documents reveal a history of activity relating to Pakistan by Blackwater. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto worked with the company when she returned to Pakistan to campaign for the 2008 elections, according to the documents. In October 2007, when media reports emerged that Bhutto had hired American security,senior Blackwater official Robert Richer wrote to company executives, We need to watch this carefully from a number of angles. If our name surfaces, the Pakistani press reaction will be very important. How that plays through the Muslim world will also need tracking.Richer wrote that we should be prepared to [sic] a communique from an affiliate of Al-Qaida if our name surfaces (BW). That will impact the security profile.Clearly a word is missing in the e-mail or there is a typo that leaves unclear what Richer meant when he mentioned the Al Qaeda communiqué. Bhutto was assassinated two months later. Blackwater officials subsequently scheduled a meeting with her family representatives in Washington, in January 2008.Through Total Intelligence and the Terrorism Research Center, Blackwater also did business with a range of multinational corporations. According to internal Total Intelligence communications, biotech giant Monsanto—the world's largest supplier of genetically modified seeds—hired the firm in 2008–09. The relationship between the two companies appears to have been solidified in January 2008 when Total Intelligence chair Cofer Black traveled to Zurich to meet with Kevin Wilson, Monsanto's security manager for global issues.

After the meeting in Zurich, Black sent an e-mail to other Blackwater executives, including to Prince and Prado at their Blackwater e-mail addresses. Black wrote that Wilson understands that we can span collection from internet, to reach out, to boots on the ground on legit basis protecting the Monsanto [brand] name.... Ahead of the curve info and insight/heads up is what he is looking for.Black added that Total Intelligence would develop into acting as intel arm of Monsanto.Black also noted that Monsanto was concerned about animal rights activists and that they discussed how Blackwater could have our person(s) actually join [activist] group(s) legally. Black wrote that initial payments to Total Intelligence would be paid out of Monsanto's generous protection budget but would eventually become a line item in the company's annual budget. He estimated the potential payments to Total Intelligence at between $100,000 and $500,000. According to documents, Monsanto paid Total Intelligence $127,000 in 2008 and $105,000 in 2009.Reached by telephone and asked about the meeting with Black in Zurich, Monsanto's Wilson initially said, I'm not going to discuss it with you. In a subsequent e-mail to The Nation, Wilson confirmed he met Black in Zurich and that Monsanto hired Total Intelligence in 2008 and worked with the company until early 2010. He denied that he and Black discussed infiltrating animal rights groups, stating there was no such discussion.He claimed that Total Intelligence only provided Monsanto with reports about the activities of groups or individuals that could pose a risk to company personnel or operations around the world which were developed by monitoring local media reports and other publicly available information. The subject matter ranged from information regarding terrorist incidents in Asia or kidnappings in Central America to scanning the content of activist blogs and websites.Wilson asserted that Black told him Total Intelligence was a completely separate entity from Blackwater.Monsanto was hardly the only powerful corporation to enlist the services of Blackwater's constellation of companies. The Walt Disney Company hired Total Intelligence and TRC to do a threat assessment for potential film shoot locations in Morocco, with former CIA officials Black and Richer reaching out to their former Moroccan intel counterparts for information. The job provided a good chance to impress Disney, one company executive wrote. How impressed Disney was is not clear; in 2009 the company paid Total Intelligence just $24,000.

Total Intelligence and TRC also provided intelligence assessments on China to Deutsche Bank. The Chinese technical counterintelligence threat is one of the highest in the world,a TRC analyst wrote, adding, Many four and five star hotel rooms and restaurants are live-monitored with both audio and video by Chinese intelligence. He also said that computers, PDAs and other electronic devices left unattended in hotel rooms could be cloned. Cellphones using the Chinese networks, the analyst wrote, could have their microphones remotely activated, meaning they could operate as permanent listening devices. He concluded that Deutsche Bank reps should "bring no electronic equipment into China.Warning of the use of female Chinese agents, the analyst wrote, If you don't have women coming onto you all the time at home, then you should be suspicious if they start coming onto you when you arrive in China.For these and other services, the bank paid Total Intelligence $70,000 in 2009.TRC also did background checks on Libyan and Saudi businessmen for British banking giant Barclays. In February 2008 a TRC executive e-mailed Prado and Richer revealing that Barclays asked TRC and Total Intelligence for background research on the top executives from the Saudi Binladin Group (SBG) and their potential associations/connections with the Royal family and connections with Osama bin Ladin.In his report, Richer wrote that SBG's chair, Bakr Mohammed bin Laden, is well and favorably known to both arab and western intelligence service[s] for cooperating in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Another SBG executive, Sheikh Saleh bin Laden, is described by Richer as a very savvy businessman who is committed to operating with full transparency to Saudi's security services and is considered "the most vehement within the extended BL family in terms of criticizing UBL's actions and beliefs.In August Blackwater and the State Department reached a $42 million settlement for hundreds of violations of US export control regulations. Among the violations cited was the unauthorized export of technical data to the Canadian military. Meanwhile, Blackwater's dealings with Jordanian officials are the subject of a federal criminal prosecution of five former top Blackwater executives. The Jordanian government paid Total Intelligence more than $1.6 million in 2009.

Some of the training Blackwater provided to Canadian military forces was in Blackwater/TRC's Mirror Image course, where trainees live as a mock Al Qaeda cell in an effort to understand the mindset and culture of insurgents. Company literature describes it as a classroom and field training program designed to simulate terrorist recruitment, training, techniques and operational tactics. Documents show that in March 2009 Blackwater/TRC spent $6,500 purchasing local tribal clothing in Afghanistan as well as assorted propaganda materials—posters, Pakistan Urdu maps, etc.for Mirror Image, and another $9,500 on similar materials this past January in Pakistan and Afghanistan.According to internal documents, in 2009 alone the Canadian military paid Blackwater more than $1.6 million through TRC. A Canadian military official praised the program in a letter to the center, saying it provided unique and valid cultural awareness and mission specific deployment training for our soldiers in Afghanistan,adding that it was a very effective and operationally current training program that is beneficial to our mission.This past summer Erik Prince put Blackwater up for sale and moved to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. But he doesn't seem to be leaving the shadowy world of security and intelligence. He says he moved to Abu Dhabi because of its great proximity to potential opportunities across the entire Middle East, and great logistics,adding that it has a friendly business climate, low to no taxes, free trade and no out of control trial lawyers or labor unions. It's pro-business and opportunity.It also has no extradition treaty with the United States.

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Sources: Blackwater's Running A Secret War in Pakistan - So Classified, Even Administration Doesn't Know By Susie Madrak

There was a definite method to BushCo's madness: Namely, hire subcontractors to evade the laws that prevent the DoD and the CIA from taking part in torture and assassination. From The Nation:At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, snatch and grabs of high-value targets and other sensitive action inside and outside Pakistan, an investigation by The Nation has found. The Blackwater operatives also assist in gathering intelligence and help run a secret US military drone bombing campaign that runs parallel to the well-documented CIA predator strikes, according to a well-placed source within the US military intelligence apparatus.The source, who has worked on covert US military programs for years, including in Afghanistan and Pakistan, has direct knowledge of Blackwater's involvement. He spoke to The Nation on condition of anonymity because the program is classified. The source said that the program is so compartmentalized that senior figures within the Obama administration and the US military chain of command may not be aware of its existence.

Sure sounds like Cheney's still got his moles deep inside, doesn't it?

The White House did not return calls or email messages seeking comment for this story. Capt. John Kirby, the spokesperson for Adm. Michael Mullen, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told The Nation, We do not discuss current operations one way or the other, regardless of their nature. A defense official, on background, specifically denied that Blackwater performs work on drone strikes or intelligence for JSOC in Pakistan. We don't have any contracts to do that work for us. We don't contract that kind of work out, period, the official said. There has not been, and is not now, contracts between JSOC and that organization for these types of services.The previously unreported program, the military intelligence source said, is distinct from the CIA assassination program that the agency's director, Leon Panetta, announced he had canceled in June 2009.This is a parallel operation to the CIA, said the source. They are two separate beasts. The program puts Blackwater at the epicenter of a US military operation within the borders of a nation against which the United States has not declared war--knowledge that could further strain the already tense relations between the United States and Pakistan. In 2006, the United States and Pakistan struck a deal that authorized JSOC to enter Pakistan to hunt Osama bin Laden with the understanding that Pakistan would deny it had given permission. Officially, the United States is not supposed to have any active military operations in the country.

Blackwater, which recently changed its name to Xe Services and US Training Center, denies the company is operating in Pakistan. Xe Services has only one employee in Pakistan performing construction oversight for the U.S. Government, Blackwater spokesperson Mark Corallo said in a statement to The Nation, adding that the company has no other operations of any kind in Pakistan.A former senior executive at Blackwater confirmed the military intelligence source's claim that the company is working in Pakistan for the CIA and JSOC, the premier counterterrorism and covert operations force within the military. He said that Blackwater is also working for the Pakistani government on a subcontract with an Islamabad-based security firm that puts US Blackwater operatives on the ground with Pakistani forces in counter-terrorism operations, including house raids and border interdictions, in the North-West Frontier Province and elsewhere in Pakistan. This arrangement, the former executive said, allows the Pakistani government to utilize former US Special Operations forces who now work for Blackwater while denying an official US military presence in the country. He also confirmed that Blackwater has a facility in Karachi and has personnel deployed elsewhere in Pakistan. The former executive spoke on condition of anonymity.His account and that of the military intelligence source were borne out by a US military source who has knowledge of Special Forces actions in Pakistan and Afghanistan. When asked about Blackwater's covert work for JSOC in Pakistan, this source, who also asked for anonymity, told The Nation, From my information that I have, that is absolutely correct,adding, There's no question that's occurring.

Pennsylvania Homeland Security Employed Israeli Company to Suppress American Political Dissent Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com September 17, 2010
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On the Alex Jones Show yesterday, investigative journalist Wayne Madsen discussed the involvement of a shadowy Israeli company in an effort by Pennsylvania’s Homeland Security to spy on activists exercising their First Amendment.On Wednesday, Infowars.com reported that Pennsylvania paid a Philadelphia-based nonprofit $125,000 to compile a list of activists as part of the state Homeland Security’s federally mandated mission to protect public infrastructure. Madsen, citing a story published on late Wednesday by the Philadelphia Citypaper, revealed that the non-profit operates not only out of Philadelphia, but Israel as well.Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen talks about the scandal on the Alex Jones Show on September 16.

Research conducted by Citypaper journalist Isaiah Thompson shows that the company, the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response (ITRR), in fact does not operate under non-profit status, as reported yesterday by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Although the group claims nonprofit status on its website and is listed as a nonprofit corporation by the Pennsylvania Department of State, a search on websites Guidestar.org and IRS.gov yielded no indication that the organization enjoys tax-exempt status. An email seeking clarification of the group’s nonprofit status was not returned, writes Thompson.ITRR’s website describes the company as the preeminent Israeli/American security firm providing training, intelligence and education to clients across the globe. ITRR categorizes itself as a Targeted Action Monitoring Center” that does not function as a clipping service, but a powerful fusion center of battle-tested operatives, analysts, and researchers who have real-life experience fighting both terrorists and criminal entities [...] distinguished among other agencies by its access to a vast network of on-the-ground key-sources in virtually every region of the world.For a company boasting specialized counter-terror services, there is virtually no information available on it in the mainstream media. Citypaper’s research turned up a scattering of lackluster ITRR reports published in trade publications, primarily dealing with international terrorism. One report, authored by an intern, details the use of Twitter by religious, anarchists, anti-government, and anti-globalization activists who are described as extremists.

In addition, ITRR participated in a 2008 Philadelphia Emergency Preparedness and Prevention and Hazmat Spills Conference sponsored by the EPA.According to the ITRR website, courses offered by the company are approved by the Israeli Department of Defense (note: this page has since been removed from the website) and ITRR shares a relationship with the Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute, an organization promoting trade opportunities, joint ventures, and strategic alliances between international businesses and Israeli companies. Interestingly, ITRR also shares a partnership with Philadelphia University.ITRR’s two principles are Aaron Richman, a former Israeli police captain, and Michael Perelman, a former York police commander. The Associated Press yesterday cited an interview conducted in 2007 with Perelman where he admitted ITRR information came from news and internet sites, as well as on the ground sources who check on travel routes used by company clients including Harvard University and the United Nations.The ITRR, however, does more than scour the internet and news services and repackage information for its clients. Pennsylvania Homeland Security director James F. Powers Jr. told the Philadelphia Inquirer in July that ITRR operatives posed in chat rooms as people opposed to last year’s G-20 summit in Pittsburgh and compromised the Pittsburgh Organizing Group, an anarchist organization. We got the information to the Pittsburgh Police, and they were able to cut them off at the pass, Powers told Inquirer columnist Daniel Rubin.

On Thursday, the scandal widened when Pittsburgh officials refused to comment on the role ITRR played in tracking and disabling activist groups that planned to protest the 2009 G20 summit in their city. Police Chief Nate Harper and Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s spokeswoman, Joanna Doven, said they could not talk about information provided by ITRR, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.The evolving scandal reveals how far the state of Pennsylvania and apparently the city of Pittsburgh will go in order to deny citizens their First Amendment right to protest and petition the government and demonize disfavored political groups.ITRR’s connection to Israel also raises the specter that the company is a front for an Israeli intelligence operation and the Israelis gained more than they gave in the relationship with Pennsylvania’s Homeland Security and apparently the city of Pittsburgh.The use of an Israeli company is especially egregious considering the track record of Israel in violating the civil and human rights of the Palestinians and its far reaching global intelligence operations, including the assassination of activists in foreign countries.From dancing Israelis on September 11, 2001, to Israeli spies posing as art students and Israeli intelligence operatives shadowing and presumably handling Mohammad Atta and other supposed hijackers in Florida, there is evidence of Israel spying on Americans and running intelligence operations on U.S. soil.The Lawrence Franklin espionage scandal, otherwise (and more accurately) known as the AIPAC espionage scandal, remains largely unpunished to this day. Lawrence Franklin, a policy analyst under Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz — both key pro-Israel neocons in the Bush administration — passed on a classified presidential directive and other sensitive documents pertaining to U.S. deliberations on foreign policy regarding Iran to AIPAC and subsequently to the Israeli government.False flag events staged by Israel against the United States are legendary. In fact, the Israeli Mossad admits it uses false flag in most of its operations to cover its tracks.On June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War, Israel directly attacked a United States Navy technical research ship, the USS Liberty, and killed 34 crew members and wounded 170. The attack was swept under the rug and never appropriately investigated.

Less deadly instances of Israeli treachery continue unabated. On September 7, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee accused Israeli agents of posing as FBI agents in an effort to harass and intimidate Muslims. The ADC called on the Department of Justice, Department of State, and other federal agencies to investigate.Israel’s undercover operations here, including missions to steal U.S. secrets, are hardly a secret at the FBI, CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies. From time to time, in fact, the FBI has called Israeli officials on the carpet to complain about a particularly brazen effort to collect classified or other sensitive information, in particular U.S. technical and industrial secrets, Jeff Stein wrote for the Washington Post on September 2. Stein quotes a CIA official as stating that Israeli intelligence operatives are all over the place in the United States.Kurt Nimmo edits Infowars.com. He is the author of Another Day in the Empire: Life In Neoconservative America.

CORE ISSUED BEING TALKED ALREADY

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.

Clinton: Netanyahu and Abbas Already Discussing Core Issues
by Maayana Miskin SEPT 16,10

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas are already discussing core issues in the fledgling Israel-PA negotiations, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday in an interview with Channel 10 news.I really admire the way they got right into it, Clinton said of the latest meeting between Netanyahu and Abbas, earlier this week. There were no agreements reached, she said, but there were very difficult and intense negotiations on all of the core issues.Core issues include the status of Israel's capital city, Jerusalem, which the PA demands much of as the capital of a future PA state, the Arab world's demand for a right of return for descendents of Arabs who fled Israel during the War of Independence, and the future of the roughly 400,000 Israeli Jews living east of the 1949 armistice line, in territories claimed by the PA as part of a future Arab state that will not allow Israeli Jews to stay on as citizens.Clinton spoke regarding the 10-month construction freeze in Judea and Samaria. Abbas has demanded that Netanyahu extend the freeze, which Netanyahu has refused to do, citing the widespread opposition to the freeze within his coalition, and the fact that Abbas avoided talks until the freeze was close to its end.While recognizing Netanyahu's arguments as fair, Clinton pushed for an extension of the freeze, saying that additional time in which Jews are prohibited to build east of the armistice line would be extremely useful for talks.Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak also went onto Israeli television Thursday to talk about the freeze. Speaking on Channel 1, Mubarak said he had told Netanyahu to extend the freeze by three or four months.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Israel's settlements key to peace talk progress By ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer - SEPT 17,10

AMMAN, Jordan – Two days of Mideast peace talks appear to have brought Israel and the Palestinians closer to a deal that would allow those talks to continue, but even if the negotiations move forward far more difficult issues lay ahead.Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak suggested a compromise over Israel's plan to lift its partial ban on construction on the West Bank later this month, while Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday he sees no alternative to continuing negotiations in search of peace with Israel.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking in Amman, said she is convinced that Netanyahu and Abbas are trying to seek common ground.They are committed and they have begun to grapple with the hard but necessary questions, she said, shortly before leaving for the U.S. I am convinced that this is the time and these are the leaders to achieve the result we all seek.

Abbas' comments came as Israel was coming under increasing pressure to extend its curb on Jewish settlement construction, and aides to the Palestinian leader suggested there might be movement toward a compromise on that issue.Abbas had said previously that the talks could not survive if the Israeli building restrictions were lifted as planned.We all know there is no alternative to peace through negotiations, so we have no alternative other than to continue these efforts, Abbas said Thursday, speaking through an interpreter in Ramallah, where the headquarters of the Palestinian National Authority is located.It was unclear from Abbas' remarks whether he was signaling that the Palestinians would remain committed to the talks even if Israel does not extend the limits on building.Egypt's leader said in a radio interview that he urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to extend the restrictions for three more months to give peacemaking a chance.Mubarak said he told Netanyahu the delay could give the two sides time to draft their future borders. After those lines are agreed, Mubarak reasoned, Israel can build within its future borders and the Palestinians within theirs.In comments to Israel's Channel 10 before she left the region, Clinton said for the first time that the U.S. would back a limited extension of the partial construction moratorium, calling the idea extremely useful.

I don't think a limited extension would undermine the process going forward if there were a decision agreed to by both parties,she said.Netanyahu's office said Thursday that Israel doesn't plan to extend the current limits, which are due to expire in late September.But Israeli officials said they hoped to reach a compromise well before the current restrictions expire on Sept. 26 in hopes of avoiding a major crisis. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because no formal decisions have been made.Aides to Abbas said no deal had been reached on the settlement issue, but said they accept Mubarak's proposal and expect that a compromise will be found. Previously, the Palestinians have said they would walk out on the talks if any construction resumes.The aides spoke on condition of anonymity because they were discussing a sensitive diplomatic matter.Michele Dunne, a Mideast expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said Thursday the talks appear to have edged the process forward, although bigger challenges lay ahead.The discussions in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh and Jerusalem got the talks rolling toward a possible compromise on the settlements moratorium issue, which probably will be reached over the next week or so, she said. But once again the parties are spending weeks dealing with a short-term issue to avert a crisis rather than getting down to the larger problems.On Thursday, Clinton and Abbas met at the Palestinian Authority's West Bank headquarters. Abbas thanked the Obama administration for its efforts to broker the current talks, the first in two years.I know that this time is difficult and the circumstances are difficult, but the Americans are exerting active efforts to achieve this peace, he said. Later, Clinton traveled to Amman for lunch with Jordan's King Abdullah, whose country already has a peace treaty with Israel and is a strong supporter of efforts to work out a deal between Israel and the Palestinians. Dates for the next round of top-level negotiations are supposed to be determined during consultations next week.

Gaza militants opposed to the peace efforts have sent mortars and rockets crashing into southern Israeli communities in recent days, drawing retaliatory Israeli airstrikes.Overnight, Israeli aircraft hit two Gaza targets that the military described as weapons storage facilities. No casualties were reported. Palestinian official Raed Fattouh, who coordinates the flow of goods into Gaza with Israel, said the Israeli military also canceled plans to let new cars enter Gaza on Thursday for the first time in four years. The Israeli military had no immediate confirmation.
George Mitchell, the Obama administration's envoy for Middle East peace, traveled to Syria on Thursday for talks with President Bashar Assad and the Syrian foreign minister about starting a separate Syria-Israel peace negotiation.He told reporters the U.S. administration was determined to achieve comprehensive peace in the Middle East. It is true that the parties still have profound differences ... but we are determined to see it through, he said.Associated Press writers Mohammed Daraghmeh, Jamal Halaby and Dale Gavlak contributed to this report.

Ashton designates six new strategic partners-Ms Ashton talking with the Spanish (c) and French foreign ministers at the summit (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)
ANDREW RETTMAN 16.09.2010 @ 19:37 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton has indicated that Egypt, Israel, Indonesia, Pakistan, Ukraine and South Korea could join the EU's existing list of privileged or strategic partners.Ms Ashton put forward the new names in a powerpoint presentation at a meeting of EU leaders and foreign ministers in Brussels on Thursday (16 September). The roll-call of six countries ended with a ... to indicate that the club remains open to other up-and-coming powers, an EU diplomatic source said.The same powerpoint presentation listed Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and the US as the set of existing strategic partners. The term strategic partner is ill-defined in EU usage. In practice, it means boosting a foreign country's diplomatic status and organising summits and extra minister-level and expert-level meetings. But it can also be taken to mean an alternative to fully-fledged EU membership.It's like love - no one can define it. You only know what it is when you experience it, the EU diplomatic contact added.Another diplomat remarked that the term had been thought up a few years ago without anyone ever really defining what it meant and whether, indeed, the others regard us as their strategic partners.Ms Ashton's list has no official status and was put forward as part of a general brainstorming session on how to make the EU more effective on the world stage.

But it has the potential to stir controversy. EU plans to upgrade EU relations with Israel were put on hold after its attack on Gaza in 2009. Asked by reporters after the meeting if Ms Ashton plans to unfreeze the upgrade, she said: There's no discussions at the moment with Israel.In the case of Ukraine inclusion on the list could be taken as a signal that EU accession is not an option. The omission of Turkey could be reassuring for its EU bid.Speaking at the post-summit press conference, EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy said a rethink of EU foreign policy is needed in the wake of the 2009 Copenhagen climate change conference, when the US clinched a deal with developing countries while the EU was out of the room.The perception is that the EU was sidelined, he said. We have started to realise how the economic strength of developing countries is transforming into real political power.EU commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said: Even the biggest one of the member states is not as big as any one of our strategic partners.The protocol at the EU's foreign-policy-focused summit highlighted the Lisbon Treaty's lack of clarity on the Van Rompuy-Ashton pecking order. The treaty says Mr Van Rompuy is to ensure the external representation of the union ... without prejudice to Ms Ashton. The baroness did not feature in the official press conference, however. And she hovered on the edge of the EU family photo. The power lies where you have the machinery, the troops, the soldiers. And the EU's foreign policy machinery is in the EEAS, an EU official said, referring to Ms Ashton's nascent European External Action Service.It's normal that Van Rompuy keeps a small secretariat dealing with foreign policy. She has no problem with that. Lady Ashton has de facto 136 ambassadors at her disposal. She has their mobile phones. There's no comparison.

Trade deal with Mercosur to be reached in mid-2011
16.09.2010 @ 09:48 CET

Trade commissioner Karel De Gucht said Tuesday during his visit to Brazil that the EU hopes to reach a trade deal with South American block Mercosur by mid-2011. The talks were relaunched in May, but European farmers oppose the deal which would allow cheaper imports to enter the market.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
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DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

Does Europe need a Security and Defence Strategy?

I read a Speech by Professor Jolyon Howorth called ‘Strategy and the importance of defence cooperation among EU Member States’. The speech was given on 13th of July at a seminar on Permanent Structured Cooperation which was organised by the Belgian Presidency. Overall, the speaker argues in favour of more integration in the field of security and defence. As always, the writings of Jolyon are thoughtful and stimulating. Howorth mentions some sound ideas that would boost integration in the field of security and defence: the establishment of a European Security Council, a formal Council of Defence Ministers, a European White Book on Security and Defence, an integrated Intelligence Agency, a permanent OHQ, an upgraded EDA (p.3). The author is also right in underlining the importance of the upgrade of capabilities and the pooling of resources. These measures are more than necessary in times of funding cuts. Howorth mentions that the obstacles of cooperation in security and defence are due to national inhibitions. He claims that no one expected such guerrilla warfare on the tiniest details of External Action Service responsibility. Indeed, the resistance and cautiousness of the EU Member States to any form of EU empowerment in foreign affairs is characteristic of the climate of inward looking re-nationalisation that one sees in Brussels. The failure of the Europeans to provide a cohesive approach to the current financial crisis is also a proof that narrowly defined state interests prevail. The author also claims that a new narrative is necessary and that Europe needs a new strategy. However, we did not lack narratives in the past. On the contrary, we had too many of them. All these narratives have failed to build a common identity and to forge a common strategic culture. Some of them were truly wonderful texts with great ideas. The European Security Strategy had a notion of a Grand Strategy. But what happened to it really? The new comprehensive EU strategy called EU 2020 also failed to cause any major debate. None of the EU texts managed so far to inspire citizens or stir any major debate that would contribute to the creation of a European demos.

I am also sceptical when it comes to the advantages of the EU in foreign affairs that are mentioned in the Speech, one of them being the idea of the EU’s strength of effective multilateralism. Indeed, there has been an increase in frequency of multi-lateral contacts. There are too many roundtables, too many discussions, too many meetings and frequent exchanges of views. However, this frenetic activity does not necessary guarantee results. Many of the multilateral fora are simple talk shops with no appetite for action. Howorth also claims that the EU engages in an intensifying circle of complex interdependence. But is this intensifying circle of interdependence characterised by ‘deepening’ or simply by a loose enlargement of themes and actors? A simple glimpse of the external relations of the EU shows that little has been achieved. Relationships with Russia remain inconclusive with none of the two players (EU/Russia) knowing what they really want to make out of the bilateral relationship. The EU’s Neighbourhood Policy is undermined by national priorities and institutional weaknesses. No major plan exists on how to deal with the rise of China. The EU-US relationship is not characterised by effective synergy. In short, the EU is good in talking about interdependence but I am hardly convinced it knows how to deal with it. It is positive that the EU has understood the importance of combining civilian and military instruments in foreign policy. As the author claims, international crisis management is an added value which the EU is well-placed to deliver. However, the inertia that follows the actorness of the EU in the field of crisis management isn’t.The same accounts for the EU’s radical IR approach that the author mentions. The EU simply says too many good words but in most cases is unwilling to act. And I still remain sceptical on Howorth’s sentence where human rights become as important as states rights. A look at the sanctions of the EU on human rights abuse shows that they only happen in a small number of cases, against small countries where no major financial interests are endangered.Howorth also describes a new acquis in International affairs which has to take the form of a Global Bargain. According to Howorth, [t]he global grand bargain will involve a necessary series of trade-offs, some bilateral, some multilateral, between the rising and the declining powers. In addition, [w]hat the new grand narrative should aim for is a world of cultural and political diversity in which, nevertheless, stability, security, prosperity, development, environmental sustainability, and self-determination are considered in holistic terms as key elements of global inter-dependence (p. 6). But isn’t this process already been taking place for a long time? Isn’t cultural and political diversity already being part of the EU’s dealings? Aren’t these ideas already part of the European Security Strategy?

Howorth is on the pro-European side and has always seen the EU in an optimistic way. However, optimism may well be part of the problem. The idea that the EU can do it that many of the EU academics subscribe to (including myself) may have led to a general climate of self-satisfaction, arrogance and laziness. The idea that the EU is able to move on by a series of mini developments (an idea mentioned in many academic texts) also helps to perpetuate inertia. The message that should be transmitted by the academic circles is that the EU should run to catch up the lost time. Run before you get completely marginalised rather than rest on your laurels and improve. No one disagrees with the fact that there has to be a new type of EU motivation in both EU internal and external affairs. But what kind of motivation can this be? Boredom has replaced enthusiasm. Rigid EU bureaucracy has killed any form of innovation and creativity. Lacklustre political elites provide no vision and have no roadmap of values. A soul searching exercise is important: a reflection of where we stand and where we want to go is always useful provided the fact that it is based on true motives to improve. This may take the form of an EU Security and Defence Strategy. However, in order to fight the climate of inertia the EU must work with the aim of producing tangible results. Dynamic actions must accompany an integrated strategic thinking if the EU wants to be successful.Strategy and the Importance of Defence Cooperation among EU Member States’ by Prof. Jolyon Howorth.For a full copy of the speech please visit the Egmont Institute webpage: http://www.egmontinstitute.be/

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS FRI SEPT 17,2010

09:30 AM +2.22
10:00 AM -12.11
10:30 AM -4.01
11:00 AM -2.04
11:30 AM +14.91
12:00 PM -2.42
12:30 PM +11.89
01:00 PM -2.46
01:30 PM +8.10
02:00 PM +9.50
02:30 PM +15.78
03:00 PM +18.51
03:30 PM +0.08
04:00 PM +13.02 10,607.85

S&P 500 1125.59 +0.93

NASDAQ 2315.61 +12.36

GOLD 1,276.60 +2.80

OIL 73.58 -0.99

TSE 300 12,164.60 -8.80

CDNX 1661.96 +11.62

S&P/TSX/60 707.53 +0.83

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +39 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -28 points at low today.
Dow +55 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,279.20.OIL opens at $74.41 today.
GOLD HITS ALLTIME HIGH TODAY AGAIN 1,279.20

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -28 points at low today so far.
Dow +55 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -28 points at low today.
Dow +55 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,279.20 (NOT AT CLOSE)

Gold And Silver Hit New Highs For Second Time In One Week - Unstoppable momentum of precious metals and vast potential for more gains spurs investment Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com Thursday, Sept 16th, 2010

Gold and Silver have once again risen to new highs, with bullion futures soaring close to a record $1,280 an ounce as the dollar fell to a five week low against the euro.Investors point to low interest rates and the looming prospect of more inflationary quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve as the driving forces behind gold’s continued rally.There can be no doubt that as the globe’s central banks wildly print more and more money, the non-Fiat standard, has become one of the only ways to preserve wealth.However, the metal has gained over the course of the year even despite a reported slow down in inflation.The figures mean that gold is up 16 percent this year and is on course for a 10th consecutive year gain, the longest surge the metal has seen for some 90 years.Lannie Cohen, the president of Capitol Commodity Services Inc. in Indianapolis tells Bloomberg News that Gold is rapidly becoming the currency of choice, and that he expects futures to rally to $1,600 next year as the greenback continues to weaken.Gold’s new high has also been recorded in multiple currencies at the same time, unlike when it previously hit a new high spot back in June.

Bullion still has the potential to make more huge gains, as highlighted by the fact that today’s prices are still way off all time highs, recorded in 1980, of close to $2,185 an ounce measured in dollars adjusted for inflation.Investors across the board expect the rally to continue, predicting prices as high as $1300 by the end of this month alone, $1400 by the end of the year, with some even predicting $3000 by the end of next year.Despite these facts, globalists like George Soros would have us believe that investing in gold at this time is unsafe.Silver also rose to its highest price since March 2008, hitting $20.92 in London, only 16 cents less than the metal’s previous three-decade high.Silver also traded at €15.85 an ounce on Thursday – its highest level against the Euro for thirty years when priced at the exchange rate of the old Deutschemark.

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White House Science Czar Says He Would Use Free Market to De-Develop the United States -In a video interview this week, White House Office of Science and Technology Director John P. Holdren told CNSNews.com that he would use the free market economy to implement the massive campaign he advocated along with Paul Ehrlich to de-develop the United States.Thursday, September 16, 2010 By Nicholas Ballasy

President Barack Obama confers with his top science and technology adviser, John P. Holdren. (White House photo)In a video interview this week, White House Office of Science and Technology Director John P. Holdren told CNSNews.com that he would use the free market economy to implement the massive campaign he advocated along with Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich to de-develop the United States.In his role as President Barack Obama’s top science and technology adviser, Holdren deals with issues ranging from global warming to health care.A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States, Holdren wrote along with Paul and Anne H. Ehrlich in the recommendations concluding their 1973 book Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions.

De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation,Holdren and the Ehrlichs wrote.Resources must be diverted from frivolous and wasteful uses in overdeveloped countries to filling the genuine needs of underdeveloped countries, Holdren and his co-authors wrote. This effort must be largely political, especially with regard to our overexploitation of world resources, but the campaign should be strongly supplemented by legal and boycott action against polluters and others whose activities damage the environment. The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than in the present one. Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.CNSNews.com asked Holdren about this passage on Tuesday after he participated in an Environmental Protection Agency forum celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Clean Air Act.CNSNews.com asked: You wrote a massive campaign must be launched to restore a high quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States’ in your book Human Ecology. Could you explain what you meant by de-develop the United States? Holdren responded: What we meant by that was stopping the kinds of activities that are destroying the environment and replacing them with activities that would produce both prosperity and environmental quality. Thanks a lot.CNSNews.com then asked: And how do you plan on implementing that?Through the free market economy, Holdren said.

CNSNews.com also asked Holdren to comment on the declaration he made in 1995 along with co-authors Paul Ehrlich and Gretchen Daily of Stanford University that mankind needed to face up to a world of zero net physical growth that would require reductions in consumption.We know for certain, for example, that: No form of material growth (including population growth) other than asymptotic growth is sustainable, Holdren, Ehrlich and Daily wrote in an essay for the World Bank titled, The Meaning of Sustainability.Many of the practices inadequately supporting today’s population of 5.5 billion people are unsustainable; and [a]t the sustainability limit, there will be a tradeoff between population and energy-matter throughput per person, hence, ultimately, between economic activity per person and well-being per person,Holdren, Ehrlich and Daily wrote. This is enough to say quite a lot about what needs to be faced up to eventually (a world of zero net physical growth), what should be done now (change unsustainable practices, reduce excessive material consumption, slow down population growth), and what the penalty will be for postponing attention to population limitation (lower well-being per person).Holdren would not comment Tuesday about this statement, saying he had to get to another engagement.

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).

Sarkozy unleashes violent' tirade against Barroso at summit-The French president (r) launched an angry tirade against the commission chief (Photo: consilium.europa.eu) VALENTINA POP 16.09.2010 @ 20:31 CET
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ5diIKrNdE&feature=player_embedded

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - An infuriated, defensive Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, on Thursday (16 September) played down a violent clash with European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso over the issue of Roma expulsions during an EU summit, with his shouting reportedly heard at the other end of the corridor.If there was one person in the room that remained calm, it was me, Mr Sarkozy later claimed during a press briefing, denying reports from officials that his exchange with Mr Barroso had been violent.According to EU sources, Mr Sarkozy's yelling during the EU leaders' meeting was widely heard as he attempted to, in his words, defend the honour of France.Speaking in front of cameras, Mr Sarkozy blamed justice commissioner Viviane Reding and her deeply shocking and insulting comments made on Tuesday that likened his Roma deportation policy to that of France's pro-Nazi regime in the Second World War.He denied having any problem with Mr Barroso, but in the same breath reminded the Portuguese politician that he had last year supported him in his efforts to win a second term as chief of the EU commission.I appreciated the fact that Mr Barroso distanced himself from Ms Reding, but I am the president and cannot allow my country to be insulted.In a lengthy discourse on what he said was a non-discriminatory crackdown on Roma camps and expulsion of irregular migrants and EU citizens, Mr Sarkozy said he had no intention of bringing a halt to his policies, as it was the duty of his government to uphold the rule of law and public order.

The document that had caused the uproar, giving instructions to police to target Roma camps with priority, was allegedly signed by a minor official from the ministry of interior, he said, and had been immediately withdrawn when Mr Sarkozy found out about it, one month later.Mr Barroso, speaking two floors below the French leader at a parallel press briefing, also tried to play down the escalating row with France and stressed the need to focus on the real problems and not to deviate into useless rhetoric or unnecessary controversy.According to EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy, member states agreed four points. They said that each government has the right and duty to apply the rule of law on its territory, but the European Commission has the responsibility of overseeing the application of EU law, for instance in the areas of freedom of movement and non-discrimination. EU leaders also took note of Mr Barroso's statement on Wednesday, in which he regretted the historical reference made by Ms Reding. He made the concession despite having made a similar remark last week when warning EU states not to awake the ghosts of the past.
The fourth point underscored that relations between institutions and member states have to be inspired by respect,Mr Van Rompuy said.Meanwhile, Bulgarian premier Boyko Borisov, present during Mr Sarkozy's tirade against the commission, said he was happy his country had stayed out of the controversy.There was an argument, not to say a scandal, involving the president of the European Commission and the French president, Mr Borisov told journalists after the meeting.Romanian President Traian Basescu intervened in the debate and backed the commission's stance on the Roma repatriations, pointing that these are nomadic people and they cannot be forced to stay in one country.

Asked about the clash, Mr Basescu laughed and said, ironically: There was no clash, they are very good friends.According to the Romanian politician, the consensus around the table was that the commission needs to come up with a strategy to help Roma in the areas of employment and education.Watch President Nicolas Sarkozy defend his Roma policy as he claims the EU commission insulted France.
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Ramshackle EU efforts at UN annoyed allies
LEIGH PHILLIPS 16.09.2010 @ 18:34 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Union's surprise upset in New York this week in its attempts to win expanded rights at the United Nations was a result of ramshackle strategy that even disgruntled some of the bloc's closest allies, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, according to diplomats close to the proceedings.One word describes how the EU acted there: Confusion, overall confusion, one diplomat told EUobserver.It was a ramshackle, pretty disorganised EU strategy, the official continued. The process fell apart. It was not thought through properly and their people just did not consult widely.They did not really consider the possible objections, especially from the Caribbean, and thought they would just die away.Another diplomat described it as an absence of tactical nuance.The three British Commonwealth countries are some of the European Union's closest global allies and ordinarily very rarely vote against the bloc, but on Tuesday in New York they all abstained on a motion delaying discussion of a UN General Assembly resolution that sought to allow European Council President Herman Van Rompuy to address the UN chamber.

The motion was narrowly defeated 76-71, with 26 countries abstaining.The resolution would also have awarded the EU, which currently only carries observer status at the UN, the right to make proposals and submit amendments, the right of reply, the right to raise points of order and the right to circulate documents. Together, the resolution would have given the EU almost all the rights that a sovereign member state of the UN enjoys.There would also be additional seats put in the chamber for the EU's foreign policy chief, High Representative Catherine Ashton and her officials.However, the three countries viewed the implications for the structure of the UN from the resolution as profound, given the movement on all continents of the world towards regional integration. With a very large number of countries in the General Assembly uncomfortable on waving the motion through without further consultation on what it means for them and, indeed global governance, it would have been a very bad idea straight out of the starting gate to have much of the world in opposition to the EU on this.It is understood that the delegations received the wording of the EU motion very late the night before the vote, which was to take place early the following morning.Annoyed at the way the EU handled itself, the three Commonwealth countries consulted each other before taking the decision to abstain. They three remain fully supporters of the EU. There was no opposition to the issue itself by any means. The issue was process, not the content.It is not thought that the countries' own efforts at regional integration in North American in the case of Canada and the Asia-Pacific region in the case of the antipodes presented any stumbling blocks.If done in the right way, the resolution will of course be supported.Other regional blocs, notably Caricom, feel it is unfair that the EU be awarded extra rights at the UN and not themselves as well.Caricom, a gathering of Caribbean countries, had floated the idea of a delay, but only for a few days so that there could be additional consultations. As well as being close to the EU, Ottawa is also very tied to the Caribbean.According to a Canadian diplomat, We are supportive of the EU on the substance, and would have supported the draft resolution if it had come to a vote.This being said, it was clear a large number of delegations were not yet on board and wanted more time.Canada in consultation with Australia and New Zealand decided to abstain to respect the desire of much of the membership to have more time for consultations in an effort to reach consensus.The issue is likely to return to the agenda in the coming days, not as late as next year as originally thought.

EU overcomes objections on Pakistan trade plan
LEIGH PHILLIPS 16.09.2010 @ 20:03 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Union on Thursday endorsed proposals to offer a substantial new trade pact to Pakistan in the wake of the country's disastrous floods, overcoming objections from a handful of EU states who worried their textile industries could be hurt by such a move.The bloc is to offer the Asian nation increased market access to the EU for certain imports to be implemented as soon as possible and offer the country participation in the bloc's Generalised System of Preferences Plus scheme, which offers a reduced-tariff regime in return for democratic reform commitments in 2014.EU premiers and presidents meeting in Brussels managed to reach a compromise that laid to rest fears of France, Italy, Poland and Portugal that their textile trade, also one of Pakistan's major exports, could be damaged. The new language agreed stresses that the tariff holiday be offered exclusively to Pakistan, overcoming concerns that some options on the table would also have had to be offered to China and India.Additionally, the the market access would be offered on a time-limited basis to key imports. The debate now shifts to what time-limited means and what items will be on the list of key imports.The French back an offering of just one year while the British take the wording to mean until 2014, when the GSP Plus scheme kicks in.

It is expected that Paris will want bed linens and carpets excluded from any agreement due to the success these industries have traditionally enjoyed in the Limoges region of the country.The EU has so far announced some €230 million in emergency aid since the the floods struck. The bloc has also now agreed significant additional humanitarian and development assistance.Heading into the summit, the UK had argued that the EU needed to go well beyond the usual emergency disaster relief and even medium-to-long-term reconstruction aid for the country.The British position chimes with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton's stated aim in the wake of the floods to develop a 10-year EU strategy that helps to stabilise the country's fragile democracy and economy.German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle had also said last week that the aim was to stabilise the country and prevent a descent into extremism and fundamentalism, the UK has been at the forefront of a push for a new deal for Pakistan.UK Prime Minister David Cameron wrote a letter to EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy and other EU leaders ahead of the summit calling for a result on the matter to come out of the meeting.London is particularly keen given its historic closeness to the country, once under British colonial rule, but the prime minister is also keen to deliver something substantial to Islamabad after his blunder last month accusing Pakistan of exporting terrorism.It is thought that Mr Cameron had won the argument by forcefully pressing that the EU had to show the world that it was able to produce a result when leaders came to Brussels to meet.

Earlier in the week, one EU diplomat had described the substance of what had been scheduled to be discussed at the summit as underwhelming. Since the coming passage of the Lisbon Treaty, the bloc's new institutional arrangement giving the EU a new permanent president of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, the president has encouraged a proliferation of summits beyond the traditional one every quarter.We have yet to be convinced of the need for more than four summits a year, a diplomat told reporters.However, the most recent draft of a final statement coming out of the summit says simply mentioning what the bloc has already done.Development NGOs cheered the result. Elise Ford, head of Oxfam's EU office, said: Europe today stood out from the crowd and showed the political resolve that is needed when major humanitarian emergencies emerge.Some 20 million people in Pakistan have been affected by the floods, twice the population of Belgium.

Euro bad for the economy, say French, Germans, Spaniards
VALENTINA POP 15.09.2010 @ 17:50 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – As EU leaders gather in Brussels to brainstorm on the EU's role on the world stage and ways to toughen eurozone fiscal discipline, a fresh survey shows that most citizens in the main euro-countries think the common currency has been bad for the economy and are looking at national governments rather than the EU to tackle the economic crisis.Some 60 percent of the French, and more than half of German, Spanish and Portuguese respondents said that the euro was a bad thing for their economy, according to Transatlantic Trends, a survey published on Wednesday (15September) by the German Marshall Fund of the United States.The US think-tank carried out the survey in June in 11 EU countries and found that only the Netherlands and Slovakia had majorities saying the euro is a good thing.Outside the eurozone, 83 percent of the British, 53 percent of Poles and 42 percent of Bulgarians thought that using the euro would be bad for the domestic economy. The only exception was Romania, where 54 percent of respondents are in favour of the common currency.The survey also shows that while most citizens are in favour of EU accession, they also think national governments should be responsible for the tackling the economic crisis, rather than the EU institutions. Only in Germany, who has been pushing for stricter EU rules to prevent another eurozone crisis, did the majority of respondents (54 percent) agree that the European Union should have the primary responsibility for economic decision-making.

This option was the least popular in the United Kingdom (25 percent) and in new member states Bulgaria (24 percent), Slovakia (22 percent), and Romania (15 percent) – usually favourable to handing over more powers to Brussels. The French were divided on the issue, with 47 percent saying the national government and 43 percent saying the EU should have the primary responsibility.These results sharply contradict a recent European Commission survey that Brussels interpreted as saying that European citizens are in favour of European economic governance - a fuzzy term being explored by an ad hoc task-force set up by European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, who will be chairing the leaders' meeting on Thursday and outlining the first ideas on this issue. Member states however strongly disagree on the measures – with Germany favouring 'automatic sanctions', while the southern countries insisting on a redistribution of debt among the euro-states.Meanwhile, the economic situation of EU citizens seems to have worsened, compared to last year, as 60 percent said they are personally affected by the crisis, a five-point increase on 2009.In the Netherlands, the percentage doubled from 20 to 40 percent, while in Romania and Bulgaria more than 80 percent said they were personally feeling the effects of the crisis. Seventy-eight percent of the Portuguese, 71 of the Spanish, and 67 of the Italians reported that they were affected by the crisis.In terms of outlook, more than half of all Europeans feel that the economic difficulties should lead to greater commitment to build a stronger European Union. Italians, Portuguese, Bulgarians, Spaniards and Slovaks were especially favorable toward further integration.

Even as austerity measures were being adopted on both sides of the Atlantic, sparking street protests against wage and benefits cuts, an overwhelming majority of respondents in Europe (72 percent) and the US (90 percent) agreed that people are better off in a free-market economy. The strongest pro-free-market feelings were registered in Britain (81 percent) and Germany (78 percent).EU candidate country Turkey has shifted in its views on capitalism, with only 36 percent backing this economic model, a drop of ten points compared to last year.A large majority of those surveyed inside the EU (78 percent) and Turkey (55 percent) continue to agree that the government has an essential role to play in regulating the market. The French, British and Portuguese are the strongest backers of government intervention, while the Americans are the least enthusiastic about it.

EU in the world

The role of the EU on the world stage, the main topic for leaders to discuss on Thursday, is secondary to the US, the GMF survey shows. Over 80 percent of Europeans predicted that the United States is likely to exert strong leadership in the future, while 75 percent also saw a leadership role for the EU.Europeans and Americans are divided about the role Asia would play in global affairs. Seven-in-ten respondents in America found it very likely that China will exert strong leadership in the future, while only a third of Europeans thought the same scenario is very likely. EU respondents are also more likely than Americans to describe their relations with China as good. When asked about India, the majority of EU respondents (54 percent) thought it was unlikely that the world's most populous democracy will exert strong leadership in world affairs five years from now, while 74 percent of Americans believed the opposite.

10 Years Without Joseph's Tomb
by Elad Benari SEPT 17,10

Hundreds of people gathered on Thursday for a special ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of Israel’s pullout from Joseph’s Tomb. The ceremony was held in the Samaria community of Mitzpe Yosef, which is located on Har Gerizim near Shchem and overlooks Joseph’s Tomb.During the ceremony, it was announced that the coming year will be known as the year of Joseph’s Tomb, and will include educational and public activities as well as many other special events.The ceremony centered around the writing of a Sefer Torah, which the organizers believe will be placed into Joseph’s Tomb once Israel has permanent borders and takes back the stolen property stolen by the Palestinian Authority to its rightful owners, the people of Israel, as the organizers said. Each of the evening’s speakers began by writing a letter in the Sefer Torah.Rabbi Dov Lior, the Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Arba and Hevron, was the first speaker. He said that learning history in the Jewish tradition means learning lessons and drawing conclusions, and that Joseph’s character should serve as an example to Jews in the present generation. We have a state, army, ability and power, said Rabbi Lior. After we returned to our country we have a commandment to reclaim the land and settle it. Handing over of territories is a sin and we have paid a price for it, as we have seen in recent years. Even thinking about it is bad. Terrorists act against the very existence of Israel. We need to strengthen ourselves as the righteous Joseph did.Deputy Knesset Speaker MK Danny Danon told participants about his recent visit to the area with his son two months ago. My son asked me why we cannot go down to Joseph's Tomb, and I did not know what to say… I believe that with G-d's help we will this year return to Joseph's Tomb and to other places from which we’ve been uprooted.

Other speakers at the ceremony included Gershon Meskia (head of the Samaria Regional Council), Rabbi Elyakim Levanon (the rabbi of Elon Moreh), and MK Uri Ariel of the National Union Party who read the names of the IDF soldiers who have fallen while guarding Joseph’s Tomb. Ariel emphasized that those soldiers must be remembered so that the return to Joseph’s Tomb can be accomplished.The ceremony was initiated by Gar’in Shechem, a group of residents of Judea and Samaria who seek to re-establish a Jewish presence in Joseph’s Tomb. It was organized by the Shomron Regional Council, the Shomron Religious Council, the Samaria Residents Council, the Shechem Echad organization, and Matnas Shomron.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

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Pipes: I Want to Defeat Radical Islam
by Elad Benari SEPT 16,10

On Wednesday, Professor Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, spoke in Jerusalem on the topic of Radical Islam and the Real Obstacles to Middle East Peace.His talk was sponsored by Hadar-Israel, an organization dedicated to securing Israel’s future through its citizens.During his talk, Pipes said that he wants to defeat radical Islam, or Islamism, which he defined as the third of three radical utopian movements, along with Fascism and Marxism. According to him, while the other two did not survive over time since they did not learn and stuck with brutal violent totalitarian ways right to the end, Islamism, on the other hand, has learned and is not making the same mistakes now as it did 30 years ago. Pipes brought forward Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan as the model of what he called a second generation of Islamist takeover which uses democracy to legitimize itself.

Pipes addressed the Obama Administration’s tendency not to criticize the Iranian regime, and said that it is embarrassing that leaders such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown condemn Iran, while President Barack Obama does not. He added that while Obama’s tendency not to criticize Iran is not having any effect, neither did the Bush Administration’s policy to criticize Iran. The example of the failure of the Bush policy, said Pipes, is Hamas, a terrorist organization that was elected to power in democratic elections.He said that he endorsed both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but in both cases he thought that Americans should overthrow the regime and then hand the keys over to the kingdom. He believed that what President Bush tried to do in these countries was too ambitious.We Americans rehabilitate countries, said Pipes. Well, you don’t always succeed at that. My prediction now, and I’m sorry to make that prediction and I hope I’m wrong, is that both Afghanistan and Iraq are doomed in the sense that our trillion dollars, [and] our 400,000 deaths will have been seen in retrospect as wasted.Pipes described the regimes in Iraq and Afghanistan as kept regimes, which make their own decisions but are there by virtue of the support of coalition forces. Take those [forces] away and the regimes will fall, especially given the Iranian and Pakistani interests in these two countries, he said.Another example of a kept regime is Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas. Pipes said that without Israeli security support and foreign aid, Abbas would be gone from power, and added that such regimes are not a healthy development.Turning to the conflict between Israel and the PA and the United States’ attitude towards this conflict, Pipes explained that Israel’s priority is clearly Iran, while the American priority is the Palestinians. He explained the reason for this as linkage, meaning that the Americans believe that all the problems in the Middle East are made worse because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.In terms of the peace negotiations, Pipes said: I see a possible deal where Israelis make concessions against better judgment in order to get some concessions on Iran.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL

AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.

2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

Final Approval for F-35 Purchase
by Maayana Miskin SEPT 16,10

A ministerial committee headed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak has given its final approval to the purchase of F-35 warplanes from the United States. Senior IDF officials took part in the final decision.Purchasing this fighter jet, the most technically advanced on earth, is a significant step in strengthening Israel's military prowess, Netanyahu said during the committee meeting.Barak announced the impending approval of the F-35 purchase in August saying the plane will give the Air Force the best capability in the short and long range and allow Israel to maintain aerial superiority.His decision was met with criticism from the Finance Ministry, which called on him to reconsider it. In early September, it was reported that Israel would go ahead with the purchase after being given a green light to add Israeli technology to the aircraft.Israel is expected to begin by purchasing 20 of the planes, for a total cost of 2.7 billion dollars. The deal will be the most expensive in the IDF's history.Defense Ministry Director-General Udi Shani, a retired IDF general, confirmed that Israel has received approval to install its own technologies in the F-35. In addition, he said, Israel and the U.S. have reached a deal for a counter-purchase by the U.S. worth billions of dollars.Lockheed-Martin has agreed to allow Israeli participation in the creation of the F-35s, specifically, in building wing parts. The Israeli contribution is expected to generate up to $4 billion for Israel Aerospace Industries and Elbit Systems.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Israel to buy advanced US fighter jets
– Thu Sep 16, 1:03 pm ET

JERUSALEM – The Israeli government has officially approved plans to buy American-made F-35 stealth fighter jets.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Thursday that the purchase would significantly strengthen Israel's military, but gave no other details.Israel is planning on buying 20 of the warplanes for nearly $3 billion and will begin receiving the jets by 2015.The warplanes would be capable of reaching Iran undetected by radar.Israel considers Iran a strategic threat, citing its calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, its suspect nuclear program and missiles.Israel has hinted it might take military action if international efforts to curb Iran's nuclear program fail.

Arab states snub US over Israel resolution by Simon Morgan – Thu Sep 16, 11:50 am ET

VIENNA (AFP) – Arab states refused Thursday to drop plans to chide Israel over its assumed nuclear arsenal at a UN nuclear conference next week, despite US suggestions that such a move would jeopardise Middle East peace talks.The Arab Group urges to keep the item Israeli nuclear capabilities on the agenda of the general conference and ... will submit a draft resolution to te assembly next week, Sudan's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Mahmound El-Amin said, speaking on behalf of 22 Arab states.The Arab Group requests the IAEA member states to support the draft resolution and vote in favour of it.El-Amin made the statement to a closed-door session of the IAEA's 35-member board of governors which is preparing for the organisation's 54th annual general conference next week.Earlier, the United States and the European Union had pressed Arab countries to withdraw their resolution -- which calls on Israel to sign up to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty -- so as not to jeopardise Middle East peace talks.Washington even flew in President Barack Obama's top nuclear advisor, Gary Samore, to Vienna earlier this week to try and persuade Arab nations to drop their plans.The IAEA, which is investigating both Iran and Syria for alleged illicit nuclear activity, used double standards when dealing with Israel and a recent report by agency chief Yukiya Amano on the matter was weak and disappointing, El-Amin argued.

It was devoid of any substance and not up to the typical level of the agency's reporting and that was why the Arab countries would not drop their resolution.Brussels and Washington believe that zeroing in on the Jewish state would jeopardise a proposed conference in 2012 on the creation of a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction.It could also have a negative effect on relaunched peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.Israel is believed to be the only Middle East power to possess nuclear weapons.Every year, Arab members of the IAEA table the same anti-Israeli resolution at the watchdog's week-long general conference, which brings together all 151 IAEA member states. Last year the Arab states succeeded in having it adopted by a very narrow majority.Belgian ambassador Frank Recker said the EU was of the view that ... singling out one country ... will not be conducive to a good atmosphere at the general conference and could only hamper the ability of the IAEA and its member states to contribute positively to the establishment of a zone free of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.The EU felt the IAEA should focus on advancing the implementation of these agreements and avoid anything which might jeopardise the progress made,Recker said.

US ambassador Glyn Davies agreed.

At a time when President Obama and US State Secretary Hillary Clinton were actively pursuing Middle East peace .... now is not the time and the IAEA is not the place for this divisive resolution, Davies told reporters.It was important that we avoid engaging here in Vienna in a very divisive, tough debate. A resolution, if it's adopted could threaten these talks, could send a very bad signal, he said.The priority was to make the 2012 conference possible and this would not happen by continuing to bludgeon one member state, he said, referring to Israel. In order for 2012 to succeed all countries have to show up ... Right now there is one country that has very little incentive to do that because of the way they are being made a pariah in this process, Davies said. Obama's top nuclear advisor Gary Samore had met Wednesday with the entire Arab league to see if we can't get them to meet us halfway and see if we can't have something positive, something consensual come out of Vienna, instead of the usual fight, the US ambassador continued. The US was hopeful that they could still persuade the Arab states to drop the issue, Davies said. It's Thursday. The general conference starts on Monday. That can be a lifetime. A lot can happen in the next couple of days.

Israeli Complaint to UN over Phosphorous Fire
by Maayana Miskin SEPT 16,10

Eshkol Regional Council head Chaim Yalin has filed a complaint with the United Nations over Gaza terrorists' attacks on southern Israel, and over the recent use of phosphorus in mortar shells fired toward Israeli civilians.For nine years, residents of the Eshkol regional council, on the border with the Gaza Strip, have suffered salvos of Kassam rockets and mortar shells, sponsored and fired by terror organizations in Gaza towards innocent civilians, he wrote. The IDF is condemned for protecting Israel, while Hamas attacks civilians without being judged or criticized by any official, he added.Yalin called on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to put an end to this hypocrisy and stand up for Israelis in the western Negev. The population of the western Negev is suffering, he said.A complaint was also filed by Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Meron Reuben. Since Monday, 13 September 2010, Hamas terrorists launched 14 rockets and mortars from in the Gaza Strip that sought to terrorize the civilian populations... Some of these attacks that deliberately targeted civilians contained white phosphorous, a fact publicly acknowledged by Palestinian statements in the media, Reuben stated.

Reuben charged Hamas with launching attacks in a concerted effort to derail peace talks.The terrorism reinforces Israel’s decision to exercise its right of self-defense against Hamas and all other groups that threaten and endanger Israeli citizens,he added.Phosphorus, which can cause severe burns and death, is forbidden for use as a weapon against civilians. Phosphorous rounds are often used to create a smoke screen for military actions or for nighttime illumination, uses which are permitted by international law. The IDF used phosphorus to create a cover while fighting Hamas in the Cast Lead counterterror operation in Gaza. Hamas, in contrast, uses its weapons to deliberately target civilians.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

50,000 Secular Jews in Tzohar’s Yom Kippur Program
by Gil Ronen SEPT 16,10

Tens of thousands of secular Israeli Jews are scheduled to join in prayer services all around the country, as part of the Tzohar Rabbinic organization's Praying Together on Yom Kippur initiative. The program is designed to provide Israelis who typically shy away from traditional prayer services with a welcoming and comforting environment in which to spend the holiest day in the Jewish year.Surveys done in the 1990s found that two thirds of Jewish Israelis, including about half of the secular Jews, fast on Yom Kippur. Tzohar believes that many secular Israelis want to go to synagogue on this day but stay home because they feel alienated at established synagogues. As part of its mission to bridge the gap between religious and secular Israelis, the group will be organizing over 200 free explanatory Yom Kippur services in kibbutzim, moshavim and cultural centers across the country this Yom Kippur.Our goal is to help secular Israelis feel less alienated when it comes to religious practice and show them that there are many ways to embrace religion and become spiritually involved with one’s Judaism, said Rabbi David Stav, Chairman of Tzohar. We know that despite being classified as secular, this segment of Israeli society often has a burning desire to demonstrate their love for Jewish tradition and we strongly believe that this effort will help them feel closer to their identity as proud Jews.Now in its eleventh year, the Praying Together program has expanded annually, reaching more communities and participants than ever before. Participants are provided with a special Yom Kippur prayer book and a detailed handout explaining the rituals, meaning of the prayers and process (when to stand, when to bow, etc.) that takes place during the day, to ensure it is a meaningful and encompassing experience for all.

There are many Israelis like me who do not label themselves religious, but are proud Jews, says Yoav of Moshav Eshtaol near Beit Shemesh. This welcoming program has been a unifying Jewish experience for me and despite the fact that most people would define me as secular, I look forward to participating again this year.Nachman Rosenberg, Executive Vice President for Tzohar said that the success of the Yom Kippur program has led the organization to develop similar initiatives all across the Jewish calendar.Our goal is to make Jewish practice into something Israelis of all backgrounds can embrace on their own terms and in a setting where they feel most comfortable,Rosenberg said.If we can accomplish that, then we are confident that the gaps between us all can be slowly narrowed.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

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.

Hurricane Karl menaces Mexico, Igor eyes Bermuda
SEPT 17,10

VERACRUZ, Mexico (AFP) – A rare trio of hurricanes swirled in the Atlantic basin, including Karl which menaced Mexico's Gulf coast, and Igor, a monster storm threatening a direct hit on Bermuda.Karl, the 11th named storm of a season, has already drenched Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and lashed the country's main offshore oil platforms, and is forecast to make landfall Friday on the flood-hit mainland coast.Karl's sustained winds surged to 130 kilometers (80 miles) per hour, and it could approach major hurricane strength before the center reaches the Mexican coast, the US National Hurricane Center reported in its latest bulletin.The category one hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale was 225 kilometers (140 miles) northeast of Veracruz, Mexico at 0000 GMT.Mexico, already reeling from major flooding this month that left 25 people dead and affected nearly one million more, posted hurricane warnings for the country's central Gulf coast.Up to 15 inches (38 centimeters) of rain in isolated regions could cause life-threatening flash floods and mud slides, the NHC said, warning of a possible storm surge and destructive waves.Earlier the NHC warned Karl could bring coastal flooding to parts of Belize and northern Guatemala.The storm did not appear to have washed out any of Mexico's celebrations for the bicentennial of its independence from Spain, on Wednesday and Thursday, but some festivities were already reduced in flooded southeastern areas.Meanwhile out in the Atlantic, extremely dangerous category three Hurricane Igor packed winds of 210 kilometers (130 miles) per hour, generating large swells that could cause dangerous surf from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands up the US East Coast, the NHC said.

But concern lay primarily with Bermuda, where authorities of the British overseas territory were warning of potential devastation if the eye of the storm passes close by as forecast.The island can expect tropical storm force winds sometime around midnight Saturday and even worse conditions late Sunday around midnight when the current forecast is for a direct hit, a spokeswoman for the Emergency Measures Organization told Bermuda's Royal Gazette newspaper.Residents are advised to take the warnings seriously as the island has not experienced such an intense storm since Hurricane Fabian hit Bermuda in 2003.Home Affairs Minister David Burch said authorities would take all necessary steps to ensure the safety of our people, and urged residents to make immediate preparations.Lined up behind Igor was Julia, a weakening category one hurricane out in the Atlantic with no current threats to land.

Three simultaneous hurricanes are rare, but not unheard of, NHC spokesman Dennis Feltgen told AFP.The last time so many major storms churned in the Atlantic basin was in September 1998, when four hurricanes roared simultaneously, including Georges, which killed more than 600 people and caused nearly six billion dollars in damage.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has predicted an especially stormy 2010, with 14 to 23 named storms for this season, including eight to 14 hurricanes.On average, there are 11 named storms, six of which become hurricanes, in a six-month season. There has been unusually high storm activity since 1995, according to NOAA.

Brief but strong storm barrels through NYC; 1 dead By CRISTIAN SALAZAR, Associated Press Writer - SEPT 16,10

NEW YORK – A fast-moving storm packing winds of up to 100 mph ripped through the city Thursday, knocking down trees and power lines, snarling traffic, tearing off roofs and leaving one person dead.A woman was killed when a tree fell on her car as it was parked on a road in Queens, police said. Investigators were still trying to pull her body from the vehicle and had been unable to identify her. Numerous minor injuries were reported elsewhere.The storm created havoc with the evening commute. Amtrak trains were running with delays. The Long Island Rail Road said service was temporarily suspended between Penn Station and Jamaica because of fallen trees. Service east of Jamaica was extremely limited. New Jersey Transit reported delays of 20 to 30 minutes during rush hour but normal service was restored around 7:45 p.m.

At least 30,000 customers were without power Thursday night, according to Alfonso Quiroz, a spokesman for Consolidated Edison. He said hardest hit was Queens, with 27,000 outages.The storm hit just after 5 p.m., when the National Weather Service briefly issued a tornado warning for Staten Island. Shortly afterward, warnings were issued for Brooklyn and Queens.The good news is that most people were safe, just annoyed — traffic being bad or a tree coming down in their yard, said Mayor Michael Bloomberg after touring storm damage in Queens.The National Weather Service said it would assess the damage on Friday to determine whether a tornado had actually touched down.Residents across the city were awed by the power of the storm.A huge tree limb, like 25 feet long, flew right up the street, up the hill and stopped in the middle of the air 50 feet up in this intersection and started spinning, said Steve Carlisle, 54. It was like a poltergeist.Then all the garbage cans went up in the air and this spinning tree hits one of them like it was a bat on a ball. The can was launched way, way over there, he said, pointing at a building about 120 feet away where a metal garbage can lay flattened.Fire officials were inspecting 10 buildings in Brooklyn whose roofs were peeled off or tattered by the wind.

The wind was holding my ceiling up in the air. It was like a wave, it went up and fell back down, said Ruby Ellis, 58, who was doing dishes in her top-floor kitchen when the storm hit. After the roof went up, then all the rain came down and I had a flood.A neighbor at an adjacent building, Julian Amy, said he was sitting in his first-floor apartment when the storm barreled down his street. I just heard a loud boom,said the 33-year-old. I thought it was a truck accident.Residents of the top floors of the buildings were evacuated, said a fire official. A structural engineer was called in to assess the damage. There were no injuries.Townsend Davis, 47, stood outside of his home in Brooklyn, where a 40-foot tree that was uprooted from the sidewalk and crushed two cars still had a sign in the soil around its roots that read Respect the trees.Someone up there wasn't listening, Davis said. I'm just glad it fell that way, as bad as I feel for the owners of that car, because if it fell this way, my house wouldn't be here.Davis' children and wife were in the home when the storm hit.All of a sudden, we saw this dark cloud, and it was moving. I said Let's go in! said Stephen Wylie, who was working in a backyard in Brooklyn.

Within seconds, the front door started lashing back and forth. Trees branches were falling and trees came flying from other yards, Wylie said. They smashed the whole backyard, a gazebo there. Then half the roof was torn off — eight layers of it — leaving only a layer of wood, he said. Angela Bartolotta, 25, was in class at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, when the wind began to howl and the lights flickered. Then the windows blew in, Bartolotta said. Everybody got down. We thought the tree outside was going to come in.Brooklyn resident Steven Harris says seven or eight rooftops blew off on his street. He says trees fell and knocked down power lines. In the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, witnesses say the sky went pitch black at about 5:30 p.m. Trees started waving around like blades of grass. Large branches snapped and hit cars, smashing windshields. Tashunna Williams, 19, was one of thousands of commuters stranded at Pennsylvania Station, waiting for word on when they might be able to get a train back home. It's horrible, said the Uniondale teenager.I'm ready to go home.It is common for New York City to get a couple of tornado warnings a year, according Matt Scalora, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. In July, a small tornado hit the Bronx during a thunderstorm that left thousands without power in the metropolitan area. Associated Press Writer Charles Sheehan contributed to this report.

NZealand lashed by storm the size of Australia
SEPT 17,10

WELLINGTON (AFP) – A storm that meteorologists described as being the size of Australia buffeted New Zealand Friday, prompting severe weather warnings across most of the country.The official MetService said gale-force winds of up to 130 kilometres (80 miles) per hour were lashing some areas, including the capital Wellington, accompanied by heavy rain, lightning and plunging temperatures.Winds of this strength have the potential to lift roofs, topple trees and powerlines and make driving conditions hazardous, it said.Privately-owned forecaster weatherwatch.co.nz said the storm in the Southern Ocean was one of the largest currently on the planet, with a size roughly equivalent to Australia.Weatherwatch analyst Philip Duncan said that while the storm's centre was likely to remain about 1,000 kilometres west of New Zealand, the country would experience extreme weather for three or four days.

Duncan said the winds were likely to come in unpredictable squalls, advising: These Southern Ocean storms tend to fire up a number of aggressive but fairly short-lived fronts.He said Christchurch, which was hit by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake two weeks ago, could expect high winds but the city should escape the worst of the weather.

Karl becomes hurricane and heads for eastern Mexico
By Jason Lange – Thu Sep 16, 5:41 pm ET

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Hurricane Karl formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico on Thursday and gained strength as it headed across Mexico's offshore oil patch.No damage was reported at Mexican oil drilling platforms and state-run oil giant Pemex has not curtailed operations, but it is monitoring Karl's progress across the Bay of Campeche in the Gulf, where the bulk of Mexico's 2.55 million barrels per day of oil is produced.Two of Mexico's main oil exporting ports closed as Karl passed through the region.The storm was a Category 1 hurricane, the weakest on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, with maximum winds of 80 miles per hour, but it was picking up strength as it left Mexico's main cluster of oil platforms behind and barreled toward the state of Veracruz, where it could touch land on Friday night.It is not out of the question that Karl could become a major hurricane before landfall, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Karl is expected to strengthen steadily and possibly rapidly.However, Karl seemed unlikely to inflict lasting damage and oil prices fell more than 2 percent as traders set aside the storm and focused on the expected resumption of a major Canadian pipeline.The storm is the sixth hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic season. Of these, four have been major hurricanes that reach Category 3 or higher. At 5:00 p.m. EST (2100 GMT), Karl was located about 165 miles east of Veracruz.Pemex suspended small craft shipping to platforms in the bay but there were no reports of damage to any oil installations there, a company employee said.Storms in the Bay of Campeche have the potential to cause serious disruption to Mexican oil output but rarely pass far enough south to cause problems. Mexico was the No. 3 supplier of crude to the United States during the first half of this year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Any disruption in production would likely last days although rare direct hits on major platforms in the past have forced lengthy shutdowns.Earlier in the week, Karl dumped rain and brought strong winds to the Yucatan peninsula and hundreds of people, mostly Mayan villagers, were evacuated, authorities said.The storm also knocked out power to tens of thousands of people throughout the mainly rural area. Majahual, home to a large cruise ship port, bore the brunt of the storm as it made landfall but no serious damage was reported.Cancun, a top beach destination for U.S. and European tourists, was untouched by the storm.Forecasters shifted the anticipated landfall of Karl south of the gasoline-importing city of Tuxpan toward Veracruz, a major Mexican port but one which does not handle any crude oil exports. The storm is expected to make landfall by late Friday afternoon.

IGOR AND JULIA

Two other hurricanes, Igor and Julia, also churned across the Atlantic Ocean but posed no immediate threat to the U.S. mainland or energy interests, projected to eventually die out far from land.Igor was 840 miles south southeast of Bermuda with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph, having weakened to a still-dangerous Category 3 storm.Igor was on a track that would bring it close to Bermuda late on Sunday and early on Monday. Bermudan Home Affairs Minister David Burch urged islanders to get ready. You should be getting prepared now -- if you wait until Saturday evening, it will be too late, he said. Local forecasters in Bermuda said the Atlantic island should prepare for a virtual direct hit from Igor, which was expected to pass less than 50 miles east of the island as a Category 2 hurricane on Sunday. Bermuda's government said the territory had not been threatened by such a severe hurricane since Hurricane Fabian in 2003, which killed four people and caused millions of dollars worth of damage. Julia had weakened to a Category 1 storm, with 85 mph winds. It was located about 1,325 miles southwest of the Azores and was moving northwest. The June-November hurricane season has been more active than average this year, with 11 named storms so far, but damage has been relatively limited as several storms fizzled out in the Atlantic.(Additional reporting by Robert Campbell in Mexico City and Samantha Strangeways in Hamilton; editing by Missy Ryan and Cynthia Osterman)

Geithner vows to take China currency dispute to G20 By Doug Palmer and David Lawder – Thu Sep 16, 5:18 pm ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner vowed on Thursday to rally other world powers to push China for trade and currency reforms as he was grilled by lawmakers demanding a crackdown on Beijing's policies.China warned that pressure from Washington could backfire.Raising the stakes as part of a tougher line on China's policies, Geithner said the United States would use a Group of 20 summit in Seoul in November to try to mobilize trading partners to get Beijing to let the yuan strengthen faster.U.S. lawmakers are weighing new legislation to punish China for practices they say keep the yuan artificially low, hurting American jobs and competitiveness, as they grow impatient with a diplomatic approach that has yielded little so far.Even as Geithner talked tough in testimony before two key congressional panels, saying he shared lawmakers' frustrations, he urged caution over any measures that might further strain U.S.-China relations.This process of adjustment in their exchange rate is going to have to happen over time, he said. We are using every approach we can find.U.S. lawmakers are weighing whether to push ahead with action against China before a November 2 congressional election that will hinge on voter concerns about the weak economy.The consensus in Congress seems stronger than ever for new rules targeting China but the tight legislative calendar leaves little time to pass a bill in coming weeks. Some analysts see the outcry as politicians trying to curry favor with voters.Geithner, walking a fine line in testimony to the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, said the Obama administration had not endorsed the House bill, which is tougher than the Senate version and would slap duties on goods from countries with fundamentally misaligned currencies.But he said we are carefully looking at it and wanted to be sure it was compatible with World Trade Organization rules.Sander Levin, chairman of the House panel, said he would consult Democratic leaders in coming days and decide next week what, if any, steps to take on the China currency issue.

SHARPEST TONE

The threat to make China's currency system a focal point of the G20 summit could buy time to show that President Barack Obama's administration is serious about Geithner's pledge to use all tools available to remedy the situation.But it is also sure to stoke tensions before and during the gathering of leaders of the top industrial and developing economies, including Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao.

We expect there to be a significant focus of attention ... on China's exchange rate policy, Geithner told the Senate Banking Committee. It's about the broad interests of all of China's trading partners in a level playing field.But he acknowledged that countries have shown reluctance to take on China, which has become increasingly assertive as its global economic might has grown.Complicating the situation was Japan's first intervention in six years on Wednesday to push its own currency down from 15-year highs against the dollar as Tokyo struggles to support its export-led economy.Giving Japan a free pass to intervene could make it harder to get China to curtail such activity, analysts said. Geithner, striking his sharpest tone yet in what has long been a flashpoint in U.S.-China relations, said the yuan was strengthening too slowly and the Obama administration was looking for ways to get Beijing to move faster. Democratic Senator Charles Schumer, calling China's yuan policy a boot to the throat of our recovery, joined Republicans in pressing Geithner to declare Beijing a currency manipulator when the Treasury Department's next foreign exchange report is due on October 15. But Geithner cast doubt on the effectiveness of such a move, saying it would not guarantee concrete results. We share your frustration, he said, though he tempered his remarks by saying China's exchange rate policy does not pose a systemic risk and he did not cite any specific new measures under consideration. China's Foreign Ministry said pressure over the exchange rate not only would fail to solve the problems; on the contrary, it could have the opposite effect.With the U.S. jobless rate near 10 percent as China runs up big trade surpluses, some analysts say legislation cannot be ruled out. But with both chambers due to recess by mid-October to prepare for the congressional election in early November, prospects look dim for a vote before then. Congress might push a bill but my sense is this is largely rhetoric and political posturing designed primarily for a domestic audience, said Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman in New York.

LONG OVERDUE

Geithner said China, whose yuan has risen only slightly against the dollar since it announced the end to its currency peg in June, needs to do more. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd told Geithner the time for action was long overdue.China does basically whatever it wants while we grow weaker and they grow stronger. We clearly need concrete action here, Dodd said. Senator Richard Shelby, the committee's most senior Republican, said: There is no question that China manipulates its currency in order to subsidize its exports. The only question is: Why is the administration protecting China by refusing to designate it as a currency manipulator? Geithner made clear that U.S. patience on China's currency was wearing thin but said only that the valuation of the yuan would be taken into account when the Treasury issues its next report on the currency practices of U.S. trading partners.The report is often delayed. But Geithner, speaking to the House committee, promised the one due in mid-October -- before the G20 summit -- would be issued in a timely fashion.The administration has so far refrained from officially accusing China of manipulating its currency for unfair advantage, which could open the door to U.S. trade sanctions. Geithner also appeared to be looking for breathing room to try to squeeze concessions from the Chinese before frustrated lawmakers press ahead with a bill that would force its hand.China's move to free the yuan from a nearly two-year-old peg to the dollar in June came a week ahead of a G20 meeting in Canada where U.S. officials had vowed to highlight the issue.

RETALIATION POSSIBLE

China could retaliate if Congress actually passes legislation. A trade war between the world's two largest economies would be a serious blow to Obama's effort to ease strains on a range of economic and foreign policy disputes. The yuan has risen only about 1.25 percent against the dollar since the peg was broken in June. But in the past six days, the currency has made its fastest rise since February 2008 -- a move that some analysts view as a response to growing U.S. rhetoric. The Obama administration faces a balancing act. It is sensitive to anti-China sentiment among U.S. voters as it tries to avert big Democratic losses in the November election. But it wants to avoid alienating Beijing, whose support is vital to tackle nuclear standoffs with Iran and North Korea. Washington is also mindful that China holds massive amounts of U.S. debt. (Additional reporting by Paul Eckert, Emily Kaiser and Richard Cowan in Washington, Steven Johnson in New York and John O'Donnell in Brussels; Writing by Matt Spetalnick; Editing by John O'Callaghan)

Economic growth key to U.N. poverty goals - IMF By Lesley Wroughton - SEPT 16,10

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The global financial crisis derailed efforts to slash poverty and hunger worldwide by 2015, but boosting economic growth in poor countries can help restore momentum again, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday.In a position note before a United Nations summit of world leaders next week to take stock of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the IMF said the goals will be difficult to meet without restoring growth. Leaders are expected to stick to the eight goals but are unlikely to make ambitious new promises including on aid.IMF First Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky said millions of people were thrown back into poverty, while others' escape from poverty was delayed due to the crisis, which was exacerbated for the poor by record food prices in 2008.To resume progress toward the MDGs, what is needed is a speedy return to the pre-crisis path of rapid growth, especially pro-poor growth and inclusive growth, he said in a speech.He said even with tight budgets, rich nations needed to deliver on their 2005 promises to double aid to Africa by 2010 so that poorer countries can build roads, bridges and other infrastructure and respond to the effects of climate changes.Aid from rich countries has remained constant at around $38 billion a year since 2008.

He said poorer economies, which were doing well before the crisis thanks to good economic policies, needed to focus on making their economies resilient to future shocks.The IMF said trade was one area where action can spur economic growth in poor countries and help reduce poverty and create jobs.There is scope for more and better trade preferences along with several complementary actions to bolster support for developing countries' exports, the IMF said.To benefit from more open borders, developing countries would need to tackle their own high tariffs and other barriers to trade, which restrict imports.Lipsky urged world leaders to conclude the Doha Round of global trade talks, which have been stalled for two years. Rich powers and emerging economies are disagreeing over the extent to which poorer countries should open up their markets.Negotiators say a deal will only be possible in 2011 at the earliest.He noted that one of the biggest developments in the past decade was that developing countries have been trading more intensively with each other.Meanwhile, rich countries can also encourage investment in developing countries that will help growth, the IMF said. It said Africa needed an estimated $93 billion a year to develop its infrastructure, which has suffered from chronic underfunding over the past decade.More spending on infrastructure, especially on transportation and power generation, would also help spur more regional and international trade, the IMF added.(Editing by Kim Coghil)For more news, visit Reuters India)

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.

Turkish PM wants closer trade links with Iran
– Thu Sep 16, 12:47 pm ET

ISTANBUL (AFP) – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for closer economic ties with Iran Thursday, despite Western pressure for tougher action against the Islamic republic over its nuclear activities.Why can't we establish a mechanism of unrestricted trade with Iran similar to the one we have with Europe? I personally don't see any reason why we should not be able to accomplish this, Erdogan said in a speech at a Turkish-Iranian business forum here, Anatolia news agency reported.If we complete as soon as possible the talks on a preferential trade agreement... we can reach 30 billion dollars (in bilateral trade) in five years. We have to achieve that, he said.Ankara has said it will abide by UN sanctions on neighbouring Iran but not by tougher restrictions imposed by the United States or the European Union, with which Turkey has a customs union agreement and is seeking to join.Erdogan said the trade volume between Turkey and Iran currently stood at 10 billion dollars, most of it from Iranian natural gas sales to Turkey.There are lots of things that we can give to Iran.... Turkey has made a serious industrial leap, Anatolia quoted Erdogan as saying.Our geographic proximity offers us unique opportunities to improve our commercial and economic ties, he said.Turkey's improving ties with Iran, coupled by a deep crisis in relations with one-time ally Israel, have sparked concern that Erdogan's Islamist-rooted government is taking NATO's sole mainly Muslim member away from the West.Turkey insists on a diplomatic solution to tensions over Iran's nuclear programme, and in May -- together with Brazil -- hammered out a nuclear fuel swap deal with Tehran.In a move that irked Washington, the country voted no to fresh sanctions against Iran, adopted by the UN Security Council in June, insisting that the swap deal should be given a chance.

US: time may come for special nuke probe of Syria By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer – Thu Sep 16, 12:35 pm ET

VIENNA – A U.S. envoy on Thursday suggested time was running out for Syria to cooperate with a U.N. atomic agency probe of alleged secret nuclear activities before the agency invokes its seldom-used authority to call for a special inspection — a possible prelude to U.N. Security Council involvement.Rising to Syria's defense, a senior Iranian diplomat accused the organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency, of harassing Syria by leveling false allegations in collusion with Israel and its allies.The two officials spoke as the 35-nation atomic agency board meeting turned its attention from the agency's probe of Iran's nuclear activities to suspicions that Syria has a hidden nuclear program.Israeli warplanes bombed what the U.S. says was a nearly finished nuclear reactor three years ago, launching an agency investigation. After an initial visit to the site, agency inspectors have not been allowed to return or visit other suspect sites. The agency's chief, Yukiya Amano, says Syria's lack of cooperation could mean that information sought by the agency could be lost with the passage of time.Iranian envoy Ali Asghar Soltanieh told the board that Israel's attack is the real issue and Syria has become targeted by a vicious circle of endless questions and allegations.

Syria denies hiding nuclear activities. It, Iran and other Islamic nations say Israel is the main nuclear problem in the Mideast.They plan to push for a vote at a 151-nation IAEA conference next week on a resolution criticizing Israel's undeclared nuclear capabilities and urging the Jewish state — commonly considered to have nuclear weapons — to open up its program to IAEA perusal.But Glyn Davies, the chief U.S. delegate to the agency, warned such a move could undercut ongoing Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, telling reporters that now is not the time (and) the IAEA is not the place for this resolution.Diplomats told The Associated Press that same message was delivered Tuesday by Gary Samore, President Barack Obama's special nuclear envoy to Arab ambassadors accredited to the IAEA.In Washington, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley confirmed that the U.S. is concerned that the Arab move, should it happen, could jeopardize the Mideast talks.First of all, let's state a fact, Crowley said. Israel has fully cooperated with the IAEA and that is in contrast to one or more governments, Iran and Syria being two that come to mind, who have not cooperated with the IAEA.Israel, as well as the U.S. and other close allies consider the discussion about Israel's nuclear capacities a serious distraction from what they consider the main Mideast nuclear threats — Iran and Syria — a point underlined by Israel's chief delegate to the board.It is Iran which represents the greatest threat to peace and security in the Middle East and beyond, Ehud Azulay said, in comments to the closed meeting made available to the AP.

For his part, Davies told the board that, unless Syria ends its stonewalling, the IAEA must increasingly consider all available measures and authorities to pursue the verification assurances the international community seeks — diplomatic language for a special inspection.Only twice has the atomic agency ever called for or carried out a special inspection, which gives it authority for countrywide probes of known or suspect nuclear activities.Romania asked to be inspected in 1992 to show that the post-communist government had no nuclear-weapons aspirations. A year later, the agency asked for a special inspection in North Korea — a request turned down by the country, which continued with its secret development of nuclear weapons.Refusal by Syria to allow a special inspection would allow the board to refer the issue to the U.N. Security Council, which then could issue a reprimand, pass a resolution demanding compliance and ultimately pass the kind of sanctions Iran is now under for refusing to heed demands to curb nuclear activities that could be used both to generate energy or make weapons.

Iran's president brings political baggage to NY By BRIAN MURPHY, Associated Press Writer – Thu Sep 16, 3:26 pm ET

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Iran's president will likely swagger into New York next week in much the same style as past visits for the annual U.N. General Assembly: ready to take his jabs at America on its home turf.But any outward confidence on the big U.S. stage contrasts sharply with his increasingly public power struggles back in Iran that could shape the tone of the Islamic republic for years to come.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — who was a divisive figure in Iran after his disputed re-election last year — is now the great divider among the conservative leadership as the threat fades from the battered and dispirited opposition, analysts say.They have generally gotten rid of the Green Movement and now they are fighting among themselves, Mehrzad Boroujerdi, an expert on Iranian affairs at Syracuse University, referring to the opposition movement.Just in the past week, Ahmadinejad was hit with a series of slaps — including the judiciary commandeering the exit rules for jailed American hiker Sarah Shourd. It adds up to more evidence that the old guard clerics and others are pushing back harder against Ahmadinejad's political hungers.Their complaint basically is that Ahmadinejad is trying to redraw the political flow chart. Since the Islamic Revolution, it's been easy to follow: the ruling clerics on top and the elected officials — including the president — notches lower.Ahmadinejad appears to be constantly testing the system — and possibly the patience of theocracy — by trying to expand the autonomy of his office in policy decisions and filling key posts. There is also a question of his biggest ally, the hugely influential Revolutionary Guard, and whether it wants to stretch its portfolio even further.The Guard already controls almost everything of importance in Iran — from protecting the nuclear program to directing the Basiji paramilitary corps. These were the front-line forces set loose against protesters who alleged that ballot fraud handed Ahmadinejad another term in office until 2013.

The Guard's widening presence in Iranian affairs is nudging the country — in some eyes — closer to the values of the generals and away from the mullahs. It's been a repeated theme of the opposition and Western officials such as Secretary of State Hillary Rodman Clinton.Iran's opposition leader, Mir Houssein Mousavi, has warned that Iranian society is becoming more militarized.Now there appear to be more rumblings from the top.A video currently making the rounds on the Internet shows a student leader reading a statement at a gathering with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei this month urging Ahmadinejad to remain true to the precepts of the Islamic Revolution.In the coded language of Iranian politics, it's widely seen as another way for Khamenei to send indirect warnings to Ahmadinejad to remember who is in charge.A much clearer rap came this week when Khamenei forced Ahmadinejad to cancel the appointments of six special international envoys. Ahmadinejad apparently had not bothered to clear the postings with Khamenei, who has warned the president to avoid parallel efforts in foreign policy.Video courtesy of ABC News. For more visit ABC News.com

There's no suggestion that Ahmadinejad could be pushed from office by the theocrats. Khamenei made a tactical decision amid the postelection mayhem to embrace the official results and turn his back on the demonstrators.But the signs of high-level rifts have wide spillover. They bring questions about whether Iran can continue to speak in a unified voice in its disputes with the West over its nuclear program. Or even how much Ahmadinejad's statements — including his expected interviews and speeches in the U.S. — are freelance policy or sanctioned by the turbans at the top.
This was once a given. Even Ahmadinejad's predecessor, reform-minded President Mohammad Khatami, did not ruffle the clerics by suggesting he was outside their rules.There is only one thing clear: Iran is no longer the topdown structure it once was, said William O. Beeman, a University of Minnesota professor who has written on Iranian affairs. It's much more fluid.And, at times, messy. The zigzag path over releasing hiker Sarah Shourd offered up the internal tensions for the world to see.

Khamenei and the judiciary he controls eventually ruled the day after bigfooting Ahmadinejad to take over the release of the American and demand $500,000 in bail, which was paid after mediation by Oman to clear her freedom Tuesday after more than 13 months in custody. Two other Americans detained with her — Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal — remain jailed in Tehran, accused of spying. But there also was an added element of inside intrigue in the case. The judiciary head, Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, is part of the most powerful one-two combination against Ahmadinejad within the establishment. Larijani's brother, Ali, is parliament speaker and Iran's former nuclear negotiator — and considered one of Ahmadinejad's leading rivals among Iranian conservatives.Meir Javedanfar, an Israel-based author and analyst on Iranian affairs, said the Shourd case suggests that Khamenei may be inclined to move quicker to rein in Ahmadinejad in the future.Khamenei has two main goals — first and foremost, stability in the system; second, the nuclear program, he said. By settling this (Shourd) matter as soon as possible, he put out flames which could have become another fire in his backyard.Still, Ahmadinejad may reap some reflected glory for Shourd's release. He can head to the opening of the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 23 with Shourd as a talking point. Yet it also shows a bit of Ahmadinejad's contradictory nature. In the past, he has said the detained Americans could be valuable as bargaining chips to exchange for Iranians that Tehran alleges are held by the U.S.

In an interview with NBC News on Wednesday, Ahmadinejad made an indirect — but clear — reference to supporters of Israel as the main source of tensions between the West and the Muslim world. I should say there is no conflict between the two cultures, he said. They should find where the problem is. I ask this question. Do the people of the United States hate the ... Muslims? Is that so? That's not true. Muslims do not hate Americans, either.He also gave perhaps a passing nod to his own challenges at home by noting that various groups keep pressure on President Barack Obama.Do you really think President Obama can do anything he wishes to? he said.

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

Dengue outbreak hits south China ahead of Asian Games
SEPT 16,10

BEIJING (AFP) – An outbreak of dengue fever has hit south China ahead of the upcoming Asian Games, with health authorities battling to contain the epidemic before the event opens, state media said Friday.Eleven cases of the mosquito-borne disease were discovered over the last week in Dongguan city in Guangdong province, where some of the events for the November 12-27 Games will be held, the China Daily said.As the Asian Games approach, we should prevent the disease from spreading and provide a safe, healthy environment throughout the Games, the paper quoted He Jianfeng, an official at the provincial disease control centre, as saying.The peak season for dengue fever in Guangdong is in September and October, he said.Monitoring for the disease has been stepped up in the provincial capital Guangzhou and other cities scheduled to host Games events including Foshan and Shanwei, the report said.

Dengue, transmitted to humans by female Aedes mosquitoes, causes a flu-like illness for most victims. One strain of it can cause internal bleeding and can prove fatal.
Up to 12,000 athletes from 45 nations are expected to attend the Asian Games, the world's biggest sporting event after the Olympics.

Internet holy day blackout imposed in Israel By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer – Thu Sep 16, 11:41 am ET

JERUSALEM – Israeli government offices that provide a wide array of public services are pulling the plug on online payments on the Jewish Sabbath and holidays, creating a potential new source of friction between the religious and secular in the Jewish state.Ultra-Orthodox Cabinet ministers are leading the charge to enforce the religious prohibition on spending money on Jewish holy days. But for non-religious residents, tourists and foreign workers, the planned ban joins two leading ills of Israeli life — red tape and religious restrictions — in a marriage of inconvenience.

Currently, Israelis and the tens of thousands of foreign workers living here are able to renew their passports, extend their visas or pay hospital fees online 24 hours a day, seven days a week.But now, the interior, health and religious affairs ministries — all controlled by ultra-Orthodox parties — plan a holy day payment blackout.Government offices have historically been closed to the public on Sabbath, noted Roi Lachmanovich, spokesman for the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, which controls the Interior Ministry. Now that the computer is the public face of the state, public service won't be available on the Internet, he said.It shouldn't operate on the Sabbath, like no state office operates on the Sabbath, added Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman of the United Torah Judaism Party.The inconvenience is liable to fuel already considerable secular resentment of the ultra-Orthodox, who make up less than 10 percent of the population but wield disproportionate influence in Israel's parliamentary democracy.

Few ultra-Orthodox men serve in the military, which is largely compulsory for Jewish citizens. Many ultra-Orthodox families rely on state handouts because the men want to pursue religious studies rather than work.The ultra-Orthodox also have a monopoly on civil matters like marriage and divorce, creating further tensions.Officials did not say when the newest measures would take effect, but officials with the liberal Reform movement, which promotes religious pluralism, vowed to fight them.Anat Hoffman, director of the Reform Movement's Israel Religious Action Center, called the decision illegal.You cannot dictate to people what to do in their own home. They cannot tell people what to do on their own computer, she said. For many people, Saturday is their only day off, for non-Jews in Israel this is their only day off.

The ultra-Orthodox ministers aren't going so far as to shut down the ministry sites totally on holy days, reasoning that what people do in their own homes is their own business, Lachmanovich said. The order will only apply to payments. When it comes to services the state gives, you have to maintain the (state's) character, he said.
Israel's social security agency, the National Insurance Institute, recently took the opposite decision.For years, the agency blocked Internet payments on holy days. But recently it began operating its site around the clock. In contrast to the government ministries, the agency is headed by a professional appointee and not a political one.
There were requests and complaints from citizens, so we decided to open it, said spokesman Haim Fitussi.Fitussi said payments had been blocked originally to avoid any problems that might have arisen because technical support wasn't available on holy days. But because other sites operated successfully on those days, the policy was revised.

POISONED WATERS

REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)

REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

Relief well intersects blown-out BP well in Gulf By HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writer - SEPT 17,10

NEW ORLEANS – The U.S government says a relief well has intersected BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.It's a prelude to plugging it once and for all.Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the oil spill, said in a statement late Thursday that data shows the two wells are joined.The next step will be to pump mud and cement down through the relief well to seal the blown-out well from the bottom. The well can't be declared dead until the blown-out well is sealed from the bottom.An explosion aboard a rig on April 20 killed 11 workers and triggered the spill that eventually spewed 206 million gallons of oil into the Gulf.